RE: [ActiveDir] [ActiveDir[OT]] Search Mailbox

2006-09-21 Thread Ayers, Diane
ExMerge allows you to search on certain parameters such as subject, attachments, date/time, etc.  It runs with privileged credentials to access and search through the mailboxes.  Downloadable from the MS download page   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Restore left Info store in an inconsistant state.

2006-09-11 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message Your better course of action (besides upgrading from a dead version but that is another thread) is build the new server as a second server in your organization and moving the mailboxes.  You get a clean db and a fresh start.   Forget trying to migrate the DB like you would an

RE: [ActiveDir] Remove Defunct domains..

2006-08-03 Thread Ayers, Diane
ing workgroups that should have never been created and i'm now policing against -- any way to rid myself of this or detect where they are being generated ?   Thanks  On 8/2/06, Ayers, Diane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:     Check your WINS da

RE: [ActiveDir] Remove Defunct domains..

2006-08-02 Thread Ayers, Diane
    Check your WINS database if you are using WINS.  Part of the browsing data comes from WINS and the database will tell you where those records are coming from.  You can address  it via the hosts if it's coming from there or clean up your WINS db.   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailt

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

2006-05-15 Thread Ayers, Diane
The POP3 is just via my local Telco ISP (not a major Telco).  I'm not sure what they are using but it's not Exchange.  Mirapoint MOS 3.7.0-GA is what I glean from the headers but I'm not familiar with it.   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Mond

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

2006-05-15 Thread Ayers, Diane
I'm getting the list at home and at work.  Outlook 2K3 via POP3 is coming in fine.  Outlook 2K3 via Exchange and MAPI is coming in blank.  Both the non-SP standard builds of Outlook.  Exchange is still @ E2K...   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSen

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Demotion & AD Site Configuration

2006-03-30 Thread Ayers, Diane
SMS as well if you are using AD sites for your distribution points. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:38 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DC Demotion & AD Site Configura

RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related?

2006-03-29 Thread Ayers, Diane
Maybe we should ask a question on the merits of doubling down on an 11 when the dealer has a face card showing...  :-)   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge deSent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:35 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubje

RE: [ActiveDir] Single Sign-on

2006-01-29 Thread Ayers, Diane
Russ:   We pursuing a "reduced" sign on environment as opposed to a single sign on.  Fortunately we've been able to leverage AD as our "authoritative source" for IDs and passwords but due to the plethora of heterogeneous applications, not all of them can leverage AD as the authentication and

RE: [ActiveDir] [List Owner] Mailing list is 5 today!

2006-01-13 Thread Ayers, Diane
agine not drinking before the age of 21 - i.e. all thru my uni years!! it can't be done :) i take my hat off to you guys who have to wait until 21 :)) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent: 13 January 2006 15:13 To:

RE: [ActiveDir] [List Owner] Mailing list is 5 today!

2006-01-13 Thread Ayers, Diane
16 more years and we can start drinking... WooHoo.. My cranial capacity on AD has grown immensely through the sharing on the list. Thanks much to you and the members of the list. Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] remove logon script?

2005-12-05 Thread Ayers, Diane
Try ADmodify for a GUI tool...   Diane   http://tinyurl.com/5ruog From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, DevonSent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:40 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] remove logon script? How can I remove the logon.

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripting/WMI/MONAD - was FSMO role transfer

2005-12-01 Thread Ayers, Diane
IIRC in the conversations that I had with MS around MONAD was that one goal was intended to "fix" the issue of inconsistencies of the various command line tools (different switches, piping options, etc.). The other goal was to ensure that every option that was available via the GUI was exposed via

RE: [ActiveDir] exporting group membership

2005-11-28 Thread Ayers, Diane
here is a script that you can use.  It dumps the group to a spreadsheet with column headers.  Modify as you see fit   Diane     On Error Resume Next   CRLF=CHR(13)+CHR(10)   strADName = InputBox("Enter Complete LDAP DN for desired group","Group

RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts.....

