RE: The list?
devnul wth! I get sick and ignore my lists for a few day:) From: r...@pge.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: The list? Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:57:18 + It’s Memorex. That is why you hear the sound of shattering glass. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The list? It is or is it? Thanks Webster From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The list? But it is webscale. On Tuesday, April 30, 2013, James Rankin wrote: It's a new feature - manual mirroring. In that you post the same stuff to both. On 30 April 2013 18:05, Stringham, Steven sstri...@lrlaw.com wrote: Yes, but does it automatic failover? Is it load balanced? From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The list? We now have list redundancy Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:29:46 + To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: The list? I hate to jinks it but it seem the list is still up and running? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin For more information about Lewis and Roca LLP, please go to www.lewisandroca.com. Phoenix (602)262-5311 Reno (775)823-2900 Tucson (520)622-2090 Albuquerque (505)764-5400 Las Vegas (702)949-8200 Silicon Valley (650)391-1380 This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the sende -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin PGE is committed to protecting our customers' privacy. To learn more, please visit http://www.pge.com/about/company/privacy/customer/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: UPS vs Switch Sanity Check
Do they also say to use the clutch to slow the car down when going downhill because they want to save the brakes? I mean brakes are more expensive then clutch replacements right? Steven Peckhttp://www.blkmtn.org From: sstri...@lrlaw.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: UPS vs Switch Sanity Check Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:27:31 + Have them set the UPS units to turn themselves off when the battery level gets below a specified threshold. They should have complete control over this. Also, are you not creating a chance for the switches to be damaged by the various power surges. Sometimes the power company will have a on/off/on/off/on cycle in power. Thus doing the same thing to your switches. This is not good for them. But, you can set the UPS units to be at a certain battery level before they will turn back on. Thus, you can protect your switches, and the UPS units. This is what they are there for - use them. From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bill.m...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: UPS vs Switch Sanity Check I am in the midst of a debate with the folks who support our UPS’s, and would appreciate some input. The situation was thus: We were notified of an extended power outage (6 hours) by our utility provider at a couple of our locations. At these locations we have wiring closets with switches (up to 3, in this case) that are plugged into an APC UPS. The “UPS people” wanted to go and turn off the UPS’s and move the power of the switches over to a regular old surge suppressor. Their reason for this was because they contend that allowing the batteries to completely drain will damage them. They also contended that the off the shelf surge suppressor was sufficient to protect the switches from power spikes. My contention is that the switches are more valuable than the UPS’s and need the protection that a real UPS affords, especially at a time where we know the power may fluctuate (spike, brownout) or blink repeatedly. I tried to do some research on whether there was any veracity to the claim about damage to drained batteries and have turned up some conflicting information. FA157446 at APC’s site seems the most authoritative and says they will be OK as long as recharged within 72 hours, but I have read other comments that suggest that a total discharge will damage a UPS-type battery. What I really want is a sanity check. Is there really something to the UPS battery thing and I am being overly dramatic about the surge suppressor, or would you agree that you’d rather risk damaging the UPS (if that is even realistic) than the equipment behind it? Bill Mayo ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin For more information about Lewis and Roca LLP, please go to www.lewisandroca.com. Phoenix (602)262-5311 Reno (775)823-2900 Tucson (520)622-2090 Albuquerque (505)764-5400 Las Vegas (702)949-8200 Silicon Valley (650)391-1380 This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the sender of this E-Mail by return E-Mail or by telephone. In accordance with Internal Revenue Service Circular 230, we advise you that if this email contains any tax advice, such tax advice was not intended or written to be used, and it cannot be used, by any taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding penalties that may be imposed on the taxpayer. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: IE spelling
IE10 introduced spell check. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/08/typing-with-speed-and-accuracy-in-ie10.aspxEach of these spellchecking facilities (auto-correction, and word identification with corrective action menus), use the spellchecking dictionaries installed on yourlocal PC Steven Peckhttp://www.blkmtn.org Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:27:00 + Subject: IE spelling From: kz2...@googlemail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Its been so long since I used IE I have only just noticed that it actually has Favourites spelled correctly for UK users. Does anyone know when this was introduced? I've gotten so used to seeing the US spelling that it actually looks wrong, but it's interesting to see they've finally changed it. I'm now wondering if it pulls it directly from the system locale - might be interesting to see how it behaves with users that move between international borders and have virtualized instances of IE. -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT - Suggestions for using Netgear wifi and extender with Security camera setup
I originally had two Linksys 54G WAPs in the attic doing point to point to a neighbors house until heat killed them. I now have 2 Groove 5Hnof these and some external antenna's doing point to point to a friends house. http://routerboard.com/RBGrooveA5Hn Mine came with PoE injectors so they only have the network cable wired up to them. I got them from Streakwave a while ago and they work. Someone I know who does this type of thing professionally in Sweden said he likes Ubiquiti product better as he thinks they are more reliable and don't randomly reboot under load (something I haven't experienced). If I knew him when I got mine I probably would have followed his advice. I haven't had any issues with mine but between us we only have about 10-15 systems. http://streakwave.com/Itemdesc.asp?ic=Bullet2HP%2DUS I stumbled across these things by accident. The Routerboard products are quirky to get going but once you find the right docs on their site and read the directions carefully they just worked. I haven't touched them since I got them setup. They just sit up there on the antenna and pass traffic. That's about all I got for you but it may be a product avenue you hadn't known of. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi folks. I know this isn't a networking list, but thought I would throw this out and see what comes back. A client has installed a security camera/dvr system in their facility. They have two buildings, one is remote with no lan connectivity to anything else. The camera vendor had them buy a Netgear WNDR3400v2 router and a Netgear WN2000RPT wireless extender for the remote building. The extender is configured for the same subnet as the Netgear router - 192.168.1.x They installed them and put the remote dvr on the repeater and the main building's dvr on the prod lan. The two netgears are using their own subnet - eg 192.168.1.x and passing traffic through to the prod lan pc where management pc is installed. The DVR boxes are working and sending traffic to the management pc on the prod lan - 192.168.10.x The Netgear router has it's Internet connection plugged in to the prod lan using dhcp. Now they want to use the Netgear to provide wifi in the office. I would like to just use these to provide wifi and a bridged network between the two offices. I found settings to tell the main router to be an AP only, but when I do this, I lose connectivity from the remote office - it won't let the remote dvr talk to the prod lan anymore. Anyone have a better suggestion as how to architect this, as when I look at the netgear forums, it's all over the place about whether these things even work reliably in a business environment. Maybe I should look at more enterprise grade solutions like the Meraki, etc. ? Thanks Don K ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1
If you dig down in task scheduler there are tons of examples to copy from. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: And one more note: Powershell get-process Powershell -command get-process both dump the process list, but powershell -file get-process fails. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1 Total guess coming :) It seems like -Command would be used when you just want to run a one liner by passing the command directly, but -File is used when you want to run a .ps1. That being said, I just did a quick test from cmd and all 3 of these are equivalent (at least when the ps1 contains get-process): Powershell c:\scripts\myscript.ps1 Powershell -file c:\scripts\myscript.ps1 Powershell -command c:\scripts\myscript.ps1 -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 1:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1 On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I thought it was -File c:\scripts\myscript.ps1. See, this is what's infuriating. Most of the examples I have found say you don't need -Command or -File. Some say -Command. Some say the 2 are equivalent. SIGH So I changed it to -File, and made sure the folder holding the script itself had no spaces in its name. And then it all started working ... I thought for sure I had tried it with -File as well, but maybe not. Anyways, it all seems good now. Thanks. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1 I can't understand why my script is failing. I can run it from a Powershell prompt (I have to Run as administrator, because the script is deleting some files in a backup directory). But it works perfectly when I do it that way. But when I create a Scheduled Task to do it, it fails with 0x1. I create a Task, tell it to use an account with domain admin privileges. Tell it to run whether the user is logged on or not, and to run with highest privileges The action calls a program (C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe). In Add arguments, I have -Command C:\Scripts\myscript.ps1 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Joomla site move
I don't know Joomla, do know Drupal, but structurally they aren't that different being Apache, MySQL, PHP. You are probably going to want to try Joomla forums but at a guess you will need the database and the files (good to know the hosts version of PHP too). You will probably need to install the exact same version of Joomla and then go through the upgrade process. If they give you the database and files you 'should' be able to get it going with that. (That and a LAMP setup). Good luck, Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Laurence laurence.chi...@jalapeno-bs.co.ukwrote: Hi All I’m new to Joomla so please forgive any glaring idiocies I have a new client who have a Joomla based site, the site being on Joomla version 1.0.15, the current web hosts are less than helpful and so the client wants to move his site away to another hosting provider the current hosting provider will not allow access to the site control panel for FTP access nor access to the MySQL control panel for backups. but will zip up the site files and database backup and send them across question: can I set up a new hosting provider with latest versions of Joomla, MySQL etc. and just copy in the site files and restore the database I know I will have to tweak the database connection from Joomla to the MySQL db but will the rest just copy over I’m going to set this up in the lab before trying it live thank you Laurence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption
Did you just manage to agree and also imply Sure, they released it but are probably still not telling us what 'really happened? Because that's sort of what it seems like you just did. They said they had a process and human error entered the process. Now that they know what happened they can take steps to hopefully reduce the chance of it happening again. What more can be said? Having had very similar issues where I work (co-worker patched and rebooted all the production servers in a small resource domain 3 days early because he clicked the wrong box) why wouldn't you take this at face value? Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: Agreed, but I also know that all released information goes through PR. I'm sure this released report was scrubbed clean of anything that could have made Microsoft liable. Heck, I'm guilty of a bit of spin. I accidentally plugged a switch back into itself, causing a loop? My internal release states A network configuration error occurred. Sm:)e. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:28:00 -0800 Subject: Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/03/01/details-of-the-february-22nd-2013-windows-azure-storage-disruption.aspx I give MSFT credit for doing a good analysis and *publishing it*. A lot of companies just say Sorry, we've fixed it, and we promise it'll never happen again (and this time, we really mean it) over and over. Good on them for that. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown
We're all HP blade and SAN here. It's not that bad. We've survived on purpose scheduled power downs, ups maintenance battery exploded wtf power downs. The whole thing is pretty resilient. This is not to say due diligence isn't a good thing. :) We have all physical vCenter Servers now because of our size and the irritation of virtual ones during the above scenario's but some notes from the unexpected ones Most servers came up just fine. Sometimes you needed to bounce a SQL and/or an app box or two to get things started in order. For the expected ones we knew where all the DCs / Name resolution servers were and started those up through direct connect to the ESXi host, then the VC server stuff, then SQL and the rest. For one environment we have several set up as vApps which dictates startup order. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Steven. We're a small shop and the team is one other person and me. We had our meeting to go through everything yesterday. I've already created the plan of attack and written out configs for devices to my PC and a USB stick. The SQL DBA says his db backups are OK and he's ready. The only parts I'm deeply worried about are our HP blade chassis and EVA SAN. There shouldn't be any issues, but they were installed during a period when I did not work at the company and I have never gone through the shutdown procedure for them. The procedure itself seems straightforward enough, but those spindles have been going for about 4.5 years and it could mean a lot of restore time if more than two in any disk group decide that they don't want to spin up again. Cheers, Richard On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Stringham, Steven sstri...@lrlaw.comwrote: Get your order dependence list down. Make a list of all the services/servers and decide what order they should be shut down in and what order they can come back up. I did this recently (moved my datacenter to another location) and it made all the difference to have hashed that out and have a full list to check box as things went down and came back up. Provide this list to your team, and walk through the list multiple times with them as you go. Don't forget to add switches/routers/fibrechannel switches/firewalls/SANs/NASs/managed power strips/etc. to the list. Everything matters. Get a config backup of these on a external device (thumbdrive/laptop) and do a write mem on them before powering them down. Make a note of where the SQL servers are in that list - as well as the vcenter server. Is it hosting it's own database is or is it elsewhere. Also, make a note of which physical host that the vcenter server was on so you can connect to it directly to bring it back up. Make sure you have whatever config cables available to connect directly to the switches/routers etc. in case of trouble on powering back up. Good luck. Steven Stringham -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: In a few days time I will have to completely shutdown my datacenter for some electrical maintenance. (Yes, I'm nervous. It's been online non-stop for 6.5 years.) I have 3 Vsphere ESX 4.1 hosts that I need to shutdown along with everything else. My vcenter server is virtualized. Two questions: 1) Do I need to put the hosts into maintenance mode before powering them off? All of the VMs will already be powered off. 1) I can poweroff two of the hosts using the vcenter client, but after I shutdown the vcenter VM how should I poweroff the final host? Just connect the client directly to the host and shut it down that way? I can't think why this wouldn't work. Thanks in advance, RS One more thing... If you have a multi-site environment, and your connectivity to the other sites will be affected, then when bringing things back up, make sure you have connectivity to the other sites before bringing up your DC - so firewall/router/VPN connections before the DC, in this case. Then, make sure your DC is communicating with DCs in other sites before bringing up the rest of the infrastructure. It's not that I think that anything *bad* will happen if you do it out of order - but it gave me much more peace of mind when I did that. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- For more information about Lewis and Roca LLP, please go to www.lewisandroca.com. Phoenix (602)262-5311 Reno
Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown
Connect via ip/name to ESXi host you know the DC is on. Log in with local credentials (or root since it's what most do) Right click - power on. Power on vCenter environment Stop messing with systems on the host directly since it annoys vCenter Connect to vCenter, power on the rest. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: If I don't have a physical DC, how can I boot it first? :) Thanks Webster -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown One more thing - If you don't have a physical DC in that location boot that first ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool
For basic testing from a client machine you can also use F12 in IE. Go to Network, Start Capture Type in the URL Click around, do stuff. Stop Capture. It will at least get you response request information, various calls etc. and it's most likely on the client system already. That said, play around with the other tools, this just happens to already be there. :) On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Fiddler can tell you some of the same information but httpwatch is a good tool to troubleshoot client side issues when looking at web information. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool That's pretty cool. I'm going to try that. Kurt On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Kevin Lundy klu...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are looking for something like http watch http://www.httpwatch.com/ On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: That is basically it. The application developer says that brute force testing on my server shows response time for 1000 pages on 10 accounts concurrently have an average 1.55 second response with is below their required 2.00 response. But the users are showing as much as 5 minutes from Get to Post. On their workstation on a 10/100 switch. No WAN traffic all on the same LAN and same SWITCH for 20 of the 23 users. So I am game for anything I can do to show the developer there are issues my users can not live with. But for now I am limited to their tools and their results. Thanks for all the help. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Posted At: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:01 PM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Subject: RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool The best way you are going to get a true picture of this if is you run the tool on the client machine, or at the client’s location. Not on the server. On the server you can look at the Time-Taken field in the IIS logs to get some idea of how long it takes IIS to put the page onto the wire. That’s not the same as the client actually receiving the packet, and doesn’t take into account any proxies, accelerators, caches etc. between the server and the client. Anyway, if you have some more requirements, then perhaps we can help with your searching. Cheers Ken From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013 7:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Solarwinds, didn’t give me the results I wanted, I need to know how long each page is taken to return to the client workstations for a particular app. Couldn’t get AWSTATS to even give me one result.(Had it working on another server last year but can not get this one to configure properly.) IIS reporter but it is only giving me active connections to IIS not per page or duration times? I saw Beta 7.0 had a IIS reporting tool but dev decided it wasn’t need for admin tools of IIS 7.5??? Seems like that would be a good thing, unless they were borrowing someones code to get their results??? Anyways, thought I would try here?? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Posted At: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:31 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Subject: Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Given the number of google entries that cover this request, what have you already ruled out and why? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market… On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Looking for a free IIS monitoring or reporting tool for IIS 7.5 on server 2008 r2. Any suggestions? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions
Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool
Congrats and virtually no one knows it's there and has been there for years :) I learned about it when I pretended I could make themes for a web site. Reality has since delivered it's verdict. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Nice one I totally didn’t know that on IE by default. ** ** And this is my first email as a newly minted CISA, ** ** Sincerely, EZ ** ** Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, CISA, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org ** ** This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. *[image: Description: Description: Lifespan]* ** ** ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:24 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool ** ** For basic testing from a client machine you can also use F12 in IE. Go to Network, Start Capture Type in the URL Click around, do stuff. Stop Capture. It will at least get you response request information, various calls etc. and it's most likely on the client system already. That said, play around with the other tools, this just happens to already be there. :) On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Fiddler can tell you some of the same information but httpwatch is a good tool to troubleshoot client side issues when looking at web information. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool That's pretty cool. I'm going to try that. Kurt On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Kevin Lundy klu...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are looking for something like http watch http://www.httpwatch.com/ On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: That is basically it. The application developer says that brute force testing on my server shows response time for 1000 pages on 10 accounts concurrently have an average 1.55 second response with is below their required 2.00 response. But the users are showing as much as 5 minutes from Get to Post. On their workstation on a 10/100 switch. No WAN traffic all on the same LAN and same SWITCH for 20 of the 23 users. So I am game for anything I can do to show the developer there are issues my users can not live with. But for now I am limited to their tools and their results. Thanks for all the help. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Posted At: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:01 PM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Subject: RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool The best way you are going to get a true picture of this if is you run the tool on the client machine, or at the client’s location. Not on the server. On the server you can look at the Time-Taken field in the IIS logs to get some idea of how long it takes IIS to put the page onto the wire. That’s not the same as the client actually receiving the packet, and doesn’t take into account any proxies, accelerators, caches etc. between the server and the client. Anyway, if you have some more requirements, then perhaps we can help with your searching. Cheers Ken From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013 7:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool
MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool
I've known about it for years and have mentioned it a time or two on this list. :) I worked with some of the MS folks on some stuff they sponsored for in the Open Source community and they just cannot get credit for the stuff they do without angry people and rioters showing up to burn the place down. Of course for a while I heavily supported a web developer community (Drupal) so was aware of a lot of web focused tools. It was also mentioned in various podcasts and videos are part of an overall tool set from MS. It was more mentioned when the Firebug tool came out years ago. However when that happened all the Firebug advocates could say was 'copy' or well but I don't use IE or something else and promptly dismiss it. Some random links regarding it just cause: :) TechNet http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg589507(v=vs.85).aspx Scott Hanselman - I think he has something to do with MS, not sure... small obscure role maybe. I think he posts random stuff. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheInternetIsNotABlackBoxLookInside.aspx On the IE8 announcement page there is a mention of it. (Not digging up IE9 :) http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/tools-ie.aspx?templang=fr-ch - MS just can't get buzz on some things when every time they try the Internets jump on and devolve it into a giant bonfire of a comment fest. It doesn't help that they are so large and have so many different voices and outlets. They have been doing much better in the last few years trying to build communities around interests and specialties and MVPs but they are so large it's challenging and often from our perspective there are missteps and so much over all noise that really cool or neat things get lost or missed. So, in the interests of communications, if you weren't aware here are some additional sources of information. :) TechNet wiki is a nice place depending on the technology you support lots of additional content there and the ability to add to it yourself and edit. Channel9 has tons of awesome resources and shows such as Defrag Tools, Various Jump Start series, TechEd videos, BUILD conference videos. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/ - TechNet Wiki http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools Each *Defrag Tools* show focuses on a specific tool http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun - tons of shows and JumpStart series and random projects http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Series http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Shows http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Events?sort=recent I have a bunch of links to 'training type' video's, test lab guides, virtual labs and resources linked here as well : http://www.blkmtn.org/Microsoft_Private_Cloud_Training-Videos Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm quite impressed with that too. Shows how good MS are at publicizing good features they develop (i.e. not at all) Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -- *From: * Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:36:10 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Damn. You had to show me that. Now I can’t bad mouth IE quite as much as I used to. ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:24 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool ** ** For basic testing from a client machine you can also use F12 in IE. Go to Network, Start Capture Type in the URL Click around, do stuff. Stop Capture. It will at least get you response request information, various calls etc. and it's most likely on the client system already. That said, play around with the other tools, this just happens to already be there. :) On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Fiddler can tell you some of the same information but httpwatch is a good tool to troubleshoot client side issues when looking at web information. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message
Re: MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool
Don't make me pull out my joke tags! On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Not sure if you’re j/king re Hanselman. He definitely works for MS – has a fairly senior role in the Web Tools and Platform team ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, 1 March 2013 10:48 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool ** ** I've known about it for years and have mentioned it a time or two on this list. :) I worked with some of the MS folks on some stuff they sponsored for in the Open Source community and they just cannot get credit for the stuff they do without angry people and rioters showing up to burn the place down. Of course for a while I heavily supported a web developer community (Drupal) so was aware of a lot of web focused tools. It was also mentioned in various podcasts and videos are part of an overall tool set from MS. It was more mentioned when the Firebug tool came out years ago. However when that happened all the Firebug advocates could say was 'copy' or well but I don't use IE or something else and promptly dismiss it. Some random links regarding it just cause: :) TechNet http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg589507(v=vs.85).aspx Scott Hanselman - I think he has something to do with MS, not sure... small obscure role maybe. I think he posts random stuff. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheInternetIsNotABlackBoxLookInside.aspx On the IE8 announcement page there is a mention of it. (Not digging up IE9 :) http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/tools-ie.aspx?templang=fr-ch - MS just can't get buzz on some things when every time they try the Internets jump on and devolve it into a giant bonfire of a comment fest. It doesn't help that they are so large and have so many different voices and outlets. They have been doing much better in the last few years trying to build communities around interests and specialties and MVPs but they are so large it's challenging and often from our perspective there are missteps and so much over all noise that really cool or neat things get lost or missed.*** * So, in the interests of communications, if you weren't aware here are some additional sources of information. :) TechNet wiki is a nice place depending on the technology you support lots of additional content there and the ability to add to it yourself and edit. Channel9 has tons of awesome resources and shows such as Defrag Tools, Various Jump Start series, TechEd videos, BUILD conference videos.* *** http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/ - TechNet Wiki http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools Each *Defrag Tools* show focuses on a specific tool http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun - tons of shows and JumpStart series and random projects http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Series http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Shows http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Events?sort=recent I have a bunch of links to 'training type' video's, test lab guides, virtual labs and resources linked here as well : http://www.blkmtn.org/Microsoft_Private_Cloud_Training-Videos Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm quite impressed with that too. Shows how good MS are at publicizing good features they develop (i.e. not at all) Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -- *From: *Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:36:10 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool ** ** Damn. You had to show me that. Now I can’t bad mouth IE quite as much as I used to. *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:24 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool For basic testing from a client machine you can also use F12 in IE. Go to Network, Start Capture Type in the URL Click around, do stuff. Stop Capture. It will at least get you response request information, various calls etc. and it's most likely on the client system already. That said, play around with the other tools, this just happens to already be there. :) On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ziots, Edward
Re: Webster's question is very timely...
