RE: [ActiveDir] DMZ and Trusts

2006-08-29 Thread Wyatt, David
on the internet so take the opinion with that knowledge. Al On 8/29/06, Wyatt, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Al I am "pulling" the statement from a Microsoft chat transcript found here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/

[ActiveDir] DMZ and Trusts

2006-08-25 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Hello Imagine the following scenario, you have an internal W2K3 forest and an external W2K3 forest on the DMZ. Management wish to create one-way trust between the two forests so the DMZ forest trusts the internal forest for an application. I have read that this is

RE: [ActiveDir] FMSO roles split, patch question.

2006-08-18 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message "I am drinking my secondLabatt's not having to make any difficult decisions" now thats funny! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: 17 Aug 2006 20:26To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE:

[ActiveDir] DCs Hyper-Threading

2006-08-07 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message What are people's views on whether to enable or disable hyper-threading on a Proliant box running Windows 2003 as a DC. I remember Intel advised HT to be disabled on Windows 2000 but has this changed for Windows 2003?. Are the performance benefits significant for a DC?

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping

2006-08-04 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Are you able to RDP to the DC when it "hangs"? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNASent: 04 Aug 2006 14:36To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Local Groups vs Global Groups

2006-07-27 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Matt / Dan - great posts from both of you and this has provided some good material to start planning. Thanks -David -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt HargravesSent: 27 Jul 2006 6:36To:

[ActiveDir] Domain Local Groups vs Global Groups

2006-07-26 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message I'd be interested to hear peoples strategy for permissioning windows based file servers when the server is in a Windows 2003 domain. I have read the best practices about putting users into global groups then put the global groups into local groups then permission the resource

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Issue

2006-07-26 Thread Wyatt, David
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wyatt, David Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Issue Hi Steve Interesting findings. Firstly, yes I am clearing the DNS Cache and not doing ipconfig /flushdns on the DC. I have shown the d2 output

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Issue

2006-07-25 Thread Wyatt, David
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wyatt, David Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Issue Hi Steve Interesting findings. Firstly, yes I am clearing the DNS Cache and not doing ipconfig

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Issue

2006-07-24 Thread Wyatt, David
Hi Steve Interesting findings. Firstly, yes I am clearing the DNS Cache and not doing ipconfig /flushdns on the DC. I have shown the d2 output below but also see the following: 1. Clear the DNS cache on DC 2. Submit query for server1.nyc.test.com - success 3. Explicitly delete the record

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Issue

2006-07-22 Thread Wyatt, David
; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Issue What version of the DNS binary are you running and if you clear the cache instead of restart DNS does it resolve the issue? Thanks, -Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Wyatt, David Sent: Fri

[ActiveDir] DNS Issue

2006-07-21 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message We have a single Windows 2003 SP1 forest/domain. DCs run AD integated zones. We haveForwarders configured for a domain e.g. test.com with 2 IP addresses entered for the DNS servers in test.com. We have seen a strange issue where queriesfor a host inthe sub-domain

RE: [ActiveDir] Ghost Backup or Image for Active Directory Server and Exchange Server

2006-06-20 Thread Wyatt, David
To all single DC folks - when you perform a restore of your single DC from an image, as part of your procedure do you increase the value of the RID pool or just restore and resume working? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley,

RE: [ActiveDir] Ghost Backup or Image for Active Directory Server and Exchange Server

2006-06-20 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Now here's the problem. The "just restore and resume approach" could be, in a very specific situation, a bad idea. I'm sure everything would "work" as such, but as desired?After a backup is taken, new security principals might have been created in the domain. These security

RE: [ActiveDir] NET TIME command

2006-05-25 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message OK, so are we saying that WINS (yes, we have a WINS infrastructure)is returning the SPOKEDC (maybe alphabetically too???) -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, BobSent: 24 May 2006 18:17To:

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Service ChangeConf

2006-05-23 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message This maybe overkill but you could use aGPO to do this. You can configure service permissions, one of which is: Change Template - Change the configuration of a service. This permission is required so that the user can change the startup type -David -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Group audit

2006-05-23 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Good point! Thanks. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: 23 May 2006 5:15To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group audit I would set the output up for csv output (see -csv)

RE: [ActiveDir] Group audit

2006-05-19 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Thanks Joe. I have now used your great adfind tool to find what I'm looking for. Now have one more question on how to use the output. This is a sample output: dn:CN=Group1,OU=Groups,OU=Production,DC=help,DC=com dn:CN=Group5,OU=Groups,OU=Production,DC=help,DC=com member:

[ActiveDir] Group audit

2006-05-18 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Hi I have a text file holding a list of approx 400 global groups such as: Group1 Group2 Group3 Group4 etc I need to query the membershipto find out which of the above global groups have other global groups as members and then to list the group names, output example:

RE: [ActiveDir] Copying OU permissions

2006-03-27 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Thanks Ulf. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-WeidnerSent: 24 Mar 2006 23:09To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Copying OU permissions Hi David, my script at

[ActiveDir] Copying OU permissions

2006-03-24 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message I need to find a way to dump the ACLs of an OU structure, then use that dump to re-apply the same permissions to a different OU. Anyone know of the best way to do this? I have seen DSACLS but cannot see a way to use a report to permission a different OU. cheers David

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-09 Thread Wyatt, David
Cheers Tomasz. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Onyszko Sent: 08 Mar 2006 21:39 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites Wyatt, David wrote: What MS paper? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-08 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Hi Paul, do you use the disk snapshots to provide the ability to restore an object or the whole DC (and therefore the whole Active Directory database), or both? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PAUL

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-08 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Hi Paul, do you use the disk snapshots to provide the ability to restore an object or the whole DC (and therefore the whole Active Directory database), or both? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PAUL MAYESSent: 08

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites

2006-03-08 Thread Wyatt, David
What MS paper? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 Mar 2006 13:46 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites The MS paper illustrates a way to achieve this without the USN issue.

[ActiveDir] Delegation

2006-03-02 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message I remember seeing a posting that listed the ACLs required on User objects so that a Help Desk could perform duties such as resetting password, unlocking accounts etc. The posting mentioned the following permissions: * allow Reset Password permission for user objects-grants

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation

2006-03-02 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Goto the list archive below and type in the search criteria forpast postings: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucas, BryanSent: 02 Mar 2006

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Migration Problem

2006-03-02 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Add the account that is used to perform the migration to theAdministrators (local) group in the other domain (found in the Builtin container). This should give you the rights. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[ActiveDir] External vs Forest Trust

2006-02-27 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Scenario You have 2 separate Windows 2003forests (FFL) and each forest has a single domain (Windows 2003 domain functional level). Question You want to create a trustrelationship. What is the difference in functionality/security if you create an external trust between the 2

RE: [ActiveDir] External vs Forest Trust

2006-02-27 Thread Wyatt, David
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RE: [ActiveDir] OT: MOM/Auditing Group Membership changes..

2006-02-20 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message You can but not with the MOM AD Management pack specifically. You will need to setup a custom alert based on the Event ID (632 I think) that corresponds toa group membership change. You can then get alerted via email. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: MOM/Auditing Group Membership changes..

2006-02-20 Thread Wyatt, David
-Original Message- From: Wyatt, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:51:16 To:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: MOM/Auditing Group Membership changes.. You can but not with the MOM AD Management pack specifically. You will need to setup a custom alert based

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation of permissions

2006-02-09 Thread Wyatt, David
Can you use the builtin security principle called SELF? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: 09 Feb 2006 11:53 To: ActiveDir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Delegation of permissions Dear All, I have been asked to delegate some

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: disconnecting remote TS session on DC

2006-02-07 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Hi Frank Are they not able to click Start Logoff from the TS session? If they forget to do this then configure a GPO to reset a disconnected TS session after x minutes/hours/days cheers Dave -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Extension

2006-02-07 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Hi Simon I was referring to the procedure for extending the schema (i.e. controlling outbound replication from the Schema Master etc) rather than designing extensions. But thanks anyway for this useful info. Regards David -Original Message-From: [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] Schema Extension

2006-02-06 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Does anyone know of a supported procedure to extend the schema in Windows 2003 SP1 FFL AD? This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity named.

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Locator

2006-02-02 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Thanks, I'll review the articles and see if they answer my questions. Regards -David -Original Message-From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge deSent: 31 Jan 2006 12:14To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS

2006-01-26 Thread Wyatt, David
Message - From: Wyatt, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:12 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS Hi Paul I asked Microsoft the same question as we were controlling SRV record registration. Read the email below, its an internal

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP(ot)

2005-12-19 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message By default a Windows 2000/XP client will register its A record and the DHCP server will register the clients PTR record. This can be changed so by using the 3rd party DHCP server you won't lose DDNS, you would configure your clients to register both A and PTR records.

RE: [ActiveDir] I need an auditing and control solution [and yesI'll even fork moneyout for this]

2005-12-12 Thread Wyatt, David
Prevention is better than a cure. Do as the previous poster suggests and apply the appropriate NTFS permissions so that users can create and write files/folders but not delete, move or rename??? -Original Message- From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL

[ActiveDir] Forest Trusts Accessing Resources

2005-11-25 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Hi all... Scenario: We have 2 Windows 2003 forests (forest functional level set at Windows 2003) and each forest has a single domain. There is a one-way trust between the two forests, Forest A trusts Forest B. Question: We need to grant users in Forest B access to resources

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-24 Thread Wyatt, David
Title: Message Which backup program are you using? -Original Message-From: Frank Abagnale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 Nov 2005 16:39To: ActiveSubject: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC Hi all, I have a problem whereby our I've been asked by a manager

RE: [ActiveDir] Proving a User is logged on to the domain

2005-11-23 Thread Wyatt, David
You'll have to monitor all the DCs that could authenticate the user and look out for Logon events in the Security Log. MOM 2005 is great at doing this. -Original Message- From: Rocky Habeeb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 Nov 2005 14:35 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Unreadable Netlogon.dns file

2005-11-18 Thread Wyatt, David
If you delete the netlogon.dns and netlogon.dnb file, restart the DC, it will recreate the files on startup. If it can't recreate the files, someones been playing with NTFS permissions. -Original Message- From: Al Mulnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 Nov 2005 15:26 To: