Re: [ActiveDir] OT: TechED 2007

2006-10-20 Thread Glenn Corbett
Hey, I'm not adverse to the odd conference in Florida (being from Australia) *grin* - Original Message - From: "Missy Koslosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 9:36 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: TechED 2007 I'm SOOO sick of conferences in Florida.

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

2006-08-31 Thread Glenn Corbett
Interesting. from the article: "Microsoft plans to resolve these problems in the next version of Windows by rewriting the event logging system from the ground up." since the last update was Mar 28 2003, I wonder how this applies to Wndows 2003 R2 and the 64 Bit versions of Windows, or if this wi

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Delegating managment rights over data drives

2005-07-07 Thread Glenn Corbett
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[ActiveDir] OT: Delegating managment rights over data drives

2005-07-07 Thread Glenn Corbett
All,   As per the subject, we are attempting to delegate management of home directories to another management area, but have a couple of restrictions in that these users should actually not have access to the drives once they are created. We have looked at a number of options, and the curre

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Config Question

2005-07-05 Thread Glenn Corbett
Thanks Jorge.   The benefits of moving to AD-I zones will pretty much mean I will need to move DNS onto the DC's.    During the transition process, we will need to have the DNS servers in and running a couple of months prior to the cutover. Am I correct in saying that I can install DNS onto

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Config Question

2005-07-05 Thread Glenn Corbett
ire so much downtime? I don't know the specifics of the environment, but often a zone transfer and reconfiguration of the clients is all it takes. Newer clients likely wouldn't even need to be rebooted. Al _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Glenn Corbett Sent: Tue

[ActiveDir] DNS Config Question

2005-07-05 Thread Glenn Corbett
All,   Hopefully a quick one this evening.  We are currently insourcing or DNS function from another organisation (yes, an external org manages our DNS system - not integrated with our AD environment - long story).   We are running a 2k domain, and the current plan is to introduce 2 member s

RE: [ActiveDir] Nt v4.0 in 2k Domain Issue

2005-06-17 Thread Glenn Corbett
microsoft.com/?id=823659) Especially take a look at the configuration with the "Network access" words. Maybe you recognize a configuration that is the source of your problem Cheers #JORGE# -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn C

RE: [ActiveDir] Nt v4.0 in 2k Domain Issue

2005-06-17 Thread Glenn Corbett
emembering the last logged on user). Glenn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett Sent: Saturday, 18 June 2005 12:28 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Nt v4.0 in 2k Domain Issue Jorge, Thanks for that.

RE: [ActiveDir] Nt v4.0 in 2k Domain Issue

2005-06-17 Thread Glenn Corbett
at the configuration with the "Network access" words. Maybe you recognize a configuration that is the source of your problem Cheers #JORGE# -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett Sent: vrijdag 17 juni 2005 12:52 To: ActiveDir@ma

[ActiveDir] Nt v4.0 in 2k Domain Issue

2005-06-17 Thread Glenn Corbett
All, Recently we've added another 6 or so domain controllers to our Windows 2k (Native Mode) domain. All servers are using the same configuration (SP3, bunch of hotfixes). We have started getting reports of NT v4.0 Servers "falling off" the domain. Users are unable to log onto the server with a

Re: [ActiveDir] Citrix

2005-05-16 Thread Glenn Corbett
Christine, Your TS Licensing Server doesn't need to be on a DC (although thats what most people do). Currently have a Windows 2000 Licensing Server running on a DC and a 2003 one running on a mamber server in a 2k domain, works fine. G. Christine Allen wrote: Yes you do and if its a 2000 or 20

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems

2005-05-12 Thread Glenn Corbett
Using KVS at my current employer. No real "problems" to speak of, except during implementation getting KVS behaving nicely on the Citrix Servers. Couple of minor annoyances though. User communication has probably been our biggest problem, essentially hand-holding them through the process "No U

Re: [ActiveDir] Compaq raid controllers(OT)

2005-04-30 Thread Glenn Corbett
Tom, First Question. Some of the older Compaq RAID Controllers didn't allow raid expansion, but all of the new models (52xx, 5i, 64xx, 6i) should allow this. Check the firmware levels on the card, and also check the version of the PSP (ProLiant Support Pack) your running on the server. From w

Re: [ActiveDir] Export and import essential AD objects for new forest

2005-04-22 Thread Glenn Corbett
Transfer the roles, since the existing domain contoller will be running during this pricess (ie, before you dcpromo it out). G. Danny wrote: One follow-up to my last post: Should I be transferring or seizing the FSMO roles during this migration? Thank you, ...D List info : http://www.activedi

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Another Odd OT Question - Exchange DL based but still has an AD portion...

