RE: [ActiveDir] How to find non-primary SMTP addresses?

2007-01-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
Huh. you're right. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wells, James Arthur Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to find non-primary SMTP addresses? It should also update the 'mai

RE: [ActiveDir] How to find non-primary SMTP addresses?

2007-01-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
Nope, that's it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Cline Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:38 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to find non-primary SMTP addresses? Out of curiosity, when setting a differen

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: How to find non-primary SMTP addresses?

2007-01-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
e.com - we know IT -5.75, -3.23 Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________ From: Michael B. Smith Sent: Thu 1/25/2007 5:12 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: How to find non-primary

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: How to find non-primary SMTP addresses?

2007-01-25 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm guessing you didn't like the answers you got on the exchange list? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stu Packett Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:53 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] How to find non-primary

RE: [ActiveDir] adsiedit question

2007-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm forced to ask - why do you want to move SystemMailboxes? You shouldn't ever need to. There is a reason that the move mailbox wizard doesn't move them. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Condra, Jerry W Mr HP Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 200

RE: [ActiveDir] Cisco VPN user authentication problem

2007-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
What about "reversible encryption"? (I have no idea if this is required for the VPN software or not - just a guess.) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Egan (Temp) Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:39 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedi

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Different default GALs for different groups

2007-01-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
rts this method? Tony From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 6:32 a.m. To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Different default GALs for different groups It may interest you

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Different default GALs for different groups

2007-01-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
It may interest you to know that MSFT doesn't really support this anymore. They've pulled the KB articles on it that used to exist. Regardless, it still works if you set everything up properly. 1) remove the "Everyone" and "Authenticated Users" groups from the address list that the Default

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

2007-01-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
And performance of same is quite poor. There are a few feature removals as well. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Akomolafe, Deji Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Who ne

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

2007-01-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Windows Team != Exchange Team We've (Exchange MVPs) pushed and pushed for this for several patches over the last few years. Approval cycles, timeframes, requirements, etc. all differ between the teams. I'm sure politics are involved too. I think the closest we got was that Exchange 2003 sp2 would

RE: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've got boatloads of customers, who do development themselves, who are rolling out Vista on production desktops. My staff and I have already become quite facile at loading up XP VMs to run the stuff that doesn't work on Vista. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [ActiveDir] Send As(OT)

2006-12-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
You can send-as anything with a SD in the store. :-P Very commonly used to send from group "mailboxes" and DGs, such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (we use the feature here). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 7:

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Extensions and Exchange System Manager

2006-12-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
You are correct. However, there is not a supported way to add an additional mAPIID. I've bugged this twice and it's been closed twice. A private-only KB documents the process (used to be public, but it was deemed to be too dangerous). Jim McBee (another Exchange MVP and author) doc

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Exchange Access and Timing

2006-12-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
made that this material is free from computer virus or any other defect. Any loss/damage incurred by using this material is not the sender's responsibility. Liability will be limited to resupplying the material. "Michael B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PRO

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Exchange Access and Timing

2006-12-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
I tell my customers 200 ms or better. In cached mode, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 work just fine with that latency (depending, of course, on how much data you are moving, but “in general”). If you are “live” and no cached, you really want 80 ms or better, but I don’t recommend it. From

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Silly me.. I thought it already had RTM'd

2006-12-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
Exchange2007 on Yahoo Groups (very low volume so far) PowerShell on Yahoo Groups (very low volume so far) Plus all the standard Exchange lists have had a little Exchange 2007 traffic. Of course, most of the people who have been posting are beta-users or MVPs or TAP people...with RTM that'll start

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Quickbooks really and truly will run without Admin rights

2006-11-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yeah, but don't try running it on vista. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:34 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Quickbooks really

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DL is this to be expected?

