[ActiveDir] Server Printer Permissions

2006-01-12 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Everyone,     I am not sure if I have already asked this before, if I have I apologize.  I have about 200 printers throughout our domain that have the default permissions that occur when a printer is setup.  Recently we decided to allow our Help Desk to clear print queues on all pr

RE: [ActiveDir] VBSCRIPT ADSI IADs Get Method

2005-11-30 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
; "'" oCommand.CommandText = sQuery Set oResults = oCommand.Execute sObjDN = oResults.Fields("DistinguishedName") ----------- cheers, Jorge   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Burkes, Je

RE: [ActiveDir] VBSCRIPT ADSI IADs Get Method

2005-11-30 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Nevermind, just found the answer to my own question, and it is no, must use the persons CN, no other attributes are accepted, good to know.  Thanks for the potential help.   Jeremy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] Sent

[ActiveDir] VBSCRIPT ADSI IADs Get Method

2005-11-30 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Everyone,     I am trying to write a _vbscript_ to connect to a user account using the samaccountname attribute to update some info.  Is this even possible and if so can someone provide a code sample, I would think it would look something like this for Test in the Microsoft domain:

[ActiveDir] Printer Permissions

2005-08-24 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Everyone,     I want to give our help desk the ability to manage print queues in our Active Directory environment.  Is there a way to give them permissions to the printers without having to touch each one?  Print Operators gives them to many permissions.  Thanks.   Jeremy

RE: [ActiveDir] GC availability issue?

2005-07-19 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
lf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:34 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] GC availability issue? Everyone,     We have an empty root domain and a child domain with approximately 9 or so sites in the forest.  The root domain has 2 DCs (1 GC

RE: [ActiveDir] GC availability issue?

2005-07-19 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
new machines) might be accessing DCs in remote sites.     Aric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 11:34 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] GC availability issue?   Everyone

RE: [ActiveDir] GC availability issue?

2005-07-19 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
perhaps consider why you only have 2 out of a possible 5.  Is there any reason why you could not make all of your DCs GCs?      Tony   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 6:34 a.m. To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Email Deletion Policy

2005-07-18 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
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[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Email Deletion Policy

2005-07-18 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Everyone,     We are setting up an email deletion policy at my organization.  I have tested and understand how the recipient policy works and the entire email deletion process works.  One thing that is a little confusing is the fact that the email deletion policy works off a hidden

RE: [ActiveDir] ? on MCSE Exam 70-290 (W2K3S)

2005-06-27 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] ? on MCSE Exam 70-290 (W2K3S) Learn something new everyday, did not know that.   Jeremy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Teverovsky, Guy Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 9:10 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [Acti

RE: [ActiveDir] ? on MCSE Exam 70-290 (W2K3S)

2005-06-27 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
I would have thought the answer would be A. %Username%. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rocky Habeeb Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 8:57 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ? on MCSE Exam 70-290 (W2K3S) Ladies and Gentlem

RE: [ActiveDir] DL Expansion Troubleshooting

2005-06-16 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Do you have two domains in the same physical site with Exchange servers in both domains?  If so read on as we had a very similar issue.  Hope this helps.   We had your 1st problem here which possibly could be related to your 2nd problem.  We have two domains in the same physical site 3 Ex

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits

2005-06-10 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Don't get me started on attachments. Since I am a contractor for the government we have to do what "they" say even though it goes against good IT practices and even when we try to tell them why it is not smart they want to do it anyway. Email attachments in excess of 20MB are not uncommon in m

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits

2005-06-09 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
In my current position they were in the process of migrating from Exchange 5.5 to 2000 and had to turn off the limitation policy for the migration (I cannot remember why). I have users with 800 - 1000 MB mailboxes. My information stores are growing somewhat out of control. We are turning back

[ActiveDir] Active Directory Permission for Exchange DL

2005-05-17 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
I have an Exchange Distribution List that I would like to give users (actually a security group) permission to modify the members of the group.  I gave the users read and also gave them write permissions on the property tab for the write Members attribute of the object.  However, it does not

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP client(OT)

2005-05-06 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
You better duck, he already tried this, even before I suggested it. Glad I wasn't the only one who missed it. :) Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:20 PM To: 'Kern, Tom '; '[EMAIL PR

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP client(OT)

2005-05-06 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Doh! Your right, my bad, sorry. Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 1:59 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP client(OT) I guess you didn't read my email I tried that

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP client(OT)

