RE: [ActiveDir] "Who Am I" request

2007-01-23 Thread Eric Fleischman
You can do an x-domain simple bind within the forest. You can not do it x-forest. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Kaplan Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:18 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] "Who Am I" requ

RE: [ActiveDir] Largest AD DIT

2007-01-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
I can think of a few in the 30's, 40's...maybe 50-75, I forget the exact numbers. In production, that is. The bottom line is that we don't keep track, so use 25-100 as a working range of what we've seen lately, understanding that there are probably larger that we just haven't seen for a while. (Tha

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Who needs that much ram anyway?

2007-01-16 Thread Eric Fleischman
Exchange should not be in the business of patching kernels. It's just bad form. That said, it's not clear to me what the "right" answer is either. You want to get people the fix that need it but you don't want to go out there and start swapping kernel components on a user. That's just not the righ

RE: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
Can you give us some data? Like, when it dies, what do you see? Is death a blue screen? Or something else? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah Eiger Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:39 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twic

RE: [ActiveDir] Scaling up with AD or ADAM?

2006-11-27 Thread Eric Fleischman
>From a pure LDAP perspective you can expect similar perf numbers on AD vs. ADAM. For medium sized directories (like 10M) I'm of the opinion that there isn't a huge advantage to ADAM over AD. When you get larger (high tens of millions to hundreds of millions or billions), ADAM gets more interesting

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: M$

2006-11-09 Thread Eric Fleischman
Not that I really care if people say M$ or not, but I thought I’d comment on one thing, in the name of full disclosure….   My participation on this list has __nothing__ to do with money. I don’t get compensated on any level for this. Heck, I don’t even work on AD anymore, so this is like

RE: [ActiveDir] Need some advices....

2006-11-01 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] Need some advices Right...I always forget what is released and what isn't. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]Sent: Wed 11/1/2006 8:58 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] Need some advices SP

RE: [ActiveDir] Need some advices....

2006-11-01 Thread Eric Fleischman
SP2 fixed this and it should be back to 180 days. The r2 thing was a mistake. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:20 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Need some advice

RE: [ActiveDir] Linked Attributes Replication

2006-10-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
ch of: 'OU=USERIDS,DC=Domain1,DC=x,DC=y' 0 Objects returned --- Eric Fleischman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can certainly kick GC off by hand to clear that > up. > If you have the problem on a GC though, how are you > to blame a phantom? > If you navigate to

RE: [ActiveDir] Linked Attributes Replication

2006-10-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
or 4-6 show the user having a manager. Around the time this happened back in 2003 there had been some incorrect Infrastructure Master placements. However, Domain2's IM appears to have been correctly configured. Not sure if that is just a red-herring to lead us down the phantom path. --

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM / AD Sync

2006-10-19 Thread Eric Fleischman
If you want to do a secure bind, no work required...just put ADAM in the domain where the users reside (or a trusted domain) and bind away. If you want to do a simple bind, you probably want to create proxy users for your AD users. There is no right way to do this, but adamsync is one way: http://b

RE: [ActiveDir] Linked Attributes Replication

2006-10-19 Thread Eric Fleischman
>From the data provided below it sounds like you have a lingering object & a lingering link value...not tragic, pretty straight forward to clean up. If you could be more specific as to domain layout & in which domain each user resides we could likely provide steps to fix this up. If you search KB

RE: [ActiveDir] Cleanup of NETLOGON.LOGs

2006-10-17 Thread Eric Fleischman
Turn logging down to 0. I would note that there is no notion of log generations, so your worst case here is 2* log size (where log size defaults to 10MB), so worst case it should only be 20MB, and deleting the archive is of course trivial.   More generally, we do reserve the right to wri

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM bind Redirection with a NULL password

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Fleischman
cation was not > possible. > These did not suffer this poor design issue, but I wonder if I will get > such > an app eventually. I suppose I am just trying to solve a problem, I have > not been forced to solve by this method, which means it cane wait. > > I could go into how it

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM bind Redirection with a NULL password

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Fleischman
One solution would be to ACL all objects such that SELF can read them, then have the app, after it has authenticated as the user, try and read something on the user itself. This way you know you are in fact that user (or someone else that has read access, which presumably won't work as anonymous).

