Re: [ActiveDir] Remote Desktop functionality on Windows 2003

2005-01-25 Thread Nathan Casey
computer configuration, Administrative templates, Windows Components, terminal services. Enable "allow users to connect remotely using terminal services" Nathan Casey Network Analyst WGS-ISD County of Sonoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] (707) 565-3519 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/25/05 10:46 PM >>> Hi all from s

[ActiveDir] Remote Desktop functionality on Windows 2003

2005-01-25 Thread Peter Johnson
Hi all from sunny South Africa   Does anyone know if it’s possible to turn on Remote Desktop for Windows 2003 by GPO? We are rolling out a whole lot of W2K3 servers and always seem to forget to turn on this feature J ;(   Regards Peter Johnson

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Pete Procenko
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RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Robert Oytun
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RE: [ActiveDir] Trust Problems

2005-01-25 Thread deji
If you have to resort to lmhosts and hosts files in a 2K3/2K environment, something wrong with DNS. Ahem... now that I have demonstrated that I am a genius at stating the obvious. :-p Let's comment out the entries you put in those files and configure the DCs to not use lmhosts (in TCP/IP prop

RE: [ActiveDir] Trust Problems

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Hogenauer
Yes,,,   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Passo, Larry Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:59 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Trust Problems   In the lmhosts file did you: rename it to not have any extension us

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites VS domains in a distributed global environm ent.

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Newell
Not to confuse the issue but what I would end up with is a root domain with Exchange and SQL in it (already set up this way) and a separate domain tree, not a child domain of the root. I don't really have much choice regarding Exchange unless I want to rebuild in a different domain. Its setup t

RE: [ActiveDir] Information Store Size question

2005-01-25 Thread Mulnick, Al
That's how I read it the first time.  The mind plays tricks with information we already know, I suppose ;) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul van GeldropSent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:08 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Informa

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites VS domains in a distributed global environm ent.

2005-01-25 Thread frank . carroll
Deji, The way that I read the original post, he was going to consolidate into a single child domain under a Top Level Domain (i.e. he ends up with a forest that consists of a TLD placeholder domain and a single child domain under that). If that is the secnario, all of the forest locator informatio

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites VS domains in a distributed global environment.

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Newell
Thanks Brian and Guido, I really appreciate the help. A single domain under an empty root makes sense to me in my environment but I really like to get other opinions before I start a project of this size. I have only been here 11 months and I haven't seen or heard of any company being divested.

RE: [ActiveDir] AD - Modify Query Limits

2005-01-25 Thread joe
You really don't want to do this to be quite honest.   The tool should support paged queries because you can't keep just cranking up the number of values that can be returned arbitrarily because it can impact the performance and stability of your DCs.   If it doesn't support paged queries,

RE: [ActiveDir] Firewalls and VPN questions

2005-01-25 Thread Ken Cornetet
We are having exactly the same issue. We have an open call with PSS on this. For the short term, we make our standard settings the same as the domain settings. Not real wonderful, but what can we do? One of the PSS guys mentioned a trick involving unhiding the ipsecshm "connectiod" via a registry

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Paul van Geldrop
Well, at a first glance, the title ' Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain' is deceiving, in my opinion, making it seem as if you'd want to have two DCs in the same domain while not communicating. The content, however, makes me believe otherwise: ' I would like to seperate two

RE: [ActiveDir] Information Store Size question

2005-01-25 Thread Paul van Geldrop
Ahem.. that, of course, should be:   The size of your private store is the sum of the priv1.stm and priv1.edb files. Your public store size is the same, but with the pub1.stm and pub1.edb files.         -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I agree with Aric... I don't think creating a new domain and adding DCs is going to resolve the end-point mapper error. Some questions you might want to consider: What's that patch level on the DCs? Do you have AV-software running on the DCs? Anything interesting in the event logs? Does DCDIAG

