RE: Can AD child domains establish outside trust without parent permission?

2009-02-25 Thread Free, Bob
In the absence of 3rd party tools, probably the simplest way to monitor trust creation/modification is via the security log. You want Policy Change auditing enabled and watch for events 610/611/620 in W2K/W2K3. Different events in 08 but you get the idea. 610- New Trusted Domain 611- Trusted Do

RE: Viewing log files in realtime

2009-02-24 Thread Free, Bob
http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/index.php Awesome little free tool, standalone (no install), can run from network etc Simultaneously monitor multiple files for changes using tabs, multi color highlighting for different strings and so on From: cs [mailto:chr...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, Fe

RE: How to only allow wireless if secure?

2009-02-20 Thread Free, Bob
There are GPO extensions. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.04.cableguy.aspx They involve a schema extension. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727029.aspx From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:25 AM T

RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression

2009-02-18 Thread Free, Bob
orm factor. But the T6x series ones do. I had a T61 before this and I still use the same docks. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression Martin- Do the older docks, say from

RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression

2009-02-18 Thread Free, Bob
Martin- Do the older docks, say from the T4x series fit the T400? From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression Go grab yourself a Lenovo T400. I love this lapto

RE: Primary Group Membership

2009-02-13 Thread Free, Bob
adfind -default -f "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectclass=user)(!primaryGroupID=513))" -nodn samaccountname userprincipalname primarygroupID -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P

RE: power options and users

2009-02-12 Thread Free, Bob
Or you can use the EPA GPO template on XP if you don't want to got the GPP route. http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_power_mgt_ez_gpo -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:56 AM To: NT System Ad

RE: Remote Desktops organized

2009-02-12 Thread Free, Bob
27;ll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktops organized Hahaha Thread Hijack- "too much time on my hand

RE: Times

2009-02-12 Thread Free, Bob
logon, however most of the time they would only sync on a restart or a power off and back on. The last of these processes have been retired so I no longer have that issue. -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:40 AM To: NT System

RE: Times

2009-02-12 Thread Free, Bob
If you haven't changed default setting, once it is synched, the time service should resync every 8 hrs once it has pulled itself in. 2 minutes is a bit much. Check the eventlog. Then try w32tm /resync. If successful, the time service should walk itself back in From: Phillip Partipilo [mail

RE: Remote Desktops organized

2009-02-12 Thread Free, Bob
, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Remote Desktops organized

2009-02-12 Thread Free, Bob
Same here. Went from MS Remote Desktops to VisionApp to MRemote to Terminals. Terminals is definitely my favorite. Hope this passes MBS's word filter :-) From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

RE: vRD 2009

2009-02-11 Thread Free, Bob
Admin Issues Subject: RE: vRD 2009 Of course now I have to convert everything from MRemote to this. Got any good tips on switching? Jon Lewis -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vRD

RE: vRD 2009

2009-02-11 Thread Free, Bob
My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vRD 2009 I've used both Visi

RE: vRD 2009

2009-02-11 Thread Free, Bob
itch to something else as MRemote constantly hangs up on me when I try to close it. It's corrupted it's XML file to the point that I've had to restore from backup more than a few times. I'll give Terminals a try. The new VisionApp isn't freeware is it? Jon Lewis --

RE: vRD 2009

2009-02-11 Thread Free, Bob
I've used both VisionApp and mRemote a lot and settled on mRemote for the last 6 months or so. Recently I stumbled across something on codeplex called Terminals by accident that is similar to mRemote in its basic feature set but much more feature rich. I've come to like it a lot better. One cool th

RE: Win2k3R2 Event forwarding to another Win2k3R2 server

2009-02-06 Thread Free, Bob
Are you talking about Event Log subscriptions which are only available in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008? -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2k3R2 Event forwarding to anot

RE: Scripting: How to tell if login was cached or domain?

2009-02-05 Thread Free, Bob
I'd think klist would be more like if that was the chosen route as it's CLI From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Scripting: How to tell if login was cached or domain?

RE: Malware and USB flash drives (was: Bookmark management programs)

2009-01-30 Thread Free, Bob
urity Alert TA09-020A -- Microsoft Windows Does Not Disable AutoRun Properly" -Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Malware and USB flash drives (was: Bookmark management programs) Not n

RE: dcdiag results?... Looking for some input here.