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Corbett
Thanks for the quick response Steve, might keep an eye on it. G. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramsay, Steve Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:05 PM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Another Odd OT Question

RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL

2004-12-05 Thread Glenn Corbett
ne will step in and point it out. I just don't recall seeing it. :) ~Eric ____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Glenn Corbett Sent: Sat 12/4/2004 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL *shudder* Don't forge

RE: [ActiveDir] Restore AD

2004-12-04 Thread Glenn Corbett
Al, Isn't the underlying technology and the recovery of the data essentially the same ?. All of the entries (both in Exchange and AD) are simply records within tables within a database. Exchange basically flags the mailbox record as deleted and then applies the defined mailbox retention settings

RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL

2004-12-04 Thread Glenn Corbett
*shudder* Don't forget however that if you go down this path, make sure you A) Don't call Microsoft - they will laugh at you, charge your credit card, then hang up B) have a rollback plan to the standard GINA C) remember that the gina will most likely be replaced during a service pack (and somet

RE: [ActiveDir] Cross Domain Groups

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
Can't you use the "Restricted Groups" policy setting to set your local Admin membership on your workstations ? We do this routinely for about 2500 workstations and 300+ servers with no problems. MS Article on it (not a huge amount of help though) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
TECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein Would a Perl Rsync implementation be better? http://search.cpan.org/~cbarratt/File-RsyncP-0.52/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gle

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein Would a Perl Rsync implementation be better? http://search.cpan.org/~cbarratt/File-RsyncP-0.52/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett Sent

[ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
All, Sorry to hijack this thread, however in the same vein, is anyone aware of a (preferably) freeware application that does a similar function to rsync on Linux ? We are looking at synchronising large amounts of data each night, including some 200+gb databases. Rsync seems to handle this situati

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Virtual Server 2005

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
The problem you may encounter (and I'm not by any means an IP routing expert) is that unless you do run NAT on the interface connected to the physical production NIC (as opposed to using straight RRAS), other routers on the network won't know how to get to your "test" subnet. Unless of course yo

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Virtual Server 2005

2004-11-24 Thread Glenn Corbett
Noah,   There are a couple of ways to do this, but essentially the REAL (ie the physical NIC) in the physical server has the Virtual Server NIC driver bound to it so that Virtual machines can have access to a REAL (ie non-virtual) network.   Suppose you have a server with two physcial NICs in

RE: [ActiveDir] Group ID Code Attribute

2004-09-30 Thread Glenn Corbett
Todd, We simply use the extensionAttrribute1 - 15 (1-10 are visible in the ADUC GUI). If you have Exchange installed, simply exchange enable the group object and then you have the additional attributes to play with. Hide the group from the GAL so ppl don't get confused, and apply an Exchange rec

RE: [ActiveDir] Printer Mapping in the Enterprise

2004-09-29 Thread Glenn Corbett
What about the existing "Printer Location Tracking" features in AD, and simply use the app to map printers based on their location ? Even if you don't autmatically map printers, the PLT features automatically filter printers for users based on their current location. The main point in the article

RE: [ActiveDir] How to take away the password never expirers chec k box right?

2004-09-29 Thread Glenn Corbett
Al, Version 1 of your proposal is exactly what I have done in the past, and works quite well (within some defined boundaries). Account managers were delegated very minimum rights over AD (such as unlock account reset password etc), and everything else was done via a "tool" (was client-server at t

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: File share and NTFS administrtive control rig hts

2004-08-20 Thread Glenn Corbett
Ummaybe I'm missing the point here, but why does adding a group to the local Print Operators group imply that they have local logon to DC's ? (I'm presuming here that the F&P server is just that...a server and not a domain controller - mike didn't specify). Surely this group managing your F&P

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 Admin tools on 2000 Domain - any problems ?

2004-08-12 Thread Glenn Corbett
this article out. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 18:23 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] 2003 Admin tools on 2000 Domain - any problems ? > > All

[ActiveDir] 2003 Admin tools on 2000 Domain - any problems ?

