[ActiveDir] GPO wierdness during forest migration

2006-05-15 Thread Nicolas Blank
Hi all Migrating from one forest into another, one way trust treating the source as a resource forest. Migrating using Quest Migration Manager with Sidhistory. Weird thing is that on the users machine, gpresult gives me source and target GPO's as applied, however target GPO's are applying inconsi

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO wierdness during forest migration

2006-05-17 Thread Nicolas Blank
is old or new. Not sure why ADMT would be any different however. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Blank Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:26 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] GPO wierdness during forest

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

2006-02-06 Thread Nicolas Blank
If objects "disappear" inside ESM, often the right to read the object or the right to read the permission of the object has been lost, mangled, whatever. You CAN expose this object using ADSIEDIT, by browsing to the config partition,services,exchange,orgname, which then exposes the top level objec

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Versions of Windows Server 2003

2006-04-02 Thread Nicolas Blank
Haven’t “lurked” on the list for a while, so apologies if I’m asking the answered, however: Bearing in mind the non-goals of the paper, i.e. ·  Finding a precise database size at which the 64-bit version becomes more advantageous than the 32-bit version. ·  Finding a precise am

RE: [ActiveDir] Maximum message size for Default SMTP Virtual Server !!

2005-06-21 Thread Nicolas Blank
yes. The max message size in KB is 400, however there are session size limits to take into account as well. The session size is the next field underneath the size field limits the size of the message sent per session, and therefore needs to be greater than the largest message size. You

RE: [ActiveDir] User with LDAP userPassword permissions

2005-07-19 Thread Nicolas Blank
Do this with ADSIEDIT – more permissions, no fiddling ;)   From: Dan Holme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 July 2005 09:07 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User with LDAP userPassword permissions   I didn’t see any responses to this… don’t know

RE: [ActiveDir] Hiding an OU

2005-07-22 Thread Nicolas Blank
Simplest solution is the one you mentioned. Otherwise you can set the third byte in the DSHEURISTICS attribute to 1, i.e. xx1 – leave the other two values alone, as they influence your ANR set and how search results get returned. This enables the list permission in AD. With this permissio

RE: [ActiveDir] Finding user's with certain attributes

2005-09-01 Thread Nicolas Blank
Peter, Not trying to oversimplify things – but a really easy way to find most attributes, it to put a really obvious value in the attrib for a specific user, and examine the object with LDP or ADSI edit afterwards and see what got populated.   As such, there is no expiry date attrib that

RE: [ActiveDir] ISA 2004 and Microsoft Cluster Server

2005-09-13 Thread Nicolas Blank
Don’t bother going the clustering route. ISA has a very decent version of NLB that’s built in, and will work in a highly available configuration for a single route. Adding clustering to this will obscure and complicate things. Suggest you stick with the built in NLB, since adjacent Proxy s

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Migration Question

2004-02-20 Thread Nicolas Blank
Title: Exchange 2003 Migration Question Kent There’s a number of factor you need to consider here, and three of the biggest one’s that come to mind are co-existence, user profile re-pointing, and freezing the admin environment for the duration on one or both sides. You didn’t mention how

RE: [ActiveDir] NT Member Server Migration to AD 2003

2004-02-23 Thread Nicolas Blank
Debbie, unless you want to take advantage of the features which the directory client provides, there’s very little that needs doing to member server. I find that depending on what the servers are hosting, that re/acl-ing and moving them to the target domain is all that needs doing. Is there

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Migration Question

2004-02-24 Thread Nicolas Blank
profile connected with the PST(s) but also migrate all the email in the PST back to Exchange.   Thank you!   Kent -Original Message- From: Nicolas Blank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 3:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Extended Rights

2004-02-24 Thread Nicolas Blank
Title: Extended Rights You can do this in two places  - you can edit dssec.dat as mentioned to expose extra rights or you can use ADSIEDIT which has no limitations. Drawback to editing dssec.dat is that you need to do it on all the machines you want to delegate from, and you need to know wh

