RE: [ActiveDir] Storing dates in AD

2005-03-30 Thread Lee, Wook
Title: Storing dates in AD What that google doesn’t tell you is that NT got it because Dave Cutler used it in his other operating system, VMS. It probably has it’s origins even before VMS though I’d have to check to be sure. We ex-Digits (a.k.a. DECcies oddly enough) have been using 64 bit

RE: [ActiveDir] Storing dates in AD

2005-03-30 Thread joseph.e.kaplan
Title: Storing dates in AD That’s just the thing.  There are way too many string choices.  You have general string, teletex, printable, IA5 and Unicode.  I basically don’t have any idea when it would be more appropriate to use the ones besides Unicode.  Unicode is by far the most prevalent

RE: [ActiveDir] Compelling arguments?

2005-03-30 Thread Isenhour, Joseph
Title: Compelling arguments? Just the service records.  I don't care about the A records, our process for getting those statically created is pretty painless.  It's the ACLs for dynamic updates that cause us pain. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Seiels

RE: [ActiveDir] Compelling arguments?

2005-03-30 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Compelling arguments? What are you trying to delegate - PTR creation or the A record creation?   Roger SeielstadE-mail Geek & MS-MVP   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isenhour, JosephSent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:49 PMTo: Act

RE: [ActiveDir] Compelling arguments?

2005-03-30 Thread Isenhour, Joseph
Title: Compelling arguments? This is a bit off the topic of the thread, but since we are talking about using BIND DNS with AD I'll go ahead and ask.  Has anyone figured out a good way of delegating the update DNS right to your DCs?  At my company the DNS admins are on a completely different t

RE: [ActiveDir] Compelling arguments?

2005-03-30 Thread Isenhour, Joseph
Title: Compelling arguments? True,   I've had the same experience with SQL and Kerberos.  On the bright side the issues forced all of our server admins to understand Kerberos and engage my team to make sure that it's working properly. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site Confusion

2005-03-30 Thread joe
> The latter could be optimized when a client asks > for the global list of all DCs for the domain (= > all DCs that have registered the domain specific > resource records) the list is ordered, compared > to the clients site, from the lowest I am not sure I like that idea, it mucks with how D

RE: [ActiveDir] Compelling arguments?

2005-03-30 Thread joe
Title: Compelling arguments? SQL Server has all sorts of dorked up issues with SPNs, you have to always check them anyway. Someone was on crack that worked out that functionality for SQL Server, I have had my share of arguments with PSS over that. Instead of trying to do things through the co

RE: [ActiveDir] Storing dates in AD

2005-03-30 Thread joe
Title: Storing dates in AD I am not sure it is limited to SAM, I think it may be when it is likely they will be doing comparisons and modifying by a delta or finding a delta. I could be wrong though.   What kind of conversation on strings are you looking for? Generally use case insensitive u

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site Confusion

2005-03-30 Thread Mulnick, Al
Always good advice. You can read some details and the registry keys about it here (for 2000 in this case): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/windows2000serv/technologies/active directory/deploy/adguide/adplan/adpch02.mspx I would have to say to the original poster's question that the likel

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site Confusion

2005-03-30 Thread Fugleberg, David A
A common thing to do in a 'hub and spoke' network is to configure the DCs in 'spoke' sites to NOT register domain-wide SRV records. That way, if the DC in a spoke site goes down, the client will discover domain-wide SRV records for only DCs in the hub site. This prevents the client from authentic

RE: [ActiveDir] Storing dates in AD

2005-03-30 Thread joseph.e.kaplan
Title: Storing dates in AD My observation is that MS uses integer8 when they are representing OS data that is manipulated as FILETIME in normal Windows routines.  I’m guessing that the SAM functions use FILETIME internally, so it was natural to store them natively in AD this way for compati

RE: [ActiveDir] Storing dates in AD

2005-03-30 Thread Isenhour, Joseph
Title: Storing dates in AD I really appreciate all of the opinions on this.  I've been playing around with these different types in my sandbox.  I've used VBS, C#, VB.NET, and pretty much all of the languages that we hack programmers use :) The generalized date type worked really well.  From

RE: [ActiveDir] Compelling arguments?

2005-03-30 Thread Isenhour, Joseph
Title: Compelling arguments? Not only is being able to register it important, but also that DNS resolves to the correct SPN.  Let's say you have a SQL server that is a member of the us.widget.net domain; however, in DNS it is registered as sql1.sea.widget.net.  If you look in AD it's likely t

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegating ability to read/write account expiration

2005-03-30 Thread Olegario, Alan
Actually, found it.  There’s an actual accountExpires perm that I must’ve blown by.   Thanks anyways.   From: Olegario, Alan Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:37 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Delegating ability to read/write account expiration   Is it possib

RE: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Mulnick, Al
I would argue that WINS is required when setting up some applications. SMS and Exchange come to mind. Using the child WINS servers is more than enough for what you're talking about. I wouldn't take them away completely, but rather just use the existing. I do that now and don't usually recommend