2004-08-10 Thread Glenn Corbett
ema (field length or type), that the 2k3 admin tools are baulking at. Doesn’t appear to be a permissions issue, as performing exactly the same task as the same user on a 2k box works fine. Any Pointers ? TIA Glenn Corbett

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Tape drives

2004-07-13 Thread Glenn Corbett
Yep, DLT's are still around (although SuperDLT is prolly the better these days due to the capacity increase), LTO, 9940/9940B, even DAT is still hanging around. It really depends on your requirements and who your tape drive / silo vendor is (IBM will try down the LTO path as you discovered). Wit

RE: [ActiveDir] OT (Sort of): Determining the Edition of Windows Installed

2004-06-18 Thread Glenn Corbett
Thanks for all the very quick responses. Managed to churn out the reports with minutes to spare *grin* Glenn. 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] OT (Sort of): Determining the Edition of Windows Installed

2004-06-17 Thread Glenn Corbett
All, We are currently undergoing our MS Licensing Upgrade (ugh), and one of the things I need to know is which version and which edition of windows server is running on a particular machine. Getting the version number from the registry is fairly easy, and I've already configured MS Ops Manager to

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-12 Thread Glenn Corbett
hough. -Original Message- From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD Hunter, Agreed, have looked into this, but am waiting for the full release of virtual server before I start doing things

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
amp; translate the ACLs of one AD forest to another to build lab-environments (only OU permissions). Yes, it is rather tedious, but it can be done - see MSDN "IADsAccessControlEntry Property Methods". /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
our production domain. Rob -Original Message- From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2004 16:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD All, We are in the process of constructing a Lab to mimic the production AD system as closely as possible.

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
ssage----- From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2004 16:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD All, We are in the process of constructing a Lab to mimic the production AD system as closely as possible. Doing a full DR into this environment

[ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-10 Thread Glenn Corbett
All, We are in the process of constructing a Lab to mimic the production AD system as closely as possible. Doing a full DR into this environment is certainly an option, however we have been looking into simply migrating the AD "structure" and using this as a test bed to cleanup AD (OU's, objects,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Compaq Servers

2004-06-10 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Compaq Servers Rick,   I may have been a bit harsh...sorry bout that.   We did encounter a similar issue with running SS 6.x on older hardware (like the 3xxx series, 5500, 8000's, G1 series etc), and yes, I blame HP squarely for this.  What we basically did is pull

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Compaq Servers

2004-06-10 Thread Glenn Corbett
off-the-wall stuff as the old NETraids were, at least with the standard tools (HP keeps promising me a boot floppy with some powerfull RAID magic, but nothing has materialized thus far...) Am I missing some other magic here? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Compaq Servers

2004-06-09 Thread Glenn Corbett
Ken, " I know the Compaq RAID array isn't as flexible/forgiving as the old HP NETRaid, but I think as long as there are no other drives installed, this *might* work." Heh, you obviously haven’t played too much with the Compaq/HP SmartArray controllers too much. We use them exclusively at my curr

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Compaq Servers

2004-06-09 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Compaq Servers Rick,   I’m not quite sure what you mean by this.  Sure, SmartStart version 6.x is only *really* useful for G3 based computers, but there isn’t anything stopping you from using SmartStart 5.5x on older and newer hardware.   We have a unified bui

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: NetIQ or MOM

2003-10-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
They both do a little of the other, too. > > At any rate, a hybrid product would be great... one that is as easy to > use as AppManager (drag and drop scripts on a machine) and one that > comes with as much "knowledge" as MOM. Hopefully MOM2004 delivers on > that... &g

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: NetIQ or MOM

2003-10-09 Thread Glenn Corbett
Chris, I've deployed both of these products in reasonably large environments. - Both NetIQ and MOM require a fair bit of setup to get the right level of monitoring going - Both require constant attention to be effective monitoring / reporting platforms (they are not set-and-forget products) -

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Microsoft MOM

2003-09-23 Thread Glenn Corbett
Agreed Rick. We run MOM as well as CIM (Cpq Insight Mgr) - should that now be 'HIM' ??? CIM is great for the low level stuff, disk failures and the like, and MOM is a fairly acceptable tool for application / OS monitoring. MOM needs a LOT of looking after as you said, amongst all the other thing

Re: [ActiveDir] Any AD GURUS who Patch Systems? - using operating SystemHotFix

2003-09-13 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message Agreed joe, it would take you away from other useful things *grin*   However, I've been re-reading the posts, and it sounds like a damn good idea.  With the current virii swarming around, we are constantly being hounded as to the EXACT patch state of all servers on the network