RE: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-24 Thread Eric Fleischman
In my own mind I've wrestled a lot with whether or not I like auth via LDAP. I've come to the conclusion that it's ok, and that we should build mechanisms to facilitate it. Things like tokenGroups on RootDSE speak to this, but we should do more. LDAP is easy. Anyone can write an LDAP-based applica

RE: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-24 Thread Eric Fleischman
e a bug on the audit thing. I think that would be nice, even with ADAM in the mode to reject insecure simple binds, because you could find out which clients are attempting it. Joe K. ----- Original Message - From: "Eric Fleischman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, Sept

RE: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-24 Thread Eric Fleischman
> I'd love to see an AD and ADAM option that would allow the DS to > reject simple bind operations on non-SSL ports We agree. That's why we built it in to the product. :) Well, in to ADAM that is. See object CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,CN={}. Check out the attri

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-09-02 Thread Eric Fleischman
gives us an idea that we > shouldn't build our hopes too high for the multiple-password-policies > feature at this stage in the LH development phase. But I'll keep > hoping anyways. > > /Guido > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-09-02 Thread Eric Fleischman
Administrator password policy   Eric,   can you already state publicly, what the chance of this feature is to make it into Longhorn, if at all?  Or is this still NDA?   Thanks, Guido   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Saturday, September 02

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-09-01 Thread Eric Fleischman
A few comments, in no particular order…   > I can visualize mechanisms to pull this off in the existing GPOs or to do it outside of the GPOs   Well sure…it doesn’t take a visionary to see how this could be done. ;) See LDAP policies for one such example (though by no means the only choi

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

2006-08-28 Thread Eric Fleischman
To be clear as your comments don’t seem to indicate the “why” as much as Nathan’s did, we were less interested in the bandwidth savings and more interested in the accuracy of the list. Non-LVR link values have a value loss potential on conflicted write across DCs.   ~Eric     F

RE: [ActiveDir] Recreate BUILTIN\Incoming Forest Trust Builders

2006-08-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
I haven’t read the entire thread which has happened, but IF you managed to delete it, ping me offline and I can help you recreate it. But I would be totally sure it is gone first….a database dump sounds like a fine way to confirm.   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EM

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

2006-07-29 Thread Eric Fleischman
but after that amount of information from you, Dmitri and Guido, I'd hate to leave that stone unturned.   I'll ping back if I get lost watching the traces. I appreciate the offer and you guys taking the time to discuss this.   Al   On 7/28/06, Eric Fleischman

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

2006-07-28 Thread Eric Fleischman
ns about the branch environment and how autonomous it is.   Outside of "GP work" what else comes to mind that is off-loaded to the local site that you can think of?   Perhaps I'm looking at this sideways?   On 7/28/06, Eric Fleischman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

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

2006-07-28 Thread Eric Fleischman
To add a bit more…   > The part that makes me wonder about the "story" is if it stores no secrets is the server doing anything for me?   The short answer is yes. The bulk of the work that a DC does, even in the auth code path, may not involve the secret. So even if the secret checking

RE: [ActiveDir] Raid 1 tangent -- Vendor Domain

2006-07-23 Thread Eric Fleischman
> The exception to this is the edge case of Eric's big DIT[1] in which > he dumped 2TB of data into AD in a month at which point he did > something that few people see, pushed the IOPS on the log drive > through the roof. Actually, log IOs were quite low, considering. I bet a single spindle pair w

RE: [ActiveDir] corrupt vmware DC

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Fleischman
Taking offline.     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:20 AM To: activedir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] corrupt vmware DC   Booted up VMware with DC (2003, SP1) on it yesterday and got an

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-06-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Friday, 9 June 2006 10:38 a.m. To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts After this thread (I believe Dean asked what the error was at one point, but I can'

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-06-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
r the next few days. ~Eric -Original Message----- From: Eric Fleischman Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:39 AM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts > DNTs are reusable in ESE, however ADs implementation does not allow DNTs > to be rel

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Eric Fleischman
Very interesting. Can we see the VHD before you blow it away? I can set up a place for you to upload it to. Please let me now how large it isjust ping me offline and we can coordinate. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirk

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] Machine Psswd Age

2006-06-01 Thread Eric Fleischman
Correction: the GDO and I are tied. I posted again this morning, just to spite you. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:10 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] Machine Pssw

RE: [ActiveDir] tokenGroups field

2006-05-31 Thread Eric Fleischman
If you are interested in doing this over LDAP, you are on the right track. One way is to look for crossRefs in that container like you are, but only look for those with flag FLAG_CR_NTDS_DOMAIN set in systemFlags. You'll find that config and schema don't have this set, nor do arbitrary app partitio