[ActiveDir] Delegating ability to read/write account expiration

2005-03-30 Thread Olegario, Alan
Is it possible?  I tried giving the Read/Write expirationTime perms, but that doesn’t appear to be working.   Thanks. The information contained in this email message may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. Any unauthorized use, printing, copying, disclosure, d

Re: [ActiveDir] Accounts disappearing from AD

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Patrick
Just a note  - you can find the where the object was deleted from in 2k or 2k3 by looking at the metadata via repadmin /showmeta  on the deleted object. You can pass it the objectGuid had via looking at the deleted object. If you had auditing cranked up for AD then you should be able to hit

RE: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Pelle, Joe
Title: Message Your assumptions are correct… thanks to all who posted.  I am going to try and stop the WINS service and see if that breaks anything.  Otherwise I can just point it back to the child WINS server.   Joe Pelle Senior Infrastructure Architect Information Technology Valas

RE: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Beelders, Ivor
Title: Message Joe,   Your initial posting stated that your root domain is empty. I assume that there are no applications or users in the domain beside the admin users, i.e. service administrators. I also assume that you’re using W2K or later to administer this domain. If this is the case

RE: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Ruston, Neil
Title: Message WINS like DNS, is domain agnostic.   You may host a DNS zone abc.com (corresponding to AD domain abc.com) on a UNIX server, which exists in some Kerberos realm, perhaps. Similarly, WINS may be hosted on a Windows NT server which is not part of any Windows domain.   In answer

Re: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Dennis Depp
I see no reason why WINS would be needed in an empty root domain. If you did decide to use WINS in this domain, I see no problem with using the WINS from a child domain. In our environment, we have three separate AD forests and only one set of WINS servers. Dennis On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:09:24

Re: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Sergio Fonseca
Hi, Our production environment has no WINS and works fine. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:56:21 + GMT, Mark Parris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But why? Say there are no applications in the root domain. It's just DC's > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08

RE: [ActiveDir] Compelling arguments?

2005-03-30 Thread Mulnick, Al
They make perfect sense, Joe. Cheers, -ajm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:09 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Compelling arguments? Ah not really for hire. Well unle

Re: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Mark Parris
But why? Say there are no applications in the root domain. It's just DC's -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:27:35 To:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] WINS topic You should consider having at least one WINS server in the empty root do

RE: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Mulnick, Al
I see no particular reason that WINS should care what domain it's in. WINS job is to do name resolution similar to the function of DNS. Neither really cares where it lives as long as it lives. Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pelle

Re: [ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread ChuckGaff
You should consider having at least one WINS server in the empty root domain.  You will need WINS for NetBIOS name resolution that is still required by many applications.   Chuck Gafford Architect 2   Unisys Imagine It.  Done.      

Re: [ActiveDir] Bridgehead in a single-server site

2005-03-30 Thread James Cate
Is an empty root with one domain under it still considered a multi-domain forest? What is the reasoning for the BHS being a GC? On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:48:37 -0500, Myrick, Todd (NIH/CC/DNA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One more point to add and I will consider the matter closed. The BHS should

[ActiveDir] WINS topic

2005-03-30 Thread Pelle, Joe
I know there has been some debate in this group recently about WINS in AD but I wanted to get your feedback regarding an empty root domain:   Do you need a WINS server in an empty root domain?  If so, would pointing WINS back to the child domain WINS server be a bad idea?  Other than AD t

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP search filter

2005-03-30 Thread Shawn Hayes
thanks, I was missing (it's on the first panel of the query editing). Shawn >>> "Mulnick, Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/29/05 04:12PM >>> The filter I used was (&(objectClass=User)(objectCategory=Person)) and I set the filter to the OU I wanted (it's on the first panel of the query editing). The

RE: [ActiveDir] Active directory inheritance checkbox on user obj ect!

2005-03-30 Thread Jorge de Almeida Pinto
This happens when those user accounts are member of some protected groups. Permissions on and inheritance of permissions of protected groups are controlled by the AdminSDHolder object under the SYSTEM container. Every hour a process on the PDC Emulator checks the permissions settings of all protect

[ActiveDir] Active directory inheritance checkbox on user object!

2005-03-30 Thread Wilhelmsen Jan
Hi! I have a problem regarding security on user objects, I have an OU call users and under this I have several other OU's which contains user objects. In 2 (Out of 15) of these child ou's I have some problems with the user objects, the problem is that for some reason the user object don't inherit

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/ Virus outbreak

2005-03-30 Thread Ruston, Neil
"Quite honestly, you really shouldn't need to run AV software on DCs, there shouldn't be vectors for them to be infected. If they get infected, it usually means an Admin was careless - actually in every case of an infected DC I have investigated it has been an admin being careless." I disagree. Al

RE: [ActiveDir] Proxys and users, and ieak

2005-03-30 Thread Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Yes you can configure different proxy servers for different users through GPOs   Two ways: (1) Put users that need the same proxy into the same OU. Create for each different proxy a new OU. Create for each different proxy config a new GPO with the proxy config and link that GPO accordingly t