MCSE 70-293: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Security Framework
Martin Grasdal , ... Dr. Thomas W. Shinder Technical Editor , in MCSE (Exam 70-293) Study Guide, 2003
Account Lockout Policies
Account lockout policies are used by administrators to lock out an business relationship when someone tries to log on unsuccessfully several times in a row. We tin usually assume that a legitimate user might type his or her password incorrectly once or twice, but not numerous times. Thus, numerous failed logons can indicate that someone is trying a brute-force password assail (trying to keep guessing the password until he or she gets it right). There are three options:
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Account lockout elapsing You can specify the time in minutes that the account can be locked out. For example, if the account locks out for two hours, the user tin effort over again after that time. The default is no lockout. When yous define the policy, the default fourth dimension is 30 minutes. The setting can be from 0 to 99,999. When set to 0, the business relationship will remain locked out until an administrator manually unlocks it.
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Account lockout threshold This specifies the number of failed attempts at logon a user is allowed before the account is locked out (for example, three). Later on the threshold has been reached, the account volition 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 subsequently You lot can choose to accept the account lockout counter reset subsequently a number of minutes. At that time, the count will first over at one.
MCSE/MCSA 70–294: Creating User and Group Strategies
Michael Cantankerous , ... Thomas W. Shinder Dr. Technical Editor , in MCSE (Exam 70-294) Study Guide, 2003
Applying an Account Lockout Policy
In addition to setting password policies, you can configure your network and then that user accounts will exist locked out after a certain number of incorrect logon attempts. This tin can be a soft lockout, in which the account will be re-enabled after an administrator specified period of time. Alternatively, it tin can be a hard lockout in which user accounts can only be re-enabled by the manual intervention of an ambassador. Before implementing an account lockout policy, yous need to sympathise the potential implications for your network.
An business relationship lockout policy volition increase the likelihood of deterring a potential set on confronting your network, just you likewise run the take a chance of locking out authorized users. You demand to set up the lockout threshold high enough so that authorized users will not be locked out of their accounts due to simple human being mistake, such as mistyping their passwords earlier they've had their morning time coffee. 3 to five is a common threshold. You should also remember that if a user changes his or her countersign on Computer A while already logged on to Computer B, the session on Computer B will proceed to endeavor to log on using the one-time (now incorrect) countersign. This will eventually lock out the user business relationship and tin be a common occurrence, especially in the case of service and administrative accounts. Do three.03 details the necessary steps in configuring account lockout policy settings for your domain.
Practice 3.03
Creating an Account Lockout Policy
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From the Windows Server 2003 desktop, click Get-go | Administrative Tools | Active Directory Users and Computers.
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Right-click the domain you want to administrate, and so select Backdrop.
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Select the Default Domain Policy, and dick the Edit button.
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Navigate to the account lockout policy by clicking Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Account Policies | Account Lockout Policy. You'll see the screen shown in Figure 3.seven.
Using Account Lockout Policy, you can configure the following settings:
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Account lockout elapsing This option determines the amount of time that a locked-out business relationship will remain inaccessible. Setting this option to 0 means that the account volition remain locked out until an administrator manually unlocks it. Select a lockout duration that will deter intruders without crippling your authorized users; 30 to 60 minutes is sufficient for about environments.
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Account lockout threshold This option determines the number of invalid logon attempts that tin occur before an account volition be locked out. Setting this option to 0 ways that accounts on your network volition never be locked out.
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Reset business relationship lockout counter afterwards This option defines the corporeality of fourth dimension in minutes after a bad logon attempt that the "counter" will reset. If this value is set to 45 minutes, and user jsmith types his password incorrectly ii times earlier logging on successfully, his running tally of failed logon attempts will reset to 0 afterward 45 minutes have elapsed. Be careful not to prepare this option too high, or your users could lock themselves out through simple typographical errors.
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For each detail that you want to configure, right-click the detail and select Backdrop. To illustrate, we create an Account lockout threshold of 3 invalid logon attempts. In the screen shown in Figure 3.8, place a cheque mark next to Define this policy setting, and so enter the appropriate value.
Exam Warning
The issue of password synchronization described in the previous paragraph is not an issue for organizations that are simply 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 risk of continual DoS attacks.
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Insert random delays in the authentication process to tiresome animal-force attacks.
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Consider blocking IP addresses with multiple failed login attempts, only take into consideration the impact of blocking a proxy used by multiple clients.