2005-05-06 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Try this: Every experienced network guru knows that quite often the problem with a faulty network connectio is due to the TCP/IP stack being corrupted or not properly bound. Starting with WinXP Microsoft has disabled the ability to uninstall TCP/IP. So what are you to do if you suspect that al

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 Whitepaper DNS & Clients

2005-04-21 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
eDir] Windows 2000 Whitepaper DNS & Clients There is a section in the distributed systems guide on this.  Here is the link http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=""> - Original Message ----- From: Burke

[ActiveDir] Windows 2000 Whitepaper DNS & Clients

2005-04-21 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: Windows 2000 Whitepaper DNS & Clients Everyone,     I am looking for a whitepaper that explains in detail how Windows 2000 clients use DNS to resolve what DC/GCs are in their site and processes are taken if those servers are unavailable.  I found a KB article but it is written poo

RE: [ActiveDir] Policies:

2005-04-20 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
If he has a router ACL or firewall(s) between the two networks he is going to need port 445 opened for tcp and udp for SMB traffic. Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:51 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Transaction logs

2005-04-12 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Once you get a backup of the Exchange information store completed successfully you can get rid of your old transaction logs from the other server. You should also see any transaction logs that are currently on the Exchange server automatically disappear once the backup is completed if it is done r

RE: [ActiveDir] raid failure

2005-04-11 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
not sure i installed another copy of windows into a diff dir. i can boot fine off that. when i try to boot off the failed installation i get a 7b stop error- inaccessible_boot_device. is there anyway i can fix that installtion from this point? thanks -Original Message----- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] raid failure

2005-04-11 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Stupid question Tom but are you sure that when the first hard drive failed that the array was able to rebuild completely using the hot spare before the second drive failed? Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Change Password Policy

2005-04-06 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
It is domain specific so it is all or nothing with respect to the domain you apply it to.  You can however set on individual users under the account tab, password never expires option which effectively keeps you from having to change the password, this is usually used for user created servic

RE: [ActiveDir] Trouble with ldifde - trying to export list of SMTP addresses

2005-04-06 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Try this: ldifde -f smtpaddress.ldf -s myserver -r "(objectClass=user)" -l "ProxyAddresses=SMTP:*" Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:56 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [Ac

RE: [ActiveDir] time sync script

2005-04-05 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
I believe that Windows time uses the system's BIOS clock in some way. If your system was old and the BIOS battery had weakened or quit then the next time you boot the clock would be off by minutes and Windows would have to update itself again against the domain. At least I think the above is true

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Transaction logs

2005-04-05 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
As other's have stated your transaction logs get automatically deleted when the information store is backed up successfully. Circular logging resuses existing transaction logs creating a total of 5 transaction logs with a total of 5 MB each in a round robin use. So when log 5 files up it goes bac

RE: [ActiveDir] OT (sort of) ADC entry in Active Directory

2005-03-25 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
the Active Directory Connections container. joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 8:22 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT (sort of) ADC entry in Active

[ActiveDir] OT (sort of) ADC entry in Active Directory

2005-03-25 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: OT (sort of) ADC entry in Active Directory Everyone,     We recently switched over to Exchange 2000 Native mode (successfully) making sure to remove config_ca, srs databases, and then uninstalling the Active Directory Connector from all the servers within our organization.  Switch

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: VBScript Question

2005-03-04 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
ROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 3:52 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: VBScript Question   The issues that I am referring to are security violations which are instances where someone as violated the pro

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: VBScript Question

2005-03-04 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 3:52 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: VBScript Question   The issues that I am referring to are security violations which are instances where someone as violated the prope

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: VBScript Question

2005-03-04 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
, so don’t take offence. But, what is the correlation between violations and defrag? I am trying to understand what the defrag is supposed to do, post-violation.   Deji   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: VBScript Question

2005-03-04 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
n.  From there you should be able to push it to a log file, which I think is what you were after in the first place (vs. piping it from the command line to the text file).   Al From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]Sent: T

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: VBScript Question

2005-03-03 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
something to automate?    What drives you to want to automate the off-line defragmentation in Exchange 2000 and what makes you want to do that in the first place?    Al From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:43 PMTo

[ActiveDir] OT: VBScript Question

2005-03-03 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: OT: VBScript Question Everyone,     I am creating a VB script that is dismounting, defraging, then mounting exchange information stores on an exchange server.  My script is complete but I want to improve it.  The problem I am having is that I build a command line to run eseutil an

