RE: [ActiveDir] DNS scavenging question

2006-12-08 Thread David Adner
Check it again. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Milburn Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 8:07 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS scavenging question I was curious about the static record thing with AgeAllRecords. I just tried

RE: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-11-30 Thread David Adner
How are you determining the clients are utilizing the PDCE for these activities? A network trace from the client may prove useful. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamlesh Parmar Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:51 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [

RE: [ActiveDir] mailNickName(OT)

2006-11-22 Thread David Adner
While I firmly agree that guidance should never be blindly followed, regardless of the source, I'd add that customers who say "Microsoft reviewed this" or something like that should not necessarily be taken to mean the design was in any way developed by or recommended by MS (I can't speak for the O

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Scavenging - new issue

2006-11-22 Thread David Adner
Yes, enable it on the server. Only records with old timestamps will be deleted. So the only real possible negative is you somehow have "valid" records with old timestamps that have not been refreshing their timestamps for some reason. How could that happen? Perhaps you had devices previously pe

RE: [ActiveDir] sysvol replication

2006-10-19 Thread David Adner
If you're asking about applying ACLs via GPO against SYSVOL then yes, it will cause SYSVOL to replicate. However, this should only happen once. When the GPO is re-applied FRS should suppress replication of the files since nothing is actually changing (unless, of course, someone had actually change

[ActiveDir] List archive

2006-09-14 Thread David Adner
Anyone else getting timeouts trying to get to the list archive URL?   http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx  

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Cookbooks...

2006-09-14 Thread David Adner
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RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Cookbooks...

2006-09-14 Thread David Adner
*points at joe's signature...* And in case that was too vague, try here. http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:13 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sub

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-09-01 Thread David Adner
The bug you're probably referring to is that in 2003 RTM you cannot reduce the size of an Event Log via GPO. You can increase the size but not decrease it. This can cause you to have larger logs than what you think if all you do is review what the GPOs say. > -Original Message- > From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-31 Thread David Adner
This is a Vista/Longhorn change as the event logging system has been completely revamped. I'm not, however, 100% certain about 64bit XP and 2003 on if they suffer from the same limitations as the 32bit flavors. I suspect they do. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-08-31 Thread David Adner
Especially if you have a Premier account be sure to ask your TAM or MS contact to provide some business justification to this DCR so it gets as much traction as possible. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, GuidoSent: Thursday, August 31,

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-30 Thread David Adner
Are these manual or automatically generated connection objects?  If automatic, were they created back when bridge all site links was enabled?  If so, if you delete them, do they come back?  Do the site links only have 2 sites, the remote and its designated hub, or do they have multiple sites

RE: [ActiveDir] Password resets

2006-08-10 Thread David Adner
Wait, I've seen this one before.  "My voice is my passport; verify me." From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Figueroa, JohnnySent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:55 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] Password resets There is t

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication error between 4 sites

2006-08-08 Thread David Adner
I suggest stop trying to understand why any one support engineer happens to disagree with another since the answers aren't going to help your issue. But, if you must know... 1. Because there's no one right way. People who tell you there's only 1 right way are wrong. 2. You'd have to ask the en

RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core

2006-07-31 Thread David Adner
The Netware partial-replica model immediately jumped to mind when the RODC-PAS idea was broached.  I can see a lot of customers trying to use this feature to create partial-replicas way beyond concerns of preventing replication of sensitive data.  I suppose one big difference (making an assu

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 In-Place Upgrade bug ?

2006-07-31 Thread David Adner
Check your antivirus software to make sure it doesn't include some sort of pseudo-firewall feature.  Also make sure the built-in firewall isn't enabled. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of HBooGzSent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:15 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.

