RE: [ActiveDir] Replication issues

2004-05-02 Thread joe
There are three types of replication when you are talking about passwords . 1. Urgent replication. This is when a password changes anywhere, it sendsout an urgent replication notification (i.e no hold back on the notification, it goes now - use my adqueueloop to watch for it). Again, the

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC Customization / Input Validation

2004-05-02 Thread Tony Murray
Hi Ian I think the main problem with modifying ADUC is that you really need to ensure tight version control afterwards. For example if, as you state, data entry validation is one of your goals then how do you ensure people are not using uncontrolled, non-modified versions of ADUC? One

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication issues

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Cool looks like my ISP backed up on their SMTP outbound again... I sent this thing Friday morning and it looks like it hit the list Sunday morning... joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Friday, April 30, 2004 7:49 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC Customization / Input Validation

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Tony is 1000% correct. Trying to force validation through ADUC will only help you validate data being sent in by people who follow the rules or even know them, at that point you can ask yourself why aren't they just following the data validation rules when using the default ADUC. To restate

RE: [ActiveDir] (OT?) Slow resume from computer Lock

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Do a network trace while unlocking a machine and look to see if something isn't being found or is responding slowly. I would expect something in DNS. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J0mb Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 4:43 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and Bastion Hosts

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Yeah, I would say that your last paragraph hits this on the head. I hear "resistance to change" and "possible loss of job" as the reasons for concern. The guys have all given great advice here. Don't extend your production forest into an unsecure zone. Either use some other forest or

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and Other LDAP Integration

2004-05-02 Thread joe
I want to say a couple of things on this point, however first off, we use cn=sAMAccountName. 1. LDAP is not a good authentication mechanism. Especially how most companies seem to do it with their products. I.E. Simple LDAP Binds. This is not in any way shape or form secure. Use kerberos, kerberos

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Management and monitoring

2004-05-02 Thread joe
IMHO, it will be tough to beat MOM long term. The company writing the directory software is in a good position to write the best monitoring software for it. They should definitely be ahead of the curve in terms of monitoring new things the directory does in newer versions. joe From:

RE: [ActiveDir] AD screw up

2004-05-02 Thread joe
The ability to rename is no substitute for figuring things out right in the first place. But it is good that MS is working on making the functionality better and better for those poor souls who do indeed have to go through it... Say they are going into a company whose previous admins weren't quite

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Sites and SYSVOL

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Title: Message One would wonder why they did this at all... Possibly support for future functionality? Because as of right now, if a client logs onto a specific DC, that DC should also have the SYSVOL right there... joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone experienced this? Volume dissapears after DCPromo?

2004-05-02 Thread joe
You don't specify whether your disks or IDE or not but I will assume yes so you may want to take a peek at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;305098 Basically it could be a possible LBA issue. I have seen this on XP personally and luckily one of my good friends had

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Unavaliable

2004-05-02 Thread joe
No this should not be a problem. Troubleshoot your client issues like you always would. If you don't do network traces, I recommend you do one anyway, may nail the problem faster for you. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra,

RE: [ActiveDir] help querying for groups

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Hey Mark, I am not an ADO fan but it appears you are missing the attributes you want returned in your execute... BTW, this will get you ALL groups named RPT* in the domain, it won't just get Global Groups. If you want global groups only, you need to add something to your filter... All

RE: [ActiveDir] Help with Restricted Groups

2004-05-02 Thread joe
I haven't played with this but my understanding is that you do what you mention in your first post. Created a restricted group for the group name that you want to add and then place in the memberof section what groups you want it added to... Now my question would be... Where does the new

RE: [ActiveDir] Ldap - linux slowdown in searching

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Title: Ldap - linux slowdown in searching Exactly what I was thinking though you can use ethereal on the Windows side as well. A query is a query to AD, it shouldn't matter if it comes to the server from Windows or Linux. joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Query Question

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Title: LDAP Query Question I wholeheartedly agree with point 2. I will look at doing STATS in ADFIND in the next rev or two. Give me a month, maybe two. Just starting to see the light of day again. :o) joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric

RE: [ActiveDir] question about optimization?

2004-05-02 Thread joe
I agree with "I doubt you will gain enough to make the investment ina new server" performance wise. For security, you absolutely should segregate off the DC functionality. Compromise of anything on that DC is a compromise of the entire domain and means any security patches need to be

RE: [ActiveDir] SCECLI 1202 Events

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Title: Message Trying grepping (findstr'ing) the INF files in your sysvol structure for power users or the SID S-1-5-32-547. joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 6:46 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] scripting admin

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Excellent, let me know if you want me to review it. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robbie Allen (rallen) Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] scripting admin But of course :-)

RE: [ActiveDir] User to InetOrgPerson Class

2004-05-02 Thread joe
If you weren't the size of a Giant Redwood tree I would take offense to that therapy comment. ;o) Instead my response is simply Yes sir, it is working. =) Now that some of you folks know what I look like and actual pictures exist, I have to be nicer... Welcome to the nicer kinder gentler

RE: [ActiveDir] User to InetOrgPerson Class

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Driver error. Recompile kernel snicker -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Seielstad Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User to InetOrgPerson Class Um, yeah. That's right. If I

RE: [ActiveDir] Why doesn't Rick post much anymore?

2004-05-02 Thread joe
Actually I was wearing 7 stiletto's the whole time but in reality, Rick is considerably taller than I am. As you found, I am a just a small quiet coy simple white boy from the midwest. My issue is the company that I keep. :o) I spent over an hour in a bedroom on the top floor of the Westin with

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows threads?

2004-05-02 Thread joe
The number of threads would be a function of how the threads were using some key memory (amount of stack requested for instance) and what is allocated by the linker options. I.E. Depending on how the program is compiled/linked, it could have differing numbers of threads. I think I recall

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC Customization / Input Validation

2004-05-02 Thread IAN FRASER
A mightly number of options there from Tony and Joe - we are looking at MIIS as a possible solution for a number of systems - Openldap, Oracle OID, NDS and some ADAM solutions. I like MIIS,and I think an organisation with a number of systems such as ours can only have any level of consistent

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC Customization / Input Validation

2004-05-02 Thread Mike Welborn
Ian. You might want to look at Aelitas Enterprise Directory Manager (EDM) application. They were recently purchasd by Quest Software but I know that the product will stay in tact because of its wide use by large and small companies. You can create pre and post scripts to enforce

[ActiveDir] Kerberos Info

2004-05-02 Thread joe
In line with an earlier post where I said that LDAP isn't for authentication, kerberos is. Here are some kerberos links for folks. The last one is from a vendor who sells a product to help but it interesting reading due to them pointing out some of the shortcomings of some of the *nix

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos Info

2004-05-02 Thread Mike Welborn
JoeIf you are interested in true *nix integration with Active Directory, check out a company named Vintela. They have a great solution but you will pay for it. Mike W. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 6:09 PM To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Kerberos Info

2004-05-02 Thread Brent Westmoreland
Hey Mike, How about clicking on that last link that Joe provided? On May 2, 2004, at 8:33 PM, Mike Welborn wrote: x-tad-biggerJoeIf you are interested in true *nix integration with Active Directory, check out a company named Vintela./x-tad-bigger x-tad-biggerThey have a great solution but you

Re: [ActiveDir] Storage of AD passwords???

2004-05-02 Thread Brent Westmoreland
Yeah I know, I should have included a goofy emoticon to indicate a playful jab. I've yet to find one that looks like me though $-) On May 2, 2004, at 11:04 AM, joe wrote: I don't disagree with inetOrgPerson or even its use of it. I do strongly disagree with vendors requiring you to change your