Re: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-30 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Ask the PSS security guys and they want success and failure. Only having half the story... is only half the story Buy bigger harddrives and archive. Sitton Glen E wrote: I don't know that there is a 'general consensus' because everyone's business needs differ. My environment has around 1

RE: [ActiveDir] www.activedir.org MIA?; storing pictures in AD?

2006-08-30 Thread Brian Desmond
Your DIT will grow (size of photo) * (# of users). It’s certainly doable and if you have some sort of business reason, consider doing it, but, you could just as well store a path to a jpeg or something…   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132   From: [

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-30 Thread Tim Onsomu
The option chosen for my environment is: c) Invest in a fancy log management system that will collect, index, and retain all of your logs. The product we employ is EventSenty (http://www.eventsentry.com/features.php?FEATURE=EVENTLOG) Though not that fancy but good enough to do what is needed. Th

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-30 Thread Sitton Glen E
I don't know that there is a 'general consensus' because everyone's business needs differ. My environment has around 100K users and you're right, there's a ridiculously high volume of logon events. We set the security log size very high on the domain controllers, and collect and clear the securit

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Kurt Falde
Have they actually captured a sniff of this traffic while it’s going on? Is this actually AD replication traffic? Or maybe something like the printer thing that was discussed recently?  Have you examined Sites & Services for other servers that are supposedly talking with this server to see

[ActiveDir] www.activedir.org MIA?; storing pictures in AD?

2006-08-30 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Can anyone else get to the archives?  Specifically, I was looking for a thread from, I think, a couple of years ago where there was discussion about storing (not storing?) employee pictures in AD.  I am concerned about how that attribute will grow our DIT.  I seem to recall that maybe just

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-30 Thread Free, Bob
Depends on how much info you need but doing it through the native event log in an environment of that size is nearly futille unless you have SAN space and CPU cycles to burn, ours is 1/4 that size and I tried it and did the calcs and it's storage reqs were unbelievable. IIRC I was also seeing more

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
--- Begin Message --- We made every domain controller (80+) in our forest a GC. We did this because if a link went down, we wanted each DC to be able to hold its own. Maybe this wasn't such a good plan? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Laura A. Robinson Se

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-30 Thread Isenhour, Joseph
That may work, but it sort of falls under option b. The logs will grow so large that they will become unmanageable. I did some calculations and it works out to be about 1TB a year. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Harris Sent: Wednes

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Linehan
One more thing to add.  If you want to see why we are building the topology the way we are you can use ADLB in verbose reporting mode and it will help you determine why the selections were made.  You can of course download ADLB from microsoft.com.   Thanks,   -Steve     From:

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Linehan
The following documentation describes this in detail: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/c238f32b-4400-4a0c-b4fb-7b0febecfc731033.mspx   Read-only and Writable Replicas When computing the replication topology, the KCC must consider whether a replica is writable or re

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Laura A. Robinson
No. GCs can replicate partitions that they don't own to other GCs. They can't replicate them to DCs for the domains in question, but they *can* replicate their read-only partitions to other GCs.   Laura From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cliffe

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-30 Thread Derek Harris
I have a pretty small site, and this probably won't scale very well, but I have a script scheduled to run every day at midnight that backs up the security log to a compressed folder & clears it. I have the log size set ridiculously high, so it doesn't rollover unexpectedly. dtmThisDay = Day(Date)

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread David Cliffe
That should be "GCs cannot replicate partitions they don't own"  right?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura A. RobinsonSent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:05 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/cost

RE: [ActiveDir] deleting subdomain

2006-08-30 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hi Rezuma, You would want to perform a metadata cleanup through NTDSUTIL to remove the child domain. ~Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Linan Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [Acti

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Laura A. Robinson
Is it a GC? If so, then yes, that's to be expected. You may have *thought* that you gave it only one replication partner, but if you're seeing additional connection objects, then it has more than one replication partner. When planning replication, you must be aware of every partition that th

[ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-30 Thread Isenhour, Joseph
What is the general consensus on logging successful logon events? For example if you have a domain with 100K users or so and you use AD as your primary authentication service for: application, file, email, and web access then it is plausible that you will end up with up to 100 log entries per seco

Re[6]: [ActiveDir] Add folder with quota to existing mailboxes - via scripting or tool

2006-08-30 Thread Mathieu CHATEAU
Hello Victor, yes, the on resume allow display no error message if the folder exist already, it will exit in error, saying nothing... It's dirty, i know, but it does the job we pay for !! Regards, Mathieu CHATEAU http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 10:44:57 PM, you w

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Laura A. Robinson
He said that it *isn't* enabled... _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:03 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs You have site link bridging enabled so

[ActiveDir] deleting subdomain

2006-08-30 Thread Ramon Linan
Hi, We had a DC that was taking out of AD without being demote. That DC was also the only domain controller for that child domain, child.domain.com I want to remove entirely that domain from the AD, any ideas on the step I should follow? I don't have access to that DC, so I cant do a clean remov

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving user accounts.