RE: [ActiveDir] Removing inherited mailbox persmissions on AD ac counts

2004-02-25 Thread Nicolas Blank
SELF should DEFINITELLY stay there ! IF an ACL shows inherited permissions then they generally come from the database object or the store object above it. Enable the showpermission regkey you saw posted earlier, and examine the database permissions and the store permissions. Also sidHistory won't b

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 Hardening Guide

2004-03-09 Thread Nicolas Blank
Then there's the little gripe of. Publishing an Exchange attribute in MSDN and then UN-publishing it in "oops" style, after you find out you really really WANT to address this multi value attribute in a script, and not a one line GUI... *SIGH* -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Groups

2004-03-10 Thread Nicolas Blank
Another might be to check where the groups are being used. If they’re used to secure file/print type resources and/or AD resources then they may be discovered using a decent reporting tool, i.e check if group X is used in AD anywhere, or is present on THAT server. You could explore this via

RE: [ActiveDir] Gateway Serive For Netware (GSNW) in Windows 2003

2004-03-11 Thread Nicolas Blank
Hang on, in order to migrate groupwise accounts, you require visibility of groupwise, which may be achieved using the client, without resorting to installing gateway services. Why do you need the gateway ? Connecting Exchange to groupwise is achieved using the mail connector and not the gateway. A

RE: [ActiveDir] [MailServer Notification]To Recipient file blocking settings matched and action taken.

2004-03-22 Thread Nicolas Blank
Calling Greg.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Administrator Sent: 22 March 2004 07:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] [MailServer Notification]To Recipient file blocking settings matched and action taken. ScanMail for Mi

RE: [ActiveDir] Making a test Network, 3 w2k srvs

2004-03-23 Thread Nicolas Blank
Exchange wont just “not install”. Have you got an error message?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Holstrom Sent: 23 March 2004 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Making a test Network, 3 w2k srvs   Hello, I have 3 W2K Srv,

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration Dilemma

2004-04-15 Thread Nicolas Blank
I have used Quest’s migratory product in similar situations where the user base was populated, but all we wanted was symbolic linkage for groups, reacling and sidhistory, without disturbing what was there already, and nothing “broke”, including mail. I’ve also done a non ADC migration’s usi

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration Dilemma

2004-04-16 Thread Nicolas Blank
SAMACCOUNTNAME - if old and new match then they can be considered the "same". ADC does similar matching, although it can be extended to do matches on EX5.5 primary nt account to an AD accounts sidhistory. Since you've done script population, you need to match on a similar attribute. If nothing mat

RE: [ActiveDir] User to InetOrgPerson Class

2004-04-21 Thread Nicolas Blank
I have chased Ms on this for an official KB article without success. I have done this in production without any hassles though on exactly the same scenario you described: third party kit that like inetorgPerson better than the user class. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

RE: [ActiveDir] Extending ADUC

2004-04-23 Thread Nicolas Blank
If you want to have something show up on the users property pages, then you need to register a handler to do so, see the MSDN link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ad/ad/e xtending_the_user_interface_for_directory_objects.asp for another view on this, see this l

RE: [ActiveDir] dc print server security

2004-05-12 Thread Nicolas Blank
Services may be ACL'd directly, just like files, AD objects, etc. You can use subinacl.exe from win2k3 & win2k res kit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4 ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en to achieve this. You can delegate the following rights on a service:

RE: [ActiveDir] Users file permission display on intranet page or to file

2004-05-27 Thread Nicolas Blank
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] win98 Lots of third party tools to do this – I did exactly this for a client the other day using Quest Reporter – published to HTML, excel, whatever automatically & collected into a DB for auditing – was an auditing requirement for a health provider. File/folder mod

RE: [ActiveDir] Looking for a tool that displays SID

2004-05-31 Thread Nicolas Blank
Title: Looking for a tool that displays SID Bind to the object using the LDAP:// or the WINNT:// provider and output to screen as below, pipe it or write it where needed.   Can’t claim this as my own –  source is Richard Mueller, http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=Function+HexStrToSidS

RE: [ActiveDir] HELP URGENT how to recover exch2000 admin account deleted

2004-05-31 Thread Nicolas Blank
Authoritive restore or if you can't recover this puppy, re-run forest prep and nominate another account. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clist Sent: 31 May 2004 06:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] HELP URGENT how to recover

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange 5.5, active directory and ADC

2004-06-01 Thread Nicolas Blank
Amit, Depending on how the accounts were created, it is possible to use the ADC to match accounts already existing in AD. If no match is found for a 5.5 mailbox, a duplicate account will be created in AD.  The default matching rule will match the 5.5 associated-NT-Account field to the AD a

RE: [ActiveDir] HELP URGENT how to recover exch2000 admin account d eleted

2004-06-01 Thread Nicolas Blank
Group Information Technology Tel.: +966-1-461-0077 x.209 Moble.: +966-509774015 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Save Internet, Keep all the systems patched" Web: http://alfaisaliah.com   -Original Message----- From: Nicolas Blank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 31 May 20

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange 5.5, active directory and ADC

2004-06-01 Thread Nicolas Blank
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Blank Sent: 01 June 2004 10:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] exchange 5.5, active directory and ADC   Amit, Depending on how the accounts were created, it is possible to use the ADC to match accounts already existing in AD. If no match is

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange 5.5, active directory and ADC

2004-06-01 Thread Nicolas Blank
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Blank Sent: 01 June 2004 10:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] exchange 5.5, active directory and ADC   Yip, the AD container/OU is selectable whilst creating the recipient agreement connection. Suggest the first

RE: [ActiveDir] Display specifier dsa.msc

2004-07-22 Thread Nicolas Blank
Cannot do this with Display specifier, you will have to create your own DLL to do this and register on every machine you want the extension to be visible. Have a look in the archive for this list for some detailed posts on this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: [ActiveDir] Another question

2004-07-26 Thread Nicolas Blank
Neither one of them is more "efficient" but one is "more compliant" than thee other to the X500 "user" definition. If you are interoperating with other directories or products with Directory Connectors, then of the InterOrgPerson is the preferred class of object to use for the sync job. This precl

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and printer admins

2004-07-28 Thread Nicolas Blank
The easiest way of figuring out what rights you need to do anything on a member server, AD, service right delegation etc, etc, is to turn on auditing on success/failure and try what you're doing again. Read the security event log, and the rights that are missing are exposed in the failure log. This

RE: [ActiveDir] Deleted Objects container

2004-08-02 Thread Nicolas Blank
Do you want to view the container, or what's in it? The container can't be exposed to something like aduc, but can be viewed with LDP, etc, where an ACL edit of sorts can be done. If you're looking to display deleted objects, that's quite easy, look at this to start off with: http://support.micros

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange and AD E-mails

2004-08-03 Thread Nicolas Blank
You’ll notice that those permissions on the store object aren’t explicit, but inherited and to use Joe’s exchange as an example are defined here: CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=rendition networks,DC=com As     Allow    DOMAIN\Exchange Domain Servers   

[ActiveDir] LDAP dir syncproduct to AD

2005-03-07 Thread Nicolas Blank
Hi all Anyone ever have to choose between Simple Sync and Imanami Directory Transformation Manager ? I'm talking to a mainframe via LDAP going to AD and on "paper" Imanami looks the better choice. Anyone have any recommendations either way? I've seen simple sync mentioned at least once on this lis

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP dir syncproduct to AD

2005-03-08 Thread Nicolas Blank
to sync? Passwords? Accounts? Questions like that should help to differentiate. Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Wall Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:45 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; Nicolas Blank Subject: RE: [Acti

RE: [ActiveDir] Double Email Messages

2005-03-16 Thread Nicolas Blank
  Are you the only person experiencing this problem? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George ArezinaSent: 16 March 2005 11:09 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Double Email Messages No, no rules were reconfigured.     From: [

