Re: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-28 Thread Andrew S. Baker
In principle, I support and advocate multiple user accounts. In (recent) practice, I've been spoiled by UAC on Vista and Win7. (Not suggesting that it mitigates *all* risk, btw) -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: 2-3 is max for

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-28 Thread Phil Garven
, Phil Garven From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? Not to nitpick, but I want to nit pick :) RE: But no one uses the internet

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
Security for Exchange). Cheers Ken From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, 28 May 2010 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? Not to nitpick, but I want to nit pick :) RE: But no one uses the internet on the exchange

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, A large company with 5 SEs? What company is this? :) The only Domain Admins should be those people who are responsible for Active Directory. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, 28 May 2010 4:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What's your requirement

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-28 Thread David Lum
There was a + behind it :) From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 5:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? Hi, A large company with 5 SEs? What company is this? :) The only Domain Admins should be those

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-28 Thread Ziots, Edward
Organization 401-639-3505 ezi...@lifespan.org From: Phil Garven [mailto:ph...@sunbeltsoftware.com] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? IT people tend to do a lot of testing on their machines which often

Re: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
My thoughts: No domain admins unless there is no other way to do what you need to. If they need to do AD administration, use LDAP OU ACLs aka delegation. They should only get permissions delegated to them if AD management is part of their duties. On 5/27/2010 1:39 PM, David Lum wrote: What

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Salvador Manzo
.) -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? My thoughts: No domain admins unless there is no other way to do what you need

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
2-3 is max for any environment IMO. Everything else should be dome with delegations. They must be your most proficient admins, not any old new hire. Check out some of joe Richard's rants about it, he ran a multi-nationl Global 5 firm with 3 EA /DA level admins who were, as he put it, all close

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Malcolm Reitz
...@usc.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 14:02 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? In addition, use Restricted Group GPOs as much as possible if distributed local administration of machines is required. Personally, I would go a step further

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Phil Garven
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? 2-3 is max for any environment IMO. Everything else should be dome with delegations. They must be your most proficient admins, not any old new hire. Check out some of joe Richard's rants about it, he ran a multi-nationl

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
it? Or, are you suggesting that different AV be installed on various servers? From: Phil Garven [mailto:ph...@sunbeltsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? +1 on separate accounts for admins Log

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
workstation admins aren't server admins. From: Phil Garven [mailto:ph...@sunbeltsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA? +1 on separate accounts for admins Log on with a user account (maybe

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Desmond
The only people I give it to are the guys who actually own the AD service. That would be the people that support your domain controllers. Everything else gets delegated. Sometimes a team manage gets it depending on the organizational structure but it varies by organization. There's a really

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
Phil Garven ph...@sunbeltsoftware.com previously uttered: Log on with a user account (maybe a local admin) and use run as to run your admin programs as your domain admin or equivalent account. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a