LimitLogin 1.0 Installation Problems
Hello
I am currently trying to install LimitLogin 1.0 from Microsoft on a
test domain.
The installation went smoothly and both IIS and AD .msi both ran
without any errors. My current problem is that no information seems to
be sent from the client to the AD database.
I have come to this conclusion because when examining a test user via
the AD console. Tt states that no login information was found for the
test user. Even though I have personally log in as this user. I have
made sure that the login logoff scripts are ran whenever the test user
is log into a computer. I am suspecting that something is stopping the
data from going from the client to the server. But I have no clue
where the problem truly lies. Has anyone ever experience this problem
or knows how to solve it? I have the following IIS settings set up.
But I do not know if these are the correct settings.
IIS settings
WSLimtLogin IIS Server is set to read write and directory browsing
I have Enable Anonymous access
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adaminstall.exe answer file
Can I add my own LDF to the adaminstall.exe answer file? I tried but the
installation just quits. Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128403
DHCP
Hello techies,
My DC is the only DHCP in our subnet and we have 2 gateways to connect to
the data centre.My idea is to utilize both the links(2
gateways)...loadabalance them or rather utilize both the links...
If my DHCP can give half the PC's the gateway as the first and the other
half pc's the second gateway....It would be great!
2 gateways and one subnet...is there a way to do it?Scripting?
Tools?anything??
Is there any way to do that with Windows 2003 DHCP server?
Thanks in advance for any help...
cheers Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128402
Old computer name showing in group membership
I recently renamed a server, lets just say from ServerA to ServerB.
This server was a member of some local groups on another comptuer,
lets call this WorkstationA. It was also a member of some groups in
AD. Now all the groups in AD currently show the server with the new
name "ServerB". Howerver the local group membership on WorkstationA
still shows "ServerA". When I try to remove "ServerA" it lets me
delete it just fine, I click Add, type in "ServerB" and it finds it
ok, I then see it in the list. But as soon as I click Apply, it
changes the name back to "ServerA"
Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? DNS shows
everything is correct, group membership in AD is all correct. It's
only this one workstation which keeps showing the old computer name.
Thanks Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128400
authentication with password hash only (.net)
Is there any way to authenticate against AD with a user name and password
hash (MD5) only? The code provided below authenticates with a password, but
unfortunately I only have the hash (it's provided by a connecting system).
Thanks in advance.
private bool ActiveDirectoryAuthenticate(string userName, string
password, string domain)
{
bool isAuthentic = false;
try
{
DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" +
domain, userName, password);
object nativeObject = entry.NativeObject;
isAuthentic = true;
}
catch (DirectoryServicesCOMException)
{
}
catch
{
}
return isAuthentic;
} Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128397
Changing replication partners mess
I was formerly a single site, single domain, using 5 Windows 2000 DCs. For a
couple of reasons, I'm placing Windows 2003 R2 DCs at my two remote sites
(we'll call them REMOTE1 and REMOTE2). Both are connected back to main site
(we'll call it MAIN) by 100MB microwave links (hub and spoke, if you will).
I created two new sites, and associated the correct subnets to them, but I
think I made a mistake by leaving the default site link with all three sites
in them. The auto generated replication that took place was fine for
REMOTE1 - it found a partner on a DC at MAIN.
But REMOTE2 created a link to REMOTE1. Besides the extra hop and traffic on
the microwave, problem is, since my physical connections are hub and spoke,
if the microwave to REMOTE1 goes down, so does replication to REMOTE2.
I tried manually creating replication partners the way I thought they should
be (DC at REMOTE1 to DC at MAIN, DC at REMOTE2 to another DC at MAIN), but
it doesn't appear as though the DCs at the remotes are picking up on the
changes. And if I try to replicate manually, I get this error:
The following error occurred during the attempt to synchronize the domain
controllers: The naming context is in the process of being removed or is not
replicated from the specified server.
Then I got to thinking about the site links. If I had two site links, one
with MAIN and REMOTE1 and the other with MAIN and REMOTE2, the auto
generated replication partners probably would have come out fine, right?
