RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Thomas Gonzalez
1...only me...not enough cookies sold to hire someone L From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How many domain admins do you have? General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of them a

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
My family supported you REALLY well. ;-) From: Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? 1...only me...not enough cookies sold to hire someone :( From: David Lum

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread James Rankin
Only those who require Domain Administrator rights get them (those who work extensively on AD). Everyone else has their server admin rights limited via GPO to subsets of machines. We have custom groups for Exchange Server Admins, Citrix Admins, VirtualCenter admins, SQL admins, WebSense admins - on

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Jon Harris
). Jon On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Tim Vander Kooi wrote: > My family supported you REALLY well. > > ;-) > > > > > > *From:* Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org] > *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 10:51 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
ander Kooi wrote: > My family supported you REALLY well. > > ;-) > > > > > > *From:* Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org] > *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 10:51 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: How many domain admins do you h

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM, David Lum wrote: > General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of > them are domain administrators? We've currently got two IT guys at %DAYJOB%, me and the greenhorn. Neither of the accounts we use for day-to-day usage have admin priv

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Steven Peck
rch 23, 2009 10:51 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? > > > > 1…only me…not enough cookies sold to hire someone L > > > > From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:47 AM > To: NT

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Kurt Buff
For this office, around 230 employees, of which 9 are IT staff. Of the IT staff, 4 are responsible for infrastructure (desktop support plus server and network support) and of those, we have two DAs - myself and a relative newb who's learning fast. The desktop support guys are definitely not DAs. W

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Malcolm Reitz
ly require domain admin privileges. -Malcolm From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How many domain admins do you have? Only those who require Domain Administrator rights get them (those who work exte

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread John Cook
3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of the lesser duties. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+,

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Holstrom, Don
Me, with 125 computers up and running... From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? 3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of the lesser d

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread David Mazzaccaro
I hear ya! Just me, 157 PCs in 8 locations across 4 states From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? Me, with 125 computers up and running

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread John Aldrich
09 3:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? I hear ya! Just me, 157 PCs in 8 locations across 4 states _ From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread John Cook
: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? I hear ya! Just me, 157 PCs in 8 locations across 4 states From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:13 PM To: NT System

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread David Mazzaccaro
What...no cellular? From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? 300 total computers here - 275 desktop/laptop + 25 training computers spread

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread John Cook
...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? What...no cellular? From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Eisenberg, Wayne
I'm curious - how do you do that with GPOs? Wayne From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How many domain admins do you have? Only those who require Domain Administ

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Anatoly Podgoretsky
One admin with 1 server and one workstation :-) Anatoly Podgoretsky http://www.podgoretsky.com - Original Message - From: David Lum To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 5:47 PM Subject: How many domain admins do you have? General poll: How many Systems

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-23 Thread Free, Bob
We don't call them engineers but we require separate accounts for all administrative work so what we would refer to as "windows administrators" are anyone with an adminID, server admins, desktop group, help desk, dba's etc. In the production forest 1% of those adminID's are DA's. From: David L

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-24 Thread James Rankin
ystem Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: How many domain admins do you have? > > Only those who require Domain Administrator rights get them (those who work > extensively on AD). Everyone else has their server admin rights limited via > GPO to subsets of machines. We have custom groups

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-24 Thread James Rankin
1:57 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: How many domain admins do you have? > > Only those who require Domain Administrator rights get them (those who work > extensively on AD). Everyone else has their server admin rights limited via > GPO to subsets of machines. W

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-24 Thread Eisenberg, Wayne
57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How many domain admins do you have? Only those who require Domain Administrator rights get them (those who work extensively on AD). Everyone else has their server admin rights limited via GPO to subsets of machines. We

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-24 Thread René de Haas
They replace. Reÿé From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:wayne.eisenb...@pbvllc.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? So Restricted Groups add to the local group, not replace the entire contents of the local

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-24 Thread James Rankin
group? > > > > -- > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:40 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: How many domain admins do you have? > > Group your servers into GPOs such as Citrix Servers,

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-24 Thread David Lum
Issues Subject: Re: How many domain admins do you have? They replace the contents completely - we simply have Domain Admins, the local admin account and the relevant server admin group specified in the GPO 2009/3/24 Eisenberg, Wayne mailto:wayne.eisenb...@pbvllc.com>> So Restricted Groups add

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-26 Thread Brian Desmond
I usually go with a magic number of 6 as what I tell larger customers to keep it <=. Not sure what your org looks like though so kind of shooting in the dark. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-26 Thread David Lum
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? I usually go with a magic

Re: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-26 Thread James Rankin
March 26, 2009 1:52 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: How many domain admins do you have? > > > > *I usually go with a magic number of 6 as what I tell larger customers to > keep it <=. * > > * * > > *Not sure what your org looks like though so kind

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-26 Thread Free, Bob
: Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How many domain admins do you have? At one of my previous (outsourcing) jobs we had a policy of revoking all Domain Admin access and seeing who screamed. I would estimate less than 10% of them, on average, could justify

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-26 Thread Brian Desmond
This is where it's a management buy-in discussion. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? In our case six

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-26 Thread Brian Desmond
t MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? Saw a presentation yesterday at TEC by a fellow who went from an environment like that to

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-27 Thread Free, Bob
work. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? Didn't see that one but I have worked with customers where they have a process to add and remove accounts on a

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-27 Thread René de Haas
I wonder if in that case the cure isn't more work than the problem. Rÿÿé From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? It was a very thought provoking presentation but in th

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-27 Thread Brian Desmond
://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? It was a very thought provoking presentation but in the end, that's exactly what they were doing and i

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

2009-03-27 Thread Free, Bob
.deh...@woodward.com] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have? I wonder if in that case the cure isn't more work than the problem. Reÿé From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:20 PM T