MCSE 70-293: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Security Framework
Martin Grasdal , ... Dr. Thomas W. Shinder Technical Editor , in MCSE (Exam 70-293) Report Guide, 2003
Account Lockout Policies
Account lockout policies are used by administrators to lock out an account when someone tries to log on unsuccessfully several times in a row. We can usually assume that a legitimate user might type his or her password incorrectly one time or twice, just not numerous times. Thus, numerous failed logons tin signal that someone is trying a brute-strength password assail (trying to keep guessing the password until he or she gets it right). There are 3 options:
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Account lockout elapsing You can specify the time in minutes that the account can exist locked out. For case, if the account locks out for two hours, the user tin can try over again after that time. The default is no lockout. When you define the policy, the default time is 30 minutes. The setting tin be from 0 to 99,999. When set to 0, the account will remain locked out until an administrator manually unlocks information technology.
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Business relationship lockout threshold This specifies the number of failed attempts at logon a user is allowed before the account is locked out (for example, three). Afterward the threshold has been reached, the business relationship will be locked out. If this value is set to 0, the account will not lock out. This setting can be from 0 to 999.
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Reset account lockout counter afterwards Y'all tin can choose to take the account lockout counter reset later on a number of minutes. At that time, the count volition kickoff over at one.
MCSE/MCSA 70–294: Creating User and Group Strategies
Michael Cross , ... Thomas Westward. Shinder Dr. Technical Editor , in MCSE (Exam 70-294) Report Guide, 2003
Applying an Account Lockout Policy
In improver to setting countersign policies, yous can configure your network so that user accounts will be locked out afterwards a sure number of incorrect logon attempts. This can exist a soft lockout, in which the account will exist re-enabled afterwards an administrator specified period of time. Alternatively, it tin can be a hard lockout in which user accounts tin only be re-enabled past the manual intervention of an ambassador. Before implementing an account lockout policy, y'all need to empathize the potential implications for your network.
An account lockout policy will increase the likelihood of deterring a potential assault confronting your network, but you also run the risk of locking out authorized users. You need to gear up the lockout threshold loftier enough so that authorized users will not exist locked out of their accounts due to simple human error, such as mistyping their passwords earlier they've had their morning coffee. Three to five is a common threshold. You should also retrieve that if a user changes his or her password on Computer A while already logged on to Computer B, the session on Figurer B volition go along to attempt to log on using the old (now incorrect) password. This volition eventually lock out the user account and can be a common occurrence, particularly in the example of service and administrative accounts. Exercise 3.03 details the necessary steps in configuring account lockout policy settings for your domain.
Practise 3.03
Creating an Account Lockout Policy
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From the Windows Server 2003 desktop, click Start | Administrative Tools | Active Directory Users and Computers.
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Right-click the domain you desire to administer, and and then select Backdrop.
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Select the Default Domain Policy, and dick the Edit push button.
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Navigate to the business relationship lockout policy by clicking Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Account Policies | Business relationship Lockout Policy. You'll see the screen shown in Figure 3.7.
Using Account Lockout Policy, you can configure the following settings:
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Account lockout duration This selection determines the amount of time that a locked-out account will remain inaccessible. Setting this selection to 0 means that the account volition remain locked out until an administrator manually unlocks information technology. Select a lockout duration that volition deter intruders without crippling your authorized users; xxx to sixty minutes is sufficient for most environments.
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Account lockout threshold This choice determines the number of invalid logon attempts that can occur earlier an account will be locked out. Setting this option to 0 means that accounts on your network will never be locked out.
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Reset account lockout counter after This option defines the amount of time in minutes afterwards a bad logon try that the "counter" will reset. If this value is set to 45 minutes, and user jsmith types his countersign incorrectly two times before logging on successfully, his running tally of failed logon attempts will reset to 0 later 45 minutes have elapsed. Exist careful not to set this choice likewise high, or your users could lock themselves out through simple typographical errors.
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For each item that you want to configure, right-click the item and select Properties. To illustrate, we create an Account lockout threshold of three invalid logon attempts. In the screen shown in Figure 3.8, place a check mark next to Ascertain this policy setting, and and then enter the advisable value.
Exam Warning
The issue of countersign synchronization described in the previous paragraph is not an issue for organizations that are only running Windows Server 2003 operating systems.
Use business relationship lockout policies only in controlled environments or where the risk of a compromised account is greater than the run a risk of continual DoS attacks.
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Insert random delays in the authentication process to slow creature-strength attacks.
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Consider blocking IP addresses with multiple failed login attempts, but take into consideration the impact of blocking a proxy used past multiple clients.
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Vary responses to both failed and successful password hallmark.
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Ask users to answer their secret questions later on seeing multiple failed logins.
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Provide user options to limit account login to specific IP addresses.
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Apply unique login URLs for different blocks of users.
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Utilize a CAPTCHA to preclude automated attacks.
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Limit an account's capabilities if an assail is suspected.
