RE: [ActiveDir] Password Lookup

2003-08-14 Thread jim . katoe
Password complexity is enabled thru the Domain GPO.  It is an on or off function, not configurable.  It curtails the success of dictionary hacks by requiring 3 out of the following 4 in all user's passwords - Uppercase, lowercase, numbers, special characters.  It also will not allow the password

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Lookup

2003-08-14 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
It's in the  "Domain Security Policy" mmc, under  Windows Settings/Security Settings/Account Policies/Password Policy     Passwords must meet complexity requirements = Enabled   Mike Thommes     -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] Password Lookup

2003-08-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ryan, My understanding is that the only way to do this is to hook into the password filter DLL. This is a Win32 DLL that the DC calls whenever a user or administrator initiates a password change, whose job is to verify the quality of the new password. The DLL is your own code, so it can do whate

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Cindy, If you're going to have to keep all audit entries, you're going to have a tough time. I can help decipher these records for you (I do a lot of this!), but in a nutshell you've recorded a successful logoff (the Event 538) and a successful network logon via the Kerberos authentication packag

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP & LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: LDAP & LastLogin for Computers Hunter,   Are you actually querying the workstation, or just the user accounts ? If your finding out when a computer was last logged onto, I would LOVE to have a copy of the script as well (so I can kick our desktop support guys in the bum to clean up *MY

[ActiveDir] The Truth Is Out There:

2003-08-14 Thread james . blair
I am having some strange issues in a domain we have. One user in particular has a laptop and he is unable to access his local server. I am able to ping the server and it resolves name to IP. If I open the IP from a run command it shows all shared folders and printers. If I however do the same to t

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy

2003-08-14 Thread daniel . gilbert
We do. It is our way to display the GPO's in human readable format. Dan -Original Message- From: Ellis, Debbie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Group Policy Does anyone have a Group Policy Spreadsheet ? List

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
John, Stella has put the world-famous Official DEC Screaming Yellow Rubber Chicken in the mail, so you should get it by the end of the week or so. When you do get it, be sure to give it a good squeeze. When I spoke at the 2002 AFITC, a general from ACC (I've forgotten his name) told me that someo

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Robbie Allen
My great uncle who was a Computer Scientist with AT&T back in the '50's (sorry Gil) told me about it. I didn't know we were talking about any language that had been invented since the beginning of time :-P My point isn't that the language necessarily dictates how unreadable the code is although i

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
MOM is probably a bit of overkill for something that simple (although thats what I use) Justin, the products you've looked at should be able to do it, you just need to set up some alternative SMTP routing if the email server is down. Can you send SMTP mail directly upstream to your ISP from anoth

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tools against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Fugleberg, David A
Dean - given all that, why not just do the whole ADPrep /forestprep and /domainprep ?  Even if the domain stays Win2K forever, would there be any harm in doing so?  From what I've seen, there isn't. I guess the question is, why is it more acceptable (to your customer) to do a subset of thes

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Lookup

2003-08-14 Thread Robbie Allen
Title: Message Hi Mike,   You can require "complex" passwords by setting the Domain Security Policy -> Account Policies -> Password Policy -> Password must meet complexity requirements.    Here is more info: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url="">   After setting pas

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Gil, you should give one out for every Enterprise purchase of Netpro Products. Todd Myrick -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:22 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String

Re: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread jim . katoe
Great post -- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld - Original Message - From: ActiveDir-owner Sent: 08/05/2003 11:03 PM To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon Cindy, If you're going to have to keep all audit entries, you're going

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Holland Matthew BC GB
  Do you have your GPO set to apply the changes even when the GPO hasn’t changed?  If not, it may be worth enabled this option in your GPO:   Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Group Policy/Internet Explorer Maintenance/‘Process even if Group Policy Objects have not c

Re: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread rick reynolds
If web services or ftp are running on those, both those services allow anon to access the main page, - Original Message - From: "Rittenhouse, Cindy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon > Rick, > The

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn.Hayes
Title: Message use a local SMTP engine  (IIS SMTP ) and let DNS route the messages out for you.     Shawn -Original Message-From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:57 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Ser

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy

2003-08-14 Thread Ellis, Debbie
Could you please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy We do. It is our way to display the GPO's in human readable format

RE: [ActiveDir] Groups and OU's

2003-08-14 Thread Jimmy Andersson
Yes, you could have an OU for groups if you want. But the pros and cons all depend on the way you want to administrate your AD. Can you give a bit more info on your environment? Regards, /Jimmy - Jimmy Andersson, Q Advice AB CEO & Principal A

RE: [ActiveDir] Synchronize AD

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn.Hayes
Title: Message repadmin and / or AD sites and services snap-in     Shawn -Original Message-From: Dipowarga Wirawan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:52 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Synchronize AD I don't have problem in t

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP & LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Message Machine account change frequency (default) NT is 7 days W2K is 30.   That's how we have always managed machine accounts. Just had to tweak the interval in the PERL script when W2K showed up :-]   Over the threshold, whack the account -Original Message-From: Steve R

Re: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tools against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Dean,   thanks for the info.   As you said, the changes dont sound too extreme, but yes, the SchemaVersion would be the major concern.   I would be interested to see what the MS guys have to say.   G.   - Original Message - From: Dean Wells To: AD mailing list (send)

RE: [ActiveDir] VBscript Help

2003-08-14 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Alain Lissoir's two books are great: Understanding WMI Scripting Leveraging WMI Scripting -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro -Original Message- From: Raymond McClinnis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VBscri

RE: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
In my real world there are only 3 people other than myself in the whole world who have administrator level rights in AD and on DC's and have interactive logon rights to DC's who can make core level changes. This is for a global production forest comprising around 380 domain controllers and some 200

RE: [ActiveDir] VBscript Help

2003-08-14 Thread Raymond McClinnis
Jacqui, I feel your pain; I read your e-mail and thought I had written it :-). I went to a book store and picked up "Microsoft's Windows 2000 Scripting Guide" I have had really good luck with it, although everything I need isn't in there, I have been able to find what else I need on the web or by

Re: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Sounds like a good idea Mark. Creation of a private VPN over the internet to form the larger Lab would take care of the "external" security problems, but not the "internal" ones (ie do you trust the other people). the main issues I can see with doing this is exactly what people want to test, and

RE: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
CHEER! joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robbie Allen Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:14 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Connection String Come on guys, why go to VB.NET when you can get most of the benefits o

RE: [ActiveDir] Turn off account lockout feature on a account.

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message The only thing that comes to mind is using an GPO with block inheritance, but I don't believe that works. Alternately, one could script an unlock tool which periodically unlocks the account.   So, how far in the future will it be when the IIS SMTP event sink model is integrat

RE: [ActiveDir] VBscript Help

2003-08-14 Thread jacqui . hurst
Many thanks for all the pointers. I better order some of the books :-) and read them, QUICK! Jacqui > from:Gil Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > date:Thu, 07 Aug 2003 17:36:25 > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VBscript Help > > Alain Lissoir's two books are gr

RE: [ActiveDir] VBscript Help

2003-08-14 Thread Rod Trent
Add myITforum.com to that list... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VBscript Help I keep a list of these sites - hope this helps (watc

RE: [ActiveDir] changing home drive problem

2003-08-14 Thread Gasper, Rick
I made those changes and I found an article about scripting home folders. I can not find the article here, but I have it booked marked at home. The article said something about making sure the folders exist before attempting to set the home folder. So I changed the code to below. I still need to t

RE: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Just write it clearly... Use whitespace and good variables and DOCUMENT your regexs... Also perl is easy to read (and possible to write) in notepad... Perl can be a write only language, but then so can just about any language if you don't try to make it readable. -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] Who's online

2003-08-14 Thread Agung Kuswanto NCS
Thanks for all enlighten!!! Can this command be called from machine other than the server it self? Best regards, Agung -Original Message- From: Thommes, Michael M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Who's onli

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Title: Message > For normal day to day things like resetting passwords, unlocking accounts, the normal tools are just fine.   This entirely depends on the size of the organization in relation to the size of the help desk staff and I guess coupled with SLA's (i.e. is it ok to wait 3 days for

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call tothe OS

2003-08-14 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Do you have the exact virus name?   CM - This email and any files transmitted are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed, whose privacy should be respected. Any

