Re: [ActiveDir] Automatic user disable based on criteria

2006-12-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: [ActiveDir] Strange Lock Out Issue

2006-12-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: [ActiveDir] Scaling up with AD or ADAM?

2006-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AD or ADAM. Do you have a sense of how many LDAP binds / authentications per second a typical Win2k3 server can handle? (order of magnitude stuff...) Cheers, -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com

[ActiveDir] Scaling up with AD or ADAM?

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, and an archive one for the 10M historical records. Would you recommend ADAM? With how many DCs if so? (the web apps would likely be hosted at a single site). Perhaps full-fledged AD? How many DCs? Thanks! -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ActiveDir] Scaling up with AD or ADAM?

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
here integrated TAM (Tivoli Access Manager -- IBM's WebSSO) with ADAM? Any pointers or horror stories we should know about? Cheers, -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com

Re: [ActiveDir] Updating cached credentials

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM on XP Pro

2006-10-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disconnected. Bottom line: this method is pretty simple, doesn't require any special software running on the PC, and limits the impact of a theft or compromise of the user's workstation. Good luck, -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[ActiveDir] blocking OOO in the listserv?

2006-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
header, and/or can be flagged fairly reliably with a regular expression. (e.g., grep -i out.*of.*office should catch 90% or more of them) -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Derek Harris wrote

Re: [ActiveDir] Separate Administrator password policy

2006-09-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firewalls, etc. That's getting a bit far outside of this list's topic, and starting to sound a bit too much like advertising, though. Continue offline please? Cheers, -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com

Re: [ActiveDir] Separate Administrator password policy

2006-09-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, and avoid what others do well - local and prompt hardware support. Just my random thoughts. I haven't really put much effort into it, Susan. :) Maybe random, but insightful. :-) -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com List

Re: [ActiveDir] Separate Administrator password policy

2006-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: While you guys are skinning that cat (or is it buttering it?)  let me throw out the var/vap world of admin passwords... You have a bunch of managed clients... you have employees

Re: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-09-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to having a bunch of well-known admin passwords out there. There are products to do this (and yes, we make one too). Cheers, -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC

RE: [ActiveDir] Agents on Domain Controllers

2006-08-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Akomolafe, Deji wrote: Depends on what the agent is supposed to be doing, whether or not it's been proven stable or crappy, and whether or not your administrative/security philosophy allows such agent to be deployed on DCs

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Process for requesting, authorizing and creating shares?

2006-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no longer needed to avoid unnecessary cost from charge to their cost center. Regards, Ai Chung On 8/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Joe. I tend to agree regarding standard names, no random driver letters, etc. (which you could probably already infer from my initial e

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Process for requesting, authorizing and creating shares?

2006-08-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that disk space for new work? What happened in this scenario when you worked at that Fortune-5 where you used to (still do?) work? Cheers, -- Idan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:00:58 -0400 From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

[ActiveDir] Process for requesting, authorizing and creating shares?

2006-08-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [ActiveDir] Password resets

2006-08-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
) or to speak to another administrator and be personally recognized. Good luck! -- Idan Shoham Chief Technology Officer M-Tech Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mtechIT.com For more information on M-Tech's

Fw: [ActiveDir] Issue creating forest trusts

2006-03-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in how the RPC communication works in sp1 and isa 2004 and checlpoint firewalls rpc filter need to be updated.Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09/03/2006 15:13 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subj: [ActiveDir] Issue creating forest trusts Hello all, I'm running

Fw: [ActiveDir] SYSVOL and Junction Points

2006-03-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
they are also known as reparse points and ris uses them for the single instance store Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06/03/2006 11:15 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subj: RE: [ActiveDir] SYSVOL and Junction Points The same question was asked at an MS seminar I

[ActiveDir] seizing FMSO roles

2005-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HelpThe consultancy I work for took on a job to provide support during the split of three companies (one divison) from a large group. There were a number oflimitations placed on us. No access to their network or machines before the move and do all the sites at the same time. The comms for the

[ActiveDir] GPOs through trust?

