Why would you want to have them several years earlier available?
- a period of time would be required for testing and deployment.
I don't see this feature (although major) anything different then the
'native mode' switch you have in AD and Exchange.
- I disagree. Joe suggested that a newer
Thanks all for the replies
Darren- I wil linvestigate the scripts you mention and see how I get on.
Al/Ed- I need to run this on the same network as the production domain (W2K)
and hence need to use a different domain name
Kamlesh- The original post of that tool is what got me started
[EMAIL PROTECTED].
thats the one and only address..
On 10/10/05, Ed Crowley [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the entries under E-Mail Addresses for the contact? Which SMTP address is bolded?
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVPFreelance E-Mail PhilosopherProtecting the world from PSTs and Bricked
If the logon script is a batch file
then:
start wscript script.vbs
should make the script just carry on; if it's a _vbscript_
logon scrip then something like:
oshell.run "wscript.exe
script.vbs"
will launch the
process and not wait for it to complete.
I'll leave you to give the perl
Hi Al,
I did the following configurations in
the OE directory services.. like
1. LDAP server name - I tried by giving
both domain name and the server name ( ldap://ldap.server name)
2. I changed the search base also. Like
ou=abc,dc=def,dc=com
3. kept the port to 389 for ldap search.
After
The
Exchange discussion list here has some people who can probably tell you for
sure:
http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html
Are the
servers all in the same Exchange Org? Where does the contact send the
mail? Your mailboxes contacts shouldn't have their home server name
Yes, I think Sept 20th, 2005, but as anything I or msft produces, there is
a caveat that it would release when it is ready.
Joes blog quotes Heinlein its
gotta be a good site for it J
Ken Jensen
Capistrano Unified School District
San Juan Capistrano, California
I tell ya, if that did it for me,
I'd be the happiest man on earth...
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Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
Seems like a good place to wade in with a 'thanks
y'all!'. I don't know how some of the folks on here
find time to provide such detailed answers to our questions and do their day
jobs. Right behind all the good info, my favorite part
Title: Message
I
suspect that you have some issues with the security settings. To be sure,
you'll want to drop a network trace like ~Eric suggested. I think that will be
the fastest way to solve the issue.
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Yep, if you need to have it on the same network and accessible via the same
network for multiple machines (can't just remote to it) then you'll
certainly want the scripting route. LDAP/ADSI (as Ed also mentioned) is
pretty easy as long as you get the order correct, while the GPO's might take
a
ok. i think you guys are overcomplicating things-
i have one contact which like most contacts, is for an address external to my ORG.
this contact has 1 address which is also its primary address.
the address is external to my ORG. In other words, its a contact :)
the smtp address on the contact is
Each VM has it's own support and patching problem, true. But I see that as
the price for the flexibility.
It's not MS software that relies on old API's? How do you explain WINS
requirements?? ;)
Like I said Joe, I see some benefit. I also see a lot of things that have
been moved from the old
We use setacl
(setacl.sourceforge.net). Can dump ACLs in a couple of different formats.
Thanks,
JD
From: Senthil Kumar
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 5:24 AM
To: Active directory group
Subject: [ActiveDir] report on
permissions of files and
There must be a scriptable way of automating the import of .ldf files as
well. We have had good success re-creating our production environment
using server imaging and exports of our OU, groups and user fields. We
did have a bit of trouble with users and groups but found it was the
order in which
You know what would really be great? If Microsoft were to make it so that
the architecture didn't allow those quirky little things that occur in the
products when they are deployed together on the same machines. Like
Exchange not using any other DC if it's deployed on a DC type of quirk.
Some
Everyone thanks for all your responses,
they were all very useful.
--Alex
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamlesh Parmar
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005
12:56 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD
Migration Question
Title: Schema Updates
Exactly. My beef too. Let me tell you
there support is less than stellar. I think Id rather talk miis to some
dude in India
before engaging a Cisco support rep again.
:m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
joe,
You know this is not possible. No one has your knowledge base! I mean
no one. You're in a class by yourself. You define the class, it's a
little bit like God. No one can touch you! Okay enough adulation.
