RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread WATSON, BEN
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure Outstanding response Steve!  That was far more than I could have ever expected.  I "almost" wish I had not taken a vacation day tomorrow just to see if your instructions will work!  I'll certainly work on this Monday morning and let you know if I

Re: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Parris
Ben, The reason for the schema admins empty was in case as part of an install an application "just" extended the schema - you run the group empty that cannot be done. I think Steve has your solution here. Mark -Original Message- From: "Steve Linehan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 6

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread Steve Linehan
Ben,   These errors generally occur when a third party application has extended the schema and it conflicts with the base schema we are trying to put in place.  There were many conflicts found during the initial upgrades to Windows Server 2003 which is why additional information was put int

RE: [ActiveDir] So what are your DC tweaks?

2006-07-06 Thread Brian Desmond
DCOM Ports, NTFRS ports, Nagios port, some of the other ones on his list. I'd have to look at the build scripts to remember. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan

[ActiveDir] So what are your DC tweaks?

2006-07-06 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Brian Puhl's Weblog : AD and DC Builds, tweaks, configurations... The Registry: http://blogs.technet.com/bpuhl/archive/2006/07/06/440495.aspx Brian Puhl's Weblog : AD and DC Builds, tweaks, configurations... (1): http://blogs.technet.com/bpuhl/archive/2006/07/06/440493.aspx ---

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread WATSON, BEN
To try and answer everyone’s question all at once… At this point, we don’t have Exchange running in our test environment, we do have copies of the servers there, but have not re-added them to the domain to bring them up.  I don’t think that having the actual Exchange servers online should

Re[2]: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread Mathieu CHATEAU
Hello BEN, Just for info, i already had some trouble after doing a P2V of one DC. When i tried to install Exchange on it, domainprep was freezing, trying to contact the other DC which i didn't P2V's. Zeising the role was enough, i needed to remove it from AD. cheers, Mathieu CHATEAU Thurs

Re[2]: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread Mathieu CHATEAU
Hello BEN, since you only did one DR, does it mean that the same coputer is both DC and Exchange ? I now limitations when Exchange is on a DC. Since you can restore again, can you shoot of exchange before ? Thursday, July 6, 2006, 10:12:58 PM, you wrote: > Hello Mathieu, Yes, we ru

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Parris
Ben, Are you sure SFU has not been installed? Do you run Schema Admins Empty? Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: 06 July 2006 21:13 To: Mathieu CHATEAU Cc: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failur

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hello Mathieu, Yes, we run a fairly simple domain setup.  Single domain, single forest. We are running in Windows 2000 native mode for domain and forest.  Exchange 2003 is also in native mode. And nice catch on SMS, I deployed it myself and should’ve remembered to mention that.  We do ha

Re: [ActiveDir] All Accounts Locket Out -- Including Domain Admin

2006-07-06 Thread Jaspreet Singh
But it was a GP misfiring. Isnt it?  Regards, Jaspreet Singh Jolly  On 7/7/06, Ravi Dogra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Nitin / Jolly,I have reviewed event logs then and there when problem arised. I foundvery vital information and problem was resolved before i left for the day this morning.Nice to

Re: [ActiveDir] All Accounts Locket Out -- Including Domain Admin

2006-07-06 Thread Ravi Dogra
Hi Nitin / Jolly, I have reviewed event logs then and there when problem arised. I found very vital information and problem was resolved before i left for the day this morning. Nice to hear from both of you. This is a precious mail for me now. Jolly, You are always very helpful and this time th

Re: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread Mathieu CHATEAU
Hello BEN, are you in Windows 2000 native mode ? the forest too ? exchange native mode ? Do you have SMS ? it extends the schema as well. Cheers, Mathieu CHATEAU Thursday, July 6, 2006, 7:43:21 PM, you wrote: > I am working to perform a domain upgrade from 2000 to 2003 R2 and I am r

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in Local Administrators Group

2006-07-06 Thread joe
A service running on ServerA as localsystem or networkservice will touch remote machines including ServerB with the security context of DOMAIN\ServerA, not networkservice.    A service running on ServerA in localservice should touch remote machines as anonymous.   At no point will configuri

[ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread WATSON, BEN
I am working to perform a domain upgrade from 2000 to 2003 R2 and I am running into problems right from the start when attempting an ADPREP /FORESTPREP.  The domain also has Exchange 2003 running as well.  Also, we have never extended the schema with Services for Unix 2.0 which I know can c

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in Local Administrators Group

2006-07-06 Thread james . masters
Will do – thank you very much for all of your responses.   -James   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]om Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:40 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in Loc

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in Local Administrators Group

2006-07-06 Thread Deji Akomolafe
I see...   If the service runs as LocalSystem, then it already has the highest privilege possible on that system. In this case, the vendor (or the vendor's support rep) may be asking for this simply for the "interact" portion of your statement. Without knowing what the app does, it's hard to tel

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in Local Administrators Group

2006-07-06 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
www.threatcode.com Which vendor? (please don't tell me a crappy accounting app?) And there's typically ways around this to hack up the registry. We have to say no to these vendors especially with Vista's UAC right around the corner. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m definitely not wanting to do

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in Local Administrators Group

2006-07-06 Thread Brian Desmond
Yes, it does. Tell your vendor to fix their POS application.   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:09 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.

[ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in Local Administrators Group

2006-07-06 Thread james . masters
I’m definitely not wanting to do this – but a vendor was saying to do it to allow one of their services to run as Local System and be able to interact with another machine.   I am very skeptical, and not allowing it.   Thanks, James   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP over SSL

2006-07-06 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
  Another big benefit to using an Enterprise CA is that you can use existing Certificate Templates and auto-enroll all your Domain Controllers via Group Policy.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:06 AMTo: Acti

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP over SSL

2006-07-06 Thread Kurt Falde
I would add on there take the time to watch the following webcasts..   Best Practices for Public Key Infrastructure: Steps to build an offline root certification authority (part 1 of 2): Wednesday, April 20, 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=896733   Best practices f

Re: [ActiveDir] All Accounts Locket Out -- Including Domain Admin

2006-07-06 Thread Jaspreet Singh
Hi Ravi, If u remember we used to face this problem quite frequently while we were having operations in TS.( Almost once in 2 Months ) but touch wood this problem automatically got resolved when we demoted the ADC of TS.   Also u can always login with ( P--) ID to DC as it can never get locked

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP over SSL

2006-07-06 Thread neil.ruston
I've implemented 3rd party certs on DCs for precisely this reason (LDAP over SSL). The process was a little convoluted but it works :)   I don't follow the chaining issue - the DC merely needs to trust the PKI infra which issued the cert.     neil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR