[ActiveDir] DR doc

2004-04-23 Thread Creamer, Mark
Does anyone know if the AD DR document located at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/activedirectory/support/adrecov.mspx is available as a Word document somewhere? I had thought it was – maybe that was a previous version?   Mark Creamer Systems Eng

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Server Using its own IP as a Primary DNS

2004-04-22 Thread Creamer, Mark
answer that question.   You can also configure DNS to point to itself and forward all other queries to the Singapore DNS Server.   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Server Using its own IP as a Primary DNS

2004-04-22 Thread Creamer, Mark
Wasn’t this one on the exam? The cities sound familiar…;-)   Anyway, why force a DC to go elsewhere for its DNS info – just make it query itself and make DNS AD-integrated.   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2

RE: [ActiveDir] User to InetOrgPerson Class

2004-04-22 Thread Creamer, Mark
Joe, as usual, your posts are both informative and entertaining. This one gets filed for the next time someone comes to me asking for another half-baked schema extension because the app wasn't designed right in the first place. Should be in the next hour or so if history would predict... -O

RE: [ActiveDir] enterprise-wide accounts

2004-04-21 Thread Creamer, Mark
he other members of the Adminstrators group remain in this group as well.   /Guido   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 16:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] enterprise-wide accounts Guido, et al…I ha

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-15 Thread Creamer, Mark
Glad Rod passed on the pointer to susserver.com. Some of the new name suggestions are hilarious List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

[ActiveDir] enterprise-wide accounts

2004-04-13 Thread Creamer, Mark
We’d like to eventually trim down the number of domains and get to an OU-based administrative model. But in the mean time, we have identified a couple of people that we want to have domain admin rights in all domains. I know that making them an enterprise admin allows them domain admin righ

RE: [ActiveDir] Join other DCs to an SBS2k or 2k3 domain?

2004-04-09 Thread Creamer, Mark
don't need SQL) Joe Pochedley Weiler's Law - Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.     From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Join other DC

RE: [ActiveDir] Join other DCs to an SBS2k or 2k3 domain?

2004-04-09 Thread Creamer, Mark
On a related rant, I completed a small network installation for a friend’s growing business last weekend. It was my first experience with Small Biz Server. I’m amazed at the bulk of crap it includes. Seems like I turned off more features than I turned on. Several patches for SBS-specific bu

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: ntbackup bks file issue

2004-04-07 Thread Creamer, Mark
art Fuller     From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: ntbackup bks file issue I'm trying to get a scheduled ntbackup that does the system state and a few other directories to recognize the line in my

[ActiveDir] OT: DHCPObjects

2004-04-02 Thread Creamer, Mark
Has anyone used the DHCP Objects dll that comes with Win2K ResKit? I figured that might be one way to search all scopes of my DHCP server to look for a given lease (rather than one by one scope in the GUI). I haven’t been able to find any examples yet though. Or maybe someone has a better s

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Never Expires...

2004-04-02 Thread Creamer, Mark
Frank, I believe this is set using the useraccountcontrol flags, which you can read about here: http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBL/tip5500/rh5504.htm   You might look at Joe’s tool secdata available at www.joeware.net. I believe it will output the useraccountcontrol flag currently set per user,

RE: [ActiveDir] Released! Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Guide

2004-04-01 Thread Creamer, Mark
I’ll take that bet ;-)   Just picked it up no problem – Shift-refresh that puppy   -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Released! Windows Server 2003 Acti

RE: [ActiveDir] Released! Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Guide

2004-04-01 Thread Creamer, Mark
Michael, I think that’s the old one, isn’t it?   -Original Message- From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Released! Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Guide  

[ActiveDir] DNS Server Appliances

2004-03-31 Thread Creamer, Mark
Sorry if anyone’s already mentioned this – I may have missed it. A list member was asking about DNS appliances the other day. I just opened my copy of March 2004 Windows & .NET Magazine, and there’s a review of several offerings there. HTH  

RE: [ActiveDir] Query Service Pack

2004-03-29 Thread Creamer, Mark
We use KiXtart as our logon scripting engine. It has this ability, as well as many others. Basically, I log pertinent information to a SQL database, and I can query from there. You can also use VBScript or Perl to query the registry key where updates register themselves. On a typical WinXP machi

RE: [ActiveDir] Accessing USer attributes in AD

2004-03-29 Thread Creamer, Mark
Active Directory Users and Computers is the default GUI, but it is designed to populate the most commonly used attributes, so they are not all there. For one at a time kind of edits, you can use ADSI Edit, a GUI tool that lets you see all of the attributes associated with an AD object. For

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DHCP server applicance recommendations.

2004-03-25 Thread Creamer, Mark
I think our WAN guys evaluated some appliance from Infoblox, I didn’t get to see it. We stayed with the OS-based solution    

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Outlook XP SP 3

2004-03-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
Title: Message Justin, have a look at this… http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/admin.htm     -Original Message- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] running a user query

2004-03-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
This query info is extremely helpful. Thanks guys!   Of course the downside of providing managers this info is gaining the reputation for being the guy to come to for any info they can’t see in the GUI ;-)    

[ActiveDir] running a user query

2004-03-17 Thread Creamer, Mark
I need to get some information on all of our users for a manager here. I have a script I can alter to get the information, but can I assume that if the user has a value in the “mail” attribute that he or she has an Exchange account? What the manager ultimately wants is a list of all users,

RE: [ActiveDir] security event log audits

2004-03-16 Thread Creamer, Mark
Collector System) will do all of that for you and likely much more efficient than what you'd do yourself (and more secure as well) - should be released soon (I think with 2003 SP1)   /Guido   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 16. März 2004 19:18 To: [EMAIL PROT

[ActiveDir] security event log audits

2004-03-16 Thread Creamer, Mark
Has anyone had success putting together something home-grown to centralize security event logs into a sql database? If so, I wanted to get some tips on how the tables should be set up – can all events that are captured in the security log be placed in the same table, or do different events

RE: [ActiveDir] Finding users who must change pw

2004-03-15 Thread Creamer, Mark
> Hey Mark, ancient chinese secret... We could tell you but would have to beat you > with a bamboo rod... Wouldn't be the first time (or likely the last) Joe... :-) Thanks for the tips!! -Mark List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.

RE: [ActiveDir] Finding users who must change pw

2004-03-12 Thread Creamer, Mark
Tony, what's the 1.1 at the end of the command line? I figured it was just something extraneous, but wasn't sure... -Original Message- From: Tony Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Finding users who mu

RE: [ActiveDir] Account lockouts

2004-03-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
I should have expanded on my reason for asking about the clients. As soon as we went to SP4, we were getting a lot of these lockouts, all on Win9x clients (we don't have any NTW). W2K and above were fine. I called MS Support and they gave me a new version of the AD Client. With that installed, t

RE: [ActiveDir] Account lockouts

2004-03-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
Mike, what OS is the client running? List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

[ActiveDir] Finding users who must change pw

2004-03-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
I need to find which users have their accounts currently flagged to require a password change on next logon. Can that be done with dsquery user –stalepwd? If so, what value would I use? Or, is there a different solution I should be using?   Thanks!   Mark Creamer Systems Engineer Cint

RE: [ActiveDir] "Program Data" container

2004-03-02 Thread Creamer, Mark
Alice, see this article…might be of help.   http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/38775/pg/3/3.html   Mark Creamer [EMAIL PROTECTED]    

RE: [ActiveDir] Off-topic: ISA Server and WMI

2004-02-25 Thread Creamer, Mark
rried about Yesterday?  -anon   From: Creamer, Mark Sent: Wed 2/25/2004 6:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Off-topic: ISA Server and WMI ISA is installed in integrated mode. As an example, I’d like to chart the number of current users in Denika Performance tr

