[ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Sumilang
I simply want to see the hardware specs on another computer on my network but I get the following error... Computer \\MY.NETWORK.NET cannot be managed. The remote

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy question

2003-07-22 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Correct. In a nutshell, you remove the Everyone:Read entry from theACL on the GPO, and replace it with Read rights for the group(s) you're interesting in applying it to -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr.

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy question

2003-07-22 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Ok, I think I see what's going on. GPO's applied to OU's only affect the User and Computer objects within that OU - groups are NOT affected. The way you're asking about applying it - a GPO applied to an OU containing Groups - won't apply the GPO to anything. Keep in mind

RE: [ActiveDir] SID history

2003-07-22 Thread Kitchens Arthur E
Title: Message D'OH! the cloneprincipal vb scripts in the support tools do justthat (adding to sIDHistory). -Original Message-From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:44 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SID history

[ActiveDir] DNS and Active Directory

2003-07-22 Thread Ellis, Debbie
I am considering setting up an Active Directory namespace that does not mirror my DNS namespace and I would like to make sure it can be done and the downside to doing it this way.

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS and Active Directory

2003-07-22 Thread Missy Koslosky
So your private namespace wouldn't match your public namespace, right? I prefer this solution, so long as you take the time to carefully consider what namespace you'd use internally. Take the time to register the namespace you choose (so you'll need to use a registerable address, of

[ActiveDir] Office XP GPO

2003-07-22 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I have created an administrative installation of Office XP Pro, which has gone smoothly. I then try to run the Custom Installation Wizard and at the last step, when it tries to write the information to the MST, I get the following error. Buffer passed to GetRecordField/GetNextLine is too short.

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Fuller, Stuart
Other things to try: 1. Admin rights to workstation?? 2. Is \\workstation\Admin$ share on workstation reachable?? - this is a quick check to see if file sharing, name resolution, and security is working. 3. Is my.network.net the actual machine name?? When I have seen this error it has usually

[ActiveDir] Win2k SP4 + Exchange 5.5 bug

2003-07-22 Thread Celone, Mike
For anyone still running Exchange 5.5 out there I found a bug in Win2k SP4. I was setting up a temporary Exchange 5.5 server on Win2k Server and installed SP4. Exchange installs fine but upon running the Optimizer you get the following error: "The services's list of dependent services

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k SP4 + Exchange 5.5 bug

2003-07-22 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Mike- If you stop all Exchange services before running the Optimizer, including the system attendant,this error disappears and you can continue on through the perfwiz windows. Hunter From: Celone, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:30 AMTo: '[EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Sumilang
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 08:29 AM, Fuller, Stuart wrote: Other things to try: 1. Admin rights to workstation?? My account is a duplicate of the Administrator account but I can't seem to access it but the administrator account can? 2. Is \\workstation\Admin$ share on workstation

Re: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Sumilang
Tried that and it works :-P What do I need to do to fix my DNS? I currently have the ns1/ns2 on the registrar point the name servers to my Linux web server and my linux servers point mydomain.net (for example) to my network. I don't have to set up a host for every workstation in the DNS do

RE: [ActiveDir] Office XP GPO

2003-07-22 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I figured it out, I was using the Office 2000 RES Kit to create a MST File for Office XP -Original Message- From: Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:28 AM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject:[ActiveDir] Office XP GPO I have created an administrative

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k SP4 + Exchange 5.5 bug

2003-07-22 Thread Arendt, Jordan LRN
Did this affect any servers with Ex 5.5 already installed? That is, has anyone experienced problems putting SP4 on a server with Ex 5.5 already installed? Jordan -Original Message- From: Celone, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 22, 2003 9:30 AM To: '[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] slow guid resolution

2003-07-22 Thread Chianese, David P.
Do you have a GC (Global Catalog) in each domain? It is probably an issue of being on a different DC than the GC whilst doing lookups in AD. Doing queries from GC is recommended. I would actually have a GC in each resource domain as well. Regards, Dave -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] SID history

2003-07-22 Thread Tucker, Mark
Title: Message SIDHistory for the groups works in a similar fashion to the user accounts. So, when the access token is built, it contains the user account SID, any SIDs in the SIDHistory attribute of the user account, the SIDs of the groups the user is a member of, and any SIDs in the

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Carr, Jonathan (OFT)
the dns server have to be compliant Verify that the DNS server that hosts this zone supports both the SRV resource records (per RFC 2782) and the dynamic updates (per RFC 2136) and that the zone is configured to allow dynamic updates -Original Message- From: Richard Sumilang

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k SP4 + Exchange 5.5 bug

2003-07-22 Thread Celone, Mike
I have not installed it yet on any of our Exchange production servers. I assume this would also affect them though too. Mike From: Arendt, Jordan LRN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:47 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k SP4 + Exchange 5.5

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
On other issue to consider is whether the user account your using has sufficient WMI permissions to access the box in question. The Computer Management snap-in largely uses WMI to cull data about the box. WMI has a set of permissions associated with it that controls who can access that WMI data.

[ActiveDir] Robert Rutherford/UK/DEK is out of the office.

2003-07-22 Thread rrutherford
I will be out of the office starting 22/07/2003 and will not return until 28/07/2003. I am away until Monday July 28th. I am available on my mobile and may check my mail now and again. ** This E-mail and any files transmitted

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Carr, Jonathan (OFT)
How can this be.. In # 2 you say you can map a drive using UNC (\\workstation\admin$) but you have a name resolution issue. Don't make sense??? Is this DHCP Is it windows 2000 or above Try using just the name (my) and not the FQN (my.network.com) -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k SP4 + Exchange 5.5 bug

2003-07-22 Thread Celone, Mike
Thanks. That worked! Mike From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:24 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k SP4 + Exchange 5.5 bug Mike- If you stop all Exchange services before running the Optimizer, including the system

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k SP4 + Exchange 5.5 bug

2003-07-22 Thread Mark Woods
Title: Message I had the same problem last week, if you manually stop the Exchange services then run the optimizer it works fine.. -Mark -Original Message-From: Celone, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July 2003 16:30To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] slow guid resolution

2003-07-22 Thread Garello, Kenneth
Thanks you for your responses. My account domains each have 2 DCs and each is GC In my resource domain (DNS parent), I just have one GC If I am performing a task on a resource computer (file server/non DC) such as viewing directory ACL's does the GC of the domain that the computer exists in get

RE: [ActiveDir] slow guid resolution

2003-07-22 Thread Roger Seielstad
I'd expect that it would resolve against the GC in the same domain as the computer. I'm also thinking that your site configuration might be suspect -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc.

RE: [ActiveDir] slow guid resolution

2003-07-22 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Kenneth- Its not much help, but did you see this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281457 ? Do you have individual user accounts in your ACLs rather than just groups? Darren -Original Message- From: Garello, Kenneth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Sumilang
This is DHCP, Windows 2000, and I used (my) and not the the FQN. The FQN is what doesn't seem to work :-\ Any suggestions? On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Carr, Jonathan (OFT) wrote: How can this be.. In # 2 you say you can map a drive using UNC (\\workstation\admin$) but you have

RE: [ActiveDir] slow guid resolution

2003-07-22 Thread Joe
First off, it is a SID translation not a GUID translation, retry your searches based on that as I'm sure that confused the matter. How many security principals do you have in the ACL chain? If it is greater than 6 or 7 you probably need to start looking at a better security structure utilizing

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Fuller, Stuart
A... I think I may get it... ;) So what you are doing is loading up the MMC, choosing Computer management, and the choosing connect to a computer. And you fail when you use the FQDN for the computer in the connect box?? And you work when you put in the IP address or just the NetBIOS name??