RE: [ActiveDir] Viewing Event Log Files recovered from backup

2004-10-18 Thread David . Lloyd
Event Viewer (Eventvwr.exe) allows you to open EVT files through the Action->Open Log File option.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 08 October 2004 14:45To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Viewing Event Log Files recovered from

RE: [ActiveDir] uptime utility

2004-10-18 Thread David . Lloyd
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Macs, LDAP Source Under WMI Win32_ComputerSystem there is an SystemUptime property.   Cheers From: Douglas M. Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 October 2004 02:58To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: OT: uptime utility Is there an uptime utility for 2k3 anywhere? One

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DHCP Export

2004-09-24 Thread David . Lloyd
There is also a DHCP COM helper available from microsft that allows for the managemenbt, monitoring and migration of DHCP servers and Scopes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Cerino Sent: 22 September 2004 15:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: [ActiveDir] robust alternative to rcmd

2004-09-24 Thread David . Lloyd
WMI also allows for remote processes to be executed allowing for the remote execution to be managed in a script/application. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: 22 September 2004 15:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Act

[ActiveDir] Resultant Policy MMC snapin dependencies

2003-01-31 Thread David Lloyd
Title: Message Hi All,   Has anyone identified the dependencies for the 'Resultant Set of Policies' (RSOP.MSC) dependencies to port it to Windows 2000.   Cheers   David  

RE: [ActiveDir] Global Catalog replication

2003-01-22 Thread David Lloyd
GC's follow the same replication topology as it part of the NTDTS database replication (as against the file FRS replcication). A GC will get the full database of its local domain and a subset of all flagged attributes from each other domain within the forest. The attributes replicated to a GC are d

RE: [ActiveDir] Identifying group policies

2003-01-22 Thread David Lloyd
Windows XP and Server .Net have the snapin 'Resultant set of policies' do show exactly what you have requested. Alternatively look at Fazam, ActiveAdministrator, etc. MS in their infinite wisdom did not provide a set of COM objects for GPO management until .Net but have been told these can be pulle

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000

2003-01-21 Thread David Lloyd
That statement is all relative to actual server load and site requirements. As the design criteria may suit your organisation a lot would not agree Cheers David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Cerino Sent: 21 January 2003 16:28 T

RE: [ActiveDir] VNC and Terminal Services

2003-01-21 Thread David Lloyd
MS does not support it! If that is a concern. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Prajapati, Ashok (London) Sent: 21 January 2003 16:39 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VNC and Terminal Services Aren't there a lot of issues wi

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites and Services

2002-07-18 Thread David Lloyd
Done it on every deployment with no issues! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Morgan, Joshua Sent: 18 July 2002 13:42 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Sites and Services Are there any issues with renaming the Default-First-Site

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO's in W2K AD setup with XP clients

2002-07-18 Thread David Lloyd
Sounds right to me! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: 18 July 2002 12:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] GPO's in W2K AD setup with XP clients Mark You must have either Administrator or Backup Operator per

RE: [ActiveDir] Logon scripts

2002-07-18 Thread David Lloyd
Elevated privileges relates to access to the registry but does not translate to access to the file system. As such if a user has 'User' security access to a machine they will not be able to install software to it. To be able to do this you need a DMS solution that can manage installations to the b

RE: [ActiveDir] Native mode and NT4 trusts

2002-07-13 Thread David Lloyd
It will work but considerations are:   1)   The DC server that holds the FSMO role of PDCE will manage the trust. 2)   The PDCE needs to have NetBIOS enabled to service the Trust as it is an explicit trust and uses NTLM.   Cheers   David     -Original Message- Fro

RE: [ActiveDir] view a SID or GUID

2002-07-13 Thread David Lloyd
If you download the EXE lookupsid.exe from http://playing.idlegames.com/tools/ you can lookup the SID of any account (user group, computer) in a domain or machine.   Cheers   David     -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Facundo

RE: [ActiveDir] How to remove a dead DC from the forest

2002-07-03 Thread David Lloyd
Yep, that will do it! How's things? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie Hope-Lang Sent: 03 July 2002 17:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] How to remove a dead DC from the forest Hi, Any input. The DC does not physicall

RE: [ActiveDir] Study Tips

2002-05-22 Thread David Lloyd
Better to learn the topic then to learn the exam anyway don't you think? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marvin Cummings Sent: 22 May 2002 17:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Study Tips Cool. It doe