So I've done that...two site links now, each with two sites as above...but I
still need to fix the above error. Should I just DCPROMO down the two DCs at
the remote sites, delete the links I manually made, and because I have two
site links properly defined everything should be okay?
Thanks in advance,
Bruce Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128390
Home Folder Creation
Is there away to create a homefolder using the display name instead of
%username%. We have student account that are going to be numbers and we
would like to have the display name as the home folder for easier lookup on
the server folders. Is there a variable I can use instead of %username%?
Thanks
Ed Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128389
PDC down - Strange Behaviour
I have 2 domain controllers. Dc1 has PDC Emulator, RID Master and
Infrastructure.
Dc2 has the Schema Master and Domain Naming Master roles.
yesterday for some reason Dc1 went down. We lost our internet connectivity
as a result - for some reason ISA 2004 was not able to use DC2 and maintain
internet connectivity.
Also I was not able to connect to any for the servers via RDP - I just got
the error that the domain is not available.
However Dc2 is up and running?
Is this normal behaviour?
thanks Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128387
NTDS KCC 1265
Can anyone help me figure out how to get rid of this event? It shows up
every 15 minutes on each of 4 DC's in their respective sites. Win2K Server, 1
forest, 3 domains, 5 sites. The main hq site is unaffected. The problem is
with the 4 remote sites connected by 256K links. They are all in the forest
root domain. Star topology. The connectivity is fine between the sites.
Any help is most sincerely appreciated.
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: NTDS KCC
Event Category: (1)
Event ID: 1265
Date: 5/9/2008
Time: 8:44:48 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER02
Description:
The attempt to establish a replication link with parameters
Partition: DC="domain02
CNF:1294ba43-29dc-4b36-992c-b90ce93a0112",DC=local
Source DSA DN: CN=NTDS
Settings,CN=SERVER04,CN=Servers,CN=Site,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=domain01,DC=local
Source DSA Address:
85913531-194c-4049-b02f-27c8dc6712d6._msdcs.domain01.local
Inter-site Transport (if any): CN=IP,CN=Inter-Site
Transports,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=domain01,DC=local
failed with the following status:
The file pointer cannot be set on the specified device or file.
The record data is the status code. This operation will be retried.
Data:
0000: 84 00 00 00 ?... Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128385
Log into Active Direoctory with DOS?
I am not sure if this can be done. Can you actually use a bootable
network floppy to log into a domain? I can get an IP address, and I
can actually map a drive using a local username and password on a
Member Server, but I can't seem to log into the Active Directory
Domain.
Now i am thinking- is it even possible w/ Dos? Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128381
Local Group Membership Removed - Restricted Groups
Hi
We have an issue where by a very small percentage of clients (no more
than 30 out of 40,000) are having members removed from their local
groups. We control most of the group members locally on these clients
via restricted groups in a single GPO. We can see "policy change" and
" account management" events on these clients that show the members
being removed but we don't know by what.
We do currently have a typo in the restricted groups of this GPO
introduced by a migration table typo. This typo maps a service account
(just a local user account on the client) as if its a local group on
the client. This generates a Eventid1202 but can be explained
I've seen this article, that refers to a AD object that has been
removed being refereced in the resticted group causing a problem but
can't actually get my head round whether its relavent.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320099/en-us
Can anyone suggest a way of captured whats actually removing these
group members, bearing in mind that its only happening on a very small
number of clients. We already have the event tracking the removal just
don't know by what
Craig
ps, the clients do eventually fix themselves which Im assuming is
after the 16hours security settings refresh Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128372
Cannot able to create child domain
I am trying to create child domain to a exiting domin i am getting below error
the operation failed because
Active directory could not create object
CN=schild,CN=Partions,CN=Configaration,DC=cmttest,DC=com,check the event log
for posible system errors.
The FSMO roles ownership could be verified because its directory partitions
has not replicated successfully with utlist one replication partner.
And event log Details.
