RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site----Why?

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Todd, With all due respect, I think there are more people doing this than you think. You aren't using a Lag Site, so it's 'whacky'. Your opinion, so you're entitled to it. PSS blessed our implementation, BTW. If you'd like, I'll be happy to provide you with contacts for the ROSS tech (out of L

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to log you on because if an account restriction

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Mark, Please post the link to the white paper, if you would. I'm sure that you can imagine that there are more than a few white papers that we all know about.... Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Wi

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site----Why not?

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
nt to fix what's not broke, Todd. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
e of a GPO: Administrative Templates System Netlogon DC Locator DNS Records These settings are disccused in Chapter 4: Planning DNS of the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Deployment Guide. -Arden On 5/19/05, Rick Kingslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: 19 May 2005 15:59 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site Just two things... Disable Netlogon. If it's disabled as a policy or by going to services and changing the ser

RE: [ActiveDir] AD alerting tools

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
There are a number of freeware event log -> syslog tools that will scrape the event logs for what you are looking to dump out to the syslog server.  Obviously, the second part of this is a syslog server.  Those are a dime a dozen – or free.  Choose your OS (Windows, *nix, Mac, whatever) a

RE: [ActiveDir] Joining pc to domain over vpn

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Sounds like there might be some NATing going on. Get with your Network folks. I suspect that there is something going on at layers 2 and 3 that are going to prevent what you want to do until the DCPromo is completed. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Marcus, I kill off the specific rules on those servers. If I'm not interested in a particular message, it's gone. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:24 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.or

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site----Why not?

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Todd - I personally don't have a problem with Recovery Manager. That being said - Last I checked, Microsoft still didn't allow it as a SUPPORTABLE solution for the purpose under discussion. With our company being an Enterprise Agreement customer with a PSS agreement scaled to 'Get Ballmer out o

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yann, If you remember the situation that I proposed for you (it's working in my environment today, so I'm fairly certain of its viability) I use a VMWare server with multiple DC instances. Each instance is staggered for replication - from 30 minutes to 30 days. In the instance of a problem in w

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Just two things... Disable Netlogon. If it's disabled as a policy or by going to services and changing the service properties, restarting on reboot won't be an issue. Disabled is disabled, regardless. As to DNS records, I suppose that if the Netlogon service is disabled (primary for registering

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-18 Thread Rick Kingslan
(Caveat - I didn't go read the article fairly certain what this is about) I've implemented something quite similar to this in my environment - except I did it quite a bit differently - and, I think that it's a very viable DR and near-line recovery solution. What we did in our Enterprise was t

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to log you on because if an account restriction

2005-05-18 Thread Rick Kingslan
Mark, This may be a bit bizarre, but are you certain that when you restored the DCs that the passwords of the accounts went with them? I'm not certain why this might have occurred, but remember that there is an account restriction that would apply that REQUIRES a password for all principals. And

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication failures - lingering objects

2005-05-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
If you’re concerned that there might be a problem – I don’t see any real value in taking a chance.  I tend to treat DCs much like ‘tin soldiers’.  Their purpose in life is primarily object repository and authN.  If the object repository can’t be trusted (possibly out of date) then the authN

RE: [ActiveDir] delegation not working on Win2k AD

2005-05-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] delegation not working on Win2k AD I agree with many of the other posts here – a domain level is likely the correct area to do this, simply because the usual location for a joined computer is the Computers Container – not an OU.  If they don’t have access to the conta

RE: [ActiveDir]

2005-05-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
o know our own Brian Desmond here on the list. He's sys admin / designer / all around 'good guy' with a school district in (Chicago???). He's been there, done that with what you are doing. Good luck! Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Di

RE: [ActiveDir] Audit Collection Services

2005-05-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
Sadly, the beta for ACS has been closed for a VERY long time. This close to what might be a release, I suspect that there will not be any opportunity to get in on the beta. However, check with your local MS folks and see if they can get you the bits. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Audit Collection Services

2005-05-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
I thought it was dropped - maybe not, however. I seem to remember seeing in - I think - one of Paul T.'s write-ups that the ACS piece in R2 had been dropped. For now - at least. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis Ouellet Se