RE: [ActiveDir] Sysvol problem

2002-04-22 Thread David Lloyd
try: "Working Directory" Value Cheers David Lloyd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dirk Marshall Sent: 22 April 2002 22:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Sysvol problem I have an A

RE: [ActiveDir] 1000 row limit

2002-04-22 Thread David Lloyd
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] 1000 row limit It is part of the default LDAP Query Policy assigned to the site. This can be changed through the NTDSUtil utility.     Cheers     David Lloyd Email:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile:  07789 864 388 Web:    http://www.pobox.com/users/davidlloyd

RE: [ActiveDir] Service Packs

2002-04-17 Thread David Lloyd
A well designed unattended install should be flexible enough o be run on different media'. Have always supported both CD and Network based builds so as to prevent over the wire builds of workstations from sites with no server and limited link capacity! Just need to remember to change your SFC and

RE: [ActiveDir] Service Packs

2002-04-17 Thread David Lloyd
You can also install with RIS using a boot floppy. The floppy simulates the PXE process - but don’t worry unless you have a PCI or Card service equivalent card. Cheers David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joseph Liggett Sent: 17 April

RE: [ActiveDir] Logon Scripting

2002-04-16 Thread David Lloyd
Kixtart is definitely a good solution if you are looking for a single scripting language to support across multiple MS operating systems. We have put in a number of organisations a ingle login script structure using kixtart to look after all the needs of an organisation. Have also used Kixtart in

RE: [ActiveDir] Need recommendations for internet environment

2002-04-16 Thread David Lloyd
Good rule of Thumb - Never expose your internal directory services to the outside wall! By placing a child domain etc of your internal Forest in your DMZ you are possibly exposing a hole into your internal resources. Always best regardless if it is AD, eDir, NDS, etc... to have seperarate director

RE: [ActiveDir] (no subject)

2002-04-16 Thread David Lloyd
As long as there is a trust with the local authenticating domain to your accounts home domain (not Forest but Explicit trust to your domain) - This is if you are in different Forests. Otherwise remotely from a different domain in the same Forest the Transitive Trust model will look after you as lo

RE: [ActiveDir] Customzied Logon Screen

2002-04-06 Thread David Lloyd
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Customzied Logon Screen David, Do you have a url for OEM modification of the msgina.dll file? cheers David - Original Message - From: "David Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002

RE: [ActiveDir] Auto populate Computer Description

2002-04-06 Thread David Lloyd
Title: Message VBS with ADSI is your best bet. You can get the login name from binding to the Network Object (Wsh Standard) and apply the information through the computer object "description" attribute (ADSI Function).   Cheers   David   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ActiveDir] Customzied Logon Screen

2002-04-06 Thread David Lloyd
You can apply a graphic to the msgina.dll file to show a company logo (refer OEM modifications) etc. although this will not address your requirement of the extra text field. The biggest issue you would have with writing a custom gina is the ongoing support for it. As it is a common component that

RE: [ActiveDir] Changing Tree Structure

2002-04-04 Thread David Lloyd
Although you give both the pre and post states domains in fully qualified formats and not NetBIOS it is not clear if the existing accounts domains are already AD? If not the clear path to minimise the impact to users is to migrate the domains to a new forest i.e. Create your 3 domain forest struct

RE: [ActiveDir] Mixed mode

2002-04-04 Thread David Lloyd
Title: Message Just to extend on it! The support of both modes is required as an NT 4.0 domain that joins a AD Forest does so initially in Mixed mode to allow the ongoing support of the NT 4.0 BDC's still on the network. it is also required to ensure that you do not immediately lose service

RE: [ActiveDir] Groupwise and Active Directory

2002-04-03 Thread David Lloyd
What Version of GroupWise are you running? GroupWise 5 and 6 will run on eDirectory and could happily co-exist for a period. There are some good third party migration tools that can port your mailboxes across while allowing Ex and GW to co-exist during the migration (if you have multiple sites, me

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration Question

2002-04-03 Thread David Lloyd
Know where you want to go and want to provide up front and prepare a solid co-existence strategy. Break up your migration into multiple focused phases such as! 1) User Authentication 2) File and Print 3) Desktop 4) Application Services - Then you can dress it up Then start dressing it up. You c

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k and Roaming Profiles

2002-03-01 Thread David Lloyd
Have implemented Romain profiles at a number of sites and it is the age old question is that you need to ask what are you trying to achieve with them. 1) For complete mobile users (not Remote Access) you need to incorporate Application management into the environment to ensure Application availab

RE: [ActiveDir] DFS

2002-02-26 Thread David Lloyd
A DFS Root can be access in the same way as any other share. The advantage is that all your current shares that require a drive letter each can be consolidated to a single drive letter (well that is one of many advantages). Cheers -Original Message- From: Morgan, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory DNS

2002-02-19 Thread David Lloyd
't see why I couldn't use the DNS servers on the other domain to hold the empty placeholder domain's AD integrated DNS zone. -Original Message- From: David Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] Inaccessible_boot_device - not AD but I need help!

