RE: [ActiveDir] GPO wierdness during forest migration

2006-05-17 Thread Nicolas Blank
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 migration

[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

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

2006-04-02 Thread Nicolas Blank
Havent lurked on the list for a while, so apologies if Im 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 amount of RAM to

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

RE: [ActiveDir] ISA 2004 and Microsoft Cluster Server

2005-09-13 Thread Nicolas Blank
Dont bother going the clustering route. ISA has a very decent version of NLB thats 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

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] Native Mode Switch

2005-04-22 Thread Nicolas Blank
] 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 introduces new features. One of the consequences

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.microsoft.com/kb/322692

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

[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 guys

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 of the replica where the change

[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

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

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:

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP dir syncproduct to AD

2005-03-08 Thread Nicolas Blank
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: [ActiveDir] LDAP dir syncproduct to AD Nic, we have implemented

[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 list

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

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 youre looking for is a) Transparency for

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 an example of them

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] Maybe I'm just confused...

2004-09-29 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

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange and AD E-mails

2004-08-03 Thread Nicolas Blank
Youll notice that those permissions on the store object arent explicit, but inherited and to use Joes 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 List Children, Read

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:

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.

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 precludes

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

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

2004-06-01 Thread Nicolas Blank
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 2004 8:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2004-06-01 Thread Nicolas Blank
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 thing you

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. Cant claim this as my own source is Richard Mueller,

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] 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 mods

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

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]

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

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration Dilemma

2004-04-15 Thread Nicolas Blank
I have used Quests 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. Ive also done a non ADC migrations using

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] [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

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.

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Groups

2004-03-10 Thread Nicolas Blank
Another might be to check where the groups are being used. If theyre 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] 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

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

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Migration Question

2004-02-24 Thread Nicolas Blank
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] Exchange 2003 Migration

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

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, theres 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