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Vary responses to both failed and successful password authentication.
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Enquire users to answer their secret questions after seeing multiple failed logins.
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Provide user options to limit business relationship login to specific IP addresses.
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Use unique login URLs for different blocks of users.
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Use a CAPTCHA to forbid automatic attacks.
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Limit an account's capabilities if an assault is suspected.
Aaron Tiensivu , in Securing Windows Server 2008, 2008
Fine-Grain Countersign and Account Lockout Policies
When a GPO is used to apply password and account lockout policies, these policies can be set up for only the entire domain, and only one case of each setting volition be practical to for all users in the domain. In other words, you 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 can do this only using a new feature, fine-grain password and account lockout policy. A fundamental distinction between group policy-based user and account lockout enforcement and fine-grain policies is how you apply them. Unlike grouping policy, all the same, fine-grain policies are quite circuitous to configure.
Warning
It's important to think that only ane set 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 can override the settings that are configured using a GPO at the domain level, they are not GPO-based.
You lot 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, so Microsoft recommends the creation of shadow groups which map to an organization'due south domain and OU structure. In this way, y'all tin can add the global security groups to the appropriate fine-grain policy object in Active Directory one fourth dimension, and apply group membership to decide to whom it applies. Information technology'south possible that a user can exist a member of more than than 1 global security group and for these groups to be associated with different fine-grain policies. To suit this, Microsoft allows you lot to associate a precedence value to each fine-grain policy. A policy given a lower number will take precedence over i given a higher number if both utilize to a user.
Notes from the Secret…
A Long-Awaited Countersign and Business relationship Policy Solution
Fine-grain password and account lockout policy is new in Windows Server 2008. In Windows 2000 and 2003 forests, you 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 utilise of more complex domain and forest structures, which increased management costs.
Although fine-grain policies are certainly not as easy to utilize equally traditional GPOs, they are a stride in the right direction. Most companies volition no longer crave their previous workarounds, and Microsoft expects that many who adopted more complex domain structures will exist consolidating and simplifying their forests. Fine-grain policies also correspond a major departure from Microsoft's previous instructions to administrators to adopt a site-, domain-, and OU- based direction style. They cannot be practical to whatever of these Active Directory container objects.
Configuring a Fine-Grain Password Policy
Two new Active Directory object classes have been added to the Agile Directory schema to support fine-grain policies. Policies are configured under a Password Settings Container (PSC). The bodily policy objects themselves are chosen Password Settings objects (PSO). Creating a PSO involves using a lower-level Agile Directory editing tool than you might exist familiar with. There are ii ways to do information technology. One is with the ADSI Edit graphics utility. The other is by using ldifde to script the operation at the command line. In this chapter, we'll be using ADSI Edit:
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Open ADSI Edit past clicking Start | 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. (See Effigy 3.six.)
Figure 3.6. Bringing Up the Connections Settings Dialog
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Accept the default naming context which appears in the Proper noun: text box or blazon in the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the domain y'all want to use. Click OK. (See Figure three.seven.)
Figure 3.seven. The Proper name: Text Box
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Expand the Default naming context node (if nowadays), 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.
Effigy three.8. Creating the New Object in ADSI Edit
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In the Create Object dialog box, select msDS-PasswordSettings and click Next. (See Figure 3.9.)
Figure 3.nine. Selecting the msDS-PasswordSettings Pick
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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.x. Inbound the PSO Proper name
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Configure the appropriate value for each of the password and account lockout policy settings. All are required. Refer to the information in the list afterward Figure 3.11 for more details on each setting.
Figure 3.11. Configuring the Fine-grain Settings
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msDS-PasswordSettingsPrecedence Sets the precedence value for deciding conflicts when more than than one fine-grain policy applies to a user. Values greater than 0 are acceptable.
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msDS-PasswordReversibleEncryptionEnabled Equivalent to the Store passwords using reversible encryption group policy setting. Acceptable values are Truthful and FALSE.
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msDS-PasswordHistoryLength Equivalent to the Enforce password history grouping policy setting. Acceptable values are 0 through 1024.
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msDS-PasswordComplexityEnabled Equivalent to the Passwords must meet complication requirements group policy setting. Acceptable values are TRUE and FALSE.
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msDS-MinimumPasswordLength Equivalent to the Minimum countersign length group policy setting. Acceptable values are 0 through 255.