2006-11-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
There is a fix for this. I'm pretty sure it's public at this point. Don't ask me the KB/patchid. It's too late on the east coast after I've already started having a few -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2

RE: [ActiveDir] mailbox enumeration(OT)

2006-11-10 Thread Michael B. Smith
You can get a list of all the servers and SG's and stores from my blog post sample here: http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2006/07/11/2518.aspx Once you have that, search on homeMDB equal to the DN for each store and count the number of results you get. About a 5 minute job to add these li

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: M$

2006-11-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
I use it fairly commonly. Only several of the lists I frequent, if you use MS, then the Morgan-Stanley people get all up in arms. And typing MSFT is just too long. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, November 09,

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Log files --Disk Full--

2006-10-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
If you do a full (normal) backup using a real backup tool (ntbackup, Veritas with the Exchange Backup Agent, etc) – the logs will be flushed. Period.   For some reason – you aren’t getting a clean backup. That’s what you need to be checking into.   Temporarily, you can compress (using N

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: So, what is "Centro" you ask...........?:

2006-10-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Much much more than that. :-) This is in my company's sweet spot. I'm really looking forward to the beta. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:11 PM To: ActiveDir@m

RE: [ActiveDir] The remote computer has ended the connection.

2006-10-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 4:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] The remote computer has ended the connection. This isn't a wish.. this is a product having issues. Michael B. Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is still read, I'

RE: [ActiveDir] The remote computer has ended the connection.

2006-10-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is still read, I've been recently told. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:29 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] The remote computer has ended the connection. I wish that were a bad

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS DOCUMENTATION

2006-09-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
while i'm sure there are some out there; i've probably got 50+ SBS clients that we host their DNS - they don't tend to have big pipes, reliable pipes, reliable power, or technical know how (you'd be surprised how difficult it is to explain the purpose of a PTR record to someone who didn't re

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 R2 Issue

2006-08-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Now I understand your appliance architecture and how you deal with the encryption issues.   This doesn't seem like a smart way to do it, to me. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manjeet SinghSent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:26 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.

RE: [ActiveDir][OT]Dean's kick-a## article

2006-08-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
And we share a DB platform. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT]Dean's kick-a## article I would wear that... But on the back it has t

RE: [ActiveDir] Weak AD passwords

2006-08-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Title: Message Uh, I am the IT security department for a number of my clients.   Yes, complex passwords were used. Here are a few it cracked, just as samples:   F0ur.Sc0r3 grVnBEqRo*&2Yb @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cK From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Weak AD passwords

2006-08-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Title: Message I took the time to generate the 64 GB tables with the full US-ASCII character set (I spread it out over a couple of dozen servers and it only took about a week) last year.   I ran it last week against one of my environments. It cracked 1,628 passwords out of 1,629 total account

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant released

2006-08-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
All I can say is that it's about darn time he posted it! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Alborzfard Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 4:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange attributes..

2006-08-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
No. You need to install the Exchange Management Tools on places where you need those tabs.   That begin said, review this article and the linked article:   http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2004/09/14/209.aspx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of HBooGzSent:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box

2006-08-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
The feature is in Exchange 2007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Van den Wyngaert Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:10 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box Thank

RE: [ActiveDir] Need some user/group tools...

2006-08-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
Re: [ActiveDir] Need some user/group tools... That's not even fair I own that book already.I was hoping to avoid doing the scripting part... but that being said, how much of that will work in NT domains to get groups and their members/memberships? On 8/1/06, Michael B. Smith <[E

RE: [ActiveDir] Need some user/group tools...

2006-08-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
You can certainly get all the piece parts from here:   http://rallenhome.com/books/adcookbook/code.html   And you can use joe's wonderful adfind (or dsquery if you were to insist) to do much of the gruntwork. I show you some examples here:   http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2004/06/24/

RE: OT: adfind feature request (was RE: [ActiveDir] User extraction)

2006-07-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
abled accounts, so what would be the point of adding that text via the tool? What's the benefit?    On 7/18/06, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Feature request: give me a way, in the attribute list, to specifyarbitrary text for output. E.g., in this case for disa

OT: adfind feature request (was RE: [ActiveDir] User extraction)