RE: [ActiveDir] Information Store Size question

2005-01-25 Thread John Parker
Yes. That answers my question... Thank you.   John Parker, MCSE IS Admin. Senior Technical Specialist Alpha Display Systems. Alpha Video 7711 Computer Ave. Edina, MN. 55435   952-896-9898 Local 800-388-0008 Watts 952-896-9899 Fax 612-804-8769 Cell 952-841-3327 Direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Be

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Bernard, Aric
I am not sure how it suggests that - maybe my skull is thicker today than normal. Hopefully Robert will elaborate. Regards, Aric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul van Geldrop Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:51 PM To: ActiveDir@mail

RE: [ActiveDir] Information Store Size question

2005-01-25 Thread Paul van Geldrop
The size of your public store is the sum of the priv1.stm and priv1.edb files. Your public store size is the same, but with the pub1.stm and pub1.edb files.   I do presume you’re talking about Exchange here, right.. ? :o)   Regards,   Paul   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Bernard, Aric
Apparently either Paul or myself I confused as to your desire. Maybe you can elaborate. Aric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul van Geldrop Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:44 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDi

RE: [ActiveDir] fileacl.exe Replacement

2005-01-25 Thread Noah Eiger
That’s the one. Thanks.   From: Peck, John C SITI-ITIPAD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:23 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] fileacl.exe Replacement   Try SomarSoft's DumpSec (formerly known as DumpAcl)    http://www.

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Paul van Geldrop
Hi Aric, I think you've been deceived slightly by the topic-title. The title suggests separating the DCs while they stay in the same domain, the content suggests creating two domains. Regards, Paul. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Berna

[ActiveDir] Information Store Size question

2005-01-25 Thread John Parker
Hey all...   is the size of my store the sum total of the .stm and .edb files? Thank you. John Parker, MCSE IS Admin. Senior Technical Specialist Alpha Display Systems.

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Paul van Geldrop
Actually, creating two separate domains in one forest should work just fine. Access to resources will work just fine due to the two-way transitive trusts, and the replication will be much less of an issue. However, what you might want to investigate first if the reason that the synch capabilities

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread Bernard, Aric
Robert, My guess is that know one on this list will recommend doing what you suggest. Creating to stove pipes of similar data would not be desired by any organization especially when the data does not have a specific technical need (e.g. security) to be separated. Is it possible? Yes I suppose,

[ActiveDir] Seperating two domain controllers with in the same domain

2005-01-25 Thread roberto
Folks, I have a quick question, I have two DCs on in Los Angeles, one in San Diego. The one in LA is the catalog server, the one in SD is the DC, and they are both running Windows 2000 servers. I would like to seperate two servers, and create two seperate domains. The reason is DC are loosing

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites VS domains in a distributed global environm ent.

2005-01-25 Thread deji
With apologies to the original poster, I would like to hijack this thread and respond to Frank's idea on this: DNS - If you use AD integrated DNS for your AD domains (I did), make sure that each of your child DCs has a standard secondary of the TLD _msdcs zone and then have the clients use their

RE: [ActiveDir] fileacl.exe Replacement

2005-01-25 Thread Peck, John C SITI-ITIPAD
Try SomarSoft's DumpSec (formerly known as DumpAcl)    http://www.somarsoft.com/   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Noah Eiger Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] fileacl.ex

RE: [ActiveDir] AD - Modify Query Limits

2005-01-25 Thread Jerry Welch
Gil, Thanks for the quick reply.  I will give this a shot and let you know. Regards, Jerry From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil KirkpatrickSent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:07 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD - Modify Query Limits

[ActiveDir] fileacl.exe Replacement

2005-01-25 Thread Noah Eiger
Hi –   I have been using fileacl.exe to show me permissions on various directories. It does the job, but I recall a few graphical tools that gave nicer reports and easier interfaces. I have searched the archives and Google to no avail (except a reference to some expensive enterprise tools