Anyways, I would hope it would come in between $100 and $500 USD but who
knows
IMHO, that's legacy app viewpoint where folks are still deploying
Windows 2000 because of legacy apps. I'm full borg here. Why couldn't
you 'opt in' if you wanted to when you had full borg. There are
settings now... auth methods, smb signing, etc like that now that kills
off backwards
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
Congrats guys J
:m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Deuby, Sean P
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005
10:23 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject:
Title: Schema Updates
I agree completely that the strength, or weakness, of your
implementation depends 100% on the abilities of the partner doing your install
and your admins on staff. I've been working with Unity since it was the
voicemail system for NEC PBXs back in the 90's so it's never
I agree wholeheartedly !!
I have just started working on AD seriously, so these people surely,
keep me in check as in what I have to know, to be certain, that I know
enough. :)
On 10/11/05, WILLIAMS, J.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems like a good place to wade in with a
I think, I have solved the issue,
As we know, Domain Controllers take the account policies from DDGPO only, and from no other GPO.
So problem was, we had enabled Block Policy Inheritance on Domain Controllers OU, and DDGPO was not enforced.
We had thought that since account policy values are
Yay!!!
Uh, one thing though. While you're mod'ing the CSV output, can you make it
so that we can pick the separator character? I know the purists out there
wouldn't like to call something a csv if it's not, well comma separated, but
it's sometimes useful to utilize other separator characters.
hi,
Yes there is a built in tool in windows 2000 named
cacls
Open a command prompt and type cacls
Cheers,
Yann
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de WILLIAMS,
J.D.Envoyé: mardi 11 octobre 2005 16:36À:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgObjet: RE: [ActiveDir] report on
Expand?
Even better in my opinion would be a DC that could auth someone from any
domain, basically a caching DC, once someone auth's there, their credentials
come down and sit there until some TTL and then they are purged.
How's that better than having a live, writeable version handy? The
Having been in that situation you are correct that it's likely very little
over the wire at initial logon. It's if they have to access anything back
across the wire or if they let Outlook run in cached mode that you'll see
differences. Outlook and other apps are variables that are hard to
To automate the import of the .ldf files you need to shell to a command
prompt and run the ldif import commands appropriate for what you want to do.
A batch file would work as well. If you wanted to automate it all, you
could use the batch/.cmd file completely to do this.
Al
-Original
when i run ethereal on the bridgehead server, i see many tcp retransmissions to the journal server.
what could this signify?
is this an issue on my Exchange server's side?
thier exchange server?
my bandwidth?
their connection?
thanks again
On 10/11/05, Tom Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ok. i
We went through this exercise during our design and plan phase of our AD
deployment four years ago - including using the same whitepaper that Bob
mentioned. We have multiple sites across Montana with 56K frame relay
lines that authenticate back to DCs in a centralized location. We
thought that
interrupts the regularly scheduled program
You know joe is in a class by himself because he wasn't allowed to play with
the other kids, right? G
/interrupts the regularly scheduled program
FWIW, I think that tool already exists in several agent-based forms. For
example HIDS systems have those
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
Hey
everyone, long time reading hereI'm confused as I'm new to AD and doing my
research for our conversion..so here is my question we are gong to have an
MT root domain and a sub ( if that the correct term) domain where we are
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
Hey
everyone, long time reading hereI'm confused as I'm new to AD and doing my
research for our conversion..so here is my question we are gong to have an
MT root domain and a sub ( if that the correct term) domain where we are
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
I concur and if some of you didnt
know, some of the contribution is on the newsgroups and elsewhere so this is
not all these guys post!! I lost track because I just did not have the time to
keep up with stuff here, but I know that
Rocky, you should make the time to become familiar with a few of them, because
if you do, you'll see how useful they can be - they can save you multiples of
the time you invested into them, if you admin AD at all (more than just adding
a user and resetting a password here and there :)
re: some virtualization and isolation of processes and threads ...
A CS teacher once told me that in general in computers whenever you hear
the word virtual, you can replace with slow ...