Aaron Tiensivu , in Securing Windows Server 2008, 2008
Fine-Grain Password and Account Lockout Policies
When a GPO is used to apply password and account lockout policies, these policies tin be set for simply the entire domain, and simply one instance of each setting will exist applied to for all users in the domain. In other words, y'all cannot set different password or account lockout policies for different types of users in a domain (such as administrators and general users) using GPOs. You tin can do this just using a new feature, fine-grain password and account lockout policy. A primal distinction betwixt grouping policy-based user and business relationship lockout enforcement and fine-grain policies is how you apply them. Different group policy, still, fine-grain policies are quite complex to configure.
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It'southward important to remember that only ane prepare of GPO account and lockout policies applies to a domain. This functionality is unchanged from Windows 2000 Server and Server 2003. Although fine-grain policies tin can override the settings that are configured using a GPO at the domain level, they are non GPO-based.
You can apply fine-grain policies only to users and global security groups. They are not linked to the major Active Directory container objects: sites, domains, and organizational units (OUs). It is common for organizations to organize users using these traditional Active Directory container structures, and so Microsoft recommends the creation of shadow groups which map to an organization'due south domain and OU construction. In this way, you tin add the global security groups to the appropriate fine-grain policy object in Active Directory in one case, and use grouping membership to determine to whom information technology applies. It's possible that a user can be a member of more than i global security group and for these groups to be associated with different fine-grain policies. To accommodate this, Microsoft allows you to associate a precedence value to each fine-grain policy. A policy given a lower number will have precedence over one given a higher number if both apply to a user.
Notes from the Hole-and-corner…
A Long-Awaited Password and Account Policy Solution
Fine-grain countersign and account lockout policy is new in Windows Server 2008. In Windows 2000 and 2003 forests, yous could apply these settings only at the domain level. A single effective set of policy settings was enforced for all users. For many midsize to large organizations, this provided an unacceptable level of security. The limitation led to all kinds of complicated technical workarounds and the utilize of more than complex domain and woods structures, which increased direction costs.
Although fine-grain policies are certainly not equally easy to employ as traditional GPOs, they are a step in the right management. Well-nigh companies will no longer require their previous workarounds, and Microsoft expects that many who adopted more complex domain structures will be consolidating and simplifying their forests. Fine-grain policies also represent a major divergence from Microsoft's previous instructions to administrators to adopt a site-, domain-, and OU- based management style. They cannot be applied to any of these Active Directory container objects.
Configuring a Fine-Grain Password Policy
Two new Active Directory object classes have been added to the Active Directory schema to support fine-grain policies. Policies are configured nether a Password Settings Container (PSC). The actual policy objects themselves are called Password Settings objects (PSO). Creating a PSO involves using a lower-level Active Directory editing tool than y'all might be familiar with. In that location are two ways to do information technology. One is with the ADSI Edit graphics utility. The other is by using ldifde to script the performance at the command line. In this chapter, nosotros'll be using ADSI Edit:
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Open ADSI Edit by clicking Outset | Run and blazon in adsiedit.msc.
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Right-click on the ADSI Edit node in the leftmost pane and click Connect to. (Encounter Effigy 3.half-dozen.)
Effigy 3.6. Bringing Upwardly the Connections Settings Dialog
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Take the default naming context which appears in the Proper name: text box or type in the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the domain you want to utilise. Click OK. (See Figure 3.7.)
Figure 3.seven. The Proper noun: Text Box
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Expand the Default naming context node (if present), rxpand your DC=DomainName node (here, DC=syngress,DC=com), and double-click on the CN=System node.
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Right-click on the CN=Password Settings Container node and select New | Object, as shown in Figure 3.8.
Figure 3.8. Creating the New Object in ADSI Edit
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In the Create Object dialog box, select msDS-PasswordSettings and click Next. (Meet Effigy 3.9.)
Figure iii.9. Selecting the msDS-PasswordSettings Option
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In the Create Object dialog box, enter the desired name for your PSO in the Value: text box (here, psoUsers) and click Next. (See Figure 3.ten.)
Figure 3.ten. Entering the PSO Name
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Configure the advisable value for each of the password and account lockout policy settings. All are required. Refer to the information in the list afterwards Figure 3.eleven for more details on each setting.
Figure iii.11. Configuring the Fine-grain Settings
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msDS-PasswordSettingsPrecedence Sets the precedence value for deciding conflicts when more than one fine-grain policy applies to a user. Values greater than 0 are adequate.
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msDS-PasswordReversibleEncryptionEnabled Equivalent to the Shop passwords using reversible encryption group policy setting. Acceptable values are True and FALSE.
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msDS-PasswordHistoryLength Equivalent to the Enforce countersign history group policy setting. Acceptable values are 0 through 1024.
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msDS-PasswordComplexityEnabled Equivalent to the Passwords must come across complication requirements grouping policy setting. Acceptable values are TRUE and FALSE.
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msDS-MinimumPasswordLength Equivalent to the Minimum password length grouping policy setting. Acceptable values are 0 through 255.
