RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-03 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure the DC doesn't hold any FSMO roles when you pull it. After that, use NTDSUTIL to clean up the metadata, and be sure to delete the related DNS records as well. There are at least a couple of KB articles on doing this. http://support.microso

Re: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-03 Thread Glenn Corbett
can you do a backup of one of your existing DC's and then DR it to a new (already offline) machine ??   G.   - Original Message - From: Simpsen, Paul A. (HSC) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:31 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-04 Thread Joe
Title: Message How are they planning on doing those tests? If they just want to test the password complexity/strength it isn't required to give them a whole DC, only a hash dump of the password in the DIT which can be done via pwdump3. Then they can use lc3/4 to go through the text file hash

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-04 Thread Rick Kingslan
Paul,   I'm somewhat mystified by the request.  I might be completely missing the point, but unless the scan is going to be destructive, what is the value of giving the Security Director a DC that has been taken off-line?  I do agree with what others have said here to this point (remove conn

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-06 Thread Simpsen, Paul A. (HSC)
: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline   Paul,   I'm somewhat mystified by the request.  I might be completely missing the point, but unless the scan is going to be destructive, what is the value of giving the Security Director a DC that has been taken off-line?  I do agree with what others have

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
o: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline   Paul,   I'm somewhat mystified by the request.  I might be completely missing the point, but unless the scan is going to be destructive, what is the value of giving the Security Director a DC that has been taken off-line?  I do a

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Roger Seielstad
: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 11:14 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline How are they planning on doing those tests? If they just want to test the password complexity/strength it isn't required to give them a whole DC, o

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
riginal Message-From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 4:51 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline   Paul,   I'm somewhat mystified by the request.  I might be completely missing the point, but unless the scan is going

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Joe
say no! J Thanks for all the responses, there might be some other options. Paul     -Original Message-From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 4:51 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline   Paul,   I&

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Joe
: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:24 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline The security folks *shouldn't* be admins. Kinda defeats the purpose in a lot of ways.     -- Roger D. Seielsta

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Simpsen, Paul A. (HSC)
: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline   How are they planning on doing those tests? If they just want to test the password complexity/strength it isn't required to give them a whole DC, only a

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Joe
ven dump enhanced id's with a few extra calls though it would slow the program down a bit.     -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simpsen, Paul A. (HSC)Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 4:09 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE:

Re: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Glenn Corbett
long they will plug away at the security database before declaring that a password is deemed to be secure enough ?   Glenn   - Original Message - From: Joe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:54 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-08 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
e-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:41 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline In a way you should be happy they asked you, before just running a password

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-08 Thread Steve Rochford
ople thinking about other things which can be done easily with a batch file :-)   Steve -Original Message-From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 July 2003 20:26To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline Check out unlock at www.joeware.net. Its free

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-08 Thread Leeuwen van, JWJ (Joost)
d save it as a .cmd file   It's hardly elegant but it's easy to create and might get people thinking about other things which can be done easily with a batch file :-)   Steve -Original Message-From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 July 200

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-08 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:33 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline nice tool Joe, but you should add a time filter.  In an attack-scenario (be it hacker or auditors), you don't necessarily want to unlock all the locked

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
, July 07, 2003 7:37 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline Personally I dont see a problem with the audit / security guys attempting to crack high-level user ID's, as these are potentially the greatest threat to the security of the environment.   Th

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
n an admin.   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve RochfordSent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:53 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline I know that your program is far better than any script but an unlock

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline nice tool Joe, but you should add a time filter.  In an attack-scenario (be it hacker or auditors), you don't necessarily want to unlock all the locked accounts you find - instead you want to unlock the ones that were locked after a spe

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
(Joost)Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:05 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline This vbscript unlocks all users in a OU, modify for your needs   while TRUE   Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=Spider,OU=Betalingsverkeer,DC=rnbvu,DC=r