Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Cloned machine domain membership

2005-06-07 Thread SysPro Support
Douglas, The key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters DisablePasswordChange =1. Further Information is available from http://support.microsoft.com/?id=154501 Alan Cuthbertson - Original Message - From: "SysPro Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

[ActiveDir] Modifying behaviour of Users and Computers snap-in

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Jessop
Good day to you all. How can the Users and Computers snap-in be modified to display additional properties? For example I might wish to see the employeeID property of a user in the Organization tab. Regards Peter Jessop List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.ac

RE: [ActiveDir] Modifying behaviour of Users and Computers snap-i n

2005-06-07 Thread Ruston, Neil
The object "cn=user-display,cn=409,cn=displayspecifiers,cn=configuration,dc=xxx,dc=yyy", attribute "adminpropertypages" may be altered. [409 refers to the English language, others may be in use in your org.] Additional entries may be provided - one per additional attribute to be exposed in the

RE: [ActiveDir] Alternate install Directory for W2K3 load

2005-06-07 Thread Marcus.Oh
There is no good reason for this that I know of when it comes to SMS. I suspect maybe they're doing software inventory rules and do not know to specifying the env var of %windir%. :m:dsm:cci:mvp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: M

RE: [ActiveDir] Alternate install Directory for W2K3 load

2005-06-07 Thread Bahta Nathaniel V Contr NASIC/SCNA
I have come to find that our Engineers are actually the ones pushing for the WINNT directory so the legacy apps will continue to function, at least the ones that don't call a variable. The SMS/Tivoli folks are intersted in moving forward with the WINDOWS directory. It looks like across the board

[ActiveDir] Exchange and disabling accounts

2005-06-07 Thread Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Title: Exchange and disabling accounts Hi Everyone, After users (with mailboxes) leave the organization their user accounts are disabled for an amount of time and after that they are deleted. When a account is disabled the attribute msExchUserAccountControl is set to 2. This tells exchange

RE: [ActiveDir] Alternate install Directory for W2K3 load

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
My suspicion is that Microsoft will not likely abandon the use of the key variables any time soon[1]. Many of their own applications and other server products rely on these variables, and they have communicated that the use of these variables is safe and protected. Rick [1] However, Microsoft h

RE: [ActiveDir] DC's not communicating with each other

2005-06-07 Thread Matt Brown
Honestly, not really. I know how to DCpromo the bad machine out of the domain, but I haven't been able to figure out which DC that is. I have 4 of them. Thanks, -- Matt Brown [ SELECT * FROM IT WHERE EyeContact=True ] Information Technology System Specialist Eastern Washington University ___

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Cloned machine domain membership

2005-06-07 Thread Douglas M. Long
Dan, are you using a ghost boot partition in your images? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Holme Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:46 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Cloned machine domain membership If you

[ActiveDir] AD Training

2005-06-07 Thread Matt Brown
Anybody have any recommended training on Active Directory? already taken the "Microsoft Windows 2003 Configuring Active Directory Services" from Global Knowledge, but am looking for the next step I guess. Thanks, -- Matt Brown [ SELECT * FROM IT WHERE EyeContact=True ] Information Technology Sys

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Training

2005-06-07 Thread Cace, Andrew
If you have any good contacts with Microsoft, see if you can get a seat in one of their "Troubleshooting Windows Server 2003 Directory Services" classes. Great class for someone who already knows the book theory and is looking for instruction on how to fix some of the problems that you will encoun

RE: [ActiveDir] DC's not communicating with each other

2005-06-07 Thread Marcus.Oh
Repadmin /replsum * /bysrc /bydest This should give you an idea of which partners are out of sync (look at time lapse). Run repadmin /showrepl dcname against the members that show up out of sync. This should help you get closer to the problematic DCs. :m:dsm:cci:mvp -Original Message-

[ActiveDir] Browser toolbar customization

2005-06-07 Thread Freddie Coleman III
Good morning everybody. I need to remove some buttons from IE's toolbar on certain accounts. It seems like this should be done in the GPO under User Config/ windows settings/ ie maint/ browser user intrface/ browser toolbar customizations/ by checking the box to delete existing buttons... This

Re: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations

2005-06-07 Thread Phil Renouf
There were already a lot of replies about monitoring software so I'll point out something else. There is a great product from Quest called Spotlight on AD that is pretty good for giving you a heads up view of your AD environment. It will not replace a real monitoring/reporting product like Openview

Re: [ActiveDir] Browser toolbar customization

2005-06-07 Thread jpsalemi
Hi Fred... Try User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Internet Explorer/Toolbars/Configure toolbar buttons. You can choose what you wish to show there...I believe John "Freddie