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msDS-MinimumPasswordAge Equivalent to the Minimum password historic period group policy setting. Adequate values are (None) and days:hours:minutes:seconds (i.e., 1:00:00:00 equals i day) through the value configured for msDS-MaximumPasswordAge.
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msDS-MaximumPasswordAge Equivalent to the Maximum password historic period grouping policy setting. Acceptable settings are (Never) and msDS-MinimumPasswordAge value through (Never). This value cannot be ready to 0. It follows the days:hours:minutes:seconds format (i.e., 1:00:00:00 equals 1 twenty-four hour period).
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msDS-LockoutThreshold Equivalent to the Business relationship lockout threshold grouping policy setting. Acceptable settings are 0 through 65535.
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msDS-LockoutObservationWindow Equivalent to the Reset business relationship lockout counter after group policy setting. Acceptable 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 1 twenty-four hours).
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After specifying the preceding values, click the More than Attributes button, equally shown in Figure 3.12.
Figure iii.12. The More Attributes Button
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Although it is non required, at this betoken you lot can specify to which users or groups the fine-grain policy will apply. You can likewise do this in Active Directory Users and Computers (covered subsequently). To configure this during PSO object creation:
Gear up 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 together. Multiple users and groups can be added and removed. When done, click OK. (See Figure 3.13.)
Figure 3.13. Associating Users and Global Security Groups
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Click Cease in the Create Object dialog box. When done, ADSI Edit should resemble Figure iii.14.
Figure iii.xiv. The ADSI Utility
Applying Users and Groups to a PSO with Active Directory Users and Computers
In improver to using ADSI Edit to associate users and global security groups with a PSO, administrators tin can likewise employ Active Directory Users and Computers:
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Open Active Directory Users and Computers past clicking Start | Administrative 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 Proper name | System | Countersign Settings Container.
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In the correct pane, right-click on the PSO you desire to configure, and select Properties, as shown in Figure 3.15.
Figure iii.15. Opening the Backdrop for the PSO
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In the Properties dialog box, select the Aspect Editor tab. In the Attributes: selection window curl downwardly and click on msDS-AppliesTo followed by Edit. (See Effigy 3.16.)
Figure 3.16. The Attribute Editor Tab
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There are two ways to add users and global security groups using the Multi-valued Distinguished Name with Security Principal Editor dialog (see Figure 3.17):
Click Add 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 Primary Editor Window
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You can besides remove accounts from the Multi-valued Distinguished Name With Security Principal Editor dialog past highlighting the account in the Values: selection box and clicking the Remove button. When yous are done adding and deleting accounts from this PSO, click OK.
Dr. Anton A. Chuvakin , Branden R. Williams , in PCI Compliance (Second Edition), 2010
Configuring Account Lockout in Active Directory
Although you're configuring the password policy settings, it's a good idea to besides configure the Account Lockout Policy. To do this, expand Business relationship Lockout Policy. Double-click on Business relationship lockout threshold. In the Account lockout threshold Backdrop dialog box, alter number of invalid login attempts to 6. A dialog box will pop up and ask if it should also change the Account lockout elapsing and Reset business relationship lockout counter after 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 like Fig. 5.2.
Effigy 5.2. PCI Compliant Windows 2003 Account Lockout Policy
MCSE seventy-293: Planning Server Roles and Server Security
Martin Grasdal , ... Dr. Thomas W. Shinder Technical Editor , in MCSE (Test seventy-293) Report Guide, 2003
Security Templates and Tools
At that place are numerous settings, or customizable security policies, that you can use 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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Result Log Include configuration options for the Application, System, and Security outcome logs that tin be viewed through Upshot 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 can 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 yous to manage your own templates, simply you lot can also utilize predefined templates that come up with Windows Server 2003. The adjacent 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, so that otherwise incompatible applications accept a hazard 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 book (%systemdrive%).
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iesacls.inf Contains settings to lock downwards 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 do non office properly with full arrangement security in place. The compatws template relaxes user permissions so that programs are more than likely to run without errors. It also removes whatever members of the Power Users grouping. Many administrators solve their application problems by adding users to the Power Users group. However, members of this group besides take the ability to create users, groups, shares, and printers. Overall, this template erodes system security and should exist used with caution.
DC Security Template
The DC security template is created when a server is first promoted to existence a domain controller. It contains a number of default settings, including settings for the file system, Registry, and system services. This template allows you to reapply these default security settings. Registry keys and organization services that have been added or modified since the initial installation may be overwritten, as may permissions on new files. Therefore, considerable planning should be washed before applying this template to a domain controller in your network.
Hisecdc Template
The hisecdc template is used to employ high-level security settings to a domain controller. Using this template will cause the domain controller to require encrypted authentication. Using this setting will besides prevent most pre-Windows 2000 computers from being able to communicate with the server, because the domain controller will require clients to communicate using NTLM version 2 (NTLMv2). Finally, this template volition cause many applications to malfunction.
Hisecws Template
The hisecws template applies settings similar to those in the hisecdc template, just information technology is designed for use with workstations and servers that are not configured as domain controllers. When this template is applied to a computer, all of the domain controllers that have accounts for users that tin can log on to the client must be running Windows NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack iv installed, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows Server 2003. Also, whatever domain controllers in domains that the customer is a fellow member of must exist running Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003.
Clients are as well are unable to connect to computers using LAN Manager for authentication or from machines running operating systems before than Windows NT iv.0 Service Pack 4 using an account on the local machine. In improver, attempts to connect to a server running Windows NT 4 where the time on each machine has a difference of 30 minutes or more will fail. If the customer connects to a computer running Windows XP, the time departure between them cannot exceed 36 hours.
The hisecws template also modifies settings to control memberships in security-sensitive groups. Once applied, all users are removed from the Power Users grouping, and merely members of the Domain Admins group and the Administrator account are kept as members of the computer's local Administrators group.
As with the hisecdc template, applying the hisecws template volition cause many applications to malfunction because of the enhanced security. This template should be very carefully tested before deployment.
Rootsec Template
The rootsec template is used to define security settings for the system volume. It is used to prepare permissions at the root of the organisation drive, so that original settings can be reapplied.
This tin be particularly useful if the permissions on the system drive are inadvertently modified. This template can also be modified to apply the same root permissions on other volumes. In doing so, information technology volition overwrite inherited permissions on child objects, but will not overwrite any explicit permissions on child objects.
Iesacls Template
The iesacls template is used to lock down security settings used by Cyberspace Explorer (IE), which can be used to access data on the Net or on a corporate intranet. Using this template, y'all tin can heighten security by enforcing stricter settings on Cyberspace Explorer.
Securedc Template
The securedc template is used on domain controllers to enhance security while minimizing the affect on applications. This template also configures servers to refuse LAN Director responses. Computers running operating systems such as Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, and Windows 98 use LAN Managing director to authenticate to servers. For these clients to exist able to connect to a domain controller with the securedc template applied, the clients will need to have a patch or the Active Directory Client Extensions Pack installed on them.
Securews Template
The securews template provides the same settings every bit the securedc template, but it applies to workstations or servers that are non configured as domain controllers. Information technology is designed to enhance security without impacting on applications that are running on the computer. This template also affects authentication, considering it limits the use of NTLM by configuring clients accessing the auto to answer with NTLMv2 responses.
When this template is practical, the domain controllers that incorporate user accounts for those who volition log on to the client must run Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4 or higher, 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 between the domain controllers running this operating system must accept their time synchronized within thirty minutes of one another. Computers also will non be able to connect to servers running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4 if their clocks are off by more than xxx minutes from the server. Computers will not be able to connect to a Windows XP machine if their clocks are off by more xx hours.
Servers that have this template practical to it also take limitations. The server won't be able to connect to clients running LAN Manager and volition demand to be authenticated using NTLMv2. Nonetheless, NTLMv2 canbe used to authenticate to Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 servers if the clocks on the client and server are inside 30 minutes of ane another. If the server is running Windows XP, the ii machines must be synchronized inside 20 hours of one some other.
Setup Security Template
The setup security template is created when a reckoner is installed, and it varies from one car to another, depending on whether its operating organization was upgraded or a clean installation. Because of this, information technology should never be practical to a group of computers using Group Policy or manually to other systems, unless yous have carefully reviewed its settings. This template allows you to reapply a system's default security settings. Apply the DC security template for domain controllers, not the setup security template.
Dustin Hannifin , ... Joey Alpern , in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2010
Business relationship security policies
User account security policies assistance ensure that user accounts are protected and properly secured. Using business relationship security policies, you can prepare the following business relationship policies for Advertisement accounts:
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Password Policy
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Account Lockout Policy
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Kerberos Policy
The countersign policy allows you to configure requirements for user passwords. The password policy options are divers in Table iv.2.