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM Schema Questions

2006-05-21 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: RE: ADAM Schema Questions 1)   Off the cuff, I’d speculate you hit init sync. If there is no partner and you have not replicated, FSMO roles will reject operations that leverage their FSMO-ness due to init sync requirements. The idea behind this was to stop old FSMO role holders

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

2006-05-09 Thread Eric Fleischman
The tool is not the property of anyone on this list. As such, making it available on the list would be inappropriate. The goal of this tool has never been to be a stand-alone AD monitoring tool, nor even a snapshot tool. Rather, it was built specifically around the field offering of an AD risk ass

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-04-19 Thread Eric Fleischman
> DNTs are reusable in ESE, however ADs implementation does not allow DNTs > to be released / reused on a single server, and the database will only > "reuse" them if you recreate the DB by repromoting (cause the data is > replicated from other servers into a virgin ESE, and DNTs are assigned > from

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-04-17 Thread Eric Fleischman
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RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-04-17 Thread Eric Fleischman
rry, if this mail used too much lingo, it was aimed at the|super experts (Dean, joe, et al), I'll try to digest it into a|series of more edible blog posts that would explain the terms|as introduced ... :P||Anyway, all I'm saying, is the Garage Door Operator has never|heard of this 2

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-04-15 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: User Accounts Good thread.   A few corrections, for the sake of keeping the search engines fresh….   The underlying store used by AD supports a theoretical maximum of 4.2 billion rows (limited by the 32 bit DNT or distinguished name tag)   Actually, you can only have 2^31 DNTs.

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication issues on one of our DCs

2006-04-13 Thread Eric Fleischman
If you turn up internal processing, do you get any more data about this condition? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:53 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication issues on

RE: [ActiveDir] OT : Query DNS using wildcards?

2006-03-01 Thread Eric Fleischman
Can you be more specific? Can you show us a specific query you wanted to issue that failed? Seeing a specific search might let us know a bit better what you are really after.   ~Eric   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bart Van den WyngaertSent: Wed 3/1/2006 6:42 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.a

RE: [ActiveDir] SSL to ADAM with a vanity URL

2006-02-10 Thread Eric Fleischman
The client wants to get a cert back with a name that matches the resource it connects to. Else, you connected to a resource but got a cert for a non-matching resource, so perhaps there was something like DNS spoofing that tricked you in to going there. This is potentially bad.   Set up ea

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Health Scripts?

2005-12-23 Thread Eric Fleischman
Also, the AD management pack for MOM is in this category. Further, they documented everything that the ADMP does so that you could roll your own, or port it to another mgmt platform if you so choose.   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alm

RE: [ActiveDir] Ntds.dit file corruption

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Fleischman
put it down in words why. I just don't. :) joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:42 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Ntds.dit file corruption I would genera

RE: [ActiveDir] Ntds.dit file corruption

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Fleischman
etstress I would not > > use that box in production. > > > > If you do reproduce the issue several times (several times is key, as you > > want a trend before you start playing the variable game), some things > > you might vary (one at a time): > > > > - Try making s

RE: [ActiveDir] Ntds.dit file corruption

2005-12-04 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: [ActiveDir] Ntds.dit file corruption Going back to the original post, I'm not sure I fully understand the problem yet. Susan, can you define "ntds.dit file corruption" for us? What sort of corruption? What errors/events lead you to believe this? Specifically, I'm interested in error

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange kerberos errors(OT)

2005-12-03 Thread Eric Fleischman
preety benign and trivial(well, aside from all the logs on DC's)? i won't be in work till Monday to get and apply the fix. Will it hurt anything to wait till then?   Thanks alot.   On 12/3/05, Eric Fleischman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have observed thi

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange kerberos errors(OT)

2005-12-03 Thread Eric Fleischman
We have observed this in the past on many systems. It may not be the same issue, but it is very likely the same. It was cleared with a QFE we built as there was a Windows issue at play. We have had threads on this previously: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/msg249

RE: [ActiveDir] Netlogon.dns (2)

2005-11-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
I would have SWORN there was an issue in this code path, but the details escaped me. So I pinged Steve offline who remembered the details…..basically, it’s this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;841395   So that could be what you’re hitting.   With some more deta