Do thin provisioning for them? On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. At this point, however, with (at a guess) ~40gb per VM, that gives me about 6 VMs. For what I aim at doing, that should be sufficient. Kurt On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: If you think you can fit all your VMs onto a 256GB drive, then getting a 512GB would be a waste of money. In another year or two they'll be cheaper again and you can re-buy if you need more space down the track. However, if you need 256GB now, then I think $350 is a bargain for the space performance you get. I suppose it depends on what your time is worth to you. FWIW I paid about $500 for mine ~15 months ago. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 1 March 2013 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Webster's question is very timely... At $350 and up, I think that's a little spendy. However, the 256gb versions might well fit in my budget. Kurt On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: USB3.0 - it is bus powered. Get a 512GB SSD, and put it into a USB3 enclosure. I have the Crucial M4 512GB - they can be had for a good price, plus 256GB internal SSD. Gives plenty of space for VMs in my experience. I also have a 128GB SD card for storing commonly used ISO files Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 1 March 2013 6:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Webster's question is very timely... I didn't want to drag his thread off topic, so I'm starting a new one Not to brag (much), but I just picked up a Dell Precision 4600 laptop at a really good price - it's a quad-core machine with Win7 Pro, 16gb RAM and an ATI Firepro video card, 1920x1080 display (15.6) and a 256gb SSD. ($1600 - sale still going as far as I know.) Problem is, I'm pretty sure I made a small mistake. That 256gb drive just isn't big enough to hold the VMs I want. I should have gone with the 128gb minicard and a 1tb hard drive. So, I'm also looking for an external drive, either USB3 or eSATA - if you had the choice, which would you choose for putting in the laptop case for extra storage? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Ping by name tool
The BSonPosh module has a ton of stuff similar to this you could use as a starting point http://bsonposh.codeplex.com/ Since it's a script module you can open them up and see how they work as well. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:24 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I’m looking for a ping tool that will ping a text file list of hostnames and return the reply, IP address and the NetBIOS name. Here’s what I currently have to do: ** ** Get list of machine names from AD, McAfee, or other systems. Ping the name With the returned IP, do an NBTSTAT –A to check the NetBIOS name to see if it matches the pinged host name ** ** I have to do this because frequently our VPN’d systems don’t have a correct DNS entry, so some management software gets tripped up. ** ** I could do a search for free ping tools, but figured a query here might save me time if someone has a tool they do that already meets this requirement. Advanced IP scanner comes close, but only accepts IP’s and not host names as what to ping. ** ** Ideally the output would be in a CSV format. I’m guessing PowerShell can do this too? *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Ping by name tool
oh hey
http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m172057-print.aspx
4th reply. Looks to be PowerShell v1 stuff but seems to have what you
asked about.
$Computer = remotecomputer.domain.com
if (($Ping = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PingStatus -Filter
Address='$Computer').StatusCode -eq 0) {
nbtstat -A $Ping.ProtocolAddress
} else { no response to ping }
add a $servers = get-content list.txt and then put the rest in a for loop.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote:
The BSonPosh module has a ton of stuff similar to this you could use as a
starting point
http://bsonposh.codeplex.com/
Since it's a script module you can open them up and see how they work as
well.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:24 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
I’m looking for a ping tool that will ping a text file list of
hostnames and return the reply, IP address and the NetBIOS name. Here’s
what I currently have to do:
** **
Get list of machine names from AD, McAfee, or other systems. Ping the name
With the returned IP, do an NBTSTAT –A to check the NetBIOS name to see
if it matches the pinged host name
** **
I have to do this because frequently our VPN’d systems don’t have a
correct DNS entry, so some management software gets tripped up.
** **
I could do a search for free ping tools, but figured a query here might
save me time if someone has a tool they do that already meets this
requirement. Advanced IP scanner comes close, but only accepts IP’s and not
host names as what to ping.
** **
Ideally the output would be in a CSV format. I’m guessing PowerShell can
do this too?
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Re: Servers in remote locations
We have two ESXi hosts and an external drive array for even the small offices with 1-3 guests. Windows 2012 wasn't out in the release cycle for hardware refresh and we have a large ESXi install base now. We're looking at HyperV but change is slow if at all :) Getting Engineers onsite if there are issues is problematic enough that the additional costs in hardware makes up for it if we have to have one local visit. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I've recently helped a company build out several branch offices and one to deploy a remote datacenter. We virtualized everything. Absolutely everything. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Servers in remote locations I have got a number of servers at remote locations which are currently serving as RODC and file and print servers. It is time to upgrade the hardware that they are running on and I am curious with hypervisors and the technology of today if people think it is of value to replace the existing servers with servers running 2 separate virtual servers: 1 RODC, DNS, DHCP, and 1 file print; or would you run it all as one physical server with all roles installed? The existing servers are 2008R2 and the new ones will be 2012. Ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Powershell witth Quest - listing group memberships of users
.memberOF outputs an array and arrays don't play well with other types of
info with just a straight select-object
I used to use Get-QadUser JDoe | Get-QADMemberOf for this type of stuff
Haven't actually had to solve this problem in a while now though.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com
wrote:
I am unsure what I am doing wrong. I want a list of all my user
accounts, and I want the contents of the MemberOf property, among
other things.
Get-QADuser -SizeLimit 0 | Select
givenName,LastName,DisplayName,mail,ParentContainer,SAMAccountName,homeDirectory,AccountIsDisabled,MemberOf,NestedMemberOf,AllMemberOf
I sort this, and export to CSV. When I import the CSV into Excel, the
MemberOf, NestedMemberOf and AllMemberOf are showing as
System.String[].
What am I doing wrong? I want that MemberOf to actually list what
groups the user is a member of.
So here is where I am. I am trying to output into an Excel spreadsheet:
$AllUsers = Get-QADUser -SizeLimit 0 LeoneM | Select
givenName,LastName,DisplayName,description,mail,ParentContainer,SAMAccountName,homeDirectory,AccountIsDisabled,MemberOf,NestedMemberOf,AllMemberOf
| sort AccountIsDisabled,LastName,FirstName
ForEach ($User in $AllUsers)
{
$Cells.Item($CurrentRow, $CurrentCol) = $User.displayName
$CurrentCol++
$ListOfGroups = Get-QADMemberOf $User.sAMAccountName
$Cells.Item($CurrentRow, $CurrentCol) = $ListOfGroups
Write-Host $User.displayName $ListOfGroups
$CurrentRow++
$CurrentCol = 1
}
And my $ListOfGroups writes out on my screen, but does NOT get written
into the spreadsheet.
What's that about?
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Re: Books about software
You don't. Nothing says you have to talk to a vender or a developer or an engineer about a piece of software to write a book about it. Depending on your goal, subject, desire however, it may be very wise to engage with the vender, senior members of the community, etc. for information, resources and feedback on a book. You may also get access to software or maybe internal engineers/support you wouldn't have otherwise had access to if you properly engage them. There are 'testing companies' out there that provide technical question sets for employers and they don't generally engage with Microsoft but with independent contractors (note, I know because I've written such questions). Not that different then book writing. There are many books written by people that do not engage with any of the above out there. Some are more successful then others. So, define your goals and objectives, look at your resources and then do what seems the best fit to accomplish them. Hopefully the company is open to engaging with individuals, figuring out who in a company to talk to would be part of the challenge. Steven Peck Retired Drupal Documentation Team Lead http://www.blkmtn.org http://drupal.org/user/5195 On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:43 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: If you want to write a book about a particular piece of software, am I right in assuming you need to engage the vendor to some degree? I'm a complete newcomer to this sort of thing so any and all advice is gratefully appreciated. TIA, JRR Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Windows Phone 8
The only blue tooth device I have is my car radio which hasn't cut out. May want to check your headset. Regular calls have been rock solid for me as well as those through the radio in the car. On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Ben M. Schorr b...@rolandschorr.comwrote: Wait…you mean it makes calls TOO!?!? ** ** ;-) ** ** Yeah, with my Win Phone 8 I’d say that the only feature I’ve really had trouble with is the calling – I’ve had it cut out a few times on me, though I suspect that might be my Bluetooth more than the phone. ** ** Otherwise it’s been really good. There are a few apps that are rough around the edges and could use a long overdue update, but overall it’s still the best smartphone I’ve ever had (and I had a long line of Androids before this). ** ** Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer *Roland Schorr Tower – Flagstaff Office *928-526-3970 www.rolandschorr.com * www.twitter.com/bschorr * www.facebook.com/RolandSchorr ** ** *From:* HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2013 11:35 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* R: Windows Phone 8 ** ** Thanks all Sometimes it looks people buy smartphones (iPhones i.e.) for everything but phone and mail *Guido Elia* *HELPPC - HELPPC SERVICE* -- *Da:* Ben M. Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com b...@rolandschorr.com] *Inviato:* venerdì 15 febbraio 2013 18.11 *A:* NT System Admin Issues *Oggetto:* (SCL: -1) RE: Windows Phone 8 O.K. Should be fine. (?) Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com *From:* HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it g...@enter.it] *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2013 9:13 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows Phone 8 I want to try to migrate from my HTC HD2 to the new Samsung ATIV S As I am satisfied whit result of Exchange connection with HTC (SBS 2011) I don’t want to worsen for getting othe* *r less important things TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Backup to cloud?
We fall under some of those and we do off site backups. We use Iron Mountain. If we need to under contract thy will overnight physical media to us. We have terra bytes of data we do this with. Fortunately it's not my group that handles it as it's not something that interests me overly much. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:15 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: There are currently no regulatory concerns, insofar as I have never been asked by them to make them compliant for anything. I will ask to make sure, however. ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:39 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Backup to cloud? ** ** Have you thought about the confidentiality aspects of putting your data in the cloud, especially if its under regulatory compliance ( PCI, HIPAA, Sox) if you haven’t you might be getting yourself in a lot of hot water. ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org ** ** This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. *[image: Description: Description: Lifespan]* ** ** ** ** *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com sca...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1:01 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Backup to cloud? ** ** Amazon has some super high speed pipes linked to various centers for situations like this. (Called Direct Connect?). Not too familiar with it. I think connections as fast as 10Gbps. You could design your DR strategy around a data center supporting this. ** ** Mozy also supports shipping DVDs/Drives. ** ** There are also some solutions that allow you to ‘spin-up’ your backups at the cloud location on a VM. (Check out Unitrends. Veem?). Then, you don’t have to download the backups. ** ** I put all my ‘cloud’ backups into the same remote data center I would restore to in a disaster. And some of that even gets backed up to the ‘real’ cloud (Amazon S3). ** ** *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:36 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Backup to cloud? ** ** I have 498GB of data stored in the cloud that would take about six weeks to download. The send me it on a USB drive option that Ben mentioned is my DR choice :-) ** ** On 13 February 2013 17:27, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Why would retrieval take that long? Are you talking more about disaster recovery? *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:21 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Backup to cloud? Does backup to cloud even matter if the time to retrieve it spans 20+ hours? If I were to consider hosting a clients’ backups at my location, where do I go to find what liabilities I need to worry about. Coincidentally the client in mind is a law firm of all places… *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: Backup to cloud?
Actually I don't care what they call it as long as the specific service is defined. I care that I get to use it instead of the old solution so if they want to call it a 'Company cloud service' then I will call it 'Company cloud service'. This back and forth stuff saying 'marketing is evil' or 'we need the committee to decide on agreed terms' is a time suck that is unimportant and get's in the way of getting things done. So as long as I can use the right term to use that gets the guy to write the check for it GO TEAM! Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: This is where the term “the cloud” becomes murky, in my opinion. If I’m sending data over a private circuit to a 3rd party data center, is that really “the cloud”? If you ask the marketing department, Yes. If you ask the engineering department, No. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Backup to cloud?