By enabling this policy, users cannot employ whatever of the previously remembered passwords. For example, using the default setting of 24, the user cannot apply any of the previous 24 passwords when setting a new password
24 Passwords remembered
Maximum password age
Past enabling this setting, passwords expire every ten number of days. The number of days configured hither define how oftentimes 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 i solar day requires that a user proceed the same countersign for at least one mean solar day
1 solar day
Minimum password length
By enabling this setting, users must include at least x number of characters in their passwords. The longer the password the more secure it is. All the same, the longer the password the harder it is to call back. You should find a happy medium for your network. Most security best practices recommend at least 8 characters, though some organizations are asking users to begin using passphrases opposed to passwords. This can increase the character count dramatically, thus increasing account security
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Countersign must run across complexity requirements
By enabling this setting, users must create passwords that are considered circuitous. Complex passwords require that the countersign utilize characters from three of the following four sets of characters:
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Upper Case
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Lower Case
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Number
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Special Characters such as #, @, !
Complex passwords cannot incorporate part or all of the user'south total name or username
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Store passwords using reversible encryption
This setting essentially stores passwords in a apparently text format. This is to provide backwards compatibility with some legacy applications but is non recommended.
Disabled
Notes from the field
Multiple countersign policies
Windows Server 2008 R1 offset introduced the ability to have multiple password policies in a unmarried domain. This allows you to set up different password requirements assigned to dissimilar groups of users. For case, yous tin accept a more than strict countersign policy assigned to administrative-level accounts.
In addition to the password policy, you can set an account lockout policy. The business relationship lockout policy "locks" the user'south business relationship afterwards a defined number of failed countersign attempts. The business relationship lockout prevents the user from logging onto the network for a period of time even if the correct countersign is entered. You should set an account lockout policy to assist thwart off those who may attempt to compromise user accounts by brute force methods of guessing username and password combinations. The account lockout policy contains the following settings:
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Account lockout duration—This is the amount of fourth dimension the business relationship volition remain locked out. This is commonly ready to twenty or 30 min. An administrator tin 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 account is locked out. After the defined threshold is reached, the account and so becomes locked until the account lockout duration passes or an ambassador manually unlocks the account.
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Reset account lockout counter after—This setting defines the number of minutes that must pass before the lockout counter volition prepare itself to zip after an invalid log-on endeavour has been detected.
The third account policy is the Kerberos Policy. This policy allows you to define Kerberos authentication settings. Kerberos authentication is discussed in Affiliate 11. The Kerberos policy has the following definable settings:
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Enforce user logon restrictions—Past enabling this setting, the Kerberos Cardinal Distribution Center (KDC) will validate each ticket asking against the user account rights policy.
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Maximum lifetime for a service ticket—This setting defines how long a service ticket is valid. Later the ticket expires, the user account will be rejected past the resource and will take to request a new ticket from the KDC.
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Maximum lifetime for a user ticket—This setting defines the maximum age 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 can exist renewed for continued employ.
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Maximum tolerance for computer clock synchronization—Kerberos is time-sensitive protocol. This is a security feature to ensure that expired tickets cannot be used considering of computer clocks beingness set incorrectly. This setting allows yous to ready the maximum corporeality of time deviation Kerberos will allow between the domain and computers joined to the domain.
The account policies are ready using the Grouping Policy Management console located in Server Manager. To manage the account policies, you need to edit the default domain grouping policy. Perform the following tasks to modify account policies:
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Open Server Manager.
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Expand the nodes Features | Group Policy Management | Forest: <your forest proper noun> | Domains | <your domain name>.
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Right-click the Default Domain Policy and choose the Edit option.
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Expand the nodes Reckoner Configuration | Policies | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Account Policies.
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Select the policy yous want to modify. Afterwards making changes, close the Group Policy Management Editor. Changes will exist automatically saved.
Password policies are a new feature in SQL Server 2005. So what are password policies? They are a series of rules enforced to ensure passwords in SQL server follow standards set along in the operating arrangement via group policy.
Password policies can be turned off and on in SQL server. In that location may be reasons for not using password policies overall, or just on specific accounts.
Password Policies Explained
Password policies force the account to adhere to a specific prepare of rules. The rules can be broken down into two distinct types, one set of rules related to password policies, and another related to business relationship lockout policies. The following sections item each of these policies.
Some Independent Communication
Since group policies are unremarkably controlled by the network administration group in about organizations, be sure to communicate with the appropriate teams in your organization before making whatsoever changes.