RE: [ActiveDir] Reset home page via GPO

2006-07-24 Thread David Adner
Look here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/1f105ee4-b025-478c-a0 3e-77fcd91a64e41033.mspx?mfr=true > -Original Message- > > This IE setting can be applied via "policy mode" or "preferences > > mode". > > Policy mode is what you normally think of when configuring G

RE: [ActiveDir] Reset home page via GPO

2006-07-24 Thread David Adner
This IE setting can be applied via "policy mode" or "preferences mode". Policy mode is what you normally think of when configuring GPO settings in that it'll be reset if a user ever changes it. Preferences mode only changes the initial value but allows the user to change it afterwards if they like

RE: [ActiveDir] Clean install VS Upgrade of Windows 2003

2006-07-16 Thread David Adner
ition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:55 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Clean install VS Upgrade of Windows 2003 The statement that with each ne

RE: [ActiveDir] Clean install VS Upgrade of Windows 2003

2006-07-16 Thread David Adner
The statement that with each new OS the upgrade in place scenario has improved, at least to date, has been true. If they said it's perfected each time then I could see your point. I've been to many customers that have done in-place upgrades of the OS with great success. Is it the preferred metho

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Snapshot Tool (ADST) - how useful is it?

2006-06-01 Thread David Adner
> shouldn't be an item that costs money from the company > producing the infrastructure software... I would expect it to > come with the infrastructure components or be a download. > It isn't like if this were free the support teams at MSFT > wouldn't have anything

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Snapshot Tool (ADST) - how useful is it?

2006-05-31 Thread David Adner
The quality of AD admins in even very large orgs varies more than the engineers delivering the RAPs. I've seen "AD administrators" that literally had no clue what DSRM was, how data is transferred between DCs (doesn't FRS replicate users, too? Or, AD replication is broken so SYSVOL isn't replicat

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Snapshot Tool (ADST) - how useful is it?

2006-05-08 Thread David Adner
Title: AD Snapshot Tool (ADST) - how useful is it? The ADST has no direct ties to PSS; it was created by a different organization within Microsoft.  It is not a glorified MPSReports, if that's what you're thinking.  It collects a myriad of data about the configuration of the replication topol

RE: [ActiveDir] InetOrgPersonFix.... Do I need it?

2006-05-04 Thread David Adner
When you installed Exchange 2003 you extended the schema and fixed the problem then. So no, you don't need the InetOrgPerson fix now. Running the Exchange 2003 schema extension (and allowing it to fully replicate out) before the 2003 AD schema extension is a common recommendation to avoid having

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Microsoft Audit Collection System

2006-04-30 Thread David Adner
It's part of the next MOM release... forget everything you used to know about it. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 8:48 PM > To: activedir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Micro

RE: [ActiveDir] sites, slow links and AD

2006-04-28 Thread David Adner
You'll probably want to give MS a call and have a detailed discussion on this. Read the Branch Office Deployment Guide, too. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myke > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 9:16 AM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir

RE: [ActiveDir] Exclude one account from password policy

2006-04-27 Thread David Adner
The domain password policy is just that; for the entire domain.  Your block inheritance scenario won't work because it's not the user account that determines what the domain password policy is.  You can, however, set a specific account for 'password never expires', which prevents the max pas

RE: [ActiveDir] oddness with sites.

2006-04-26 Thread David Adner
Did you associate the appropriate subnet(s) of whatever constitutes "UCPG" into the UCPG site? Site boundaries are defined by the subnets associated with them. You configure them in Sites and Services. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] NT 4.O Domain Upgrade and then some...

2006-04-24 Thread David Adner
You don't describe how large/complex the environment is, but... generally speaking, I would recommend instead of doing an upgrade in place and then try renaming the domain you instead do a migration from the NT4 domain into a freshly built AD domain that already has the final name. > -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] default values for "net time /querysntp" on new systems?

2006-04-11 Thread David Adner
time.windows.com,0x1 is the default value for XP and 2003 computers. The fact that it's not set on some of your servers could be because they were upgraded in place from 2000 or someone's (or something, like a GPO, for example) has reset them using any number of means; the net time command, w32tm.

