Strange DNS question
I appreciate this may be a strange question to ask. Apart from Sort Lists or Match Client lists/Views is there any way for DNS to selectively resolve names based on the subnet or IP from which the client is making the request.
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Strange DNS question
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I appreciate this may be a strange question to ask. Apart from Sort Lists or Match Client lists/Views is there any way for DNS to selectively resolve names based on the subnet or IP from which the…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kev Gallagher Oct 13, 2010.
Active Directory group naming convention
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We are having a debate about the naming convention of groups in Active Directory. Some want to follow the Microsoft advice to prefix security groups with sg- and distribution lists with dl- etc.…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Graycat May 12, 2010.
Monitoring Active Directory on a Windows 2008 Domain Controller
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I currently use Server Performance Advisor (SPA) along with a couple of other tools on my Windows 2003 Domain Controllers to monitor Active Directory health. We will be moving to Windows 2008 Domain…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Thomas Stensitzki Apr 7, 2010.
Update Management
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Hi! This is my first post on this site. I have been actively searching for a Forum such as this for some time as I have a number issues I would like to discuss with Sys Admin minded people rather…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kev Gallagher Mar 25, 2010.
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Kev Gallagher replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Strange DNS question'
I finally went with Sort Lists! I needed two A records for a single Host each on a different subnet and I had to order the responses based on the subnet the request was made. It isn't as neat and tidy as I would like but I was been driven by…
John McGrath replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Strange DNS question'
More information first.... Is this a Windows or Linux DNS server resolving these requests? Single subnet or multi? Static IP addressing, or DHCP?
Kev Gallagher replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
I patch once a month. Our Desktops are handled by WSUS and our Servers are done via Windows Update. We patch during the third week of the month. We get a lot of questions from various quarters questioning our policy primarily from people who…
Graycat replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Active Directory group naming convention'
we use TYPE_ROLE_AREA_NAME for ours. For example: DIS_SWDEP_COMPANY_AutoCAD2010_fixed would be a distribution group used for software deployment across the whole company for AutoCAD2010 fixed licence. That's about as big as we get with the…
Active Directory group naming convention
We are having a debate about the naming convention of groups in Active Directory. Some want to follow the Microsoft advice to prefix security groups with sg- and distribution lists with dl- etc. Others would prefer to appply a suffix. And there are those who would prefer neither. i.e.: Prefix groups with sg- (sg-group1)Suffix groups with -sg (group1-sg)no prefix or suffix (group1)Those for a prefix argue that it will make searches and ordering of results easier for certain objects. Also…See More
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Kev Gallagher replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Administrative Rights'
Our Security Officer is a singelton role at the moment and grew out of tasks covering network security anti-virus. At present the role involves formulating the University's IT Security policy, coordinating our Anti-Virus solution (McAffee EPO),…
Kev Gallagher replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Administrative Rights'
We give staff Local Admin rights to thier PC's. However we also use Group Policy to limit what they recieve to thier desktop. We also redirect folders this way to. Those settings that we really don't want people altering such as AntiVirus…
Kev Gallagher replied to Michael Francis's discussion 'Full time SysAdmin or part time DBA too?'
I am a Sys Admin in a team of seven who are classified as the Central Operations team. We allocated responsibilities to team members which covers AD, Mail, Hardware(server commissioning, SANs), Printing, Business Systems related applications(SQL),…
Monitoring Active Directory on a Windows 2008 Domain Controller
I currently use Server Performance Advisor (SPA) along with a couple of other tools on my Windows 2003 Domain Controllers to monitor Active Directory health. We will be moving to Windows 2008 Domain Controllers in the near future. I was wondering if anyone has used the Performance and Reliability Monitor (PRM) and how it compares with SPA for monitoring Active Directory health. SPA provides good reports on System Health and LDAP requests but requries .Net 1.1.4322.We had Microsoft in a year or…See More
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Kev Gallagher replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Update Management'
Andy
Thanks for the reply. I it good to hear how common problems are dealt with.
We have been trying to implement a better handover process involving improved documentation. To this end I have been looking at MOF to see what it might bring to the…
Andy Bold replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Update Management'
There are several things to consider here. Lots of good answers on this thread on the technical solutions so I am going to pick up on the non-technical aspects. Specifically, relationships, procedures, and management. All three are related.
You say…
Kev Gallagher replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Update Management'
My thanks to all who replied to my questions. It appears I am not alone and we are all doing pretty much the same thing when it comes to Update Management. I will feed your responses back to the project team for consideration.
Jason Short replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Update Management'
We use WSUS to manage Windows updates. Workstations get them at night and reboot automatically. We don't do any "formal" testing, but they get deployed to a small group of workstations before getting pushed to the whole…
John McGrath replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Update Management'
We use a product called Altiris to manage software and updates/patches to our desktop computers. Our Global team usually deploys the non emergency patches to a test group a week before they launch to the rest of the Enterprise.
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- At 11:52pm on March 17, 2010,
Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
- Hey Kev! Nice to have you here! You can never have too many Active Directory experts. =)
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