RE: [ActiveDir] OT Sort of: Exchange 2000 ADC Problem

2005-03-02 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT Sort of: Exchange 2000 ADC Problem We are moving to Exchange 2000 native mode. We have a problem where we

[ActiveDir] OT Sort of: Exchange 2000 ADC Problem

2005-03-02 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: OT Sort of: Exchange 2000 ADC Problem We are moving to Exchange 2000 native mode.  We have a problem where we deleted two SRS databases that did not delete the Config CA from the ADC.  Now there are two options.  In doing some searching I found where someone had a similar problem and t

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 Forestprep

2005-02-17 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Are you running the forestprep directly on the server that holds the schema master role?   Jeremy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacqui HurstSent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:55 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 200

RE: [ActiveDir] setting robocopy to skip inaccessible files

2005-01-31 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
 /R:n : number of Retries on failed copies - default is 1 million.   http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html   Jeremy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucia WashayaSent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:58 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] setting

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Service Recovery

2004-12-02 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
stop and disable a dependent service, then restart your service which should fail. hth, john Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] wrote: > > > I am setting up a batch file that will do the following: > > - Send notification to IT admins > - Attempt to restart the service > > I

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Service Recovery

2004-12-02 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
, December 02, 2004 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Service Recovery How about stopping the service manually? Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 11

[ActiveDir] OT: Service Recovery

2004-12-02 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: OT: Service Recovery I am setting up a batch file that will do the following: - Send notification to IT admins - Attempt to restart the service I have completed my batch file and want to test it in our test environment.  Anyone have any idea how to get Windows 2000 to actually fai

RE: [ActiveDir] WAN outage caused issues...

2004-10-05 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
I believe Windows 2000 and Windows XP will attach their own domain name suffix to search for the host in DNS. For example if you give hostname and the workstation's domain name is domain.com it will try hostname.domain.com to see if it can resolve it in DNS. The search order for Windows 2000 a

RE: [ActiveDir] Quasi DC Administrator Service Issue

2004-08-03 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
- Jeremy Burkes SSP MIS Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH: 202-764-1270 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:32 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Quasi DC

[ActiveDir] Quasi DC Administrator Service Issue

2004-08-02 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: Quasi DC Administrator Service Issue We have some network administrators that do not have full domain administrative access (not in the domain admins group).  We have given their accounts through the default domain controller group policy the ability to manage some domain controller se

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Sorry I meant to say do you have any custom recipient policies above the default recipient policy and/or do you have a RUS for your second domain, domain B.   Jeremy - Jeremy Burkes SSP MIS Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH: 202-764-1270

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Do you have any custom recipient policies or did you modify the default recipient policy?   Jeremy   - Jeremy Burkes SSP MIS Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH: 202-764-1270 -Original Message-From: Pelle, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000 SPAM Filtering

2004-07-15 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: OT: Exchange 2000 SPAM Filtering Our organization is running Exchange 2000.  We recently put up an SMTP Gateway between our firewall and Exchange 2000 Email Gateway to fend off SPAM and viruses giving us a good choke point for both.  We are using Symantec Mail Security for SMTP which d

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange SMTP Relay Precedence

2004-05-26 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
reaching a bit here) that it would work if you had a connector specified that utilized that VS.  Since you don't, you'll need to find a way to allow the traffic.   Al From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]Sent: Wed

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange SMTP Relay Precedence

2004-05-26 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Title: OT: Exchange SMTP Relay Precedence Here is the scenario: I have two Exchange servers in different routing groups called ServerA and ServerB.  ServerA has an SMTP Connector to an external domain (externaldomainA.com) using a smart host with a Connector Scope of Entire Organization and

[ActiveDir] Windows 2000 Security Log Rights

2004-01-07 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [contractor]
Title: Windows 2000 Security Log Rights Okay everyone probably a stupid question but here it goes.  We have a user who has some rights to domain controllers but not full administrative rights.  We want this user to be able to view only the security log.  Is there a way to provide just view on

RE: [ActiveDir] Virus software on DC

2003-12-10 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [contractor]
Same here, never had any problems either. Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Virus software on DC We run Symantec AV corporate edition and don't exclude an

RE: [ActiveDir]

2003-12-04 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [contractor]
If someone already suggested this I apologize.  You can set him up as a local admin using group policy in AD if the boxes are all 2K or XP.  Under Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Restricted Groups.  Create a group like desktop admins and put the user in that group.