RE: [ActiveDir] Unreadable Netlogon.dns file

2005-11-07 Thread Eric Fleischman
Since you are saying the file is there but netdiag can't see it. If I were a betting man, I would say for some reason the context under which netdiag is running does not have perms to read the file. The code in question does an fopen() on it with parameters "rt". I suspect, though don't know, t

RE: [ActiveDir] Script to export an AD environment to XML

2005-10-21 Thread Eric Fleischman
I think you need to consider that the export to XML is far less difficult than the import back in to the directory on the other side. Joe raised onethe ACL problems. And there are other problems you need to fix too. For example, you have a user and a group, the user is in the group. You need

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Query Fails

2005-10-10 Thread Eric Fleischman
Sudhir do you have a network sniff of the original problem? I think that's likely the easiest way to diagnose this. That way we see the problem itself. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:04 A

RE: [ActiveDir] Time on server

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Fleischman
And please be sure to note the part of Michael's mail below here he said "stable". I once talked to a customer who was syncing DCs to an external clock that rolled back ~20 years. I assure you that was not the best day ever for this admin. :) ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [ActiveDir] Hidden objects

2005-08-21 Thread Eric Fleischman
Actually better would probably be dumpDatabase. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Hidden objects Well on reflection, the answer to this regardl

RE: [ActiveDir] cloning DC's

2005-08-18 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] cloning DC's I'm not equating it with cloning in the impact to the directory nor steps followed, only in the typically desired result of most who try and clone (most who try and clone typically do so to bring up a DC fast, which is effectively what IFM gives you, jus

RE: [ActiveDir] cloning DC's

2005-08-17 Thread Eric Fleischman
There is a way to have your cake and eat it too, however. Take a backup of the DC, then use the install from media (IFM) feature to dcpromo more machines in to the environment using the backup taken as a seed for the dataset. This will allow you to rapidly bring up new DCs without having to re-sou

RE: [ActiveDir] trust question

2005-08-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
t it being the case, I'll take a look at the source again and see if I can't solidify this. Thanks for the input. -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] trust question

2005-08-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
Slight modification inline. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Wells Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 6:34 PM To: Send - AD mailing list Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] trust question My apologies if I appeared to be yelling earlier, tha

RE: [ActiveDir] An administrator's view on Auditing of AD....

2005-07-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
When it comes to auditing, the question really is what are you going to do with the data, not should you collect it. I'd encourage you to pick some questions you want to answer, then figure out what data you need to answer them. Then wrap it up with how to collect the data. Really, it's hard to ans

RE: Confidential Attributes (was RE: [ActiveDir] Who was asking for a list of SP1 changes? I think it was this DL......)

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Fleischman
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 5:24 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: Confidential Attributes (was RE: [ActiveDir] Who was asking for a list of SP1 changes? I think it was

RE: Confidential Attributes (was RE: [ActiveDir] Who was asking for a list of SP1 changes? I think it was this DL......)

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Fleischman
> > ~Eric wrote: > > We actually block all base schema elements if I remember correctly. > No you don't. Of the 1070 base schema attributes, you only block the 1007 > ones that are marked as category 1. The remaining 63 attributes, such as > msDS-ExternalKey, are not marked and therefore don't hav

RE: [ActiveDir] Keep existing attributes from users restored.

2005-07-11 Thread Eric Fleischman
information, Eric.  You've only mentioned sidHistory - does the same apply for the password?   /Gudo   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Montag, 11. Juli 2005 16:45 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Keep existing attri

RE: [ActiveDir] Keep existing attributes from users restored.

2005-07-11 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Keep existing attributes from users restored. > BTW, Win2003 SP1 has updated some search flags, so as to add the SIDhistory and Password attributes to the tombstone (I believe this > is only valid for new installation of AD).   Actually, not quite. For sidHistory,

RE: Confidential Attributes (was RE: [ActiveDir] Who was asking for a list of SP1 changes? I think it was this DL......)

2005-07-10 Thread Eric Fleischman
nkId=45972. > > The link takes you to a document from March 28, 2003 which I highly doubt has more info about confidential attributes. This is something that actually requires you to make changes to use, not like saying hey we also keep SID Histories in the tombstone objects now which doe

RE: [ActiveDir] Turn off an audit

2005-07-04 Thread Eric Fleischman
Can you dump the SDDL string of the domain head security descriptor for us and share it out? (feel free to send it to me offline if you are more comfy that way)   You can do this with ldp or maybe dsacls (I forget if dsacls can show you the raw string or not, but I know LDP can).   ~Er

RE: [ActiveDir] Recursive serach on Root domain failed.