Internal error: An active directory error has occured
Addtional data
error value decimal
-1073741823
error id
3000e54
Please help me to slove this problem Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128368
AD Domain Trust is unsafe!
Hi.
We are facing a situation with a particular subsidiary company. We have a
sort of a resource Forest with a centralized Sharepoint Server. We requested
each subsidiary to create a one-way AD trust with the resource forest in
order to authenticate their users on the site.
All but one subsidiary is giving us problems. Mostly because they
semi-outsource many aspects of their IT operations including security; and
the oursourcing company is worried about any breaches that it might be
accountable for.
The main concern it seems is with opening the RPC ports; but all we need is
for them to open up one of their domain controllers to the resource forest
DCs and some servers and apply a registry setting that fixes the AD RPC port.
Still, they won't budge and instead had us implement ADFS.
We have implemented ADFS ok and they can authenticate, but we are having
issues with ADFS and MOSS user profiles. And I would like them to get onboard
with the AD Trust.
In their recent response, they claim:
1- ADFS is the world wide accepted method for connecting companies to
exchange information over the Internet.
** But we have a private link that doesn't go through the Internet and is
protected by firewalls!
2-They calim their security policy does not allow using AD trust becuse is
it not safe and can facilitate the hacking of their data?!!
3-They also claim that Microsoft recommended we standardize on ADFS for
authenticating all of our subsidiaries instead of AD trust!! (I will have to
investigate with the local MS reps)
So, my question is, if we are all companies under the same umbrella and a
reasonable amount of trust/security policies can be agreed on, then would an
AD Trust (one-way at that!!) be considered that un-safe? Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128366
How to list which users have been authenticated to a specified DC ?
Hello,
I would like to know how can we list which users have been
authenticated to a specified DC please ?
Is there any command that will do that ?
I am not talking about an echo %logonserver% command as this is more
for a client point of view.
I would like to know that from the DC itself.
Thank you
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Query - Export Enabled / Disabled and Created Date
I am using Active Directory Users and Computers. I've created a Query to
show all of my users. I would like to export Name, enabled / disabled and
the date the user object was created.
The name is fine.
* Disabled shows as a red x, but I would like to show it as a column so I
can export it.
* Is there a way to add a column for the date the user was created? Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128356
Sessions listing shows connected computers as IP address, not mach
Windows Server 2003 native Domain and all users are XP SP2. Users having
difficulties sporadically accessing file servers and roaming profiles getting
corrupted.
When checking sessions via Computer Management on File server containing
roaming profiles, listing identifies connected computers with IP address, not
with machine name. Is this normal? Is the server having difficulties
translating IP addresses to machine name? Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128354
USN Rollback Event ID 2103
Hi,
We had a USN rollback on one of our main DC (called DC1)( only two DCs into
our Active Directory). Problems started to occure with the login process,
adding new users and link to exchange mailboxes. We had to removed the DC2
from the AD and kept the DC1 as the only DC of our Active Directory.
Now that I have only one domain controller and everytime I reboot that
server, a Event ID 2103 comes up. ( The Active directory database has been
restored using an ussupported procedure. Active Directory will be unable to
log on users while this condition persist. As a result the Net logon service
as paused.)
Except that error everything is fine, no more problems with my users.
Now my question: Can I fix that error now that I have only one DC with USN
rollback?
tx
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GPO defned Interactive Logon message truncated
Hi all, I am facing a strange behavior which I think is a sort of bug.
I have a interactive logon legal notice which has one line in French
and another one in English.
It appears that each line shows the first 512character and truncated
after. But all together is more than 512 char...
Also in the GPMC, the text shows properly. 633 chars + 539 chars of
each line. Editing the GPO itself does not show the proper lenght at
first but it does show everything if I actually add or modify a char.
Does anyone know of any fix for that? Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128349
Changing user name yields inconsistent results with folder redirec
Hi,
I am having an issue with redirected folders after changing user names.