2009-01-30 Thread Free, Bob
+1 Great to see you here Brian. Hope to see you in Vegas in a few weeks... -Original Message- From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: dcdiag results?... Looking for some input here. Welcome to the

RE: Malware and USB flash drives (was: Bookmark management programs)

2009-01-28 Thread Free, Bob
Not necessarily. It does provide a false sense of security though. :-] http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5695&rss -Original Message- From: René de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@woodward.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Malware and US

RE: MS-patch 09-001

2009-01-15 Thread Free, Bob
I would expect if there was *big* SBS problem with that patch Susan Bradley would be screaming about it on her blog and patchmanagement.org since SBS and patch are two of the most often used words in her vocabulary :-] If I had any of the kitchen sink servers I'd be watching- http://blogs.techn

RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now

2009-01-09 Thread Free, Bob
The workaround I've used for a long time is a little program called UrlRunAddIn, it adds itself to the right-click menu in Outlook and works like a champ. I'm sure I heard about it here years ago. Seems there are numerous utilities with the name urlrun kicking around that do variations on the the

RE: Win2003 DNS DNS CName issue

2009-01-08 Thread Free, Bob
> So there is an ISC Dig.exe for windows? Cool, I'll grab that for sure! http://members.shaw.ca/nicholas.fong/dig/ The instructions are a hoot /excerpt "Click Start.. Run ... type CMD (a black screen pops up) cd c:\dig sha1 * You should see some SHA1 hashes (in here, SHA1 hash is used

RE: Windows Audit logging and reporting

2009-01-07 Thread Free, Bob
There are tons of products in that space. One that works well and has been around a long time is TNT's ELM product line. Simple to get working, proven track record, built in reports, excellent support. The price is reasonable for what you get IMO. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh

RE: Auditing Everything

2009-01-07 Thread Free, Bob
I was wondering when there was going to be a call out on that statement :-] It is fairly simple to overwhelm a win32 machine by cranking up the auditing too high. We were actually testing that yesterday -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

2009-01-07 Thread Free, Bob
We added a 64 bit DC to our existing domain with no issues whatsoever early last year to add some horsepower to a site allegedly being hammered by Exchange and to test all our processes, documentation, 3rd party agents, services etc in preparation for the next HW refresh. We did it in the lab as we

RE: Server OS Reinstall

2009-01-07 Thread Free, Bob
I reuse DC names every time I do HW refresh and have renamed newly promoted DC's back to the name of the one that was removed when I had to run a site in parallel during HW refresh. The thing you need to insure is that the metadata is cleaned up no matter and said cleanup is replicated whether y

RE: NT issue

2008-12-29 Thread Free, Bob
> I am not seeing successes in the PDC logs, but could they just not be turned on? Correct, you won't see them unless success auditing is enabled. Try nltest from the problematic client to see if it has lost its secure channel NLTEST /SC_QUERY: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/181171 (and the li

RE: Disable Wireless when LAN connected

2008-12-29 Thread Free, Bob
Our desktop team accomplishes that with the desktop firewall (3rd party, not builtin) Not just for the wireless either, basically any other adapter is disabled if the LAN is active. -Original Message- From: Michael Tellson [mailto:micha...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Monday, December 29,

RE: Flash Mounts as Folder

2008-12-19 Thread Free, Bob
If it's in a lab someone may have set it up that way on purpose??? Have you looked in diskmgmt.msc? -Original Message- From: James Edwards [mailto:jedwa...@mail.sdsu.edu] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Flash Mounts as Folder Recently, in one

RE: Change name of W2K3 TS

2008-12-18 Thread Free, Bob
Depends on how your clients do discovery and what mode it is installed in. Is the name hardcoded in any clients or in TS configuration of any of them? If it's all auto discovery it may be fine but the usual caveats about testing apply. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=301932 From: Christo

RE: Lose access to local domain servers when connected w/VPN to remote / different Windows domain

2008-12-17 Thread Free, Bob
can I automatically run it from a post-VPN-connection script without going through all the CMAK nonsense? From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Lose access to local domain servers when connected w/VPN to remote

RE: deny restart local policy?