RE: [ActiveDir] Off-topic: ISA Server and WMI

2004-02-25 Thread Creamer, Mark
o you have ISA deployed (firewall or proxy or both?) -Original Message----- From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Off-topic: ISA Server and WMI Am having trouble finding documentation on WMI as far

[ActiveDir] Off-topic: ISA Server and WMI

2004-02-24 Thread Creamer, Mark
Am having trouble finding documentation on WMI as far as what I can use it for with ISA server. We’re using What’s Up Gold for basic monitoring and the admin tells me if I can provide WMI objects for him to collect data on, he can report on it in WUG. Thanks for any help on that, as always

RE: [ActiveDir] OU/Computer accounts reorganization

2004-02-20 Thread Creamer, Mark
This may be of help http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=881&ScriptType=vbscript -Original Message- From: J0mb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R: [ActiveDir] OU/Computer accounts reorganization ok...than

RE: [ActiveDir] OU/Computer accounts reorganization

2004-02-20 Thread Creamer, Mark
You could start with something like this as the framework (From MS Script Center) Set objNewOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=Finance,DC=fabrikam,DC=com";) Set objMoveComputer = objNewOU.MoveHere _ ("LDAP://CN=atl-pro-03,CN=Computers,DC=fabrikam,DC=com";, "CN=atl-pro-03") -Original Message- From

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Configurations and SMS2003

2004-02-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Site Configurations and SMS2003 Chapter 9 in Robbie Allen’s AD book is on site topology. In it, he suggests creating a site per physical location.   “If you have 50 physical WAN locations, you have 50 sites. If only 30 of these will be used for Active Directory, y

RE: [ActiveDir] User properties in ADUC

2004-02-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
not a security issue in that case – I don’t think it is, anyway… perhaps it’s totally unrelated?   Rich   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] User properties in

[ActiveDir] User properties in ADUC

2004-02-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
We have a fairly well-locked down terminal server for our help desk staff to use. Among other things, they can launch ADUC and manage user accounts. We just noticed that if they choose the user by browsing into one of the containers, they can bring up the properties of the user. But if they

RE: [ActiveDir] Terminal Services Profile

2004-02-17 Thread Creamer, Mark
I have *NOT* tried this myself, but I found it in my scripts archive. Not sure of its origin, or if or how well it will work. Watch the line wraps, etc. It requires wts_admin.dll which is available here: http://cwashington.netreach.net/main/tools/default.asp?topic=n-z I believe this came from Bar

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on dual-home machine

2004-02-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
adapter?  Are both adapters pointing to the domainA DNS?  Is WINS registering the other adapter?   Just trying to give you some ideas, not sure if any of these would make a difference as I haven’t seen this before… Rich   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on dual-home machine

2004-02-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
ister itself on a regular interval.   Al   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] DNS on dual-home machine I'm having trouble with a system which is dual-homed. Both NICs have private a

[ActiveDir] DNS on dual-home machine

2004-02-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
Title: Message I’m having trouble with a system which is dual-homed. Both NICs have private addresses. One NIC is associated with domainA.com, which is an internal-only AD domain. The other NIC is associated with domainB.com, which is an Internet presence domain.   The problem is that o

RE: [ActiveDir] MS04-006 - Serious hole that needs patching - thi nk Blaster++

2004-02-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
>From what I hear, it's a swastika. -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:14 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] MS04-006 - Serious hole that needs patching - thi nk Blaster++ Yeah, but have you seen this

[ActiveDir] Determining when an account was disabled

2004-01-29 Thread Creamer, Mark
Is there an attribute I can query for that will tell me WHEN an account was disabled? I can easily tell whether they are disabled, but couldn’t find out when.   Thanks!   Mark Creamer  

[ActiveDir] DNS Registration issue

2004-01-29 Thread Creamer, Mark
I have a ISA server, which is also a DC for its subdomain, isa.mycompany.com. It has AD-integrated DNS. It is dual-homed, although both interfaces are “inside” our firewall. NIC #1 handles the requests from the production subnets and NIC #2 forwards the requests to the firewall to retrieve

RE: [ActiveDir] I: Quest to aquire Aelita

2004-01-29 Thread Creamer, Mark
Wouldn’t it be refreshing just once to read about a merger/acquisition that didn’t contain the word “synergies?”  ;-)   -Original Message- From: GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

[ActiveDir] DNS Registry entry

2004-01-27 Thread Creamer, Mark
Hi, can someone either confirm or set me straight on this one…   We have “Secure Cache Against Pollution” enabled on our Win2K SP4 DNS servers. However, our Retina scans were still showing that the servers were vulnerable to that type of compromise. One of the other folks here researched

RE: [ActiveDir] Directory Services Client Software

2004-01-23 Thread Creamer, Mark
Debbie, don’t use the dsclient on the Win2K server CD. There’s a more up-to-date one that includes some fixes for account lockout issues. You can get it from MS support, or let me know and I can send it to you off list   -Original Message- From: Ellis, Debbie [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] forcing a logoff

2004-01-21 Thread Creamer, Mark
stuff, too.  You looking at the Cisco agent stuff or the 802.1x stuff?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] forcing a logoff   Yep, I understand. The

RE: [ActiveDir] forcing a logoff

2004-01-20 Thread Creamer, Mark
I noticed that there is a WMI core install for Win9x and I installed it on my test Win95 machine. However, I can't get the WMI script to reboot that machine. Is it possible that even though WMI core is installed, it doesn't give me access to all of the features I'd have on a Win2K machine? The

RE: [ActiveDir] forcing a logoff

2004-01-20 Thread Creamer, Mark
they become infected and start spreading. Needless to say, the project was still-born :(     Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I www.akomolafe.com www.iyaburo.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday?  -anon   From

RE: [ActiveDir] forcing a logoff

2004-01-20 Thread Creamer, Mark
> 2. Win2K and later (I have no NT 4) has cached credentials, so a user could unplug, > log in, replug and > thereby bypass the logon script But they still wouldn't have access to anything network based. Those cached credentials will only get them on their local machine. >>> I would think they

[ActiveDir] forcing a logoff

2004-01-19 Thread Creamer, Mark
Hi all, can you give me some ideas on how to handle this...we use ScriptLogic to manage our desktop environments, which works very well. I have been asked to find a way to force people who have not updated or are not running the latest AV (specific approved product) to logoff. Environment: Win2

RE: [ActiveDir] Proposed schema changes research

2004-01-15 Thread Creamer, Mark
Rich, I realize this is only an outline, and you may already know all this, but this presentation may help you get some ideas on things to specifically research   www.rallenhome.com/conferences/RAllen_Extending_the_Schema_Roundtable.ppt   I guess one of the main things I took away from

[ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K

2004-01-13 Thread Creamer, Mark
I’ve successfully slipstreamed service packs into a Win2K install media before, but never looked into adding any hotfixes to it. So I started looking into how to do it, and was surprised to find dialog from one of Microsoft’s online tech chats, in which the rep said you can’t do that. Did I

RE: [ActiveDir] ldifde and/or csdve

2004-01-09 Thread Creamer, Mark
Title: Message Travis, the following should query your GC and return a | (pipe) delimited text file with a few attributes including “mail.” Have a look to see if that’s what you want. This is adapted from scripts found elsewhere, created by folks smarter than me ;-) YMMV   Change the dc=

RE: [ActiveDir] Listing passwd information from AD

2004-01-08 Thread Creamer, Mark
Ron, grab a copy of Robbie Allen's AD Cookbook (O'Reilly). Both are therein. -Original Message- From: Pennell, Ronald B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Listing passwd information from AD Does anyone have a qu

RE: [ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins was - GPO Loopbac k problem

2004-01-07 Thread Creamer, Mark
ettings || from that GPO? Also, you might try enabling verbose userenv logging || to | || see if that gives some clue as to why these settings are still || getting | || processed. || || -----Original Message- || From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, || M