Using the Grouping Policies Console
The easiest way to use the group policy console is to start the management console by typing "MMC" in the run box in Microsoft Windows. To access the run box, click the Starting time carte, and select the run box. The Microsoft management console has other functions besides controlling grouping policy.
One time the MMC is started, you need to click Add/Remove Snap-in. The "Add/Remove" snap-in option is available on the file menu (run into Figure 6.i).
Figure six.1. Calculation the Snap-in (Office one)
Click the Add/Remove Snap-in card option, and a dialog that allows pick of snap-ins to be added volition exist presented. It is recommended that you select only the add together-in for group policy; otherwise, the carte can get very chaotic very quickly.
Scroll downwardly and select the Local Group Policy Object, and click the Add push (meet Figure half-dozen.2). Note that when using Microsoft Windows 2003 or Microsoft Windows XP, the dialog boxes may expect slightly dissimilar.
Figure 6.ii. Adding the Snap-in (Part 2)
When you add the snap-in later selecting it and click OK, the selection of which calculator yous wish to manage dialog volition be presented (meet Figure half-dozen.three). Note that it'south not necessary to be logged in to the reckoner to be managed, but the business relationship used needs authoritative rights on the calculator to be managed.
Effigy 6.3. Selecting the Computer
Afterwards you select the computer (in about cases it will be the local computer), the initial Grouping Policy Direction panel snap-in screen will be presented (see Effigy vi.iv).
Figure six.4. The MMC Initial Screen
Equally one can see in group policy, there are too a number of other items to exist controlled. It is strongly suggested to refrain from changing anything, unless the impact is known, every bit there is no "undo" for the settings in grouping policy. Once a change is made, if the previous value is forgotten, there is no style to get back and see what it was.
In gild to use the grouping policy snap-in to control the countersign policies, expand the tree under "console root" on the left-hand pane.
Aggrandize each of the nodes under "Windows Settings" until Account Policies is shown.
Some Independent Advice
Group policy is circuitous in the way it's applied. Group policy is practical at different points (at the domain or group level in Agile Directory). Active Directory provides an option that will not let group policy settings to be overridden. In the upshot an option is configured to non be overridden at a college level, even if it has been set at the local level, the setting won't take outcome if it's ready via Agile Directory.
This is why it is important to involve the appropriate groups in your organisation when working with grouping policy.
Password Policies
The post-obit password policies tin can exist enforced in SQL Server 2005:
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Countersign history
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Minimum password historic period
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Maximum password age
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Minimum password length
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Complication requirements
Effigy 6.five depicts the countersign settings in the management panel for grouping policy.
Figure half dozen.5. Group Policy for Passwords
Allow's hash out each of these options in more than detail.
The "Enforce password history" pick is used to prevent users from reusing one-time passwords. This makes the system more secure; a user needs to use a new password (i that has never been used before) each fourth dimension they change the password. Valid values for this are between 0 and 24. The default is 24 on domain controllers and 0 on stand-lonely servers. Information technology would exist bad practice to install SQL server on a domain controller, so I would surmise that information technology will be 0 on your server. If this option is to be used, it is a good idea to besides use the "Minimum password age" selection as well.
The "Minimum password age" choice is used to set the menses of fourth dimension in days that the countersign must be used before the user can alter it. On the surface, y'all'd wonder why you lot'd want to apply this setting, but it has an important apply. It also prevents users from changing the countersign in order to defeat the "Enforce password history" pick, by going through passwords until they get dorsum to an onetime favorite. This also helps to discourage users from changing their passwords so frequently that they forget them. The default is 0, which allows the user to modify the password at whatsoever time. Note that the "Minimum password age" must be less than the "Maximum password age."
The "Maximum countersign age" is used to ready the period of time in days that a password may be used before requiring the user to alter it. This tin can be set from 0 (never elapse) to 999. Note that the "Minimum password historic period" must exist less than the "Maximum countersign historic period."
The "Minimum password length" selection is used to set the minimum password length for a password. This can be set from 0 to xiv. When the "Minimum Password Length" is set to 0, it allows for whatever length countersign.
The "Countersign must meet complexity requirements" option is used to set complexity requirements, causing the password to be more secure and less apt to guessing.
The attributes of the password must be equally follows when the complexity requirements option is enabled:
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The countersign must not comprise the user'southward account name or parts of the user'south full name that exceed ii sequent characters.
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The password must be at to the lowest degree six characters in length.
