RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Backup

2006-03-04 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Hello, I do not understand your scenario correctly. If you had multiple DCs, and you deleted one of them, the GPO will still be on the other DCs. If you had a single DC, and you reinstalled it but forgot to export your GPO, you can do that as you describe with the following modifications: 1.

RE: [ActiveDir] external trust between NT4 domain and windows 200 3 fails

2006-03-04 Thread raynus-ky_choo
Yea, all of the dc is SP1 installed long time back. There is few other NT4 trust in win2k3 domain, by not taking the risk, so we decided not to re-apply again. Further, we've only a single domain, no child; policy settings are identical among them. Thanks for the info. However, the nt4 domain

RE: [ActiveDir] external trust between NT4 domain and windows 2003 fails

2006-03-04 Thread raynus-ky_choo
Title: [ActiveDir] external trust between NT4 domain and windows 2003 fails Nope, not virtualized, but HP proliant and netserver machine. Read Joes blog about the AD issue with vmware. But it is not the scenario I have. Best Regards, Raynus Ky CHOO Windows Administrator (ADSM/NT

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Backup

2006-03-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
the GPOs are part of your systemstate + sysvol backup. Assuming you only have one DC, otherwise you'd still have everyting on it's replication partner DC. when you restore the DC on another Win2003 installation, you don't have to make this a DC prior to running your restore - just run a normal

RE: [ActiveDir] NTLM Authentication Security Principal

2006-03-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
both NTLM Authentication and This Organization are so called well-known-security principals. They are added dynamically to the token of a user when the users authenticate in their domain or accross a trust. However, they're not groups that you can read any memberships from like you can with

RE: [ActiveDir] Photos in AD

2006-03-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
most secure way is simply to remove any write-permissions for SELF on user objects. This is best done prior to user creation by changing the default security descriptor of the user-class object in the schema - otherwise you're going to have to script the removal from all users since the

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-04 Thread Frank Abagnale
I amtrying to design a full DR solution,but as Ihave never done one, I am sort of trying to compile a list of things which occur or I need to deal with on a daily basis and documenting a procedure for them.So far I have looked atprocesses for schema modification, I am now working on recovery

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-04 Thread Frank Abagnale
Todd,You mentioned 'potentially has the ability to create more problems'Could you outline the problemsthat are on your mind? I see Lag Sites as a solution to save the business money frompurchasing a solution, but I still need to think about business risk if such a solution was to be

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-04 Thread Frank Abagnale
Guido, this is really useful information.I have a single domain forest so I feel comfortable with the Lag Site idea.With multi domain forest, I would assume the addtional cost in maintainingthis environmentwouldjustify the cost of purchasing a recovery solution.Your point about Forced

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Frank - I'd also be interested to hear how others protect themselves from forced replication in a lagsite - I'm sure most aren't aware it's a potential riskin the first place. As mentioned below, an option would be to automatically enable and disable the NIC of the respective lagsite DC

[ActiveDir] SYSVOL and Junction Points

2006-03-04 Thread Rachui, Scott
I'm going to ask what may be a dumb question, but I can't find anything on it in the literature. I am trying to get a better understanding of how SYSVOL functions, and I think I've got a pretty decent idea. But when it comes to Junction Points, I'm a bit mystified. I have read the literature,

RE: [ActiveDir] Disabled Accounts/Mail accepted

2006-03-04 Thread deji
The problem with using NoMAS is that you are always chasing your tails. You have to remember to run it often, and in the meantime, your exchange server is being crippled by eventid 9548 . The fix for this issue is more process than technical. You need to work out a termination process with your

Re: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-04 Thread Irwan Hadi
On 3/3/06, Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When talking about a software solution to restore deleted objects I know about: Netpro's RestoreADmin Quest's Recovery Manage for AD I don't know the price of both products (I guess per managed object or something like that) but

Re: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-04 Thread Irwan Hadi
I meant the number of users in the AD. Sorry for the confusion. On 3/4/06, Irwan Hadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/3/06, Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When talking about a software solution to restore deleted objects I know about: Netpro's RestoreADmin Quest's

[ActiveDir] How Secure is a Domain Controller?

2006-03-04 Thread Edwin
How Secure is a Domain Controller that is fully patched on a default install of Windows 2003? When promoted the domain controller has the two default policies, both of which are recommended not to be modified. But there are things that could be done better for added security. For example,

Re: [ActiveDir] How Secure is a Domain Controller?

2006-03-04 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Boy that's an open question isn't it? Books and white papers have been written on this issue alone. I'd recommend that you grab the Threats and Countermeasures guide and look at the Security Configuration Wizard.

RE: [ActiveDir] How Secure is a Domain Controller?

2006-03-04 Thread deji
See: http://www.cisecurity.org/tools2/win2000/CIS_Win2003_DC_Benchmark_v1.2.pdf Happy reading. 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 that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried

RE: [ActiveDir] How Secure is a Domain Controller?

2006-03-04 Thread Tony Murray
Also have a look at the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide, which contains information and sample Group Policy templates for DCs. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a2643c1-0685-4d89- b655-521ea6c7b4dbdisplaylang=en Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]