Maybe you know a different group of 'most people' then I do. While I like your definition and wish it was more in use by 'most people' the only people that count are the ones that cut checks near you. I am all for agreed upon definitions and I have seen movement among some marketers to infer this feature set, there are a wealth of other service organizations and other companies that sell their variation labeled as 'cloud' and we're not going to settle on a given definition for general usage quite yet as we don't control their marketers. Once you get into a 'purchase' or 'contract' phase of a given discussion then of course you can insist on adhering to a more specific definition. AS long as the technical specifics are defined in a given discussion with a vender, support organization, etc. then the 'marketing words' don't really matter. i.e. I could argue over the definition of the word 'cloud services' for an hour or I could use the hour meeting to ensure that the specifics of someone's offering are spelled out and appropriate to my organizations needs. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: No – I disagree. Whilst, in IT, there is much marketing BS from vendors wanting to sell you stuff, the core cloud definitions are pretty well settled IMHO. Most people use a variation of what NIST has published: ** ** *Features:* **· **Perception of infinite capacity, with rapid elasticity (as far as the user is concerned the capacity is available on-demand)** **· **Ability for user to perform self-service provisioning/deprovisioning (no need to involve the vendor)** **· **Broad network access: access via widely accepted protocols (like web services) thus accessible on a variety of devices and thick/thin client models** **· **Resource Pooling: multiple end users may be mixed together and spread across the available physical resources and fault domains** **· **Measured service: automated monitoring and capacity management (e.g. dynamic provisioning and resource usage levelling). Also provides transparent resource (and thus cost) accounting to the end user** * * *Types:* **· **IAAS (you get some compute, storage etc.), **· **PAAS (you get a platform, like SQL Server) or **· **SAAS (you get to use an application e.g. like SalesForce)*** * ** ** *Location:* **· **Private (your DC), **· **Public (someone else’s DC) and **· **Hybrid (in your DC, but you can expand or burst into someone else’s) * * Just uploading some data to a DC is *definitely not cloud.* Most outsourcers and vendors struggle with implementing all the features unless they are building from the ground up. To build a pure cloud (and I’ve worked on a couple of large private ones) involves a lot of work to build the systems that automate everything, because there’s a lot of stuff (provisioning, incident management) that’s usually made up “on the fly” in most places. And you can’t automate rules that don’t exist.** ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] *Sent:* Friday, 15 February 2013 4:41 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Backup to cloud? ** ** “The Cloud” is nothing more than someone else’s data center. So yes, that is The Cloud. ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org dgu...@che.org] *Subject:* RE: Backup to cloud? ** ** This is where the term “the cloud” becomes murky, in my opinion. If I’m sending data over a private circuit to a 3rd party data center, is that really “the cloud”? ** ** ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: upgrading W2K3 to W2K8 both 32 bit, uninstalling Powershell breaks things.
in for a penny, in for a pound. You may just want to go to PowerShell v2 to see if that resolves the whole thing. Although it got grouped in with the Windows Management Framework. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929?wa=wsignin1.0 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. I've done several in-place 2008 x64 to 2008-R2 x64, and a couple 2008 R2 to 2012, but those were on boxes I had completely controlled, so I knew what to expect. In general, I would avoid doing that sort of upgrade, especially if lots of software is installed. Why the upgrade? *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Issues like these are why I never recommend in-place upgrades. Sorry that is no help to you now. ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:17 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* upgrading W2K3 to W2K8 both 32 bit, uninstalling Powershell breaks things. ** ** Hi, ** ** At the beginning of the upgrade it does a compatibility check and tells me to remove powershell. I check and it's version 1.0. When starting the uninstall it lists a whole bunch of stuff that will break if I uninstall it. Amongst other things the dot net framework, which breaks other programs. Also the programs they desperately need were mentioned. The program is using SQL server 2008 btw. ** ** I googled but didn't see anything indicating a way I can do this without uninstalling it. ** ** I uninstalled powershell. upgrade to W2K8 went fine. Program errored. Unfortunately, allmost nothing about the program is on the internet. Only on the manufacturers website. And that information leaves something to be desired. Added powershell 1.0 through features. Didn't fix the error. Repair dot net. Didn't fix it. ** ** In IIS I keep getting The configuration section 'protocolMapping' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration. The web.config file hasn't changed though. ** ** Maybe I could start over, change the powershell registry key a bit and after the upgrade restore it? ** ** Grateful for any ideas ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Java
I may have missed this link being on the list but here it is anyway as a reminder to peoples. http://www.zdnet.com/a-close-look-at-how-oracle-installs-deceptive-software-with-java-updates-710038/ Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote: Lol…. Very true. I was asking more along the lines of the last big 0 Day vulnerability. I want to be able to go back to my developers and ask them to work on making the newest technology work with our internal apps.* *** ** ** *From:* Jim Kennedy [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] *Sent:* Friday, February 08, 2013 12:50 PM *To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Java ** ** 7 13 is better than 6 38, but I won’t say it is ‘fixed’ since it isn’t. There are still problems and will be for years to come, imho. ** ** *From:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife [mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.govjoseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov] *Sent:* Friday, February 08, 2013 3:32 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Java ** ** Anyone know if the latest Java 7 update finally seals the big vulnerability from recent times? We’ve actually told people they can’t update past 6u38, but would like to at some point… ** ** Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 557-3422 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld
We're in a gray area ourselves. We have Exchange 2007 and have an Exchange 2010 infrastructure built but are having issues with the F5 load balancers which have devolved into a fight about costs so we're stalled. At this rate the service packs may come out before we move more then test users. If that happens we may just install Exchange 2013 and move to there substantially skipping Exchange 2010. Steven On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: There are some mitigations coming Real Soon Now. :) -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld Oh, he probably will get awarded when he answers all of my Exchange 2013 questions come Spring XO The decision has been made and we're heading down that road. We're still on E2k7 on an old box. Were looking at E2k10 when 13 was announced. At this point, when the updates come out for compatibility, we'll be ordering up our new hardware. Went to a launch training event in November and got the rundown--there is a lot to figure out, but we don't have an extremely complicated environment, so I think we can pull it off. Feels to me like when E2k7 was first out and many things were missing because they hadn't been rewritten yet, but most of it is there in PS if you can find the right cmdlet to run (and assuming it wasn't removed--yikes!). I'm scared. Moving to E2k7 LITERALLY gave me my first gray hairs. -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld H If you don't, perhaps we should start a campaign... Kurt On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I’m definitely not a mouthpiece. J I think it’ll be fine. But I won’t be surprised if I don’t get re-awarded this june! From: Patrick Salmon [mailto:psal...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld They'll get over it. If you're not afraid to say it when the emperor has no clothes then you become a mouthpiece for the machine. Much of the credibility and value of the MVP role comes from NOT being the mouthpiece. IMNSHO. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: But it's good for you, right? I mean, how many CW readers have now heard your name (as an Authority!), where they hadn't before... Should be interesting to monitor the comments on that blog post now, I'm guessing... Kurt On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I think that article has made the Exchange team very mad at me. Apparently, not such a big deal when the MVPs blog it and it gets put into Redmond magazine or WindowsIT Pro magazine – but hitting ComputerWorld has caused a lot of angst. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld Hey, MBS What's your take on this article?I haven't touched Exchange 2013 as yet... http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236531/Exchange_Server_2013_N ot_quite_ready_for_the_data_center?taxonomyId=18pageNumber=1 Regards, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/
Re: Where to get copies of my various documentation scripts
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YouAreNotYourCode.aspx I don't always agree with Scott but this is timely. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I do not use XenApp, nor Citrix, but I do have a word of advice. Do not deprecate your skills with PowerShell. You have to start somewhere, and this is a very large project on which to cut your teeth. In addition, you are obviously filling a very needed hole in the ecosystem, and for this you will earn at least one day a year off in hell, in spite of any of your other sins. :) Kurt On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: You are welcome. I am currently working on my XenApp 5 script. It is 99.9% complete. Just trying to find more people to test it. Feedback has been great so far. Here are some sample reports if you have a XenApp 5 farm. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/43555945/XA52003Farm.docx https://dl.dropbox.com/u/43555945/XA52008Farm.docx While I am waiting on testers to get back to me I started and finished updating my PVS script to create a Word doc. I don’t have a PVS server to test against right now so I sent it off to a friend for testing. This same friend is also building me a complete XenDesktop lab so I can create a XD script. He will have all 3 supported Hypervisors and all supported versions of XD5.x. That will be a “fun” project! If I actually knew anything about PowerShell I would be dangerous. J Thanks Webster From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Where to get copies of my various documentation scripts thank you for sharing your hard work with us! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: DNS concerns - Server 2003 R2 SP2 Domain Controllers
Years ago our networking team insisted on having them on so we had a discussion. Cisco's response at the time was ... we comply with RFC821 and RFC822. My reply was those were deprecated years ago and here's the current standard (2821/2822 at the time) and that was all it took to get them disabled. My guess is Cisco still hasn't updated them. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: The one that amazes me is the smtp fixup on Cisco. That one has been an issue for 10 years or so. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS concerns - Server 2003 R2 SP2 Domain Controllers On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: To clarify...the dns fixup refers to Cisco firewalls/asa's. I've noticed that Cisco's fixup features tend to break things. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Limiting who can send all-staff e-mails
For many of our distribution lists we've made it so that they can't receive email from outside the company. For our larger distribution lists we've set them to a limited pool of senders. Mostly HR or Senior Management or their admins. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: No, I meant just tell them no constraints on replying/sending to all is bad. ** ** : ) ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 25, 2013 10:45 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Limiting who can send all-staff e-mails ** ** And management doesn't make bad decisions? ** ** On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: **Ross Perot (Dana Carvey) voice** It’s bad, just bad… Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] *From:* Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 25, 2013 9:10 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Limiting who can send all-staff e-mails No links, but management here clamped down because people were sending personal charity, business, and “greeting cards” emails to everybody. That, and I brought up how easy it would be for a disgruntled employee to send an inappropriate message to the entire company. -Paul *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, January 25, 2013 5:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Limiting who can send all-staff e-mails Does anyone have some links I can use to demonstrate to management why it’s a bad idea to allow any of our 600 employees to send e-mails to “all staff”? *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email.
Re: Help with this script
I tend to find better results for PowerShell cmdlets in BING. Of course,
that just may be the way I search.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Thanks guys. I did google parameter SearchScope but didn’t get any
useful info.
** **
*From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:10 PM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Help with this script
** **
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617236.aspx
** **
[-SearchScope {Base | OneLevel | Subtree}]
** **
** **
Thanks
** **
** **
Webster
** **
*From:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
[mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.govjoseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:58 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Help with this script
** **
Are OneLevel and SubTree the only options for the SearchScope parameter?**
**
** **
*From:* Damien Solodow
[mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edudamien.solo...@harrison.edu]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:18 PM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Help with this script
** **
Yep.
The line $OUlist = @(Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -filter * -Credential $cred
-SearchBase $domain.distinguishedName -SearchScope OneLevel -Server
$domain.DNSroot)
** **
Change OneLevel to SubTree
** **
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
** **
*From:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
[mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.govjoseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:14 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Help with this script
** **
I found this script, to count user objects in all OUs. The report doesn’t
list all OUs, so I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it has a limit
as to how deep it will go to count.
** **
Here’s the script:
** **
Import-Module activeDirectory
** **
$fqdn = Read-Host Enter FQDN domain
$cred = Get-Credential
** **
Write-Host Contacting $fqdn domain... -ForegroundColor Yellow
** **
$domain = (get-addomain $fqdn -Credential $cred | select
distinguishedName,pdcEmulator,DNSroot,DomainControllersContainer)
** **
Write-Host Completed. Enumerating OUs.. -ForegroundColor Yellow
** **
$OUlist = @(Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -filter * -Credential $cred
-SearchBase $domain.distinguishedName -SearchScope OneLevel -Server
$domain.DNSroot)
Write-Host Completed. Counting users... -ForegroundColor Yellow
** **
for($i = 1; $i -le $oulist.Count; $i++)
{write-progress -Activity Collecting OUs -Status Finding OUs $i
-PercentComplete ($i/$OUlist.count*100)}
$newlist = @{}
** **
** **
** **
foreach ($_objectitem in $OUlist)
{
$getUser = Get-ADuser -Filter * -Credential $cred -SearchBase
$_objectItem.DistinguishedName -SearchScope Subtree -Server
$domain.pdcEmulator | measure | select Count
for($i = 1; $i -le $getUser.Count; $i++)
{write-progress -Activity Counting users -Status Finding users $i
in $_objectitem -PercentComplete ($i/$getUser.count*100)}
$newlist.add($_objectItem.Name, $getUser.Count)** **
}
** **
$newlist .\OUuserCount.txt
** **
Write-Host All done! -ForegroundColor yellow
** **
** **
So, the report that it creates only lists top level OUs under the domain.
I think it does, however, dig down under that to get the count, but just
wanted to make sure.
** **
Thanks,
** **
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Re: Help with this script
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh849720.aspx
In PowerShell v3 don't forget the occasional
Update-Help
Best to do so under a PowerShell launched with admin credentials
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu
wrote:
Huh; I usually just put the cmdlet name (and parameter if necessary)
into Google and get good results.
Although get-help from within PowerShell works well. ;) The -detailed and
-online switches are very helpful.
In PowerShell 3.0, the -OutWindow is very handy for get-help
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
--
*From:* Steven Peck [sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:40 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Help with this script
I tend to find better results for PowerShell cmdlets in BING. Of
course, that just may be the way I search.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Thanks guys. I did google parameter SearchScope but didn’t get any
useful info.
** **
*From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:10 PM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Help with this script
** **
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617236.aspx
** **
[-SearchScope {Base | OneLevel | Subtree}]
** **
** **
Thanks
** **
** **
Webster
** **
*From:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
[mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.govjoseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:58 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Help with this script
** **
Are OneLevel and SubTree the only options for the SearchScope parameter?*
***
** **
*From:* Damien Solodow
[mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edudamien.solo...@harrison.edu]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:18 PM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Help with this script
** **
Yep.
The line $OUlist = @(Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -filter * -Credential
$cred -SearchBase $domain.distinguishedName -SearchScope OneLevel -Server
$domain.DNSroot)
** **
Change OneLevel to SubTree
** **
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
** **
*From:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
[mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.govjoseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:14 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Help with this script
** **
I found this script, to count user objects in all OUs. The report
doesn’t list all OUs, so I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it has
a limit as to how deep it will go to count.
** **
Here’s the script:
** **
Import-Module activeDirectory
** **
$fqdn = Read-Host Enter FQDN domain
$cred = Get-Credential
** **
Write-Host Contacting $fqdn domain... -ForegroundColor Yellow
** **
$domain = (get-addomain $fqdn -Credential $cred | select
distinguishedName,pdcEmulator,DNSroot,DomainControllersContainer)
** **
Write-Host Completed. Enumerating OUs.. -ForegroundColor Yellow
** **
$OUlist = @(Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -filter * -Credential $cred
-SearchBase $domain.distinguishedName -SearchScope OneLevel -Server
$domain.DNSroot)
Write-Host Completed. Counting users... -ForegroundColor Yellow
** **
for($i = 1; $i -le $oulist.Count; $i++)
{write-progress -Activity Collecting OUs -Status Finding OUs $i
-PercentComplete ($i/$OUlist.count*100)}
$newlist = @{}
** **
** **
** **
foreach ($_objectitem in $OUlist)
{
$getUser = Get-ADuser -Filter * -Credential $cred -SearchBase
$_objectItem.DistinguishedName -SearchScope Subtree -Server
$domain.pdcEmulator | measure | select Count
for($i = 1; $i -le $getUser.Count; $i++)
{write-progress -Activity Counting users -Status Finding users $i
in $_objectitem -PercentComplete ($i/$getUser.count*100)}
$newlist.add($_objectItem.Name, $getUser.Count)
}
** **
$newlist .\OUuserCount.txt
** **
Write-Host All done! -ForegroundColor yellow
** **
** **
So, the report that it creates only lists top level OUs under the
domain. I think it does, however, dig down under that to get the count,
but just wanted to make sure.