RE: [ActiveDir] Network browsing slow and not showing all computers

2006-04-11 Thread David Adner
That's not tied to DNS or even AD, per se, as it's the older NetBIOS name browsing mechanism that's been around for many years and has slowly (too slowly, imo) been depreciated. The fact you're not seeing all computers could be because not every computer has the Computer Browser service running, t

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Versions of Windows Server 2003

2006-04-02 Thread David Adner
512MB is for Windows 2000.  And you'd only use /3GB if you had 2000 Advanced Server, at which point you'd cache around 1GB.  Without /3GB on Windows 2003 the default is around 1.5GB, with /3GB it's around 2.6GB.  /3GB is supported on both Standard and Enterprise Edition with respect to DCs.

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Versions of Windows Server 2003

2006-04-02 Thread David Adner
Umm.  Did you read the whitepaper this thread is talking about? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas BlankSent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 3:21 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Performance for 64-bit V

RE: [ActiveDir] Selectively overriding hierarchical lookup

2006-03-30 Thread David Adner
y copy of the zone ? well,  I do not need to create zones on this scenario... right On 3/30/06, David Adner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Host a secondary copy of the zone on the 2000 server.  Or upgrade it to 2003.  :) From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: [ActiveDir] Selectively overriding hierarchical lookup

2006-03-30 Thread David Adner
do the process you explained on a MS DNS 2000Thanks comments On 3/30/06, David Adner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Assuming I understood you correctly, if your MS DNS server is running on Windows Server 2003 then you could leverage stub zones or condi

RE: [ActiveDir] Selectively overriding hierarchical lookup

2006-03-30 Thread David Adner
Assuming I understood you correctly, if your MS DNS server is running on Windows Server 2003 then you could leverage stub zones or conditional forwarders.  With either method you could, for example, say any queries for "linux.com" (or whatever it's called) go to your Linux DNS server while a

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Demotion & AD Site Configuration

2006-03-30 Thread David Adner
Not exactly.  The point of a site is to help concentrate site-aware type apps and services so that users access their local/closest resources.  Authentication to DCs (and getting GPOs and login scripts from them) is just one potential service for this.  DFS and SMS are also site-aware.

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Demotion & AD Site Configuration

2006-03-30 Thread David Adner
Either option is perfectly valid depending on your needs.  Just because you're removing the DCs from the branches does not mean you need to collapse the sites, too.  If you have any site-aware apps/services like DFS, SMS, etc that may exist in the branches then having those sites can provide

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Server will not Start

2006-03-19 Thread David Adner
Setting that Registry value is not the answer. You're disabling a safety mechanism in AD. Don't change random Registry values in AD unless you know what they're used for. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris > Sent: Sunday,

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Partition Question

2006-03-17 Thread David Adner
Title: DNS Partition Question You never moved the information out of "Active Directory".  You just moved it to a different partition in AD.  It should no longer exist in the domain partition but now in the DomainDnsZones partition for the domain in question.  To verify it no longer exists in

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Recovery after tombstone hits all DC's

2006-03-16 Thread David Adner
I'd recommend opening a case with PSS and/or getting a ROSS onsite (talk to your TAM if you have one; if you don't have a TAM nevermind) and not try to fix this over a listserv. You're walking on thin ice with the activities you're performing. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring DC's

2006-03-10 Thread David Adner
Irrespective of what you choose, I suggest you choose something and actually implement and use it.  That'll put you in the top 1% (my guestimate based on personal experience) of AD environments out there. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSe

RE: [ActiveDir] Name Server records

2006-03-08 Thread David Adner
Title: [ActiveDir] Name Server records One guess is you're using zone transfers with the option "Allow only servers on name servers tab" (or whatever it's called) and the person who set this up added the DNS server in question. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-03 Thread David Adner
I think you're trying to compare apples and oranges. Yes, both solutions can help reduce the time it takes to perform a restore (give a specific scenario), but that's basically it. Lag sites are single snapshots based on the number of lag sites you deploy. The products you mention below are true

