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Hello, I have a complex AD environment involving many domains/forests and firewalls everywhere. For sake of this question, lets say I have 20 DC's in one forest and 10 in the other, and have a two-way forest trust between them. All DC's are behind different firewalls so without rules in...

Hello, I have a complex AD environment involving many domains/forests and firewalls everywhere. For sake of this question, lets say I have 20 DC's in one forest and 10 in the other, and have a two-way forest trust between them. All DC's are behind different firewalls so without rules in place...

Is there a way to preauthenticate to a remote/foreign domain before using a tool such as the GPMC Managament API (GPMGMT) to connect to that remote domain? I get 'Access Denied' when I try to bolt up to the remote DC if I dont have the same username and password in both domains...

Does anyone know how to get serverless binding to work for remote domain authentication/ADO queries? I have tried the example1 per the MS Scripting Guy page, however I always get ‘Provider: Permission denied’ whenever I try and execute the query. I have turned on auditing on the remote DC (in...

I have the following code which enumerates the list of OU's in the domain and outputs the list to a HTA (indented using UL and LI tags): Function DoRecursiveLookup(strObjectDN) Set objConnection = GetObject("LDAP://" & strObjectDN) For each objChild In objConnection If (objChild.Class...

I have the following regular expression return ereg('^[a-zA-Z0-9]*([a-zA-Z]+[0-9]+)|([0-9]+[a-zA-Z]+)[a-zA-Z0-9]*$', $validate); Which work for validating a character string containing only alphanumerics and ensuring the string contains at least 1 alpha and 1 numeric; but I need to ensure it...

I have the following query: SELECT Team1, COUNT(Winner) AS Won FROM Games WHERE Winner = -1 GROUP BY Team1 UNION ALL SELECT Team2, COUNT(Winner) AS Won FROM Games WHERE Winner = -1 GROUP BY Team2; Which returns the following: +-------+-----+ | Team1 | Won | +-------+-----+ | 1 | 1 | |...

Quick question: Does RunOnceEx runs in the context of an administrator account or the currently logged on user? I would assume it runs as the logged on user (and thus inherits the access that user has), but I just wanted to confirm as I can't find anything clear on this yet. If this is the...

Does Windows PE support 802.1x authentication? I want to see if I can install Windows XP using WinPE, but it needs 802.1x support (by way of a certificate) to ensure it responds to the switches authentication request, so it installs on the correct network. Thanks [ponder][laughtears] The...

Hello, I want to secure a LAN and all PC's with a 802.1x technology (EAP-TLS). This works fine when the OS is active because the supplicant is managed at the OS level and the supplicant can communicate with the authenticator. However, how would I go about automating the installation of a...

Is there a VBScript equivalent to the DOS command net use \\servername\ipc$ /user:domain\username *? I need to create an authentication pipe to a number of remote servers before running some commands against them... would be nice to do this with VBScript. [ponder][laughtears] The dumber they...

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the proxy configuration tool for WinHTTP? The problem I am having is with Windows Update being unable to download updates; it has downloaded 12% of updates and stopped, and now the Windows Update log file is full of errors. I have tried updating off an...

Hello, I am looking at deploying some several hundred Windows 2003 Servers in the near future, which have to be built from scratch on brand new hardware (blank hard drives). Until now I have used Windows 2000 unattended installs, using a DOS (Win98) boot sector which has FDISK and FORMAT...

Has anyone experienced an issue where you map a network drive, then attempt to access that drive and you get a very slow response at first (takes at least 20 seconds to display any files/folders)? After that initial delay, you have normal response times, so long as you don't leave it idle for...

Is anyone aware of what is required to be backed up for SurfControl to be successfully restored? We are running backups of the entire SurfControl tree (and in truth, the entire server), but the backup is failing due to numerous errors saying "Failed to open file D:\SurfControl...

I keep getting an error message below on all backup jobs running on a particular backup server: This happens at the start of each backup, yet the backup proceeds without problems. I have attempted to resubmit the jobs, and checked the credentials by modifying the job and browsing the remote...

I'm having problems with Brightstor Enterprise Backup version 10.5 (build 2681) where two jobs keep crashing every night. The first job which backs up the local machine, crashes as soon as it begins. The other job which backs up several other nodes, does so (the backup runs for a while), then...

Can someone tell me if the Outlook 2003 setting "Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages" is set in the registry somewhere? Or if there is a way to toggle that switch on a large number of computers? Thanks. [auto] MCSE NT4/W2K

Is there a way to store SQL database indexes on a dedicated disk? If so, how do you go about doing it? [auto] MCSE NT4/W2K

I've been tasked with clustering 2 SQL Servers (SQL Server 2000) together, running Windows Advanced Server 2003. These are brand new installations of Windows/SQL, on new identicle hardware. There is the potential for this to become a 3-node and then a 4-node cluster in the near future. I also...