Carl Johnson on 23 Feb 2012 07:06:39 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] NTP rant


Time to breakout the L.A.R.T. i say. :-)





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Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:

>It was someone on our team.
>
>-- 
>Art Alexion
>On Feb 23, 2012 9:44 AM, "Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:24 AM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
>> > On 02/23/2012 09:17 AM, Art Alexion wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is the correct answer. We tracked down a rogue DC in a branch
>> >> office which had grabbed the PDC role from the real PDC.
>> >
>> >
>> > Another great MS `feature'.
>>
>> A rogue DC? Someone (not you or the IT staff) installed a Windows
>> server, and then installed Active Directory on it? That requires the
>> password of a domain admin account to do (or one delegate those
>> rights).
>>
>> AD roles usually have to be manually transferred, they don't just
>> transfer between DCs due to new installations. Someone had to
>> deliberately transfer that role.
>>
>> You've got much more than a technical problem, if you have non-IT
>> staff installing DCs at branch offices, and that know your domain
>> passwords and how to transfer AD roles ....
>>
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