2006-07-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
Feature request: give me a way, in the attribute list, to specify arbitrary text for output. E.g., in this case for disabled: adfind -default -bit -f "&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(useraccountcontrol:AND:=2)" -csv -nodn givenname sn text:disabled -Original Message- From: [EMA

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Command line for exchange

2006-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Actually, you've got that a bit backwards.   The Exchange GUI for 2007 is built completely on Monad/PowersHell cmdlets. In more recent builds, the GUI displays the cmdlet it executes to help the admin (if he/she so chooses) to learn the scripting. I don't think those builds are generally ava

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP query to create Exchange address list - organisation with child domains

2006-05-31 Thread Michael B. Smith
I suspect you are making this overly complicated. Can you state your query in words? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP quer

RE: [ActiveDir] How To Determine What GC a Server is Using?

2006-05-31 Thread Michael B. Smith
WMI is deprecated in E12. EMS (the Exchange Management Shell, today’s “official” name for the Exchange version of PowerShell/Monad) gives one access to lots and lots of information. So does the next version of . Further this deponent sayeth not, not being exactly clear which vers

OT: Corrupt messages (was RE: [ActiveDir][OT] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?)

2006-05-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
I’ve seen O2007 display it both ways, and I think it’s much more Exchange dependent (whether it’s been promoted to MAPI format or continues in Internet format).   The list software should not append a plain text footer to a base64 message without encapsulating the original message and rew

RE: [ActiveDir] OldCmp question

2006-05-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
Perhaps -af (!(ourProperty=TRUE))   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:32 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OldCmp question   I've created a new boolean schema property to flag al

RE: [ActiveDir] exporting list of members of a security group

2006-05-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2004/06/24/168.aspx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antonio Aranda Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:02 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] exporting list of members of a security gro

RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Sending mail to AOL and Yahoo

2006-04-29 Thread Michael B. Smith
r a lot of pain dealing with AOL on this. As soon as you determine the problem, please let us know so I can bill Michael for $0.25. :-) Steve --- "Michael B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah yes, now that I see the original message - I bet > a quarter it is the >

RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Sending mail to AOL and Yahoo

2006-04-29 Thread Michael B. Smith
Ah yes, now that I see the original message - I bet a quarter it is the edns0 issue with a PIX firewall running a relatively old version of PIX/os. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A.Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:37 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.acti

RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Sending mail to AOL and Yahoo

2006-04-29 Thread Michael B. Smith
Actually, it's probably 512 bytes to 1024 bytes. Take a look at edns0, assuming you are running Windows Server 2003. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832223/en-us And http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828263/en-us And http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828731/en-us (I've asked for these three KBs

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Windows Vista - Windows Defender

2006-04-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yes. I loaded it two nights ago. Pretty cool. First build I’ve found comfortable to use (old POS box – no aero).   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [Acti

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rights slow to become available

2006-04-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
See Microsoft KB 327378 (Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 mailbox size limits are not enforced in a reasonable period of time; fix requires Exchange 2000 SP3)     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Egbert Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:50 PM To: Act

RE: [ActiveDir] Disabled Active Directory user accounts that are associated with an Exchange Server 2003 mailbox

2006-03-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
associated with an Exchange Server 2003 mailbox   Is it really true that you can only install hotfix over SP1 not SP2? "Michael B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And more on it:   http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2006/03/22/422799.aspx  

RE: [ActiveDir] Disabled Active Directory user accounts that are associated with an Exchange Server 2003 mailbox

2006-03-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
And more on it:   http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2006/03/22/422799.aspx   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Disabled Active

[ActiveDir] Disabled Active Directory user accounts that are associated with an Exchange Server 2003 mailbox

2006-03-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Finally!   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;903158

RE: [ActiveDir] What do you do when ooops won't work?

2006-03-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Really -- if DIR is turned on, you shouldn't have to do that. They should either be in your Deleted Items folder or in Deleted Item Recovery. I just tested and it worked for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thur

RE: [ActiveDir] What do you do when ooops won't work?