Here's the history:
We created folders using â??home foldersâ??, as follows:
\\server\users\office\joe_cool
Then we manually created the â??My Documentsâ?? folder as follows:
\\server\users\office\Joe_cool\My Documents
After the first logon/logoff, the â??My Documentsâ?? folder name changes to
the user nameâ??s docs:
\\server\users\office\Joe_Cool\Joe_Coolâ??s Documents
Then we use a group policy to redirect the My Documents to the following path:
\\server\users\office\%username%\My Documents
That has worked great, for years. Now we are changing the user names to the
format â??joe1234â??.
After logon/logoff with the changed name, some of the userâ??s â??My Documents
are changing to the following format:
\\server\users\office\joe_cool\joe1234â??s documents
While others remain as:
\\server\users\office\joe_cool\joe_coolâ??s Documents
This is happening with users that are in the same OU and have the same NTFS
permissions on their home folders. In most cases it doesnâ??t matter but in
one case the user was locked out of his â??My Documentsâ?? folder because of an
issue with the path. Can you think of any reason why we are getting
different results although we are doing the same thing with every user?
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bb Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128346
2003 Forest Trust Issues - Please Help
Dear All,
We have two native Windows 2003 Forests with a two way non-transitive trust
configured between them.
Certainly functionality especially within AD isn't available i.e we cannot
add groups/users from Domain A to Domain B or vica-versa. The only
exception is local groups we can add users or groups from Domain A and
Domain B to the other. But this functionality isn't available for global or
universal groups which would enable us to effectively share resources
between both organisations.
DCDIAG's result in the Outbound Secure Channels test failing. There was an
issue with time synchronisation between the two forests an approximate four
minute difference. This has now been addressed but upon rerunning the
DCDIAG the exact same errors occur.
I believe it could be DNS related, even though we have secondary zones for
Domain A in Domain B and vica-verca. Can anyone advise?
Below are the errors we receive in a DCDIAG:
Could not Check secure channel from DC1 Domain A to Domain B Win32 Error
1355
Could not Query Trusted Domain :Win32 Error 2
Any help or advice is greatly received.
Regards,
Darren Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128341
Password complexity policy
Hello: I have a Windows 2003 domain with multiple domain controllers. What is
the best approach to configure the password complexity and replicate the
policy to the domain controllers?
I am a novice to Active Directory.
Thanks, Mark Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128338
Administrator Account Locking Out
Hi Everyone,
We have found a developing problem in our mixed mode environment of Windows
2003 Servers and Windows 2000 servers. On both of my Windows 2000 servers, I
can watch using the ALTools from Microsoft, specifically the lockout status
tool, the Administrator account count up and lock out every few minutes.
This does not seem to affect performance of any of my system dramatically,
but I'm concerned why it is doing this.
I have looked in both the event logs, turned on netlogon logging, etc. but
can find no reason for it. Can someone point me in the correct direction for
finding a log that will show me where the source of the attempted login is
coming from?
Then I can possibly troubleshoot the cause...
Thanks in advance,
Ken Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128325
Domain DC Time
I thought that all computers on a Domaain were supposed to sync up with
their DC as their primary NTP server. Why is it that when i run net time
/querysntp i get this then: The current SNTP value is: time.windows.com ;
shouldnt it be the ip or hostname of my DC? Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128321
windows 2000 gp & vista
Hi,
Is it possible to use windows 2000 server group policy to deploy a software
on windows vista?
I did add an msi packeg to gp, when we log to win XP sp2 the software start
to install, but when log to our windows vista, nothing heppend.
Thanks,
Shahin Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128314
DNS is Causing real Problems please help..!
Dear all
I think my issue is dns related as no permission changes have changed
on sysvol etc.
Network is running really slow.
Getting the standard errors on workstations
1097
(Windows cannot find the machine account, No authority could be
contacted for authentication. .)
1030
(Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. A message
that describes the reason for this was previously logged by the policy
engine)
1054
(Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer
network. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be
contacted. . Group Policy processing aborted. )
have 3 DCs in total (one is 2000svr)
the 2 Win 2003 DCs act as DNS servers.
when logged on as a std user, i can ping the domain name, the servers
by FQDN, access the sysvol folders by \\DC_servername\sysvol and
\\domainname\sysvol
RSOP.msc (ComputerConfiguration) however returns the error
-----------------------------------------------------------
Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below.
No authority could be contacted for authentication.
Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy
components processed their policy. Consequently, status information
for the other components is not available.
can anyone please help..!
kr Paul..
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Which FSMO role is critical
Hi,
I just want to know, in a production environment which FSMO role will
cause more critical issue immediately if it is down
Regards
RANG Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128311
creating trust relationship with only DC=Domain
Hi. this company has just bought out another company, i now need to create a
trust relationship between the two companys, ours is DC=domain1,DC=com the
other companys domain is DC=domain2 my question is will the trust
relationship work with a domain without the .extension. if not how can i set
up the trust. They are both WIN2K3 Domains
Thanks Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128310
Sysvol missing on 2nd DC
Greetings,
After running a netdiag on my second domain controller, i seem to be missing
the sysvol volume on it, and also the dns test is faling as well. how could
this happen? do i have to demote dc2 and then re-promote it? Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128293
There are currently no logon servers available
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Dc-01 went down and i couldnt logon to the domain with Dc-02 because it =
said "there are currently no logon servers available". Should this have =
NOT happend since DC-02 is using its IP as the primary dns server, and =
it should've been able to authenticate to itself. Heres what was in the =
event log:
The Security System detected an authentication error for the server =
LDAP/dc-02. The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was =
"There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon =
request.
dc-01 - ip. 192.168.1.2 < uses it's IP as the primary DNS server
dc-02 - ip. 192.168.1.3 < uses it's IP as the primary DNS server, and =
uses dc-01's ip as the secondary dns server
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Active Directory interoperability with other systems.
Hi,
I am not too much familiar with Active Directory capabilities, my question
is:
1. Is it possible to configure Active Directory in a trigger like mode where
if a new user is created AD would add this info into a csv file or SQL
Server table, or if a user was deleted from AD it would also export this
info somehow. We would like to use this info in other systems and to build
that kind of automation.
2.If this is not possible are there any built-in tools in AD that could be
scheduled to run automatically to export certain fields for all the users in
AD into a csv file or Sql Server Table
Please let me know if my questions are not clear, essentially I am looking
for automated solution where other systems would be synchronized with AD
info when users are added/deleted from AD, so other systems would be aware
of that.
Thank you,
Vadim Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128276
Duplicate name on network, but cannot find object
I have a Netware server with CIFS running called "WTWGRAPHICS2." It's
not connected to the Windows 2003 AD. I would like to remove this
computer and replace it with a windows box, also called "WTWGRAPHICS2."
However, I get the error message "You were not connected to the
network because a duplicate name exists on the network."
I searched AD U&C, DNS and WINS,and hosts file for mention of
WTWGRAPHICS2, but I can't find anything.
Any ideas appreciated.
Jim Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128275
Find easy what you need for windows(98, ME, xp, vista)
If you need some tools for windows or you have a problem, this is the
right spot ...
http://microsoft-windows-tips.blogspot.com/ Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128271
Moving File Server Into New Domain
Good Afternoon Everyone,
Iâ??m going through a domain migration and Iâ??ve done users, workstations,
Exchange, and now its time for the file servers.
I have a trust between Domain OLD and Domain NEW.
For the file servers Iâ??ve replicated user permissions on each folder so that
any folder with an entry for dOLD\user now also has an entry for dNEW\user.
This has worked great but since my goal is to retire Domain OLD I want to
move the file sever into the new domain.
My question is this:
If I move the file server from Domain OLD to Domain NEW will my permission
erase?
TIA,
Ray Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128268
dcgpofix doesn't work
Hi All-
I have a corrupted domain gpo and so i ran dcgpofix as a method of disaster
recovery (i don't have a backup - that's a different story).
I ran the following command:
dcgpofix /ignoreschema /target:domain
I get an error that says the following:
Unable to read EFS certificate from registry.pol
Does anyone have any ideas on what to do next?
I'm seeing that the domain policy is no longer being applied to any of the
computers in the domain.
Thanks. Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128260
Quesiton on Group Policy Loopback Processing
Hi all,
I am new to GPOs and I have a problem with Group Policy Loopback Processing.
I am dealing with two OUs, one called LAB101 (which only has computer
accounts in it) and one called STAFF (which houses all of my users).
For the STAFF OU I added a GPO called "STAFF GPO" but I have not configured
anything in it. For the LAB101 OU I added a GPO called "LAB101 GPO". In the
LAB101 GPO I enabled Group Policy Loopback Processing (mode = replace). I
did this because I want a User logon script to run whenever a user logs into
the machine. So, I also added a logon script in the user configuration of
the LAB101 GPO.
However, when I log into a LAB101 machine, the script never runs. Am I
missing a step?
Any help is appreciated, thanks. Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128257
Accounts randomly loosing membership to a group in DL's security
Hi,
We have a Windows 2003 shop. We have two servers where one user looses his
membership to a Security Group that we have setup under DLs Security. Why is
this happening? The PC's in question are different operating systems (2000
and Vista) so I highly doubt that that has anything to do with it. Both
servers are 2003 Standard R2. Thoughts? Thank you.
-Rachel Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128255
Dfs problem
Hi all,
I have 2 domain controllers in my network (hq.company.srh,
fsv.company.srh) . Operations master role (RID,PDC,Infrastructure)
belongs to only one domain controller-hq.company.srh.
I am creating a DFS root on hq.company.srh something like company. I
can log in to the domain using my domain account from a computer which
is not a domain computer without problems but when I try to enter the
directory of DFS I get an error saying "Configuration information
cannot be read from the domain controller either because the machine
is unavailable or access has been denied"
Normally if I wrote \\company.srh to open up the dfs root. Instead of
hq.company.srh comes up fsv.company.srh.
I have tried to create dfs root on fsv.company.srh. I can log on from
the client computer with no problems
What do you think the problem is?
Thank you. Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128254
DHCP dynamically updating internal DNS servers instead of authoritative?
Hi there.
Say you have a domain: domain.com which is out there on the Internet
doing its thing, et cetera but you also use that domain internally for your
active directory (which is probably not ideal).
Domain.com is hosted on your cluster of authoritative nameservers and has
records related to your online presence such as MX records, A records for
your website and other public services, et cetera.
Lets say that you're running DHCP/DNS in your active directory and you would
like new registrations to only be added to the 'local' version of domain.com
and not the Internet version of domain.com, I realize that the DHCP server
(and perhaps windows in general) sends dynamic updates to the authoritative
nameservers, but I would rather not for reasons of security through
obscurity publish our internal DNS to the Internet. I realize the right way
to do this would've probably been to use a subdomain such as
internal.domain.com or corp.domain.com but this was all established 10 years
ago.
So the question is, is it possible to have the DHCP server send updates to
the local DNS servers rather than the actual authoritative DNS servers?
thanks,
Andy Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128247
GPO Queston
Hi all,
I have a batch script that I need to run that sets the default printer, it
contains the following line:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "115 Lab 4200"
My thinking is that I would make an OU for the Room 115 lab and put all of
the machines in that lab in the OU. I then made a GPO for that OU and added
the script to User Configuration -> logon Scripts, hoping it would execute
this script along with the logon script set in the properties of the users.
However, it does not. What am I doing wrong?
Any help is appreciated, thanks. Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128246
script for disabling accounts
i have created app. 1200 users with default password
and some of them have logged rest of them have not just logged in since 1
month.
I have created a list which users have not logged in with a lastlogon script.
I want a script or any key information about how to i write a script to
disable which i give the usernames.
Thanks Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128244
Password policy expiration
Win2003 sp2 domain. Is there a way to setup a password expiration prompt for
a specific set of users who are remote and do not always login?
Or does default domain policy make this a useless option?
thnx
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la Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128242
Connectivity problems between child member-server and root domain controllers
Hi Support
I have a forest with one root domain (root.local) and a child domain
(child.root.local) in a single AD forest.
The root domain and the child domain are seperated by a ISA server 2006
firewall.
I have open for communikation between all of the domains controller in the
root and the child domain.
All of the domain controllere in both domains are Global Catalog servere.
Everything is working fine, replication, DNS, GC without any errors.
The root domain controllers hosts the root DNS zone (root.local)
The child domain controllers hosts the child DNS zone (child.root.local)
I have forwarders on the child domain controllers
DNS works fine
Replication Works fine
My issue is:
When I am on a member server i the child domain and want to assign NTFS
permissions on a folder, the dialog boxes hangs for a long period of time.
(Could be any member server in the child domain)
I have looket at the ISA server logs and can see that this child member
sever tries to access the root domain controllere while it hangs. I first
to connect to the rootdcs using "PING", "Microsoft CIFS" and last "Session"
If i open PING and CIFS in the firewall between the child member server and
the root domain controllers it works fine, but i dont not want that
communikation to occur.
The communication must be so that the child member-servers only communicate
with the child domain controllers.
I have specific sites defined for the ROOT domain and the CHILD domain
Hope you have som good idears so we can this fixed
Best regards
Jesper vedholm
Systemtech A/S Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128241
Endpoint mapper error when joining a computer to domain
We are getting endpoint mapper error when trying to join domain. in the
netsetup log we are getting the following:
05/07 07:32:49 NetpChangeMachineName: from 'D630CLONE' to 'A24929' using
'OURDOMAIN\itsetup' [0x2]
05/07 07:32:49 NetpDsGetDcName: trying to find DC in domain 'OURDOMAIN',
flags: 0x1020
05/07 07:32:49 NetpDsGetDcName: found DC '\\DC1' in the specified domain
05/07 07:32:49 NetpChangeMachineName: status of connecting to dc '\\DC1': 0x0
05/07 07:32:49 NetpGetLsaPrimaryDomain: status: 0x0
05/07 07:32:49 NetpManageMachineAccountWithSid: status of NetUserSetInfo on
'\\DC1' for 'D630CLONE$': 0x0
05/07 07:32:49 NetpGetLsaPrimaryDomain: status: 0x0
05/07 07:32:49 NetpGetDnsHostName: PrimaryDnsSuffix defaulted to DNS domain
name: OURDOMAIN.com
05/07 07:33:11 NetpGetComputerObjectDn: Unable to bind to DS on '\\DC1': 0x6d9
05/07 07:33:11 NetpSetDnsHostNameAndSpn: NetpGetComputerObjectDn failed: 0x6d9
05/07 07:33:11 ldap_unbind status: 0x0
05/07 07:33:11 NetpChangeMachineName: status of setting DnsHostName and SPN:
0x6d9
ANY hints or suggestions? I verified that the WF/ICS is turned off on this
particular DC. We do not get the endpoint mapper problem every time we join
the domain but it is frequent enough to rule out a random error.
thanks,
James Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128240
AD system state backup on Windows 2008, disk size increasing
Hello everyone,
I've been working lately with Windows Server 2008 RTM version, and I
promoted one server (virtual machine) as a DC. After having some obstacles
configuring the AD system state backup I finally completed and I had a
schedule backup running periodically.
That backup storage is made on a seconday disk on the DC, but I found out
that the system state backup catalog it's getting real big in a few weeks,
meaning that the VM disk is increasing as well (over 25gb right now).
Is there any way that I can have more control about that? Like accessing
the system state catalog and removing old system state backups? Basically I
don't want to get to the point where I have virtual disks over 200gb :)
Thanks!
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augusto alvarez | it pro | southworks
http://staff.southworks.net/aalvarez Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128236
MAC and AD
Dear guru,
Is it possible to do so?
1) Can the MAC join our Windows 2003 Native mode AD?
