RE: [ActiveDir] AD and RIS

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites to restrict traffic, Yes there is but it is a static option.  The option is MachineObjectOU and can be entered under the [Identification] section of the ristndrd.sif file.   The better choice may be to use a customized custom.osc if you have multiple possible OU's

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and RIS

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites to restrict traffic, For your first question:   Verify these two settings:   1.  Open up your ristndrd.sif in \\(RISSERVER)\REMINST\Setup\English\Images\(ImageName)\i386\templates     Under the [UserData] section there should be a line that reads:     C

RE: [ActiveDir] Ocra

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Wassell
http://www.winisp.net/astebner/bin/orca.msi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rubix cube Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 4:34 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Ocra Hi, I need Ocra to edit an MSI file, the only way it see

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Guide

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Wassell
http://tinyurl.com/2qr55 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah EigerSent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:34 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Guide Hi –   Am I correct that the most recent AD Branch Office Guide from Microsof

RE: [ActiveDir] Using GPO to install an MSI package

2005-02-15 Thread Michael Wassell
job security   Yes that would make application deployments much easier :-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, ScottSent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:29 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Using GPO to install an MSI package

RE: [ActiveDir] RIS Unattended (Was: Automate Computer Name Changes)

2005-02-14 Thread Michael Wassell
You may want to do a bit of research into RIS Dan, more specifically the [Components] portion if that is the type of customization you are referring to.   Here is a URL that I keep handy:   http://tinyurl.com/3p8g9   As for any registry changes, that can be scripted fairly easily.   Software

RE: [ActiveDir] Automate Computer Name Changes

2005-02-14 Thread Michael Wassell
Is it safe to assume that RIS is not an option? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian DesmondSent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:44 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Automate Computer Name Changes Dan-   You can certainly script thi

RE: [ActiveDir] Crazy question

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: Message This should help   http://www.google.com/search?q=migrate+NT4+to+2003&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary SmithSent: Thursday, January 13,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: helpdesk software

2004-11-02 Thread Michael Wassell
Liberum is a nice, free alternative if open-source is an option, although production on the project has slowed quite a bit over these past few months the software is still very functional and does meet all of the requirements that you mentioned. http://www.liberum.org/ -Original Message

RE: [ActiveDir] Stopping Pop-Ups and Spyware Enterprise wide

2004-10-27 Thread Michael Wassell
A lot of people have turned away from PestPatrol since CA bought them out. Also, there has been a lot of discussion over on the Sunbelt lists about a corporate spyware suite that is approaching its final stages of development you might want to look into that. http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ Stu

[ActiveDir] RIS computer account OU placement

2004-10-19 Thread Michael Wassell
I'm having trouble finding any accurate matches by googling so I thought I'd throw it out here in the mailing list to see what others may have done.   What I'm trying to do is to create a completely unattended install with 2 seperate machine images.   Specifically, I want the standard flat

RE: [ActiveDir] Service Pack 2

2004-10-12 Thread Michael Wassell
Yeah I noticed this as well with 1 of my test machines using SP2.  It seems like SP2 might detect an ACPI Power Button device, while pre-SP2 machines do not.   Go figure :-P From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pelle, JoeSent: Monday, October 11, 2004 5:08 PMT

RE: [ActiveDir] Exclusive GPO Processing

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Wassell
Yes I actually already have that KB article open in a seperate window lol.   Okay thanks for your sugestion Darren.  I'll look into it.   P.S. - Please disregard the other email (gpoguy), you have already answered it.   Thanks again.   Michael From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [ActiveDir] Exclusive GPO Processing

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Wassell
Just so everyone knows, My Documents redirection takes place on the HKCU hive, so the GPO processing would have to apply to the user account based on which machine they log onto.  Life's a b*tch... (sometimes)   Moving the computer objects to seperate OU's and linking seperate GPO's wouldn't

[ActiveDir] Exclusive GPO Processing

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Wassell
Is anyone aware of any way to force a GPO to only process for a user on a specific machine?   For example:   User A logs onto Machine A and GPO does not apply User A logs onto Machine B and GPO applies   Real world scenario:   User A logs onto Desktop and Default Domain GPO applies.  Roam

RE: [ActiveDir] Screensaver GPO not applying?

