RE: [ActiveDir] "Sticky" group membership - Solved

2005-05-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 2:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] "Sticky" group membership - Solved Dean, Would you be as kind as to elaborate on the other iss

RE: [ActiveDir] "Sticky" group membership - Solved

2005-05-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
ply policy (may have long-since been resolved ... haven't checked) That's all I can think of ... hope it proves useful! Dean -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Need AD Query Suggestion Please

2005-05-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Oh, Jorge! Please stop! We can barely get joe's head through most doors as it is now He REALLY doesn't need another cheerleader! ;op Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:40 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp-

2005-05-29 Thread Rick Kingslan
You just made joe's head bigger... Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:40 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp- I'll yield on this and stand cor

RE: [ActiveDir] _msdcs question

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Kingslan
But, my experiments have shown that though you might be able to get rid of WINS for Exchange purposes, the Office team hasn't quite grown past its use. Outlook (including 2003) has a bit of a hard time finding its mailbox if WINS is not active (or, at least an LMHosts file in place). Rick -O

RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp-

2005-06-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
" For instance... If you connect to a resource via IP, kerberos will not be used, instead passthrough NTLM will be used." joe, I'm not sure that I know the reason for this. Can you help? (Book versions appreciated! :o) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp-

2005-06-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
its the construction of the ticket. -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:13 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sub

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
, that does all of this well – and integrates the pieces to provide a complete end-to-end solution.   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] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
"you think you have enough DC's" Probably would depend on the remote vs. local campus environment, I suppose! :o) Company that I was just with had over 100, but we had high demand for redundancy in over 50 remote sites supporting anywhere from 200 to ~1200 production users at each site. Given th

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
NetPro is focused on Directory Services - and in this case, AD. It's the primary thing that it does. MOM, on the other hand can be configured to be focused on AD, but the depth and breadth, IMHO, is not as good as NetPro. MOM is great for a overall view of lots of Microsoft (and non-MS if you wa

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Error

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
I've seen exactly the same when an Infrastructure Master was missing. Check all FSMO owners to be sure that they really DO exist. To do this, it's best to run DCDIAG /v /test:KnowsOfRoleHolders You will need to run this in each domain for the domain FSMO roles, but it will query the doma

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Error

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
will run the test against every DC in the Forest. Might be good to make sure every DC is seeing the same thing as all others. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan > Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 19:24 >

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP SSL and Ipsec.

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
There is no dependency between IPSec and the LDAP/S function. That being said, is there any reason that you NEED to disable IPSec? I'd leave it running - but that's just me. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TIROA YANN Sent: Monday, J

RE: [ActiveDir] Alternate install Directory for W2K3 load

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
fresh install, not an upgrade. Any ideas on how to load W2K3 into c:\winnt from the start? Thanks, Nate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:35 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subjec

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP SSL and Ipsec.

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
input. Yes I'd like to disable services that do not need to run on DC in order to reduce open ports :-), and i do not need Ipsec service for my DC BUT only LDAPs. Regards, Yann -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Rick Kingslan Envo

RE: [ActiveDir] DFS and Bandwidth

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
Ravi, Though your thought process is likely correct for your environment, I think that the math is off just a magnitude: 55GB * 5% = 275MB So, rather than being ~1MB per hour over a 24 hr. period, it's closer to 12MB per hour over the same 24 hr. period. You know your infrastructure - the magni

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP SSL and Ipsec.

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
f - if it will be months before I need a service, it is going to be off. Anyway, it is pretty easy to turn this stuff back on again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:21 PM To: ActiveDir@mail

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
joe, Toss a command line out there for this. Some might be interested in how you collected this - now that we kno what flags we're looking for! Thx! Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:53 PM To: Activ

RE: [ActiveDir] Alternate install Directory for W2K3 load

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
previous OS in the GUI setup mode, but this is to be made for a fresh install, not an upgrade. Any ideas on how to load W2K3 into c:\winnt from the start? Thanks, Nate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, June 05,

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:33 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging joe, Toss a command line out there for this. Some might be interested in how you collected this - now t

RE: [ActiveDir] Event viewer Log files

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
My first guess is that all auditing is shut off. Something has to be turned on to audit - otherwise nothing will be posted to the Sec Log. If this is on the DCs, check the Default Domain Controller Policy. If this is Member Servers, look Default Domain Policy, OU GPO where Member exists, or the

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
ing writing the first version of it about 2 weeks after I loaded my first domain controller back in like 1999/2000. I got sick of doing windiff of two manual dumps right quick. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tuesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Longhorn Beta

