Re: [ActiveDir] Working on policy for IE

2005-09-28 Thread SysPro Support
Jeff, You could try looking at BrndLog.TXT under C:\Documents and Settings\xx\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer (x is the username) It gives a detailed log of the IE processing and might give you a hint of what is happening. Alan Cuthbertson Policy Management Softwar

Re: [ActiveDir] Group policy security setting

2005-09-06 Thread SysPro Support
Hi Charlie, If it is a user registry setting (other than Binary) there should be no problem with a custom ADM template. Can you explain what registry key it is and exactly what is not working? Alan Cuthbertson - Original Message - From: "Charlie Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: S

Re: [ActiveDir] Password policy change

2005-08-26 Thread SysPro Support
a, Johnny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I mean, if I use the check box to "user must change password at next logon" > our users whose only way into the domain is OWA will not prompt them to change > their password... Unless I am missing something. > > Thanks &g

Re: [ActiveDir] Password policy change

2005-08-26 Thread SysPro Support
Johnny, We do exactly what you suggest, change the password and set the "user must change password at next logon" and they are able to change it, even within the "password cannot be changed period". What do you mean by "that would effectively lock out the OWA only users"? Alan Cuthbertson P

Re: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain

2005-08-22 Thread SysPro Support
Hi Peter, It could be NetBiosName that I am looking for. I tried it on my domain, but it had no value. However that could be because my domain was not built pre Windows 2000. I will try it on the offending domain and see what it returns. Alan C - Original Message - From: "Peter Jessop"

Re: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain

2005-08-21 Thread SysPro Support
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange 2003 SP1 bloat Hi Michael,   Thanks for the response, But it isn't quite what I want. The code you give gives the NetBios name of the logged on user. I am trying to find the NetBios name for another domain.   I have tried enumerating all machines on the doma

[ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain

2005-08-20 Thread SysPro Support
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange 2003 SP1 bloat Hi,   I have a requirement to determine the machines that are currently online for a particular domain. I use the Net View  command and give it a domain name such as:   Net View /Domain:DomName   Since  I know the Fully qualified Domain name A

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Cloned machine domain membership

2005-06-07 Thread SysPro Support
Douglas, The key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters DisablePasswordChange =1. Further Information is available from http://support.microsoft.com/?id=154501 Alan Cuthbertson - Original Message - From: "SysPro Support" <[EM

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Cloned machine domain membership

2005-06-06 Thread SysPro Support
Douglas, There are some registry settings that turn of password changes on the machine. This means that since the machine password is always the same you can simply reinstate the image and it will still be part of the domain. Not sure of the keys though, will check at work today. When we first in

Re: [ActiveDir] GPO being denied

2005-05-19 Thread SysPro Support
AD expert and i'm sure joe or al or gil or any of the other much much more knowledgable people will jump in and correct the hell out of me.   i apologize if i've confused you more. thanks-Original Message-From: SysPro Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, May 19,

Re: [ActiveDir] GPO being denied

2005-05-19 Thread SysPro Support
Tom, This is not the way I thought it worked (but I may have misread what you are saying or I may just be wrong!) I thought that if Loop back processing was active on the machine as Replace, when the user logged on, they received the policies as if they were members of the Machine OU. If Loop ba

Re: [ActiveDir] GPO being denied

2005-05-19 Thread SysPro Support
Hi Jeff,   Can't think of anything immediately. When you say " Its saying security filter" are you getting that from the UserEnv log, or somewhere else?   I always find it useful to activate full logging and then read the UserEnv.Log in %windir%\debug\usermode to find out what is happening (

Re: [ActiveDir] GPO

2004-04-14 Thread SysPro Support
Justin, I would agree... it should all work. One way of debugging this is to look at the article here. http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/tip3700/rh3799.htm It explains how to enable logging and creates a log that shows everything that is happening as the policies are applied in the machine. It's a bit m

Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Policy Settings

2004-04-08 Thread SysPro Support
Hi Steve,   What sort of Registry keys do you mean? When you say "under local Policy, a mess of registry settings are listed" do you mean "Under the registry key \Machine\Software\Policy" or are you somehow looking at the registry keys that are being applied via Local Policy. If the latter, h

[ActiveDir] Format of UserEnv.Log

2004-04-08 Thread SysPro Support
Does anyone know of some software that formats UserEnv.Log into an intelligent format?   Alternatively, does anyone know of documentation on how it is formatted, so I can write my own program? (I would even post it back here for general use!)   I have spent a lot of time crawling through this

Re: [ActiveDir] Testing other GPO's to DC's

2004-04-04 Thread SysPro Support
I am interested in the comment that OU's are a better way to manage Policies than using group based filtering. Is this for performance reasons, management reasons or safety reasons? I could see a very small improvement in performance, using OU's is a little easier to see what is going on and it is

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included)

2004-04-02 Thread SysPro Support
These things are notoriously tricky, cos there are so many things to go wrong. have you check in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\History to check that the policy is actually being applied? Alan Cuthbertson Policy Management Software:- http://www.sysproso

Re: [ActiveDir] Cross forest policies - boxes in Win2k domain, users in win2k3 s ingle domain forest

2004-04-01 Thread SysPro Support
Title: Cross forest policies - boxes in Win2k domain, users in win2k3 single domain forest Hi Stephen,   LoopBack processing should do the trick. Basically it says "Apply the policies using the user's Group membership as if he was a member of the OU that the Citrix server belongs to". You can

Re: [ActiveDir] Internet Explorer Connection Proxy Settings GPO Issue

2004-03-26 Thread SysPro Support
, one for each policy applying IE settings. This shows the policies and the order they apply which may give you a hint. Also, you can get into a mess if you apply policies both via the IE extension and via the ADM extension Alan C - Original Message - From: "SysPro Support&quo

Re: [ActiveDir] Internet Explorer Connection Proxy Settings GPO Issue

2004-03-26 Thread SysPro Support
David, >From your description I can't see any problem, but these things are often more complex than you think. Maybe another policy is inadvertently setting it. I have just started marketing a program for interrogating Policy configurations and it should tell you exactly what is going on. Feel fr

Re: [ActiveDir] Domian VS Local

2004-03-26 Thread SysPro Support
I think you can go in to Local Group policy on the machine and set it. However, if the machine is on the domain, you will need to take steps to ensure the global policy doesn't override it (e.g. make the machine a member of a group and then make the group No Apply for the Domain policy)   I

Re: [ActiveDir] Group Policy - Overview

2004-03-24 Thread SysPro Support
Anders,   We market a product call PolMan that will produce a report of all settings that are enabled within your AD Policy. It provides a list of all entries with columns for the Policy name, the extension type, key name etc.   We also market a nice little ADM Template editor. Feel free to

Re: [ActiveDir] Upgrading W2K GPOs to XP GPOs (The KB Number would Help)

2004-03-18 Thread SysPro Support
Robert, As a general rule, replacing ADM templates can be a problem if you already have some policies set since you can get left with "orphan" entries. You can see this effect by setting a policy, then removing the ADM file. it looks like the policy is no longer set. If you then add the ADM templ