2002-02-18 Thread David Lloyd
Title: Message Fell for the oldest problem in the Windows 2000/NT environments. Your Drive and/or partition id's would have changed when you updated the RAID set. This information is stored in the Boot.ini file in the system partition. You will need to change this file to reflect the new det

RE: [ActiveDir] accountExpires field

2002-02-15 Thread David Lloyd
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Lloyd Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] accountExpires field Have a look at www.sysinternals.com for the Dumpacl utility. This allows you to extract user details into a delimited file

RE: [ActiveDir] accountExpires field

2002-02-15 Thread David Lloyd
Have a look at www.sysinternals.com for the Dumpacl utility. This allows you to extract user details into a delimited file from a domain or server including 'last logon time' and lots more. It is free and the resulting data can then be manipulated into a script to finish the job. -Original M

RE: [ActiveDir] Browser Problems

2002-02-13 Thread David Lloyd
Within Windows 2000 the last Domain entry obtained form WINS to compile the Complete environment list is dropped. The way top address as such you need to ad a domain entry into WINS for a domain called ZZ to get over this (you will need to import this entry through an LMHOST file).

RE: [ActiveDir] Automatic configuration of proxy clients with Automated Drive mappings

2002-02-12 Thread David Lloyd
each person to the particular drive.   I would appreciate any help.   Thanks   Seyi -Original Message-From: David Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:12 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Automatic

RE: [ActiveDir] Backup AD Server

2002-02-12 Thread David Lloyd
Sounds a little untidy, to achieve this you would have to use NTDSUTIL to firstly cleanup all metadata references to the server from the production servers, then seize the FSMO roles from within the Lab. A much easier way to achieve the same thing may be to do a backup of one of your DC's (if one

RE: [ActiveDir] Automatic configuration of proxy clients

2002-02-12 Thread David Lloyd
Title: Message Another option is to use the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) with which you can centrally store an Auto configure file through which each browser can centrally configure its settings from.   Cheers   David   -Original Message-From: Ken Cornetet [mail

RE: [ActiveDir] Automatic configuration of proxy clients

2002-02-12 Thread David Lloyd
You can do this through a Group Policy Object within the section: 'User Settings | Windows Settings | Internet Explorer Maintenance | Connection | Proxy Settings' For these settings to take effect they need to be assigned to the container that holds your user objects (not machine objects). Che

RE: [ActiveDir] Single logon on Windows 2000

2002-02-11 Thread David Lloyd
Use to achieve the restriction of concurrent logons with Kixtart logon scripts in NT 4.0 (macro let you check if account was already logged on). Not sure if this is appropriate though for 2000 due to the multi read/write domain/Forest model against the one point for recording when a user logs on i

RE: [ActiveDir] Managing a Sub-OU

2002-02-05 Thread David Lloyd
Just do a Right mouse click on the windows and from the Context menu select 'New Window Here' then close the original and save the MSC file (don't forget to take it out of Author mode) and they will be restricted to the targeted OU. Cheers -Original Message- From: Fontaine, Luc [mailto

RE: [ActiveDir] RIS and RipRep

2002-01-24 Thread David Lloyd
Title: Message You can create a new CD image with SP2 slipstreamed onto it and add all required POST SP2 Hotfix's so that they are applied with the initial source at time of build. Instead of explaining how in an email I recommend that you read the guide 'Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack

RE: [ActiveDir] ADS and software:

2002-01-17 Thread David Lloyd
Title: Message Within the properties (advanced) of the software package object within the GPO you can set if the package is uninstalled when the GPO is disassociated or not within the deploy options. Alternatively when you remove the packet it will also ask you if you wish to uninstall the p

RE: [ActiveDir] Can't join a server to an existing domain

2002-01-16 Thread David Lloyd
Is sounds like the issue is related back to DNS. 1) Firstly with the first server did you tell it to auto configure DNS for you? And if so is the new server pointing the first server for its DNS services. 2) If you did not let it auto configure have you got DNS installed somewhere? And if so are