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The countersign must contain characters from three of the following four categories:
English capital characters (A through Z)
English lowercase characters (a through z)
Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
Nonalphabetic characters (for example, !,$,#, %)
Complication requirements are enforced when passwords are changed or created.
Some Independent Advice
Information technology's commonly a adept idea to enable the "Password Must Meet Complexity Requirements" option; still, information technology'southward besides a good idea to communicate this to your users prior to enabling this, as information technology can pb to user confusion when they effort to change their passwords and may upshot in an increase in support calls to your helpdesk.
Using the Local grouping policy console to administer settings is easy. Double-click on the setting to be changed and a dialog box will exist presented where changes volition be made. The console checks the values to exist certain they are within the proper range. Double-click on the selection, and a dialog box similar to that in Figure 6.6 volition be presented.
Figure half-dozen.half-dozen. 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 explanation for each of the settings. When an particular is double-clicked, a tab to see a detailed explanation is available. Clicking the Explain tab will nowadays the information (encounter Figure half-dozen.7).
Figure 6.7. A Group Policy Setting Caption
The explanations are very clear and curtailed, and they usually show the default values as well as ranges for the settings.
Best Practices According to Microsoft
According to Microsoft, these are some best practices to follow:
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Set the maximum password age for passwords to expire every 30 to xc days,
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If the "Enforce countersign history" selection is used, be sure to fix a minimum password age.
Business relationship Lockout Policies
The account lockout policies are as follows:
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Business relationship lockout threshold option (number of invalid logins before lockout)
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Account lockout duration (corporeality of time locked out)
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Reset lockout counter after n minutes
Figure 6.8 depicts the Account lockout settings in the management panel for group policy.
Figure 6.8. The Account Lockout Group Policy
We'll now discuss each of these options in more item.
The "Business relationship lockout threshold" option is used to set the number of invalid logins before the account 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 be unlocked by an administrator, or the "Account lockout duration" time needs to elapse. The default is 0.
The "Business relationship lockout duration" option is used to automatically unlock the business relationship later on a catamenia of time. The fourth dimension 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 support.
The "Reset lockout counter after north minutes" selection is used to decide how many minutes demand to expire before the failed logon endeavour counter is reset. The range is i to 99,999. In order to use this setting, the "Account lockout threshold" must be set. The reset fourth dimension must exist less than or equal to the "Account lockout duration" (if the account lockout duration is set).
Why Utilize Countersign Policies?
Using countersign policies in SQL Server 2005 will help to ensure that uniform security is enforced across all SQL logins. Password policies can be enforced at the domain level, the container level, or at the local auto level via group policy. Password policies are not a "silver bullet," simply in today'due south society, any help keeping SQL server installation more secure is a good thing.
When you are establishing password policies in the arrangement, they volition most probable exist across all systems, including SQL Server and the Microsoft Windows logins. Group policy can help ensure uniform application across systems.
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Using Grouping Policy
It may be more efficient to implement group policy at the Agile Directory level. It makes sense to create a container in Active Directory for all of the SQL servers if in that location are a number of them in your organization, and apply the grouping policy at that level. While this is exterior the scope of this book, it would exist benign to learn more about Windows Group policy and Active Directory so the strategy can be implemented in the most efficient way.
Operating Organisation Requirements
In lodge to utilize password policies, SQL server 2005 needs to be running on Windows Server 2003 or later. SQL 2005 password policy functionality depends on the NetValidatePasswordPolicy awarding program interface (API), which is only bachelor in Windows Server 2003 and later versions. Also, password policies need to exist enabled for that auto via grouping policy. Password policies are part of Windows grouping policies. Group policies can be applied to unlike containers in Active Directory, likewise as locally on the auto.
Some Independent Advice
Since group policies can affect other Windows services such every bit windows user passwords and passwords used past service accounts, exist sure to completely test your changes in a test environment before making any changes to your production environs. It'south very important to understand the impact of whatsoever changes yous are going to make earlier making them.
Using Password Policies
Start, to apply countersign policies in SQL Server 2005, password policies need to be enabled. This is accomplished by turning on password policies in SQL Server when creating a login.
Here is an example of creating a login for SQL Server using T-SQL, which volition utilise the policies defined in the operating system:
CREATE LOGIN Robby with
countersign='Test$12345',
CHECK_POLICY = ON,
CHECK_EXPIRATION = ON
Figure vi.nine is an example of creating a login for SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio, which will use the policies defined in the operating system.