2004-10-05 Thread Michael Wassell
3 Windows 2000 machines, neither of which are the case.  For anyone curious here is a link: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305357 Michael Wassell Network Administrator PT Marketing Group Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222 Phone:  412-471-8995  /  Fax: 412-471-8695 **This e-mail has

RE: [ActiveDir] Screensaver GPO not applying?

2004-10-04 Thread Michael Wassell
regarding the symptom, but it only mentions that the symptom occurs in Windows 2000 domains, and pre-SP3 Windows 2000 machines, neither of which are the case.  For anyone curious here is a link:   http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305357   Michael Wassell Network Administrator PT Marketing

RE: [ActiveDir] Screensaver GPO not applying?

2004-10-04 Thread Michael Wassell
P3 Windows 2000 machines, neither of which are the case.  For anyone curious here is a link:   http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305357   Michael Wassell Network Administrator PT Marketing Group Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222 Phone:  412-471-8995  /  Fax: 412-471-8695  

[ActiveDir] Screensaver GPO not applying?

2004-10-04 Thread Michael Wassell
oblem before?   I did find a MSKB article regarding the symptom, but it only mentions that the symptom occurs in Windows 2000 domains, and pre-SP3 Windows 2000 machines, neither of which are the case.  For anyone curious here is a link:   http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305357   Michael Wa

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DHCP Export

2004-09-22 Thread Michael Wassell
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325473 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: DHCP Export Does anyone know of a way

RE: [ActiveDir] robust alternative to rcmd

2004-09-22 Thread Michael Wassell
To expand on what joe said, have you considered using a scheduled task with encrypted credentials? That's why I referred to the CPAU utility. Comes in very handy, especially for task repetition, as opposed to manually executing the task using a remote task execution utility. Also does not require

RE: [ActiveDir] robust alternative to rcmd

2004-09-22 Thread Michael Wassell
Psexec maybe? (Part of the PSTools suite) http://www.sysinternals.com/ CPAU might also come in handy http://www.joeware.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] program to crate reports...

2004-09-20 Thread Michael Wassell
http://tinyurl.com/an6z maybe? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:18 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] program to crate reports... Something like what Ecora does? www.ecora.c

RE: [ActiveDir] Local admin acct

2004-08-26 Thread Michael Wassell
http://www.joeware.net/win32/index.html CPAU another option possibly? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Local admin acct There's a too

RE: [ActiveDir] Disable the download of SP2 ADM files

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Wassell
Grrr.. Wrapping http://tinyurl.com/4an3w -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Wassell Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disable the download of SP2 ADM files http

RE: [ActiveDir] Disable the download of SP2 ADM files

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Wassell
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8BCE6BBA-EA5D-4 425-89C1-C1CB1CCD463C&displaylang=en -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Shaff Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] D

RE: [ActiveDir] Fileserver and Self-Executing Programs

2004-08-04 Thread Michael Wassell
The first thing that comes to mind is disabling Windows Installer for non-managed apps via GPO, considering you are already doing something similar as you had mentioned that may be the most viable solution.   Otherwise, I'm not sure if its possible or how difficult it would be to implement b

RE: [ActiveDir] KIX script and Active Directory

2004-07-23 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: Message Yes that's true also, administration will be a pain but as long as the scripts do not have to be changed frequently for any reason then you should just be able to set it and forget it (no pun intended) ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Perdue

RE: [ActiveDir] KIX script and Active Directory

2004-07-23 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: Message I'm sorry in advance I don't mean to be rude, this is just a suggestion.   I really think that your making this more difficult than it has to be by querying AD for specific user properties.  Is there a reason why you can't use a simple security group, assign membership accordin

RE: [ActiveDir] KIX script and Active Directory

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Wassell
If you want to continue using Kix scripting you can create security groups and assign the appropriate users to those security groups, afterwards use the InGroup (Kix) function and assign drive mappings etc. accordingly   Atleast that's one way of doing it From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