RE: [ActiveDir] repadmin info oddity

2006-02-20 Thread David Adner
; through quickly while others take the scenic route (wherever > the heck that is). > > -- > Dean Wells > MSEtechnology > * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://msetechnology.com > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [ActiveDir] repadmin info oddity

2006-02-20 Thread David Adner
Oh no, Dean's fallen and can't get up! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Wells > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:17 PM > To: Send - AD mailing list > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] repadmin info oddity > > These are DSA invocation I

RE: [ActiveDir] NtFrs Errors

2006-02-14 Thread David Adner
In addition to AD Sites and Services, check under System\File Replication Service\Domain System Volume (Sysvol share)\ for any leftover frsMember objects. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clay, Justin (ITS)Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:28 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] dssite Still Sees Old DC

2006-02-13 Thread David Adner
Unfortunately the name servers tab often requires manual effort to keep it up to date.  As for Sites and Services, just what object(s) do you see for the old DC?  Just the server object or also its NTDS Settings object? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

RE: [ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS

2006-01-26 Thread David Adner
Whether a DC registers a particular SRV, which priority it has, which sites are covered can all be controlled via Registry changes. Whether a DC registers a particular A same as parent record can also be controlled (at least with 2003 SP1). So you'll need to clarify exactly what you want to modif

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policies

2006-01-24 Thread David Adner
Something to consider in addition to the others' comments.  Keep in mind just because MS does it a certain way that doesn't mean it'll be applicable to your own environment.  However, this article/doc does include some interesting comments regarding how smaller GPO's with a focused set of se

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DNS in Windows delegation to Novell DNS

2006-01-18 Thread David Adner
Unless Novell's changed what flavor of DNS/feature set they have since NetWare 5.1 (last time I ever saw Novell) it did not support dynamic updates.  More specifically, it supported "dynamic updates" but only via a NetWare DHCP server.  Also, at the time, the GUI for managing records didn't

RE: [ActiveDir] User Password Expiration

2006-01-05 Thread David Adner
If there really is some sort of self-service system, then it should be possible to have it also temporarily grant the user the Logon Locally User Right (I'm assuming these are console logons since we're talking about bastion servers) and then have that revoked, for example, after 10 minutes (meanin

RE: [ActiveDir] icmp's

2005-12-30 Thread David Adner
You'll need to disable Slow Link Detection.  You want to do this before disabling ICMP since once it's disabled the clients won't be able to process GPO's anymore (until Slow Link Detection is disabled).  If you've already disabled ICMP then you'll need some alternate method of changing the

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: Failing to create a trust

2005-12-21 Thread David Adner
I seem to have missed part of the conversation since it suddenly seems to have jumped to what appears to be a conclusion that the VMWare issues were due to SID's and differencing disks. Is that what was determined? It'll be good to know for future reference. :) > -Original Message- > Fr

RE: [ActiveDir] FFL 2003 is one-size-fit-all?

2005-12-20 Thread David Adner
Just out of curiosity, but do you find this behavior unusual? Would you think it's still reasonable to be able to introduce, for example, a 2000 DFL Domain in a 2003 FFL Forest? Were you thinking of a merger/migration scenario where perhaps you need to migrate in a 2000 Domain into your 2003 Fore

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: Failing to create a trust

2005-12-17 Thread David Adner
I guess I missed the previous thread, so this may have already been asked, but... Did you copy the base VM to build both DC's and if so, did you use sysprep/newsid/etc before trying to promote them? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO Role Transfer GUI

2005-12-17 Thread David Adner
Title: FSMO Role Transfer GUI Raerrr. Cat fight. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 3:31 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO Role Transfer GUI Bite me Wells. From: [EMA

RE: [ActiveDir] SRV RRs and NSLOOKUP

2005-12-09 Thread David Adner
The internet address portion of the response is optional and may not be returned in its entirety based on UDP packet size. The number if internet address entries returned can vary based on the number of characters in the host and domain names. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [ActiveDir] Failed to transfer the schema FSMO role - 2000 to 2003 upgrade