2005-11-28 Thread Ayers, Diane
You mention that it is a legacy trust. I don't know how far back it goes legacy wise but I ran into an issue where a legacy trust could not be "upgraded" (modified) as the trust existed prior to upgrade (way back in NT 4.0 land) and the solution was to delete the trust entirely and recreate. Th

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

2005-10-10 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Schema Updates >You ever find that often times the products are already bought before your input is requested?   The better question is when do they ever check with you before they buy a product?  Nope...  They usually ask someone that has no clue of the impact to the production syste

RE: [ActiveDir] Modifying Domain Admins & Administrators Group

2005-10-07 Thread Ayers, Diane
ors Group How does it work? Do you use LDAP to look at the membership? If so, you probably have a whole in the implementation. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:20 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.acti

RE: [ActiveDir] Modifying Domain Admins & Administrators Group

2005-10-06 Thread Ayers, Diane
We run a simple process that monitors the members of elevated privilege groups. Any changes trigger a notification. Doesn't address the prevention but will allow you to capture the occurrence and deal with it appropriately. Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [ActiveDir] Precreating sites and subnets

2005-09-01 Thread Ayers, Diane
Tom: I used Robbie Allen's script to do this. You can glean from his script the techniques for doing this. I sent you a copy under a separate email Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:0

RE: [ActiveDir] Database Corruption

2005-08-19 Thread Ayers, Diane
My preferred approach would be to demote the box to member server and re-promote to a domain controller to ensure a good fresh copy of the DIT.  YMMV as the specific requirements at your location may prevent this.  We have only run into this once early in our AD days and this was the approac

RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-03 Thread Ayers, Diane
Not a AD gripe but a tools gripe. The AD Sites and Services snap-in sucks canal water as Laura sez. MS said they would fix it in Win2K3 but it still sucks. Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 9:25 A

RE: [ActiveDir] Account lockout

2005-08-02 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Account lockout Look in the security event logs on the domain controller and it will tell you what machine the lockout is coming from.  You will have to check all the DCs until you find the one that is authenticating the account and locking it out.  MS has tools to do this for you.  

RE: [ActiveDir] Replicating AD

2005-08-02 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message I was considering a process similar to what you describe to rebuild are somewhat "messy" existing lab setup.  Two things that popped into my mind that maybe you have a perspective on; How do you deal with those services that are integrated into AD?  Exchange, SMS and M

RE: [ActiveDir] Doubletake(OT)

2005-07-07 Thread Ayers, Diane
ly 07, 2005 7:12 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Doubletake(OT) Can you elaborate further on why you don't feel comfortable using it with Exchange as well as what you think the limitations are, if you don't mind? Thanks a lot. Ayers, Diane wrote: > We use Doubl

RE: [ActiveDir] Doubletake(OT)

2005-07-07 Thread Ayers, Diane
We use DoubleTake on a number of DAS based File/Print servers in our distributed environment that are fairly large (~1 TB). We implemented it when we had some server failures that created extended outages for clients while we recovered data from backup tapes. Our current implementation is locally

RE: [ActiveDir] Load balancing LDAP request among my DCs

2005-06-13 Thread Ayers, Diane
Not to hijack the thread but has anyone used a hardware based load balancer such as a BigIP appliance to load balance and/or fail over LDAP? We have some apps that have to be configured to a specific host and this was one idea floated up. Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp-

2005-05-31 Thread Ayers, Diane
ure of NT4, the PDC would have burned to the ground in any decent sized enterprise. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 7:18 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp-

RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp-

2005-05-27 Thread Ayers, Diane
> In NT4, all updates go up to the PDC. This is why you will get a true last login report Not that my small wattage can hold a candle to the brain power for the others on the list but isn't this incorrect? IIRC, under NT 4.0 the last logon went to the authenticating DC. That is why you had to qu

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange and AD

2005-04-18 Thread Ayers, Diane
Brenda:   Fire up ADSIedit and take a look at the Exchange Services container in AD. (CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=com) and verify that the Exchange groups have been applied to the container correctly.   Exchange Domain Servers group "should" (don't have mu