RE: [ActiveDir] How to change the computer name of a Domain contr oller

2004-06-29 Thread Michael Wassell
recently in a lab environment.  DNS is left dirty after the process.  Sort of a good/bad thing.  Both names can be resolved to the same IP (old/new).  Some cleanup will be in order eventually.  Definitely suggest testing in a lab first.   -Al   -Original Message-----From: Michael Wassell

[ActiveDir] OT: LDAP routing through relay

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Wassell
I sent this question into a friend at Microsoft because it has me completely stumped.  I thought I'd post it here as well to see if anyone else might have an idea.   I have a problem that should theoretically have been a simple resolution, but for the life of me I have not been able to fig

[ActiveDir] Roaming GPO

2004-06-15 Thread Michael Wassell
Concern:  One of the senior managers bought a laptop for herself to use as a home PC, as well as bring into the office regularly to use for convenience purposes.   Problem:  The problem was aside from the obvious security issues involved with doing that, domain-level GPO's which restrict use

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 SP1

2004-05-28 Thread Michael Wassell
Oddly enough I was JUST looking at that last night before signing off for the evening :-) But yes, it does look like a very handy tool. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 SP1 documentation

2004-05-27 Thread Michael Wassell
Has anyone managed to find complete documentation of all of the changes made with Exchange 2003 SP1?  The release notes fall short of mentioning exactly what updates/changes were made although I have looked briefly and there seems to be more control available to the user through OWA (Option

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: explorer.exe hangs on folder access

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Wassell
Hello Chuck;   Microsoft offers guidelines for allowing administrator access to redirected user folders as mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288991.  In the article it is mentioned not to allow users exclusive access, rather allow permissions to inherit from

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: explorer.exe hangs on folder access

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Wassell
I have a feeling that it has something to do with the desktop.ini stored within the folder itself because of the strange behaviour when a user attempts to access the folder as shown on the the compmgmt snap-in.    I really don't think that it has anything to do with hardware because of the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: explorer.exe hangs on folder access

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Wassell
The only events logged are informational success notifications and success audit security logs I do not see any relevant Warning or Error events logged :-(   Server specs:  2xPIII 600, 1GB RAM, 2 RAID-1 arrays   The server functions as a file/print server as well as a DC holding all roles f

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: explorer.exe hangs on folder access

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Wassell
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RE: [ActiveDir] OT: explorer.exe hangs on folder access

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Wassell
There is nothing abnormal shown in the event logs on client or server with any relevance :-( From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, AlSent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:18 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: explorer.exe hangs on folder access

RE: [ActiveDir] Mixed network PC and Mac -> AD or XServe

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Wassell
Yeah my mistake I was referring to the PERC-II card ;-)  I have a PE3200 which has a PERC-II in it.   I managed to get 2k3 installed on it using a MegaRAID 2000 driver (Win2k driver) but I have not managed to obtain a compatible firmware update yet... maybe some day From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] OT: explorer.exe hangs on folder access

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Wassell
This is a very strange problem I experienced a few weeks ago and just yesterday I've noticed it happen again.  This only happens with a single folder, all others are fine.  This particular instance the folder is completely empty except for "My Pictures" being automatically created within.  

RE: [ActiveDir] Mixed network PC and Mac -> AD or XServe

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Wassell
Regarding the PERC 2 issue joe, what was your resolve?    I have a PERC 2 card in one of the DC's for my test domain I can't find a compatible firmware update ANYWHERE I could have sworn that the card was not a PERC 2 at all and I'm all ears to verify that conclusion :-D From: [EMAIL PROT

[ActiveDir] OT: Extract via message ID

2004-05-07 Thread Michael Wassell
Is anyone aware of a utility that can be used to extract a message from the Exchange IS using the message ID as the search criteria (which is visible from the Message Tracking center)? I am looking for a utility similar to Exmerge with the ability to extract a message from the IS, but whi

RE: [ActiveDir] Storage of AD passwords???

2004-04-29 Thread Michael Wassell
Quoted from: http://www.techinterviews.com/index.php?p=12 What hashing algorithms are used in Windows 2003 Server? RSA Data Security's Message Digest 5 (MD5), produces a 128-bit hash, and the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1), produces a 160-bit hash. Maybe that will help -Original Message-

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 April rollup

2004-04-20 Thread Michael Wassell
Just saw these in another list boys.  Thought I'd pass it along.   My apoligies if it is a double post.   http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=838236   http://support.microsoft.com/common/canned.aspx?H=Microsoft%20Exchange%202003%20post-RTM%20Store%20Update&Query=kbExchange2003preSP1fix&CDID=EN-

RE: [ActiveDir] Office2003 Rollout

2004-04-15 Thread Michael Wassell
The short answer would be yes. I would suggest doing it as a Published Application with an .MST answer file, as opposed to an Assigned application because my first concern would be extended log on periods during which users would think they're computers were hung/not responding and doing "somethi

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-15 Thread Michael Wassell
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta Yea I did too and I was never able to register. I'm kind of disappointed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Wassell Sent: Thursd

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-15 Thread Michael Wassell
Did anyone else receive an "Unknown Error" when registering for WUS open beta (during Step 4) or was it just me? :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [A

RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO

2004-04-12 Thread Michael Wassell
instead of users? Does that change the behavior at all?   -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc.   From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 10:06 AMTo

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server-side address list < Public folder

2004-04-12 Thread Michael Wassell
the PF.   -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc.   From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:11 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Activ

RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO

2004-04-12 Thread Michael Wassell
ts at the outset however.   -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc.   From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:55 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployme

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server-side address list < Public folder

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Wassell
Hmm.. the objects do appear in the Preview pane when viewed from the server.   If that's the case then maybe I'll just wait it out :-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:41 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server-side address list < Public folder

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Wassell
Okay.  I've answered my own question.   I've imported all of the contact's into AD as contact objects.  I've delegated control of that OU to the managers of the department and they will be instructed how to access/update information for the objects in AD.   My question now is, I have created

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server-side address list < Public folder

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Wassell
As a follow up to my own question.   If it is not possible, I suppose I could write a script that automatically exports the contents of the public folder from Outlook and store it in a CSV format, import them into the AD afterwards using CSVDE as Contact objects in a specific OU and query the

[ActiveDir] OT: Server-side address list < Public folder

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Wassell
I'm not sure if this is possible or not.  I can't seem to find any reference of it anywhere.   Would anyone care to enlighten me on if it is possible to populate an address list stored server-side (similar to GAL) using an LDAP query to query the contents of a public folder?  I know that it

RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Wassell
t lets one enable a variety of GPO logging, including SI. Email me offline and I can send that to you. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Wassell Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Wassell
t that was associated to this advertised app, that would kick off the application installation at that time. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Wassell Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Acti

RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Wassell
anyone know? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Wassell Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO Yes actually I was. I have done other tests using different m

RE: [ActiveDir] MSI Deployable apps

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Wassell
GPO's support the use of .MST answer files (transforms), there are also many utilities around that create before/after snapshots and generate an .MSI package from the installed files (WinINSTALL, Wise Studio etc.), so there are a lot of ways to get around what's supported "Out-of-the-box" and what

RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Wassell
a GPO Are you testing it on the same PC in the Production OU that you used in the Test OU? -Peter "Michael Wassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> om>cc:

[ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Wassell
Okay guys, I am at my wit's end here   I've been trying to distribute an .MSI package via GPO as an Assigned application to an OU in AD.    Test environment:  Worked perfectly fine in my test environment, I copied the install package to a share on the server, set permissions, assigned

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included)

2004-04-04 Thread Michael Wassell
is, then you could have an FRS replication problem. You could try manually copying the registry.pol file from the PDC to the DC that your test workstation is using and see if that fixes anything. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included)

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Wassell
ing accessed from within the folder by the hung process, but even closing every instance didn't fix the problem. That was the "Monday surprise". Sorry. I had to vent. 2 more hours to go ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mi

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included)

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Wassell
ode Included) Printers are per-User configurations, not per system wide in general. Try this as a CLASS USER   -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc.   From:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included)

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Wassell
Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc.   From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:37 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included) In the process of building a custom .AD

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included)

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Wassell
stems Administrator Inovis Inc.   From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:37 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included) In the process of building a custom .ADM file for controlling specific registry keys.

[ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included)

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Wassell
In the process of building a custom .ADM file for controlling specific registry keys.  The problem I am having is that it does not seem to be modifying the key when the GPO is applied/enforced.  I've been pulling my hair out all morning I can't seem to see any reason why this would be happen

RE: [ActiveDir] Released! Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Guide

2004-04-01 Thread Michael Wassell
old one, isn’t it?   -Original Message-From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:42 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Released! Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Guide   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads

RE: [ActiveDir] Released! Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Guide

2004-04-01 Thread Michael Wassell
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9A4C7AC3-185E-4644-9E98-4876B2A477E7&displaylang=en   I believe this is what you might be looking for? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. SmithSent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:27 AMTo: [EMAIL PR

[ActiveDir] OT: Desktop faxing solution

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Wassell
    In the process of implementing a desktop faxing solution (Esker Fax specifically) for current production environment.  Esker Fax has a customized form which allows direct interface with the server through Outlook clients as one of their solutions.  The form has the ability to address a

RE: [ActiveDir] gc._mscdcs PTR Record

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Wassell
Okay it looks like I may have found a resolution to my own question.  For whatever reason dynamic updates were not enabled for the reverse DNS zone, so I've enabled secure only updates for that zone and we'll see what happens on the next replication.   Again, my apoligies for the double post.

[ActiveDir] gc._mscdcs PTR Record

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Wassell
I don't mean to be rude to anyone.  Please excuse the double post, this still has me very confused so I thought I would repost it for anyone who may not have seen my previous post this past Friday:   Recently I've done some work for the company rebuilding the DC's for concerns of naming conv

[ActiveDir] gc._msdcs PTR Record

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Wassell
Recently I've done some work for the company rebuilding the DC's for concerns of naming conventions including a "_" character.  Everything seems to have gone smoothly with the exception of 1 thing that I've recently noticed.  In the reverse DNS zone there is a record containing reference to

[ActiveDir] Folder redirection via GPO

2004-03-01 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: Folder redirection via GPO Good morning everyone; Previously a GPO had been configured to redirect users "My Documents" folders to a network location.  This option requires specifying the full UNC path to the server which is to store the data (\\(servername)\(sharename)).  As of this

RE: [ActiveDir] KDC Change

2004-02-28 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: KDC Change Okay I've resolved my own question.  A second domain controller being present having all FSMO roles transferred means that clients will continue to be able to authenticate regardless of the fact that the previous FSMO role holder is demoted.  I guess it never hurts to have

[ActiveDir] KDC Change

2004-02-28 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: KDC Change I'm in the process of demoting a DC in a Windows 2003 domain which was a roleholder for all FSMO roles.  I have moved every role (including GC) to the new DC which is going to be the temporary role holder until the previous DC is rebuilt.  Running a dcdiag /v shows that the

RE: [ActiveDir] Find and delete/disable all your old computer acc ounts real easy

2004-02-25 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: Extended Rights 10-4 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich MilburnSent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:27 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Find and delete/disable all your old computer acc ounts real easy test   Rich Milburn MCSE, Mi

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Migration Question

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Wassell
ange 2003 Migration Question Oh okay, thanks   -Original Message-From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 1:06 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Migration Question   They were in 2 seperate domains in 2 seperate fores

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Migration Question

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Wassell
of the MX record the sender used.   -Original Message-From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:29 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Migration Question   I have used the Exchange 2003 Migration Wizard (bundle

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Migration Question

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: Exchange 2003 Migration Question I have used the Exchange 2003 Migration Wizard (bundled with the installation), granted that my migration scenario was Exchange 2000 > Exchange 2003, but I don't suppose there would be much difference as far as the IS is concerned.   The only dilemma in

RE: [ActiveDir] Suppress reboot of windows update???

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: Message Sorry, please ignore my last response.  My head was in another place and I havn't had any coffee yet :-P From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clay PerrineSent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:19 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Suppress

RE: [ActiveDir] Suppress reboot of windows update???

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Wassell
Title: Message I don't believe SUS uses a "client" portion, the updates are automatically distributed to client PC's via administrative shares and then are executed via RPC.  The option not to automatically restart can also be specified via GPO rather than manually entering a registry value o

[ActiveDir] Stale UUID's created by replication

2004-02-18 Thread Michael Wassell
I'm sure this is true, but does the AD Garbage Collection process clean up stale UUID's left by demoted DC's from replication?

RE: [ActiveDir] IE6 SP1 MSI Wrapper

2004-02-16 Thread Michael Wassell
hat Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Michael Wassell Sent: Mon 2/16/2004 7:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] IE6 SP1 MSI Wrapper As mentioned in: http://support.microsoft.com/defau

[ActiveDir] IE6 SP1 MSI Wrapper

2004-02-16 Thread Michael Wassell
As mentioned in:  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810011   Does anyone have another source for this package?  I would much prefer downloading the package through an external source as opposed to having to jump over hurdles to get to the right person at MS.

RE: [ActiveDir] Stale GPO GUID in SYSVOL

2004-02-11 Thread Michael Wassell
Following up to my own question, I found this KB article this morning.  Might be good to have on hand for anyone if they were to run into this sort of situation.   Took alot of digging :-)   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;216359 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

[ActiveDir] Stale GPO GUID in SYSVOL

2004-02-11 Thread Michael Wassell
This is going to be hard to explain but I thought I would give it a shot and put it in a nutshell.   Before I started my position the previous admin decided to rollout internal software using GPO.  A mistake was made and an attempted rollback was performed.  The GPO was then deleted by the

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC - User logon name (is empty)

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Wassell
I think the problem you may be having Phil is that ("ADsPath") may need a value specified.  Here is a link from MSDN explaining the syntax of ADsPath.   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC - User logon name (is empty)

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Wassell
I believe if you browse through ADSI Edit you will be able to extract the pre-Win2k login name field and the field you wish to populate using LDIFDE (Included in the Windows 20/03 ResKit) and change the values in the exported plain-text file and import afterwards. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

RE: [ActiveDir] Moved DC out of DMZ

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Wassell
Not a bad idea... lol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Buechler Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moved DC out of DMZ Speaking of beer.. a sampler platter tonight at Applebee's so

RE: [ActiveDir] computer account issues

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Wassell
mainly) on winXP workstations, but take this as an unreliable piece of information. Please let me know if you need more detailed information. I appreciate your support. Thanks!! > -Messaggio originale- > Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Michael &g

RE: [ActiveDir] computer account issues

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Wassell
A little bit unclear, but I have browsed through the Microsoft KB regarding that event id and this article was a match. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823659 Search in the page for "5723" (without quotes). It is under the digitally sign communication (always) category.

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Schema Master (continued...)

2004-02-05 Thread Michael Wassell
ction. Doing what, I don't know yet. But I have to bust a move and make something happen. Worse case, I have the weekend to recover. -Original Message----- From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Active

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Schema Master (continued...)

2004-02-05 Thread Michael Wassell
organization. Any down time while I recover the thing will be a very_bad_thing. -Original Message- From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Schema Master (continued...) >From what I gat

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Schema Master (continued...)

2004-02-05 Thread Michael Wassell
rnal 2000 DC without it adversely affecting the server in the DMZ because that server thinks it's been deleted anyway? -Original Message- From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Schema Ma

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Schema Master (continued...)

2004-02-05 Thread Michael Wassell
a 2003 stand-alone server. To do this, I need to prep the domain for the new 2003 schema, and I need to do this on the 2000 server acting as the schema master. Maybe I am looking at this wrong. What do you think? -Original Message- From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursda

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Schema Master (continued...)

2004-02-05 Thread Michael Wassell
s not supported with Exchange 2003, but I can't find any literature regarding 2000. Again, thanks for your help Michael (and everyone!) -Original Message----- From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveD

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO explanations

2004-02-03 Thread Michael Wassell
veDir] GPO explanations Dead link     Mike From: Michael Wassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO explanations Or maybe this one?  http://www.ptmarketing.com/PolicySettings.zip   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO explanations

2004-02-03 Thread Michael Wassell
Or maybe this one?  http://www.ptmarketing.com/PolicySettings.zip   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug HampshireSent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:57 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] GPO explanations This what you're looking for? - Or

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