Re: [ActiveDir] Any AD GURUS who Patch Systems? - using operating SystemHotFix

2003-09-12 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message I cant say that I have Rick...up until sp3 (which is the lastest build we currently have) its crap.  I'll check again.   G.   - Original Message - From: Rick Kingslan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:10 AM Subject: RE:

Re: [ActiveDir] Any AD GURUS who Patch Systems? - using operating SystemHotFix

2003-09-12 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message Darren,   yuo would think so, and this is one thing that s**ts me about the current way MS handle hotfixes.  A number of the hotfixes installed dont appear to leave any trace in the registry or otherwise, and cant actually be verified if the patch is installed.  Run the base s

Re: [ActiveDir] New RPC DOS

2003-09-12 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message Agreed Rick.   Windows is probably no less secure than other OS (dons flame suit), however as Windows systems are often in the hands of people who know nothing about / dont care about security, this will be a continuing problem. Removing the plethora of "overflow" based exploit

Re: [ActiveDir] New RPC DOS

2003-09-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message True rodger, MS could stop using it.  However in of itself RPC isnt the bad guy, and MS would need to replace it with something else, which based on their track record would still have vuln's and require a fair bit of patching.    G.   - Original Message - From:

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP & LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: LDAP & LastLogin for Computers Hunter,   Are you actually querying the workstation, or just the user accounts ? If your finding out when a computer was last logged onto, I would LOVE to have a copy of the script as well (so I can kick our desktop support guys in the bum to clean up *MY

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
MOM is probably a bit of overkill for something that simple (although thats what I use) Justin, the products you've looked at should be able to do it, you just need to set up some alternative SMTP routing if the email server is down. Can you send SMTP mail directly upstream to your ISP from anoth

Re: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tools against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Dean,   thanks for the info.   As you said, the changes dont sound too extreme, but yes, the SchemaVersion would be the major concern.   I would be interested to see what the MS guys have to say.   G.   - Original Message - From: Dean Wells To: AD mailing list (send)

Re: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Sounds like a good idea Mark. Creation of a private VPN over the internet to form the larger Lab would take care of the "external" security problems, but not the "internal" ones (ie do you trust the other people). the main issues I can see with doing this is exactly what people want to test, and

Re: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Can vouch for the Kiwi server. Works great, and even better its free. G. - Original Message - From: "Free, Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 6:49 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon >Since I'll need a syslog server, I'd like one tha

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
fications if the mail server is down? > > Justin A. Salandra, MCSE > Senior Network Engineer > Catholic Healthcare System > 212.752.7300 - office > 917.455.0110 - cell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
gt; muaahh...Muaahh...MUUAAAHH > > :-) > > Robbie Allen > http://www.rallenhome.com/ > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:54 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > S

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP & LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
nt time that the workstation authenticated to a domain controller. I believe the oldest this timestamp would be is the last time the machine started up. Also, lastlogin is not a replicated attribute, so you have to check either all of the domain controllers or at a minimum all of the domain co

Re: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
John A. Bjelke > Unisys > 505.853.6774 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If it's as difficult as pulling teeth through an elephants rump, then > the approach needs to be reevaluated. > > > > -Original Message- > From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:

Re: [ActiveDir] VBscript Help

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
if you want "hackable" scripts etc, then a good source is http://cwashington.netreach.net/, has lots of scripts and tools around network administration. Most are nicely documented, so can work out how to do things from there. They have some resources there on undertsanding things like LDAP query f

Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
ript - which is where I seem to need it the most.. Better brush up on my mAd VB.net skilz... -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:

Re: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Replication Failure

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Keith, 5 months is a long time to be off the air, and yes, AD does go 'stale' after a period of time (60 days ?). Had to plan for this on a worldwide rollout where server may be in transit for several months after being built in head office. One of the solutions was to send the server to the rem

Re: [ActiveDir] Who's online

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Agung,   this was covered recently, mainly centered around the LastLogin attributes in AD.   Tio find out who actually has a connection to the server, you can use the built in admin tools to see who has a connection to a share (useful for looking at home drive servers prior to restarts), or u

Re: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-10 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message >I personally think investing time and money into the native tools for data administers is like giving children razor blades.    On this point, I have to disagree.  In a number of organisations I've done work where custom or 3rd party tools have been used they have been fine..