2008-12-12 Thread Free, Bob
aunch them with admin rights and I get around this now by using CPAU, which is a bit fiddly to get working but does the job and costs nothing ( http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/ ) 2008/12/11 Free, Bob That covers one element of it from a technical standpoint but my primary point

RE: Issue joining 2003 domain (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-11 Thread Free, Bob
Try netdiag /test:dsgetdc /d:domain.to.join /v -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Issue joining 2003 domain (UNCLASSIFIED) Yes. This had the same outcome. On Dec 11, 2008

RE: deny restart local policy?

2008-12-11 Thread Free, Bob
a local user account that can shut down the system as well, just in case you lose domain connectivity and find yourself with a system you can't restart - although there is always the power cord, or RIB/DRAC/ILO reset function 2008/12/10 Free, Bob SeShutdownPrivilege (Shut down the s

RE: deny restart local policy?

2008-12-10 Thread Free, Bob
SeShutdownPrivilege (Shut down the system) allows a user to restart, sleep, or shutdown the computer. Be aware that administrators are also granted SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege (Force shutdown from a remote system) by default. That said, I'm not sure how you are going to accomplish this if the users

RE: Domain Controllers time sync software

2008-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
We have various HW clocks from kinemetrics and arbiter but we have also a very intricate time synch network. What do you synch the rest of your infrastructure to? Such as your core routers? -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008

RE: How to create a trust?

2008-11-14 Thread Free, Bob
ystems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/14/2008 09:08:39 AM: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Free, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > C

RE: I found this amusing...

2008-11-13 Thread Free, Bob
Did you notice the popup if you hover over the graphic? priceless -Original Message- From: Webb, Brian (Corp) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: I found this amusing... It went up on the outside of my cube the day

RE: How to create a trust?

2008-11-13 Thread Free, Bob
Creating trusts is generally also dependent on short-name(NetBios) resolution as well as the other obvious requirements. Often after people have fought creating a trust for some time and employ LMHOST files (or WINS) it magically works... NetBios is not as dead as some would have you think. There

RE: Change management in W2k8

2008-11-12 Thread Free, Bob
NetIQ GPA has exactly that workflow. I believe several of its competitors do as well. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Change management in W2k8 It was in a MMC and you see the changes and a f

RE: Strange login issues

2008-11-07 Thread Free, Bob
The name is kind of misleading because what it does is turn off the Fast Logon Optimization and makes XP boot like its predecessors did, that is don't present a desktop until you are finished booting (drivers loaded, services initialized etc) A lot of the GPO gurus and MVPs tout that setting as a

RE: Password policy

2008-10-27 Thread Free, Bob
If you have backups, that is the recommended way to restore it. If you must re-create it- Recreatedefpol.exe in 2000, Dcgpofix.exe in 2003 & 2008. Caveat emptor... The Dcgpofix tool is intended for use only as a last-resort disaster-recovery tool. To create regular backups of the default d

RE: Password policy

2008-10-27 Thread Free, Bob
> Is there anything else that is set by default by the Default Domain Policy? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756064.aspx lists the default settings in the 2 default policies. This appendix lists the Security Settings that are defined by default in the Default Domain Policy

RE: Force expire of passwords

2008-10-27 Thread Free, Bob
http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/expire/index.htm From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 7:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Force expire of passwords Hi All, Windows 2003 server, sinngle domain. I want to expire everyones passwo

RE: Checking what services are firing up and when.

2008-10-24 Thread Free, Bob
Stop 000a AKA IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL This Stop message indicates that a kernel-mode process or driver attempted to access a memory address to which it did not have permission to access. The most common cause of this error is an incorrect or corrupted pointer that references an incorrect

RE: DC changing time?

2008-10-16 Thread Free, Bob
time. It must have been a really interesting case you had with PSS From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC changing time? From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DC changing time?

RE: DC changing time?

2008-10-16 Thread Free, Bob
The time service on the DC wouldn't accept an offset that big. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC changing time? Bad NTP Time source? Enumerate and check them... From: mqcarp [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: GPRESULT shows domain type: windows 2000?