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msDS-MinimumPasswordAge Equivalent to the Minimum password age group policy setting. Acceptable values are (None) and days:hours:minutes:seconds (i.east., 1:00:00:00 equals ane day) through the value configured for msDS-MaximumPasswordAge.
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msDS-MaximumPasswordAge Equivalent to the Maximum password historic period group policy setting. Acceptable settings are (Never) and msDS-MinimumPasswordAge value through (Never). This value cannot be set to 0. It follows the days:hours:minutes:seconds format (i.e., 1:00:00:00 equals i twenty-four hours).
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msDS-LockoutThreshold Equivalent to the Account lockout threshold group policy setting. Adequate settings are 0 through 65535.
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msDS-LockoutObservationWindow Equivalent to the Reset account lockout counter later grouping policy setting. Adequate values are (None) and 00:00:00:01 through msDS-LockoutDuration value.
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msDS-LockoutDuration Equivalent to the Account lockout duration group policy setting. Acceptable values are (None), (Never), and msDS-LockoutObservationWindow value through (Never). This value follows the days:hours:minutes:seconds format (i.e., 1:00:00:00 equals one day).
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After specifying the preceding values, click the More Attributes push, as shown in Figure iii.12.
Effigy 3.12. The More Attributes Button
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Although it is not required, at this point you lot can specify to which users or groups the fine-grain policy will apply. You can also do this in Agile Directory Users and Computers (covered later). To configure this during PSO object creation:
Set Select which properties to view: to either Optional or Both.
Set Select a property to view to: to msDS-PSOAppliesTo.
Enter a distinguished name (DN) for a user or global security group in the Edit Attribute: text box and click Add. Multiple users and groups can be added and removed. When done, click OK. (See Figure 3.xiii.)
Figure 3.13. Associating Users and Global Security Groups
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Click Finish in the Create Object dialog box. When done, ADSI Edit should resemble Figure 3.xiv.
Effigy iii.14. The ADSI Utility
Applying Users and Groups to a PSO with Active Directory Users and Computers
In addition to using ADSI Edit to associate users and global security groups with a PSO, administrators tin also use Active Directory Users and Computers:
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Open Active Directory Users and Computers past clicking First | Authoritative Tools | Active Directory Users and Computers.
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Ensure that View | Advanced Features is selected.
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In the left pane, navigate to Your Domain Name | System | Password Settings Container.
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In the correct pane, right-click on the PSO you want to configure, and select Properties, as shown in Figure three.15.
Effigy iii.xv. Opening the Backdrop for the PSO
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In the Backdrop dialog box, select the Attribute Editor tab. In the Attributes: selection window whorl down and click on msDS-AppliesTo followed by Edit. (See Figure 3.16.)
Effigy 3.16. The Attribute Editor Tab
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There are two ways to add together users and global security groups using the Multi-valued Distinguished Name with Security Principal Editor dialog (see Figure 3.17):
Click Add together Windows Account to search for or type in the object name using a standard Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box.
Click Add DN to type in the DN for the object you want to add.
Figure 3.17. The Multi-valued Distinguished Name with Security Principal Editor Window
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Yous tin also remove accounts from the Multi-valued Distinguished Proper name With Security Master Editor dialog by highlighting the business relationship in the Values: choice box and clicking the Remove push. When y'all are done adding and deleting accounts from this PSO, click OK.
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Configuring Account Lockout in Active Directory
Although you're configuring the password policy settings, information technology's a practiced idea to also configure the Account Lockout Policy. To do this, aggrandize Business relationship Lockout Policy. Double-click on Account lockout threshold. In the Account lockout threshold Backdrop dialog box, change number of invalid login attempts to vi. A dialog box volition pop upward and ask if information technology should also modify the Account lockout elapsing and Reset business relationship lockout counter afterwards attributes as well. These should both be changed to 30 min to comply with PCI requirements, which is what the default is in this new dialog. Click OK. It should now expect similar Fig. 5.2.
Figure 5.2. PCI Compliant Windows 2003 Account Lockout Policy
MCSE lxx-293: Planning Server Roles and Server Security
Martin Grasdal , ... Dr. Thomas W. Shinder Technical Editor , in MCSE (Exam 70-293) Written report Guide, 2003
Security Templates and Tools
There are numerous settings, or customizable security policies, that you can apply through security templates, including the following:
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Account Policies Include password policies, Kerberos policies, and account lockout policies.
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Local Policies Include user rights, audit policies, and other security options.
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Event Log Include configuration options for the Application, System, and Security upshot logs that tin can be viewed through Effect Viewer.
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Restricted Groups Used to specify grouping memberships.
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System Services Used to configure permissions and startup options for services.
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Registry Used to specify permissions and for auditing Registry objects.
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File System Used to specify permissions and for auditing files and folders.
You lot tin create and edit security templates using the Security Templates snap-in for the Microsoft Direction Console (MMC), every bit explained in the "Creating Custom Security Templates" section later in this chapter. This tool allows you to manage your own templates, but you lot can also utilise predefined templates that come up with Windows Server 2003. The next sections describe the predefined templates and the tools for working with security settings.