Figure six.ix. Creating a Login That Uses Password Policy
When you are creating a login, be certain to check the "enforce password policy" checkbox and then the login volition adhere to the password policy rules divers in the operating system. This is a good idea unless in that location is a compelling reason not to. The same holds truthful with password expiration.
It'southward possible to enable i or both of the settings, because they office independently of each other.
Best Practices According to Microsoft
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Mandate a strong password policy, including expiration and a complexity policy for the arrangement.
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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 mechanism to change SQL login passwords. This includes application logins.
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Set MUST_CHANGE for new logins where practical.
Some Independent Advice
While group policy can make your environs more secure when information technology comes to using SQL logins, it's still a amend practice to use Windows logins wherever possible.
Eric Seagren , in Secure Your Network for Free, 2007
Account Lockout Policy
Now that you are familiar with GPOs and how to utilize them, we volition hash out a few policy settings that you may desire to consider implementing, either at the domain level or with local GPOs. The business relationship lockout policy (\Figurer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Account Policy\Account Lockout Policy) allows y'all to configure the number of incorrect passwords that a user tin can enter before 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 volition provide the about security in an average environment:
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Account Lockout Duration represents how long the business relationship will stay locked out. Setting this to nada means that the account volition stay locked out until an administrator manually unlocks information technology. This is the nigh secure option. Notwithstanding, fifty-fifty allowing the account to reset after as footling as ten minutes will serve to ho-hum downwards a hacker who is attempting to brute forcefulness the password.
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Account Lockout Threshold represents how many invalid passwords a user can attempt before locking out the account. A setting of three invalid logon attempts is normally considered acceptable. If the number is too low, a simple typo could issue in an account being locked out. If this is set to 0 (insecure), the account will never be locked out.
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Reset Account Lockout Counter After determines how long before the invalid attempt counter is reset. The default setting of thirty minutes is normally adequate. A longer setting is considered more than secure.
Figure 3.9 shows the business relationship lockout policy setting and MMC console.
Aaron Tiensivu , in Securing Windows Server 2008, 2008
Agile Directory Domain Services
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) stores information about users, computers, and other devices on the network. AD DS is required to install directory-enabled applications. The post-obit are improvements made in AD DS functionality:
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Auditing (log value changes that are made to Advert DS objects and their attributes)
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Fine-grained password policies (functionality to assign a special countersign and account lockout policies for unlike sets of users)
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Read-simply DCs (hosts a read-only partition of the Ad DS database)
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Restartable Advertizing DS (tin be stopped then that updates can be applied to a DC)
User interface improvements (updated AD DS Installation Sorcerer)
What Is New in the Ad DS Installation?
AD DS has several new installation options in Windows Server 2008, including the following:
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RODC
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DNS
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Global Itemize (GC) servers
New OS installation options include Total Install and Cadre Server Install.
The kickoff thing you lot must do when adding a Windows Server 2008 DC to a Windows 2003 forest is to set up the woods for the Windows 2008 server by extending the schema to adapt the new server:
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To prepare the wood for Windows Server 2008 run the following command: adprep /forestprep.
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To prepare the domain for Windows Server 2008 run the post-obit control: adprep /domainprep.
It is recommended that yous host the chief domain controller (PDC) emulator operations master role in the forest root domain on a DC that runs Windows Server 2008 and to brand this server a GC server. The first Windows Server 2008 DC in the forest cannot be an RODC. Before installing the outset RODC in the forest, run the following control: adprep /rodcprep.
Making sure the installation was successful, you can verify the Advertisement DS installation by checking the following:
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Bank check the Directory Service log in Effect Viewer for errors.
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Make sure the SYSVOL folder is accessible to clients.
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Verify DNS functionality.
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Verify replication.
To run adprep /forestprep you lot accept to exist a fellow member of the Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins groups of Active Directory. You must run this command from the DC in the forest that has the Schema Chief FSMO role. Only ane Schema Chief is needed per forest.
To run adprep /domainprep you accept to be a member of the Domain Admins or Enterprise Admins group of Active Directory. You must run this command from each Infrastructure Master FSMO office in each domain after you have run adprep /forestprep in the woods. Merely one Infrastructure Main is needed per domain.
To run adprep /rodcprep you have to be a member of the Enterprise Admins grouping of Agile Directory. You can run this command on any DC in the forest. However, it is recommended that you run this control on the Schema Chief.
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