RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message I wasn't thinking of what it required as much as what it provides. I'd assume[1] that it provided comparible functionality on a smaller scale, but apparently there's a reason they want you to deploy the real deal     -

[OT]: RE: [ActiveDir] Finding things in the AD Users/Computers

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message As it should be. All of the advanced view everything features should be enabled on servers and any workstations that get admin tools installed on them. I don't understand the MS thought to hide things from admin level users in the gui's and making them learn enough to turn the

[ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Pelle, Joe
Please help:   My company is currently migrating from an NT domain structure to AD...  I have some questions regarding how some of you went about hooking in your DMZ web servers to AD securely...  What DID YOU DO?!!  What are the recommended best practices?   The options we have dis

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Jochen Andries
Hello,   Our servers in the DMZ-zone are NOT hooked up to the AD.  For security-reasons.   Greetings, Jochen   From: Pelle, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 10 juli 2003 14:59 To: ActiveDir ([EMAIL PROTECTED])   Please help:   My company is currently migra

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Craig Cerino
We are the same way – any devices we have in our DMZ our stand alone   -Original Message- From: Jochen Andries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers   Hello,   Our servers in

RE: [OT]: RE: [ActiveDir] Finding things in the AD Users/Computers

2003-07-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message I keep meaning to get around to scripting that for myself, but its been a while since I've had to do a lot of server builds.     -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. ---

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message It would help if you determined what was going to be public access (via DMZ or otherwise) and determine the needs of the applications there.   The other option we've been talking about is AD Application Mode (ADAM) from Microsoft.     -

Re: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread jim . katoe
Not having them in the domain is the most secure option.  If you cannot do that, then recognize that you are increasing potential surface area for hacks.With a separate forest in option 2 you will still need to open several ports to allow the trust.  Search technet for firewall and trust.  Wi

[ActiveDir] Active Directory and AppleTalk Zones

2003-07-10 Thread Canzoneri, Kurt
Hello, Looking for some help on this one. We are moving from a multiple master domain model with multiple two way trusts to Active Directory. The issue is, currently for each domain / physical location we are using the routers (Cisco) to create the AppleTalk zones for our Mac's with different netwo

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Raymond McClinnis
Title: Message I have a question… (Assuming that the Servers in the DMZ are already away from the in-house domain)   If before the upgrade none of the servers needed AD or access to your in-house domain, why would you want them to have it after the upgrade?    J Just thinking semi-log

[ActiveDir] OT: A utility to read SID's

2003-07-10 Thread Abbiss, Mark
We are in the middle of migrating users, groups, etc from an existing NT domain into a new AD domain. Does anyone know of a utility that will let me read the SID of objects (users, groups) in the NT domain ? Many thanks List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: A utility to read SID's

2003-07-10 Thread Mark Woods
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: A utility to read SID's I've got 2 utils I picked up from somewhere - sid2user & user2sid, interested? -Original Message- From: Abbiss, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 July 2003 16:26 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: A utility to

RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-10 Thread Jackson Shaw
Title: Message It provides all of the LDAP capabilities of AD without the added baggage of things like DNS, DHCP etc etc – it’s a standalone LDAP directory with additional bells & whistles like:   -  doesn’t need to run on a DC -  multiple instances running on one machine

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Rogers, Brian
On this note...can anyone think of any possible reason to have public internet servers on a DMZ in the same forest as your internal AD environment?   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:14 AM To: ActiveDir Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-10 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Title: Message Meaning being able to make changes in the metaview to replicate out   It has not been decided.   Todd -Original Message-From: Jackson Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:18 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Ide

RE: [ActiveDir] Looking up all email addresses

2003-07-10 Thread Steve Lithgow
Title: Message Hi All, Was just looking this over...    very nice !   Michael,  would you be so kind as to post the code to your search etc...  (do I can shamelessly steal it )  :-) ?   Kudos,   --Steve -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-10 Thread Jackson Shaw
Title: Message We’re going to make the MV writeable…. J   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:26 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD   Meaning bein

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: A utility to read SID's

2003-07-10 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Yep, the tools return user accounts, computer accounts and groups (even on a native W2K domain). I use them every day in a batch job. Mike Thommes Argonne National Laboratory -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL P