Re: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tools against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-10 Thread Glenn Corbett
Dean,   I'm not quite sure I understand the question (it may have something to do with it being 1am here)   Running the 2k3 Admin tools on 2000 / XP machines wont require any mods to the forest schema (and in fact is the only way you can perform some administrative tasks from XP machines (lik

Re: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-09 Thread Glenn Corbett
to groups.  Automate Home directory creation in non-standard ways, have tighter control of the views, delegate GPO modification and linking.   Then again we have over 35 delegations to do.   Todd   -Original Message-From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-08 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message Dean,  I've certainly used the uplevel admin tools, but basically work within the confines of the functionality they give me without making the schema mods.   You could take the view with MS that 'hey, I've forest prepped my environment for 2k3...but wont be implenenting it for

Re: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected

2003-08-08 Thread Glenn Corbett
>Your question goes back to trust, Is someone going to make > changes on there own with no concern for the other participants? Possibly not Mark, but as there are a number of aspects in AD that can affect the whole environment, organising and scheduling the testing of various components to ensure

Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-08 Thread Glenn Corbett
] Connection String > Glenn is that what they make documentation and comments for? > > Toddler > > -Original Message- > From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Connect

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP & LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-07 Thread Glenn Corbett
every login (time -date - IP - computer name - user name) in one huge text - each month werename and collect the next month's data. We use KIX - Original Message - From: Glenn Corbett To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:28

Re: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-06 Thread Glenn Corbett
Cindy, If you are going to retain logs for this period of time (lucky you, we have to retain them for 7 years!), then I would suggest upping your log size (in EventVwr) to something more practical like 200mb. 2mb isn't going to keep you going for 3 years (let alone a couple of weeks). Since you a

Re: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and Kiosk Mode

2003-08-06 Thread Glenn Corbett
Ernesto, I've tried to do this sort of thing before and yes, there are ways around the IE Kiosk mode. What we ended up doing was getting the dev guys to write a custom application that simply had a webbrowser control in it, and we disabled the close, minimise, maximise functions of the applicatio

Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-05 Thread Glenn Corbett
Oops, that should be CreateObject("NameTranslate"), not Server.CreateObject("NameTranslate").damn ASP G. - Original Message - From: "Glenn Corbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:36 PM Subject:

Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-05 Thread Glenn Corbett
Pablo, here is some code I use in VB.NET to do a similar thing, should be convertable to C# without much hassle strUserName = the fully qualified LDAP path of a user or group, ie LDAP://CN=GroupName,DC=testdomain,DC=local 'Constants required, rest are in the online doco for NameTranslate Const A

Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-05 Thread Glenn Corbett
I can just direct translate using the syntax below... > I'll have to try that later... > > -- > Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis Inc. > > [1] Yeah, I'm still running it > > > > -Original Message- > > From:

Re: [ActiveDir] Special DEC offer (was ADAM Doc)

2003-08-04 Thread Glenn Corbett
NOOO.damn I hate living on this side of the world sometimes *adds another checkmark on the 'free beers I missed out on' * *sigh* :P Glenn - Original Message - From: "Gil Kirkpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:26 PM Subject: [Acti

Re: [ActiveDir] I sent a virus on accident...

2003-08-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message hehe, I'm sure you got a few hundred virtual slaps upside the head too :P   G.   - Original Message - From: Christopher Hummert To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] I sent a virus on accident..

Re: [ActiveDir] OT (sort of) Determining if Group membership is set by policy

2003-08-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
rship.   Cheers.   Glenn   - Original Message - From: Glenn Corbett To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT (sort of) Determining if Group membership is set by policy All,   (sorry about the OT post)   We are curr

[ActiveDir] OT (sort of) Determining if Group membership is set by policy

2003-08-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
All,   (sorry about the OT post)   We are currently redoing some of the group membership management on machines in the organisation, and have done up a tool to set the local admin membership on some of our machines.  Problem I have is that a number of these have the local admin membership set

Re: [ActiveDir] Space on computer

2003-07-25 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message yep, Change Access (RWXD) is more than enough, users dont need (or understand) Full control.   My $0.02   Glenn   - Original Message - From: rick reynolds To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Space on

Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Naming Best Practices

2003-07-24 Thread Glenn Corbett
In your case, geographic domain names are probably easier to work with, since its unlikely that the world regions will actually change anytime soon (but dont quote me on that).   It really comes down to management of the network, and what your admins feel more comfortable dealing with.   Doma