Predefined Templates
The Windows Server 2003 predefined templates are located in the %systemroot%/Security\Templates directory. The post-obit templates are available:
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compatws.inf Relaxes security settings on a workstation or server, and so that otherwise incompatible applications accept a gamble of working.
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DC security.inf Contains the default security settings for a domain controller.
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hisecdc.inf Contains high-level security settings for domain controllers.
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hisecws.inf Contains high-level security settings for workstations.
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rootsec.inf Contains the default security settings for the system volume (%systemdrive%).
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iesacls.inf Contains settings to lock down Internet Explorer.
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securedc.inf Contains enhanced security settings for domain controllers.
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securews.inf Contains enhanced security settings for workstations.
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setup security.inf Contains the default security settings for a default installation of Windows Server 2003.
These templates are described in more than detail in the following sections.
Compatws Template
The compatws template is used to provide users with access to applications that exercise not function properly with total organisation security in identify. The compatws template relaxes user permissions and so that programs are more than likely to run without errors. It besides removes whatever members of the Power Users group. Many administrators solve their awarding issues by adding users to the Power Users group. Even so, members of this group also have the ability to create users, groups, shares, and printers. Overall, this template erodes system security and should be used with caution.
DC Security Template
The DC security template is created when a server is outset promoted to existence a domain controller. Information technology contains a number of default settings, including settings for the file organisation, Registry, and system services. This template allows you to reapply these default security settings. Registry keys and system services that accept been added or modified since the initial installation may be overwritten, as may permissions on new files. Therefore, considerable planning should exist washed earlier applying this template to a domain controller in your network.
Hisecdc Template
The hisecdc template is used to apply high-level security settings to a domain controller. Using this template will crusade the domain controller to crave encrypted hallmark. Using this setting will also forbid most pre-Windows 2000 computers from existence able to communicate with the server, because the domain controller volition crave clients to communicate using NTLM version 2 (NTLMv2). Finally, this template will crusade many applications to malfunction.
Hisecws Template
The hisecws template applies settings similar to those in the hisecdc template, merely information technology is designed for use with workstations and servers that are not configured as domain controllers. When this template is applied to a reckoner, all of the domain controllers that accept accounts for users that tin can log on to the customer must be running Windows NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack 4 installed, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows Server 2003. Also, any domain controllers in domains that the customer is a member of must be running Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003.
Clients are also are unable to connect to computers using LAN Manager for authentication or from machines running operating systems before than Windows NT four.0 Service Pack 4 using an business relationship on the local machine. In addition, attempts to connect to a server running Windows NT 4 where the fourth dimension on each motorcar has a difference of thirty minutes or more will fail. If the client connects to a computer running Windows XP, the time difference betwixt them cannot exceed 36 hours.
The hisecws template also modifies settings to control memberships in security-sensitive groups. Once practical, all users are removed from the Ability Users group, and only members of the Domain Admins group and the Administrator account are kept as members of the figurer'due south local Administrators group.
As with the hisecdc template, applying the hisecws template will cause many applications to malfunction because of the enhanced security. This template should exist very carefully tested before deployment.
Rootsec Template
The rootsec template is used to ascertain security settings for the organisation book. It is used to set permissions at the root of the system drive, so that original settings tin exist reapplied.
This tin can be peculiarly useful if the permissions on the arrangement drive are inadvertently modified. This template can too be modified to employ the same root permissions on other volumes. In doing so, it volition overwrite inherited permissions on child objects, only volition not overwrite any explicit permissions on child objects.
Iesacls Template
The iesacls template is used to lock downward security settings used by Cyberspace Explorer (IE), which can be used to access information on the Internet or on a corporate intranet. Using this template, you tin can raise security by enforcing stricter settings on Cyberspace Explorer.
Securedc Template
The securedc template is used on domain controllers to raise security while minimizing the impact on applications. This template also configures servers to refuse LAN Manager responses. Computers running operating systems such every bit Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, and Windows 98 use LAN Manager to authenticate to servers. For these clients to be able to connect to a domain controller with the securedc template applied, the clients will need to have a patch or the Active Directory Customer Extensions Pack installed on them.
Securews Template
The securews template provides the same settings as the securedc template, but it applies to workstations or servers that are not configured equally domain controllers. It is designed to enhance security without impacting on applications that are running on the estimator. This template also affects authentication, because information technology limits the use of NTLM by configuring clients accessing the machine to answer with NTLMv2 responses.
When this template is applied, the domain controllers that contain user accounts for those who volition log on to the client must run Windows NT four.0 with Service Pack 4 or college, Windows 2000, or Windows Server 2003. Additionally, at that place are requirements dealing with time. If the domain contains Windows NT 4 domain controllers, the clocks betwixt the domain controllers running this operating system must have their fourth dimension synchronized within thirty minutes of one some other. Computers also will not be able to connect to servers running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4 if their clocks are off by more than than 30 minutes from the server. Computers will not exist able to connect to a Windows XP machine if their clocks are off by more than 20 hours.
Servers that take this template applied to it also have limitations. The server won't exist able to connect to clients running LAN Managing director and volition need to exist authenticated using NTLMv2. However, NTLMv2 canbe used to cosign to Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 servers if the clocks on the client and server are within 30 minutes of one another. If the server is running Windows XP, the 2 machines must be synchronized within 20 hours of one another.
Setup Security Template
The setup security template is created when a reckoner is installed, and it varies from one automobile to another, depending on whether its operating system was upgraded or a clean installation. Because of this, it should never be applied to a group of computers using Group Policy or manually to other systems, unless you lot take carefully reviewed its settings. This template allows you to reapply a arrangement's default security settings. Use the DC security template for domain controllers, non the setup security template.
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Account security policies
User business relationship security policies assistance ensure that user accounts are protected and properly secured. Using business relationship security policies, you can set the following account policies for Advertizing accounts:
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Password Policy
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Account Lockout Policy
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Kerberos Policy
The password policy allows yous to configure requirements for user passwords. The password policy options are defined in Table 4.2.
Table 4.2. Active Directory Domain Countersign Policy
Policy
Description
Default Setting
Enforce password history
By enabling this policy, users cannot use whatever of the previously remembered passwords. For example, using the default setting of 24, the user cannot use whatever of the previous 24 passwords when setting a new countersign
24 Passwords remembered
Maximum password age
By enabling this setting, passwords expire every ten number of days. The number of days configured here define how ofttimes the users will be forced to change their passwords
42 days
Minimum password age
By enabling this setting, passwords require to remain the same for x number of days. For example, the default setting of ane day requires that a user keep the same password for at least 1 day
i twenty-four hours
Minimum countersign length
Past enabling this setting, users must include at least ten number of characters in their passwords. The longer the password the more than secure it is. However, the longer the password the harder it is to think. You should find a happy medium for your network. Most security all-time practices recommend at least 8 characters, though some organizations are asking users to brainstorm using passphrases opposed to passwords. This can increase the grapheme count dramatically, thus increasing account security
Vii characters
Password must meet complexity requirements
By enabling this setting, users must create passwords that are considered circuitous. Complex passwords crave that the password employ characters from three of the following four sets of characters:
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Upper Case
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Lower Example
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Number
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Special Characters such equally #, @, !
Circuitous passwords cannot contain part or all of the user's full proper name or username
Enabled
Store passwords using reversible encryption
This setting essentially stores passwords in a plain text format. This is to provide backwards compatibility with some legacy applications just is not recommended.
Disabled
Notes from the field
Multiple password policies
Windows Server 2008 R1 get-go introduced the ability to accept multiple password policies in a single domain. This allows you to set up different password requirements assigned to different groups of users. For instance, yous can have a more strict password policy assigned to administrative-level accounts.
In addition to the password policy, you tin fix an account lockout policy. The account lockout policy "locks" the user'southward account after a divers number of failed password attempts. The account lockout prevents the user from logging onto the network for a menstruation of fourth dimension even if the correct password is entered. You should set an account lockout policy to assistance thwart off those who may try to compromise user accounts by brute force methods of guessing username and password combinations. The business relationship lockout policy contains the following settings:
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Business relationship lockout duration—This is the corporeality of fourth dimension the business relationship will remain locked out. This is usually set to 20 or 30 min. An administrator can manually unlock the account at any time after it has been locked.
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Account lockout threshold—This is the number of invalid log-on attempts allowed before the business relationship is locked out. After the defined threshold is reached, the business relationship and so becomes locked until the account lockout duration passes or an ambassador manually unlocks the account.
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Reset business relationship lockout counter after—This setting defines the number of minutes that must laissez passer earlier the lockout counter will set itself to cypher later on an invalid log-on endeavour has been detected.
The tertiary business relationship policy is the Kerberos Policy. This policy allows y'all to define Kerberos hallmark settings. Kerberos hallmark is discussed in Chapter 11. The Kerberos policy has the following definable settings:
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Enforce user logon restrictions—By enabling this setting, the Kerberos Central Distribution Center (KDC) will validate each ticket asking against the user business relationship rights policy.
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Maximum lifetime for a service ticket—This setting defines how long a service ticket is valid. After the ticket expires, the user account volition be rejected by the resources and will accept to request a new ticket from the KDC.
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Maximum lifetime for a user ticket—This setting defines the maximum historic period in minutes that the user ticket or ticket granting ticket (TGT) is valid.
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Maximum lifetime for user ticket renewal—This setting defines the number of days that a TGT tin be renewed for continued use.
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Maximum tolerance for figurer clock synchronization—Kerberos is time-sensitive protocol. This is a security characteristic to ensure that expired tickets cannot be used because of figurer clocks being set incorrectly. This setting allows y'all to set the maximum amount of time divergence Kerberos volition allow between the domain and computers joined to the domain.
