[ActiveDir] Migration without domain admin rights possible?

2006-07-27 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
Hi Guys, We have a peculiar requirement, that one of the small group of around 300 users will be parting from corporate AD and will be setting up there own forest. We will be using ADMT 3.0 for migration. source DFL FFL : windows 2000 native Target DFL FFL : Windows 2003 Two way trust between

[ActiveDir] cn=meetings

2006-07-27 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
AllJust a quick query. Does anyone know what cn=meetings,cn=system,dc=domainfqdn is for? CheersM@

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion

2006-07-27 Thread neil.ruston
Maybe I misunderstand the post but why re build in this scenario? All the OP needs / wants to do is to add disks and to expand the existing arrays. He requires no or minimal downtime too. This can be achieved as the OP described. FWIW: I have performed this (not in the last 5 years) on

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Local Groups vs Global Groups

2006-07-27 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Matt / Dan - great posts from both of you and this has provided some good material to start planning. Thanks -David -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt HargravesSent: 27 Jul 2006 6:36To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Migration without domain admin rights possible?

2006-07-27 Thread Al Mulnick
Just curious, but what was the point of migration? Why not create new in the target and have them adhere to your new company standards? As for what would break. Hmm not sure you'd be able to read the information needed to perform the migration. At a minimum you would want to grant them the

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration without domain admin rights possible?

2006-07-27 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
you can migrate most objects from the source even without admin rights to them - the default auth. user already has plenty of permissions to read most attributes you would care to migrate. You could still setup passwords migration without giving themdomain admin privs to your source domain

Re: [ActiveDir] GP for Remote users in Domain

2006-07-27 Thread AFidel
To disable cached credentials, simply alter the appropriate GPOs so that every system in the environment has the Computer Configuration, Windows Setting, Local Policy, Security Options control of Interactive Logon: Number of previous logons to cache (in case domain controller is not available) to

Re: [ActiveDir] GP for Remote users in Domain

2006-07-27 Thread jpsalemi
Hi WIlliam Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options/Interactive Logon:Number of previous logons to cache, setting that to 0 will turn off cached credientals. Hope that helps, John

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion

2006-07-27 Thread Matt Hargraves
I'm not understanding why the OP doesn't just stick the new drives in, create the new RAID set from those, create the drives and restore from tape to the new RAID drives. As long as he does it on a Sunday, it shouldn't really take more than an hour to get the old drives out and the new ones in

[ActiveDir] R2 vs w2k3 SP1

2006-07-27 Thread neil.ruston
Title: R2 vs w2k3 SP1 Question 1: Server 1 is built with R2 CD1. CD2 is not used at all. Server 2 is built with R2 CD1 and r2setup is executed from R2 CD2 as well. Will these 2 servers be configured differently in any way, other than the additional hooks in 'add/remove programs'?

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 vs w2k3 SP1

2006-07-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Title: R2 vs w2k3 SP1 whenthe R2 binaries are installed on the server the only thing that happens is that the R2 options are INTEGRATED (not installed). The options still need to be installed additionally. So yes, the only differenceis the list in Add/Remove Programs. There is a small

Re: [ActiveDir] Migration without domain admin rights possible?

2006-07-27 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
Main point of migration is they don't want to lose their current workstation profile settings, and network share permission. I have setup a test network, and without giving admin rights on source, I am able to migrate groups, users without sidHistory.I checked clonepr.vbs and stuff, but that

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on restricted group policy.

2006-07-27 Thread John Strongosky
Laura, yes the restricted group gpo that I created. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura A. RobinsonSent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:13 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Question on "restricted group" policy. If you delete what?

Re: [ActiveDir] Migration without domain admin rights possible?

2006-07-27 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
Appreciate the quick response, I was able to migrate groups, users without sIDhistory to target. I also tried using clonepr.vbs, it also asks for admin rights on source. And reading further, it made it clear that, can't populate sIDhistory through legitimate APIs without having admin rights on

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 vs w2k3 SP1

2006-07-27 Thread neil.ruston
Title: R2 vs w2k3 SP1 whenthe R2 binaries are installed on the server the only thing that happens is that the R2 options are INTEGRATED (not installed). The options still need to be installed additionally. So yes, the only differenceis the list in Add/Remove Programs. [Neil Ruston]is that

[ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC

2006-07-27 Thread Lucas, Bryan
I have 4 DCs that are Win2003 SP1 and 1 DC that is still Win2000 SP4. Id like to add a new DC that is Win2003 R2. Is there anything special I need to do (i.e. forestprep/domainprep) or can I join it just like another Win2003 SP1 DC? Thanks, Bryan Lucas Server Administrator Texas

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion

2006-07-27 Thread Ed Buford
Well for starters: 1. WhenyoulaydownaGhostimageonthenew drive array, Ghost will handle the drive expansion for you; you won't have to run diskpart to expand the disk. 2.You can retain the disks you removed if there's any problem you can go back to it with little headache. 3. You don't

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC

2006-07-27 Thread Ed Buford
Youwillhavetoexpandyourschema: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/509ada1a-9fdc-45c1-8739-20085b20797b1033.mspx?mfr=true From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucas, BryanSent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:15 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC

2006-07-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
run ADPREP /FORESTPREP from the SECOND R2 CD! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucas, BryanSent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 17:15To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC I have 4 DCs that are

Re: [ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC

2006-07-27 Thread Danny
On 7/27/06, Lucas, Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 4 DC's that are Win2003 SP1 and 1 DC that is still Win2000 SP4. I'd like to add a new DC that is Win2003 R2. Is there anything special I need to do (i.e. forestprep/domainprep) or can I join it just like another Win2003 SP1 DC? Yes,