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Thanks, Mark. I, too, would believe that AD will be in the initial betas, but that all remains to be seen. Glad to see that things are moving along with the next iteration. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Wednesday

RE: [ActiveDir] Active directory migration and security standards issues

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
When you say ‘Disk Encryption”, are you referring to EFS (Encrypted file system)? If so – which disk is encrypted, and is your account a recovery agent?  Finally, which OS? Honestly – I don’t know of anything that would prevent a system configured with the basic information that you pro

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming user and group object CNs

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
As Phil states, this can be done. However, some of these characters are in there for good reason (such as the '/' as an escape character for the ',') and I would seriously suggest setting up a complete test environment to test out your proposed changes before you run a script against your producti

RE: [ActiveDir] Security permissions on user object

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
In fact, yes it will, Russ. Looking back at the thread, I don't see any discussion about HOW these users came to have the admincount attribute set to 1. Do you have a root cause? The reason that I ask is because I've dealt with this before when someone (who I never caught) added a group to a Pro

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Image Pushing Using Ghost Cast Server and DHCP

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
The type of server is going to be of great importance. If you are planning to do this with a Domain Controller - just don't. It's not worth the trouble, and is technically not a sound practice. If you are talking about a member server, are you thinking of imaging just the base build and then app

RE: [ActiveDir] Security permissions on user object

2005-06-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
r.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Security permissions on user object OK this is odd, I changed admincount to 0 and an hour later it was changed back to 1. How frustrating. What gives? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wedn

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits

2005-06-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
Outlook .pst files have a problem with corruption at >2GB. Mailbox size - how big is the store? :0) We had one lady who saved every report, every e-mail, I mean EVERYTHING, since the day she started. Her e-mail box on the Exchange server was (might still be - not my problem anymore) approx. 30GB

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits

2005-06-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
ROTLMAO! I share your pain, Brian. Yeah Gotta love those 'Send to ALL' DLs - and the obvious misuse of same. "Black bronco in the north parking lot, second level - your lights are on" Ummm, which city/site? I only have 50 of them. And, I'm guessing the sender knows where he/she is.

RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
joe, Yeah, you had to know it was coming – Rick’s  $.02 worth. Remember what we both were relieved of our positions for?  Oh, that’s right – I didn’t tell you about me!  Suffice it to say I took one for my team because upper management was trying to get things done that were wrong, tech

RE: [ActiveDir] troubleshooting object permission inheritance

2005-06-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
Funny I asked that about, oh, 4 days ago. I didn't get an answer. Maybe you carry enough weight, Jorge! ;o) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 3:38 PM To: 'John Singler '; '[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] troubleshooting object permission inheritance

2005-06-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
John, You're still not asking the question that has been asked at least twice: What groups is the problem accounts a MEMBER OF? You might have answered this in a manner that doesn't register with me - are you saying that this user is a member of Domain Users and nothing else? Ric

RE: [ActiveDir] Bionet trojan,

2005-06-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
Hmmm. let me think about that. NO! 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] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
sample leftovers that came back from the dining room was kicked out of the "group" that gave access to the food on the dishes and from that point on only saw dishes that had been scraped.     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan

RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-12 Thread Rick Kingslan
canned for the exact same sort of thing.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins   joe, Yeah, you had to know it

RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-12 Thread Rick Kingslan
he exact same sort of thing.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins   joe, Yeah, you had to know it was

RE: [ActiveDir] Bionet trojan,

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
I understand the reason for your request. And, it's admirable that you want to insightfully inform your user base. However, looking for live virus or Trojans is not the way to do it. If one wants to show how things can go horribly wrong, controlled environment or not, this is likely a good start

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:BigIP LB, --- Was Load balancing LDAP request among my DCs

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep. Have used it for application and web services load balancing. Also have used the Cisco CSS. As long as your Engineer knows the traffic to look for, the destinations, and if it is to be statefull or stateless - then it will work. Obviously, the LDAP on 389 is not the only thing to take into

RE: [ActiveDir] Bionet trojan,

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
arm, soapy water for at least 60 seconds when finished... Etc. Joe Pochedley A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. -Douglas Adams -Original Mess

RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
hen discussing these sort of things.  This would make the discussion more "real world" like.    /Guido   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Samstag, 11. Juni 2005 05:30 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] Using AD Sizer

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Using AD Sizer See inline below….. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Using AD Sizer   I’m trying to run through the Microsoft-p

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 DC Hardening

2005-06-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Though I know that there will be as many opinions as people on this list as to the subject, my preference is from Microsoft themselves. They have developed a very comprehensive Security Configuration guide which includes templates that mimic the best practices from the guide, as well as other job

RE: [ActiveDir] Lost and found

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
OK. We now have the Dean and joe version of what is happening. I'm good with it. So, why is Tom's LastKnownParent blank? Now I'm interested. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:58 PM To: ActiveDi

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: LDAP performance Nice machine name…..  descriptive, to be sure. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance   From port 42217?

RE: [ActiveDir] My LDAP Query

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
joe said: “I am a bit tired and a little high from sniffing tile adhesive”   And, then later emoted: “state how to make it performant without listing by name every other mailbox server by full”   Looking at the first statement, and the LACK OF COMPLETENESS to the second, I think the f

RE: [ActiveDir] Passwords from SQL

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
Maybe they need an 8-way, or more than 2GB of RAM for the database that runs on it. Honestly, though - this has gotten way off the point. He's running MySQL, and doesn't look like he's going to change just because we thought MSSQL is a better fit. Or not Rick -Original Message- Fro

RE: [ActiveDir] Passwords from SQL

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
eiros Former CIS instructor San Jose City College --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Passwords

RE: [ActiveDir] Event log settings in GPO

2005-06-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yes – you’re correct in that you can set this on a per OU basis with GPO.  As Jorge points out, make sure that you are complying by the processing rules of the GPO list so that your settings are not reverted by another GPO inherited to that OU.   Rick   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name

2005-06-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
Guy, Though it might seem trivial, it's not really easy in any way. If you're not in mixed-mode, or have child domains - forget it (IIRC). You've passed the last bastion of 'easy' in a hard process. The way to do this, and not have tons of lingering issues is to demote all other DCs back to mem

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name

2005-06-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
hope his manager will give him time off to recuperate ( I rather have the time off then a small bonus any day ). Peace, Jose :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name

2005-06-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
láfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - 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: Thu 6/16/2

RE: [ActiveDir] RRAS pptp issue

2005-06-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom,   I think what Ravi is saying that this is a client side issue, and given the information on this event – he’s likely as right as anyone else is going to be, given the information.  The problem with the 20159 event is that anytime anyone disconnects, a 20159 can be generated.  So, it

RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Batch Script Fun

2005-06-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Heh….  I see that Dean has already answered this, so I’m most interested to see what the “Wizard of the Shell Script” has come up with….   Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:00 PM To: ActiveDir@mai

RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Batch Script Fun

2005-06-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
TECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 1:23 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Batch Script Fun Heh….  I see that Dean has already answered this, so I’m most interested to see what the “Wizard of the Shell Script” has come up with….   Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripts

2005-06-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Fully agreeing with what ~Eric and Nazim states, another way to do this and lessen the security risk SLIGHTLY is to feed the password in as a parameter OF the startup script, rather than as part of the script in the first place. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripts

2005-06-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Could we get some more detail on that? I've used Hyena, but I'm not sure how to use that in a scripted fashion. Thanks! Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haaker, Chris Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 11:57 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO configuration

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
However, this solves part of the problem, yes? Seems that this won't prevent the closing of Windows Explorer windows... But, I could be wrong - I haven't tried it. :-) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesd

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep - what assist do you need, or what information related to it? Happy to help Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 6:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] Fil

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows -> MIT Cross-realm auth to domains not in the same dns hierarchy

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
Andrew, Really interesting problem that you're experiencing here. I can't say that I have seen this, but I would say in my experience I've worked with a few multi-tree and multi-forest scenarios. Both the multi-tree and forest would naturally use a different DNS namespace for each tree or forest

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows -> MIT Cross-realm auth to domains not in the same dns hierarchy

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
27;s in. I thought it might be similar to how the default for unqualified hostname resolution in windows is to "Append parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix". So if the trusted domain doesn't happen to be in parent suffix it never looks there. But that's just a guess

RE: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Nathan, Typically, the change of IP address, subnet, default gateway and associated DNS entries will take care of most of what you need. However, there is one more thing that needs to be done. Pull up a command prompt on the DC that you've re-IPed, and type this at the prompt (in its entirety:

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Justin, My experience with this is simple: Sometimes, trusts fail. And, then the existing elements no longer work. It sucks, but it's true. You can reset and verify, you can NETDOM it to death - it's physically there, but no trust is home. As long as your WINS entries, DNS and/or LMHOSTS file

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
still no good. No errors in the event logs to post, I get the following message when I try to choose a name or group from the domain The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
ears back. test Jose -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact Yep - what assist do you need, or what info

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yeah Those are fun, huh Mark? ;o) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust I had an is

RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy question

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Charlie, Can you post the rest of the USERENV log? There should be some more lines after the: USERENV(e8.8338) 17:04:15:113 GetDeletedGPOList: Finished. For all intents and purposes, the call CheckForGPOsToRemove does exactly what it says. They next line enumerates the GPOs that need to be rem

RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy question

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
** > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:17 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy question > > Charlie,

RE: [ActiveDir] Increase ICMP packet size on a PIX - GPO related

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
I initially started looking at this from one viewpoint, and then I began to think about slow link detection. You've taken traces to determine the size... What is the return message from ICMP when this large packet is detected by the PIX? Or, does the PIX just discard it? If the PIX is discard

RE: [ActiveDir] Advertising RPC services - best practices

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Advertising RPC services - best practices Neil, What are you trying to restrict?  Access to the App, access via RPC, or access via AD?  I can help, but the scope is pretty big at this point. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruston, Ne

RE: [ActiveDir] Increase ICMP packet size on a PIX - GPO related

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
ok at a Cisco Pix config. guide didn't show it where I would have expected it, either in the access list commands or in the icmp command. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:23 AM To: Ac

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tool from Sysinternal at Winternals http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:27 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [Active

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Wow! They do that at your company, too? And here I thought *I* was the ONLY one with a non-communicative, dysfunctional network engineering group. Huh. Well, that ruins all of my 'these are the worst EVER network folks' excuses. You've just matched me! ;o) Rick -Original Message- Fr

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows -> MIT Cross-realm auth to domains not in the same dns hierarchy

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
IIRC, the trusts are defined and stored as GUIDs. So, determining the GUIDs are going to make it much easier to determine where the information is stored. Let me poke around a bit. As I mentioned yesterday - things are a bit frantic right now, so I might not get to it today. But, soon the rush

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange SSL Certificate "Client Authentication"

2005-06-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
Noah, I suspect that you’re missing a root certificate.  Review your process of creating and importing the certificate into the certificate store to ensure that you, in fact, did have and use the proper Root CA, and that it’s in the correct store.  Ironically, (and I know that this is

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange SSL Certificate "Client Authentication"

2005-06-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
uot; The usage of an intermediate certificate thus provides an added level of security as the Certification Authority (CA) does not need to issue certificates directly from its CA root certificate.   From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 1

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Admins Group Membership

2005-06-28 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yes, I do. But, his question had nothing to do with "Is it right or not?" I count on joe to totally over-react to such things! :op But, just for the record, I don't condone in any way the overuse or the mismanagement of advanced privileges and rights for convenience in any way, shape or form. I

RE: [ActiveDir] OT - just a bit OT. Visio and AD

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep - it *IS* very cool. Guido showed us this during a Pre-Conference session at this year's Directory Expert's conference. However, I should note that even though there were many requests, Guido flatly REFUSED to give away free copies to all attendees. Guido is not very generous[1] ;o) Ri

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
In all honesty, just because it's in a KB does not make it less confusing or misleading. There are many procedures and policies that make no sense at all - they just haven't been changed, clarified or deleted. I'd suggest that everyone just take a deep breath. Rick -Original Message- Fr

[ActiveDir] Change of status - Job-wise, at least.

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
quent visitor to the list with this change of job. Also - please don't post replies to the list. Send them to me directly. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:52 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
Mike, I agree with what you are saying, that from a best practices standpoint, one SHOULD eventually remove the old CNAMEs. However, the point of this discussion seems to be centered around what will or will not cause problems with replication. Old CNAMEs pointing to deprecated DC GUIDs is not g

RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom, Minimal mode would be Mixed. Operations that you might attempt that aren't supported in your current mode will fail. e.g. Trying to use DSADD to create a Universal Group in a mixed mode domain. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit

2005-07-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
gt; can learn things here that you won't find anywhere else. We have a ton of > well known authors, Microsoft employees from > PSS(ROSS/CPR/Other)/MCS/Dev(AD/JET)/Enterprise Computing, some of the top > consultants in the industry, programmers, admins (from the smallest to the > la

RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands

2005-07-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom - you do not have to have Win2k3 DCs to use the DS commands. However, I think there are a lot more reasons to run Win2k3 than just being able to use the DS commands. I trust that wasn't your only decision criteria. I would hope that the Security improvements, the reliability, the performance

RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands

2005-07-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
Or a Windows XP against Win2k. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:48 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands exec

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Windows 2003 Shadow Copy

2005-07-04 Thread Rick Kingslan
Jenn, New to me, I have to admit. I haven't seen that behavior - nor have I specifically tested for it, either. I might be able to look into it a bit further, if I can find a suitable external. Now, when you say EMC, are you saying like a SAN or a NAS head? Or, something not mentioned? Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] LegacyExchangeDN

2005-07-04 Thread Rick Kingslan
Steve, As someone who knows quite a bit about AD and LDAP, but am just now getting my arms around the Exchange juggernaut (there is s much more to know than I even imagined I am awed by Exchange Guru's much like I'm sure that they are awed by us) I'd wonder if this could be written as

RE: [ActiveDir] LegacyExchangeDN

2005-07-04 Thread Rick Kingslan
However, seeing joe's reply - go with his suggestion. He's got a better instinct for this stuff than I do. But, strangely he's not an Exchange whiz kid either funny, that. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ric

RE: [ActiveDir] ADSizer

2005-07-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
The ADSizer is still the 'first shot, best guess' tool for the newer technologist working with AD. Given 3 - 6 mos. of experience with AD, one should be able to determine for themselves what 'Best Practices' for their given environment should be. The basic problem with the ADSizer, as I see it, i

RE: [ActiveDir] Patching Strategy on DC's

2005-07-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
How about: (and maybe not in this order) 1) Install a test environment - test patches before implementation 2) Patch half after compatibility and performance, then patch the others within 48 hrs. (less, if you're feeling comfortable or the patch is of a very critical and high risk category) 3) Get

RE: [ActiveDir] Patching Strategy on DC's

2005-07-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
ing. I was just recently promoted to server administrator of about 30 servers. What would be the easiest way to make sure a patch doesn't interfere with Exchange, SQL, IIS, etc? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: T

RE: [ActiveDir] Another patching question

2005-07-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
No, not really. Up to the close date for inclusion INTO a SP (and there are LOTS of factors that affect what does and doesn't make the SP) will be in the SP. If we assume that the close date for a given SP is D\M\, and the SP is SPx, then any patch released after the date is either post SPx, o

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Windows 2003 Shadow Copy

2005-07-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
untain Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 6:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Windows 2003 Shadow Copy We are using an AX100 EMC external device. Thanks Jenn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan

RE: [ActiveDir] DMZ talking to your domain

2005-07-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
I would strongly advise against doing this. If there is nothing available that can proxy the incoming requests, then the solution needs to be re-engineered with Security in mind. Given your industry, HIPPA is very, very clear on matters of accidental disclosure when reasonable measures could have

RE: [ActiveDir] Can a 2003 server be a domain controller in a 2000 domain?

2005-07-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Antonio, At the time that you decide to introduce Windows Server 2003 DCs into an existing Windows 2000 domain /forest, there is the initial requirement to upgrade the schema. You must run adprep /forestprep and domainprep to be able to support the inclusion of a 2003 DC. However, running forest

RE: [ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers...maybe a DC?

2005-07-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
Dean, My process (and I highly suspect that Brain’s will be the same) is that I have a base MEMBER SERVER image of Standard and Enterprise under our VLK (well, this would all be past tense now, I guess…).  I deploy the base image of the selected version out to a system, then add feature

RE: [ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers...maybe a DC?

2005-07-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
D] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 11:01 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers...maybe a DC? Dean, My process (and I highly suspect that Brain’s will be the same) is that I have a base MEMBER SERVER image of Standard and Enter

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: File properties

2005-07-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: [ActiveDir] DFS Client for Mac and UNIX At the level in which you WANT to CHANGE the permissions, is the check box to inherit checked or not?  If it is – uncheck it, copy or remove – then add or modify ACL / ACE as needed. However, Dan brings up a good point – are you trying to do

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Desktop vs. Remote assistance

2005-07-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
With Remote Desktop, you are going to take over the machine (in the case of XP) kicking off any logged on person in the act of taking over the machine. Your access is the same as the credentials in which you login as. With Remote Access, you need to receive an invitation and the user is not kicked

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Desktop vs. Remote assistance

2005-07-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
min connects to their box. RA doesn't seem to make this as simple as vnc does, i guess. I still wonder how as an admin you can be denied RA access to a box or need permission. is it a local system thing? thanks for all your help and sorry to bore you with my issues. -Original Message- F

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