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
LOL :^) Ok, it's VERY rough. John A. Bjelke Unisys 505.853.6774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's as difficult as pulling teeth through an elephants rump, then the approach needs to be reevaluated. -Original Message- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] RPC DCOM WORM (MSBLASTER)

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
I've been getting hammered on this one myself... My firewall logs are packed with hits to ports 135 and 445. Charles -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 19:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] RP

Re: [ActiveDir] How to force RID master change

2003-08-14 Thread EN
Thanks, I have a question though. I want to still use this server. I got a completely new HD in there now, and I want to use the same name. Bad idea? What should I really do, this is the first time this has happened and I haven't read of what should be done when something like this occurs. Erne

RE: [ActiveDir] How to force RID master change

2003-08-14 Thread Chianese, David P.
You can certainly use it again after you dcpromo it and remove all references of it from the domain (adsiedit.msc) and DNS. Using the same name should not be an issue. You just want to make sure it doesn't think it owns the original RID master FSMO roll. Regards, Dave -Original Message--

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Charles- Have you checked out this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306915? Its not exactly the same but could be your problem. Darren -Original Message- From: Charles Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/11/2003 6:10

[ActiveDir] How to force RID master change

2003-08-14 Thread EN
MessageIm searching the knowledgebase,but I thought maybe someone had something I could use here as well. Well, one of my DCs just died, hard drive failed completely. Fine. I have another DC, but now I can't change the RID role. I could change the GC, PDC and infrastructure, but the RID master c

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call to the OS

2003-08-14 Thread Murray Wall
Title: OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call to the OS I have seen one Xp workstation that starts up and just wants to shut down within 2 minutes of bootup, a shutdown /a kills the issue but it is 100% related to what is going on.  As soon as I unplug the internet line or put a fi

RE: [ActiveDir] How to force RID master change

2003-08-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
"Using Ntdsutil.exe to Seize or Transfer FSMO Roles to a Domain Controller" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255504 -Original Message- From: EN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] How to forc

[ActiveDir] Extending Schema

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Luengo Céspedes .
How i can create one attribute and add to the class using visual basic???   For example create the attribute "socialNumber" and adding to "user" class in optional attributes.   At this moment i manage all objects, only need extend the schema, i have the progam oidgen.exe (Microsoft Resources

RE: [ActiveDir] find out with VBS: domain trusts (of NT4-Domains)

2003-08-14 Thread Schwipper, Jens
NETDOM and NLTEST works on Win2000. with NETDOM i can also see trusts to NT4-Domains. but what can i do, to see trusts from NT4-Servers. i need a way to find it out with a (selfprogrammed) programm/script. in Win2000 the script http://www.rallenhome.com/books/adcookbook/source/02/2.20-view_trusts.

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message What you're looking for is any log items from the IE Maintenance extension as it tries to process the policy during user logon. Look for messages as to whether it skipped processing for some reason or couldn't process the policy. -Original Message-From: Charles

RE: [ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Dennis, He's not looking to set this through policy, methinks. Erick, try this link for how to do this through script: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netdir/adsi /winnt_account_expiration.asp Watch the word wrap, and good luck! John A.

RE: [ActiveDir] Choosing between Domain Controllers

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Title: Message You can use set logonserver to get the OS to tell you what it used for an interactive logon. You can use nltest /dsgetdc:domainname to see what its preferred ldap server is. You can use nltest /sc_query to see where the secure channel is.   To force a specific DC to be used y

RE: [ActiveDir] Pagefile sizes... Its that time of year again.

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I think the standard formulas work well as a starting point, but over the years I've gotten stingy on pagefile size, since you can get defragmentation in the pagefile and really big ones can get correspondingly more fragmented if they start to get up to a fair percentage of total disk space. In

RE: [ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Title: Message You can not set password expiration for a group of users. Password expiration is a global domain policy. Now if you are looking to simply unexpire a group of users you could write (or most likely at this point) find a script that will take a CSV file and either reset the passw

[ActiveDir] ISA & FE combination - Load Balancing Help

2003-08-14 Thread Morley, Scott
All,   I 've been scrambling around the Internet looking for information about the ISA-Front End server combination.  There are not too many informative sites out there.  I've been trying to design a load balancing solution from the connection from my ISA server to my multiple front end servers

[ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread Erick Christian
Title: Message We are rolling our W2k network out, and have successfully migrated from NT4.0. Previously we had sat our user account's password to expire at the end of the year. However, going through and enabling each individual account is not an option, as of yet I have not found a way in

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP search filter for enabled accounts ?