RE: [ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins was - GPO Loopbac k problem

2004-01-07 Thread Creamer, Mark
|| from that GPO? Also, you might try enabling verbose userenv logging to | || see if that gives some clue as to why these settings are still getting | || processed. || || -Original Message- || From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark || Sent: Tu

RE: [ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins was - GPO Loopbac k problem

2004-01-06 Thread Creamer, Mark
puter is not in the admin group -Original Message- From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] GPO Loopback problem We're setting up a group policy being applied to an OU which contains 2

RE: [ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins

2004-01-06 Thread Creamer, Mark
pback policy enabled on that GPO?   Darren   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 7:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins I created a GPO to manage users’ terminal server de

[ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins

2004-01-06 Thread Creamer, Mark
I created a GPO to manage users’ terminal server desktop settings. I then noticed that those settings were being applied to domain admins, which I did not want. So on the Group Policy’s security tab, I explicitly denied the Apply Group Policy to Domain and Enterprise Admins. However, nothin

RE: [ActiveDir] Ldap Access to Groups

2004-01-05 Thread Creamer, Mark
Mike, is it returning just 1000 objects? You’ll need to use the Page Size = …as in Robbie’s recipe # 4.7   -Original Message- From: Mike Hogenauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Ldap Access to Gro

[ActiveDir] setting TS properties

2004-01-02 Thread Creamer, Mark
I found a control (wts_admin.dll) that will allow me to set terminal services properties for a user in a Win2K domain, such as profile path, home directory etc. These extensions are only available from Microsoft for Windows 2003 as I understand it (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.

RE: [ActiveDir] User Display Question

2003-12-31 Thread Creamer, Mark
Oh my gosh...Hunter that's a lifesaver. I've been trying to figure that one out forever. Thanks!! -Original Message- From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User Display Question You ha

[ActiveDir] Bug in GPO?

2003-12-30 Thread Creamer, Mark
In GPO\User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer, there is a policy “Hide these Specified Drives in My Computer.”   According to the Explain tab for that policy, it “Removes the icons representing selected hard drives from My Computer, Windows Explor

[ActiveDir] GPO Loopback problem

2003-12-30 Thread Creamer, Mark
We’re setting up a group policy being applied to an OU which contains 2 computer objects, which are terminal servers. Then we want to set user configuration policies disabling certain start menu options, etc.   As expected, the policy affecting the users only goes into effect upon selecti

RE: [ActiveDir] Passwords keep expiring

2003-12-24 Thread Creamer, Mark
Title: Message Tom, have you looked for replication errors betwixt the DCs yet? Might be a start…   -Original Message- From: Tom.Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Passwords keep expiring  

[ActiveDir] Univ group problem

2003-12-23 Thread Creamer, Mark
Hello, to those who haven’t disappeared for the holidays!   We’re having a problem with a Universal Group. Both domains are native, and therefore the DL is a Universal group, Security type. The Univ group exists in Domain A. The purpose of this group is to control who can go into Address

RE: [ActiveDir] ADO

2003-12-19 Thread Creamer, Mark
    .SetInfo     End With   oRs.MoveNext   Loop Else   '-- empty recordset End If     __ Todd Povilaitis LAN Administrator Huntington Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (626) 397-3392 Fax: (626) 397-2901 -Original Message- From: Creamer, Mark [m

RE: [ActiveDir] ADO

2003-12-19 Thread Creamer, Mark
ue in your ADO/ADsDSOObject query.   __ Todd Povilaitis LAN Administrator Huntington Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (626) 397-3392 Fax: (626) 397-2901 -Original Message----- From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 08:31

[ActiveDir] ADO

2003-12-19 Thread Creamer, Mark
Do I want to use ADO if I want to search all users in a domain and then alter an attribute based on its current value, or is there a better method? Up to now, I’ve only tried using ADO to return a result set, not modify.   The part I’m struggling with is making the search recursive throug

