RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Subnets

2003-07-23 Thread Joe
Title: Message Pretty much that is it. You can translate it to different languages but you have three main options   1. ADSI Commands such as below 2. Pure LDAP API Commands 3. GUI or scripting the GUI via something like WinBatch or scriptit though I wouldn't really recommend     In our e

RE: [ActiveDir] Block User and Computer Group Policy on a particular machine

2003-07-23 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Yes, exactly. The idea here is that if you have a special machine that needs to behave differently for users who log onto it, then you enable loopback processing on that machine. Its used often in Terminal Server scenarios. In that case, with loopback processing enabled, the user policy that applie

RE: [ActiveDir] Block User and Computer Group Policy on a particular machine

2003-07-23 Thread Jennifer Fountain
Do you mean loopback processing mode? -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Block User and Computer Group Policy on a particular machine Jennifer- If you don't have to do t

RE: [ActiveDir] Block User and Computer Group Policy on a particular machine

2003-07-23 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Jennifer- If you don't have to do this for a large number of computers, then you can put an Deny Read ACE on the ACL for the GPO that is sending down this policy for that particular machine (or a group of machines). This would be the easiest way to prevent that policy from applying. If the policy y

RE: [ActiveDir] Updating an Office XP Admin Installation

2003-07-23 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Justin- Make sure that the proplus.msi file is not marked as Read-Only. In the past when I've edited this file, it was. Darren -Original Message- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:20 AM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Cc: Harabagiu, Alexandru Sub

AW: [ActiveDir] RID master / ADMT 2.0

2003-07-23 Thread Thomas
If you use SP4 your DCs will request a new rid pool as soon as 50% of the old pool is consumed. Have a look here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b316201 You can also adjust the number of rids a DC requests by changing the "RID Block Size" value in the registry (see same

AW: [ActiveDir] Block User and Computer Group Policy on a particular machine

2003-07-23 Thread Thomas
Move the machine account(s) into another OU for which You then can define another policy. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Jennifer Fountain Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 18:56 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [ActiveDir] Block

[ActiveDir] RID master / ADMT 2.0

2003-07-23 Thread Graham Turner
just wanted to get any issues that have come to light during an ADMT process specfically relating to the function of the RID master when doing a mid size migration (approx 4000 objects) it seems the allocation of RIDs' may become an issue. the operation of rid master is understood to be allocati

[ActiveDir] Block User and Computer Group Policy on a particular machine

2003-07-23 Thread Jennifer Fountain
Is there a way to block both user and computer group policies on a particular machine? Would block inheritance do the trick? IE: We have 7 min idle time for users to lock stations. However, this is a problem when someone is doing a presentation and they are sitting at a slide for 10 mins.

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Naming Best Practices

2003-07-23 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Ok - how are the sites managed? Are they managed geographically, or by region, or business unit?     -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message-From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Updating an Office XP Admin Installation

2003-07-23 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I figured it out, I had spaces in the path string so I needed to use quotes. -Original Message- From: Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:20 AM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Cc: Harabagiu, Alexandru Subject:[ActiveDir] Updating an Office XP Admin Installat

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Subnets

2003-07-23 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Robbie Allen at Cisco put together a really cool system where they download their router configuration every night into a database and then populate the AD subnet objects from that, completely hands off. He talked about it at the last year's Directory Experts conference in Sco

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Subnets

2003-07-23 Thread Fuller, Stuart
Title: Active Directory Subnets When I look at this problem vbs scripting seem the best method.  Below is the script that we used to add about 60 subnets into our AD.  Reads from a csv file and is set to run for one site, however, you could modify it to read the site out of the csv file.  It

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Naming Best Practices

2003-07-23 Thread Morley, Scott
Title: Message Managment actually refers to these locations by their geographical name and not the generic name.  They think that generic names are more flexible. -Original Message-From: Bryan Schlegel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:45 AMTo: [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] Updating an Office XP Admin Installation

