Tremendous thank you to @Warner and @William for their suggestions. Ultimately it was William’s answer which lead me to the final resolution. For anyone who comes looking, here’s the deal. After a ton of messing around trying to isolate the problem, I finally did as William suggested and pulled up my firewall logs. Not expecting … Read more
We’re doing this with Server 2003 where I am. The key is our central layer 3 device (in our case an old 3Com 4900 SX). It has what 3Com calls a “virtual interface” for each vlan. When dhcp requests arrive at the device from the outside it forwards them using same vlan interface they arrived … Read more
Schema updates are a one way function. You can only add new schema to AD, you can never delete anything. For this reason you should always carefully evaluate alternatives when software requires schema extensions or updates; be sure it’s something you’re willing to commit to using. First thing, make sure you have a good backup … Read more
Are the roles listed from netdom query fsmo the same ones I’ve seen listed elsewhere? For example, is Domain role owner the same as Domain Naming Master? Is RID Pool Manager the same as the RID role? Yes, exactly. Not sure why they’ve got the names slightly different in that particular display. What are the … Read more
Security groups can be associated with ACLs, whereas distribution groups can’t. Both security groups and distribution groups can be mail enabled. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781446(v=ws.10).aspx
The quick answer is to use dcpromo to add the 2008 server as a domain controller in the same domain that the 2003 server is in. Once the 2008 server is a DC, you can run dcpromo on the 2003 server to remove it as a domain controller. This will allow you to keep your … Read more
Polymon is exactly what you’re looking for. It’s fantastic for monitoring anything that can be communicated by TCP Port, SNMP, Powershell, WMI, SQL, HTTP, Perfmon, or Ping. I don’t monitor anything *nix, so I can’t speak to that. But for the Windows world it’s very simple to set up, extremely intuitive, and extremely flexible, It … Read more
You didn’t specify what your environment is but if you’re using Unix I think a combination of dig and grep should work. ns.example.com should be the hostname of your nameserver, example.com is the domain your host is part of, and HOST is the host that you want to find all the CNAME records for. That’s … Read more
You have all the tools you need on your domain controller already. The main command you want to use is DSQUERY. To find objects that have been inactive for 52 weeks, open a CMD window and type : DSQUERY computer -inactive 52 DSQUERY user -inactive 52 You can also search for stale passwords using the … Read more
HTTP COMPRESSION in IIS 6 and IIS 7 using Service Account TechNet – Enabling HTTP Compression IIS Compression in IIS6.0 How to enable HTTP compression (IIS6) HTTP Compression and IIS 6.0 IIS 6 Compression – quickest and effective way to do it for ASP.NET compression UPDATE: To verify that compression works, you could use Firefox … Read more