RE: [ActiveDir] Audit Collection Services

2005-05-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
Nope - it's still in beta. Final stages, but still not released. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 10:29 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Audit Collection Services Gree

RE: [ActiveDir] [OnTopic] Active Directory Property Set Madness

2005-05-12 Thread Rick Kingslan
Right. And joe thinks I asked this question because I didn't know. ;o) There are interesting idiosyncrasies with the built-in and default groups that are not well understood. This was the real reason that I was bringing up the discussion - to hopefully ferret out some of the interesting and pecul

FW: [ActiveDir] Accessing NT4 resource domain via sIDHistory

2005-05-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
AND - in addition to what Jorge and Deji said: Target Domain technically needs to be in Native mode to support sIDHistory. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:39 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTE

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DNS

2005-05-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
Details, details. However, I think that it was actually fixed is SP3, no? ;o) -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santhosh Sivarajan Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] 20

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Configuration GP applying to W2K but not WinXP

2005-05-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
And, from personal experience in our Enterprise, I can absolutely guarantee that what Darren says is true.  I, too, had a problem where policy parts and pieces were getting applied.  Looking into it, if I ran GPResult/RSoP, I could see that more and more was being applied on each reboot 

RE: [ActiveDir] All - OT (and drifting further away)

2005-05-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
[1] In shorts. Bugger off, joe. ;op -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:45 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] All - OT (and drifting further away) LOL. Rick are you still stri

RE: [ActiveDir] All - OT (and drifting further away)

2005-05-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
Honestly, I found it a bit of a surprise as well. However, there must be something in his background or his talents that lend him to that end. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:01 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not applied - thinks it is empty

2005-05-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
ith google... I don't think this stuff is locked down to just AD ORG members. Regardless First public posting of this URL... http://blog.joeware.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, May 08,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems

2005-05-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
:o) Good to hear from you, Missy. Even if it was meant to be a private message to Deji. Keep in touch, would you? Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert

RE: [ActiveDir] best practice?

2005-05-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
"The last I heard, newsid wasn't something MS supported the use of." But, it works and it seems to be very good at following the rules. Of course, I haven't seen a statement of support out of Redmond on adfind, either :o) -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS vs. Hosts File

2005-05-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Of course LDAP is going to be used, as there needs to be a protocol that knows how to find the authenticating DC. However, not to confuse any issues here - LDAP is not and authenticating protocol in any way, shape or form. Jorge, just want to be sure that you know that I know you weren't insinu

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS vs. Hosts File

2005-05-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
I can ABSOLUTELY guarantee that it's the _kerberos records that are responsible for the AuthN locator. Consider a keen little problem I ran into this week. I've got a site that has member servers and user machines authenticating anywhere they want to - across our 50-some odd sites. After checkin

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not applied - thinks it is empty

2005-05-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
"Completely in my opinion" Completely MY opinion. Dude - you need a blog worse than most anyone I know. joe, you have these wonderful, concise, often controversial dissertations on subjects of importance. And, often times they are hard to find and sometimes unavailable to non-members of thi

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not applied - thinks it is empty

2005-05-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
~Eric,   “If you have a policy out there resetting the local admin password, how are you storing the new password in the script?”   Fully admitting I haven’t delved deeply into this…. As a parameter to the script passed from the GPO settings on a Startup Script object?   -rtk

RE: [ActiveDir] Imaging NT5+ DCs == Bad (was: best practice?)

2005-05-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
as MVPs have a special newsgroup on the MVP private server specifically where we can submit for changes in KBs, they are very responsive. Take a peek, if you can't find it, let me know and I will dig out the actual name. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

RE: [ActiveDir] Imaging NT5+ DCs == Bad (was: best practice?)