RE: [ActiveDir] Office deployments via GPO

2005-01-25 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I think Dan has the right idea here. You should be able to create a transform that can detect whether Office is already installed. MSI supports so-called LaunchConditions that allow a variety of conditional statements, such as "NOT Installed" to be executed prior to the installation. You should be

RE: [ActiveDir] AD - Modify Query Limits

2005-01-25 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Try this:   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315071&sd=tech   -gil   Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry WelchSent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:03 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] AD -

[ActiveDir] AD - Modify Query Limits

2005-01-25 Thread Jerry Welch
Trying to use Softerra LDAP browser, nice tool, but running into LDAP query policy limiting access to only 1,000 objects.  Can someone help with what it takes to change the AD Query Policy to allow more returns? Thanks, Jerry 

RE: [ActiveDir] Trust Problems

2005-01-25 Thread Passo, Larry
In the lmhosts file did you: rename it to not have any extension use the #PRE and #DOM entries   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:06 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDi

[ActiveDir] Firewalls and VPN questions

2005-01-25 Thread Mulnick, Al
Is anybody really familiar with the GPO settings that control the XP2 firewall on/off network configurations? What I'm trying to do: I'm trying to setup and test IPSEC vpn connectivity back to the corp network and use the XP2 firewall as the firewall of choice. Expected results: When I am off th

Re: [ActiveDir] Clients Not Authenticating with Site DC

2005-01-25 Thread Jeff Smith
In most scenerios the clients use dhcp and that registry entry is there by default. I don't think many people take the time to manually add the "sitename" entry for all of their clients, but it is good to know that there are 2 possibilities, especially the fact that the "sitename" overrides the "dy

RE: [ActiveDir] Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on

2005-01-25 Thread joe
Do you know if the policy actually has the full string and is simply not being applied properly? Look at the text file with the notice in it and that will tell you if the issue is with the tool writing the policy or the clients in applying the policy. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAI

RE: [ActiveDir] Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on

2005-01-25 Thread Perdue David J Contr InDyne/Enterprise IT
The functionality is there with GPOs. You just have to use a shorter message. I've never had any luck getting a longer message to work via GPO. //SIGNED// David J. Perdue Network Security Engineer, InDyne Inc Comm: (805) 606-4597DSN: 276-459

[ActiveDir] Trust Problems

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Hogenauer
So I have a 2 way external trust from a Windows 2000 forest to a Windows 2003 forest. I’m in the process of migrating the 2000 forest to the 2003 forest because of a merger. I’m using NETIQ’s domain Migration administrator to help in the migration. I’m running DNS and WINS and the WINS

Re: [ActiveDir] Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on

2005-01-25 Thread Jordan Arendt
That is the way we did it before moving to AD. I was kind of hoping to use the GPO functionality (it is there, after all). I guess a call to PSS is in order as Google and Technet both turn up nothing. Jordan On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:20:03 -0800, Perdue David J Contr InDyne/Enterprise IT <[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Office deployments via GPO

2005-01-25 Thread Dan DeStefano
I believe you can control this behavior via the Office 2003 Custom Installation Wizard, which is part of the o2k3 resource kit toolbox: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/d/0eda9ae6-f5c9-44be-98c7-ccc 3016a296a/ork.exe. Dan DeStefano -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites VS domains in a distributed global environm ent.

2005-01-25 Thread frank . carroll
Mike, I am currently running a global AD and I have it broken up into a TLD and 4 regional child domains (NAFTA 5K users, EAME 12K users, LATAM 2K users, APAC 2K users). The main reason that I broke it up was to control replication traffic. I did not want to have my LATAM and APAC DCs have to repl

RE: [ActiveDir] Office deployments via GPO

2005-01-25 Thread Thorbjörn Sjövold
Russ, first of all, I understand your problem with Office being reinstalled causing trouble, but remember that if you do not install Office on all your computers where you want it to run with GP, the computer that you leave out will not be managed, so if you later on want to apply an Office Ser