The business relationship policies are set using the Group Policy Direction console located in Server Managing director. To manage the account policies, you demand to edit the default domain group policy. Perform the following tasks to modify business relationship policies:
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Open Server Manager.
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Aggrandize the nodes Features | Group Policy Management | Forest: <your forest proper name> | Domains | <your domain proper noun>.
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Correct-click the Default Domain Policy and choose the Edit option.
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Expand the nodes Computer Configuration | Policies | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Business relationship Policies.
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Select the policy you want to modify. After making changes, close the Group Policy Management Editor. Changes volition be automatically saved.
Countersign policies are a new feature in SQL Server 2005. So what are countersign policies? They are a series of rules enforced to ensure passwords in SQL server follow standards gear up along in the operating system via group policy.
Password policies can exist turned off and on in SQL server. There may exist reasons for not using password policies overall, or just on specific accounts.
Countersign Policies Explained
Password policies force the account to adhere to a specific set of rules. The rules tin be cleaved downwardly into two distinct types, one set of rules related to countersign policies, and another related to account lockout policies. The following sections particular each of these policies.
Some Contained Communication
Since group policies are unremarkably controlled by the network assistants group in most organizations, be sure to communicate with the advisable teams in your organization earlier making whatsoever changes.
Using the Group Policies Console
The easiest way to utilise the grouping policy console is to start the direction panel by typing "MMC" in the run box in Microsoft Windows. To access the run box, click the Outset menu, and select the run box. The Microsoft management console has other functions besides controlling group policy.
In one case the MMC is started, you need to click Add/Remove Snap-in. The "Add/Remove" snap-in choice is available on the file menu (see Effigy half-dozen.1).
Figure 6.ane. Adding the Snap-in (Part i)
Click the Add/Remove Snap-in menu pick, and a dialog that allows pick of snap-ins to be added volition exist presented. It is recommended that you select only the add-in for group policy; otherwise, the menu tin get very cluttered very quickly.
Scroll down and select the Local Group Policy Object, and click the Add button (see Figure vi.ii). Annotation that when using Microsoft Windows 2003 or Microsoft Windows XP, the dialog boxes may look slightly different.
Figure six.2. Adding the Snap-in (Office 2)
When you add the snap-in after selecting it and click OK, the selection of which calculator you wish to manage dialog will be presented (see Figure 6.three). Note that it'southward not necessary to exist logged in to the computer to be managed, simply the account used needs administrative rights on the computer to be managed.
Figure 6.iii. Selecting the Computer
Later you select the computer (in most cases information technology will be the local computer), the initial Group Policy Direction console snap-in screen will exist presented (run into Figure vi.4).
Effigy half-dozen.4. The MMC Initial Screen
As one can see in grouping policy, there are also a number of other items to be controlled. Information technology is strongly suggested to refrain from changing anything, unless the bear upon is known, as there is no "undo" for the settings in grouping policy. Once a change is made, if the previous value is forgotten, there is no manner to become back and run into what it was.
In lodge to use the group policy snap-in to control the password policies, expand the tree under "console root" on the left-hand pane.
Expand each of the nodes under "Windows Settings" until Business relationship Policies is shown.
Some Contained Advice
Group policy is complex in the manner it'southward practical. Group policy is applied at different points (at the domain or group level in Active Directory). Agile Directory provides an selection that will not allow group policy settings to be overridden. In the event an choice is configured to not exist overridden at a college level, even if it has been set at the local level, the setting won't take effect if it'south set via Active Directory.
This is why it is important to involve the appropriate groups in your arrangement when working with group policy.
Password Policies
The following password policies tin be enforced in SQL Server 2005:
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Countersign history
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Minimum countersign age
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Maximum password age
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Minimum password length
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Complexity requirements
Figure 6.5 depicts the password settings in the management panel for grouping policy.
Figure vi.5. Group Policy for Passwords
Let'due south talk over each of these options in more than item.
The "Enforce password history" option is used to forestall users from reusing one-time passwords. This makes the organisation more secure; a user needs to use a new password (one that has never been used before) each time they change the password. Valid values for this are betwixt 0 and 24. The default is 24 on domain controllers and 0 on stand-alone servers. It would exist bad practice to install SQL server on a domain controller, so I would surmise that information technology volition exist 0 on your server. If this option is to be used, information technology is a good thought to also use the "Minimum password age" option as well.
The "Minimum password age" selection is used to set the period of time in days that the password must be used before the user can change it. On the surface, you'd wonder why you'd want to utilize this setting, merely information technology has an important use. Information technology too prevents users from changing the password in order to defeat the "Enforce password history" option, by going through passwords until they get dorsum to an old favorite. This also helps to discourage users from changing their passwords so oft that they forget them. The default is 0, which allows the user to change the password at any fourth dimension. Note that the "Minimum password age" must be less than the "Maximum password age."
The "Maximum password age" is used to ready the period of time in days that a password may be used earlier requiring the user to alter it. This can be fix from 0 (never expire) to 999. Note that the "Minimum password age" must be less than the "Maximum password historic period."