** **
Thanks,
** **
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
---
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Re: Trying to get a .PFX file from a .CER file in Windows 2008
The L is not silent? On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Who is this Mike person of whom you speak? -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trying to get a .PFX file from a .CER file in Windows 2008 Yes Mike, I finally figured it out. I needed to request the certificate from the Server via the Certificates Wizard on advanced request and then got to the template which allowed me to export it to a .req file and then I submitted it to the CA and it dumped me a cert with the private key. Joy you don't do the stuff for a few months and forget everything. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trying to get a .PFX file from a .CER file in Windows 2008 That generally means the private key is missing. -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Trying to get a .PFX file from a .CER file in Windows 2008 Created a Certficate file from a Base 64 Certificate request on our CA, and imported the certificate via Certificates Snapin. Now the vendor needs the certificate in .PFX format. I got to the Certificates snapin in the personal folder and click on export but the PFX version is grayed out. I did create it with a template that specified it to be exported with encryption. Still no luck. I have been google searching and winding up empty, different things ask to try and none work. Anyone got a clue on this? Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Steve Kradel [mailto:skra...@zetetic.net] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Max Password Age Yep - the workaround to a flood of angry users who suddenly can't do non-interactive logins would be to identify folks in the ~50-90 day window ahead of time, and set their pwdLastSet to 0 and then to -1, which has the effect of setting pwdLastSet to the current time. --Steve On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Everyone in the 60-89 day window will expire as soon as the policy takes effect. -Bonnie From: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife [mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 7:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Max Password Age If my policy currently is 90 days, and I then shorten that to 60 days, does the clock reset to 0, or will everyone that's in the 60-89 day window going to have expired passwords? Thanks, Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 557-3422 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: AIX and Windows
Did you ask how bringing in a wildly different system you have to support was actually going to save the company money? On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:51 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Being told we are going to be required to maintain the AIX system as a part of the contract cuts. ….. ** ** ** ** *From:* Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org] *Posted At:* Wednesday, January 9, 2013 11:18 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* AIX and Windows *Subject:* RE: AIX and Windows ** ** What exactly are the concerns? Wouldn’t the “Tellering” system just be browser-based or run in an emulation program within Windows? ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 09, 2013 10:49 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AIX and Windows ** ** We are a Credit Union so it is our Tellering system that would host member transactions and data. Yes it will be our first nx envnironment. We are currently windows based and the idea of bringing in the AIX is a little intimidating. ** ** ** ** *From:* Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.comchristopher_bod...@glic.com] *Posted At:* Wednesday, January 9, 2013 9:48 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* AIX and Windows *Subject:* Re: AIX and Windows ** ** Can you elaborate more on your environment? And when you say your Core employee program what specifically do you mean by that? ERP (SAP)? Or your identity management system (RACF/ ITIM)? Is this your first UNIX/Linux system in your environment? *Christopher Bodnar* Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com * The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America* * *www.guardianlife.com From:itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:01/09/2013 08:39 AM Subject:AIX and Windows -- We will most like be going to an AIX solution for our Core employee program. Does anyone work with an AIX system and if so do you also have Windows AD 2008R2 running alongside it?? Just trying to get ahead of this. Thanks David ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe
Re: TechEd vs TechMentor
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012 TechEd NA has a lot of their sessions online so you can see what the presentations are like. They have the EU and AU ones somewhere on the site as well. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.eduwrote: Good to know. J What has TechEd pricing been like? ** ** DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE ** ** *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:57 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: TechEd vs TechMentor ** ** I have to agree with Webster, I would side with Tech Ed, especially when you go to the whiteboard sessions in which you can draw out your solutions with MVP’s and other folks that are SME’s on their particular areas. I remember a few years ago going over a IIS 7.0 design and one of the M$ folks basically told me they just setup something like it just a few months ago. I was pretty impressed. ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org ** ** *From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com webs...@carlwebster.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:49 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: TechEd vs TechMentor ** ** You will get nothing on the last two at either conference. ** ** IMO, TechMentor is for more Beginner to Intermediate level folk. The one I went to in August was an anomaly. It was at MS HQ and most sessions were extremely technical. ** ** TechEd runs the range from Beginner to Advanced but the average is Intermediate. ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edudamien.solo...@harrison.edu] *Subject:* RE: TechEd vs TechMentor ** ** Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, PowerShell, VMware vCloud, Citrix XenApp.** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com rodtr...@myitforum.com] *Subject:* RE: TechEd vs TechMentor ** ** Which apps do you deal with the most? ** ** *From:* Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edudamien.solo...@harrison.edu] *Subject:* TechEd vs TechMentor ** ** It looks like I might be able to make one of these for the first time. *** * Any advice on which is the better/more useful event? Are they about the same price for registration normally (TechEd registration isn’t open yet to check)? ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Time sync
The drift is to far. We peer servers to DC's, DC's to vPDC The DC's all peer to our routers and the routers are chained to each other and the root outside source we use. Our servers are within seconds. We do not sync with the hosts. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Steve Kradel skra...@zetetic.net wrote: Hmm, could be your VM host has the wrong time, and is jamming that bad time into its guests occasionally. Disable the host-guest time sync and, provided w32tm is set up properly, you may find everything is good. Also it wouldn't hurt to make sure the host has a solid time configuration, as *fully* disabling host-guest sync, at least under VMWare, takes a little more poking than one might think. Definitely would sort this out before considering 3rd party NTP solutions... anything more than a couple seconds of skew isn't w32tm's fault. --Steve On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Thanks to all so far! The drift goes off into minutes apart. I presume somewhere in those TechNet articles is something (registry hack to workstations via GPO) that can have servers and workstations sync with the DC every 1-2 hours? (At first skimming, it's not all that clear.) Thanks again -Original Message- From: Steve Kradel [mailto:skra...@zetetic.net] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time sync How much time skew are we talking about here? While MSFT will only support w32tm accuracy within 1-2 seconds, in practice I have found it to be stable within a tenth of a second or less, and would not feel compelled to look into very-high-accuracy NTP clients for regular non-scientific applications. Do you have separate systems recording the timestamps of an incoming call and the creation of a linked medical record, or are things unreliable even on a single host? --Steve On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! I'm sure I and many others have asked this (but are still stumped). Ken S's reply yesterday pointing to ultimately a chain of TechNet articles has shed some light and will start us digging. Microsoft admits W32Time is sloppy (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939322) - mainly meant to make Kerberos v5 work. Our issue is, W32Time lets things drift enough for weird things to occur in our medical records. We have a veterinary toxicology consulting hotline. Because things get out of sync a bit, we frequently have medical records opening before a client's telephone call is received. The article referenced above essentially says to go find an alternative to W32Time. NIST has gathered a list of time sync software. QUESTION: has anyone on the list used (and would recommend) anything on that list to fix the record created prior to the call situation? (http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/softwarelist.cfm) Thank you... -- richard The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please
Re: Enterprise task scheduler
That was where I was confused as well. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Honestly, I'm not sure I see a difference between repeatable jobs and scheduled tasks, other than nomenclature. :) I use Orchestrator for this at a couple of clients and it seems to work just fine and the reports are sweet. YMMV. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Enterprise task scheduler Yep - Opalis. Shame that - there aren't many packages in that spot. Winbatch might be your better bet, in that case. It's been a long time since I played with those products, too. Kurt On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Adam Meixler ad...@interlink1.com wrote: I had thought the same thing! (was Opalis?) Some googling seems to suggest that it's not meant for Task Scheduling any more. It can be made to do it, but its strong suit is repeatable Jobs rather than scheduled tasks now. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Enterprise task scheduler It's been a lot of years since I touched it (more than 10!) and it's since been acquired by MSFT and rolled into the SC suite, but Orchestrator comes to mind... Might be worth a look. Kurt On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Adam Meixler ad...@interlink1.com wrote: Happy New Year everyone! I was hoping to get The Lists opinion on a good, un-bloated enterprise task scheduler. Right now we have about a thousand tasks scattered across different servers using the windows scheduled task service and it’s just not doing it for us. It’d be nice if jobs could be pushed down to workers as they were available vs. being scheduled on specific instances, but we at least want a central control of these jobs. We’re open to any ideas that don’t involve CA Thanks all ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Time sync
Oh, I should mention the PBX gets time from the routers as well, etc. We do insurance and if the phones and customer call center apps and the time clock apps are off by more then a second or two we all have to go to irritating meetings On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: The drift is to far. We peer servers to DC's, DC's to vPDC The DC's all peer to our routers and the routers are chained to each other and the root outside source we use. Our servers are within seconds. We do not sync with the hosts. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Steve Kradel skra...@zetetic.net wrote: Hmm, could be your VM host has the wrong time, and is jamming that bad time into its guests occasionally. Disable the host-guest time sync and, provided w32tm is set up properly, you may find everything is good. Also it wouldn't hurt to make sure the host has a solid time configuration, as *fully* disabling host-guest sync, at least under VMWare, takes a little more poking than one might think. Definitely would sort this out before considering 3rd party NTP solutions... anything more than a couple seconds of skew isn't w32tm's fault. --Steve On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Thanks to all so far! The drift goes off into minutes apart. I presume somewhere in those TechNet articles is something (registry hack to workstations via GPO) that can have servers and workstations sync with the DC every 1-2 hours? (At first skimming, it's not all that clear.) Thanks again -Original Message- From: Steve Kradel [mailto:skra...@zetetic.net] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time sync How much time skew are we talking about here? While MSFT will only support w32tm accuracy within 1-2 seconds, in practice I have found it to be stable within a tenth of a second or less, and would not feel compelled to look into very-high-accuracy NTP clients for regular non-scientific applications. Do you have separate systems recording the timestamps of an incoming call and the creation of a linked medical record, or are things unreliable even on a single host? --Steve On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! I'm sure I and many others have asked this (but are still stumped). Ken S's reply yesterday pointing to ultimately a chain of TechNet articles has shed some light and will start us digging. Microsoft admits W32Time is sloppy (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939322) - mainly meant to make Kerberos v5 work. Our issue is, W32Time lets things drift enough for weird things to occur in our medical records. We have a veterinary toxicology consulting hotline. Because things get out of sync a bit, we frequently have medical records opening before a client's telephone call is received. The article referenced above essentially says to go find an alternative to W32Time. NIST has gathered a list of time sync software. QUESTION: has anyone on the list used (and would recommend) anything on that list to fix the record created prior to the call situation? (http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/softwarelist.cfm) Thank you... -- richard The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally
Re: Enterprise task scheduler
Why would it not be used for Task Scheduling? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh420338 Not saying it's the best, just wondering why you can't use it for that. If you already have System Center suite then it's something you can try for 'free'. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yep - Opalis. Shame that - there aren't many packages in that spot. Winbatch might be your better bet, in that case. It's been a long time since I played with those products, too. Kurt On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Adam Meixler ad...@interlink1.com wrote: I had thought the same thing! (was Opalis?) Some googling seems to suggest that it's not meant for Task Scheduling any more. It can be made to do it, but its strong suit is repeatable Jobs rather than scheduled tasks now. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Enterprise task scheduler It's been a lot of years since I touched it (more than 10!) and it's since been acquired by MSFT and rolled into the SC suite, but Orchestrator comes to mind... Might be worth a look. Kurt On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Adam Meixler ad...@interlink1.com wrote: Happy New Year everyone! I was hoping to get The Lists opinion on a good, un-bloated enterprise task scheduler. Right now we have about a thousand tasks scattered across different servers using the windows scheduled task service and it’s just not doing it for us. It’d be nice if jobs could be pushed down to workers as they were available vs. being scheduled on specific instances, but we at least want a central control of these jobs. We’re open to any ideas that don’t involve CA Thanks all ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Instant Messaging
HIPPA actually depends. It doesn't flat say you need to log conversations. It's more nuanced than that and you need to make sure your privacy policy and how you deal with PHI is handled. HIPPA is a lot about defining policy and processes more then anything. The technology is merely there to support your policies and processes. :) We have Lync internally and do not archive globally. We have the capability to do it set up and during 'investigations' enable it on some people. Also, management is discussing allowing some people access to Internets IM through it. If they do there will be two steps before your account is enabled, one sign the PHI doc regarding IM and you will have your account archived. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Patrick Salmon psal...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, Lync archives conversations only. Any files sent through during the course of a conversation are not archived. May be wrong - that was certainly a hole in OCS's design which may well have been plugged. On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.orgwrote: Any information can be passed along the file transfer or even the text chat that could be related to patient care, therefore auditing and logging would need to be turned on. ** ** Again I side with if you don’t need it for business reasons, then it shouldn’t be on the network. ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org ** ** *From:* Chinnery, Paul [mailto:pa...@mmcwm.com] *Sent:* Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:03 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Instant Messaging ** ** HIPAA ** ** Got ya, Don. :) ** ** Back to the subject, though, I'm not sure if logging is necessary if the information is not related to patient care. ** ** *From:* Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org dgu...@che.org] *Sent:* Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:58 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Instant Messaging ** ** HIPPA, for one. ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* joseph palmieri [mailto:jpalm...@yahoo.com jpalm...@yahoo.com] *Sent:* Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:54 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Instant Messaging ** ** Not sure if this is the issue should be posted here if not maybe you could point me in the right direction Are there any federal regulations or compliance laws regarding instant messaging e.g.( does logging need to maintained and monitored) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click
Re: Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this?
This tool seems to have some serious caveats, like you have to have access to a running system and it's memory dump. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: I would say off the record no, if you used popular encryption software and a repeatable process, but when you lose physical security of an asset, given a reasonable amount of time and effort the encryption will be cracked and data will be obtained. ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org ** ** *From:* Chinnery, Paul [mailto:pa...@mmcwm.com] *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2012 12:37 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this? ** ** Oh, great. I wonder what view CMS will take if a laptop is stolen\lost and it's encrypted. Will they still say it's a HIPAA violation? ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2012 12:29 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this? ** ** Comments anyone? Looks like bad news… http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/20/this-299-tool-is-reportedly-capable-of-cracking-bitlocker-pgp-and-truecrypt-disks-in-real-time/ ** ** *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Selling SMB-specific IT stuff
Regarding Craig's list... I have a great reluctance to meeting someone in the parking lot of that store that burned down next to the light that doesn't work anymore. The first two times, sure, but they all though my car was part of the deal both times and forgot to pay me. :) On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Well, there's all that. :) I have had decent success limiting all that junk just using the local Craig's List. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: All I got on CL was people wanting to trade or have me ship to their brother/sister/boyfriend/girlfriend/aunt/uncle/best friend stationed in Korea/Vietnam/Iraq/Kuwait/Afghanistan even though my ad said US only. ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, December 17, 2012 8:52 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Selling SMB-specific IT stuff ** ** CL is less expensive and easier, IMHO. It might be worth putting it up there for a couple of days. ** ** On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:*** * E-bay…wow how did I not think of that… Thanks! *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Monday, December 17, 2012 6:11 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Selling SMB-specific IT stuff Ebay? On 17 December 2012 13:54, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: A client of mine no longer uses a StorageTek L20 tape drive library so we are looking to give it a good home of it instead of sending it to scrap. Is there a better place than Craigslist to advertise this thing? It seems a little too specialized to expect a hit on CL. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Question about RU5 for Exchange 2010 SP2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637981.aspx ^^ There is a check list for installing Exchange rollups. The other answer is, depends on the patch but generally yes. I haven't reviewed this one yet (they are moving me off Ops Manager back to messaging after a two year break). Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: All, (Mr Smith have you seen this?) We are currently having an issue with event ID 1 on Exchange 2010 SP2 Hotfix Rollup 4 on our internal CAS Servers that are filling up the application log with event ID1. It seems that logs http://exchangeserverpro.com/exchange-server-2010-error-user-setting-preferredsite-is-not-available-after-installing-service-pack-2-update-rollup-3( We have rollup 4, but it’s the same thing) It seems that RU5 is available today, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2785908 see fix 2733415 It was a MSExchange Autodiscover error with Perferred Site. Running out of options here, I have downloaded the RU5 patch and run the install but claims that is fails prematurely. I am not an Exchange Admin nor claim to be one, and I am not sure if this patch needs Exchange Admin rights to patch. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB
I was curious so I looked it up. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831446.aspx Support for virtual hard disk storage capacity of up to 64 TB Protection against data corruption during power failures by logging updates to the VHDX metadata structures Improved alignment of the virtual hard disk format to work well on large sector disks Larger block sizes for dynamic and differencing disks, which allows these disks to attune to the needs of the workload A 4-KB logical sector virtual disk that allows for increased performance when used by applications and workloads that are designed for 4-KB sectors. The ability to store custom metadata about the file that the user might want to record, such as operating system version or patches applied. Efficiency in representing data (also known as “trim”), which results in smaller file size and allows the underlying physical storage device to reclaim unused space. (Trim requires physical disks directly attached to a virtual machine or SCSI disks, and trim-compatible hardware.) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: Larger file sizes I think... On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: I know that you can use a VHDX over a SMB share... This can't be done with a VHD. Other than that, I'm not sure. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:18:24 -0800 Subject: Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB What is the benifit of the VHDX file type over VHD? On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Server 2012 completely supports you just pointing to the old config files. You do not need to export/import. ** ** The major benefit you do not get is the upgrade to VHDX. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, December 7, 2012 9:12 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB ** ** If the VM’s are not on the 2008R2 OS drive, is it necessary to export/import the VM’s, or could you just re-OS the 2008 R2 to 2012 and create new VM’s by pointing them to the VHD’s? I keep my guests simple with no snapshots and when I create the VM I put all the files/settings in the same folder (D:\VMs1\Server1, for example), etc. I don’t know if that will key off a reactivation of the OS or not, but it would save me about 5 hours of waiting for files to copy back and forth. ** ** iSCSI or other external storage is really looking convenient right about now…. ** ** *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com asbz...@gmail.com ] *Sent:* Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:03 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB ** ** It's a cable that came with a firewall, too. But with the CAT5 staring me in the face, I made the change and was much happier for it. Live Migration peaked at about 882 Mbps during my last copy, but spent most of its time hanging out around 550 Mbps, so I was only losing 80% of my capacity before. :D ** ** I'll test it next with a VM that is off, and see how that impacts the transfer rates. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* ** ** On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote:** ** Curious also what was up with the cable. Have a couple of short runs (60 feet or so) that are CAT 5 and are doing fine with gig speeds. Well getting average 550 Mbps on quick speed tests. Art *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, December 6, 2012 4:16 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB Do you know what happens if you don't pay attention and attach a **CAT5**cable to the NIC that you intend to use for Hyper-V Live Migration? Yeah, it operates at 10% of its overall potential. Thankfully, I noticed before moving a really large VM. Sigh. I was wondering what was up with the speed and then my eye caught the CAT5 marking. Off to the printer it goes. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market
Re: File Services Clustering in Server 2012
While I like your summary for the most part, evidently my experience with MS Clusters while admittedly dated, windows2003 era mostly Exchange and SQL, we didn't experience them as fragile. Complex yes, but most issues were the result of shooting ourselves in the foot rather then the cluster technology itself. With the Best Practice Analyzers this is easier to avoid now. But we're back to what is meant/desired goal of the original post. 'VMware clusters' provide for resilience and reduced downtime. If hardware fails, all guests on that node are dead. True, the remaining live nodes will usually bring them up quickly but they are still dead until then and if there were dependencies, etc. the various services may still need manual intervention. So, if you need a service availability then you need to look at your SLA and match them with the various options.. So, this thread started with one thing and then wandered afar into various technologies What needs to be solved? On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.comwrote: Patrick, I am sorry if I came across as attacking your choices. My intention was to steer you toward a path that will lead to a happier future for you. The purpose of clustering is to protect against downtime in case something fails, or is intentionally taken down for preventative maintenance. So here are some somethings that might happen: 1. Hardware failure. Both MS and VMWare clustering will protect against this. 2. OS failure - the OS bluescreens. Both MS and VMWare protect against this. VMWare detects missing vmware tools heartbeats and migrates the server. 3. The application service crashes (stops). You don't need clustering to protect against this, you set the service to auto-restart. 4. The application service gets lost in space and stops working (but is still running). Neither MS or VMWare can protect against this without you hitching on some sort of monitoring system. 5. Patching or other PM. This is where MS clustering can *theoretically* reduce (not eliminate) downtime if you have an active/passive cluster. In an active/passive cluster, you patch the passive system, reboot, fail over to it, then patch and reboot the original active server. However, there is still down time as the service is stopped on one node and restarted on the other. The only thing that MS clustering eliminates is the time of the server reboot. In VMWare, virtuals boot so fast that this only saves you less than a minute. MS clusters have some disadvantages: 1. Most every service that you run clustered has limitations and caveats when running clustered. 2. Backing up the data requires a cluster aware backup agent. 3. You application settings have to be replicated between nodes - usually manually. This can lead to problems when they aren't in sync. 4. MS clusters are fragile. In the old days (windows 2000) clusters would go toes up for little or no reason and you'd have to spend hours tweaking registry settings and disk signatures to get it back up. This improved vastly with Server 2003 - clusters stop failing for no reason, but even at Server 2008 R2, clusters are a pain to do disaster recovery with. In contrast, VMWare clusters just work, and work seamlessly. You don't need to take anything special into account on your protected virtuals. Normal application settings, normal backups, etc. There is no extra complexity to manage. Admittedly, I've not looked at Server 2012's clustering because we've been migrating away from MS clusters. -Original Message- From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:phasenja...@kcumb.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012 If that is not the purpose of failover clustering, what would your definition be? Maybe I need to go another route to resolve this, as it seems that all people want to do is attack the choices we have made for our institution. Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com 12/6/2012 7:46 AM Maybe I'm missing something. What it is you hope to protect against? I not sure what you mean by services clustering. Are you thinking that if somehow the server service gets hosed on one node of the cluster that MS clustering will switch over to the other node? -Original Message- From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:phasenja...@kcumb.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012 We want services clustering in addition to the hardware clustering already in our ESXi environment. Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com 12/5/2012 4:03 PM Why in the world would you use a Microsoft cluster when you have the vastly superior and easier ESX clustering to provide failover? -Original Message- From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:phasenja...@kcumb.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 4:33 PM
Re: File Services Clustering in Server 2012
Especially since we all started bikeshedding immediately :) http://green.bikeshed.org/ On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the follow-up, Patrick *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Patrick Hasenjager phasenja...@kcumb.edu wrote: I was able to resolve my original problem, which was no being able to add file shares to a clustered file server. The thread linked here solved the problem for me. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver8gen/thread/9807a799-bea3-46ad-92a5-732779135f98 On 12/6/2012 at 11:03 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: While I like your summary for the most part, evidently my experience with MS Clusters while admittedly dated, windows2003 era mostly Exchange and SQL, we didn't experience them as fragile. Complex yes, but most issues were the result of shooting ourselves in the foot rather then the cluster technology itself. With the Best Practice Analyzers this is easier to avoid now. But we're back to what is meant/desired goal of the original post. 'VMware clusters' provide for resilience and reduced downtime. If hardware fails, all guests on that node are dead. True, the remaining live nodes will usually bring them up quickly but they are still dead until then and if there were dependencies, etc. the various services may still need manual intervention. So, if you need a service availability then you need to look at your SLA and match them with the various options.. So, this thread started with one thing and then wandered afar into various technologies What needs to be solved? On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com wrote: Patrick, I am sorry if I came across as attacking your choices. My intention was to steer you toward a path that will lead to a happier future for you. The purpose of clustering is to protect against downtime in case something fails, or is intentionally taken down for preventative maintenance. So here are some somethings that might happen: 1. Hardware failure. Both MS and VMWare clustering will protect against this. 2. OS failure - the OS bluescreens. Both MS and VMWare protect against this. VMWare detects missing vmware tools heartbeats and migrates the server. 3. The application service crashes (stops). You don't need clustering to protect against this, you set the service to auto-restart. 4. The application service gets lost in space and stops working (but is still running). Neither MS or VMWare can protect against this without you hitching on some sort of monitoring system. 5. Patching or other PM. This is where MS clustering can *theoretically* reduce (not eliminate) downtime if you have an active/passive cluster. In an active/passive cluster, you patch the passive system, reboot, fail over to it, then patch and reboot the original active server. However, there is still down time as the service is stopped on one node and restarted on the other. The only thing that MS clustering eliminates is the time of the server reboot. In VMWare, virtuals boot so fast that this only saves you less than a minute. MS clusters have some disadvantages: 1. Most every service that you run clustered has limitations and caveats when running clustered. 2. Backing up the data requires a cluster aware backup agent. 3. You application settings have to be replicated between nodes - usually manually. This can lead to problems when they aren't in sync. 4. MS clusters are fragile. In the old days (windows 2000) clusters would go toes up for little or no reason and you'd have to spend hours tweaking registry settings and disk signatures to get it back up. This improved vastly with Server 2003 - clusters stop failing for no reason, but even at Server 2008 R2, clusters are a pain to do disaster recovery with. In contrast, VMWare clusters just work, and work seamlessly. You don't need to take anything special into account on your protected virtuals. Normal application settings, normal backups, etc. There is no extra complexity to manage. Admittedly, I've not looked at Server 2012's clustering because we've been migrating away from MS clusters. -Original Message- From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:phasenja...@kcumb.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012 If that is not the purpose of failover clustering, what would your definition be? Maybe I need to go another route to resolve this, as it seems that all people want to do is attack the choices we have made for our institution. Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com 12/6/2012 7:46 AM Maybe I'm missing something. What it is you hope to protect against? I not sure what you mean
Re: Amazon Web Services continues Windows push with PowerShell - Computerworld
This reminds me. I need to see If Azure is viable for hosting my website. /me ads one more thing to task list. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Widely expected. J And required for AWS to be a full-fledged client with Microsoft’s private cloud push. ** ** *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, December 6, 2012 10:20 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Amazon Web Services continues Windows push with PowerShell - Computerworld ** ** Interesting move. Thought some of the PS gurus here might enjoy this. http://m.computerworld.com/s/article/9234421/Amazon_Web_Services_continues_Windows_push_with_PowerShell?source=rss_latest_contentutm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fnews%2Ffeed+%28Latest+from+Computerworld%29 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: DR planning
So... we do testing every year and have a complex multi-site environment. So that years scenario was loss of one site. We had a network link that was 'supposed' to be firewalled off form the production network, etc. I wasn't a participant but when they brought up the restored exchange gateway server in the DR site it updated all the routing tables.. doh! Have a plan. 1. The business needs to identify what they need to come up first. 2. IT Needs to determine what they need to bring up to accomplish this need. In our case, we have a fail over messaging system we can enable so that allows our actual in house messaging system to come up later in the process allowing up to concentrate on our business critical applications (i.e. revenue generation / customer service apps). So, if possible, have data tiers for the importance of your backups and labels to identify what tier you need first to accomplish your business needs. Steven On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: I always kill the link prior to test dr restore. In a DR scenario, your original endpoint won't be there anyway. Also, In a disaster, I'm going to be restoring servers to the same name. So, that's how I'm going to practice it. I bring up everything live as it can be, test the heck out of it with workstations. (Mimicking users and external clients). Pretty much everything except actually switching the public dns records. -Original Message- From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 7:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DR planning Folks, Next week we are testing two disaster scenarios at a remote site (we pay the site and they provide servers only for restore/DR - no live hosting). We have Exchange 2003 here and a variety for 2008/2003 servers as DCs and member servers for file and print. Recommendations for recovery? This is just a simple test to see what we can do. Long-term I'm going to recommend live servers so I have put a DC and replicate files and Exchange 2010 there. For now I'll need to be able to restore some SQL databases for an enterprise system, Exchange 2003, and files for file and print. Since it's a test and I can't restore servers of the same name and such on a live network - we have an MPLS link to DR site - I was thinking of just building a few new servers, add a DC, and install SQL and restore databases. What about Exchange 2003? Is there a way I can restore the databases but only be able to manually pull mail from them? Or would it be better to just build a new Exchange 2003 server and add DR accounts to it. It has been a long time since I've worked with Exchange, so your thoughts are appreciated. Moving forward, what do you folks do for DR? I was thinking at the remote site (always live eventually): DC, SQL server with replicated databases (2012 AlwaysOn I guess), server for file and print using DFS to replicate critical files, another Exchange 2010 server in the current DAG, and a hub/client access server. Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Surface with Windows 8 Pro announced...
This is less then I thought it would be. I had it pegged at $1500. With the separate Touch Cover it's still less then I thought it would be. It's essentially an Ultrabook with touch screen. I plan on getting one assuming I am less broke then I am now. On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: This is my take on it: ** ** http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/11/29/microsoft-surface-with-windows-8-pro-gets-official-pricing-and-january-2013-availability/ ** ** However, I’d be interested in your take on it. Is it priced right? ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: windows phone 8
The visible differences are more in the additional tile size and additional features that wp8 brings. If you used wp7 then it's very familiar but wp8 just feels more better :) Rooms (private group Calendar, messaging, OneNote stuff in one spot), Wallet, Kids corner, ATT finally turned on visual voice mail a lot of stuff just seems to work better. You can attach more stuff to a message (such as location). The Rooms is my most used new thing. Most stuff just seems to work better now. I am sure I am missing tons of other stuff as well :) http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/features/all My dad's favorite Windows Phone feature is Local Scout but that's been in since 7. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: How much different is WP8 opposed to 7? ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:28 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: windows phone 8 ** ** http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471 You need Windows 8 Pro for the Client HyperV but I think that is the emulator. It runs as a virtual machine. Outside temp - Lots of weather apps. Temp on live tile on screen Forecast - see weather app Upcoming meetings / calendar - can be on lock screen and live tile Unread email/SMS count - on lock screen and live tile Battery level - there is a battery level indicator or an App if you want more info (the app can post on lock screen) And with one gesture I can read all my notifications. - no notification center. Devs said they ran out of time, expected q1 next year. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/meet-your-match-challenge I was going to post a screen shot of my phone but instead realized that MS has several short videos about this already. Yes they are for ad campaigns but they are also accurate. Towards the end of the videos they show you the different configuration of tiles. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Gosh, been following this thread closely, must say I’m very eager to give a Windows Phone another go now. First of all, any online emulators? That would answer a gazillion questions I and others have. I know with Android you can download a SDK and run the OS in a virtual machine. Anything similar? So here’s my main question: I’m very accustomed to accessing all my important information at a quick glance on my lockscreen (without even unlocking my phone). Just a quick tap of the power button I can view: Outside temp Forecast Upcoming meetings / calendar Unread email/SMS count Battery level And with one gesture I can read all my notifications. There are many other options too. Pretty much anything you can put in a widget, you can access. And I haven’t even had to unlock my phone yet… Can this quick visibility also be easily achieved on a Win8 phone? If so, I’d seriously consider it. *From:* Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:53 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: windows phone 8 I have been using it for 2 weeks now and have found it to be easier to use and slightly more accurate than Google maps is on my Android phone. (Since I have one of each I do searches, directions and locating using both simultaneously.) So far my WP8 maps have placed me at a truer location than my Android phone does. Android is usually accurate within a half block, WP8 puts me right where I am, but that is me in this city so YMMV. Driving directions have been basically the same, and I must admit to never having tried the traffic part of the maps app since there is no traffic to speak of in Tulsa so I never have to worry about avoiding it. J Tim *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: windows phone 8 Are the maps still lacking since they switched to using Nokia maps in the back end for wp8? On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: If you are outside the US, then Windows Phone is sadly lacking, compared to iPhone and Android I've been
Re: windows phone 8
Are the maps still lacking since they switched to using Nokia maps in the back end for wp8? On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: If you are outside the US, then Windows Phone is sadly lacking, compared to iPhone and Android I've been a big WinMo/WP user (and currently have an Omnia 7), but when I look at the apps and info available on iPhone and Android, it's just depressing. Mapping is poor on WP (well, maybe not compared to the latest IOS5 :) ) and many of the apps you'd love to use as a traveller on iPhone or Android just aren't available (e.g. apps to find local restaurants, public transport, book taxis). Apps like Instagram and Pandora don’t exist, nor does Google Maps. Bing search is poor (maybe not in the US, but it's just rubbish in every other country I've tried). Everything else, there's about one main option on WP, instead of several. If you have more than one LiveID (e.g. one for work, one for personal, one for Messenger), then working out how to get these to work together on your phone is a pain. Personally I don't care for Facebook integration with my phone contacts - and this is probably the one thing that WP does well. And there's a trial mode for all the games, so you don’t have to buy up-front. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 7:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Agreed, on not missing Android. I've been using Android on phone and tablet for a couple years, and just finished moving to all Win devices. I feel liberated. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 I have the 8X while my wife has a Nokia 810 (doesn't have any of the issues mentioned about the 920) and they are both excellent phones. We went with different phones based on personal preference regarding size and feel and we are both very happy with our choices 2 almost 2 weeks later. I certainly don't miss Android, Windows Phone 8 is far superior for everyday use and don't even get me going on battery life. Tim -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 I'm digging the 8x. Of course, it still has that new car smell, so give me a few days to see if the coolness wears off. -Original Message- From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Just had a look at the two together. Nokia is a lot thicker and heavier and less pleasant to hold in the hand IMHO. I prefer the 920 in spec to the 8X, but think as something to carry around all day every day I might go down the HTC route ... -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: 19 November 2012 19:18 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Lots of folks complaining about it. Also complaining of reboots and hung screens. The HTC 8x seems to be the better of the two releases. Mine just showed up an hour or so ago. -Original Message- From: joeu...@chronic.org [mailto:joeu...@chronic.org] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Sure, you might be a lucky one... google - 920 battery life Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... Original Message Subject: Re: windows phone 8 From: Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com Date: Mon, November 19, 2012 3:43 am To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com It does? Mine's been lasting a day or two. I have turned off NFC because well, I have no NFC devices. I also avoid ad based apps, just purchased. My wife's been lasting as well. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin WARNING: The information in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the named
Re: Free Windows 8?