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Rogers, Brian
Title: Message Have the exact same situation here.   We currently have a separate NT domain (for a security boundary) for our INET machines.  These machines exist on a DMZ...and run public internet sites that connect to a SQL backend inside our network.  An ISA server provides the firewa

[ActiveDir] FYI Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory

2003-07-10 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Title: Message Overview Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft® Windows Server(tm) Active Directory® manages identities and coordinates user details across Microsoft Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, and Exchange Server 2003

Re: [ActiveDir] FYI Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft Windows Serve r Active Directory

2003-07-10 Thread Jerry Welch
Title: Message Question? When provisioning AD from an ODBC source, will this Identity Integration feature populate Group records in AD? Thanks, Jerry - Original Message - From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:26 PM S

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
Honestly, no.  The risk, IMHO, is just too great.  Extranets with a separate forest with some (read: controlled) synched or replicated data between the forests (internal, DMZ) - or as someone mentioned already, ADAM strikes me as a much better and safer option.   Rick Kingslan  MCSE, MCSA,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: A utility to read SID's

2003-07-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
Used them just today, as a matter of fact. Still viable. Think I got them from the SystemTools web site some months ago (years??) as the original author no longer supports them, IIRC. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com

RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Message You're that sure, are you Jackson?  ;-)   I had this really interesting discussion with Kim, Chuck (Director of AD??) a number of developers and Program and Product Mgrs. in February at the MVP Summit.  I'm absolutely floored that you folks moved that fast on the Identity Mana

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Message Are they daft or are they just convinced that there are no bad people wanting to own your domain?  And, if they implement this empty root/ two domain model, where will each of the domains live?  And the root?   Oh, my goodness.  Has anyone considered how absolutely horrific an

Re: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread David Adner
We created a separate forest in the DMZ, with no tie to our internal AD. The DMZ forest was originally deployed because we needed a MS cluster. While it does have it's negative points, one nice thing is easier account management. I know, separately named local accounts with different passwor

[ActiveDir] Virus scaning AD DC's

2003-07-10 Thread Free, Bob
So I'm reading Part 2 of Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory Installations and Day-to-Day Operations, and I see: "Part 1 of this guide recommends that the SYSVOL folder be excluded from virus scanning. However, excluding SYSVOL increases the risk of a virus attack on a domain cont

Re: [ActiveDir] Virus scaning AD DC's

2003-07-10 Thread David Adner
We use Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.x and 8.x. We only scan files of certain extensions and only when modified for the real time scanner. We have a weekly full system scan to catch anything that's missed. At least in our environment, this seems to work fine. I know DFS and NAV (and p

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message Separate forest, no trust. The forest because you can't have a domain out there without one and you probably want them in one so you can use domain accounts for services etc that need to chat across the servers unless they are smart applications that use some form of connection

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message Two reasons that I have really   1. If that text file gets out, someone besides security WILL have your admin passwords, it isn't a matter of if they will have them. A domain of cracked user passwords is a bad thing, a domain with one cracked admin password is disastrous. The

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message Ah I wouldn't say better than any script, but definitey faster.   I totally agree people should be looking at what they can do via batch and scripts. I would go so far to say that an admin who doesn't use batch and/or scripts is more a button pusher than an admin.   --

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message Hmm interesting... I will keep it in mind next time I open up that code.   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:33 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subj

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message I think you would find it more efficient if you changed it like this   For Each objUser In objOU objUser.lockouttime=0 objUser.setinfo()Next   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leeuwen van, JWJ (Joost

RE: [OT]: RE: [ActiveDir] Finding things in the AD Users/Computer s

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message Ooh let me know if you do.  I keep meaning to write a script that I can carry on a thumb drive that I can hook into machines I step onto them. An MS guy once told me it was impossible, usually that is enough to get me to go do it but I have been too busy the last couple of yea

RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message I didn't read the entire post, got a new laptop and just scanning quickly so I won't feel guilty about my community helping while wiping XP Home and loading 2k3.     e. Thanks for the nod Rick. Nope I don't do things to this degree but it shouldn't be overly difficult to man

Re: [ActiveDir] Virus scaning AD DC's

2003-07-10 Thread Tony Murray
Bob I think the issue with AV and SYSVOL has largely gone away. Most of the major AV vendors now provide software that does not update the security descriptor. Previously, this was an issue because the modification of the security descriptor triggered replication. For the reasons you menti