2003-08-14 Thread Fugleberg, David A
Thanks Dean - from your answer and that of Mr. Welch, it was a quick trip to Google to find MS KB article 269181 that explains this in detail (in case anybody else is interested). The part about there being two controls available (bitwise AND and bitwise OR) will be helpful for other things I m

[ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Turner
i know this one has probably been done about 500 times already, but was hoping to sound the mailing list out on techniques of differentiating between Windows 2000 / NT4 from login script, given that both Windows 2000 and NT4 return "Windows NT" from a query of the "OS Version" environment variable

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Title: Message These are all 2000 machines… Under the GPO, I have Apply Group Policy Asynchronously for Users enabled.     Charles   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 13:47 To: [E

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP search filter for enabled accounts ?

2003-08-14 Thread Dean Wells
Non-disabled user accounts (excluding system security principals such as trust accounts) - (&(objectcategory=person)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(! userAccountControl=2080)) Disabled user accounts (excluding system security principals such as trust accounts) - (&(objectcatego

RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread SEYBOLDT,VOLKER (HP-Germany,ex1)
Hi, For 2000 and later you can use wmi to sort this out: For Each os in GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf("Win32_OperatingSystem") WScript.Echo " Version: ", os.Caption, os.Version Next Regards Volker -Original Message- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday

RE: [ActiveDir] Max Connections?

2003-08-14 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
maybe a wayward browse master? Mike Thommes -Original Message- From: Richard Sumilang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Max Connections? I'm using a Windows 2000 Server computer as a File Server but sometimes p

RE: [ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread Erick Christian
We got this issue resolved late last night. The simplest solution for us, was to enable a trust relationship with the NT4.0 domain. Then we simply made the necessary changes via NT4.0. It worked suprisingly well. Thanks for all of the information everyone. This issue can now be closed. Erick Chri

RE: [ActiveDir] Pagefile sizes... Its that time of year again.

2003-08-14 Thread Costanzo, Ray
The rule of thumb I've always heard is RAM×1.5, so 1.5 GB. Ray at work > -Original Message- > From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So you have a Gig of ram on a DC, what do you all set the > pagefile size to? > Memory +11 MB? > > Like to hear your feedback.

[ActiveDir] Pagefile sizes... Its that time of year again.

2003-08-14 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
So you have a Gig of ram on a DC, what do you all set the pagefile size to? Memory +11 MB? Like to hear your feedback. Toddler List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.acti

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message IE Maintenance has two modes--preference and mandatory. Preference says, "hand down IE policy but then let the user change it" whereas mandatory says, "reinforce it all the time". You can see this by right clicking the IE Maintenance node and choosing either Preference mode or

Re: [ActiveDir] Extending Schema

2003-08-14 Thread stefano tufillaro
Yes (ADS Library refrence if you use COM interface) (library active directory VS 2002 VS 2003) Bye _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus List info : http://www.active

RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Graham, >From the Script Center in Technet: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem") For Each objOperatingSystem

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Title: Message Well, I did a reset with no problems… I tried setting to preference mode, but seem unable to input any changes. I tried adding the *.adm files for IE (inetcorp.adm and inetset.adm), however, when I go to access the settings, I see the following: The inetset.adm file is no

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Dean Wells
Title: Message Thank you Joe ... high praise indeed and rigt back at ya ... though in my case, I'm not certain it's deserved but I'll take what I can get :-)))   PS - Being English, I do read tea leaves and as such am perfectly capable of predicting the future, in fact, I predict that this P

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify what got changed in a user's account?