- virtual memory (yeah, yeah I'm really thinking of paging, not VM,
but I used a
I think I'd rather talk miis to some dude in India before engaging a Cisco
support rep again
Marcus,
I can't resist the urge to turn off my lurking mode and ask you to please
explain the relevance of the statement above to the scope of this
conversation, especially in this public forum. I am
Thanks Al -
The factor at issue here is simply the addition of the workgroup
computers to the domain. They currently do everything over that link,
but they're not domain members. People think that authentication
traffic would break the connectivity! :)
Title: Message
One
thing Exchange 2000x doesn't do well is deal with hosting a FQDN that indicates
itself. It causes weird results. So if their internal server primary
dns suffix is journaldomain.com and they have a recip policy of
servername.journaldomain.com then they'll have some strange
How can I deploy a Symantec patch file (SAV_Corporate_Edition_10.0.1.1007_AllWin_EN.msp)
that was originally deployed via GPO through an .msi file?
Devon Harding
Windows Systems Engineer
Southern Wine Spirits
- BSG
954-602-2469
You can run the forest prep from anywhere as long as you have the appropriate rights. That said this should be done on the Schema Master. Once forestprep is done and replicated properly you can run domainprep in each child domain.
Phil
On 10/11/05, John Strongosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
John-
Some more details please...
What do you have in place now, in terms of Active Directory
and Exchange (versions, layout, etc)? Or is this a brand new install of
everything?
Are you talking about Exchange forestprep/domainprep, or
You know that's just crazy talk, right Al? ;-)
- L
On 10/11/05, Al Mulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yay!!!
Uh, one thing though. While you're mod'ing the CSV output, can you make it
so that we can pick the separator character? I know the purists out there
wouldn't like to call something a
Rich,
That's my plan someday, but me and my partner (only) administer:
[1] 200 Users in 4 states over a WAN, (Four forests, each with a single
domain).
[2] Forty Servers including 11 DCs.
[3] Eighty other devices (High speed printers, plotters, scanners,
etc.).
[4] 700 apps including everything
No slight on intelligence, technical prowess, or anything of that like, Deji.
I only meant that I'd rather work through a language barrier discussing
technology with people in India or China than to discuss Cisco software
products w/ Cisco support reps. It'd be a far more positive
If my vote counts, I would also want that.
On 10/11/05, Al Mulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yay!!!Uh, one thing though. While you're mod'ing the CSV output, can you make itso that we can pick the separator character?I know the purists out therewouldn't like to call something a csv if it's not,
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
It doesn't matter in which domain you run ForestPrep, so
you might as well run it in the domain in which you're installing the Exchange
servers. You must run DomainPrep in any domain in which Exchange servers
or recipients will reside,
Al wrote:
Oh, and email isn't what I would call a reliable method of notification in
that type of situation...
soap box mode It's nice to hear someone say that... email is a good
notification sometimes but when I used to work EM [1] for CNEHQ [2] that's all
anyone ever wanted - red and
Are you asking how to deploy the patch
with a GPO, if you originally deployed the SAV msi using a GPO? Or are you
saying you want to send the msp file as an msi?
---
Rich Milburn
MCSE, Microsoft MVP -
Directory
Just thought, if you wanted to remove the dependancy on sid2user.exe...
I have created the _vbscript_ which uses WMI to get the local admin group name from SID...
On Error Resume Next
strComputer = .
strMember2Add = Domain\OuAdmins
Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts:\\ strComputer
The standard routine is to apply the .msp patch file to the
MSI package share that you used to deploy the app via GP. Hopefully you created
an admin install to do the initial install. Then you can use msiexec to apply
the patch file and then issue a Re-deploy on the package in the
GPO.
Ethereal, it's free:)
http://www.ethereal.com/
Phil
On 10/11/05, Rocky Habeeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[1]Did I mention I don't even have a protocol analyzer or a Flukedevice?_
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It must be the company I keep when I travel (-%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura E. Hunter
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:43 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] ADFIND mods
You know that's just crazy
If I recall correctly, we were talking about the scenarios that this would
play in. We can deduce that we have the hardware to run at least 4 virtual
instances of an OS on the same hardware in current software (R2). We can
also deduce that one or several scenarios indicate that this would be
I don't think you've dug yourself out of the hole yet.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday,
Ah. I see where you're coming from then.
Layer 8 issues can be tough to solve. I like to add l1 to l7 and see if I
can match.
I wouldn't expect auth traffic to tip the scales, but I really think the
should be asked to investigate QoS (if network is a separate group of
people; otherwise
Both servers are exchange 2k
The conversation goes something like this-
ehlo
mail from:
rcpt to:
on my mailserver's side.
all these get 250 smtp response codes from the journal server.
then, my mail server tries to send a xexch50 which gets a need to auth first response from their server.
now i
I was actually thinking of any type of notification that is not reliant on
the systems being monitored, but I didn't consider the additional logging.
Good point.
Joe? How long till you're done?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich
Reinstall the msi using the new
msp.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding,
DevonSent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:56 AMTo:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] .msp
GPOs
How can I deploy a Symantec patch
file
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
And you should always DomainPrep the forest root,
irrespective of whether it contains Exchange servers or
recipients
Tony
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley
[MVP]Sent: Wednesday, 12 October
Thats exactly what I just did, and
it worked. Thanks!
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
2:13 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] .msp
GPOs
The standard routine is
to apply
No sweat, Marcus. You know what they say about ASSumption. That's why I
thought I should ask before I make one of myself :)
Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
www.readymaids.com - we know IT
www.akomolafe.com
Do you now realize that Today is the
Kamlesh, this is not a direct response to your script, or anything like that.
I have not been paying much attention to this thread lately, so apologies to
the OP if I am missing something here. I just think that we are getting silly
here re-inventing wheels when there is already a mechanism in
I am going to hurt myself when I fall off that pedestal you are trying to
stick me on.
If you knew the people I knew the way I knew them you would think the way I
do, I know quite a bit and have a lot of opinions but there are others with
far more knowledge and even better opinions. I just happen
Al speaking of QoS (and feel free to mail me offline [whoever] if it's
too off-topic)...
I have never really bothered with QoS on XP because most users (IMHO) do
not use anything that takes advantage of it. In order to use it for our
credit card processing traffic, would it be true that all
Title: Message
This
was what I was thinking of http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;288175
But
it's possible you have another issue going on. Can you capture the trace
via netmon? Do you have it available?
Ethereal is fine as well, but... Whichever you use, filter the
Going back to not paying attention mode now :)
Promises promises... ;o)
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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:38 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Adding local
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
Why? I have read this before and couldn't pick up a reason
for it other than "just do it...".
joe
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony
MurraySent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:33 PMTo:
Oh no, please don't let this list become a politically correct patrolled
zone. I will just walk right away.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:23 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
How's that better than having a live, writeable version handy?
The limitations of a RODC seem to be unwieldy and otherwise clumsy on it's
own.
In most every branch DC I have seen, there was no serious need to be able to
handle full LDAP searchs or allow local writes. The local DC is an auth
Three words
Net Work Trace
:)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sudhir
KaushalSent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:29 AMTo:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Query
Fails
Hi Al, I did the following configurations in the OE directory
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
It's so that the GCs in the root domain are available to
DSAccess.
http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2004/02/27/81133.aspx
Tony
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
joeSent: Wednesday, 12 October
Is there any utility built into any version of Windows that
can be used to send a WOL magic packet? If not, can someone direct me to a
small utility that would enable waking a machine by pinging it?
Thanks,
Dan DeStefano
NOTICE: The information contained in this
It helps to know the make-up of your audience in any forum. That helps ensure
a modicum of professionalism. The OP already clarifies his position, and it
helps to clear things up in my mind.
Nothing politically correct about that. Not that I have any problem with
asking for political
Does this help? http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx
Mike Thommes
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From:
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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
4:49 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir]
We have a web based application that is behaving slightly different
depending on the users version/patches of Internet Explorer. I was
wondering if someone would shed some light as to what the numbers mean
under Version. I understand it is Version 6.0 but what do the
subsequent numbers mean? I
Why would he do that? The MSI is on the share for the GPO either directly
or as the result of an administrative install. The correct procedure is to
apply the patch to the distribution point with msiexec and I believe the /p
switch and then Use the redeploy option by right clicking the app
No to the first question. Solarwinds will have something in their
toolkit, Ive seen several examples on codeproject.com recently that you
might checkout as well.