2005-06-27 Thread Eric Fleischman
] Recursive serach on Root domain failed.   Eric,   I would blog it and then those that are interested can pull the blog post. What is your blog address?     Chris Haaker ITS Infrastructure x7841       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric

RE: [ActiveDir] Recursive serach on Root domain failed.

2005-06-27 Thread Eric Fleischman
ations !!!   But I noticed that for php scripts, the error still remaining... any thoughts ?   Thank u very much eric for the invaluable help u provided me :-)   Cheers,   Yann   De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Eric Fleischman Envoyé : dimanche 26 juin 2005

RE: [ActiveDir] Recursive serach on Root domain failed.

2005-06-25 Thread Eric Fleischman
So I am writing a longer note about the history of VLV fixes we’ve thrown at it and why, but haven’t finished yet, and am trying to decide if it is best done in a blog post or an email to this list (it’s 2 pages so far).   In the interim, a couple of thoughts…. From the DSID you’re getti

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripts

2005-06-19 Thread Eric Fleischman
But as has been said in the past on this list, this approach is probably going to be thwarted by more crafty admins who know how to obtain the password anyway. So fundamentally, there is a security issue here. So long as you're willing to live with that issue, the approach will work I'm sure. ~Er

RE: [ActiveDir] Effect of change to MaxValRange

2005-06-17 Thread Eric Fleischman
I also posted to this dl once before on MaxPageSize. The same argument could be made for MaxValRange as I made for MaxPageSize. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 11:15 AM To: ActiveDir@ma

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name

2005-06-16 Thread Eric Fleischman
AD itself shouldn't care (if it will care, I can't think of why right now, but then again it's only 8:32am, far before I am usually able to recall much). But someone who does broadcast, or maybe WINS gets mucked up as a resultthey very well might care that a domain they think has some

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name

2005-06-15 Thread Eric Fleischman
Rename it?   I will admit, I’ve never actually tried this, but I know people who say it works. I think you should try this procedure, on a test box first, and report back. Maybe you should do it to an BDC you bring up just to test, isolated, and see how it goes. http://support.microsoft.

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance

2005-06-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
performance Importance: Low   ... and you wonder why people criticize MS documentation  ;-)  LOL!  (just teasing) -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance

2005-06-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance   You did a "*" the first time! :-)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP p

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance

2005-06-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
790.0 shp 31,744 03-25-2003 netstat.exe Windows XP sp2   C:\>filever c:\windows\system32\netstat.exe - W32i   APP ENU   5.1.2600.2180 shp 36,864 08-04-2004 netstat.exe   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 200

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance

2005-06-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: LDAP performance Netstat -* will yield this info.     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isenhour, Joseph Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:24 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance   Great article joe.  I

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance

2005-06-13 Thread Eric Fleischman
It's hard to really give any sort of analysis with the data provided. Do you have any network traces of entering "failure" state that we could see? With that hopefully we can provide more guidance. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft ISCSI SNS Server and ISCSI Inatiotar for Microsoft Clusters

2005-05-31 Thread Eric Fleischman
I've set up iSCSI several times. Do you have an error to cite? ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:44 PM To: [ExchangeList]; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Microsoft ISCS

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Operations Error when running LDAP / GC Searches

2005-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
Fix: Q826925, or SP1. ~Eric -Original Message- From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: Eric Fleischman Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Operations Error when running LDAP / GC Searches What operating system and service

RE: [OT] Password changing and Microsoft Network - was RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not applied - thinks it is empty

2005-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
ter list. ~Eric -Original Message- From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: Eric Fleischman Subject: [OT] Password changing and Microsoft Network - was RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not applied - thinks it is empty Hey ~Eric. >

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not applied - thinks it is empty

2005-05-15 Thread Eric Fleischman
F I find out). How does MS IT do it? Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] o

RE: [ActiveDir] Softerra's LDAP Browser

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Fleischman
Changing MaxPageSize as the solution to “the max # of objects you can retrieve” is almost always a bad idea. You should use paged searches. Here’s a bit I wrote in a mail to an alias internally just yesterday on this very topic:   For MaxPageSize……tweaking this might be ok today, or ev

[ActiveDir] Who was asking for a list of SP1 changes? I think it was this DL......