2005-12-03 Thread David Adner
Can you contact the schema master and is it advertising as the schema master? Dcdiag.exe on that DC will show its advertisements. If you tried isolating the schema master then you're probably running into the init sync requirements. Initial synchronization requirements for Windows 2000 Server an

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-30 Thread David Adner
Rocks [MVP] > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:09 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer > > > > If the task is that trivial > If the benefit is so great > Why isn't it part of the AD snap ins as a one button task? >

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-30 Thread David Adner
vailable. > > Is that agreeable? > > Nathaniel Vincent Bahta > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:24 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: R

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-30 Thread David Adner
, I try to > utilize all of them available. > > Is that agreeable? > > Nathaniel Vincent Bahta > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:24 PM > To: ActiveDir@

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-30 Thread David Adner
gt; The above 2 scenarios are very different - if one were to perform a > > risk analysis the actions taken to mitigate those risks would be > > suitably different. > > neil > > > -- > > -- &g

RE: [ActiveDir] GC list

2005-11-29 Thread David Adner
How about making /options work with /csv...? :) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Shirley > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:11 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GC list > > Note instead of rep

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread David Adner
I would only agree if you told me your DC's regularly fail to come back after a reboot.  And if you did tell me that I'd have to say you're doing something wrong.   I suppose I don't consider rebooting a DC to be quite the dangerous act as others do.  To what degree is this taken?  If it hol

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread David Adner
If the insurance is guarding against apps/services/etc that may need the FSMO holders while they're offline, then I can agree with this.  If it's out of fear that something unexpected will happen that takes out the FSMO holders completely, then I don't think it's worth the effort.  If the la

RE: [ActiveDir] OldCmp

2005-11-26 Thread David Adner
I scanned through the list of current switches and you appear to already have everything I was going to ask for.  :)   The only item I wasn't 100% certain on was if it can query lastLogon.  I saw references to pwdLastSet and lastLogonTimeStamp.  The ability to query lastLogon would be nice f

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: AD Manpower Needs

2005-11-11 Thread David Adner
I'd focus less on industry standards, despite that being what mgmt asked for, and instead try to quantify what you actually need and how it would benefit the org (ie: save money in the end, speed things up, improve dependability, etc). For example, you might say Projects A, B, C and D are on hold

RE: [ActiveDir] Automatically created replication links

2005-11-11 Thread David Adner
Title: [ActiveDir] Automatically created replication links By default, the KCC will try not to create redundant CO's.  So if you're describing a desire to have your DC maintain 2 CO's to two different hub locations, for example, then the KCC won't do that.   You can adjust this behavior via a

RE: [ActiveDir] dns a record disappearing

2005-11-10 Thread David Adner
Did you disable the DHCP Client service on the server? That service is responsible for dynamic registration of a computer's A and PTR record. Also, did you manually delete the DNS record and allow the server to re-create it via dynamic registration? If not, then it's possible the DHCP server sti

RE: [ActiveDir] Netlogon.dns (2)

2005-11-08 Thread David Adner
In my experience the behavior noted in the KB was fairly inconsistent.  Some DC's would be fine, but then miss records on the next reboot.  The records in question would also vary.   As for the workaround, it's probably less than ideal since you're right, simply restarting the Netlogon servic

RE: [ActiveDir] Netlogon.dns (2)

2005-11-08 Thread David Adner
May want to check this out to verify this isn't the issue:   The Domain Controller does not register _GC, _KERBEROS, and _KPASSWD DNS entries when a Windows 2000 server starts http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841395/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf

RE: [ActiveDir] Raid suggestions for DC maybe OT

2005-11-07 Thread David Adner
I have this vague feeling your young whippersnapper's initials are E.F.  Could be wrong, though. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:09 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Raid suggestion

RE: [ActiveDir] Stupid question alert... where exactly is the tombstone value set?