Re: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Phil Renouf
Microsoft Update was released too, about time there was one place to get updates. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/microsoftupdate/default.mspx Phil On 6/6/05, Mark Parris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With SP2 and a feature pack you also get push email to windows mobile phones. > >

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Douglas M. Long
At first I thought cool. Now I am thinking this needs looked into more. I just ran it on my XP machine (which I do manage my exchange servers from) and it shows: "MS05-021: Vulnerability in Exchange Server 2003 and in Exchange 2000 Server can allow remote code execution" as an available patch. S

RE: [ActiveDir] Purging Mailboxes Programatically

2005-06-07 Thread Narkinsky, Brian
Exmerge?   Brian Narkinsky System's Analyst Florida Department of Environmental Protection Tallahassee, FL 32399 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:06 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

Re: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Dennis Depp
Doug, Did you try to install the patch? It is possible and even probable you would need to apply the patch on your management statuion as well as the servers. Dennis On 6/7/05, Douglas M. Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At first I thought cool. Now I am thinking this needs looked into more. >

Re: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Mark Parris
I guess it depends where the vunerability is, if it is in the management tools then I guess it will affect any machine it is installed on. Mark -Original Message- From: "Douglas M. Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:44:08 To: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released,

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
As far as I know, you should patch the mgmt wkst as it replaces DLL's etc that can affect how the mgmt app communicates and interacts with the server if it's patched. jlc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Depp Sent: Tuesday, June 07,

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
I was just saying that we ran into the 16GB store limit on Exchange Standard edition so we upgraded to Enterprise for the sole purpose of getting larger stores. But now, less than a month after the check cleared, we find out that Exchange Standard with support up to 75GB. -Original Message---

Re: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Jason B
I thought that the 75GB was in reference to the limit on mailboxes, not the entire Information Store. - Original Message - From: "Crawford, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:08 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming I w

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Rogers, James
It must be the entire store. It'd be rather unusual to add support for 75GB mailboxes on a server that can only support a single 16GB store. I, too, just upgraded to Enterprise edition solely for the increased mailstore size. Oh well. -James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
Hmmm, yea that is a bit strange. Either way, in standard 2003sp1 and previous the limit for the entire store is 16GB. If sp2 allows 75GB into a mailbox, the store must be allowed to be at least that big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ja

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Mischler Timothy J Contractor NASIC/SCNA
Do you know if the Storage Group limit is based on the edb file or both the edb file and the stm file? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:08 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [Act

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
Based on the sum of the two. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mischler Timothy J Contractor NASIC/SCNA Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 comi

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Bradley Schutter
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RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
So exchange 2003 can support up to 75 GB??? Has anyone experienced this? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:08 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Ex

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
It's in sp2. http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003/sp2/overview.mspx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:01 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Medeiros, Jose
I am not aware of this change.. However I did notice that standard now supports 16gb for Private and 16gb for the public stores, not both combined. Jose -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:01 P

Re: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Phil Renouf
On 6/7/05, Salandra, Justin A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So exchange 2003 can support up to 75 GB??? Has anyone experienced > this? He was talking about after applying Exchange SP2, not out of the box. Phil List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.or

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Craig Cerino
The limit raises to 75 GB in SP2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming I am not aware of

RE: [ActiveDir] exchmbx problem

2005-06-07 Thread joe
Yeah, really busy with work.   I apologize, I didn't read your post as closely as I should have, you are absolutely correct that you can't combine those admod queries. Different objects being impacted.   If you would, offline so we don't bother the others, a dump of the object that it won't

[ActiveDir] MS Service for Unix Question

2005-06-07 Thread Jared Taylor
I am running a Windows Server 2003 domain with Service for Unix 3.0. Does anyone know of a way (or of a script) to automate the activation of the Unix Attributes for each user of the domain so that I don't have to manually go though 200 user accounts? Thanks List info : http://www.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] Modifying behaviour of Users and Computers snap-i n

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Jessop
Neil Thanks for that. Regards Peter List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

RE: [ActiveDir] User account and home directory management

2005-06-07 Thread joe
I think his issue is that it won't do home directory management. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Jessop Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:40 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] User account and home directory

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread joe
Err for what in particular? If you mean the little process below that watched the changes to the directory and dumped them to the screen. That version of the tool I can't share, I actually wrote that specific version on the corporate dime. It is a a nicely cleaned up version of something else I wr

[ActiveDir] Event viewer Log files

2005-06-07 Thread Antonio Aranda
I'm missing security logs for the pass year. Can anyone tell me why the event viewer would stop creating security log files? Antonio List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.act

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI---WSUS released, Exchange 2003 SP2 coming

