I spent much of the past several days trying to reconstruct our Ad test environment. I started on the same machine used previously, then Greg suggested using vmware. Yesterday, Erik called to walk me through some tests, and we used the production environment. We were able to achieve the resolution we’ve been trying to get.

• Research formatting of Word merge fields ( fp 14395 )
• Discussion of automated deployment of servers using unattended
• Discussion with nogrizov, xma and voicemail for lstewart regarding expiration of nine-month employees’ accounts
• More on Word merge fields
• Service call to dstern regarding an access database application ( fp 13971 )

• Installed and tested canon print accounting function
• Emailed Ikon re network port usage
• Prepared test system for unattended installs
• Responded to rryan re off-site access to ODBC data sources
• Created XP+SP2 CD

• Locating CIFS documentation
• Troubleshooting network connection
• Email re footprints and non-CIT staff
• Downloaded Canon DIAS software
• Reviewed Summer project list
• Test environment – last replication was longer than tombstone interval. DCs must be re-installed.
• Discussed using Unattended to build servers, according to Robbie Allen recommended best practice.

• Joined new system to domain for vlcarter
• Added rhayward to group RGIS-File Services
• Purchased Firefox and Thunderbird Garage
• Restoring CAMPUSTEST Environment

• CIFS Explained [pdf]
• Hertel, Christopher (2003). Implementing CIFS – The Common Internet FileSystem . Prentice Hall. ISBN 013047116X. [ available at Bailey/Howe ]
• Microsoft CIFS documentation at MSDN
  
• wikipedia on CIFS
• Google on CIFS

Wednesday went by quickly…

• Created group CS-File Services, populated it, and emailed kmartin1
• joined computer to domain for vlcarter
• vlcarter – resolved printer issue (14081)
• Transcribed default inetOrgPerson and user object permissions in AD schema
• removed the three managed OUs from campustest (took a long time)
• tested RIS server that it works and has an image for D600 from 2003

I spent a bunch of time trying to find some programmatic way of dumping the default permissions for an objectClass in AD, without much luck. I ended up transcribing by hand from DSA, which means there are some attributes which aren’t displayed and I didn’t get those.

I wil recreate the managed OUs in the test domain and populate with some test objects to verify the same behavior we are seeing in production. I’ll then apply the changes suggested by the KB article indicated by MS Essential Support.

Spotted on Make: Blog — Make Graph Paper and Grid Paper
Posted by Phillip Torrone on May 11, 2005 at 01:24 AM

Grid1 This will likely come in handy for someone- incompetech,com has PDFs you can print out in just about all the graph paper styles one may need- Metric, Multi-Width, Asymmetric, Dots, Iso-Dots, Hexagonal, Hex Dot, and Celtic Knot. Neato. Link.

Getting a constellation of errors on MTROOTDC,

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event ID: 1090
Description:
Windows couldn’t log the RSoP (Resultant Set of Policies) session status. An attempt to connect to WMI failed. No more RSoP logging will be done for this application of policy.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event ID: 1091

Description:
The Group Policy client-side extension Security failed to log RSOP (Resultant Set of Policy) data. Please look for any errors reported earlier by that extension.

and most recently

Event Type: Error
Event Source: WinMgmt
Event ID: 4
Description:
Failed to load MOF C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32WBEMSYSTEM.MOF while recovering repository file.

I found a site listing a procedure for rebuilding corrupted WMI repository.
http://msmvps.com/lduncan/articles/20217.aspx

I’ve given it a try, we’ll see what it accomplishes.

• Provisioned RGIS users; emailed vlcarter,gstarks
• more network troubleshooting for sjc
• Consultation with CHWB regarding mass email to students
• email to dbrauer re: mail error
• discussion re: gemini end-of-life