Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest "Am hwyl, dwi am ymateb drwy beidio a dweud dim byd mwy nag adlewyrchu dy bwynt!" = "Just for fun, I'll respond with an answer that says nothing but simply illustrates your point." - Original Message -

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange attributes..

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
 You simply need to install the Exchange Admin tools on the system that you want these tabs. Therefore, in your case, you should install them on your computer and possibly on a DC or two too (depending on how you work). --Paul - Original Message - From: HBooGz To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Different (open)LDAP Question

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Williams
Check out Ryan's take on it... -- http://dunnry.com/blog/msDsUserAccountControlComputedNotSoSpiffy.aspx --Paul - Original Message - From: David Aragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:49 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Different (open)LDAP

Re: [ActiveDir] Automating GC promotion during dcpromo

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Williams
Yeah, I'm in the same boat now. Got a requirement for fully autonomous DC deployment with a largish DIT. Single domain forest so everything is GC. I was frustrated to find out that one of the scripting guys told me that that option didn't work. I plan on working round this by promoting the

Re: [ActiveDir] Virtual DCs

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Williams
Agree. Due to the number of servers some of our guys have to look at virtualisation. I've said a flat no to the DCs though. We're standardising on x64 with 32 GB RAM for our DCs. There's no way we're going to take a perf hit because someone much further up the chain wants fewer boxes. I

Re: [ActiveDir] Virtual DCs

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Williams
The problem with this is delegating the ability to support the remote systems. Possible of course -web based admin of the VM, and all that, but usually a pain. ANd if done wrong... --Paul - Original Message - From: Matt Hargraves To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Domain List

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Williams
Are you talking about having Options minimised by default and educating users to logon with UPN or domain\samaccountname syntax or are you talking about actually modifying the list built by Winlogon? There's probably a number of options. As Tony says you can modify the list of domains

Re: [ActiveDir] Rights Required to Rename Computer Objects

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Williams
Write all properties is overkill! Joe'll go wild when he sees that that is written in the MSFT delegation guide... :P I believe you require: WRITE_PROP for name and cn Summarised, you're modify the RDN. --Paul - Original Message - From: O'Brien, Cathy To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Williams
Nice answer Steve. Thanks for the info. and the KB. - Original Message - From: Steve Linehan To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:41 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS

Re: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Paul Williams
I can't see how you can get a duplicate NDNC as the creation of such objects is targetted at the DN master. The DN master will check the existing crossRefs and stop this happening, as we can't rely on the DS stopping it as the RDN is different for each NDNC (unless they've used well-known GUIDs

Re: [ActiveDir] Planning for the future

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Williams
If you create a new domain in your forest for this requirement, and in the future they are bought by another company, then your only supported option is to migrate to the new or existing forest on the other side. It is probably easier, and safer, to create a new forest with an external trust.

Re: [ActiveDir] SFTP with AD Auth

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Williams
The last place I worked, we used WinSSH for this purpose. Trivial to setup and cheap (about $100/ £65). This allows you to tunnel FTP and use Windows auth. There's also additional options to allow some additional access control, e.g. only specific groups can use the tunnel, etc. If I

Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Williams
We team everything. It seems stupid not too. Use fault tolerance only (as opposed to load balancing) and you've got additional resilliency. FT works fine with different paths, e.g. different switches. --Paul - Original Message - From: Freddy HARTONO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Williams
corruption issues (Taken from the Directory Services Blueprint - page 29) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 13:50 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain

Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers

2006-07-12 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Multihomed Domain Controllers Couple of points. Most have probably been covered, or read by you: Clearly label the NICs, e.g. LAN00 and BACKUP00. Adjust the binding order so that LAN00 is above BACKUP00. If you don't require NetBT, disable it on BACKUP00 (BackupExec will

Re: [ActiveDir] Rights for Authorizing DHCP Server

2006-07-11 Thread Paul Williams
You don't even need full control (an error in Microsoft's documentation if you ask me). You just need create and delete dHCPClass objects in that container. You need to do this via ADSIEDIT, DSACLS, LDP or code. Note. If I remember correctly, some of the behaviour changed between 2k and

Re: [ActiveDir] Kerberos MaxTokenSize and too many groups issues

2006-07-11 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Kerberos MaxTokenSize and too many groups issues You might also want to review this interesting white paper: -- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22dd9251-0781-42e6-9346-89d577a3e74aDisplayLang=en (that took me ages to find so please read it ;-) --Paul

Re: [ActiveDir] R2 Schema..

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Williams
If you're running 2003 then I don't believe you need to run /DOMAINPREP. That's only to do what it does for 2k domains. So it's just /FORESTPREP. - Original Message - From: Brian Desmond To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:01 PM

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS vs NETBIOS name? Or something else?

2006-02-02 Thread Paul Williams
What are the options in the Winlogon box? You should only have the choice of the NetBIOS domain name or the local box (and any trusted domains). To use the DNS name you need to use a UPN. --Paul - Original Message - From: Douglas M. Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Williams
Morning all, If we delete the NETLOGON.DNS file and restart NETLOGON it is recreated. Where is it (NETLOGON) getting those values from? Tell me it's not hard-coded and I can modify it somehow. Thanks, --Paul List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ:

Re: [ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Williams
file? I hope I make sense?? Regards David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: 26 Jan 2006 9:24 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS Morning all, If we delete the NETLOGON.DNS file and restart

Re: [ActiveDir] Delegate disable/enable user accounts

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Williams
WP on the user object's userAccountControl attribute.

Re: [ActiveDir] Interesting events of note in the log files [in that SBS box that has the 'corrupted' file

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Williams
is there anyway to have these log files save things not by size, but by day to ensure that tracking between the logs can be done? [I'm pretty sure the answer is no, and the only thing we can do is bump the size of those logs but I thought I'd ask the blonde question anyway] Yes. There are a

Re: [ActiveDir] Obsolete Domain groups

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Williams
Only when it was last modified. Groups don't have passwords or the like. Objects that have a group as an ACE in their ACL don't need to speak to the group about it at all. So you'd have to search for old groups by modified date. Or you could dump all groups, their locations and modified

Re: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Williams
It's a good way of preparing management for what you want at the Christmas party. We also put quantity in there! - Original Message - From: Dean Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Send - AD mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:29 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

Re: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Williams
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute Uhh..hmmm! You're British, not American! Don't forget about Wales! Cardiff has been on the news quite a bit - there's been that much drunken violence... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Query out all user members in nested groups

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Williams
I believe Joe's memberOf tool is what you are looking for: -- http://joeware.net/win/free/tools/memberof.htm List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

Re: [ActiveDir] Quest Migration manager(OT)

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Williams
They're being rebranded anyway. I believe the DS guys at the summit said IIFP will become Active Directory Meta Directory Services. Not sure if MIIS' name will change. Certificates and AD as we know it are all going to be rebranded, in what would appear to be a much more meaningful set of

Re: [ActiveDir] Forest Trusts Accessing Resources

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Message I always do it this way: -- Global group in source contains user objects. -- Domain Local in target is assigned permissions to resource. -- Global group is a member of the domain local. Throwing universal groups into this mix is just silly. Also, bear in mind there will

Re: [ActiveDir] security problem

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Williams
Logon as an administrator and take ownership of the drive. Then grant adequate permissions again. Reinstalling Windows will obviously fix it, but is a drastic measure. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 5:43

Re: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted.

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Williams
Yep. Me too. - Original Message - From: Al Mulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 6:38 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted. I'd be interested to see that argument as well, Brett. -Original

Re: [ActiveDir] Adding users to local Admin group

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Adding users to local Admin group Doesn't matter. Computer policy is computer policy. You can also simply link the GPO to the domain and filter it based on another security group - one that simply holds the computer accounts in question. Here's an article on what you want to do: --

Re: [ActiveDir] Major issue not sure if 2003 created this problem

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Williams
I believe the _msdcs sub domain is Microsoft/ Windows only. Non-Windows clients will use _ldap._tcp.domain-name or _ldap._tcp.site name._sites.domain-name. - Original Message - From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org;

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