2003-08-14 Thread Bruce Hansen
I've been trying to track them with MOM and have concluded that 642's are a "can of worms." What tends to happen is that a single change will generate one 642 with a description of the change (Account Unlocked, etc.), followed by one or more additional 642's with no description whatsoever. I've

RE: [ActiveDir] Password change issue

2003-08-14 Thread Fugleberg, David A
We had a discussion involving this very issue on this list last week - MS has a KB article that describes this: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=812499 There is a hotfix (referenced in this article), and the fix is included in Win2K SP4. Hope this helps...we're updating all our DCs to SP4 now, s

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call tothe OS

2003-08-14 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Hey,   I was aware of the vulnerability (and thank you for pointing out the MS article for those who weren't), I just wanted to make sure we where all talking about the same thing ;)   SUS is a wonderful thing ;-)   Carlos Magalhaes - ADSI MVP http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adsianddir

Re: [ActiveDir] Disaster recovery scenario comments requested.

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Wilson
Just as an aside here - MS of course displayed their VM server at tech ed - one nice idea was DR for Exchange 2003 - you would basically generate a new email server in minutes on a VM - users are then back online and you then begin to backfill their email from tape. List info : http://www.activ

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Title: Message You lost me on one part… What are you referring to when you say “Preference mode settings”? As for local GPO IE settings, there are none set. I will enable the verbose logging and see what happens… Thanks Charles   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify what got changed in a user's account?

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
There is no change log maintained however you can look at the replication metadata for an object (assuming you have appropriate permissions) that will give you date and time stamps of originating changes. Take a look at repadmin /showmeta. Also if you are nice Robbie might post a code snippet utili

RE: [ActiveDir] Choosing between Domain Controllers

2003-08-14 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message You can alter the SRV priority and weight settings for the DC so that clients will select one DC over another. See the Windows .NET mag article I wrote in the March issue, or DL it from http://www.netpro.com/forum/files/authentication_topology.pdf.   -gil Gil KirkpatrickCTO, Ne

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call to the OS

2003-08-14 Thread Rod Trent
The name is going to depend on the antivirus vendor.  But...this is not an antivirus vendor issue...this is a patch issue.  The patch has been available for a couple weeks.  Grab MS03-026. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlos MagalhaesSent: Tuesday, August

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
I would have to get the books out but that seems a little rough in more than spelling but I think I get the drift... LOL. I'll take it as a generic 'them' versus specifically 'her' as indicated by the gender of the pronoun... :o) joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [ActiveDir] Choosing between Domain Controllers

2003-08-14 Thread John Witasick
You can also type "set L" if you just want to see the logon server (sometimes the local variables screen gets a little crowded).   John WitasickProject Manager - Windows Networking Services Group - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Title: Message Update:   I have now noticed (beating my head on desk for not seeing it sooner)… that the server also sees the ‘reset’ of the site changes… Meaning:   1)  I log onto the server, change the site listings as needed under IE Maintenance/Security… 2)  Run Secedit,

RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Cathy Hooper
Except Gettype.exe from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit doesn't properly detect Windows 2003 or XP and the Gettype version from 2003 doesn't work on previous versions of Windows. Catch-22. Cathy Hooper Sr. NT Administrator Getty Images, Inc. 206-925-6615 (Office) www.gettyimages.com http://tec

[ActiveDir] LDAP search filter for enabled accounts ?

2003-08-14 Thread Fugleberg, David A
Is there anything I can use in a LDAP search filter to include only accounts that are enabled ? For example, a filter like (&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person)(physicalDeliveryOfficeName=MSPJ)) will find all user objects whose office is in building MSPJ - I'd like to add an argument tha

RE: [ActiveDir] Disaster recovery scenario comments requested.

2003-08-14 Thread Don Guyer
David, We use similar methodology for our DR tests, by keeping a laptop running as a DC on our live network, then transferring FSMO roles at the DR site. This has worked flawlessly for us. We are now looking to be able to restore our AD evironment to a totally different server. Problem

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Try turning that off (make it synchronous). -Original Message-From: Charles Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:46 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security These are all 2000 m

RE: [ActiveDir] Power Options with GPO

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Marc, Forewarned is ... Well, you get the drift. It would be irresonsible of me to suggest adding your own entries to an .ADM without first mentioning the issue. So with that disclaimer out of the way I'd suggest that your solution would likely be the best. Take a snapshot of what it look

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call tothe OS

2003-08-14 Thread Jb Leney
Title: Message http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2003-08-11 It goes by different names, depending on the antivirus vendor. The patch has been out for this for a while now. Our servers our patched, and we've seen no issues as of yet.     -Original Message-From: Carlos Magalha

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Yuck (technical term). Dr. Watson isn't a good thing. Loading a Win2K .adm should not cause a Dr. Watson on the MMC. Not sure why you're getting a SQLServerAgent error--that's pretty unrelated to policy. If its possible, you may want to delete this GPO and start from scratch.

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call tothe OS

2003-08-14 Thread Mayet, Yusuf Y
Yeah   Thanks again guys for your responses.   I was not sure what the virus was called however the symptoms, that you guys gave to me is exactly what some of our clients were experiencing. "The continuous reboot problem"   The servers however are not having any problems as we patch

RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
A "ver" command? -Original Message- From: Graham Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 8/14/2003 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [ActiveDir] os version i know this one has probably been done abo

RE: [ActiveDir] Choosing between Domain Controllers

2003-08-14 Thread Darryl Hall
Title: Message I know that "echo %LOGONSERVER%" from the command prompt will give you the DC that you used but the only way I know how to force the use of a particular DC is to put garbage information for the DC you do not want to use in the Hosts/LMHosts file on the client. The machine w

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Interestingly enough, I have that policy enabled (IE Maintenance policy processing). However, I do notice that when I go to the registry key mentioned in that article, the value is still set to 1, instead of 0. I changed it manually, and will reboot to see what happens. Does anyone know what would

Re: [ActiveDir] How to force RID master change

2003-08-14 Thread EN
Thanks! I finally got everything working...at least so far, we'll see how it fares tomorrow and such. Did get some really weird errors, but they were fixable, according to MS. Ernesto - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] Disaster recovery scenario comments requested.

2003-08-14 Thread Chianese, David P.
That was my major concern too Hunter. Although we have not seen this in the lab, I am wondering in a more complex environment (like production) if the beast will rear it's ugly head then. That would be bad, very bad. Btw, thanks to all of you for the comments and scenario recommendations. Much

RE: [ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erick, Joe makes a good point -- password expiration policy is global. However, you can avoid the rush of everyone's passwords expiring at once with the following process: 1) enable global password expiration, but set the interval really long. 2) run a batch file nightly to expire a small g

[ActiveDir] Power Options with GPO

2003-08-14 Thread De Schepper Marc
I try to enforce a standard Policy for the POWER options in the control panel so that everybody ues the same power settings, this for Desktops as for portables. I can't seem to find any ADM file for this. Is there somebody who can help me on this one? Marc

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon Then again you know Rick Kingslan has wonderful AD knowledge !!! Carlos Magalhaes ADSI MVP -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:02 PM To: ActiveDir Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] A

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call to the OS

2003-08-14 Thread James_Day
Hi All The virus is w32.blaster.worm - the details were released by Symantec about 12 hours ago. The hole it is using was patched by Microsoft a couple of weeks ago. Here is the link to the Symantec write up http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html It woul

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
I believe those would show a logon by the IUSR (or other specified account) account because it isn't truly anonymous, you are simply proxied into the IUSR or some other specified anonymous access account. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Well it doesn't give a lot of info but the RegOpenKey failing on GetHKeyCU (Get a handle to the user's profile in HKEY_CURRENT_USER) looks like a problem. The policy extension can't access the user's profile. The strange thing is that it returns a 0x0, which usually means ever

RE: [ActiveDir] Disaster recovery scenario comments requested.

2003-08-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Don- We're in the same spot, with production DCs running on Dell and DR hardware often being Compaq. We've found that KB810161 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810161) has been important to successfully accomplishing the restores. Recently, we've also found that building th

RE: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected

2003-08-14 Thread daniel . gilbert
Or maybe DirectoryInsight :-) -Original Message- From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected This sounds like a job for Directory Lockdown! Toddler -Origina

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Password change issue

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Heh thanks Rick. I am going to push that solution all the time, I worked too hard to get MS to make that change and stop giving the old tired answer of "change the password on the DC the user will authenticate on". :P I had some time so I went through most of the posts. Been really busy lately w

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Heh Telemarketing company that I worked for in the early 80's did their coding in MUMPS. Interesting use for a language that was developed to target the medical industry, as I recall - Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi Programming System. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft

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