Re: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
Option 4, Create a DMZ AD forest with NO ties (trust or otherwise) to the production AD. Option 5, Create "proxy" applications to access certain aspects of the production AD from the DMZ, but control information flow and access.   An AD is required for some systems (such as clustering which

Re: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-09 Thread Glenn Corbett
ses SQL Server as the authoritative store for identity information, and populates AD from that. -Original Message-From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:00 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir]

Re: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-08 Thread Glenn Corbett
5:30 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD MSFT internally uses SQL Server as the authoritative store for identity information, and populates AD from that. -Original Message-From: Glenn Corbett [mailto

Re: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message Personally I dont see a problem with the audit / security guys attempting to crack high-level user ID's, as these are potentially the greatest threat to the security of the environment.   That being said, if they DO crack the admin accounts, they then have a "back door" into th

Re: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-03 Thread Glenn Corbett
can you do a backup of one of your existing DC's and then DR it to a new (already offline) machine ??   G.   - Original Message - From: Simpsen, Paul A. (HSC) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:31 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

[ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-03 Thread Glenn Corbett
All,   We are in the process of redefining our Internet-enabled applications with a view to a centralised customer/client database.  There has been quite a bit of discussion regarding using AD as this "customer store", since AD will already be in this environment.   I'm a bit hesitant to rec

Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Rename

2003-07-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
Hence why its a good idea to NOT include the actual company name in the forest or domain names. Means you dont have to change it when the comany names changes (except for your Exchange smtp addresses, which can be done independant of the domain name anyway). Been down this road too many times, it

Re: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-29 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message Joe,   comments inline - Original Message - From: Joe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:07 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003 No problem on the ramble.   - *grin*   It sounds like you have an

Re: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-29 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message Joe,   The operations team which is responsible for AD, Server Images, Exchange, Fax Gateways, Group Policy, Backups, Data Management, Systems Monitoring, and some Security is about 7 people + 1 manager.  Supporting about 2000 staff across the country and overseas (and growing

Re: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-29 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message Rick,   Agreed, VMware does has some advantages, however MS dont seem to be a big fan of it in production (funny that).  Suggested (jokingly) that we would deploy our MOM configuration on two VMware instances on a server, and that would be supported by them.correct ?.  The

Re: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-28 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message I agree, VMWare is certainly cool (use it at home for testing new software), however we dont support it for the work environment (mainly due to licensing costs). My single user license wasnt too expensive, but when you start doing the multiplications for 70+ application develop

Re: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-28 Thread Glenn Corbett
;s or LDAP type directories.  You don't want to end up with the same mess NT 4 domains created for applications.  I would find out if the application does authentication via the directory, and if it does, encourage the developers to use an infrastructure Single Sign On

Re: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-28 Thread Glenn Corbett
out if the application does authentication via the directory, and if it does, encourage the developers to use an infrastructure Single Sign On product.   Just my humble opinion.   Todd   -Original Message-From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-27 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message ADAM is also good for those applications that want to start doing some AD integration functionality without actually having to set up an AD forest.   Makes us Infrastructure guys nice and happy, don't have to keep setting up and pulling down AD forests every week or so for the

Re: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Monitoring with MOM

2003-06-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
Title: Message yep, use MOM here for our AD infrastructure (2 Forests, 4 domains total).  I've deployed both NetIQ and MOM.   A repost of something similar asked on the exchange lists:   Essentially both products can perform the same levels of monitoring andreporting, however MOM requires a L

Re: [ActiveDir] Single sign-on

2003-06-05 Thread Glenn Corbett
RE: [ActiveDir] Single sign-onThat used to be the case, not sure if MMS 2003 has the same sort of requirements. The main reason they had consulting attached was that MMS was fairly clunky to set up and configure, and unless you knew what you were doing, could tie youself up in knots fairly quickly

Re: [ActiveDir] delegation of root domain admin

2003-05-29 Thread Glenn Corbett
Roger, I must agree with you and the others here...I guess my question is, have the people involved actually been informed of the risks and consequences of delegating management of Sites and Services to a "junior" admin ? Basically, without a properly configured sites and services you can bring A

Re: [ActiveDir] Nt4 domain controller upgrade to Windows 2000

2003-04-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
Agreed.  Sounds a waaay to complicated a method to upgrade your servers.   Sounds like your new AD domain is not going to be the same as your NT v4 domain.  If this is the case, best bet is to rebuild your servers from the ground up with Win2k and be done with it.  Recreation of print queues

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