[ActiveDir] ADUC view preferences

2003-12-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
Can you clear something up for me? In ADUC, the default first column is labeled “Name.” I would like that to always display as LastName, FirstName (sn, givenName)   I thought this was controlled by DisplayName, but apparently not. What attribute would I edit to fix the ones that don’t mee

RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access

2003-12-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
uot;)" & VBTab & "Remote Access Permission = " & objRecordSet.Fields.Item("DialInState")) objRecordSet.MoveNext Wend fileTxt.WriteLine(vbCrLf) j = objRecordSet.RecordCount fileTxt.WriteLine("Total number of dial-in enabled users is " & j) objRecord

RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access

2003-12-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access Mark- Here's a snippit of a script we use to check that: userADsPath = adoRecordset.Fields.Item("ADsPath").Value set objUser = GetObject(userADsPath) d

RE: [ActiveDir] finding GCs

2003-12-16 Thread Creamer, Mark
, December 16, 2003 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] finding GCs Gil's post should provide the information they need to do this.  Did you catch that one the other day?   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:46

RE: [ActiveDir] finding GCs

2003-12-16 Thread Creamer, Mark
inding GCs   Gil's post should provide the information they need to do this.  Did you catch that one the other day?   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] finding GCs According to the develop

RE: [ActiveDir] finding GCs

2003-12-16 Thread Creamer, Mark
!   -Original Message- From: Creamer, Mark Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] finding GCs   I think it’s a compiled application that is called by the web app. But I’ll know more tomorrow. We’re supposed to meet to discuss it. I’ll at least try to

RE: [ActiveDir] ADSI EDIT

2003-12-12 Thread Creamer, Mark
Ah ha! Here’s one I can answer (having asked it myself last week)   In ADSI Edit, with the Domain Selected, choose View/Filter. Change the number of objects to whatever…   -Original Message- From: Jannie Esterhuizen - CPX Mngd Services [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Frid

RE: [ActiveDir] User export

2003-12-12 Thread Creamer, Mark
Thanks Tony. Does the account get created with a blank password if I don't create one myself? If so, what would happen if the domain policy is set to not allow blank passwords? -Original Message- From: Tony Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:43 AM To: [EM

RE: [ActiveDir] finding GCs

2003-12-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
If set to true, then it's a global catalog.  If not, then it's just a DC.   Al   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] finding GCs Our developers put together a web site on our intra

[ActiveDir] finding GCs

2003-12-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
Our developers put together a web site on our intranet last year that allows privileged users to add members of their staff to various groups. It works great, except that now we are in native mode and are using some universal groups. The app will work properly as long as it happens to hit a

RE: [ActiveDir] Settle a disagreement

2003-12-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
Title: Message Just have them read this… http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q203/6/07.ASP&NoWebContent=1   and then give them something to do J   -Original Message- From: Gilbert, Daniel L Mr ANOSC/FCBS [mai

RE: [ActiveDir] Virus software on DC

2003-12-10 Thread Creamer, Mark
I do, but I exclude the AD files, and I do not have real-time scanning enabled, just periodic scheduled scans. Does not seem to cause any problems.   -Original Message- From: Douglas M. Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL P

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripting Help

2003-12-08 Thread Creamer, Mark
David, try recipe 6.2 from Robbie Allen's AD Cookbook. If you don't have the book, I highly recommend it, but you can also find what you need at www.rallenhome.com There are also some create user scripts at Clarence Washington's site at http://cwashington.netreach.net -Original Message

[ActiveDir] LDAP Client

2003-12-08 Thread Creamer, Mark
Does anyone have experience with a product called Softerra LDAP Administrator? If so, does it offer any significant advantages over ldp.exe that would warrant the hundred bucks?   Mark Creamer Systems Engineer Cintas Corporation Honesty and Integrity in Everything We Do  