2006-03-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
??? I'm running Windows Mobile 5. I deleted a contact from my handheld (an i-mate Jasjar) and synched it. The contact I deleted was in my deleted items folder, just as I expected. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Pochedley Sent: Thurs

RE: [ActiveDir] What do you do when ooops won't work?

2006-03-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Do you have Deleted Item Recovery turned on your message store? KB 178630 and check it out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hutchins, Mike Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:55 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Wha

RE: [ActiveDir] OWA with Active Directory

2006-02-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
A. No. B. Yes (unless they are downloaded into the personal store and removed). While there can certainly be exceptions, generally speaking, the right place for e-mail is the Exchange store. Having the delivery location as a personal store removes a large number of benefits - including access to t

RE: [ActiveDir] How Do You Test Your Exchange Disaster Recovery Plan?

2006-02-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
I would add that the Exchange Server Disaster Recovery Operations Guide covers a number of specifics that should be of interest (http://microsoft.com/exchange/library). In general, it is becoming somewhat rare that I recommend for people to “recover” an Exchange server. In a disaster situat

RE: [ActiveDir] ds* or joeware to get DN from email address

2006-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
for /?   An excerpt thereof:   FOR /F "eol=; tokens=2,3* delims=, " %i in (myfile.txt) do @echo %i %j %k       would parse each line in myfile.txt, ignoring lines that begin with    a semicolon, passing the 2nd and 3rd token from each line to the for    body, with tokens delimited by commas

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lists" disappeared

2006-02-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Let’s here what you did.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor W. Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lists" disappeared

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lists" disappeared

2006-02-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: maandag 6 februari 2006 18:40 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lists" disappeared Good. So, can you right click

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lists" disappeared

2006-02-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
se two).   Cheers,     Victor     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: maandag 6 februari 2006 17:06 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lis

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lists" disappeared

2006-02-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
[ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lists" disappeared Thanks Michael and Tony, I will try it and will let you know the outcome.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: vrijdag 3 februari 2

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange - ESM - "All Address Lists" and "All Global Address Lists" disappeared

2006-02-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
As Tony said, if they are deleted and you need the specific contents back, an authoritative restore is your appropriate response.   If the defaults work for you, you might just try rerunning forestprep and domainprep, then touching each store setting the GAL for the store.   I have seen secu

RE: [ActiveDir] Script to change owner?

2006-02-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
subinacl.exe from microsoft.com/downloads From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, ScottSent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:46 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] Script to change owner? Is there anyway in script (preferred) or throug

RE: [ActiveDir] PcAnywhere vs. Terminal servcies

2006-01-31 Thread Michael B. Smith
If you disconnect instead of logging out, what you’ve started in the terminal services session continues to run.   Unless, in Terminal Services Configuration, you’ve told it to do otherwise.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Tuesday, J

RE: [ActiveDir] SBSland folks ask Big server land people a question about the use and risk of the "500" account.

2006-01-29 Thread Michael B. Smith
It may have changed in the last year, since I no longer do Unity support, but Cisco Unity required you to create a "UnityInstall" account and use that (with specific permissions of course) to install Unity and any updates. There is also a UnityAdmin account and there are two Unity Exchange a

RE: [ActiveDir] Public folder deletion audit(OT)

2006-01-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
public folder directory object deletion, is that because Exchange is cleaning up the object from AD after a user deleted it via mapi?   Thanks again.Sorry i couldn't wait for you to get out of your meeting :)   On 1/26/06, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You

RE: [ActiveDir] Public folder deletion audit(OT)

2006-01-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
You just posted there a little while ago. I was in a meeting. :-P   Exchange Server 2003 service pack 2 adds functionality to meet this need.   For earlier versions of Exchange, see   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884863/   There might be third party stuff that does what you want

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: .vbs mailing list?

2006-01-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
Although my most useful information about tough vbscript questions has come from here and from Robbie Allen's various books, there is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:17 P

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Prob not relevant here ...but -implement system policies in non AD

2006-01-13 Thread Michael B. Smith
Because Outlook will be running in 32-bit emulation, using it's own copy of mapi32.dll while Exchange will be running in 64-bit mode, using it's own copy of mapi64.dll (or whatever they may call it). That's my presumption, anyway. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC updates - Was Expired Accounts

2006-01-13 Thread Michael B. Smith
I would like ADUC to maintain a log of command-line equivalents for all it's operations, so I can learn how to script it better. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:49 AM To: ActiveDir.org Subject

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Scripting Issue.

2006-01-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Didn't like my answer in the Sunbelt group, eh? Server Data Objects are your portable way to do this, regardless of your domain mode (at least through Windows Server 2003). It wraps the MprAdminUserSetInfo and MprAdminUserGetInfo functions on both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. For example, http:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange - Send As

2006-01-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
Mark's content-transfer-encoding is set to base64/utf-8, and "more than likely" the message format properties of your default pop3 virtual server are incompatible.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:55 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange - Send As

2006-01-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
 Correct. The behavior can be changed by various commercial tools. Probably one of the best known (and cheapest) is ChooseFrom.   http://www.ivasoft.biz/choosefrom.html From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al MulnickSent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:55

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2000 STF Files

2006-01-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
You shouldn’t be attempting to back up the MDBDATA folders at all. Use an Exchange-aware backup application to back up all Exchange information.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mischler Timothy J Contractor NASIC/SCNA Sent: Thursday, January 05, 20

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Why 64 for Exchange

2005-12-29 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yep, you can programmatically create a MAPI profile using any number of free or for-charge tools. I personally always liked "richprofile". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:42 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.act

RE: [ActiveDir] AD or is this Exchange task?

2005-12-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
You should be able to run it on any Exchange 2003 Server that hosts a PF store. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al MulnickSent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:28 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD or is this Exchange task? Good cat

RE: [ActiveDir] AD or is this Exchange task?

2005-12-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
You are Exchange Server 2003, right? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, MarkSent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:39 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD or is this Exchange task? I think I’m pretty close on this, but am unabl

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange 2k3 install(OT)

2005-12-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
You should not be able to install a 2003 backend in an administrative group where you have 2000 front ends. You should be able to install a 2003 front-end in an administrative group where there are other 2000 front-ends.   ‘ function returns true if an error occurred ‘ isFrontEnd, a byre

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange 2k3 sp 2(OT)

2005-12-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
In regards to the OAB v4 -- it'll appear after it's generated. A default generation schedule says "overnight".   As to "Manage Settings" issue - I haven't a clue. I haven't deployed sp2 on my real production servers yet, and my test servers and mini-prod environment don't exhibit that behavio

RE: [ActiveDir] [Way OT] DNS MX load balancing questions...

2005-12-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Title: [Way OT] DNS MX load balancing questions... You should have two separate MX records   @ IN MX    10 mail1.mydomain.com. @ IN MX    10 mail2.mydomain.com.   Mail1    IN A  10.1.1.1 Mail2    IN A 

RE: [ActiveDir] logon scripts

2005-12-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
This script enumerates all the Windows profiles on a computer and then lists all the MAPI profiles for each user too.   If a computer is turned on and no firewall is getting in the way and the Remote Registry service is running, you can access any key/value on the computer remotely.   O

RE: [ActiveDir] Ntds.dit file corruption

2005-12-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
The existing mechanism place in Exchange 2003 prior to sp1 was able to detect problems, and ensure that they didn't cause problems in the Exchange environment -- however that could mean that a store was shut down when a -1018 was detected. And that's a real problem to the user environment! Correct

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripting/WMI/MONAD - was FSMO role transfer

2005-12-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
started to complain. I would rather get everyone on board up front early complaining if that is the only thing that is going to make Exch Dev listen. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripting/WMI/MONAD - was FSMO role transfer

2005-12-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
MAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:36 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Scripting/WMI/MONAD - was FSMO role transfer I gotta tell ya -- I just started vbscript-ing a few years ago (with great help

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripting/WMI/MONAD - was FSMO role transfer

2005-12-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
I gotta tell ya -- I just started vbscript-ing a few years ago (with great help from joe and Alain here) -- C# with .NET 2.0 just rocks (whether fat or not -- need to use those 64 bits for SOMETHING). Visual C# 2005 makes it a breeze...I'm looking forward to the managed classes for Exchange &etc. u

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer...sorta wandering off into Scripting

2005-11-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
There is no way for MS to think of every eventuality and to support every possibility that a customer (or even a large group of customers) may want and/or desire. At NT4 and before, if that was the case, you were pretty much SOL; unless you could do some pretty heavy C-or-C++ coding. Starting wit

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
It can be. It's easily scripted. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:39 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer That's

RE: [ActiveDir] Rename domain - DC with Exchange installed

2005-11-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
day, November 28, 2005 1:22 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Rename domain - DC with Exchange installed See follow up note regarding reading comprehension level on a Monday. Michael B. Smith wrote: > Those still agree with me. > > You can't change the name of a DC

RE: [ActiveDir] Rename domain - DC with Exchange installed

2005-11-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
'can' make the trip. Not Microsoft approved of course, would not recommend it and Sharepoint freaks. Michael B. Smith wrote: > I don't see anything in that article that disagrees with what I said. > > You can't change the name of a DC while Exchange is installed on it. >

RE: [ActiveDir] Rename domain - DC with Exchange installed

2005-11-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
ns a number of new tools for Exchange 2003. The following are available as separate downloads. * /Exchange Domain Rename Fixup:/ Repairs Exchange Server attributes in Active Directory after using the Windows Server 2003 domain rename tool Michael B. Smith wrote: > I don'

RE: [ActiveDir] Rename domain - DC with Exchange installed

2005-11-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
mber right public folder wackoness after a domain rename that needed some hotfixes. Michael B. Smith wrote: > It is not supported to change the name of a server on which Exchange > is installed. > > Thus you can't change the name of a DC while Exchange is installed > upon it. Exc

RE: [ActiveDir] Rename domain - DC with Exchange installed

2005-11-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
It is not supported to change the name of a server on which Exchange is installed. Thus you can't change the name of a DC while Exchange is installed upon it. Exchange will break. For more information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842116 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
t'cha   Disabling OpenGL screen savers used to be a constant battle for me with my SBS'er clients. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 6:41 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Here is why you don't do it:   http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2004/07/03/172257.aspx   See also KB 266418 -- it isn't supported.   Here is a small script that sends e-mail that you can use instead:   http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2004/11/30/251.aspx From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsofts Exchange Server 12 64 bit announcement

2005-11-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
costs. As you scale up and add features, hardware is almost always the cheapest resource in the equation. Can you expand into why you think 64bit only would be a problem? I'd like to at least understand this a bit better. If you need to, feel free to drop the note off-line so we don&#

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding IP's to relay restrictions

2005-11-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DCCE0536-7EDC-40B4-9950-8B6906ABDA2D&displaylang=en   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sem 3Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:03 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] Adding IP's to

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsofts Exchange Server 12 64 bit announcement

2005-11-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
It was made in the Exchange product team meetings with the Exchange MVPs.   I can assure you, our reaction was not positive. I think it is a serious mistake.   M From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:03 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.

RE: [ActiveDir] Audit Collection Services

2005-11-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
Script it. For a single server, it's really pretty easy. I provide a canned solution using a handleful of scripts, blat, and ServersAlive to loads of my small customers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-10 Thread Michael B. Smith
Is your CA on Windows Server 2003 in a Windows 2000 domain? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, DevonSent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:44 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error I keep getting these errors on my roo

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
Wow, that's pretty harsh, don't you think? Are only MS employees and Directory Services MVPs allowed to make smart-ass comments or have opinions? Ed is a very well known and well respected Exchange MVP. And he happens to be right, in my opinion. Any Exchange administrator should be well aware of

[ActiveDir] OT (somewhat): Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 DSProxy Referral Process Changes

2005-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
It's been discussed here several times. An interesting read:   http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/11/04/413669.aspx Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 DSProxy Referral Process Changes

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