Thanks,
Brian
Desmond
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312.731.3132
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Your [ActiveDir] Different Versions of Internet Explorer
document:
Heres one of many links from
googling for magic packet wol
http://ahh.sourceforge.net/wol/wol.html
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of DeStefano, Dan
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
4:49 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] WOL
Title: Changing netbootGUID
We are now using Shuttle nVidia based systems as a standard system. They work great, except that the badly done nVidia boot agent always reports the same GUID when doing an RIS installation. So when you image a system, you get a duplicate ID error when it tried to
Hey Al, have you actually used any of my tools? eg
I added the CSVDelim and CSVMVDelim switches before I added the CSV switch.
ValidOptions.push_back(csvdelim); // CSV Delimiter
ValidOptions.push_back(csvmvdelim); // CSV Multivalue Delimiter
Nope it doesn't count. The csv option never would have been
there without the ability to set the delimiter and multivalue delimiter.
;o)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamlesh
ParmarSent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:55 PMTo:
It's not MS software that relies on old API's? How do you explain WINS
requirements?? ;)
Exchange does as Exchange does... They have no excuse for having a
dependency on WINS or more accurately NetBIOS name resolution other than it
still works so they didn't fix it. To be quite honest, I am not
joeware.netfine now -
I'd guess it was just one of those things that make life such
fun!
Like DNS.
;o)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve
RochfordSent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:54 AMTo:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO
Title: Schema Updates
Oh I think it is a rarity that someone actually talks to
the AD people prior to buying and planning implementation of something that
needs AD. When I ran ops I ran into that on a regular basis. The state of being
purchased though didn't sway me much when they said it
Tony-
The numbers are in the form: major version.minor version.build
number.sub-build number
This is what the versions are for various versions of XP
6.00.2600. Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP)
6.00.2800.1106 Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (Windows XP SP1)
6.00.2900.2180
Too much professionalism and political correctness can so water down the
content of the message or the crux of the problem that any conversation
simply becomes a waste of time as it becomes an experiment in how to not
hurt or, even worse in this context, how to elevate the feelings of others.
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
Ah thanks.
So the recommendation should be, run domainprep in any
domain that has GCs that may possibly be used by Exchange. That makes sense to
me as that is a real requirement.
joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
BTW you might want to put Security bulletin 05-051 on a fast track for
Win2k or Win XP RTM/SP1.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-051: Vulnerabilities in MSDTC and COM+
Could Allow Remote Code Execution (902400):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-051.mspx
*Could the
It won't change the settings back unless they are set under
the policy -- the settings you want to change aren't actually controlled by
policy, are they? If so, the best option would be a separate policy to
reverse the settings, as Alan suggested.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
Better, run DomainPrep in all domains!
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVPFreelance E-Mail
PhilosopherProtecting the world from PSTs and Bricked
Backups!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
joeSent: Tuesday,
Joe,
I had a mind to ignore you - because I'm SERIOUSLY trying to stay in my not
paying attention mode due to some pressing commitments right now. Also, like
I said before, I had an issue with the statement, the OP clarified it and now
I know how to relate to that OP henceforth. Are you trying
lurk mode off
Stupid question... okay we have Exchange Best practices analyzer right?
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003/exbpa/default.mspx
I know you guys don't like GUI...but besides DNSlint, dnsdiag,
Sysinternals, Joeware stuff and such things... is there currently enough
I've cleaned the scriptsa bit, and attached them
as txt - rename vbs edit domain-specific details to use. You need to
use either GetIPList.vbs or GetIPListXP.vbs, depending on client type you want
to query for MACs. (2k or XP/2k3) Put those in the same dir on the machine
that will gather
The tools are there, but the interpretation is sometimes lacking G I've
been told that several companies are currently offering health checks, but I
haven't tested any of them.
As for Microsoft tools, I'm a fan of using dcdiag and netdiag right after
scanning the event logs. That'll give me
I was waiting for the t-shirt before using it. If it's already there, that
would be great. Now if only I could read... dg
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It is an interesting point to ponder joe. Fast and flexible vs. slow and
archaic. Hmm...
Ok, I can buy some of that. But to bring a finer point to the conversation,
you're saying that to provide a competitive advantage, major changes need to
be in place? Push the envelope from a technology
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards
Yes. How I stumbled upon this was trying to figure
out why topology discovery on an Exchange server in a child domain wouldn't
include the DCs and GCs from the root domain. I think it was Al who
pointed me to the blog link that showed
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