[ActiveDir] External vs Forest Trust

2006-02-27 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Scenario You have 2 separate Windows 2003forests (FFL) and each forest has a single domain (Windows 2003 domain functional level). Question You want to create a trustrelationship. What is the difference in functionality/security if you create an external trust between the 2

RE: [ActiveDir] Policies regarding trusts.....

2006-02-27 Thread Steve Rochford
Title: Message If you want to check and see if the everyone group is still there then you can script it. I wanted to make sure that "everyone" did not have rights to print on any print queue. I wrote a script which: enumerated all the servers for each server enumerated all the printers for

RE: [ActiveDir] Policies regarding trusts.....

2006-02-27 Thread Susan Bradley
Title: Message Granted in the 2k era everyone group included anon but in the 2k3 era where everyone group is equivalent to authenticated users how does merely removing everyone and not adjusting other ACLs increase security? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278259

RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer

2006-02-27 Thread Harding, Devon
This is basically what I want to happen: Admin logs on to server. Script checks whether admin is logging onto a server in the local domain. If not, Quit. If it is, script checks if server is in the correct OU. If not, move server to correct OU. If it is, Quit. That's it. -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer

2006-02-27 Thread neil.ruston
The issue will be how does the script know which OU the server should be in, unless of course all servers live in the same OU :) Does the naming convention correlate to the destination OU. I'm not sure we know enough about your requirements and env yet to make a definitive stab at this one :)

RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer

2006-02-27 Thread Harding, Devon
Well, the script should check a particular OU (OU=Servers,DC=Domain,DC=Com). If the server is in that OU (and theoretically can only exits in one container/OU), then Quit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: [ActiveDir] External vs Forest Trust

2006-02-27 Thread deji
Answer: In the first case, ONLY those 2 domains will trust each other. In the second case, EVERY DOMAIN in BOTH FORESTS will trust one another Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize

RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer

2006-02-27 Thread deji
You are misaligning priorities here. Start putting something in place to create computers in the correct OU the first time. For all things already created up to this time, try moving them all to the correct OU in one exercise. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP -

RE: [ActiveDir] External vs Forest Trust

2006-02-27 Thread Wyatt, David
That's the point! In this specific scenario if both forests are single domain forests then my feeling is there is no difference - hence my question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 Feb 2006 16:57 To:

RE: [ActiveDir] External vs Forest Trust

2006-02-27 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: Message if you're not going to add other domains to any of the forests, you'll basically have the same "reach" for both versions of the trust = in any case, you'll just have a single domain trusting another single domain.So no security differences with respect to the trust's "reach"

RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer

2006-02-27 Thread Harding, Devon
If you're joining a new server to a domain (My Computer, Properties) how would you make it create the computer account in a specified OU, rather than the Computers container? -Devon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] Limiting a computer account to specific workstations?

2006-02-27 Thread Medeiros, Jose
Greetings, A have quick question. I have a requirement to limit a single account to logon to only specific systems (About 120). Although I have not tried this, one of our Systems Administrators stated that he was limited to adding only about 30. Does any one know if there is a work

Re: [ActiveDir] Limiting a computer account to specific workstations?

2006-02-27 Thread Umer Y
It seems that there is an upper limit of 1024 characters even in AD2K3 using ADUC. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/a_userworkstations.asp But, I am told that you can use adsiedit to edit userWorkstations value to add more than 63 machines,

RE: [ActiveDir] Limiting a computer account to specific workstati ons?

2006-02-27 Thread Olivarez, Sergio J Mr ANOSC/FCBS
What you could do is put the specific systems in an OU and set the Allow log on locally in a GPO to the Administrators group and the user\users that only need to access those PCs. Thanks... ... ... ... Sergio J. Olivarez - Contractor GD-NS From: Medeiros, Jose

[ActiveDir] Mailbox permissions under Exchange 2003

2006-02-27 Thread David Cliffe
Hi, I thought I might do well to post this here while I wait for my subscription to one of the Exchange liststo get processed. I find that I don't understand the permissions model too well so I will try to explain this as best I can. This is as concerns the following article --

Re: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer

2006-02-27 Thread Phil Renouf
Use netdom to join the machine to the domain, or precreate the computer account. When you use netdom you can specify an OU. Phil On 2/27/06, Harding, Devon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're joining a new server to a domain (My Computer, Properties) how would you make it create the computer

RE: [ActiveDir] Limiting a computer account to specific workstati ons?

2006-02-27 Thread Olivarez, Sergio J Mr ANOSC/FCBS
Forgot to add: You would also need to add the user\users to the Deny log on locally setting on the OU where all other systems reside. Hope you understand me, I think I made it sound kind of confusing. Thanks... ... ... ... Sergio J. Olivarez - Contractor GD-NS From:

[ActiveDir] Link single GPO to multiple OUs using script or something

2006-02-27 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
Basically, we have 50 Location OUs each having different sub OUs for servers, desktops, laptops.My problem is I want to apply policy to all laptops, but I don't have all laptops with XP, some are win2K.So can't use a WMI query to filter out dekstops and servers and create single policy. So only

RE: [ActiveDir] Link single GPO to multiple OUs using script or something

2006-02-27 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
You can do this with a simple VBS, LDIF-Fileor whatever is convenientfor you tochange ADsince you only need to modify the gPLink- and gPOptions-Attributes. Look at the following example from the Technet Scriptcenter: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/ous/adouvb01.mspx

[ActiveDir] OT:How to determine the version of Windows Server 2003 R2 that is running on a computer:

2006-02-27 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
How to determine the version of Windows Server 2003 R2 that is running on a computer: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915044 -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ:

RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer

2006-02-27 Thread deji
Pre-create is the key word. I already told you one way to achieve this, and Phil is telling you another. So, now you have more than one way to skin the cat - I am against abusive cat-skinning, mind you. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services