RE: [ActiveDir] UserAccountControl Bitwise question

2003-12-04 Thread Creamer, Mark
:35 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] UserAccountControl Bitwise question   Shouldn't that be changed to 8389120 instead (512 + 8388608)?   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

[ActiveDir] UserAccountControl Bitwise question

2003-12-04 Thread Creamer, Mark
I thought flagging an account to require password change would change the UserAccountControl attribute from 512 to 8388608  (0x80). (per article KB 305144) But it’s not happening. Accounts that are flagged for that are still 512. Am I misunderstanding something? likely J   Mark Creame

RE: [ActiveDir] Adsi Edit annoyance

2003-12-04 Thread Creamer, Mark
annoyance   In the View / Filter, Max number of items per container.  Default is 1, increase to your desire.     Regards,   Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Thursday, December 04

[ActiveDir] Adsi Edit annoyance

2003-12-04 Thread Creamer, Mark
How do I increase the maximum number of items that ADSI Edit will display? It stops after x number in the Users container and tells me to increase the maximum…   Thanks!   Mark Creamer Systems Engineer Cintas Corporation Honesty and Integrity in Everything We Do  

RE: [ActiveDir] Finding accts w/expired password

2003-12-04 Thread Creamer, Mark
That did help with my understanding of the dsquery logic, but unfortunately it also will include those whose passwords are set to never expire... still got some of those I'm trying to get rid of :-( -Original Message- From: Tony Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Decembe

RE: [ActiveDir]

2003-12-04 Thread Creamer, Mark
Not sure of the circumstances, but given your desktops are 2K/XP, can the installations be done over the LAN? You can do that in AD, which will install with elevated privileges. Alternatively, you could use a product like Script Logic, which can do installs, although they’ll tell you it’s

[ActiveDir] Finding accts w/expired password

2003-12-04 Thread Creamer, Mark
Hi, can someone suggest a quick way to obtain a list of all accounts where the password is expired? I was thinking dsquery user -stalepwd 0 but that didn't give me what I was expecting (maybe I just don't have the right logic there?) Or, if someone already has a script that does this, that woul

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Diagraming

2003-12-03 Thread Creamer, Mark
This article may also be of interest... http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6265-1052000.html -Original Message- From: Creamer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Diagraming Ahhh...that explains why I didn't know tha

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Diagraming

2003-12-03 Thread Creamer, Mark
wanted. -----Original Message- From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Diagraming What about just buying a copy of the appropriate Visio release on eBay? Which version had it, 2002? There are many o

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Diagraming

2003-12-03 Thread Creamer, Mark
What about just buying a copy of the appropriate Visio release on eBay? Which version had it, 2002? There are many of those listed out there right now... -Original Message- From: Steck, Herb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

RE: [ActiveDir] [slightly OT] scripting add users

2003-11-21 Thread Creamer, Mark
Rich, I think there are some easier ways to do this, including a script from MS that reads the data from an Excel file. You could create the Excel file from the csv you already have and go from there. See Clarence Washington's Win32Scripting site at http://cwashington.netreach.net for a number o

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Replication Topology

2003-11-19 Thread Creamer, Mark
how ldap works and how ldap queries should be formulated in order to get efficient queries. This is important from a DC load AND from a network load point of view.   Cheers! John   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 19 november 2003 15:14 To: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Replication Topology

2003-11-19 Thread Creamer, Mark
with problems/challenges/whatever that force you to make a move from one model to another ... or is your infrastructure too stable and are you looking for a new challenge ;-)?   Cheers! John   From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 18 november 2003 20:37 To: [EMAIL PROT

[ActiveDir] Site Replication Topology

2003-11-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
I’d like to revisit our site design, and am looking for some advice if possible. Right now we have a couple hundred physical sites in terms of individual IP subnets, but only a few sites defined in AD. The ones defined are the sites that actually have a domain controller located there. The

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Group policy login script

2003-11-17 Thread Creamer, Mark
Has it replicated to the netlogon share of each dc? Are you sure the script is assigned to each user’s account?   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Gro

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