Re: [ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC

2006-07-27 Thread HBooGz
make sure you run adprep /forestprep and /domainprep from the second r2(windows 2003) discit's located in i386\cmpnts\r2\adprephttp://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2006/05/06/930.aspx follow jorge's blog entry on how to identify if R2 has updated the schema version.On 7/27/06, Lucas, Bryan

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC

2006-07-27 Thread Kevin Brunson
There is an adprep folder on the R2 cd. Run it just like you would for 2000 to 2003 upgrade. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucas, Bryan Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:15 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Adding the first

Re: [ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC

2006-07-27 Thread mike kline
You need to run forestprep from the R2 CD on your schema master. Paul has a nice summary here: http://www.msresource.net/content/view/60/47/ and more from Microsoft http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/5022eea0-54bc-422f-b98b-ddb836c8ee851033.mspx?mfr=true Thanks Mike

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 vs w2k3 SP1

2006-07-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Title: R2 vs w2k3 SP1 (1) I remember seing it somewhere (while writing this, I remembered the location which can be found in the link below! ;-)) ). INTEGRATING R2 onto a server does impact that server. It just adds options to the Add/Remove Programs list. Installing one of the new options

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on restricted group policy.

2006-07-27 Thread WATSON, BEN
Is there a way to set a restricted group membership, yet allow for additional members to not be removed when the group policy is refreshed? We have a number of engineers that we grant local administrator privileges on a case by case basis, and the initial reason I dismissed the use of

RE: [ActiveDir] cn=meetings

2006-07-27 Thread Free, Bob
MS NetMeeting uses the Meetings container to publish network meeting objects. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matheesha Weerasinghe Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:31 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Query Based Distribution Groups

2006-07-27 Thread Katherine Coombs
[unlurk] Hi Justin, Right-click on the Distribution Group that you'd like the QBDG to be a member of and select "Add Exchange Query-based Distribution Groups". HTH, Katherine [/unlurk] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clay, Justin (ITS)Sent: 26 July 2006

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on restricted group policy.

2006-07-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I have a few correcting comments on this (see below). Darren From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt HargravesSent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:39 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] Question on "restricted group" policy. From my

[ActiveDir] Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become?

2006-07-27 Thread RM
Title: Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become? NTDS.DIT is currently 650megs.  Once Exchange has been fully deployed, any guesses as to how much larger it will become?  Just looking for a ballpark figure...thx,RM

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on restricted group policy.

2006-07-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
What you've described can be done with the "This group is a member of" portion of restricted groups. This allows you to put a particular group into another group without caring what other memberships are contained in that group. Darren From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become?

2006-07-27 Thread Kevin Brunson
Title: Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become? How many domains, how many users, is it 650 meg on a GC or non-GC? Is this 650meg after an offline defrag? If not when was the last time it was defragged? I am not sure it is answerable even with that info, but it certainly

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become?

2006-07-27 Thread Al Mulnick
Anything from about 700 up. You can actually find the numbers to figure out how much larger you can expect it to get based on the fields you use. If you don't use any, or don't have any addresses, etc, then it's very small bump. If you do have a lot of Exchange data that you intend to populate,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Query Based Distribution Groups

2006-07-27 Thread Clay, Justin \(ITS\)
Wow Katherine, thanks! I cant believe we missed such an obvious context menu! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Katherine Coombs Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:23 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Query Based

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding the first Win2003 R2 DC

2006-07-27 Thread Lucas, Bryan
Thanks to all for the responses. Bryan Lucas Server Administrator Texas Christian University From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike kline Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Adding

RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1

2006-07-27 Thread Dmitri Gavrilov
Guido, which changes to you want to see in dsacls in B3? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:22 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1 well, for Win2000

[ActiveDir] Firewall block Group Policy

2006-07-27 Thread Andy Wang
Hi, When user on VPN network, they can not apply Group Policy since there is a firewall between VPN network and Internal network. Now, I need to find out how many ports are required to allow clients to successfully apply group policy. Based on KB832017, To successfully apply Group Policy, a

RE: [ActiveDir] Firewall block Group Policy

2006-07-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Check out this article for restricting the range of dynamic ports used by RPC/DCOM. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> Darren Darren Mar-Elia For comprehensive Windows Group Policy Information, check out www.gpoguy.com-- the best source for GPO FAQs, video training,

[ActiveDir] Query on Security Groups

2006-07-27 Thread Frank Abagnale
Hi,I have two queries:1. What is the difference between the Users Container and Builtin Container off the root of AD. What do the different groups do?2. What is the difference between the Administrators group and the Domain Admins group. which has higher permissions within the forest?

Re: [ActiveDir] Firewall block Group Policy

2006-07-27 Thread Za Vue
The article below works well. I push the registry to my machines via GPO. My ports used are 5001-5051. -Z.V. Darren Mar-Elia wrote: Check out this article for restricting the range of dynamic ports used by RPC/DCOM. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">

Re: [ActiveDir] Query on Security Groups

2006-07-27 Thread Al Mulnick
Interesting CN=Users = default container for users CN=Builtin = default container for builtin objects such as administrators. IIRC. Domain Admins vs. Administrators? It's a toss up because either can become the other. By default however, domain admins has rights to more objects because by

Re: [ActiveDir] Query on Security Groups

2006-07-27 Thread Frank Abagnale
I was just curious what the different security groups were in each container, wondered if the users container was the default for users, why have various security groups in there as well. Why not have them all residing in the one container.Thanks for respondingAl Mulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED]