RE: RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation of Callback-Number

2004-07-10 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Agreed that it'll take some time to get the fix.

TS'ing for administration: quite easy - customer is not ready yet to roll
out XP (currently on NT) and the same helpdesk is supporting NT applications
as well. And did I mention there are site admins as well, who have the least
rights but are spread out in germany on a lot of sites and they are covering
subsites as well. They had the choice of a second workplace (second laptop
to carry around for the site admins), new software, self developed stuff,
asp-pages for the admintasks, or using a citrix server where they had about
100 licences left over and the hardware was already there too. So we made a
custom ADUC for their tasks and we were putting in on the TS. I would have
preferred the webbased administration, but it was their decision since the
solution is needed interim anyways.

I'm quite sure that the patch will be available faster than them deploying
XP - and since it only affects the ADUC we won't have a lot of issues there
betatesting the QFE in a test environment first then put it onto a
testmachine in production.

Ulf

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Even if MS agrees to fix it, which can take quite a while to get that
agreement. It could be yet another while to get the buddy drop and if your
customer isn't willing to install the buddy in production (perfectly
understandable) they get to wait even longer for the official QFE.  

And what's this about the help desk TS'ing into a server to do admin work
(smack of my palm to my forehead...). 

  joe


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Yes - it's a confirmed bug in the interface.

When opening the page it checks the allowedattributeseffective and enables
the box, when clicking OK it want's to write unchanged stuff which was not
delegated and therefore receives an access denied from AD. It's definitelly
a problem of the tab and not of layer 8.

However, programmatically changing is not OK for this customer since
administration is delegated and ADUC is available on the Terminal Server.
Would be a work around what we might take if absolutely necessary, but as
far as I understood the escalation engineer at PSS they are willing to fix
this issue if there's a need for it - so I'm searching for other companies
who want to have the callbacknumber set by the helpdesk but the other
RAS-Properties by another department (it violates the companies policies if
the general helpdesk would be able to assign the permissions to dial in).

Ulf

joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 09.07.2004, 04:19:29:
 Hey Ulf - can you just script it?
  
joe
 
   _
 
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B.
 Simon-Weidner
 Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:32 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [ActiveDir] Delegation of Callback-Number
 
 
 
 Hi there,
 
 I have a customer who where we implemented the least permissions 
 necessary for each group fulfilling administrative tasks. One of those 
 tasks is that they are required that just a small group has the 
 permissions to grant RAS permissions, and every useraccount is forced 
 to be called back to a previously set number. To scale that solution 
 better, the user-helpdesk should be able to change the 
 callback-number, but they are not allowed to do anything else in the
RAS-Permissions.
 
 Those are the requirements. Point.
 
 Couple month ago I discovered some bugs in the ADUC Dial-In Tab. After 
 installing a hotfix that allows non-administrator accounts to see the 
 dialin-tab and figuring out that I need to set the permissions for the 
 helpdesk for the msRadiusCallbackNumber and the userProperties 
 attributes I figured that there's an additional bug in the tab: the 
 helpdesk is now able to change the Callback-Number in the interface, 
 however as soon as they click on Apply or OK there's an error that the 
 rights are not sufficient.
 
 This is a bug, which is verified by Microsoft.
 
 The only way to delegate the permissions on the RAS Tab - due to the 
 bug - is to grant the group full permissions on everything of the 
 RAS-Tab. This is not acceptable in our case.
 
 Now comes why I'm posting:
 
 We have a open call at PSS, already did a CDCR and political impact, 
 but MS told us that they think it's not a option requested by 
 customers and they need at least another customer with that 
 requirement to fix that. I do not believe that we are the only ones 
 with that request - however I do believe that those out there who had 
 a request like that stopped early in the process instead of going the way
through.
 
 So if anyone of you knows a company which has those

RE: RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation of Callback-Number

2004-07-09 Thread joe
Even if MS agrees to fix it, which can take quite a while to get that
agreement. It could be yet another while to get the buddy drop and if your
customer isn't willing to install the buddy in production (perfectly
understandable) they get to wait even longer for the official QFE.  

And what's this about the help desk TS'ing into a server to do admin work
(smack of my palm to my forehead...). 

  joe


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation of Callback-Number


Yes - it's a confirmed bug in the interface.

When opening the page it checks the allowedattributeseffective and enables
the box, when clicking OK it want's to write unchanged stuff which was not
delegated and therefore receives an access denied from AD. It's definitelly
a problem of the tab and not of layer 8.

However, programmatically changing is not OK for this customer since
administration is delegated and ADUC is available on the Terminal Server.
Would be a work around what we might take if absolutely necessary, but as
far as I understood the escalation engineer at PSS they are willing to fix
this issue if there's a need for it - so I'm searching for other companies
who want to have the callbacknumber set by the helpdesk but the other
RAS-Properties by another department (it violates the companies policies if
the general helpdesk would be able to assign the permissions to dial in).

Ulf

joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 09.07.2004, 04:19:29:
 Hey Ulf - can you just script it?
  
joe
 
   _
 
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B.
 Simon-Weidner
 Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:32 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [ActiveDir] Delegation of Callback-Number
 
 
 
 Hi there,
 
 I have a customer who where we implemented the least permissions 
 necessary for each group fulfilling administrative tasks. One of those 
 tasks is that they are required that just a small group has the 
 permissions to grant RAS permissions, and every useraccount is forced 
 to be called back to a previously set number. To scale that solution 
 better, the user-helpdesk should be able to change the 
 callback-number, but they are not allowed to do anything else in the
RAS-Permissions.
 
 Those are the requirements. Point.
 
 Couple month ago I discovered some bugs in the ADUC Dial-In Tab. After 
 installing a hotfix that allows non-administrator accounts to see the 
 dialin-tab and figuring out that I need to set the permissions for the 
 helpdesk for the msRadiusCallbackNumber and the userProperties 
 attributes I figured that there's an additional bug in the tab: the 
 helpdesk is now able to change the Callback-Number in the interface, 
 however as soon as they click on Apply or OK there's an error that the 
 rights are not sufficient.
 
 This is a bug, which is verified by Microsoft.
 
 The only way to delegate the permissions on the RAS Tab - due to the 
 bug - is to grant the group full permissions on everything of the 
 RAS-Tab. This is not acceptable in our case.
 
 Now comes why I'm posting:
 
 We have a open call at PSS, already did a CDCR and political impact, 
 but MS told us that they think it's not a option requested by 
 customers and they need at least another customer with that 
 requirement to fix that. I do not believe that we are the only ones 
 with that request - however I do believe that those out there who had 
 a request like that stopped early in the process instead of going the way
through.
 
 So if anyone of you knows a company which has those requirements and 
 would like to have that fixed, contact me asap to see if we are able 
 to get that fixed. As far as I was told from PSS they'd like to get 
 that fixed too but are unable to assign developer-resources for it if 
 it's not requested by the market.
 
 This issue bugs me since the beginning of the year :-(
 
  
 
 Gruesse - Sincerely,
 
  
 
 Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
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GrĂ¼sse - Sincerely,

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RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation of Callback-Number

2004-07-08 Thread joe



Hey Ulf -can you just script it?

 joe


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. 
Simon-WeidnerSent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:32 PMTo: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Delegation of 
Callback-Number


Hi there,I have a customer 
who where we implemented the least permissions necessary for each group 
fulfilling administrative tasks. One of those tasks is that they are 
required that just a small group has the permissions to grant RAS 
permissions, and every useraccount is forced to be called back to a 
previously set number. To scale that solution better, the user-helpdesk 
should be able to change the callback-number, but they are not allowed to do 
anything else in the RAS-Permissions.Those are the requirements. 
Point.Couple month ago I discovered some bugs in the ADUC Dial-In Tab. 
After installing a hotfix that allows non-administrator accounts to see the 
dialin-tab and figuring out that I need to set the permissions for the 
helpdesk for the msRadiusCallbackNumber and the userProperties 
attributes I figured that there's an additional bug in the tab: the 
helpdesk is now able to change the Callback-Number in the interface, 
however as soon as they click on Apply or OK there's an error that the 
rights are not sufficient.This is a bug, which is verified by 
Microsoft.The only way to delegate the permissions on the RAS Tab - due 
to the bug - is to grant the group full permissions on everything of the 
RAS-Tab. This is not acceptable in our case.Now comes why I'm 
posting:We have a open call at PSS, already did a CDCR and political 
impact, but MS told us that they think it's not a option requested by 
customers and they need at least another customer with that requirement to 
fix that. I do not believe that we are the only ones with that request - 
however I do believe that those out there who had a request like that 
stopped early in the process instead of going the way through.So if 
anyone of you knows a company which has those requirements and would like to 
have that fixed, contact me asap to see if we are able to get that fixed. As 
far as I was told from PSS they'd like to get that fixed too but are unable 
to assign developer-resources for it if it's not requested by the 
market.This issue bugs me since the beginning of the year 
:-(

Gruesse - 
Sincerely,

Ulf B. 
Simon-Weidner



[ActiveDir] Delegation of Callback-Number

2004-07-07 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner








Hi there,

I have a customer who where we implemented the least permissions 
necessary for each group fulfilling administrative tasks. One of those 
tasks is that they are required that just a small group has the 
permissions to grant RAS permissions, and every useraccount is forced 
to be called back to a previously set number. To scale that solution 
better, the user-helpdesk should be able to change the callback-number, 
but they are not allowed to do anything else in the RAS-Permissions.

Those are the requirements. Point.

Couple month ago I discovered some bugs in the ADUC Dial-In Tab. After 
installing a hotfix that allows non-administrator accounts to see the 
dialin-tab and figuring out that I need to set the permissions for the 
helpdesk for the msRadiusCallbackNumber and the userProperties 
attributes I figured that there's an additional bug in the tab: the 
helpdesk is now able to change the Callback-Number in the interface, 
however as soon as they click on Apply or OK there's an error that the 
rights are not sufficient.

This is a bug, which is verified by Microsoft.

The only way to delegate the permissions on the RAS Tab - due to the 
bug - is to grant the group full permissions on everything of the 
RAS-Tab. This is not acceptable in our case.

Now comes why I'm posting:

We have a open call at PSS, already did a CDCR and political impact, 
but MS told us that they think it's not a option requested by customers 
and they need at least another customer with that requirement to fix 
that. I do not believe that we are the only ones with that request - 
however I do believe that those out there who had a request like that 
stopped early in the process instead of going the way through.

So if anyone of you knows a company which has those requirements and 
would like to have that fixed, contact me asap to see if we are able to 
get that fixed. As far as I was told from PSS they'd like to get that 
fixed too but are unable to assign developer-resources for it if it's 
not requested by the market.

This issue bugs me since the beginning of the year :-(



Gruesse - Sincerely,



Ulf B. Simon-Weidner