2005-05-04 Thread Rick Kingslan
Al, "Can" and "Will" are two different things. Knowing Brett and his, shall we say, feisty nature - anything is possible. :o) Brett - what's the Xbox game of the week, BTW? Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Wednesd

RE: [ActiveDir] primary and secondary dns question

2005-04-30 Thread Rick Kingslan
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 4:13 AM To: 'Rick Kingslan '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] primary and secondary dns question In addition to what Rick told you... Win2K DCs in a forest root domain (the first domain c

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS zone replication in Active Directory

2005-04-29 Thread Rick Kingslan
orest Functional level. This will kick in the much more optimized AD Replication. HTH! Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/exper

RE: [ActiveDir] primary and secondary dns question

2005-04-29 Thread Rick Kingslan
rosoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B291382 WINS - Honestly I'm not so sure. I suspect that I would do the same, more because I have a lack of real evidence one way or another. I know of potential issues with DNS settings, WINS - not so much. Good luck! Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISS

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS ?

2005-04-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
I agree with everything that Roger says. Exactly correct in all regards. However, I have a similar environment (BIND except for the AD / Windows necessary DNS) where my Exchange servers sit on the internal network - corp.company.com, with the actual SMTP alias of external mail being acme.com. So

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP NTLM Authed Channel Encryption Question was LDAPS part 2

2005-03-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Message So, joe and Joe – is this indisputable truth that we’ve been looking for that NTLM is a required part of the Kerberos authentication process?   :-D    (Joe, just ask joe….. trust me…..)   -rtk   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j

RE: [ActiveDir] AD user account keeps getting locked out

2005-03-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
Joe –   Run into this issue all of the time.  Usually, it has to do with an application or some other application / process that either uses or caches the user’s credentials.  If the password is changed, the application or process needs to be changed as well.   My recommendation: The Ac

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation of permissions

2005-03-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
The debate on this topic seems to rage on. Russ, the issue is one of risk. How much control or access are you willing to give folks on your DCs? This is the same discussion that joe and I have had on more than a couple of occasions. Me, I'm a bit more willing to delegate out authority to do just

RE: [ActiveDir] Problem: Limit Domain Admins and Administrators

2005-03-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
you a good security person, though it is a good start. Many security people I have met are more paranoid than technical. Their technical knowledge is limited to understanding how to use the the available security tools, not necessarily the concepts and the guts behind them.       From: [EMA

RE: [ActiveDir] Problem: Limit Domain Admins and Administrators

2005-03-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
joe –   Great answer in a perfect world.  Great answer in the joe-run world.  I’d like to do the same, but it’s kind of funny that the guys I can’t really trust, the company still employs because I can’t get evidence that is going to get them fired to the degree in which HR is not going t

RE: [ActiveDir] Problem: Limit Domain Admins and Administrators

2005-03-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:21 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Problem: Limit Domain Admins and Administrators   Yeah, that’s been discussed a few times here.  One of the

RE: [ActiveDir] Problem: Limit Domain Admins and Administrators

2005-03-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
doing the audit to really know anything about AD other than this person can do ‘A” job with these rights in AD. Rick Kingslan  MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and LDAP

2005-03-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
t win the Lotto. :) It seems more and more like I am going to have to actually earn my first million. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and LDAP

2005-03-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
earn my first million. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and LDAP " The Cat Book rocks. Actually I should get

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and LDAP

2005-03-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
Oh, and mine's signed! Thanks again, Gil! :) -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:16 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and LDAP It's the

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and LDAP

2005-03-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
It's the best Nuts and bolts book on programming to AD that I've got on the shelf. "Active Directory Programming" by Gil Kirkpatrick -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:19 AM To: ActiveDir@

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and LDAP

2005-03-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
" The Cat Book rocks. Actually I should get royalties for that one too, I have made a bunch of people buy it" Here we go again -rtk P.S :p -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:11 AM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP and related Exchange question

2005-03-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
WTF?!?!? Has this list sunk this far? However, I should know better. It's joe, Al, and Deji. Never mind all. False alarm. Nothing odd going on at all. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 12:29 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM - Clarification

2005-03-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:38 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM - Clarification Joe, Thanks for the feedback. This is pretty much what I had concluded, after doing so

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM - Clarification

2005-03-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
an identity store and then possibly looking at the group membership for authorization purposes. My $0.04 anyway, al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 11:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM - Clarification

2005-03-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
t 636 between these two IP addresses. Eric will probably weigh in this as well. Joe K. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 10:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ADAM - Clarifi

[ActiveDir] ADAM - Clarification

2005-03-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
the requirements for SASL bind. Is this an option? The bottom line is that I want to use ADAM, but have run into this brick wall. What options do I have, as I've exhausted the resources that I have at my disposal, at this point in time at least :) Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Micr

RE: [ActiveDir] Some thoughts on securing sensitive accounts....

2005-02-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
“If you have only one Enterprise admin account, and only one person who knows the credentials for that account, then there are some large organizational risks if something happens to that one person.”   True – one is really asking for a disaster at this point.   My environment – two EA

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Reboot necessary

2005-02-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
you need to patch RMS, it's obviously much easier if the code is not kernel deep and not critical to the running of the OS. Others will obviously weigh in here. Hopefully, one of those folks will be ~Eric, with his clearly 'insider' info on what the overall direction in this area

RE: [ActiveDir] Is it possible ? deny domain admins create new us er permission

2005-02-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
ou put into place. It has no bearing how good you are as the delegation person, it all comes down to how good the DA is. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.acti

RE: [ActiveDir] Is it possible ? deny domain admins create new us er permission

2005-02-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
Hmmm. OK, I'm inclined to agree, but aren't DA's and EA's governed by the same set of ACLs and ACEs applied at specific levels of AD as any other user? IOW, can't I remove the Allow from DA to Create / Delete User Object? Right. AdminSDHolder is going to change it back on its rounds. And (thoug

RE: [ActiveDir] Updates without SUS/WUS

2005-02-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
Noah, Your options are pretty limited if you don't have access to WU, WUS or SUS. The options really do come down to applying each patch, potentially rebooting between each of the patches. If you don't reboot, you run into a potential issue in which the bits from patch A are over-written by pa

RE: [ActiveDir] Two little tools ...

2005-02-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Message You haven’t met Dean face to face, have you?      -rtk   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:27 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Two little tools ...  

RE: [ActiveDir] [Dreadfully OT]: Interesting little tidbit....

2005-02-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sun 2/13/2005 6:59 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [Dreadfully OT]: I

RE: [ActiveDir] [Dreadfully OT]: Interesting little tidbit....

2005-02-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sun 2/13/2005 1:08 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir

[ActiveDir] [Dreadfully OT]: Interesting little tidbit....

2005-02-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
it's worth the time. http://www.colinux.org Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com

RE: [ActiveDir] Display Computer Name on Desktop

2005-02-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
Justin - I'm going to try again because, IMHO, you're working WAY too hard at this one problem. My current preference - http://www.kewlit.com/whoami/index2b.html Great for the Data Center boxes connected via KVM. If you haven't looked at this tool - you have NO IDEA what you're missing. Simp

RE: [ActiveDir] VERY VERY OT: DEC and Vancouver/Canada

2005-02-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep - you can be sure that I'll be taking on a role of 'enforcer' ;o) -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 11:05 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VERY VERY OT: DEC and Va

RE: [ActiveDir] Very OT: Please Settle a Bet

2005-02-12 Thread Rick Kingslan
lackluster separation of program to program corruption.   If you want more info – see here.  http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/archive/win95.html   I remember Greg from the ‘Chicago’ (code name for Win95) beta days, and thought he wrote an article or two.   Hope this helps.   Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] "Additional Account Information" available after search in ADUC?

2005-02-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
Sadly, no - from what I've seen so far. But, the value of the tool still far exceeds the cost, even with the inconvenience that you correctly state. However, I don't know if a new version is being prepped for the SP1 timeframe, either. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

RE: [ActiveDir] VERY VERY OT: DEC and Vancouver/Canada

2005-02-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
Nope Rick's going to DEC Thought joe wouldn't miss it. Apparently, I'm quite mistaken. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] Exclude a specific user (or group) from a GPO (WMI Filter?)

