Re: Active Directory Discovery agent is reportig errors

From: Sean Chitwood [MSFT] (seanchit_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:41:17 -0800

Eric--
   Thanks for adding admin.

Susana--

The warning you are getting is normal, what has happened is that Active
Directory Discovery is having problems getting all the information it wants
from Active Directory. Luckily the information it is not getting is not
critical, so it creates a DDR anyway. Typically we see this for Computers or
Users that are only a member of a single group, thus they only have a
default group attribute in AD and no groups list. That causes us to get a
blank groups list, which we don't know if it is because of an error in AD or
the setup of the particular object in AD.

   Extending the AD Schema is not a delicate as you seem to beleive.
Basically you can only add to it you can't delete from it, so you could
never accidentally delete a piece of critical information. You could over
extend your AD schema, causing performance problems, but not cause a
critical failure.

   What we do is create about 10 new object types and about 25 new
properties (That is a tiny increase overall) that allow SMS clients to find
information like the site boundaries and location of critical SMS site
systems in AD. This allows better security than advertising it in WINS.

   Hopefully that helps.

  --Sean Chitwood 

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"Eric Mowery [MSFT]" <emow@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:OvzYwZVMFHA.2576@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Adding Admin newsgroup.
>
> "Susana" <Susana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:7477AB3C-184E-446B-B410-DA7925CE6603@microsoft.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question. I am getting the next warning message in System Status
>> --> site Status when I click rigth on my site name:
>> Component: SMS_AD_SYSTEM_GROUP_DISCOVERY_AGENT (the same thing 
>> ishappening
>> with USER and SYSTEM)
>> Description: SMSM Active Directory System Group Discovery Agent reported
>> errors for 74 objects. DDR's were generated for 74 objects that had 
>> errors
>> while reading non-critical porperties. DDR's were not generated for 0 
>> objects
>> that had errors while reading critical properties.
>> Solution: Please verify the Active Directory schema for properties that 
>> are
>> not replicated or locked. Refer to discovery logs for more information.
>> Possible cause: The SMS Service might not have access to some properties 
>> of
>> this object. The container specified might not have the properties 
>> available.
>>
>> After this, I want that someboy explians me about the active directory
>> schema because I don't have any idea, I think is a little delicate to 
>> touch,
>> Am I rigth? I also want to know were can I look for those error or 
>> warning
>> messages in some place. I want to know how to act or look when warnings 
>> or
>> errors from SMS.
>>
>> Thank you in advanced!
>>
>
>

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