2005-06-07 Thread Medeiros, Jose
Wow.. your right.. " Increase in mailbox storage size limits to 75 gigabyte (GB) for Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition in response to customer feedback and evolving mailbox storage needs." http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003/sp2/overview.mspx Jose -Original Message- Fr

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange and disabling accounts

2005-06-07 Thread joe
Title: Exchange and disabling accounts Oh this is a fun one.   Straight up, as someone else mentioned, you can use nomas to do this cleanup. However it isn't the most efficient tool if you have a lot of them to clean up. I have sent MS docs on things I think need to be corrected for it. I do

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
Sorry I wasn't more clear, joe. Yep, I meant the tool. I knew what you were changing - that wasn't a real mystery. But the tool that showed the cause and effect is really quite cool. Nice little bit of a 'before and after'. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [ActiveDir] Event viewer Log files

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
My first guess is that all auditing is shut off. Something has to be turned on to audit - otherwise nothing will be posted to the Sec Log. If this is on the DCs, check the Default Domain Controller Policy. If this is Member Servers, look Default Domain Policy, OU GPO where Member exists, or the

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange and disabling accounts

2005-06-07 Thread Alex Fontana
Title: Exchange and disabling accounts I wrote a batch file used during terminations that included granting the SELF account the associate external account permission.  I used a tool called admodcmd.  I believe this is the site: http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2004/08/20/208045.as

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Training

2005-06-07 Thread Dean Wells
We provide Directory Services training to Microsoft's worldwide internal support staff, the curriculum we deliver requires a high degree of existing knowledge and is designed to provide detailed architectural and product-support information. Please feel free to contact me at the email address belo

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread joe
Yep, I like it myself. Starting writing the first version of it about 2 weeks after I loaded my first domain controller back in like 1999/2000. I got sick of doing windiff of two manual dumps right quick. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Training

2005-06-07 Thread joe
For a taste of Dean's training [1] go to HP World in San Fran in August, he is putting on one of the few full day seminars and it is about AD Internals and DR. The content is just a snippet from one of his regular classes. Here is a link about the seminar http://www.hpworld.com/conference/hpworl

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Training

2005-06-07 Thread Medeiros, Jose
Hi Dean, Are your course's online or are they instructor led in the class room? I was always under the impression that Quickstart Technologies www.quickstart.com was the CTEC of choice for Microsoft employees, however if class's instruction is only in the class room then it may just be a good

RE: [ActiveDir] User account and home directory management

2005-06-07 Thread Tyson Leslie
It looks like they've changed things since I used it last, but there was a tool from ADMWin (http://www.admwin.com/default.htm) that would do exactly what you're looking for.  I believe the one that will do what you want is now called SetupBatcher.  It's pretty straight forward, you enter th

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
So The real question is when are you going to have the functionality available as a joeware tool? Remember - I've offered money before for your utils - offer still stands [1]. But, I'm not quite equipped to be the sole benefactor of your first 7-digit accumulation, old buddy. ;o) Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread joe
LOL. I'll work on tools you can pay for. :o) At the moment I am working on a tool to dump all registered event log IDs and messages of a given machine. Trying to decide if it should be a freebie or a for pay. As you may guess I have been working on some monitoring type apps and when I decided I w

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Brett Shirley
I was very very close to adding that (CSV of event log) to repadmin ... after /csv for /showrepl we were pretty much sold ... It's funny, when I read CSV, I think excel? Cheers, Brett Shirley posting "AS IS" ... On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, joe wrote: > LOL. > > I'll work on tools you can pay for. :o

Re: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Jessop
csv from event logs. What's the drawback of logparser? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Cloned machine domain membership

2005-06-07 Thread Dan Holme
No... straight GHOST image. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas M. Long Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 7:29 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Cloned machine domain membership Dan, are you using a ghost boot

RE: [ActiveDir] Modifying behaviour of Users and Computers snap-i n

2005-06-07 Thread Dan Holme
I have a page that has a script to make this process significantly easier... you can hook ANY script, web page, etc., into a new context menu command in AD U&C. http://intelliem.editme.com/admindispspec BTW, the article referenced below does a similar thing --just more 'manually' -- your question

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread joe
Hmm, I am not doing CSV of event log, I am doing dump (default is tab delimited but it is configurable) of all registered event messages on a given machine (remote or local). So for instance, when your monitoring person comes to you and says, what events do you want to be alerted on on machine X a

RE: [ActiveDir] User account and home directory management

2005-06-07 Thread Dan Stanford
Thanks for all your input on this - I will check these out.  I must say I'm surprised they are not easy to come by, or that MS have not implemented something like it themselves - as for many institutions it must be a basic requirement.   Dan. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT