Re: Printer Disapear and Strange Admin Objects

Hello Christian,
Have a look at follow article:
Printers disappearing from Active Directory:
http://www.chrisse.se/MAQB.asp?ID=101

About the object added to the security group, my advice is to turn on
auditing to track such changes.


Audit Policy
This module describes how to set different settings that apply to auditing.
It also provides an example of audit events created by several common tasks.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/secmod50.mspx

Microsoft Security: Threats and Countermeasures Guide - Audit Policy
An audit log records an entry whenever users perform certain actions that
you specify. For example, the modification of a file or a policy can trigger
an audit entry.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/Security/topics/hardsys/tcg/tcgch03.mspx

Microsoft Windows XP - Audit Policy
This section covers:...
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/aptopnode.mspx

814595 - HOW TO: Audit Active Directory Objects in Windows Server 2003
This step-by-step article describes how to use Windows Server 2003 auditing
to track user activities and system-wide events in Active Directory. When
you use Windows Server 2003 auditing, you can track both user activities and
Windows Server 2003...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814595

314955 - HOW TO: Audit Active Directory Objects in Windows 2000
This step-by-step article describes how to use Windows 2000 auditing to
track user activities and system-wide events in Active Directory. When you
use Windows 2000 auditing, you can track both user activities and Windows
2000 activities, which are...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314955

HOW TO: Enable Local Security Auditing in Windows 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;248260

HOWTO: Enabling Local Auditing Policies on Windows 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;252412


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Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services


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"Christian Lamparth" <ChristianLamparth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:39F3EE4A-52B0-499A-9BD3-55F18A396ACA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi all,
> We have several active directory servers running one domain spanned over
> several countries connecting via vpn. Latly we had some strange appearnces
> where printers disapear from the active directory on a local site. The
> Problem sloved itself the printers came back after a couple of hours. Also
> Computer Objects appear in the Computer Group called adminname1, adminame2
> etc which are not objects that are added to the domain by our
> administrators.
> Any idears what that could be? Thanks for your help.


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