[plug] Virus

Shayne O'Neill shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au
Wed Feb 12 20:25:31 WST 2003


OMG yes. Having been a part of a win200 ad roll out where we had to change
the domain and reinstall every damn machine (cant remember why) I found
myself rather.... uncool... with AD. What EVER happened to just changing a
line in a config file?

Shayne.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 01:19 pm, Stephen Lamont wrote:
> > He swore that active directory and the new user friendliness of Windows 2000
>
> Yes, lots of people swear at Active Directory and the new user friendliness
> (read: dumbing down) of Windows 2000.
>
> A classic mistake is to bind it to your internet domain and then suffer a name
> change (e.g. takeover). Oops, need to reinstall every single machine from
> scratch in order to operate from the renamed domain.
>
> The virus risk is just window dressing. (-:
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
>



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