2008-10-15 Thread Free, Bob
We beat it to death on activdir about 2 years ago and the consensus was a text string was reused in some of the code. Netdiag has a similar issue. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg47766.html Here's a snip from one of my responses- I noticed the same thing yesterday wi

RE: SysInternals Updates

2008-10-01 Thread Free, Bob
I used to try to keep up with all the various updates individually and just download the PSTools suite periodically. It's nice to see the nearly the entire toolset in one big download now so you can just get them all current at once with a single download. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint

RE: Startup / Logon script issues

2008-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
er solve the problem of making this work as a startup script. Carl From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Startup / Logon script issues > What would cause the "run logon scripts

RE: $700B?

2008-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
Thanks. I'll have a look. Eye-openers are always welcome J From: Chinnery, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: $700B? Well, if we're going to start referencing other sites, may I suggest c-span.org's Q & A. About

RE: Startup / Logon script issues

2008-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
> What would cause the "run logon scripts synchronously" policy from not being effective? Is "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" enabled? The logon performance enhancements in XP can present the desktop despite the synchronous setting. The always wait policy is said to

RE: $700B?

2008-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
bana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org "Free, Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/26/2008 12:10:21 PM: > As long as the list is going tilt today much like our finances, I’d > seriously look at Paulson’s history before I said that I trust him…. > I’m with Joh

RE: $700B?

2008-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
> I'm probably a tad bit older than some of you posters, but I clearly remember the S & L scandal It's a good time to remember it and it's actually getting some play again these dayshmmm...I wonder why... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings

RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations

2008-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
than a few minutes a day on it... I probably signed up originally around 2000 or so ... and there are a lot of days I just can't get to look at the list. At the moment, I have something like 15K unread messages in my list folder > > > -Brian > > > -Original Mess

RE: $700B?

2008-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
As long as the list is going tilt today much like our finances, I'd seriously look at Paulson's history before I said that I trust himI'm with John, I clearly don't understand it all but the bi-partisan resistance is noteworthy... Excerpt from a transcript of a public radio show I heard the

RE: Restoring old DC image

2008-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
Don't even think about restoring a year old image. Demote/Promote is the only sensible course of action you have. You don't specify enough about your environment to recommend further steps. And I'm not trying to sound harsh but yes, you really need to get your act together, especially if y

RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations

2008-09-25 Thread Free, Bob
w.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations You talking seniority on the list or the planet? :-p -Or

RE: Determine Group Policy affects?

2008-09-25 Thread Free, Bob
In the absence of a 3rd party tool, use GPMC. At the very bottom of the tree is Group Policy Results. You can plug in a user and computer and it will evaluate the actual last processing cycle, show you all the filters, applied/denied polices, resultant settings, GP processing events etc. From:

RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations

2008-09-25 Thread Free, Bob
You talking seniority on the list or the planet? :-p -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations Hey, there are a few people on this mail

RE: Cached credentials GPO

2008-09-23 Thread Free, Bob
Not until a reboot IIRC. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cached credentials GPO If you change the GPO for cached credentials from the default of 10 to 1...if the machine has already cached 8 logins wil

RE: Step-by-step for removing domain admins & delegating

2008-09-19 Thread Free, Bob
Read the AD Delegation WP from MS. There is also one we used for Exchange, the name of it escapes me. Think about investing in a 3rd party tool if at all possible. We run a >20K seat environment with 3 Domain Admins, no Account or Server Ops. I know a guy who ran a Fortune 5 global company with sim

RE: create iso

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
J Are you still on XP? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: create iso Maybe MBS will whip me up a POSH

RE: Quest Acquires Netpro

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
ge.com -----Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quest Acquires Netpro I too am intrigued by ADMC and need to find the time to check out TurboChargeAD.org. To be fair Quest has been good

RE: create iso

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
Maybe MBS will whip me up a POSH cmdlet so I can stay at my beloved prompt .. lol From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: create iso Mouse-ist! From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: create iso

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
Product comparison says no CLI for the free version From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 1:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: create iso +1 (or is that +2?). I use Deepburner anytime I burn to .ISO, although I have no idea if it can do

RE: Quest Acquires Netpro

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
ool. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quest Acquires Netpro Heck, I am that marketyou

RE: create iso

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
er is awesome http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ Free, Bob wrote: > I thought they were bad until I recently installed Nero for a portable > DVD burner I bought for my laptop. Cripes, what an invasive POS -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN&#

RE: Quest Acquires Netpro

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
ut they've also bought the mid-market. Which bugs the crap outta me. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Iss

RE: Quest Acquires Netpro

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
I like what Mark said on activedir..." $78Million to buy DEC/TEC - Bargain ;-) " -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quest Acquires Netpro www.quest.com/netpro There goes the neig

RE: create iso

2008-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
I thought they were bad until I recently installed Nero for a portable DVD burner I bought for my laptop. Cripes, what an invasive POS -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: creat

RE: Microsoft Identiy Lifecycle Manage

2008-09-11 Thread Free, Bob
We use its predecessor MIIS and before that we used MMS with several different stores although not eDirectory.. Both ILM and MIIS have connectivity to a variety of directories including eDirectory, Netscape/iPlanet/SunONE, eTrust, Tivoli etc etc. Don't really know the pros and cons of your choic

RE: Duplicate Name on Network

2008-09-04 Thread Free, Bob
If you are running WINS, that's the first place I would look. -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Duplicate Name on Network Okay, I've got a fairly new 2008 server that has a sta

RE: RDP quits after windows update

2008-09-04 Thread Free, Bob
It's been going on for quite some time. Susan Bradley constantly chatters about it on the Patch Management list and probably has it on her blog. I think it is allegedly fixed by http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923630 but I don't have all the info at my fingertips. A little googling should tu

RE: AD maintenance?

2008-09-03 Thread Free, Bob
ngineer but I mainly support the employee side of things not the NWEA client side. Dave From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AD maintenance? Oldcmp is your best bet for free/low cost for computers a

RE: AD maintenance?

2008-09-03 Thread Free, Bob
Oldcmp is your best bet for free/low cost for computers and users. You really need a lifecycle management system in place and it all starts with how you do provisioning and adherence to standards. That can be difficult to implement, especially if none existed in the past. We have a very mature proc

RE: Which is the better way

2008-08-28 Thread Free, Bob
wrote: Hmm, fully complaint but not actually the full spec. LOL, that sure does sound like MS. ;-) But SNTP or NTP - it syncs the time just fine to my routers, and thats all that matters to me. Many thanks for digging this info up. Very much appreciated. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Free,

RE: Which is the better way

2008-08-27 Thread Free, Bob
nswers :) > > NTP versus SNTP > > If you are running *nix time servers, NTP is a standard and works more consistently. > > http://blogs.technet.com/industry_insiders/pages/w32-tm-service.aspx > > > -troy > > > -Original Message- > From: Free, Bob [

RE: Which is the better way

2008-08-27 Thread Free, Bob
. Unless I have done something wrong it appears the command > structure that Edward gave me did exactly what I wanted. If something is > wrong I would love to know about it before it bites me. > > Thank you, > > Jon >

RE: Which is the better way

2008-08-27 Thread Free, Bob
ssues Subject: RE: Which is the better way Ok how about some actual answers :) NTP versus SNTP If you are running *nix time servers, NTP is a standard and works more consistently. http://blogs.technet.com/industry_insiders/pages/w32-tm-service.aspx -troy -Original Message- From: Free

RE: Which is the better way

2008-08-27 Thread Free, Bob
The OP asked about setting up his PDCe. That is generally NOT the way to configure your PDCe unless it is in a child domain as it sets the source of time to be a domain controller in the domain hierarchy. Unless it is in a child domain, the PDCe should be authoritative. From: Ziots, Edward [mai

RE: Which is the better way

2008-08-27 Thread Free, Bob
reset anything like time on my DC's. I might even have used w32tm last time for all I remember. Jon On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Free, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Still begs the same question, why use net time on anything newer than a wintendo? W2K's w32time works just

RE: Which is the better way

2008-08-27 Thread Free, Bob
Still begs the same question, why use net time on anything newer than a wintendo? W2K's w32time works just fine. It was the first time we actually had a decent native time service with registry based configuration and a management interface. That said, regardless of its quirks, even in the NT era t

RE: Terminal Server licensing question

2008-08-26 Thread Free, Bob
Yes- Open Terminal Services Configuration. In the console tree, click Server Settings. In the details pane, right-click Licensing Mode, and then click Properties. Select either Per User or Per Device, and then click OK. -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: DC Offline

2008-08-12 Thread Free, Bob
Unless you have intervened by setting TSL manually, the answer depends on how your AD was installed/upgraded. In 2K it was 60 days. In 2003 SP1 and beyond, default TSL is intended to be 180 days but a bug in R2 didn't increase it. That was first rectified in SP2 IIRC. It's best to just check th

RE: Icon File

2008-07-18 Thread Free, Bob
http://www.djdenham.com/saving_favicons.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Icon File When I drag and drop a URL to my desktop from IE it often has an custom icon associat

RE: Sevice login problems

2008-07-18 Thread Free, Bob
Have you double-checked no one restricted the accounts User's Logon hours?? It's not clear from your post, does the service ever start by itself without intervention? What privileges and user rights does this service account have on the system[s] it runs a service on? -Original Message

RE: Case # 000xxxxx: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref

2008-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
I got one too on a response in another thread, I just surmised that someone had subscribed some dorky auto responder to the list. I just looked and the headers have several references to salesforce.com "The Leader in On-Demand Customer Relationship Management" LOL -Original Message- Fr

RE: Forced Computer Naming Convention

2008-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
Free, Bob Subject: Case # 00023358: RE: Forced Computer Naming Convention ref:00D57Vhx.50054w29g:ref Dear Free, Bob, Thank you for submitting your question to us online. Case #00023358: "RE: Forced Computer Naming Convention" has been created and a Web Stores America Customer Serv

RE: Forced Computer Naming Convention

2008-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
Not possible via GPO. 3 solutions come to mind, you can either roll your own provisioning system that enforces your rules and require the techs to use it, pre-create the accounts centrally with compliant names and just let them join them or buy a 3rd party solution that has logic/rules baked in

RE: Group Policy

2008-06-27 Thread Free, Bob
Did you enable loopback within the GPO? System| Group Policy | enable Loopback Policy option. Also, if you filter the GPO on a group of comp accts, you need to reboot the server to get it to pick up the group's token after you add it to the group. From: Dennis Rogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: batch route add

2008-06-27 Thread Free, Bob
Ah, a man after my own heart, my explorations came up with different registry paths, I will have to check out yours, it's slightly different approach but essentially the same result.. I love the Autorun...never seen that used in this context before.. I can ditch my little cmd file I set my prompt

RE: batch route add

2008-06-27 Thread Free, Bob
Thanks... I agree with your ludditeness, you can join my ServerCoreOnly-No-GUI in Server2010 campaign :-) Even easier..to me at least is Default|Options-Quick Edit mode. Right click becomes paste and left-click/highlight is copy like in other applications. I forget it even works the way y

RE: Group Policy

2008-06-27 Thread Free, Bob
If you want to apply user policies based on the computer they login you want to look at loopback processing. Security group filtering is probably also your friend here. From: Dennis Rogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group

RE: batch route add

2008-06-27 Thread Free, Bob
> In future, perhaps you could embed a standard JPG instead ./rant on Are you serious? How about learn how to use the clipboard to freaking copy the text from a cmd prompt instead of sending a picture. Major pet peeve of mine. Sorry to be harsh but that's about as lame as it gets, only thing wo

RE: Five Things....

2008-06-20 Thread Free, Bob
Thanks for this thread, it brightened a dismal day. I'm fortunate to be more towards the other end of the spectrum and hearing how it is for others reminded me to be grateful. When our company was named #1 in our sector in the InformationWeek 500 last year, they took out full page ads thanking us (

RE: AD reports

2008-06-12 Thread Free, Bob
> This will not get the users Primary group or any nested groups As of v1.1 Get-QADGroupMember has a parameter -Indirect which, when specified expands nested group objects in addition to objects that are direct members of the group. It also has some facilities for primarys- $group = Get-QADGr

RE: RDP question

2008-06-12 Thread Free, Bob
Hopefully everyone is also strictly limiting the systems a service account can logon to whenever possible ..right? Also a very good idea to be auditing any changes to the userWorkstations attribute of such accounts. From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 200

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