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Transaction logs

2005-04-12 Thread Ayers, Diane
older than February to another machine to free space. If I don't need to ever backup those transaction logs, then I will just delete them once I have verified that the backups are working correctly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

RE: [ActiveDir] Update Your PayPal Account Information

2005-04-10 Thread Ayers, Diane
JS/Stealus.gen trojan as well -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devan Pala Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Update Your PayPal Account Information Hi al

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Transaction logs

2005-04-05 Thread Ayers, Diane
Not to be nit picky but it means you are not backing it up _correctly_ As Doug mentions, a correct on-line exchange backup will purge the logs on completion of the backup process. Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stelley, Douglas Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:RPC over HTTP vs OWA

2005-03-23 Thread Ayers, Diane
FWIW, there was a long conversation covering PRC over HTTP on the security basics mailing list.  You can look at the archives to see if there was anything worth gleaning from the conversation   Diane   http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/105/389606/2005-02-04/2005-02-10/1     From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Database Corrupt

2005-03-08 Thread Ayers, Diane
The one instance that we had a corrupt database, we used this method as well. Fortunately we had enough redundancy to allow the demotion of the server and not affect any services. Is was also fortunate that we had high connectivity between the DCs to allow a full copy of the directory to be repli

RE: [ActiveDir] Citrix GPO Application

2005-02-08 Thread Ayers, Diane
We have a very similar situation. The Citrix MetaFrame boxes are the same OU as other servers. We created two policies for the Citrix settings. One for the machine policies and one for the user policies. We also created two groups, one for the Citrix machines and one for the Citrix users. The m

RE: [ActiveDir] Printing Distribution Lists

2004-12-13 Thread Ayers, Diane
here's my "I'm not a programmer but I play one on TV" approach...  Dumps to an excel spreadsheet.  Easily modifiable to even the programming challenged like me...   Diane --- On Error Resume Next   CRLF=CHR(13)+CHR(10)   strADName

RE: [ActiveDir] Stress testing and performance analysis of domain controllers

2004-12-06 Thread Ayers, Diane
Wouldn't this be dependent on the volume of changes that you see in your environment? With Exchange and its accompanying volume of changes, moving the log files to separate spindles is as you say, a no no-brainer. However in our AD environment, we see very low volume of changes. We get maybe 50 M

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Latency

2004-12-06 Thread Ayers, Diane
You can use Outlook 2003 against Exchange 2000.  The local cached mode is a specific  configuration of the Outlook 2003 on the client side,  No server config work is required.   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan DeStefanoSent: Monday, December 06, 20

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Latency

2004-12-06 Thread Ayers, Diane
One option is to have the users switch to Outlook 2003 and run it in "local cached mode"   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan DeStefanoSent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:06 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Exchange Latency A couple of our

RE: [ActiveDir] Master Browser

2004-11-16 Thread Ayers, Diane
e not available. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Master Browser Dusting off the old NT 4.0 memories... Key point is that "browsing&quo

RE: [ActiveDir] Master Browser

2004-11-16 Thread Ayers, Diane
Dusting off the old NT 4.0 memories... Key point is that "browsing" is not related to name resolution at all. Browsing is a simple NetBIOS based directory that allows users to find resources. Conecting to the resource either by clicking on an object in the browse list or by manually connecting (v

RE: [ActiveDir] 64 Bit?

2004-11-09 Thread Ayers, Diane
anage...   Thanks all...   Diane From: Ayers, Diane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:05 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] 64 Bit? I guess my questions are general.  I can see some advantages on shifting to a 64 bit platform for AD service

RE: [ActiveDir] 64 Bit?

2004-11-09 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] 64 Bit? I guess my questions are general.  I can see some advantages on shifting to a 64 bit platform for AD services but since the company I work for is definitely not bleeding edge, I was looking for what the general adoption rate of the 64 bit platform was.  Our dep

[ActiveDir] 64 Bit?