2003-07-23 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I want to update the administrative installation on a network share so that I can redepoly through my GPO the Office XP package with the updated files. I followed Microsofts recommendation on how to update an admin share. Msiexec /p [path\name of update MSP file] /a [path\name of MSI File] SHORTF

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: script for user logon

2003-07-23 Thread Costanzo, Ray
Is it that you want the center portion of the string by chopping off the first and last characters, or are you looking to replace the quotes? To trim first and last do: theString = Mid(theString, 2, len(theString) - 2) To get rid of quotes, do theString = Replace(theString, , "") Ray at wo

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Naming Best Practices

2003-07-23 Thread Morley, Scott
Title: Message For the most part admins will be managing the domains, there is always room for confusion if a location is placed in region1 as compared to region2.  We would always be translating the generic name to the geographical one.  Our migration process will be a long one, with over 7

Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Naming Best Practices

2003-07-23 Thread DAVID S. CARTER
Either one is OK as long as the naming convention means something to your company. Dave >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/23/03 10:21AM >>> All, I have been asked by managment to defend my domain naming standard. I am using geographical locations such as AMER (N&S America), EAME (Europe, Africa, & Mid

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Subnets

2003-07-23 Thread Ken Cornetet
Title: Message I used Perl (could have been anything) to generate a script for Autoit (http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit/) to add my 200 subnets by sending keystrokes to the "Active Directory Sites and Services" admin tool. Worked like a champ. -Original Message-From: Crenshaw, J

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: script for user logon

2003-07-23 Thread Coleman, Hunter
If you know that your string will be consistent, you can use Right() and/or Left() to lop off what you don't want to keep tempString = "C:\Temp\file.bat /DUMP" stringLen = Len(tempString) newString = Right(tempString, stringLen - 3) 'newString resolves to "Temp\file.bat /DUMP" Hunter -Origi

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Naming Best Practices

2003-07-23 Thread Bryan Schlegel
Title: Message Hate to say it but what if you are replaced by management and they seem to think that EAME is region2 and it is actually region3then they make a change.    I just like to name things after their functionsome people like to use their dogs, some people like to generica

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Naming Best Practices

2003-07-23 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message I'm going to ask a fairly simple question: Why does it matter either way?   Why does one matter more to you and the other matter more to them?   -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inov

[ActiveDir] Domain Naming Best Practices

2003-07-23 Thread Morley, Scott
All,   I have been asked by managment to defend my domain naming standard.  I am using geographical locations such as AMER (N&S America), EAME (Europe, Africa, & Middle East), and APAC (Asia Pacific & Australia).  I am being asked why can't we use generic names such as Region1, Region2, and so f

[ActiveDir] Active Directory Subnets

2003-07-23 Thread Crenshaw, Jason
Title: Active Directory Subnets I have a question about AD Subnets and programmatically adding them to Sites.  We have a rather large list of subnets that need to be assigned to Sites and I didn't want to hand-to-hand combat those entries if possible. I was looking at using this script I foun

[ActiveDir] OT: script for user logon

2003-07-23 Thread Abbiss, Mark
URGENT: Please can someone help I am trying to sort out a vbs script we use when logging on to our AD domain (tenuous connection I know !) I have to take a string and trim the beginning and end eg. "C:\Temp\file.bat /DUMP" has to be trimmed to Temp\File.bat /DUMP Can anyone give me a quick and

RE: [ActiveDir] slow guid resolution

2003-07-23 Thread Garello, Kenneth
Joe, Thanks for the correction. That was indeed why the article mentioned in another post was not found. The particular directories that I am referring to are primarily user's personal directories. Each directory has 1 group (domain administrators) and 1 user assigned in the ACL. It is the use

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-23 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
If you don't use a WINS server for netbios name resolution, make sure that "network.com" is listed as a "domain suffix" entry in your TCP/IP configuration for your NIC. Mike Thommes -Original Message- From: Richard Sumilang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue