There's some handy info in here, too. Relates
to Replication, but there you go. Lots of useful port
numbers.
Non-obvious is that under certain circumstances,
(if the client computers are not members of the domain and want to
connect/authenticate with DCs for some reason), you *might* need
Could be that the Exchange services are starting before the machine's DC/GC
services are up and running? As mentioned, Exchange won't start if it can't
find a GC server. Is there another DC/GC on the network? Is DNS working
ok?
Can you start the services manually after boot? If you can then
MessageBryan Schlegel writes:
I thought Exchange 2k had to be a installed on a domain controller?
Nope.
All the best,
A
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From: Travis Riddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange
Rick the question is also... why wouldn't you?
If you step back and look...
There's a nice object called Users which you kinda need and has Users in it
anyhow. Why not use it to house OUs to help you organise other users?
Its not enabled by default, so would one go to the trouble of making a
MessageHi, all.
Active Directory, Windows 2000, SP3, no exchange prep.
Please restrain yourselves from asking *why* do you want to do this?. If
you'd like to know, give me a shout offlist.
I need to grant permissions for SELF to change the First Name and Last Name
(givenName, sn in LDAP
;q294952
Tony
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From: Andy Grafton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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MessageHi, all.
Active Directory, Windows 2000, SP3, no exchange prep.
Please restrain yourselves from asking
Title: Message
Its pretty much a requirement if you want to use
MS's Webadmin 1.0 [or components thereof]which afaik has to reside on a
DC.
Apart from that and other services which depend on
its presence... nope.
All the best,
Andy
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From:
Don Murawski
This is one of those does anyone know a product which can do this...?
questions. Apologies.
Have an Active Directory (single domain) with about 65,000 users.
Have a personnel system which produces a flat file consisting of [only]
usernames.
Once a week, our customer wants to run a utility
Malcolm we are trying something a little bit similar for a customer.
One of the things you should check out is whether the attributes which can
be assigned to structural elements (e.g. containers/OUs) will satisfy your
needs using any out-of-the-box AD features you want to use.
You can extend
How about making a standard secondary domain for corp.company.com on the DNS
server for domain.root?
That's how we do it with our different domains and it works fine, but they
are separate forests.
All the best,
Andy
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The quote from our CIO was that if caught any developer using IP addresses
in their code he would fire them on the spot.
And using NetBEUI as a backup protocol on a production system is better?
Andy
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Volker I don't know if there is the browse equivalent, but the XP search has
the option to look specifically in AD.
If you find out the answer to this let me know.
All the best,
Andy
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From: SEYBOLDT,VOLKER (HP-Germany,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's not VBS but why not use Exchange System Manager?
Create a Recipient Policy (Recipients-Recipient Policies) restricted to the
effected OU(s) and you can then specify their SMTP mail address.
If your users have had don't update based on recipient policy ticked then
you'd out of luck with
Found that other Q article.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q285355
A
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Marc I can't help with the documentation c., because ours is so specific to
our particular setup, but I'm curious...
You want to replace one W2K/AD domain with another?
How bad is the old one? Surely, even if there is no documentation, the
setup can't be that hard to work out and document?
If anyone has a permanent fix for this, I'm sure we'd appreciate it. As
you
can tell I'm no printing expert.
Nick the 4050n has a PostScript interpreter AFAIK.
Try the PostScript drivers?
That has worked for me before.
All the best,
Andy
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More info. Mind the wrap.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=lYyc8f4S%24GA.1420%40CPMSBNEWSW01.betan
ews.comoe=UTF8output=gplain
All the best,
Andy
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From: Morgan, Joshua [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 7:23 PM
Subject:
Elizabeth writes:
The MS way
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/whitepapers/configuring
%20a%20vpn%20solution.doc
Creating a VPN Connectoid. 13
Building A Connectoid. 14
Post Configuration Settings. 29
Connectoid?!! I'm scared. What if they breed?
Ken asks:
Or are you just saying go with
a name totally unrealted and stick with it as you grow?
That's right (well : what I was advocating as an option, anyhow).
The advantage is that you'd be able to have a 2 DC/GC environment using the
2 nice servers you have approval for, and not have to
Tony writes:
If you can't afford the luxury of 4 DCs (which for 20 users looks like
overkill) I would stay with just one domain. If the company changes name
in the future it will not kill you to migrate 20 users.
... or use the option of calling the domain something unrelated to the
Jim asks;
Has anyone set up an active directory using vpn's (nokia/checkpoint)
exclusively for branch connection instead of standard point to point ?
I am concerned that the vpn latency will cause RPC timeout...
We have an organisation linked exclusively by VPN via Internet (mixture of
For the Backup Exec users - have you seen problems with v8.6x not
backing up system state reliably?
Identical problems here. Occurs seemingly at random on our production and
development domains.
Have been wondering about it myself.
Here's a transcript of a typical log. If you run the job
Oluwaseyi writes;
How can I block direct telnet access into my exchange 2000 server. Please
any help will be highly appreciated
Seyi AFAIK you can't make a telnet connection to port 23 of a vanilla
2K/exchange 2K server. You'd get connect failed or similar. I have no
idea of the actual
It is a bit hopeless to try and block port 25 on a server that expects to
see mail from external hosts. As the others say it is very difficult (I
hesitate to say impossible, if you have enough monkeys and typewriters) to
detect whether an SMTP connection comes from a telnet application or
Dean writes;
It has been reported (though I've not personally experienced it) that the
DNS client tends to preference either the public servers or the alternate
server ... this being the case, resolution against the zone(s)
representing
Active Directory will eventually fail.
I've
The only problem was that I couldn't configure the DNS to use forwarders
unless I would DELETE THE . DOMAIN :-)
Aaa
That'll help.
All the best,
Andy
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Oluwaseyi give this a read;
http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=14454
I'm not sure how authoritative it is, but its one answer. There is a
workaround suggestion at the bottom.
All the best,
Andy
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I saw the postings about con2prt but I was wondering if anyone new how to
install printers using a Vbscript and then automatically set a printer to
be
default
Josh con2prt can also set the default printer, and delete all previous
mappings. I messed around with VBScript and printui.dll for
Jon just checking : is this array shared between the 3 servers?
All the best,
Andy
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From: Jon B. Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:26 PM
Subject: [ActiveDir] Partitioning Opinion
I'm looking for some opinions on this
... and I was wondering if this is an office-specific domain or part of a
larger infrastructure? You might want to make extra partitions if one of
the two non-DC machines is going to be a DC as well as its primary role.
All the best,
Andy
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basically it was a legacy NT3.51 BDC. When I go into Users and Computers
and try to delete the server object I get the following message:- 'The
DSA
Object Cannot be Deleted'
er...
You might want to try running ntdsutil.exe from one of your DCs.
? gives the command list. Metadata cleanup
Tony wrote;
to do with the fact that once a Windows 2000 client has been a member of an
AD domain, it cannot be authenticated by a Windows NT 4.0 domain
controller.
Tony didn't that get fixed by SP2 on the client side? I use my personal
machine (W2K) to log into separate NT4 and AD domains,
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