2004-11-08 Thread Ayers, Diane
All: Is anyone looking at using the 64 bit platform for their AD domain controllers? We're doing a life cycle replacement of our hardware next year and was wondering if anyone has gone down this path. I sat though some of the Web casts but is there anyone running 64 bit in the "real world" ;-)

RE: [ActiveDir] Mac OS X and SMB

2004-11-04 Thread Ayers, Diane
I don't know squat about apple but you probably have SMB signing set in your domain policies and Apple probably does not support SMB signing.  Once you moved the server into AD, it received the domain policies and breaking the Apple access.   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: [ActiveDir] AD & OpenLDAP

2004-11-04 Thread Ayers, Diane
Just to Echo Justin's comment, the BIG difference between NT 4.0 and Active Directory is the integration/dependence on your DNS environment. In addition to the integration into your other LDAP sources, DNS is an area that you should focus some time on before you create your Active directory namespa

RE: [ActiveDir] BDC upgrade

2004-10-20 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] BDC upgrade Ditto.  Used it once to "demote" a BDC that was also a time source in the NT 4.0 world.  wanted to keep the server but didn't want it to be a BDC anymore.  Best $99 bucks spent as far as saved time, etc.    Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: Re[2]: [ActiveDir] DNS naming confused

2004-10-16 Thread Ayers, Diane
Your Exchange STMP addresses are assigned separately. Your domain could be JoeBagOfDoughnuts.com and your email address can be DoughnutHoles.com Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sveta Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 5:35 PM To: Dej

RE: [ActiveDir] Off-topic sorta

2004-10-06 Thread Ayers, Diane
th just a FE server, but using ISA would be safer and more secure. ________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ayers, Diane Sent: Wed 10/6/2004 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Off-topic sorta I'm not a DMZ/firewall person but generally the shear numbe

RE: [ActiveDir] Off-topic sorta

2004-10-06 Thread Ayers, Diane
I'm not a DMZ/firewall person but generally the shear number of ports, etc that you have to open between the DMZ and the internal network is not a "good thing"®.  Additionally for boxes that are in the DMZ, they should be configured as highly secure boxes and that tends to break Exchange. 

RE: [ActiveDir] Off-topic sorta

2004-10-06 Thread Ayers, Diane
Bad idea to place an exchange server in the DMZ.  Better choice would be to use ISA 2004 in the DMZ to publish OWA. OMA and http over RPC to the external users.  See http://www.isaserver.org for more info.    I was fairly impressed with ISA 2004.  Not as a firewall but being able to securel

RE: [ActiveDir] Re-logging on to AD Domain

2004-10-06 Thread Ayers, Diane
An option that we use is that the actual VPN is launched by a "wrapper" program that will launch the VPN client for the user and then once authenticated, the wrapper program will launch the usual login processes. This ensures that we can enforce our standards on the laptop irregardless if the user

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exhange size limit require restart?

2004-09-23 Thread Ayers, Diane
It takes a while to take affect (~ 2 hrs).  Take a look at the KB below to see how to modify this behavior Diane http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5bLN%5d;327378 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas M. LongSent: Thursday, September 23, 200

RE: [ActiveDir] Unauthorized DHCP Requests

2004-09-13 Thread Ayers, Diane
Hunter:   With Cisco ACS, how are you going to deal with non-MS based devices that get DHCP addresses?  That's always been the hang-up for us to shift to a setup like you describe. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, HunterSent: Monday, September 13, 20

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server backup

2004-08-31 Thread Ayers, Diane
Backup to disks IMHO will become more the norm as the disk capacity continue to outstrip the tape backup capabilities. We do this for all our Exchange boxes and has worked very well. We keep 2-3days of backup files on a "secondary" server. All backups are sucked off the disks onto tape(s) for lo

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Gurus needed - SAP has buggered my 2003 up grade attempt

2004-08-05 Thread Ayers, Diane
Unfortunately, I don't know, and the SAP guy who installed it doesn't remember either. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Gurus needed

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Gurus needed - SAP has buggered my 2003 up grade attempt

