Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Partitioning

2007-01-19 Thread AdamT
a few partitions we need to enlarge on about 3 of our servers – the space is there and available, but the partition just needs to be expanded. Seeing as how PartitionMagic Pro has been discontinued, can anyone recommend a good product for this? -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum

Re: [ActiveDir] Unable to logon after DCPromo - oddness

2007-01-19 Thread AdamT
. -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx

[ActiveDir] Unable to logon after DCPromo - oddness

2007-01-17 Thread AdamT
code: 2 Additional Data Error value: 8453 Replication access was denied. Has something gone horribly wrong here, or am I overlooking something simple that I'm going to kick myself about later? Any ideas appreciated, -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does

[ActiveDir] Seized Roles - Flatten DC?

2007-01-11 Thread AdamT
MUST do Y, or the rivers will turn to blood, you will be visited by a plague of locusts and your firstborn will be killed. Thanks in advance, -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx

Re: [ActiveDir] Seized Roles - Flatten DC?

2007-01-11 Thread AdamT
it ought to settle the argument. Of course, now they'll just want to dpromo the machines down, clean the metadata and bring them back up again. Nobody wants to re-install Windows on servers sitting in a datacentre miles away. Ho-hum, I tried my best... -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic

Re: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles not updating

2007-01-08 Thread AdamT
the device has an IP address, a cached profile has already been loaded? -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving ADC

2007-01-08 Thread AdamT
On 08/01/07, dinesh shinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Can someone help me on the below issue? I don't mean to come across as being awkward, but I found it difficult to understand what it is you're trying to do. Could you perhaps rephrase it a little? Regards, -- AdamT A casual stroll

Re: [ActiveDir] RealVNC removal

2006-10-11 Thread AdamT
to in order to get UltraVNC's domain auth to work), you'll want to get rid of c:\progra~1\RealVnc\*.* /s and get rid of keys under HKCU and HKLM: Software\RealVNC Software\ORL Bit late in replying, but hey-ho, I still have 1,263 other mails to attend to -- AdamT A casual stroll through

Re: [ActiveDir] Managing Third-Party Users

2006-07-26 Thread AdamT
to log on interactively or manage services or suchlike. -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] Using non-standard TLDs within Active Directory

2006-07-21 Thread AdamT
On 21/07/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The proposal here is to use .nom and the company name is Nomura. Which is all fine and dandy until the French get envious of the .name TLD and decide they're going to have their own equivalent... -- AdamT A casual stroll through

Re: [ActiveDir] ADSIEdit, Exchange and Assistants

2006-07-14 Thread AdamT
for something, somewhere? Anyone know what? On 13/07/06, AdamT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevermind - figured it out myself after finding an account with N/A in the field- the correct field is called 'telephoneAssistant', and is a freetext input, rather than a DN. On 13/07/06, AdamT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[ActiveDir] ADSIEdit, Exchange and Assistants

2006-07-13 Thread AdamT
that Exchange 2K/2K3 would be looking at? Is there something else I need to do to enable usage of this field? Thanks in advance, -- AdamT If it truly were the thought that counted, more women would be pregnant - anon List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] ADSIEdit, Exchange and Assistants

2006-07-13 Thread AdamT
Nevermind - figured it out myself after finding an account with N/A in the field- the correct field is called 'telephoneAssistant', and is a freetext input, rather than a DN. On 13/07/06, AdamT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear font of all knowledge, I remeber reading a thread a while back about

[ActiveDir] Where's that account being used?

2006-06-27 Thread AdamT
? -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx

Re: [ActiveDir] How to block particular Subjects

2006-06-23 Thread AdamT
I've not used IMF to do that before. Perhaps you could plug in an Exim or Postfix machine as your inbound MX and do the filtering there? On 23/06/06, Ajay Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi AdamT, Actually I didn't use IMF before, Is that it will really blocked the particular Subjects

[ActiveDir] OT (kinda): Standard Desktop Build

2006-06-15 Thread AdamT
to the 'Power Users' group, and if so - do you change the ACLs on any of the processes that run as LocalSystem? Any funky utilities from technet or research.microsoft.com that are worth playing with? Any ideas appreciated, -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS Question

2006-06-12 Thread AdamT
with host:www.example.org -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx

Re: [ActiveDir] Is this like AD blog season or what?

2006-06-09 Thread AdamT
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Active Directory Discussion : Introducing the Active Directory Discussion Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/ad/archive/2006/06/09/434604.aspx -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http

Re: [ActiveDir] max password age where else to look?

2006-06-06 Thread AdamT
On 06/06/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I realised that shortly afterwards. The value of this approach escapes me, however :) I don't care which day of the week I change my password on and nor should the users IMHO. neil The Friday before a long public holiday weekend

[ActiveDir] MSC pointing at untrusted domain?

2006-05-31 Thread AdamT
could create a .msc pointing at the SBS domain/server and get prompted for credentials, but it just goes straight to an access denied error. Any ideas? TIA, -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http

Re: [ActiveDir] MSC pointing at untrusted domain?

2006-05-31 Thread AdamT
anyhow -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx

Re: [ActiveDir] MSC pointing at untrusted domain?

2006-05-31 Thread AdamT
/netonly /user:domain_or_target_computer\username mmc.exe eventvwr.msc /computer=target_computer Mike Thommes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AdamT Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread AdamT
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (+65) 6330-9785 -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?

2006-05-16 Thread AdamT
\administrator on NT4/2K/XP workstations? -- AdamT A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] GMAIL encoding

2006-05-10 Thread AdamT
the settings like at the top right of the screen. You get a choice of: Use default text encoding for outgoing messages Or: Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http

Re: [ActiveDir] anyone using IPV6?

2006-04-28 Thread AdamT
on their AD network on either IPv4 or IPv6? -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

Re: going waaaayyy OT [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-27 Thread AdamT
Tom, Dick or Harry with no allegience to her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II... oh, right ;-) -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [ActiveDir] ADM files / sysvol management

2006-04-24 Thread AdamT
? -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

Re: [ActiveDir] logging users out

2006-04-23 Thread AdamT
script (or startup group or HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run for 'standalone' workstations) to schedule it to run exactly one hour after logon. The only problem you'll have is if people want to stay on for two hours. -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info

Re: going waaaayyy OT [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-20 Thread AdamT
On 4/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ditto viruses and virii. ... Being a bit of a pedant, I have to point out that virii is neither good English, nor good Latin: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/virii.html -- AdamT A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q

[ActiveDir] XP Workstation Accounts

2006-04-19 Thread AdamT
Dear collective intelligence, Is there any difference in functionality if you join a workstation to a domain by specifying the old NT4 domain, as opposed to specifying the fully qualified domain? Eg - adding a machine to CORPDOM, rather than corporatedomain.com ? Cheers, -- AdamT A: Because

Re: [ActiveDir] Property Sets and AD Security woes

2006-04-17 Thread AdamT
://letters.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/letters/2001/spoofcovers_1201.html -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Virus' Where are they?

2006-03-15 Thread AdamT
/ -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

[ActiveDir] Individual admin accounts vs Generic admin account.

2006-03-10 Thread AdamT
an audit point of view, but I'm being told that it's better to have one central admin account, as it is easier to track which accounts have admin rights. I would have thought that NET GROUP would make that fairly obvious. Am I missing something here? -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts

Re: [ActiveDir] Phantom Account Locks

2006-03-03 Thread AdamT
Thanks all for the help with this. Turned out he was logging on to his laptop locally, with the same username as his domain account, but with a different password. All sorted now. -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ

[ActiveDir] Phantom Account Locks

2006-02-28 Thread AdamT
or scheduled task, but that hasn't worked out either. Any pointers on what could be doing this? Cheers, -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [ActiveDir] Phantom Account Locks

2006-02-28 Thread AdamT
: Account locked out User Name: j.bloggs Domain: PC004 Logon Type: 3 Logon Process: NtLmSsp Authentication Package: NTLM Workstation Name: PC004 Thanks for the mention of the lockout tools - will give them a go. Cheers, -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http

Re: [ActiveDir] Phantom Account Locks

2006-02-28 Thread AdamT
it happens a little more often. I'll have to ask somebody at the site to take a look at his machine, since his subnet isn't routable from this office :-( -- AdamT 'Thank-you for not requesting read receipts' List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] Who would have thunk it....

2006-02-09 Thread AdamT
On 2/9/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are we truly sure it's him though? Not a rogue developer who hacked into his blog and posted? It could be a compromised blog. I checked the date. It didn't say April 1st. -- AdamT 'Thank-you

Re: [ActiveDir] [List Owner] IE7 and ActiveDir

2006-01-19 Thread AdamT
On 1/16/06, Rich Milburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Server Error in '/' Application. Might be totally unrelated, but there was something similar mentioned recently at: http://discuss.jarretthousenorth.com/newsItems/departments/Microsoft -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http

Re: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed

2006-01-18 Thread AdamT
a workstation to be renamed/joined to a domain? I'm aware of a way of creating a computer account using the NET command, but this has to be done from the server, and ideally, I'm hoping there's a way of joining from the NT4/2kpro/XP workstations. -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info

Re: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed

2006-01-18 Thread AdamT
to delete the administrator account? You might be able to disable it, but IIRC, you can reset the password and unlock/re-enable to account using the infamous bootdisk at: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Shouldn't need to re-image. -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http

Re: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed

2006-01-18 Thread AdamT
with reading out account passwords over the phone to engineers I've never met. Netdom and psexec ought to take care of this for me ;-) -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http

Re: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed

2006-01-18 Thread AdamT
. It IS a problem in a Windows 2000 domain as the local machine SID is used in nearly all aspects of security and before migrating to 2000 you should resolve any duplicate SID issues which may have been caused by cloning installations. -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http

Re: [ActiveDir] Access Denied error when joining the domain

2006-01-09 Thread AdamT
the SIDs. Otherwise - get yourself a copy of NewSID: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NewSid.html Sysprep, IIRC can be used to regenerate SIDs for a workstation. -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx

Re: [ActiveDir] WinXP activation problem

2005-12-30 Thread AdamT
code for each machine with XP on it (look on the CD case, or on the machine itself for OEM), you should be able to activate them. If in doubt, phone Microsoft's activiation line and speak to someone there. -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List

Re: [ActiveDir] another dhcp question

2005-12-20 Thread AdamT
wanting to pick up a reserved IP from the DHCP server will fail. -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange mailbox backup problem

2005-12-20 Thread AdamT
On 12/19/05, McNicholas, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 5 mailboxes, just export them to PST files from Outlook, and then re-import them when connected to the new server. Can you do that for mailboxes 2Gb? -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx

Re: [ActiveDir] DHCP(ot)

2005-12-19 Thread AdamT
idea. http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/products/adonis-appliances/adonis1000/features/ -gives a list of the features. See if there's anything in there which compels you to buy their product. -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http

Re: [ActiveDir] [Way OT] DNS MX load balancing questions...

2005-12-12 Thread AdamT
want it to be used in an emergency. -- AdamT Maidenhead is *not* in Kent List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/