I know some people who at the time did successfully activate their copy with this method and were quite proud of it. These are not people I generally associate with. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: I thought I read somewhere that Enterprise is only available under Volume Licensing. Maybe that’s why? ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:21 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Free Windows 8? ** ** Interestingly, On our VLSC site, the keys are the same between Enterprise and Pro, it’s the ISO that’s different. Additionally, on the VLSC site Win8 Pro is under the “Windows” category for keys/downloads, but Win8 Enterprise is under “Software Assurance” area. ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:04 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Free Windows 8? ** ** Anyone tried this? The first link in the article is for a Windows 8 Enterprise download. Wondered if that download also includes Pro since the friend I shared this with said he couldn’t add Media center to Enterprise. ** ** *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com rhw...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:22 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Free Windows 8? ** ** http://www.techspot.com/news/50875-loophole-enables-anyone-to-get-a-windows-8-license-for-free.html Roger Wright ___ If you can't fix it with a hammer you have an electrical problem. ** ** ** ** ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadminimage001.jpg
Re: windows phone 8
I say that the newer wp8 maps are more accurate then the focus wp7 but that may be better radio's in the Nokia. Also like the Nokia Drive which is essentially free Garmin GPS software but less money. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Tim Vander Kooi tvanderk...@expl.comwrote: I have been using it for 2 weeks now and have found it to be easier to use and slightly more accurate than Google maps is on my Android phone. (Since I have one of each I do searches, directions and locating using both simultaneously.) So far my WP8 maps have placed me at a truer location than my Android phone does. Android is usually accurate within a half block, WP8 puts me right where I am, but that is me in this city so YMMV. Driving directions have been basically the same, and I must admit to never having tried the traffic part of the maps app since there is no traffic to speak of in Tulsa so I never have to worry about avoiding it. J Tim ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: windows phone 8 ** ** Are the maps still lacking since they switched to using Nokia maps in the back end for wp8? On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: If you are outside the US, then Windows Phone is sadly lacking, compared to iPhone and Android I've been a big WinMo/WP user (and currently have an Omnia 7), but when I look at the apps and info available on iPhone and Android, it's just depressing. Mapping is poor on WP (well, maybe not compared to the latest IOS5 :) ) and many of the apps you'd love to use as a traveller on iPhone or Android just aren't available (e.g. apps to find local restaurants, public transport, book taxis). Apps like Instagram and Pandora don’t exist, nor does Google Maps. Bing search is poor (maybe not in the US, but it's just rubbish in every other country I've tried). Everything else, there's about one main option on WP, instead of several. If you have more than one LiveID (e.g. one for work, one for personal, one for Messenger), then working out how to get these to work together on your phone is a pain. Personally I don't care for Facebook integration with my phone contacts - and this is probably the one thing that WP does well. And there's a trial mode for all the games, so you don’t have to buy up-front. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 7:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Agreed, on not missing Android. I've been using Android on phone and tablet for a couple years, and just finished moving to all Win devices. I feel liberated. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 I have the 8X while my wife has a Nokia 810 (doesn't have any of the issues mentioned about the 920) and they are both excellent phones. We went with different phones based on personal preference regarding size and feel and we are both very happy with our choices 2 almost 2 weeks later. I certainly don't miss Android, Windows Phone 8 is far superior for everyday use and don't even get me going on battery life. Tim -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 I'm digging the 8x. Of course, it still has that new car smell, so give me a few days to see if the coolness wears off. -Original Message- From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Just had a look at the two together. Nokia is a lot thicker and heavier and less pleasant to hold in the hand IMHO. I prefer the 920 in spec to the 8X, but think as something to carry around all day every day I might go down the HTC route ... -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: 19 November 2012 19:18 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Lots of folks complaining about it. Also complaining of reboots and hung screens. The HTC 8x seems to be the better of the two releases. Mine just showed up an hour or so ago. -Original Message- From: joeu...@chronic.org [mailto:joeu...@chronic.org] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Sure, you might be a lucky one... google - 920 battery life Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... Original Message Subject: Re: windows phone 8 From: Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com Date: Mon, November 19, 2012 3:43
Re: windows phone 8
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471 You need Windows 8 Pro for the Client HyperV but I think that is the emulator. It runs as a virtual machine. Outside temp - Lots of weather apps. Temp on live tile on screen Forecast - see weather app Upcoming meetings / calendar - can be on lock screen and live tile Unread email/SMS count - on lock screen and live tile Battery level - there is a battery level indicator or an App if you want more info (the app can post on lock screen) And with one gesture I can read all my notifications. - no notification center. Devs said they ran out of time, expected q1 next year. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/meet-your-match-challenge I was going to post a screen shot of my phone but instead realized that MS has several short videos about this already. Yes they are for ad campaigns but they are also accurate. Towards the end of the videos they show you the different configuration of tiles. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Gosh, been following this thread closely, must say I’m very eager to give a Windows Phone another go now. First of all, any online emulators? That would answer a gazillion questions I and others have. I know with Android you can download a SDK and run the OS in a virtual machine. Anything similar? So here’s my main question: ** ** I’m very accustomed to accessing all my important information at a quick glance on my lockscreen (without even unlocking my phone). Just a quick tap of the power button I can view: Outside temp Forecast Upcoming meetings / calendar Unread email/SMS count Battery level And with one gesture I can read all my notifications. There are many other options too. Pretty much anything you can put in a widget, you can access. And I haven’t even had to unlock my phone yet… ** ** Can this quick visibility also be easily achieved on a Win8 phone? If so, I’d seriously consider it. ** ** ** ** *From:* Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:53 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: windows phone 8 ** ** I have been using it for 2 weeks now and have found it to be easier to use and slightly more accurate than Google maps is on my Android phone. (Since I have one of each I do searches, directions and locating using both simultaneously.) So far my WP8 maps have placed me at a truer location than my Android phone does. Android is usually accurate within a half block, WP8 puts me right where I am, but that is me in this city so YMMV. Driving directions have been basically the same, and I must admit to never having tried the traffic part of the maps app since there is no traffic to speak of in Tulsa so I never have to worry about avoiding it. J Tim ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: windows phone 8 ** ** Are the maps still lacking since they switched to using Nokia maps in the back end for wp8? On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: If you are outside the US, then Windows Phone is sadly lacking, compared to iPhone and Android I've been a big WinMo/WP user (and currently have an Omnia 7), but when I look at the apps and info available on iPhone and Android, it's just depressing. Mapping is poor on WP (well, maybe not compared to the latest IOS5 :) ) and many of the apps you'd love to use as a traveller on iPhone or Android just aren't available (e.g. apps to find local restaurants, public transport, book taxis). Apps like Instagram and Pandora don’t exist, nor does Google Maps. Bing search is poor (maybe not in the US, but it's just rubbish in every other country I've tried). Everything else, there's about one main option on WP, instead of several. If you have more than one LiveID (e.g. one for work, one for personal, one for Messenger), then working out how to get these to work together on your phone is a pain. Personally I don't care for Facebook integration with my phone contacts - and this is probably the one thing that WP does well. And there's a trial mode for all the games, so you don’t have to buy up-front. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 7:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Agreed, on not missing Android. I've been using Android on phone and tablet for a couple years, and just finished moving to all Win devices. I feel liberated. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone
Re: Window 8 on your PC
I have to be honest, I haven't missed the 'start button' since day 2 of my transistion. While where I work is definitly a 'never going to it' sort of place at the moment, I was at a medical specialists practice recently and they've already migrated their desktops to it. I was shocked. About 75 desktop clients. The nurses said it was working just fine and not really a big deal. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: You can also customize that menu… ** ** http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/11/26/customizing-the-power-users-tasks-menu-in-windows-8/ ** ** *From:* Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 26, 2012 11:40 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Window 8 on your PC ** ** Just move your mouse to bottom left and you will get a “Start button” of sorts, which of course brings you back to the new UI where you can see all of your apps (what, you mean you use legacy ones!?). Quick launch and desktop shortcuts for speed. Alternatively top right with mouse to Charms menu and search applications. Neither way quite the same, but if you really don’t want to touch the keyboard … ** ** ** ** *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* 21 November 2012 17:31 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Window 8 on your PC ** ** I know thousands of users who very rarely use the keyboard. Especially for starting apps. Having to learn to utilize it after 17 years is something of a pain for those unaccustomed to it. ** ** On 21 November 2012 17:03, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Hit the “Start” button on the keyboard, and just start typing the name of the app. *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 11:37 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Window 8 on your PC OK, this may be a really stupid question, I know search works very well but working on the desktop how do I get to my programs with no Start button? Bing gives me now aswers. Stefan On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Also, consider that Windows 8 is built for devices that are never meant to be shut off. Why give easy access to a function that we are moving beyond? *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Window 8 on your PC “You no longer have to “pre-tell” Windows that you want to shut down and let it handle everything for you. Windows is now hardware aware enough that you just hit the power and Windows does whatever you told it to do (Power Settings)” How enlightening! We’ve gotten so used to the scenario where we couldn’t use the power button to turn a device off that now being able to do so seems weird. “What? I can use the device’s power button to turn the Windows device off? That’s CRAZY!”. Amazing what mind shift just one sentence can make… *From:* Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.comtvanderk...@expl.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:06 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Window 8 on your PC Running the same 4 here, except we went with the Samsung Slates instead of the Surface, they are excellent machines. Once I demonstrated to users that the Start Page is just where their Start Button went to they were totally onboard. It is a total mind shift (just like Office 2003 to Office 2007, but once you make that shift it is much more useful. As for Shutdown being hard to get to, what I was told by a friend at Microsoft (and which makes perfect sense once you think about it) is just use the power button on your device (whatever it might be). You no longer have to “pre-tell” Windows that you want to shut down and let it handle everything for you. Windows is now hardware aware enough that you just hit the power and Windows does whatever you told it to do (Power Settings). This won’t work in some environments where the power button is not accessible, but for the majority of businesses it works just fine, and it is incredibly fast! Going to Sleep and waking back up take my machines on average 2 seconds. Tim *From:* Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com rodtr...@myitforum.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:59 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Window 8 on your PC J I’m running all three – plus a desktop. *From:* Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org dgu...@che.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:25 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Window 8 on your PC Keep the Win 8 info coming! I’ve been tasked with kicking it around in our environment. Laptop,
Re: Window 8 on your PC
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/how-to#2TC=windows8 ^^ Lots of little short how to videos there by the way. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Tim Vander Kooi tvanderk...@expl.comwrote: It does not have to be a blank area, just right-click anywhere on the Start Screen and the All Apps button appears. Also clicking the “Dash” to the right of the scroll bar on the Start Screen gives you the ability to organize the Start Screen, in case you had not found that one either. I have my Start Screen grouped into Productivity, Management, Live Tiles, Misc. and Games for organizational purposes. It makes everything very easy to find and is a big improvement over the old Start Menu. I believe that most people who complain about wanting the Start BUTTON back, are the ones who have only seen it in commercials or in pictures and have not actually used Windows 8 for more than 5 minutes. Once you use Windows 8 for a day or 2 you quickly realize that the Start Button needs to stay gone. Tim ** ** *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:50 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Window 8 on your PC ** ** Perfect, I did not think about: Right-click a blank area in the Start screen and then click the *All apps* icon at the lower right. That's what I was looking for Thanks Stefan On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: Here are 2 reviews that I’m currently perusing through: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2012830/windows-8-the-official-review.html* *** http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/30/windows-8-review/ Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:25 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Window 8 on your PC But if you don't know the name of the Application and you would like to browse the installed Applications, can't that be done? Stefan On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Hit the “Start” button on the keyboard, and just start typing the name of the app. *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 11:37 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Window 8 on your PC OK, this may be a really stupid question, I know search works very well but working on the desktop how do I get to my programs with no Start button? Bing gives me now aswers. Stefan On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Also, consider that Windows 8 is built for devices that are never meant to be shut off. Why give easy access to a function that we are moving beyond? *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Window 8 on your PC “You no longer have to “pre-tell” Windows that you want to shut down and let it handle everything for you. Windows is now hardware aware enough that you just hit the power and Windows does whatever you told it to do (Power Settings)” How enlightening! We’ve gotten so used to the scenario where we couldn’t use the power button to turn a device off that now being able to do so seems weird. “What? I can use the device’s power button to turn the Windows device off? That’s CRAZY!”. Amazing what mind shift just one sentence can make… *From:* Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.comtvanderk...@expl.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:06 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Window 8 on your PC Running the same 4 here, except we went with the Samsung Slates instead of the Surface, they are excellent machines. Once I demonstrated to users that the Start Page is just where their Start Button went to they were totally onboard. It is a total mind shift (just like Office 2003 to Office 2007, but once you make that shift it is much more useful. As for Shutdown being hard to get to, what I was told by a friend at Microsoft (and which makes perfect sense once you think about it) is just use the power button on your device (whatever it might be). You no longer have to “pre-tell” Windows that you want to shut down and let it handle everything for you.
Re: windows phone 8
A co-worker said his girlfriends phone had the battery life issue so he did
the factory reset on it and she hasn't had a problem since. Just FYI.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Same here I evaluate phones for the company, this is my fourth phone this
year, BB, iPhone, Galaxy and now Nokia 920, I totally 100+ what Rod had to
say, It just feels clean and easy to use
Stefan
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote:
Android is pretty much open space to do with what you want. But, to tell
you the truth, it became a chore just managing apps, and app locations, etc.
Plus, there's the whole Google tracks everything you do thing.
I've been down just about every tablet/phone road. Touchpad, Android,
iOS. It's not something I can put my finger on, just that the Windows 8
interface makes you *want* to use it. It's really hard to describe.
Windows 8 UI makes iOS and Android feel old and tired.
-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:24 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
Agreed, on not missing Android. I've been using Android on phone and
tablet for a couple years, and just finished moving to all Win
devices. I feel liberated.
I'm curious: What's liberating?
I don't have a Windows phone to play with, so I can't reference. I am
still using an old iPhone 3GS (which does me just fine) and I have an HP
Touchpad with Cyanogoenmod 8 on it, so I have experience with iOS 6 and ICS.
What makes the Windows Phone 8 so much better?
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Rod Trent
[mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
To: NT System Admin Issues
[mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Mon, 26 Nov 2012
12:14:38 -0800
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
Agreed, on not missing Android. I've been using Android on phone and
tablet for a couple years, and just finished moving to all Win
devices. I feel liberated.
-Original Message-
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
I have the 8X while my wife has a Nokia 810 (doesn't have any of the
issues mentioned about the 920) and they are both excellent phones. We
went with different phones based on personal preference regarding size
and feel and we are both very happy with our choices 2 almost 2 weeks
later.
I certainly don't miss Android, Windows Phone 8 is far superior for
everyday use and don't even get me going on battery life.
Tim
-Original Message-
From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
I'm digging the 8x. Of course, it still has that new car smell, so
give me a few days to see if the coolness wears off.
-Original Message-
From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
Just had a look at the two together. Nokia is a lot thicker and
heavier and less pleasant to hold in the hand IMHO. I prefer the 920
in spec to the 8X, but think as something to carry around all day
every day I might go down the HTC route ...
-Original Message-
From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: 19 November 2012 19:18
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
Lots of folks complaining about it. Also complaining of reboots and
hung screens.
The HTC 8x seems to be the better of the two releases. Mine just
showed up an hour or so ago.
-Original Message-
From: joeu...@chronic.org [mailto:joeu...@chronic.org]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
Sure, you might be a lucky one... google - 920 battery life
Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Original Message
Subject: Re: windows phone 8
From: Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, November 19, 2012 3:43 am
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
It does? Mine's been lasting a day or two. I have turned off NFC
because well, I have no NFC devices. I also avoid ad based apps,
just
purchased.
My wife's been lasting as well.
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Re: windows phone 8
It does? Mine's been lasting a day or two. I have turned off NFC because well, I have no NFC devices. I also avoid ad based apps, just purchased. My wife's been lasting as well. On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:42 AM, joeu...@chronic.org wrote: The 920 has an exclusive on battery life issues. Original Message Subject: RE: windows phone 8 From: Webster webs...@carlwebster.com Date: Sat, November 17, 2012 9:27 am To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ATT has an exclusive on the 920. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@live.com] Subject: RE: windows phone 8 Thanks Jon Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:39:19 -0800 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Nokia 920, ATT. On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.commailto: jk.har...@live.com wrote: Steven which phone did you get and are you on ATT or Verizon. It appears you are on ATT from what you said. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: windows phone 8
Let's see... I have had a Windows Phone for a while now. For what I do I like it. I have had a semi-crappy week so haven't had as much time playing with my new toy (got my 920 on Monday night) as I would like but while fresh... I signed in and Linkedin/ Twitter integration was done. Added a Facebook account and a Gmail account and pretty much done. All my contacts populated, I have IM or SMS as I choose, normal stuff but the accounts wok more smoothly. Took off all the ATT apps. Tile sizes, like it, spending way to much time figuring out which tiles are needing to go where. When their commericals 'reinvented around you' showed up I thought meh, but what you pick does really show how you use your phone. My wife jokes that she is horrified to be the 'social butterfly' but my tile set choices and various friends tile sets are very different. I like the Family Room feature. The Rooms feature is kind of like an expanded Groups feature but with an automatically generate 'shared OneNote' prep'd for you as wel as a Calender and IM in a spot. I set mine to backup configuration and pictures to the cloud so it all shows on my SkyDrive. I keep hearing about this 'lack of apps' but it hasn't affected my use. I have some games, Amazon kindle and mobile, DeekFit Gym Pro and Crunchyroll. The Weather Channel app came on it but I am debating about switching to what I used on my old phone. Since I have a Xbox music subscription none of the other services matter to me. If you have a long term relationship with a specific app with data in it, I could see your concern but otherwise there isn't anything I am doing that I couldn't do natively or found an app for. While I haven't changed the defaults on the lock screen of what notifications show up because they work for me, my wife immediatly did on hers. I am still finding my way around the Windows 8 / wp8 desktop sync tools. It did pick up my music from my XBox Music selections without a sync but I like local music. Just haven't had time to explore the differences. I suspect it has more to do with some fundamental differences and that I haven't sat down and looked at them much yet. My dad likes his (7.5) becuase his Black Berry was having frequent issues with mail account authentication and no matter what it would just lose it's mind so I took a chance and talked him into it. He loves it. The email and contacts just plain work so that and the ability to make text bigger with pinch to zoom is his 'killer feature' but I know he's got like 10 games on it which he always _ahems_ about. I suspect he will go for the Nokia 820 which is a little smaller when it's renewal for him. So... I like my phone becuase it just works. My old one did as well, but this one seems smoother. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Ben M. Schorr b...@rolandschorr.comwrote: We use OneNote with shared notebooks hosted on our SharePoint server. Syncs beautifully to Windows Phone. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr Tower – Flagstaff Office 928-526-3970 www.rolandschorr.com * www.twitter.com/bschorr * www.facebook.com/RolandSchorr -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 What's the big killer features of Exchange Notes? Wait for it Notetaking! (Sorry :) On a serious note, the lack of this has drove our company mad. We used to get Notes sync via Good Messaging, but then they dropped it. ActiveSync STILL doesn't do it. At this day in age, I find that insane. Not even Windows Phone 8 fully implemented their own AES protocol?!? Color me baffled. For now, until Good brings Notes back to the clients, I've told my user to stick with Springpad or Evernote for personal notes. Sam -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: windows phone 8 As someone who doesn't have Exchange, I'm curious: What's the big killer features of Exchange Notes? What makes it so important to have on your phone? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:09:43 -0800 Subject: Re: windows phone 8 I have the Nokia 920 on order with Rogers here in Toronto, all the reviews I have read is that it’s big and heavy but other vice a great phone, I also use Notes quite extensively as well, for my iPad I use iMExchange2, for the free version I just have to manually updated it. For my current phone the Samsung Galaxy S III, I have not bothered with Notes yet and now I’m waiting for the Nokia so well see . . Stefan On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote
Re: windows phone 8
Nokia 920, ATT. On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: Steven which phone did you get and are you on ATT or Verizon. It appears you are on ATT from what you said. Jon -- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:16:46 -0800 Subject: Re: windows phone 8 From: sep...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Let's see... I have had a Windows Phone for a while now. For what I do I like it. I have had a semi-crappy week so haven't had as much time playing with my new toy (got my 920 on Monday night) as I would like but while fresh... I signed in and Linkedin/ Twitter integration was done. Added a Facebook account and a Gmail account and pretty much done. All my contacts populated, I have IM or SMS as I choose, normal stuff but the accounts wok more smoothly. Took off all the ATT apps. Tile sizes, like it, spending way to much time figuring out which tiles are needing to go where. When their commericals 'reinvented around you' showed up I thought meh, but what you pick does really show how you use your phone. My wife jokes that she is horrified to be the 'social butterfly' but my tile set choices and various friends tile sets are very different. I like the Family Room feature. The Rooms feature is kind of like an expanded Groups feature but with an automatically generate 'shared OneNote' prep'd for you as wel as a Calender and IM in a spot. I set mine to backup configuration and pictures to the cloud so it all shows on my SkyDrive. I keep hearing about this 'lack of apps' but it hasn't affected my use. I have some games, Amazon kindle and mobile, DeekFit Gym Pro and Crunchyroll. The Weather Channel app came on it but I am debating about switching to what I used on my old phone. Since I have a Xbox music subscription none of the other services matter to me. If you have a long term relationship with a specific app with data in it, I could see your concern but otherwise there isn't anything I am doing that I couldn't do natively or found an app for. While I haven't changed the defaults on the lock screen of what notifications show up because they work for me, my wife immediatly did on hers. I am still finding my way around the Windows 8 / wp8 desktop sync tools. It did pick up my music from my XBox Music selections without a sync but I like local music. Just haven't had time to explore the differences. I suspect it has more to do with some fundamental differences and that I haven't sat down and looked at them much yet. My dad likes his (7.5) becuase his Black Berry was having frequent issues with mail account authentication and no matter what it would just lose it's mind so I took a chance and talked him into it. He loves it. The email and contacts just plain work so that and the ability to make text bigger with pinch to zoom is his 'killer feature' but I know he's got like 10 games on it which he always _ahems_ about. I suspect he will go for the Nokia 820 which is a little smaller when it's renewal for him. So... I like my phone becuase it just works. My old one did as well, but this one seems smoother. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Ben M. Schorr b...@rolandschorr.comwrote: We use OneNote with shared notebooks hosted on our SharePoint server. Syncs beautifully to Windows Phone. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr Tower – Flagstaff Office 928-526-3970 www.rolandschorr.com * www.twitter.com/bschorr * www.facebook.com/RolandSchorr -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows phone 8 What's the big killer features of Exchange Notes? Wait for it Notetaking! (Sorry :) On a serious note, the lack of this has drove our company mad. We used to get Notes sync via Good Messaging, but then they dropped it. ActiveSync STILL doesn't do it. At this day in age, I find that insane. Not even Windows Phone 8 fully implemented their own AES protocol?!? Color me baffled. For now, until Good brings Notes back to the clients, I've told my user to stick with Springpad or Evernote for personal notes. Sam -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: windows phone 8 As someone who doesn't have Exchange, I'm curious: What's the big killer features of Exchange Notes? What makes it so important to have on your phone? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:09:43 -0800 Subject: Re: windows phone 8 I have the Nokia 920 on order with Rogers here in Toronto, all the reviews
Re: SSH (PuTTY) session from Windows2008R2
http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ Maybe try Kitty. Probably won't work but I figured I would toss it out on the pile. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote: I’d much prefer not using telnet! I see it to be about the same as doing remote management using the WiFi at the coffee shop with the laptop firewall disabled. Not looking like Cisco offers a particularly good alternative, though. ** ** *From:* Steve Kradel [mailto:skra...@zetetic.net] *Sent:* Friday, November 09, 2012 3:03 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: SSH (PuTTY) session from Windows2008R2 ** ** You might also check if sshd is configured to allow username + password login. The more secure choice is to require RSA/DSA authentication exclusively (oh, and not to use telnet whatsoever). ** ** --Steve On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Kevin ke...@latenightgeek.com wrote: It could be several things. Improperly configured SSH server settings. An SSH bug in IOS. (there have been several as i recall) OR something i can't think of. Something to put on your list of things to look into at a later time. Glad the that mystery is solved though. Best of luck! On 11/9/2012 9:51 AM, Richard McClary wrote: Tried an assortment of PuTTY configurations, including SSH 1, different encryption settings, etc. All returned the same message (looking at raw captures) – encryption was successful, but authentication failed. Yes, finding either an old PuTTY, or another SSH client is possible. The main thing is, it is no longer a mystery. Thanks!- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SSH (PuTTY) session from Windows2008R2 OK - so not a Windows firewall issue. Does the Cisco allow ssh v1? If so, does using v1 work? As somebody else suggested, perhaps a newer or older version of putty might work better. Kurt On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgmailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: This is definitely a W2K8-to-Cisco situation. Again, as per my reply to Kim, the Cisco stack is still running SSH 1.99. That SSH version seems to be the cause. (Weird, though, because the same copy of PuTTY on an MS OS other than W2K8) will log into the Cisco stack just fine. Jonathan asked about the login box. It is the Cisco login box, and it is identical to what is seen when connecting from other OS. As to why connecting from Win2008 – well, we have a boss and (also) a network guy in NJ. Home office is on Manhattan. Travel in that area is still rather restricted. Network guy has only his assigned laptop and is trying to work remotely… The Cisco switch is not allowing a connection from outside the physical LAN (he is using Juniper Network Connect). So, having been told that the switch will accept a connection from within the LAN, he needed a machine from within our LAN. Again, not having a desktop system within the LAN, and he being our principal AD administrator, attempted to do his Cisco work through one of the Win2K8 (NOT a DC!) systems he works on. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.orgmailto: ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SSH (PuTTY) session from Windows2008R2 That wont do it. Have you set the putty.exe to run as administrator in the client properties? And definitely should be using SSH v2 and higher to manage your switches. I just wonder why you are doing it from a Windows 2008 server? I put copied my putty.exe to a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 server and created a session to my Backtrack 5 R3 box via SSH. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.orgmailto:ezi...@lifespan.org From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SSH (PuTTY) session from Windows2008R2 Will the Windows client let you “telnet ipaddress 22” ? From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 9:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SSH (PuTTY) session from Windows2008R2 Greetings! We use PuTTY for SSH sessions to manage various devices. An issue has recently been discovered by us here… We have no problem logging in to our Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch stack via SSH from machines running Windows XP, Windows 7, or Windows 2003. However, if we are logged into a Windows 2008R2 system… Using PuTTY, we connect to the switch stack and get a login box. After providing user name and password, we are denied access. Using telnet (MS version enabled in the “Features” page of Control Panel/Applications), we can log in
Re: OT McAfee wanted for murder.
He was bought out years ago. Gizmodo did an article on his increasingly erratic behavior last week and a few months ago. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Stephen Holtz ste...@addisonreserve.ccwrote: Well that explains the problems with their product! ** ** *Stephen L. Holtz, MCSE, MCT* Director of Information Technology Addison Reserve Country Club 7201 Addison Reserve Blvd. Delray Beach, Fl. 33446 Ph: 561-455-1220 Cell: 561-441-0646 www.addisonreserve.cc [image: ARLogo][image: PlatinumClub] Proudly recognized as a 5-Star Platinum Club of America. ** ** This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by replying to this message and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ** ** *From:* Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] *Sent:* Monday, November 12, 2012 1:54 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT McAfee wanted for murder. ** ** ** ** There are a lot of possible one liners here, but I will refrain out of respect for the dead. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57548458-83/antivirus-pioneer-john-mcafee-reportedly-accused-of-murder/ ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadminimage002.jpgimage001.jpg
Re: Symantec %@(*OI:TNGF(P*
The first rule of Symantec is you don't talk about symantec On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Robert Cato cato.rob...@gmail.com wrote: It is SEP12, I'm sorry I do not know the definition file, that is handled by the security group...and they don't really want to talk about Symantec right now. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: curious, SEP 11 or 12, and what definitions when this happened ? Thanks On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Robert Cato cato.rob...@gmail.comwrote: Yep, all on its own. Granted this was based on setting that were made during installation, based on recommendations from the onstie Symantec vendor/engineer. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: “SEP quarantined the files and then went to all machines on the network and quarantined them on all machines…” ** ** Holy smokes, it decided to do that on it’s own? And quarantined the machines that had NOT been updated yet? ** ** So glad I don’t run AV. ** ** ** ** *From:* Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, November 08, 2012 8:45 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Symantec %@(*OI:TNGF(P* ** ** Ken These two updates were only installed on a couple of Win7 machines at most. They were approved during the day for install overnight, a couple of users saw the pop-up and installed. SEP quarantined the files and then went to all machines on the network and quarantined them on all machines (Win7, Vista, and XP). It would be nice if we had a separate network, but I'm not sure that will get approved. Robert ** ** On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Even if you don’t have a separate network, you can create a separate group in WSUS, and put a test machine(s) with your SOE image in that group. That would allow you to test patches prior to mass deployment. Checking for AV issues would be just one thing – I’d recommend that you have some test cases for all your important apps as well. Cheers Ken *From:* Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, 8 November 2012 9:48 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Symantec %@(*OI:TNGF(P* Ken, That was my first question, but it is still unanswered. I am still new at this %dayjob%. In this case, the testing would have had to be done in a separate network, which I am fairly sure we don't have. I will take that suggestion to the table when we analyze the breakdowns of this incident. Robert On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: No matter who you migrate to, you’ll also run into issues (false positives seem to occur all the time, with all vendors). Did you test the patches before releasing to Production? Might be worth beefing up the testing regime. *From:* Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, 8 November 2012 5:22 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Symantec %@(*OI:TNGF(P* FYI We approved two MS patches yesterday (KB2574819 KB2592687) in WSUS. One user installed the two updates in the afternoon and Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 with several advanced features enabled (threat protection, hurestics, SONAR, etc). SEP quarrantined 15 system files, run32.dll among them. The real problems started when SEP decided to quarantine the files across all ~600 workstations taking us completely offline. The fix was to boot each workstation into safe mode and removing SEP.** ** It was a long night. The good news: None of the advanced features were enabled on the servers. We are migrating away from SEP as of this morning. Robert ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body:
Re: MS Uninstaller
This one? http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall I use it to unistall bad OpsManger agents installs all the time. It's cause I am lazy and it cleans out the registry :) On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Thought it might help me on this stubborn issue in my off net lab and downloaded the offline version… ** ** I usually scoff at the fixits ,they often include the actual solution you can do manually…I was desperate so I tried it since they didn’t offer the actual fix, just the exe. ** ** It does give a nice consumer oriented error with fancy formatting :-p ** ** Troubleshooting cannot continue because an error has occurred. We’re sorry, but the program encountered an error trying to contact the server. Please try again later. ** ** What freaking part of offline is so difficult to grasp? ** ** *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, November 08, 2012 12:21 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* [dkim-failure] MS Uninstaller ** ** I didn't realize this existed until today. Work easily to remove a stubborn app without an uninstall option. ** ** http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2438651 Roger Wright ___ Congressional Mantra: Spending will continue increase until deficits improve. ** ** ** ** ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- PGE is committed to protecting our customers' privacy. To learn more, please visit http://www.pge.com/about/company/privacy/customer/ -- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: The Ripple Effect of Windows 8 - Datamation
Windows 8 is a big change but in many other ways it's not that big. I remember the change from 'progman' to explorer (start menu). The most common joke was 'I have to go to Start to shut down?' My original first IT centric job (as opposed to also being the computer guy who did other stuff mostly) was as a grunt migrating desktops from DOS/Win3.11/Banyon vines to WinNT3.51 in an Enterprise. I remember when Windows NT 4 came out some people came unglued. However, they did a big education push after smaller trials with newsletters and documentation to prepare the user population for the change and it went from RAWR IT'S CHANGING to 'Hurry up and migrate me already!' over the course of the year. Any deployment should have some variation of this to properly manage any change, whether the interface is the same or it changes. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: I was expecting this article to be about an “organization”, not a “Consultancy”, using their environment as a test bed. ** ** This article would have read a lot differently if this was about a Fortune 500 company. ** ** Seems to me it was just an article lightly bashing Windows 8. ** ** No offense meant to anyone. ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:27 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: The Ripple Effect of Windows 8 - Datamation ** ** Sometimes it takes a disaster to make management pay attention to your goals. Sometimes you can make a disaster to achieve your goals... On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: He said RTM, not GA – but still. You are right. *From:* Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 7, 2012 12:31 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: The Ripple Effect of Windows 8 - Datamation Wow, they sure got a lot done in the week since Win 8 released. Sent from my Windows Phone -- *From: *Angus Scott-Fleming *Sent: *11/6/2012 9:04 PM *To: *NT System Admin Issues *Subject: *The Ripple Effect of Windows 8 - Datamation Fascinating article. The Ripple Effect of Windows 8 - Datamation http://www.datamation.com/applications/the-ripple-effect-of-windows-8-1.html When our firm's employees found Windows 8 too unwieldy, we transitioned to Linux Mint instead and soon found that we didn't need any Microsoft products at all. I have known the author online for a couple of years, he's an active Spiceworks user and an experienced Windows admin. Angus -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you
Re: New job: AD is a mess
Might come in handy. AD Replication Status Tool http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/08/23/ad-replication-status-tool-is-live.aspx On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:20 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Learn ADFIND and OLDCOMP.exe for AD cleanup. Also LDIFDE and CSVDE if you need to make bulk changes (like changing UPN from @ABD to ABCDomain.com and the like) ** ** *From:* Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2012 8:21 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* New job: AD is a mess ** ** Hi Folks, ** ** I started a new job a week ago and I'm auditing the various systems for which I am responsible. ** ** Active Directory is a mess. It is still at Windows 2000 functional level. I need to address this before a planned migration to Exchange 2010. There are a few Windows 2000 domain controllers that I need to decommission, and my memory is foggy on Windows 2000. ** ** The name for the AD domain is like ABCdomain.com. The pre- Windows 2000 name is just ABC. Oddly, a number of systems seem to want to use ABC and not ABCdomain - these are 2003 servers and PCs mostly. Are there any tools anyone knows of that can tell me which systems refer to that. Since I'm new and the previous person left no documentation, I'm hunting alot now. All of the user IDs have the ABD domain name listed in the Account tab of their accounts, and the field is user logon name (Pre-Windows 2000). ** ** Here's the plan to at least remove the 2000 domain controllers (there are 2003/2008 DCs): 1. create new GPOs to address printer and drive mappings. Currently done via mix of batch and kixtart files. 2. Update the account information for users accounts from ABC to ABCdomain (necessary?? ). 3. Demote Windows 2000 domain controllers. 4. Change domain/functional levels to 2003 (minimum required for Exchange 2010). ** ** I'm sure I'm missing something. Comments/recommendations appreciated. ** ** Tom ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: East Coast people out there?
Now is the time for everyone to look at their supplies and gear and ask, Do I have sufficient resources to go for 7 days? If the answer is no, then I suggest you figure out what you would need and start planning for it. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I heard on the radio while driving to work this morning that over 2m people were still without power. I feel for them - a few years ago after a windstorm I went without power for 7 days, and that was bad enough, even though most of the surrounding area had power and I could go out to eat, shower at work, etc., and I had no kids then. I have trouble imagining trying to get through this when *everyone* around you has no power (except for those few with generators), and you have kids, etc. Kurt On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: NYC and NJ are still hurting. Some folks in NJ have gotten their power back recently, but it's still not good overall. *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker** *Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market…* On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.comwrote: I'm in Philly. No problems here. Power never went out, so no need for UPS or generators to kick in. I happen to live close by my data center, and my lights flickered once or twice, but that was all.. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: Just South of Philly here. Storm moved through here quicker than expected, so my area escaped fairly unscathed, considering. From what I’ve seen on the news, NY got it pretty hard. ** ** Jersey shore got hammered. ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:45 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT: East Coast people out there? ** ** Anyone else on the east coast dealing with the aftermath of Sandy? Still waiting to hear how our NY office faired. Chris - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To
Re: East Coast people out there?
Infrastructure is hard. I remember as a kid in the 70's waiting in lines. Especially when you have something but because of loss of power, damage, roadway obstruction, etc you can't get it where you need it. Because I happen to be reading this page for a co-worker and have it up right now http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13384 But VMware has a product that does this as well as other companies. This kind of stuff costs money but this is something to cost out. Define your services: What is 'Critical' to your business. What is 'Important' What is 'Nice to have' Based on that, inventory and identify what components are needed to accomplish that. If you can use this information when building out your systems so that you can accommadate that vision. Define plans of what you 'could do' and what you want to do. However, while the 'technical' part of this is important all of the questions that have to be answered first have to be developed and answered by the business side FIRST. Because that determines your budget and effort. You also need provisions in place for people. It doesn't matter if you have your entire infrastructure duplicated and running in a remote site if no one can get to it to accomplish work during or immediatly after the 'event'. Do your people have an emergency number to call so they know status? Where to go (the fall over site/remotely access/etc). Before you do the technical, start with the business side. You will do far more annoying meetings and discussions and planning and modifying to arrive at an agreement (then fighting for a budget which will be a whole new round of meetings, etc) before you can implement. There is a lot of mitigation you can do even if you don't fail over if you have the business priorities known ahead of time. To sum up get the business needs and priorities down now that you have your managements attention. Good luck, Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the NY area, specifically Queens and my part of the borough was unaffected. My data center is in the Flatiron part of Manhattan, and power was restored friday night. Two of my DC's crashed and corrupted the AD database with it. It also brought down DNS, which brought down a bunch of other services, vcenter an exchange being the biggest. Needless to say, I spent the entire night morning with PSS bringing my AD back to life. I spent the remainder of Saturday bringing everything else back online. Luckily, not too much was damaged as a result of the power loss. Now that the network is up and running, I have to focus my efforts on preparing the network for this kind of outage again. I've never personally dealt with such a prolonged loss of power and am real curious to here from folks on this list, how do you handle the continuance/survivability of your network? I actually have a lot of question for the list, but will try and stagger them as appropriate. Hope everyone out there is well. Harry. BTW, the gas shortages and lines are creating lines that I've never seen. I'm talking anywhere from 1-3 miles and people waiting online for gas for close to 4 hours in some places. I wasn't around in the 70's, so I can't imagine how it was when the embargo happened, but this a first for me. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: Now there are gas shortages and whatever public transportation is up and running is jammed because not many people can drive. ** ** I’m praying that this Noreaster coming stays out at sea. ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2012 1:14 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: East Coast people out there? ** ** I heard on the radio while driving to work this morning that over 2m people were still without power. I feel for them - a few years ago after a windstorm I went without power for 7 days, and that was bad enough, even though most of the surrounding area had power and I could go out to eat, shower at work, etc., and I had no kids then. I have trouble imagining trying to get through this when *everyone* around you has no power (except for those few with generators), and you have kids, etc. Kurt ** ** On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: NYC and NJ are still hurting. ** ** Some folks in NJ have gotten their power back recently
Re: East Coast people out there?