2) Use AD users to login the MAC?
3) Enforce group policy to our MAC (password, lock screen)?
4) Use Integrated Login to Sharepoint through Safari browser?
Do I need additional software to do all these functions?
thanks
Huang Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128233
2 Domains 1 Forest and Fire wall
hi
ive made a quick pic to help describe what i'm trying to acomplish.
http://cisco.truedeviant.com/ad.jpg
the fire wall will only allow the two domain contrrolers to talk to
each other and this can not be modifided.
sites and services are set up ok ad are the trusts
the issue that am haveing is
is when i logon to the clinet machine that is a member of Domain B and
try to logon to Domain A
i can see in wireshark that the client is trying to talk to the Domain
A domain controller but is failing due to the fire wall. with out
enableing routeing and or tunneling on Domains A domain controller is
there any way i can get the client to talk to domain B and get domain
B to authenticated the Domain A users
and alow the user to logon.
cheers
Yale Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128232
User accounts disabled automatically by administrator?!
Hi,
Recently I have faced a strange problem in active directory. Some specified
user accounts disabled automatically by administrator. I feared domain
administrator password leaked so I changed the password and restrict AD
accessibility to only domain administrators , but problem still remains.
Anybody knows about it?
Thanks in anticipation
Bijan Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128224
GPO question after using rendom.exe
I=92m renaming a domain, which is managed by two W2K3 R2 domain
controllers, with the rendom utility.
In Microsoft=92s step by step guide to renaming a domain, it says to
enter this command:
gpfixup /olddns:oas.local /newdns:oas-backup.local /oldnb:oas /
newnb:oas-backup 2>&1 >gpfixup.log
This command fails and the resulting popup window has this error
message:
=93The procedure entry point CryptUnprotectMemory could not be located
in the dynamic link library CRYPT32.dll=94
Also, this is probably related but when I try to run gpmc.msc, I
experience the following trouble:
There is a problem when clicking on either the domain controller
policy or the domain policy. In fact, a window is displayed asking to
change the current domain controller. On this form there is a
combobox, which is greyed out, and it says, =93look in this domain=94.
And the domain reflected in the un-editable control is =93oas.local=94 =96
which is the old domain!!!
Any attempts to select any of the four radio buttons (the domain
control which is the PDC emulator, any domain controller, and
available domain controller running Windows 2003, or specifying a
domain controller) fails.
Just about everything worked using rendom =96 except for being able to
access the GPO for the domain and the domain controllers. Any
suggestions on how to get the gpfixup command or the gpmc.msc working
is greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128223
Problem with domain name
I struggled with this one and finally figured it out but I want to
understand what is going on with this network.
Single DC on the network. When I looked at all of the domain members
under computer properties, the domain name only reads "local". I
also
looked under the active directory on the server and the computer
properties of the server and it was listed as "local". I assumed
that
someone prior to me had set this up as a single level DNS domain
name. So I tried to add a member with "local" as the domain name and
it continued to fail.
So eventually I noticed that if I browsed the network on a
workstation
that was already part of the domain the domain name was actually
"DOMAIN". So I tried to add the member with this name and it worked.
But it still displays as simply "local" when viewed under computer
properties, under active directory on the DC, etc.
Why is the FQDN not showing. I expect it to be displayed as
"DOMAIN.local"??
Is there a group policy setting that hides this part of the domain
name.
All is working fine I just wanted to understand why this is
happening? Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128220
Importing a W2k3 Domain Controller into VMWare Stage Manager
I've imported a w2k3 dc into vmware's stage manager beta 1.0. server is in a
fenced network. I had previously shut down the server (vm) then imported
into stage manager. I receive error attempting to open ADUC: "naming
information cannot be located because: the specified domain either does not
exist or could not be contacted. contact your sys admin to verify that your
domain is properly configured and is currently online." any suggestions
appreciated. Tag: GPO to remove lock workstation option Tag: 128213
What GPO will hide, remove or grey out the option "lock computer" when users
do ctrl+alt+del?