The "Minimum countersign length" option is used to set the minimum countersign length for a password. This can be prepare from 0 to xiv. When the "Minimum Countersign Length" is set to 0, it allows for any length countersign.
The "Password must meet complexity requirements" option is used to set complexity requirements, causing the countersign to be more secure and less apt to guessing.
The attributes of the countersign must be every bit follows when the complexity requirements pick is enabled:
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The password must non contain the user'due south account proper noun or parts of the user's full proper name that exceed two sequent characters.
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The password must be at least vi characters in length.
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The password must contain characters from three of the post-obit four categories:
English upper-case letter characters (A through Z)
English lowercase characters (a through z)
Base of operations 10 digits (0 through 9)
Nonalphabetic characters (for example, !,$,#, %)
Complexity requirements are enforced when passwords are changed or created.
Some Independent Advice
It's commonly a good thought to enable the "Password Must Meet Complexity Requirements" option; however, it's also a expert idea to communicate this to your users prior to enabling this, as it can lead to user confusion when they attempt to change their passwords and may result in an increase in support calls to your helpdesk.
Using the Local group policy panel to administrate settings is easy. Double-click on the setting to be changed and a dialog box will be presented where changes will exist made. The console checks the values to exist sure they are within the proper range. Double-click on the selection, and a dialog box like to that in Effigy six.6 will exist presented.
Figure 6.six. The UI for Administering Settings
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If more information is needed about what a setting does, the Group Policy Snap-in provides an caption for each of the settings. When an item is double-clicked, a tab to see a detailed caption is available. Clicking the Explicate tab will present the data (see Figure half dozen.7).
Effigy 6.seven. A Group Policy Setting Explanation
The explanations are very clear and concise, and they unremarkably bear witness the default values besides equally ranges for the settings.
Best Practices According to Microsoft
Co-ordinate to Microsoft, these are some best practices to follow:
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Set the maximum countersign age for passwords to elapse every 30 to 90 days,
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If the "Enforce countersign history" selection is used, be certain to set a minimum countersign age.
Account Lockout Policies
The account lockout policies are as follows:
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Account lockout threshold option (number of invalid logins before lockout)
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Account lockout duration (amount of time locked out)
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Reset lockout counter later n minutes
Figure six.8 depicts the Account lockout settings in the management console for grouping policy.
Effigy 6.viii. The Account Lockout Group Policy
Nosotros'll now discuss each of these options in more item.
The "Account lockout threshold" option is used to set up the number of invalid logins earlier the business relationship is locked out. Valid settings are 0 (which is never lock out an account) to 999. Once an account is locked out, it needs to exist unlocked by an administrator, or the "Account lockout duration" time needs to expire. The default is 0.
The "Account lockout duration" option is used to automatically unlock the account later a period of time. The time is in minutes. Valid settings are 0 (which is never unlock an account until an ambassador resets it) to 99,999. This is especially useful for organizations that have busy administrators or no off-hours back up.
The "Reset lockout counter afterward due north minutes" option is used to determine how many minutes demand to elapse before the failed logon attempt counter is reset. The range is i to 99,999. In guild to utilise this setting, the "Account lockout threshold" must be set. The reset time must be less than or equal to the "Account lockout duration" (if the business relationship lockout duration is ready).
Why Use Password Policies?
Using password policies in SQL Server 2005 will help to ensure that compatible security is enforced across all SQL logins. Password policies can be enforced at the domain level, the container level, or at the local car level via group policy. Password policies are not a "silver bullet," but in today's guild, whatsoever assist keeping SQL server installation more secure is a good thing.
When you are establishing countersign policies in the organization, they will most probable exist across all systems, including SQL Server and the Microsoft Windows logins. Group policy tin aid ensure uniform application across systems.
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Using Group Policy
It may exist more efficient to implement grouping policy at the Active Directory level. Information technology makes sense to create a container in Active Directory for all of the SQL servers if there are a number of them in your arrangement, and utilize the group policy at that level. While this is outside the telescopic of this book, it would be beneficial to learn more about Windows Grouping policy and Active Directory and then the strategy can be implemented in the well-nigh efficient manner.
Operating Arrangement Requirements
In order to utilize countersign policies, SQL server 2005 needs to exist running on Windows Server 2003 or afterward. SQL 2005 password policy functionality depends on the NetValidatePasswordPolicy application program interface (API), which is only available in Windows Server 2003 and later versions. Also, password policies demand to be enabled for that machine via group policy. Password policies are role of Windows group policies. Group policies can exist applied to dissimilar containers in Active Directory, also as locally on the machine.
Some Independent Advice
Since group policies can affect other Windows services such equally windows user passwords and passwords used past service accounts, be sure to completely examination your changes in a test environment before making any changes to your production environment. It'southward very of import to sympathise the impact of any changes you are going to make earlier making them.
Using Password Policies
Beginning, to use password policies in SQL Server 2005, password policies need to exist enabled. This is accomplished by turning on password policies in SQL Server when creating a login.