2004-09-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, I have a question about whether GPOs get applied in a situation where domain trust is used.. Assume AD domain DA trusts DB. There is a user U1 defined in DB. U1 belongs to a group G1 on DB. A particular GPO applies to G1 in DB. Now when user U1 signs into domain DA, using trust, does

RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs through trust?

2004-09-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of the DA domain. Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs through trust? Idan- It makes part sense, but in general, yes, Group

[ActiveDir] Printer organization in AD?

2004-08-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi guys, I was just having an interesting chat with one of our customers, and he raised a very good question.. :-) They are a global organization, and consequently have thousands of printers, in hundreds of locations. Today, there is just a flat namespace (I think it's just built into AD) to

Re: [ActiveDir] Sarbannes Oxley compliance

2004-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Mark, Sarbanes-Oxley (or SOX for short) requires lots of things, all of them nice and vague. :-) Among them are effective internal controls. While it is mostly concerned with financial data, of course that data is stored in databases, accessed by applications, on operating systems, mediated

RE: [ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. If you later need to know what machines a user is signing in from, just read their file in that share. E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want a copy. Cheers, -- Idan On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, AD wrote: We are doing it using logon scripts. Using vbscript and WMI you can get anything you want

RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone attending TechEd?

2004-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the Microsoft shirts! :O) Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ActiveDir] Mac clients passwords

2004-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Mark, If all you want is to provide your mac users with adequate advance warning of password expiry (e.g., by e-mail or by launching a web browser to a suitable URL at an appropriate time, from an OSX login shell script), and help them to change passwords on AD and elsewhere from a web

RE: [ActiveDir] password gpo for a special group

2004-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
possible). - http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sieber R., DP ITS, FII, DD Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 12:44 AM

Re: [ActiveDir] password gpo for a special group

2004-03-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [ActiveDir] Password Expiry Notification

2004-03-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nick, Not sure what's up in your environment, but here's one possible reason: Mobile users frequently don't get this, because they are not actually performing a domain authentication (i.e., they make RAS or VPN connections, check their mail, etc., but don't actually sign their workstation into

Re: [ActiveDir] Restricting Administrative Permissions

2004-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Cory, I don't think you can setup a user that can create other users (e.g., new user == NU1), but not be able to set that user's password or group memberships. The creating user would own the new user object ... so would presumably have some privileges to it. To do this, you have to go

Re: [ActiveDir] store password using reversible encryption ?

2004-01-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David, Can anyone enlighten me about the account option store passord using reversible encryption ? As I understand it, some kinds of clients and some kinds of remote access solutions that use CHAP require that this option be enabled. Just the sound of it makes me uncomfortable. You've got

RE: [ActiveDir] Password filters for AD 2003 (v2)

2003-12-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Joe, Your point about users being expired while the synchronization / policy enforcement service is inaccessible is quite relevant, I think. Our default approach is to allow password changes to proceed on the DC, with just the Win2K policy, but without the central policy also being applied, in

RE: [ActiveDir] Password filters for AD 2003 (v2)

2003-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with my capabilities with the OS in regards to this specific issue since it is actually heavily documented and the documentation is right so someone CAN actually do something. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Marshall Sent

Re: [ActiveDir] Possibly OT: Cisco VPN and AD

2003-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try setting the two users' passwords to the same value (i.e., the user who successfully logs in, and the one who can't). If the one that didn't work starts to -- then there is an incompatibility between password policies. The Cisco product might be truncating, lopping off special characters or

Re: [ActiveDir] - reverse encryption of ad passwords

2003-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brent, I don't think it's a good idea to store reversibly encrypted passwords in AD, especially since they get replicated to DCs which you not be able to physically secure. However, you can use the password filter DLL to intercept password changes, and dynamically store the new passwords away

RE: [ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
then allow you to clear that same flag and you now have a password with a password age of 0 days and fully ready to go. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erick Christian Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] Password Lookup

2003-08-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
passwords the user has elsewhere (e.g., on other domains, other kinds of systems, etc.). I hope this helps! Best regards, -- Idan (http://psynch.com/) On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Microsoft provides provisions for doing dictionary lookups

Re: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and Kiosk Mode

2003-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't disable at all is the Ctrl+Alt+Del combo which then brings up task manager, but of those I do want to allow Log off and shutdown. Everything else is locked down. Ernesto - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10