I'm running a Win2K3 Enterprise CA.  I have a number of computer
certifcates that were manually issued to handheld devices.  The
handhelds are not part of the domain.  The certs are about to expire.
I don't see a way to renew them from the CA mmc or using certutil.  Is

using icacls.exe to automated setting some NTFS permissions... I'm wondering
and the 'synchronize' option listed because If I set the permission I'm
after in the windows gui and then run icacls.exe to view how icacls displays
it, it includes the 's'... which I assume has no gui ...

Have a problem with the administrator and guest accounts.
In the Local Security Policy management dialog, I get the following odd
entries:
Accounts: Administrator account status Not Applicable

I have a following problem. My DC is running Windows 2008 Server with
domain and forest function level native 2008.
I have some client computers running Windows 2000 and some running
windows XP.  On Windows 2000 everything seemed to be OK with GPO. But

I work in a small office (11 people) where many of us do several different
jobs.
I myself generally do most of the IT type stuff as well os my "real" job.
Because of that we often need to do things when we aren't in the office, so

I found them on a TS in security log. There are lots of them.
I wouldn't suspect the users forgetting their passwords so
often. Coming from different processes which I can't see in
Task Manager. Also different ports. They all have the same

As part of a new project, I have 16 Windows Servers. I was planning to set
up basic generic login accounts to the servers and have the users run an
application using "Run As" feature. (They need to use their normal desktop
active directory accounts to log into the application.)

a lot of users in our LAN have admin rights (I know it's bad but please
it is like that, so please dont blame me about that ;-)).
Some of them have the Windows XP firewall enabled and not configured
correctly. By the way, I am not able to detect those computers on the

I'm trying to find some information on CIFS and RPC security. From what I've
been able to find, it looks like the implementation of CIFS in a Windows
XP/Windows Server 2003 network does encrypt the user authentication process
by default.

I have a Windows 2003 server that has a file share that is being used for My
Documents redirection. Due to disk space issues I need to move this file
share to another newly installed disk. How can I easily copy all the folder
contents including all the child folders and its ...

Windows 2003 Certificate Services on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Enterprise
Edition:
I want to publish a new CRL once an hour.
The CRL should be valid for 1 week.

After installing MS08-067 (last weeks emergency RPC patch) none of my domain
controllers could talk to each other.  When I uninstalled this patch,
everything started working again.  My DCs are Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
running on VMWare Server 1.05.  Has anyone else seen this ...

We are a multi site organization running 2003 Standard domain
controllers at each site. All DCs are in the same domain and therefore
sharing the AD. Each office has its own networked printers and I
haven't had to worry too much about printing issues before. But one

I went to change some NTFS permissions on a folder as I have done many times
on 2k/2k3 servers but the "include inheritable permissions from this
object's parent" checkbox is checked and disabled on this server 2008 box?
whats the deal? I'm logged on via TS session to this server ...

I'm getting the following in one of my customer's SBS 2003 server:
Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Logon/Logoff