Re: Cannot delete a PTR record, AD integrated DNS

2010-08-09 Thread mb
? What I would suggest doing is turning on auditing for this subtree in AD and enabling DS Access auditing and then you can figure out what's causing it to get created. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: mb [mailto:midphan12

Cannot delete a PTR record, AD integrated DNS

2010-08-05 Thread mb
Details - have a PTR record I am unable to get rid of. I can delete it, immediately refresh the zone, and there it is. The machine name in the record is in all caps, which is unusual. There is no corresponding forward record. This machine has not existed for a long time, was a fax server

Re: Cannot delete a PTR record, AD integrated DNS

2010-08-05 Thread mb
: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Cannot delete a PTR record, AD integrated DNS On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, mb midphan12...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried through ADSIEdit, and interestingly, this record does

Re: Cannot delete a PTR record, AD integrated DNS

2010-08-05 Thread mb
...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: mb [mailto:midphan12...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cannot delete a PTR record, AD integrated DNS This is interesting. Checked \system32\dns on a few of our domain

Running a batch file as a service, 2K8 R2

2010-05-26 Thread mb
In the Windows Server 2003 resource kit, there was a utility named autoexnt.exe that allowed you to run a batch file as a service. We have one 2K3 server that we need to retire replace with a 2K8 machine, and I need to move this service. The 2K8 R2 resource kit includes six books, zero

DNS Cache - Do you ever clean it up?

2010-05-21 Thread mb
Just curious what others here do. Recently had a minor issue that had me looking in our DNS cache for an answer. When I expanded the .com zone, it hit the default max of 10,000 domains to display. I looked through it a bit, and a lot of those zone folders were empty, as TTL's had expired and

Re: DNS Cache - Do you ever clean it up?

2010-05-21 Thread mb
? -- From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: DNS Cache - Do you ever clean it up? On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:56 AM, mb midphan12...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious what others here

Re: Windows 7 con't

2010-05-12 Thread mb
If you're not already, log into the troublesome laptop as local administrator. Sometimes in Vista, required admin level access problems are not accurately relay via the dialogue boxes you're seeing. From: Cameron Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Batch help, please

2008-02-11 Thread mb
I need to let the user input a name, and then pull the first character of that name into a variable. So I get my input like this: set /p var1=Enter folder name (type 'exit' to leave): if %VAR1% equ exit goto:End And I have a variable named var1 that has a name. How do I nab the first