RE: [ActiveDir] recommendation for bridgehead server?

2004-03-08 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
If you have firewalls protecting networks, I recommend isolating them as sites, and setting up preferred bridgehead servers and site link bridges. Todd -Original Message- From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Can someone describe teh cross-forest login proce ss?

2004-03-08 Thread Michael_Parent
Would you believe we did not have to open the firewall between the resource server and the domain controller in the opposite forest? Michael Parent MCSE MCT Analyst I - Web Services ITOS - Systems Enablement Maritime Life Assurance Company (902) 453-7300 x3456 GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO

RE: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several new experiences.

2004-03-08 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Thanks Joe, Below are the pre SP1 AD hotfixes we are testing with our deployment. These are only the ones for DC's... we also apply about 15 pre SP1 hotfixes that deal with security issues as well. E2K3 and 2K GC's Upgraded to 2K3GC's

[ActiveDir] Autoreply: New e-mailaddress

2004-03-08 Thread Berit
Kajsa Linderborg (former address [EMAIL PROTECTED]) has a new e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please use this instead to get in touch with her! List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive:

RE: [ActiveDir] Can someone describe teh cross-forest login proce ss?

2004-03-08 Thread Mulnick, Al
Why? What traffic is being passed then? Can we assume the use of a Kerberos trust then? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:17 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Can someone describe teh cross-forest login proce ss? Would you

FW: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several new experiences.

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Ugh. Thanks Todd. Love the LSASS leak... And yet another FRS fix that will make FRS work perfectly. :oP I would like to understand the first one better... The KB article is kind of hokey in its description Do you know any more? Eric? Specifically this problem occurs if the

[ActiveDir] Export Group Rights at the Configuration\Services\Microsoft Excha nge level

2004-03-08 Thread Kleciak, Clint D B270
Anyone have any clue on how to do this? I need a list in CSV format with all the information you would get if you went into ADSI edit, right click'ed on Microsoft Exchange Properties and selected Security. If CSVDE does it, do I need to add any headers? thanks CK

RE: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several new experiences.

2004-03-08 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Not a clue Joe, other than what is implied. Todd -Original Message- From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several

Re: [ActiveDir] Export Group Rights at the Configuration\Services\MicrosoftExcha nge level

2004-03-08 Thread Tony Murray
Have a look at dsacls. Tony -- Original Message -- From: Kleciak, Clint D B270 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:14:59 -0500 Anyone have any clue on how to do this? I need a list in CSV format with all the

Re: [ActiveDir] Export Group Rights at the Configuration\Services\MicrosoftExcha nge level

2004-03-08 Thread Tony Murray
...or acldiag.exe, which gives you the /tdo option for tab delimited output. -- Original Message -- From: Tony Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:26:17 -0500 Have a look at dsacls. Tony -- Original

[ActiveDir] gc._mscdcs PTR Record

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Wassell
I don't mean to be rude to anyone. Please excuse the double post, this still has me very confused so I thought I would repost it for anyone who may not have seen my previous post this past Friday: Recently I've done some work for the company rebuilding the DC's for concerns of naming

RE: [ActiveDir] gc._mscdcs PTR Record

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Wassell
Okay it looks like I may have found a resolution to my own question. For whatever reason dynamic updates were not enabled for the reverse DNS zone, so I've enabled secure only updates for that zone and we'll see what happens on the next replication. Again, my apoligies for the double post.

RE: [ActiveDir] Export Group Rights at the Configuration\Services \MicrosoftExcha nge level

2004-03-08 Thread Kleciak, Clint D B270
thank you, thank you, thank you. -Original Message- From: Tony Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Export Group Rights at the Configuration\Services\MicrosoftExcha nge level

RE: [ActiveDir] Can someone describe teh cross-forest login proce ss?

2004-03-08 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
wow - that's a nice surprise - not sure if this is a feature of NTLMv2 or if I simply had it wrong. I am pretty sure that in NT4 days the resource server would only check with it's DC to if a token trying to access it comes from a trusted domain and would then request the authentication

RE: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several new experiences.

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Is the issue on the handling of the ntsecuritydescriptor or the msexchsecuritydescriptor? - http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: (Joe Read This) [ActiveDir] AD Protected groups

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Title: AD Protected groups LOL. Thanks Rocky. :o) joe - http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rocky HabeebSent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:00 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] [Slightly OT] Delete inhibit DOMAIN\Remote Management group from local admins...

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Cool, that is anice change. Any recommendations I had would be around making it less confusing / more intuitive. Shouldn't need a KB article to understand what happens when you populate the restricted group. Maybe break it up into a couple of things 1. Replace membership 2. Add to

RE: [ActiveDir] Can someone describe teh cross-forest login proce ss?