2005-05-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C3C26254-8CE3-46E2-B1B6-3659B92B2CDE&displaylang=en   I didn’t read it for completeness, but spot checked, and many are there. Though certainly not every one I’m sure.   ~Eric  

RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI

2005-05-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
der From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 9:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI So this data would not be available in AD. You’d need to call down

RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI

2005-05-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
domain using ADSI/WMI   I am sorry for not being clear. I meant scanners that scan photos. Also I am interetesed in then knowing the attributes like if scanner is colored or not?   Thank You Manbinder   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] How to enumerate scanners in a domain using ADSI/WMI

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Fleischman
Scanners? Like scanners that scan your photos? Or like network sniffers (which some people call scanners)?   Or something else? Can you clarify Manbinder?   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manbinder Pal Singh Sent: Saturday, May 07,

RE: [ActiveDir] Winlogon 100% CPU and Fast user Switching as a Fix?

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Fleischman
Next time, taking a dump of winlogon at 100% (actually a couple a few seconds apart) would be interesting. With that we can see what it is chewing on, and perhaps get root cause.   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Clark Sent: Thursda

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not applied - thinks it is empty

2005-05-04 Thread Eric Fleischman
If I could ask what might be the obvious, from a security perspective….   If you have a policy out there resetting the local admin password, how are you storing the new password in the script? Hopefully you have something very clever in place, else I can get the local admin password out o

RE: [ActiveDir] Solaris authentication

2005-05-04 Thread Eric Fleischman
are though. The docs you referenced indicate a configuration that would be a PITA to manage in terms of reliability and effort IMHO.   Al       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:20 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedi

RE: [ActiveDir] Account activation and password setting using PHP/LDAPS

2005-05-04 Thread Eric Fleischman
More generally, AD doesn't care who the client is, it only cares that the client can play by the rulesLDAPv2/3, for password ops a secure LDAP connection, etc. In fact, there isn't really a good way for AD to know what OS/client side LDAP API/etc. a given LDAP client is running. We just service

RE: [ActiveDir] Solaris authentication

2005-05-03 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Ocra I know someone doing auth from Solaris 9 and 10 against AD via Kerberos in production. I don’t know how they are populating /etc/passwd but can find out. I’ve never used NIS against AD so couldn’t say what’s going on here.   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL P

RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cached in RAM ?

2005-04-29 Thread Eric Fleischman
could > > give a _rough_ idea for a paticular query, but remember latches > > aren't unique references, so if a single query internally has to > > read a page several times, that will be several latch counts. > > > > ... > > >

RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cached in RAM ?

2005-04-26 Thread Eric Fleischman
Correcting myself inline (full of that today aren't I?). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:41 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cach

RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cached in RAM ?

2005-04-26 Thread Eric Fleischman
al reasons but I, at least, would find that info interesting. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:01 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cached

RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cached in RAM ?

2005-04-26 Thread Eric Fleischman
see this, holler, and we can provide steps to clear this. It's a trivial fix. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 5:10 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How much

RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cached in RAM ?

2005-04-26 Thread Eric Fleischman
TECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 5:01 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cached in RAM ? You beat me to the reply, thanks Brett. A better way to think of this Joe is that a subset of the DIT is in RAM, as much as we c

RE: [ActiveDir] How much of the DIT is cached in RAM ?

2005-04-26 Thread Eric Fleischman
You beat me to the reply, thanks Brett. A better way to think of this Joe is that a subset of the DIT is in RAM, as much as we can fit, assuming 1) we don't run out of memory to use 2) we don't have pressure to back off. And we try and pick the best pages to cache ("best" definition omitted for no

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 Native - gpresult shows domain = 2000?

2005-04-25 Thread Eric Fleischman
> Is this expected? Or should I be getting a different output? Expected. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 4:35 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] 2003 Native - gp

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 setings

2005-04-22 Thread Eric Fleischman
I would point out.the presence of the objects Guido cited does not say that forest/domain prep has been run, it says it completed successfully. If you ran forest/domain prep and it failed, that object would not be present, but instead you'd only have the operational GUIDs for each of the operat

RE: [ActiveDir] GC's

2005-04-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
I IM'd with Dean about this and found the DCR where we took this. Then confirmed the checkin...SP3 is the first SP that adds it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:43 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.

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