2005-10-16 Thread David Adner
Well, you can have a single DC Forest. But regardless, all you need is ADSIEDIT, which you can get from the Support Tools, which you can download off MS's site. Or are you saying the Support Tools won't install on an SBS server? I have no SBS experience so I may be making bad assumptions. > ---

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA?

2005-10-16 Thread David Adner
To the original poster, if you have a TAM that would be the best avenue to obtain further information. They can get you a document that details what the Active Directory Health Check involves. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick K

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA?

2005-10-16 Thread David Adner
> Microsoft AD Health Check: > http://www.systems-group.net/En/Consultancy+Services/Solutions > /Microsoft+AD+ > Health+Check.htm > > Looks like it's talked about here too > > Dean Wells wrote: > > >Ooops ... my apologies :O( > > > >-- > >Dean Wel

RE: [ActiveDir] Stupid question alert... where exactly is the tombstone value set?

2005-10-15 Thread David Adner
This article below describes where to read it and how to change it. A value of assumes the default. The new 2003 SP1 180 day default is only implemented if a forest is built as 2003 SP1. If you simply install SP1 the value doesn't change. Looks like they even updated this link, although the wo

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA?

2005-10-14 Thread David Adner
Boo, hiss. It's Engineering Services that offers it, not MCS. ;> > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Wells > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:22 AM > To: Send - AD mailing list > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA? > > The to

RE: [ActiveDir] Design Question

2005-10-12 Thread David Adner
In addition to the others' comments, while the BODG is a good and useful reference, your environment is probably small enough that you don't have to worry about most of what's described in it.  I think it's good that you read and understand what's stated in it, but don't feel you need to emp

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Security

2005-09-23 Thread David Adner
Houston and San Antonio TAM's are, IMO, generally more technical than the average TAM. Or, if not technical, they're much more directly involved with their customers and know how to take care of them. Regardless, you're always going to hear the dev/support/sales engineers bag on TAM's. There's a

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Security

2005-09-23 Thread David Adner
More specifically, if in your Premier support contract you agreed purchase a certain number of hours for a TAM, you'll have one.  Not all support contracts include hours for a TAM. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahta Nathaniel V Contr NASIC/SCNAS

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Domain on W2K3 SP1 and Child not

2005-09-15 Thread David Adner
2K3 and 2K3 SP1 DC's should interoperate with no issues besides the potential list of known issues with SP1 in general.  ie:  SP1 includes the original version of MS05-019.  So if that patch caused you grief then you could potentially see communication issues between the DC's unless you inst

RE: [ActiveDir] Sysvol and AV exclusions

2005-09-14 Thread David Adner
The gist of it should be: Sysvol\Domain\ - Scan Sysvol\Domain\DO_NOT_REMOVE_NtFrs_PreInstall_Directory\ - Don't Scan Sysvol\Staging\ - Don't Scan Sysvol\Staging Areas\ - Don't Scan Sysvol\Sysvol\ - Don't Scan So, effectively, you only need to set the 4 folder exclusions. The reasoning for the Sta

RE: [ActiveDir] Tombstone Interval

2005-09-14 Thread David Adner
Title: Tombstone Interval Another tidbit... DNS servers run through an internal process every 2am to identify and delete "stale" dnsTombstone records.  It's at that point they begin the traditional AD object deletion process.  The 2am interval is not configurable. From: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ActiveDir] New tool - script to count objects within a partition and provide a breakdown of their classes and the count of each

2005-09-08 Thread David Adner
I still plan to check it out since I'm curious how it works.  Does it include tombstones?  DSAStat does, which some might consider a negative at times. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean WellsSent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:15 PMTo: Send

RE: [ActiveDir] New tool - script to count objects within a partition and provide a breakdown of their classes and the count of each

2005-09-08 Thread David Adner
Haven't run it yet, but I'm curious what benefits it provides over dsastat.exe (or was a goal to avoid having to use an external tool)? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean WellsSent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:23 PMTo: Send - AD mailing lis