2004-03-08 Thread joe
The way I understand it what should have happened is that the client in A should have connected to the resource server in B, the resource server should have contacted the DC ofdomain B it is in that's its secure channel is to and then that DC of B will passthrough check with a DC of domain A

RE: [ActiveDir] character limit for sAMAccountNames

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Title: Message Yes usernames still appear to be capped at 20 characters. This is also per lmcons.h header file #define UNLEN 256 // Maximum user name length#define LM20_UNLEN 20 // LM 2.0 Maximum user name length as for groups... well they are defined the same as users in lmcons.h but

RE: [ActiveDir] Curious Exchange Server Question

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Title: Curious Exchange Server Question Load the tools on your workstations, stay away from loading the crap on the DC. DC's for authentication and authorization. Let it do its job. Really no purpose to manage the Domain from the DC itself. Just encourages doing bad things like getting

[ActiveDir] What is the format of an LDAP ping?

2004-03-08 Thread Geoffrey Elgey
G'day, I'm doing some LDAP queries to AD for a web application, and I'm trying to locate the closest DC using LDAP ping. A sample chapter from Understanding Active Directory Services [2] contains the following: When the client receives the SRV records, it performs a quick LDAP ping to

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Replication Bandwidth Issue

2004-03-08 Thread joe
LOL. I wouldn't expect a lot of replication unless you are making lots of changes, but you can tune it by modifying the schedule to get the max benefit out of the replication packet compression. Actually you will probably have less traffic as your logons and other things using the DCs don't have

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Permissions

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Permissions Guido's answer aside, you kind of need to knock this one down or else you will always be back on your heels regularly. This is the kind of crap that really bogs down any real lockdown/security progress in a company. In order to get more and more secure

RE: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several new experiences.

2004-03-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
People just don't understand how DNS works and make silly mistakes. That's why we did so much in w2k03 to hopefully have it set up automatically and, if not, give you good actionable items to follow. Netdiag was improved of course as well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several new experiences.

2004-03-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
It's been a while, but I think nTSecurityDescriptor. I'd need to look back at the code change to know for sure though, but I'm like 95% sure of that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Replication Bandwidth Issue

2004-03-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
I'll bite. I wouldn't expect a lot of replication unless you are making lots of changes, but you can tune it by modifying the schedule to get the max benefit out of the replication packet compression What does that mean? I don't see the relationship between frequency of replication and

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Replication Bandwidth Issue

2004-03-08 Thread joe
I was simply going by the idea that the less often you replicate the more changes that pile up to be replicated. The more data that has to be compressed *generally* the better the compression ratio's you get - this is standard compression algorithm magic involving the pattern reductions that can

RE: [ActiveDir] Find and delete/disable all your old computer acc ounts real easy

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Title: Message :o) - http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Celone, MikeSent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:20 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Program Data container

2004-03-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
Maybe. Im a HUGE ADAM guy, totally love it, but if AD does the job, why introduce another infrastructure to support? If you can do it in an app partition and that is acceptable (security, performance, etc.) why bring in another set of DSA that need be supported? There are plenty of reasons

RE: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several new experiences.

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Ugh. Ok thanks Eric, I will sent it to the load integrators and have them wrap it up for us. :o) - http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] [Lessons Learned]: Schema Mismatch promoting firs t K3 DC to GC in production forest... Several new experiences.

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Ah. I can tell you miss WINS. :o) - http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:30 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Replication Bandwidth Issue

2004-03-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
Point taken, but I'd argue your savings, over the long haul, are probably fairly small. Existent, sure, but not worth planning over. If this is really what you're looking at you're better off going to w2k03 to get lvr, SIS and tunable compression settings. As long as you're not notifying across

RE: [ActiveDir] Program Data container

2004-03-08 Thread joe
I'm a big fan of DCs primarily doing authorization/authentication. The app stuff can go somewhere else to play. :oP The more stuff you stack up on a domain controller the more chances you have of making it so it can't do its primary job. All of the other stuff is cool and all, but if it

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Replication Bandwidth Issue

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Hmmm, you tempt me to go looking through 2/3 year old PST files to see if I can find numbers. Maybe I should just try to find my notes from the field as I recall pages of boring numbers... I do recall the numbers be being better than fairly small. But the planning part is the key thing, depends

RE: [ActiveDir] Integrating UNIX accounts with AD via Kerberos LDAP

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Yeah I was looking this over the other day... Has anyone been using the VAS product that is described. I would be curious to hear RW experiences. Our UNIX Kerberos integration folks have been fighting with multirealm issues and cert expiration with chatter about possibly having us extend

RE: [ActiveDir] KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Hey your vent mode can also be MVP mode. We are here to help people and help point out issues to MS, not be cheerleaders. When they first approached me 3 or so years ago the first thing I asked was You don't expect me to stop bing about MS do you? The answer was absolutely not. As for the

RE: [ActiveDir] Local Admin to Domain Admin escalation

2004-03-08 Thread joe
I agree with Guido. Its all about physical security. Consider if they fixed that little loophole... What would you do? You obviously have done this enough you have worked up a nice little process. You have probably described a method that 10% or better of the people on the list read and said, no

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 Hardening Guide

2004-03-08 Thread joe
Good god Rick, you are going to scare the crap out of everyone and I'm not going to be allowed near Redmond nor anywhere else I am going to wear a tag that says, Hi, my name is !joe Ok if you don't get that c humor. Although We now have a fun issue where the RUS is building