[ActiveDir] GPO's not getting there

2005-04-15 Thread Nicolas Blank
I have a customer with small links and 1200+ wan sites. Problem I'm having is that without local DC's GPO's aren't applied properly on the workstations on logon, and the workstations are not locked down. The customer is not willing to buy an extra 1200 dc's. Since WAN costs are a bit silly the size

RE: [ActiveDir] Recover exchange database file

2005-04-15 Thread Nicolas Blank
Daniel, have to agree with Al. Depending on the state of these DB's you may have absolute garbage. If the DB shutdown in a dirty state and you don't have logs to replay - problem, means a hard recovery. If a hard recovery works you may only loose a little data. If a hard recover fails you have zero

RE: [ActiveDir] GC's

2005-04-20 Thread Nicolas Blank
Eric,Joe,Al,Carlos,Guido Question for you guys and the wider audience. What happens EXACTLY in Win2k on a DC(s) when the native mode switch is pushed, and what are the ramifications of changing the attribute back to reflect mixed mode one this has happened? I have a customer with a nervous disposi

[ActiveDir] Native Mode Switch

2005-04-20 Thread Nicolas Blank
Sorry, hijacked the topic by mistake. Appologies. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Blank Sent: 20 April 2005 07:21 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GC's Eric,Joe,Al,Carlos,Guido Question for you guy

RE: [ActiveDir] Native Mode Switch

2005-04-20 Thread Nicolas Blank
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 April 2005 08:17 PM To: 'Nicolas Blank '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Native Mode Switch When you convert the domain to native mode the attribute nTMixedDomain on the domain NC head o

RE: [ActiveDir] Native Mode Switch

2005-04-21 Thread Nicolas Blank
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: 20 April 2005 09:07 PM To: 'Nicolas Blank '; Jorge de Almeida Pinto; 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Native Mode Switch Manually re-writing the attribute will not work. Also see: http://support.mic

RE: [ActiveDir] Native Mode Switch

2005-04-22 Thread Nicolas Blank
L PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: 21 April 2005 01:17 PM To: 'Nicolas Blank '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Native Mode Switch As you know, changing the mode or FL switch to an upper level introd

RE: [ActiveDir] Maybe I'm just confused...

2004-09-28 Thread Nicolas Blank
Note the header below, Cyrus didn't specify a valid domain suffix for his email address, and as a result your mail clients/mail routing software are appending a domain. Received: from mail.activedir.org ([64.245.160.7]) Received: from ams004.ftl.affinity.com [216.219.253.138] by mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] What attribute determines the Schema Master Role?

2004-10-27 Thread Nicolas Blank
Further roles can be found on the fSMORoleOwner attribute on the following partitions: Primary Domain Controller (PDC) FSMO: LDAP://DC=MICROSOFT,DC=COM RID Master FSMO: LDAP://CN=Rid Manager$,CN=System,DC=Domain,DC=COM Schema Master FSMO: LDAP://CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC= Domain,DC=Com

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation of group membership changes to add users and not to ad d other groups

2004-10-28 Thread Nicolas Blank
Title: Delegation of group membership changes to add users and not to add other groups a)   third party provisioning tools, Quest/Aelita/Similar b)   run a scheduled script to strip out groups within groups every fifteen minutes c)   publicly beat a helpdesk employee to make a

RE: [ActiveDir] Ladies and Gentleman, A complex AD/Exchange issue.

2004-11-08 Thread Nicolas Blank
Title: Ladies and Gentleman, A complex AD/Exchange issue. Sounds like a process winning over technology issue here: A inter-forrest migration tool that will support a migration with Sid-history and offer an ACL cleanup should do the job. What you’re looking for is a)   Transparency f

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange mailbox diff tool

2005-01-26 Thread Nicolas Blank
What you should look for are corrupted messages. These will typically be exemplified either by messages that cannot be moved/opened or deleted. You might see event log entries either from the Exchange store or even from your backup software, complaining about messages that can't be opened or be bac