2005-02-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
-nodn -nolabel -q |unique BUILTIN\Administrators CHILD1\Domain Admins JOE\$jricha34 JOE\2K3DC01$ JOE\2K3EXC01$ JOE\2K3EXC02$ JOE\2K3UTL01$ JOE\Domain Admins JOE\Enterprise Admins JOE\FASTMOFO$ JOE\Schema Admins NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM         joe       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

RE: [ActiveDir] Built-in Defragger and Clustering

2005-02-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
] Built-in Defragger and Clustering   That did sound like a silly superstition to me. Anyway, do you use the built-in defragger to defragment your shared cluster drives?   Dan     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday, February 09

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS(again)

2005-02-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom, If I do an nslookup against sales.charmer.com, I get the SOA with no problem. There are no other records in that zone, but it responds. Are you running AD integrated? If so, can you temporarily change it back to Primary and cut and paste the .dns file for sales.charmer.com out to us to t

RE: [ActiveDir] Migrating access rights from Novell/NDS to W2K3/AD with NDS migra tor

2005-02-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
Where the hell have _YOU_ been, you little over-cooked Swede? :OD Great to hear from you! -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimmy Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 6:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Mig

RE: [ActiveDir] users with power user rights

2005-02-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
ectory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tue 2/8/2005 9:02 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Assistance

2005-02-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
I’d load NetMon or Ethereal on both machines and capture the traffic.  Filter on the names / IPs of the two machines involved, just to reduce the noise to just the important bits.   I suspect this will most likely uncover the problem much quicker than anything else you could likely do.  

RE: [ActiveDir] AD PowerPoint presentation

2005-02-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Nathan, I'm quite certain that if you contact the local Microsoft sales office in your area, they will most likely fall all over themselves in getting a presentation to assist you on this. I know for a fact that they have more than a couple on just this topic. -rtk -Original Message- Fr

RE: [ActiveDir] Exclude a specific user (or group) from a GPO (WMI Filter?)

2005-02-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yeah – I agree with Darren on this one.  Picture the Yeknom Inc. (CareerBuilder.Com) commercials that aired during the Super Bowl.  Picture a gray-haired Monkey standing in his chair, and a younger chimp kissing his butt.   Yep – American Capitalism at its finest.   -rtk   Fro

RE: [ActiveDir] Built-in Defragger and Clustering

2005-02-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Dan,   Been working with Clusters for a number of years, and I have never heard of this.  I can ping a couple folks, but I can’t surmise what the problem would be.  If data is re-ordered, the disk is going to work fine one way or another.   -rtk   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

RE: [ActiveDir] Citrix GPO Application

2005-02-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Security filtering to groups of users is the best way to accomplish this. Put all of the administrative context users that you DO NOT want this to apply to into a specific group. Ensure that the READ and APPPLY Group Policy are not enforced. However, in most Citrix applications that I've worked w

RE: [ActiveDir] users with power user rights

2005-02-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Login script won't work. It would have to be a Startup script. Startup script runs under LocalSystem, while the context of the login script runs under that of the user who has just logged on - typically with noting more than Domain User rights. Of course, Domain User won't be enough (I hope!) to

RE: [ActiveDir] Using GPO's to force a Lock Workstation in conjunction with task manager

2005-02-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
bject: RE: [ActiveDir] Using GPO's to force a Lock Workstation in conjunction with task manager I doubt that the task scheduler can run a shortcut... Shortcuts are a shell function. Can you run the .exe directly from the scheduler instead of running the shortcut? -gil -----Original Message

RE: [ActiveDir] Using GPO's to force a Lock Workstation in conjunction with task manager

2005-02-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
station in conjunction with task manager I doubt that the task scheduler can run a shortcut... Shortcuts are a shell function. Can you run the .exe directly from the scheduler instead of running the shortcut? -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

RE: [ActiveDir] Using GPO's to force a Lock Workstation in conjunction with task manager

2005-02-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
Jason, I'm sure that there's a good reason for not wanting to use the enable screen saver option, but I'm curious as to why you want to do that actual LockWorkStation function. Is it an academic exercise, or is there something more to it? Just simply curious... -rtk -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Operational Attributes

2005-02-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
Sakari, To echo the one phrase from Microsoft that, I personally have flat gotten sick of, we can likely expect to see your next edition "In the LONGHORN TIMEFRAME" ;o) -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sakari Kouti Sent: Monday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Obtaining a count of members in a group

2005-02-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
You CAN, but 'FIND' has nowhere near the 'fun' that grep does. Have you ever seen an entire BOOK written on 'FIND'? ;p -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sub

RE: [ActiveDir] Obtaining a count of members in a group

2005-02-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Message Ø   Doing this for multiple groups is trickier. No doubt it can be done with batch commands but I'm not the one that could do it.   Pose that one to Dean.  I’ve never seen keener DOS or CMD batch scripts in my life…  (sorry joe – including you…)  ;o)   -rtk    

RE: [ActiveDir] Legal Question

2005-02-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
Brian, I think the most important issue to take into account with this is one of perceived or real confidentiality. The technology of SMTP is not, nor was it really ever, designed with confidentiality in mind. S/MIME - different story. This is a solution to the SMTP issue. So, if one wants con

RE: [ActiveDir] Extranet for WSS?

2005-02-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
hink the one-way trust is probably the way to go here. I also think > that's exactly what MS does for their partner extranet that uses WSS. > > Joe K. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan > Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Extranet for WSS?

2005-02-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
. I also think that's exactly what MS does for their partner extranet that uses WSS. Joe K. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Extranet for WSS?

2005-02-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
e you mean just creating users in ADAM here? I wasn't sure, it wasn't clear to me from the way that was worded. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:31 PM To: ActiveDir@m

RE: [ActiveDir] Extranet for WSS?

2005-02-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
Me, I'd go the AD/AM route. AD/AM supports both a mode for saving the password hash info for user objects, or - and my preferred method for authN from an external repository to AD - DS-Proxy-Bind mode in which the user object in AD/AM has one key attribute - SID of the object to auth against in th

RE: [ActiveDir] VERY VERY OT: DEC and Vancouver/Canada

2005-02-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VERY VERY OT: DEC and Vancouver/Canada come on Rick - I'd really enjoy watching Joe race down the Whistler mountain on a snowboard _with shorts on_ ;-)) /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ActiveDir] VERY VERY OT: DEC and Vancouver/Canada

2005-02-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
L PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 2:01 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VERY VERY OT: DEC and Vancouver/Canada However, there is one small problem - no one else wants to to see you _WITH SHORTS ON_! :p -rtk -Original Me

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Unattended Restart

2005-02-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
Dell DRAC and RAC as well as IBM RSA will do similar funtions - as well as shut it off cold, and start it up - remotely.   -rtk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian DesmondSent: Monday, January 31, 2005 3:55 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [A

RE: [ActiveDir] VERY VERY OT: DEC and Vancouver/Canada

2005-02-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
However, there is one small problem - no one else wants to to see you _WITH SHORTS ON_! :p -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:06 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VER

RE: [ActiveDir] Legal Question

2005-01-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
In our dealings with this in my environment - which has just learned that sticks and stones do, in fact, exist - legal standings in relation to Federal law is pretty much untested.  In fact, any disclaimers tied to specific sections of the Electronic Communications Acts, are most likely grea

RE: [ActiveDir] time server

2005-01-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: time server Mark,   I've got a number of Avayas (S8700's) at work.  I can check with our on-staff Avaya folks, as I know that they are synching time internally.  However, I think that it's going back against our AIX systems.   But, as to it being Linux - it's how you order the modules

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trusts vs trusts within forests

2005-01-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
Ummm, yeah - I do. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Wells Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 5:22 PM To: Send - AD mailing list Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trusts vs trusts within forests Does nobody but me like or even prefer s

RE: [ActiveDir] LDP does not return modifyTimeStamp attribute...

2004-12-28 Thread Rick Kingslan
Dean, joe - you were right. Brett did, and does - have an opinion. His opinion, as it seems from this is, that you should bloody well go stuff yourself elsewhere, and do the job yourself. However, I *might* have read it out of context... Regardless, Brett - it's always great to hear from you..

RE: [ActiveDir] worm (very very OT)

2004-12-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
12:12:26 -0600, Rick Kingslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we're speaking of a hub rather than a switch, you can plug in to > any port and sniff the traffic. A hub runs at the physical layer, > while a switch operates more at the MAC portion of the Data Link of the good old O

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