2006-08-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
In order to move an object in DS, you need the following three permissions: 1) DELETE_CHILD on the source container or DELETE on the object being moved 2) WRITE_PROP on the object being moved for two properties: RDN (name) and CN (or whatever happens to be the rdn attribute for this class, i.e.

Re[4]: [ActiveDir] Add folder with quota to existing mailboxes - via scripting or tool

2006-08-30 Thread Mathieu CHATEAU
Hello Victor, sorry. Here is the working for the Root folder: On Error Resume Next set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") set inbox = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").getDefaultFolder(6).Parent set temp5 = inbox.folders.add("Added by vbscript",6) Regards, Mathieu CHATEAU http://lordofthepin

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving user accounts.

2006-08-30 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
http://blog.joeware.net/2005/07/17/48/M@On 8/30/06, David Cliffe < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jim,       Yes, I have found this to be true...there is no "move object" delegation.  We have to use the create and delete.  I wonder if that will change in future (I have a feeling it's been me

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving user accounts.

2006-08-30 Thread David Cliffe
Hi Jim,       Yes, I have found this to be true...there is no "move object" delegation.  We have to use the create and delete.  I wonder if that will change in future (I have a feeling it's been mentioned here several times before, but can't remember).   -DaveC From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Scott, Anthony
Yep, you need to manually create site links between sites to control what replication connections get created. For example create a site link between the HUB site and the site with slow bandwidth. This will only allow replications connection to be created with DCs in those two sites.  

[ActiveDir] Moving user accounts.

2006-08-30 Thread Kennedy, Jim
I am I correct that to delegate moving user accounts from OU to OU I will have to allow them the ability to delete accounts. It appears accounts work similar to documents, a move is really a copy then delete.

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Brian Desmond
You have site link bridging enabled so this is quite plausible... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Wed 8/30/2006 1:52 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs It's a Windows 2000 na

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread David Adner
Are these manual or automatically generated connection objects?  If automatic, were they created back when bridge all site links was enabled?  If so, if you delete them, do they come back?  Do the site links only have 2 sites, the remote and its designated hub, or do they have multiple sites

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
It's a Windows 2000 native domain, we're about 4 upgrades from having all Win2k3 DCs and from what I've read, that should help a lot with replication.   Automatic site link bridging isnt enabled, and we have 0 site link bridges.    We're a worldwide company with 3 main hubs, but it is a mes

RE: Re[2]: [ActiveDir] Add folder with quota to existing mailboxes - via scripting or tool

2006-08-30 Thread Victor W.
Thanks for this Mathieu, the script which creates the folder under the inbox works good. To create it in the root must be a little more complex because this doesnt work yet. When I fire up the script it prompts me with the following error: Error: Object doesnt support this property or method: 'ol

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Brian Desmond
Is this a hub and spoke or are there multiple levels of hub & spoke...costs don't always make much if any difference. Intervals vary by business requirements, link speeds & saturations, etc. I've run everything from 15 minutes to certain days of the week... --brian __

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Laura A. Robinson
Intervals vary by company, domain structure, network topology and latency tolerances. That said, there is nothing inherently wrong with the replication parameters you list below. Are they the best parameters for your environment? That depends. Is this a Windows 2000 environment? Is automatic

[ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
We have about 80 AD sites with DCs.  All sites are set for a cost of 100 on the site to site replication, and a replication interval of 15 minutes.  I'm presuming this is probably not a good thing.    One slow bandwidth site is complaining that their DC is talking to every DC in the domain

RE: [ActiveDir] Printers & AD GUI

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Rochford
Yes, but you can exclude machines which don't have printers attached. Don't know what your network is like but most of our machines don't have a local printer - they're networked from servers - so the standard browse list has loads of machines which don't have printers. Steve -Original Messag