2004-08-04 Thread Ayers, Diane
Ken: Do you recall which version of the SAP portal it was that made the schema changes? I'm asking since we are testing the SAP portal against AD in our lab with our SAP folks. I know that the initial version that they came to us with required a schema change (version 5?) and before we got it se

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and printer admins

2004-07-30 Thread Ayers, Diane
inter admins Do you perchance know what those REG permission changes are at? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD and printer admins I'

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and printer admins

2004-07-29 Thread Ayers, Diane
I'm sorry, I must be missing something. Can't you just add them desktop support team to the local power users group on the servers that you create the print shares on? That what we do and it seems to work. The only thing that they can't do is to create new IP ports for shares if they are requir

RE: [ActiveDir] LSASS.EXE!

2004-07-27 Thread Ayers, Diane
My bets are on Sasser. Reapply MS04-011 and reboot. Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rutherford, Robert Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 7:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LSASS.EXE! What started this? Was it after

RE: [ActiveDir] win2k pro or server?

2004-07-21 Thread Ayers, Diane
It may be more than you want but what the heck. I'm not a programmer so YMMV Diane - On Error Resume Next Set Network = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") strComputer = InputBox ("Enter NETBIOS name of computer", "GetComputerLocation In AD", Network.Com

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 9x Clients

2004-06-24 Thread Ayers, Diane
Yes. We have we have clients that do it all the time. Win2K native mode and we did not use the AD client. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennifer Fountain Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDi

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Ayers, Diane
It seems that outside of the FRS / replication issues, using DFS would be a good way of virtualizing the storage location of the profiles. If you used a DFS root to designate your storage location and you needed to migrate/replace this location, you could update the DFS root without having to modi

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange 5.5, active directory and ADC

2004-06-01 Thread Ayers, Diane
I'll second Nick's comment to test your implementation in a lab setup first before doing it live.  There are some subtle (and not so subtle) things that you can do to hose your production setup.  The first lab run we did hosed our lab but we learned.  That's what labs are for   Diane F

RE: [ActiveDir] VPN users and their AD passwords

2004-05-18 Thread Ayers, Diane
Gee... you give them remote access to the company via the internet from anywhere and their complaining about having to hit cancel?    I would tell them to get over it... :-)   Actually with my client, I can just type in my password in the ctrl-alt-del login box and just ignore the VPN client

RE: [ActiveDir] VPN users and their AD passwords

2004-05-18 Thread Ayers, Diane
I'm running v 4.0.3(D) of Cisco VPN client and it is configured as Jeff describes below (logon to VPN before laptop logon).  I had my domain password "expire" and IIRC, I was able to change my password at my usual ctrl-alt-del logon after I had done my VPN login.      This was after a few a

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: explorer.exe hangs on folder access

2004-05-18 Thread Ayers, Diane
SWAG but we've run into issues with the thumbs.db file being corrupted.  thumbs.db (hidden system) is created when you do the thumbnails view.  Try deleting that and see if it helps.   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael WassellSent: Tuesday, May 1

RE: [ActiveDir] Mixed network PC and Mac -> AD or XServe

2004-05-18 Thread Ayers, Diane
Don't even get me started on PERC raid controllers...  I'll share my stories after a few "adult beverages"...   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent WestmorelandSent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:02 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Mixed net

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Ad hoc queries from within Excel

2004-05-14 Thread Ayers, Diane
We wrote a basic one that allows users to dump DL memberships to a spreadsheet w some of the attributes.  Basically it was for the clerical folks that create phone lists for depts. and floors.   I don't know if we can share.  Also It's hard coded to our domains and OUs   Diane From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] HELP I just deleted an OU

2004-05-03 Thread Ayers, Diane
Unplug a DC before it replicates From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grantham, CaronSent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:05 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] HELP I just deleted an OU       How can I get the OU with all objectes restored immediately

RE: [ActiveDir] AD screw up

2004-04-16 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message Have you read the Branch Office guides?   http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/branchoffice/default.asp for Windows 2000     http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9353a4f6-a8a8-40bb-9fa7-3a95c9540112&DisplayLang=en for Window

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Never Expires...

2004-04-02 Thread Ayers, Diane
Also, just as an FYI, If you're on XP, you can use the Win2K3version ADUC which allows you to build a query in the GUI itself for all accounts that are configured as you described.  It will work aganst both Win2K and Win2K3 domains.    Diane -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ActiveDir] Experiences with DFS.....

2004-03-11 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message Yes.  FRS today would trigger the replication of the entire file with a change to that file.  There are also issues with open files.  You coulod configure a less frequent replication schedule but...   Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chri

RE: [ActiveDir] Experiences with DFS.....

2004-03-11 Thread Ayers, Diane
We looked at a DFS / FRS combo and quickly rejected it based on the problems with FRS.  For data replication, FRS is a PoS (to be brutally honest).  MS needs to start from scrtach on that one.  Any efficient data replication scheme would utilize a block level or some other low level replicat

RE: [ActiveDir] [MailServer Notification]To Recipient file blocking settings matched and action taken.

2004-03-11 Thread Ayers, Diane
Crap. Our bad too. sorry guys... Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] [MailServer Notification]To Recipient file blocking settings matched

RE: [ActiveDir] OU design quandary

2004-03-04 Thread Ayers, Diane
For us, our user management is centralized so the user objects were placed in a single OU broken into sub OUs by type (users, administrators, service, restricted). Computer support is more decentralized so we have computer objects in geographic based OUs with sub OUs by function (servers, workstat

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Configurations and SMS2003

2004-02-19 Thread Ayers, Diane
___ From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]  On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent:   Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:    [ActiveDir] Site Configurations and SMS2003 All: I know that this is somewhat off topic

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Configurations and SMS2003

2004-02-18 Thread Ayers, Diane
location to location links and that would move you towards defining a location to be in a separate site. Just my $.02.  Coming out of lurking mode.  Great list. Thanks for being here. John McGlinchey, MCSA, MCSE, CCNA Bristol-Myers Squibb Company __________

[ActiveDir] Site Configurations and SMS2003

2004-02-18 Thread Ayers, Diane
> All: > > I know that this is somewhat off topic (SMS) but I had a recent > conversation with some folks in regards to AD and SMS 2003. We are looking > at possibly deploying SMS 2003 and looking at some deployment scenarios. > Anyway the conversation turn to the AD sites and what is the best > c

RE: [ActiveDir] MS04-007 checking

2004-02-14 Thread Ayers, Diane
You have any pointers to info the "proof of concept"?  I'm not interested in code but would like to look at the info and we may want to pull the trigger at our organization.  We're working the rollout  for 007 but may want to deploy quicker than we currently have mapped out.   Diane From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Other Listsrvs

2004-02-09 Thread Ayers, Diane
vs I hope you didn't mean that as arrogantly as it sounds. :) But I do agree it's a little to much for me sometimes too. So tell me what lists do you consider the best ones for Exchange? Thanks, Julie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Other Listsrvs

2004-02-09 Thread Ayers, Diane
Ditto I dropped all the sunbelt lists due to the high signal-to-noise ratio Diane -Original Message- From: Martin Tuip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Other Listsrvs Personally I'm not too fond of the Sun

RE: [ActiveDir] Where did "Additional Acct Info" tab go to?

2004-02-09 Thread Ayers, Diane
  No wonder I could never make that DLL work.   I pretty much use the find function exclusively.  I too ass-umed it was me...   Diane From: deji Agba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 7:21 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Where did "Additional Acct

RE: [ActiveDir] I: Quest to aquire Aelita

2004-01-29 Thread Ayers, Diane
But they wouldn't be able to shift to a new paradigm... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, MarkSent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 6:05 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] I: Quest to aquire Aelita Wouldn’t it be refreshing just once to rea

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster

2004-01-15 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message Following this thread, a related question (taking it even more OT) comes up.  Often in email discovery cases, we use ExMerge to suck the dumpster off a server to look at what's there.  Would DumpsterAlwaysOn on the host that ExMerge is run from have an effect on what data is r

RE: [ActiveDir] Search for phone numbers????

2003-12-11 Thread Ayers, Diane
re how you modified the "Search for People" form? -Original Message- From: Ayers, Diane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Search for phone numbers We simply modified the form for address book

RE: [ActiveDir] Search for phone numbers????

2003-12-11 Thread Ayers, Diane
We simply modified the form for address book searches to include phone number. Individuals can now search one phone numbers for those mail enabled objects in AD. For us that meet the requirements 99% of the time. Diane -Original Message- From: Douglas M. Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent replication

2003-11-18 Thread Ayers, Diane
't set up a large ring like you had within a single site.    joe _____ From:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]  On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings In an effort to localize our authentication

RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent replication

2003-11-17 Thread Ayers, Diane
site with the same frequency that they are propagated within the source site, including changes that warrant urgent replication.     From: Ayers, Diane Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:02 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent replication We are at

RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent replication

2003-11-17 Thread Ayers, Diane
anding (haven't tried it myself) is that urgent intersite replication observes the intersite replication schedule. You can work around this by enabling intersite notifications, but then that effectively circumvents any replication schedule. That's my understanding anyway. -gil  -

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDIS Size

2003-10-14 Thread Ayers, Diane
Breaking the DB, logs and SysVol into separate logical partitions on the same physical spindles doesn't buy you much.  Your still sharing the same spindles, head and I/O amongst the three logical partitions.  I'd just create a D: volume and be done with it but that's just my opinion.   Diane

RE: [ActiveDir] Editing directory permissions

2003-09-17 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message If you want a GUI, I recommend "Security Explorer" from Small Wonders.  I've found it to be very useful at times   Diane   http://www.smallwonders.com/SecurityExplorer.htm -Original Message-From: Abbiss, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 DC issue

2003-09-10 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message We use a type of ACL for our Bind stuff.  Only our DCs have the "rights" to do dynamic updates to our AD zone on the bind server.  Other hosts are updated in DNS via the DHCP server (Cisco) or other processes.  The access rights are based on the source IP address.  Not 100% se

RE: [ActiveDir] Any MIIS users out there?

2003-09-08 Thread Ayers, Diane
There's a MMS (MIIS) email group on Yahoo Groups. Some of the Microsoft MMS/MIIS folks monitor the group and participate on occasion. I'm sure they'll be glad to give you an earful :-) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MMSUG/ Diane -Original Message- From: Wilson, Julie [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: [ActiveDir] Local Admin

2003-07-30 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message Plus the fact if you have physical access to the box, it's trivial to become an admin if you really really want to get access.  Not that Interactive is a Good Thing® (we are working to remove the need to have it). -Original Message-From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:[EMA

RE: [ActiveDir] Local Admin

2003-07-29 Thread Ayers, Diane
start up script GPO option that executes a simple net localgroup command; it will work fine because that script executes as local system. The restricted groups GPO option will definitely overwrite though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers

RE: [ActiveDir] Local Admin

2003-07-29 Thread Ayers, Diane
IIRC, the GPO method will over-write the existing membership rather than add the desired member(s). Diane -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Local Admin you can do that wit

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding machines to OU directly

2003-07-16 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message I couldn't help but laugh reading this.  How true.  In our internal documentation, we discribe this setting and that they need to change when setting up computer accounts.  We even have a huge screenshot with red circles and big arrows highlighting the point.  I still get calls

RE: [ActiveDir] AD, Logon times & Custom messages

2003-07-08 Thread Ayers, Diane
Title: Message I stil prefer the upgraded version, bIg stIck®   Diane -Original Message-From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:37 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD, Logon times & Custom messages I ordered 1

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Rename

2003-07-02 Thread Ayers, Diane
Jan: I was browsing the Win2K tools page and saw this. Not sure if you've seen these or not. Windows Server 2003 Domain Rename Tools http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx Diane -Original Message- From: Jan Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesda

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