RE: [ActiveDir] New tool - script to count objects within a partition and provide a breakdown of their classes and the count of each

2005-09-08 Thread David Adner
Haven't run it yet, but I'm curious what benefits it provides over dsastat.exe (or was a goal to avoid having to use an external tool)? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean WellsSent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:23 PMTo: Send - AD mailing lis

RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy security setting

2005-09-02 Thread David Adner
Is the corresponding Registry value a type of reg_binary? If so you can't set it via an ADM. You would need to use an alternate method to update each user's Registry like via a login script. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Charli

RE: [ActiveDir] Ports during authentication/logons...

2005-08-24 Thread David Adner
I hadn't noticed that section that specifically talks about GP.  Thanks for the pointer. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony MurraySent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:48 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Ports during authentication/

RE: [ActiveDir] Ports during authentication/logons...

2005-08-24 Thread David Adner
I would normally look at the IPSec route, too, but it's not (as far as I know) supported by MS between domain members and DC's.  It's supposed member<->member and DC<->DC, but not members<->DC's.  At least, not if Kerberos is used.  Not sure how they feel about certs.  Shared keys just would

[ActiveDir] Ports during authentication/logons...

2005-08-24 Thread David Adner
It's been a few weeks, so time for another question on ports. MS's whitepaper that discusses how to setup AD to communicate through a firewall (the one that focuses primarily on DC to DC communication) lists the following ports needed to service "User Login and Authentication" and "Computer

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k3 SP1 vs. W32Time

2005-08-23 Thread David Adner
*cough* That's the KB he referenced. :) David, did you try both workarounds or just one of them? Did you try rebooting after making the changes? Can you described the exact things you did? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes, Mich

RE: [ActiveDir] Weird issue going on

2005-08-15 Thread David Adner
Anyone reintroduce a DC that's been offline/failing to replicate for greater than the tombstone lifetime interval? Or restore a backup that was older than the tombstone lifetime interval? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP vs Dell servers

2005-08-12 Thread David Adner
The physical servers themselves are pretty much a commodity nowadays between HP, IBM and Dell. The vendors' support model and practices are a big factor. Cost is also a factor, of course. Shifting to a new hardware vendor will increase administrative and support costs. You'll now have to keep t

RE: [ActiveDir] Preferred Bridgeheads

2005-08-08 Thread David Adner
Inadequate hardware is one, although that's typically less and less of an issue since most server class hardware nowadays is more than robust enough. Firewalls or router ACL's between sites and only designated DC's can intercommunicate with each other is another reason. "Branch" environments wher

RE: [ActiveDir] Preferred Bridgeheads

2005-08-08 Thread David Adner
So Russ doesn't feel so bad, I've been to many customers that decided to specify preferred BH's. When I ask why I normally get any of the following responses. 1) They want a predictable DC to goto when they need to force replication between sites. This is relatively easy to ween them off of. 2) L

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Question

2005-08-07 Thread David Adner
Yeah. Stop trying to disable the KCC already. The KCC is your friend. :) You do, however, want to disable 'bridge all site links' (located under the properties of "Intersite Transports -> IP"). You need to do this because the network is not fully routable due to your VPN tunnels. With BASL ena

RE: [ActiveDir] OT - Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-06 Thread David Adner
I worked for a company with around 15k users. I would say it's scalable as a directory service. Some of its management tools might be arguably better, but they have their fair share of annoyances, too. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] turn off replication to a DC in same site

2005-07-30 Thread David Adner
I don't agree with your overall plan, but regardless, do you know you can define a single IP address to a Site of its own? Just define it as, for example, 10.10.1.1/255.255.255.255 (ie: a 32bit mask). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve

RE: [ActiveDir] Question about Kerberos Errors

2005-07-29 Thread David Adner
This article may provide some help.   The DNS suffix of the computer name of a new domain controller may not match the name of the domain after you install upgrade a Windows NT 4.0 Primary domain controller to Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257623 From:

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