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Running Exchange 2003 and SharePoint Services on the same machine can be a challenge, as is well documented: You receive a “Page not found” error message when you use Outlook Web Access (OWA) to browse the Exchange Server 2003 client after you install Windows SharePoint Services I recently tried to accomplish this, but without much …
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When you search Active Directory you have the option of asking the server to return search statistics for your query. This is done by adding an LDAP control to your query. The control is 1.2.840.113556.1.4.970. I was using LDP to test this out on my test forest. The forest runs Windows Server 2003 DCs and …
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In Active Directory there is something called linked attributes. They exist in pairs, consisting of a forward-link and a back-link. The linked attribute pair member, of Group objects, and memberOf, of User or Groups is an example. In this particular case member is the forward-link and memberOf is the back-link. Back-links are always calculated automatically …
I am currently reading John Craddock and Salley Storey’s book Active Directory Forestry. It is a very good read, and I can recommend it highly. Anyway, I discovered something interesting. The book mentions some attributes of the RID Set object of Domain Controllers, specifically the rIDNextRID attribute of that object. rIDNextRID holds the value of …
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Finding out how much free space (white space) an Exchange database has is something I regularly do. I want to show you two ways you can get this information. First of, you can use ESEUTIL /MS <database name> to dump the free space information, but this requires that the database is dismounted. That is not …
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Just discovered a new hotkey in Outlook that I previously did not know about. When typing names in the To field you are often presented with the drop down list of previously resolved addresses from the Outlook local cache. This cache is stored in a file usually called outlook.nk2 in you userprofile directory tree. But …
Group sAMAccountType groupType systemFlags isCriticalSystemObject —————————————————————————— Built-in 536870912 -2147483643 -1946157056 Yes DL 536870912 -2147483644 <Not Set> <Not Set>The groups in the Builtin container may look like ordinary Domain Local groups, but they are not. In Windows Server 2003 Active Directory they are listed as Builtin Local. These groups cannot be used on other machines in …
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In a multi-domain forest with Exchange 2000/2003 installed there are some special group relationships. Each domain for which DomainPrep has been run, has the following Exchange related groups: Exchange Domain Servers (Global Group) Exchange Enterprise Servers (Domain Local Group) Exchange Enterprise Servers Purpose: Group all Exchange servers in a specific Enterprise (organization/forest) This group has …
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I work extensively with multi-domain forests, usually in a configuration with an empty root domain and several child domains that host users and computers etc. The other day I was trying to log on to a newly added Domain Controller in a child domain. I was going to prepare the domain for Exchange so I …
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The Event Viewer management console has several categories depending on the roles of a server. All systems running Windows have Application, Security and System logs, or categories. These logs are represented by .evt files on disk, typically located in the %SystemRoot%system32config directory. When a system loses a role, eg. it is demoted from Domain Controller …
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