RE: [ActiveDir] Changing domain name/joining a forest or parent d omain

2004-01-08 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
12. re-join all your Win2000/XP/2003 clients + servers to the new domain as their secure channel will have likely been broken (unless you had previously configured all AD DCs to run in NT4Emulator mode) 13. re-create all your OUs and delegation permissions that you had previously set on them 14.

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 Security Log Rights

2004-01-08 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
Title: Windows 2000 Security Log Rights possible, but not without leaving tracks, as MACS will 1. Detect gaps in the data transmitted from the agent to the collector (which is usually a different machine) and alerts the auditor2. Signs and encrypts communication between the agent and the

RE: [ActiveDir] Applications on 2003 DC

2004-01-08 Thread Han Valk
Hi, Exchange 2003 will work on a DC. Just keep in mind that because of a 'bug' a shutdown/reboot of that combination takes quite some time. Best regards, Han Valk. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chris Flesher Sent: Wed 07-Jan-04 17:59 To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading the only DC in a domain to new hardware

2004-01-08 Thread stefano tufillaro
It's possible re-configure a server (DC or not) if you change the hardware. You must have all main peripherals and a different mainboard; If you change disk architeture (from scsi to ide, eide, sata etc.) you can do some before to speed tre process. In Tehnet there are the detailed explanation. I

RE: [ActiveDir] Changing domain name/joining a forest or parent d omain

2004-01-08 Thread Bruce Clingaman
I doubt this would work in my senario (step 1) since I am running 2003 in native-mode. Also, I am in doubt about your statement in the third paragraph demote ALL of your current Windows 2000 DCs to member servers. This procedure will retain all current users, groups, and computers. I was

RE: [ActiveDir] Changing domain name/joining a forest or parent d omain

2004-01-08 Thread Robert Moir
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Clingaman Sent: 08 January 2004 14:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Changing domain name/joining a forest or parent d omain I doubt this would work in my senario

[ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC

2004-01-08 Thread Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Title: Remote time sync of DC Hello all, I'm trying to find an script/tool to synchronize the time (remote from another computer) of a particular domain controller (Windows 2000) with a domain controller that is specified by me. Is this possible at all? Is it possible to use WMI? Thanx!

RE: [ActiveDir] Changing domain name/joining a forest or parent d omain

2004-01-08 Thread Roger Seielstad
It doesn't remove domain accounts because you have an NT4 BDC in the domain still (step 1). -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Bruce Clingaman [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC

2004-01-08 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message From a command line: net time /setsntp:server.domain.com -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message-From: Jorge de Almeida Pinto [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC

2004-01-08 Thread Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Title: Message Hi Roger, I don't want to specify a SNTP server that a server will use to sync the time from time to time, I just want to force a timesync of a certain DC (task remote executed) with a DC that I specify. Something that works like: "net time \\server /set" but remote executed

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC

2004-01-08 Thread Ken Cornetet
Title: Message Why not? That way, you only have to do the command once. If you are serious about time sync use a real NTP client. See http://www.ntp.org/for more information. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC

2004-01-08 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Then you'll either need to use rcmd or terminal services - I don't believe net time works remotely -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC

2004-01-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
Title: Message psexec is a better alternative, I think. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger SeielstadSent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:37 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC Then you'll either need to use rcmd or

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC

2004-01-08 Thread Ken Cornetet
Title: Message I suppose you could use psexec from sysinternals, or the "AT" command to execute the "net time" command remotely. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger SeielstadSent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:37 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Don't want users to view Directory Info

2004-01-08 Thread Douglas M. Long
Thanks for the comments. Really just wanted to eliminate an easily accessable, easy to use GUI based tool. Ya know -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL

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[ActiveDir] Listing passwd information from AD

2004-01-08 Thread Pennell, Ronald B.
Does anyone have a quick and easy script that will scan the user acounts to see if the users haven't changed thir passwords in so many days? Also, a way to force those users passwords to change without having to touch each users acct. Running W2K SP3 Ron Pennell List info :

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Accounts and request for comments on pro visioning.

2004-01-08 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
Hello Todd - a couple of thoughts: 0.when you move computer accounts from one domain to another, the local file system or the local user profile do NOT need to be re-ACLed (providing, that the account domain doesn't change) = as the user can continue to use the same user-id he will keep

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote time sync of DC

2004-01-08 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Forgot about that one, but you're correct. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message-From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Using LDIFDE to import nested groups...