Hither is an example of creating a login for SQL Server using T-SQL, which volition use the policies defined in the operating arrangement:
CREATE LOGIN Robby with
countersign='Exam$12345',
CHECK_POLICY = ON,
CHECK_EXPIRATION = ON
Effigy half-dozen.9 is an example of creating a login for SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio, which will use the policies defined in the operating arrangement.
Figure vi.9. Creating a Login That Uses Password Policy
When you are creating a login, be sure to bank check the "enforce password policy" checkbox so the login volition attach to the password policy rules defined in the operating system. This is a good idea unless there is a compelling reason non to. The aforementioned holds true with password expiration.
Information technology's possible to enable i or both of the settings, because they function independently of each other.
All-time Practices According to Microsoft
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Mandate a strong password policy, including expiration and a complication policy for the organization.
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If SQL logins are required, ensure that SQL Server 2005 runs on the Windows Server 2003 operating system and use password policies.
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Outfit the applications with a machinery to modify SQL login passwords. This includes application logins.
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Set MUST_CHANGE for new logins where applied.
Some Contained Advice
While group policy can make your environment more than secure when information technology comes to using SQL logins, it'due south still a better do to use Windows logins wherever possible.
Eric Seagren , in Secure Your Network for Gratis, 2007
Account Lockout Policy
Now that you are familiar with GPOs and how to utilize them, we will hash out a few policy settings that y'all may want to consider implementing, either at the domain level or with local GPOs. The account lockout policy (\Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Account Policy\Account Lockout Policy) allows you to configure the number of incorrect passwords that a user tin enter earlier being locked out of an account, how long the account stays locked out, and how long before the lockout counter will reset. The following recommended settings will provide the most security in an average environment:
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Account Lockout Elapsing represents how long the account will stay locked out. Setting this to zero ways that the account will stay locked out until an administrator manually unlocks information technology. This is the most secure option. Notwithstanding, even allowing the account to reset afterward every bit little equally 10 minutes will serve to slow down a hacker who is attempting to animate being force the password.
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Business relationship Lockout Threshold represents how many invalid passwords a user tin attempt before locking out the account. A setting of three invalid logon attempts is usually considered acceptable. If the number is too low, a unproblematic typo could result in an account existence locked out. If this is ready to 0 (insecure), the account will never be locked out.
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Reset Business relationship Lockout Counter After determines how long before the invalid try counter is reset. The default setting of 30 minutes is ordinarily adequate. A longer setting is considered more secure.
Effigy iii.9 shows the account lockout policy setting and MMC panel.
Aaron Tiensivu , in Securing Windows Server 2008, 2008
Active Directory Domain Services
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) stores information virtually users, computers, and other devices on the network. Advertisement DS is required to install directory-enabled applications. The following are improvements made in Advertizing DS functionality:
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Auditing (log value changes that are made to AD DS objects and their attributes)
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Fine-grained countersign policies (functionality to assign a special password and account lockout policies for different sets of users)
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Read-but DCs (hosts a read-but partition of the AD DS database)
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Restartable Advertizement DS (can be stopped and then that updates tin can be practical to a DC)
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Database mounting tool (compare different backups, eliminating multiple restores)
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User interface improvements (updated AD DS Installation Wizard)
What Is New in the AD DS Installation?
Ad DS has several new installation options in Windows Server 2008, including the post-obit:
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RODC
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DNS
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Global Catalog (GC) servers
New OS installation options include Full Install and Core Server Install.
The showtime thing you must exercise when adding a Windows Server 2008 DC to a Windows 2003 forest is to set the forest for the Windows 2008 server by extending the schema to conform the new server:
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To prepare the forest for Windows Server 2008 run the following command: adprep /forestprep.
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To prepare the domain for Windows Server 2008 run the following command: adprep /domainprep.
It is recommended that yous host the chief domain controller (PDC) emulator operations principal role in the wood root domain on a DC that runs Windows Server 2008 and to make this server a GC server. The get-go Windows Server 2008 DC in the wood cannot be an RODC. Earlier installing the start RODC in the forest, run the following command: adprep /rodcprep.
Making sure the installation was successful, yous can verify the AD DS installation by checking the post-obit:
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Check the Directory Service log in Result Viewer for errors.
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Make sure the SYSVOL binder is attainable to clients.
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Verify DNS functionality.
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Verify replication.
To run adprep /forestprep you accept to be a member of the Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins groups of Active Directory. Yous must run this command from the DC in the wood that has the Schema Principal FSMO role. Only one Schema Master is needed per wood.
To run adprep /domainprep you lot have to exist a member of the Domain Admins or Enterprise Admins group of Active Directory. You must run this command from each Infrastructure Master FSMO role in each domain after you have run adprep /forestprep in the forest. Only one Infrastructure Primary is needed per domain.
To run adprep /rodcprep you have to be a member of the Enterprise Admins grouping of Active Directory. Yous can run this command on whatsoever DC in the forest. Nonetheless, it is recommended that yous run this command on the Schema Master.
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