2004-01-08 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
yeap, MemberOf (backlink) is system-owned and Member (forward link) is editable by an admin. Looks different when you're using UIs like ADUC, where you open the MemberOf tab of a User and add groups to the user = infact you're adding the user to the group's Member attribute and the Backlink to

RE: [ActiveDir] Listing passwd information from AD

2004-01-08 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
just analyse the pwLastSet attribute of the accounts - how about using the PW age policy to force user's to change the PW... (although this is always difficult for accounts that hardly logon interactively - i.e. remote users) - that's why we send out automated eMails to remind users of an upcoming

RE: [ActiveDir] Listing passwd information from AD

2004-01-08 Thread Gilbert, Daniel L Mr ANOSC/FCBS
How about? dsquery user OU=xx,DC=yy,DC=zz -stalepwd 7 Just select the number of days you want to check. i.e. passwords that are older than 7 days. Dan -Original Message- From: Pennell, Ronald B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] MACS

2004-01-08 Thread Rich Milburn
Title: Windows 2000 Security Log Rights Sounds like MACS does some things certain unnamed products do at a much higher fee. Itd be nice to do some testing and evaluation of it to be ready to go live when the SP1 comes out is there a beta/preview of it for lab testing? SP1 is not due for

RE: [ActiveDir] MACS

2004-01-08 Thread Free, Bob
is there a beta/preview of it for lab testing? Yes there is a Preview Release Beta Program, I got in on it in June 02. My TAM had me fill out a nomination form. I don't know if they are still accepting new participants or not. From: Rich Milburn [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] MACS

2004-01-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message MACS is in Beta and AFAIK Microsoft is still accpeting Beta customers. -gil -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich MilburnSent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:46 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir]

[ActiveDir] GPOs for Spyware

2004-01-08 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
Title: Message After purchasing Patchlink 5.0 as a patch management solution for our 5000 desktops, we have become aware after looking at the "software inventory" feature of it, that a very large amount of our desktops have various forms of Spyware installed on them. ClockSync

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Accounts and request for comments on pro visioning.

2004-01-08 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Title: Message Thanks Guido... I will incorporate the information your provided in your message in my recommendation for a standard. About Quote 3, I meant to say VPN and Wireless Access for clients but it was getting late. Thanks. Todd -Original Message-From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Accounts and request for comments on pro visioning.

2004-01-08 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
Title: Message good point - yes if you want to secure wireless clients with certificates for securing the access to your network in a pure 2003 environment, then you may want to join them to the domain afterall. however, as it's rather difficult to make a Wireless reliably secure, a safer

RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs for Spyware

2004-01-08 Thread Kevin Gent
Title: Message Ad - Aware from Lavasoft will remove everything about these spyware/malware apps, but I'm not sure how easy it will be to automate. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Rimmerman, RussSent: Thursday, January 08,

RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs for Spyware

2004-01-08 Thread Rich Milburn
Title: Message Spybot has command-line parameters but I havent used them yet From: Kevin Gent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs for Spyware Ad - Aware from Lavasoft will remove

RE: [ActiveDir] Don't want users to view Directory Info

2004-01-08 Thread Mulnick, Al
As stated, you can do that with GPO if you know which app you want to block. You could go so far to block using the hash features if you want to grab apps that aren't MMC based. Just wanted to be sure you got a complete answer :) Al -Original Message- From: Douglas M. Long

RE: [ActiveDir] Changing domain name/joining a forest or parent d omain

2004-01-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Guido, I agree that there are lots of issues with this option, but it *is* an option that I've been successful with. And, you're exactly right - GPO, Dfs, etc - anything that really relies on Windows 2000 is going to have to be recreated. And, I, too - like the multi-forest option. Those

RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs for Spyware

2004-01-08 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Russ, SpyWareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htmlis Freeware/Donationware and can be installed "silently" using a login script using the Inno Setup command line parameter /VERYSILENT eg. code used during a batch: ECHO.ECHO Installing SpyWareBlaster

RE: [ActiveDir] Changing domain name/joining a forest or parent d omain

2004-01-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep - you're right. It won't work. As I said from the start, if you're doing anything other than Mixed-mode, it won't work. Delete the message, ignore it, have a mind erase, whatever works for you. ;o) To add clarification: I was thinking that the demoting process removes all the domain

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 Security Log Rights

2004-01-08 Thread Joe
Title: Windows 2000 Security Log Rights Ah sorry, I meant without MACS. I.E. Giving manage security log rights. While it will let you read the security logs it also allows writing and clearing. The clearing will still show that there was tampering but if you write enough bogus events you can

RE: [ActiveDir] Don't want users to view Directory Info

2004-01-08 Thread gerry rachar
Does any one know how to get taken off this list Thanks ger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:28 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Don't want users to view Directory Info

RE: [ActiveDir] MACS

2004-01-08 Thread Siddharth Sawkar
At this time they are not accepting any more applications. You can always try to appeal through your TAM though :) /Siddharth On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Free, Bob wrote: is there a beta/preview of it for lab testing? Yes there is a Preview Release Beta Program, I got in on it in June 02. My TAM