Not sure, but companies like this may experience a surge in inquiries so you may want to get your call in now :) On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: That's a great piece of information Jim, Thank you. This seems like exactly what I would need. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: You may remember my AC disaster a few weeks ago. My advice is hire a professional to come in and audit your AC, power, fire suppression, ups setup…the whole nine yards. Best way to prepare your network for that kind of a disaster is to keep it up. We hired a company that does just that and not much else. They do not do the repairs or push you towards vendors. They work for you, figure it all out and give you budgetary numbers on costs and help you get it done. They will act as your construction manager if you want. ** ** We are just in the beginnings, the initial audit and site visit. They are now pouring over the building drawings. But I spent the whole day with them and these people know their stuff. I am confident they will come back with a really good plan. I am sure there are others out there that do this kind of thing. ** ** www.techsiteplan.com ** ** ** ** *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2012 1:39 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: East Coast people out there? ** ** I have to focus my efforts on preparing the network for this kind of outage again….. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?)
Ah, a follower of the TIP development method then... This often follows hand in hand with solid SLAs. Test In Production. Service Level Assumptions. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: But how can you properly test stuff in development unless you test it in (on) production? :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?) That leads to #7 on my list - not maintaining separate production and dev networks. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Wow, who knew?
On the bottom of the services.msc there is the Extended/Standard tab. It defaults to the Extended view. Had a PSS person point it out to me years ago and last year when on a different call I switched views and the PSS person was surprised. This tech is so rich with these diverse and helpful options that we either forget or never realize all the little details. Steven On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:07 PM, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: I had the exact same thing. Was amazed when I saw it. ** ** James. ** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 October 2012 5:32 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Wow, who knew? ** ** I was years into my IT career before I was shown you can drag an executable into the Run window and have it populate the file path complete with quotes. Sure makes it easy when having to add switches. - Sean On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:44 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Yeah I actually get that, but I still think it's funny (and fun) to find the little things. Funnier is when some non-tech person (however in my experience it's usually someone exceedingly proficient in some MS Office application), shows you a keyboard shortcut and are surprised that we don't know it. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wow, who knew? LOL. Being 'senior' is more a matter of attitude and approach than knowing minutae - although sometimes tenure is used as a measure, unfortunately. Kurt On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:30 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Wowgood thing I've already got promoted... -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wow, who knew? On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:33 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: When full screen RDP’d to a system that gives you the little “tab” at the top where you get minimize, maximize and close buttons, I never knew you could grab and slide that little bar left and right! Very useful when using say, LogMeIn… Yeah, and if you hit the pushpin icon on the left the tab will roll up completely out of the way, too. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: You may be an IT geek if...
Nice to know seeing as I am building out my home lab now. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: It is how I tested Live Migration and migrating clusters from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012 (note: you can absolutely have single-node clusters!). J ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:55 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* You may be an IT geek if... ** ** The machine you do all your business from – accounting, etc. – is a VM running on a PowerEdge server in your house. ** ** It’s also a convenient way to confirm you can do full DR with your stuff. Sure, it’s not “cloud” but I don’t want that for this purpose anyway… *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Windows 8 app behaviour
I like Aidan Finn's take on it from a while ago. I think he's nicer about it then I am. http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13212 While I don't recall the WIndows XP thing he references I do recall the progman explorer start menu panic in the cube farms during WinNT3.51 - Nt4. So far, every single co-worker that 'finally' took the plunge TO wiNDOWS 8 after a week has stopped ranting and started mumbling it seems ok and I like feature Feature usually is HyperV, multi-monitor support, task bar imporvements, task manger improvements or some combination of. tHE REASON THEY MUM On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose I'll have to grab a copy and see how it works. Kurt On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: This is only true of metro apps. Desktop apps follow the standard we are used to. And quite frankly, everyone (or most) on this mailing list will spend almost all of their time on the desktop. IMO. YMMV. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 app behaviour Forgive my poor memory, but isn't this the kind of multitasking that Win3.x brought us? Kurt On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: It seems that it is similar to the Windows Phone 7.5 model. After “about” six apps get suspended, Win8 starts closing the apps that have been suspended the longest. I say “about” because it can fool you – several apps with different UIs are actually a single app. For example, Mail and People are a single app. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 app behaviour I bet it does add up when you multiply the suspension overhead by (however many apps your average user can manage to open up in a single session). I'm sure its better than the traditional model tho. On 11 October 2012 13:51, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: They get suspended when you move to another app. So, they do use resources (some storage to store their suspended state), but that resource usage shouldn’t slow down your computer (I think that’s how the argument goes…) See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464925.aspx Cheers Ken From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012 11:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 8 app behaviour Just saw this from Brian Madden From the Win8 FAQ: In Windows 8, apps you install from the Windows Store don’t slow down your computer, so you don’t need to close them Sounds novel, apps without resource footprints. Cool! (Apologies to those who may follow Brian on Twitter and have already seen this) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER I certainly don't have time to monitor the content of e-mail sent and received via this account for the purposes of ensuring compliance with anyone's policies and procedures. I am pretty sure that somewhere in UK legislation there is some politically-correct drivel that stipulates I must never send or store e-mails or attachments that are obscene, indecent, sexist, racist, defamatory, abusive, in breach of copyright, encrypted, amusing, overly long, slightly opinionated, anonymous, likely to harm animals or hurt the feelings of an as-yet-unspecified or as-yet-nonexistent minority (such as extraterrestrial eggplants). Emails of this nature sent in or out of this account may be intercepted and stopped by the system, but it's a long shot. This being the UK, even if I was prosecuted for breach of said email guidelines, I'd probably walk with a suspended sentence anyway, but if I'd forgotten to pay my car insurance, I'd most certainly be hung, drawn and quartered. I am not responsible for any changes made to the message after it has been sent, in more or less the same way that cyclozine manufacturers aren't responsible for drug addicts mixing it with methadone and overdosing, so I'm glad I cleared the confusion up there nice and early. Where opinions are expressed, they are not necessarily mine. However, I don't make a habit of expressing other people's opinions for them, so you shouldn't take that statement as an indication that I am in the business of providing an opinion-expressing
Re: Windows 8 app behaviour
gah! co-worker thought he'd be funny and grab my chair so it got sent to soon. Sorry about the ending. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: I like Aidan Finn's take on it from a while ago. I think he's nicer about it then I am. http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13212 While I don't recall the WIndows XP thing he references I do recall the progman explorer start menu panic in the cube farms during WinNT3.51 - Nt4. So far, every single co-worker that 'finally' took the plunge TO wiNDOWS 8 after a week has stopped ranting and started mumbling it seems ok and I like feature Feature usually is HyperV, multi-monitor support, task bar imporvements, task manger improvements or some combination of. tHE REASON THEY MUM On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose I'll have to grab a copy and see how it works. Kurt On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: This is only true of metro apps. Desktop apps follow the standard we are used to. And quite frankly, everyone (or most) on this mailing list will spend almost all of their time on the desktop. IMO. YMMV. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 app behaviour Forgive my poor memory, but isn't this the kind of multitasking that Win3.x brought us? Kurt On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: It seems that it is similar to the Windows Phone 7.5 model. After “about” six apps get suspended, Win8 starts closing the apps that have been suspended the longest. I say “about” because it can fool you – several apps with different UIs are actually a single app. For example, Mail and People are a single app. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 app behaviour I bet it does add up when you multiply the suspension overhead by (however many apps your average user can manage to open up in a single session). I'm sure its better than the traditional model tho. On 11 October 2012 13:51, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: They get suspended when you move to another app. So, they do use resources (some storage to store their suspended state), but that resource usage shouldn’t slow down your computer (I think that’s how the argument goes…) See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464925.aspx Cheers Ken From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012 11:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 8 app behaviour Just saw this from Brian Madden From the Win8 FAQ: In Windows 8, apps you install from the Windows Store don’t slow down your computer, so you don’t need to close them Sounds novel, apps without resource footprints. Cool! (Apologies to those who may follow Brian on Twitter and have already seen this) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER I certainly don't have time to monitor the content of e-mail sent and received via this account for the purposes of ensuring compliance with anyone's policies and procedures. I am pretty sure that somewhere in UK legislation there is some politically-correct drivel that stipulates I must never send or store e-mails or attachments that are obscene, indecent, sexist, racist, defamatory, abusive, in breach of copyright, encrypted, amusing, overly long, slightly opinionated, anonymous, likely to harm animals or hurt the feelings of an as-yet-unspecified or as-yet-nonexistent minority (such as extraterrestrial eggplants). Emails of this nature sent in or out of this account may be intercepted and stopped by the system, but it's a long shot. This being the UK, even if I was prosecuted for breach of said email guidelines, I'd probably walk with a suspended sentence anyway, but if I'd forgotten to pay my car insurance, I'd most certainly be hung, drawn and quartered. I am not responsible for any changes made to the message after it has been sent, in more or less the same way that cyclozine manufacturers aren't responsible for drug addicts mixing it with methadone and overdosing, so I'm glad I cleared the confusion up there nice and early. Where opinions are expressed, they are not necessarily mine. However, I
Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen
I was curious so did some random searches. This threa was the only one that looked interesting. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w8itprogeneral/thread/4765d750-2925-48aa-8cc0-f68cbf827872 There doesn't appear to be a whole lot of documentation out there at the moment. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: It’s possible to restrict the appearance of some tiles, but I am not aware of any way to wholesale control them. ** ** *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 8, 2012 6:09 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen ** ** This is what I get for staying up so late……. I am looking to control the tiles ** ** *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 08, 2012 4:27 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen ** ** Is there a way to control what titles are displayed to a user when they login? I was hoping this was something that can be controlled via GP. ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen
Well, to be honest, Server 2012 doesn't come with much of anythign metro installed out of the box so there isn't much to 'customize'. Windows 8 obviously has a ton of metro apps by default so that's a different situation. I don't think on the server side this alone would stop me from moving to Server 2012 with all of it's other advantages/improvements. That said, I am anxiously awaitng System Center sp1. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com wrote: Not a lot of documentation at all. I am starting to rethink using 2012 at this point. Sent from my Windows Phone -- From: Steven Peck Sent: 10/8/2012 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen I was curious so did some random searches. This threa was the only one that looked interesting. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w8itprogeneral/thread/4765d750-2925-48aa-8cc0-f68cbf827872 There doesn't appear to be a whole lot of documentation out there at the moment. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: It’s possible to restrict the appearance of some tiles, but I am not aware of any way to wholesale control them. ** ** *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 8, 2012 6:09 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen ** ** This is what I get for staying up so late……. I am looking to control the tiles ** ** *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 08, 2012 4:27 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen ** ** Is there a way to control what titles are displayed to a user when they login? I was hoping this was something that can be controlled via GP.*** * ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen
I swithed to BING a while ago. For my searches it seems to work just fine. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: *B*ut *I*t’s *N*ot *G*oogle *John W. Cook* *Network Operations Manager* *Partnership For Strong Families* *5950 NW 1st Place* *Gainesville, Fl 32607* *Office (352) 244-1610* *Cell (352) 215-6944* *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP**4, VTSP4* *From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 08, 2012 2:28 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen I just can’t take that search site seriously; every time I see it, I think “Bing, bing, bing, Ricochet Rabbit”. Google it (not Bing) if you’re too young to know who that is. *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] *Sent:* Monday, October 08, 2012 1:16 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen Hahahaha, the first 7 items are Bing related! Great article though. *John W. Cook* *Network Operations Manager* *Partnership For Strong Families* *5950 NW 1st Place* *Gainesville, Fl 32607* *Office (352) 244-1610* *Cell (352) 215-6944* *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4* *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 08, 2012 1:05 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen Oh that’s a good idea. I had not thought of REMOVING the apps to make them disappear. D’OH! *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 8, 2012 12:15 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen I was curious so did some random searches. This threa was the only one that looked interesting. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w8itprogeneral/thread/4765d750-2925-48aa-8cc0-f68cbf827872 There doesn't appear to be a whole lot of documentation out there at the moment. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: It’s possible to restrict the appearance of some tiles, but I am not aware of any way to wholesale control them. *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 8, 2012 6:09 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen This is what I get for staying up so late……. I am looking to control the tiles *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 08, 2012 4:27 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen Is there a way to control what titles are displayed to a user when they login? I was hoping this was something that can be controlled via GP. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected
Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen
ow. I will continue to blame my keyboard for any and all spelling errors. Since it's invovled at some point, it must be at fault. :) Now, I have to swish off to lunch. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: That Steven is just a swish buckling fool. ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** *From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] *Subject:* RE: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen ** ** Thath nithe, I’m glad you swished ** ** lol ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Subject:* Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen ** ** I swithed to BING a while ago. For my searches it seems to work just fine. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: *B*ut *I*t’s *N*ot *G*oogle ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Powershell question - property to determine group vs user, using Quest Get-QADUser
This will get only user type objects
Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName -type 'user'
This will get only user type objects AND users from any nested groups.
Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName -type 'user' -indirect
So if the rest of your script currently works that should be the only
change you have to make to that part.
I will point out that your use of the Select Name is destroying the
object data in the pipeline. It looks like you might be able to avoid that
extra $Employee = Get-QADUser $User.Name user look up call. I'd have to
play with it more but I am trying to actually have an answer to a PoSH
question before MBS gets in with the solution for once so I could be
wrong. :)
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm confused about something. I am writing a Powershell script, using
the Quest AD CMDLETs. I have a list of groups that I need to retrieve
the membership list for. But I don't want any group members that are
themselves groups (i.e., no nested groups); I only want users. And I
am not sure how best to accomplish this. At the moment, my script
loops thought my list of groups, and I get the list of names who are
members:
$TheUsers = Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName | Select Name | Sort -property
Name
I then loop through the returned user list and output individual user
accounts that are not disabled into a spreadsheet.
ForEach ($User in $TheUsers)
{
$Employee = Get-QADUser $User.Name
$DisabledUser = $Employee.AccountIsDisabled
IF ( $DisabledUser -eq $false )
{
$Cells.Item($CurrentRow, $CurrentCol) =
$GroupCounter
(I don't want to make the pipelining too complicated, in case the
other guys need to maintain this script in my absence)
And so forth. But what I don't know is how to determine that $Employee
is a person and not a group. I'm sure it's simple and pretty much
staring me in the face, but I'm not seeing it. Groups have no
AccountIsDisabled property, apparently, so any groups who are
members of the group I am searching are not falling through into the
section that formats the spreadsheet.
SO: when I do a Get-QADUser someuser, what property should I be
looking at to determine that someuser is actually a group? Then I
can modify my IF statement appropriately.
Thanks, and sorry for being such a n00b at this ...
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Re: Powershell question - property to determine group vs user, using Quest Get-QADUser
So...
$TheUsers = Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName -type 'user'
At this moment you have the user objects and their properties so let's try
$TheUsers | Get-Member
Looking at the Properties field there is a AccountIsDisabled property..
yay. Lot's of other properties as well which is nice since you have
already paid the price for lookup.
$TheUsers = Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName -type 'user'
foreach ($user in $TheUsers) { if ($user.AccountIsdisabled -eq $false) {
Write-Output $user.name } }
That should work without the extra Get-QADUser lookup which will speed the
script up.
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote:
This will get only user type objects
Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName -type 'user'
This will get only user type objects AND users from any nested groups.
Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName -type 'user' -indirect
So if the rest of your script currently works that should be the only
change you have to make to that part.
I will point out that your use of the Select Name is destroying the
object data in the pipeline. It looks like you might be able to avoid that
extra $Employee = Get-QADUser $User.Name user look up call. I'd have to
play with it more but I am trying to actually have an answer to a PoSH
question before MBS gets in with the solution for once so I could be
wrong. :)
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm confused about something. I am writing a Powershell script, using
the Quest AD CMDLETs. I have a list of groups that I need to retrieve
the membership list for. But I don't want any group members that are
themselves groups (i.e., no nested groups); I only want users. And I
am not sure how best to accomplish this. At the moment, my script
loops thought my list of groups, and I get the list of names who are
members:
$TheUsers = Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName | Select Name | Sort -property
Name
I then loop through the returned user list and output individual user
accounts that are not disabled into a spreadsheet.
ForEach ($User in $TheUsers)
{
$Employee = Get-QADUser $User.Name
$DisabledUser = $Employee.AccountIsDisabled
IF ( $DisabledUser -eq $false )
{
$Cells.Item($CurrentRow, $CurrentCol) =
$GroupCounter
(I don't want to make the pipelining too complicated, in case the
other guys need to maintain this script in my absence)
And so forth. But what I don't know is how to determine that $Employee
is a person and not a group. I'm sure it's simple and pretty much
staring me in the face, but I'm not seeing it. Groups have no
AccountIsDisabled property, apparently, so any groups who are
members of the group I am searching are not falling through into the
section that formats the spreadsheet.
SO: when I do a Get-QADUser someuser, what property should I be
looking at to determine that someuser is actually a group? Then I
can modify my IF statement appropriately.
Thanks, and sorry for being such a n00b at this ...
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Re: Server 2012 - System Center 2012?
Well the other part is dev teams can do a lot with pre-release code and such but they really can't be solid until RTM. Now, RTM is code release right? How much is left for documentation, etc now? The System Center Suite is an incredibly large complex set of interralated moving parts. One thing I am lookat now myself is can the 'promise' of some of the TechEd 2012 Private Cloud video's be made real. We have a fairly mature VMware environment and being able to partially integrate the VMware environment into SCOM/SCVMM/SCCM would be really cool. I saw the video's where they demo it with vSphere 4. Hopefully the service pack will allow 5/5.1. But there is a lack of technical docs on the actual implementation. I just finishing putting together the hardware at home to try and see if I can make it work like the video's. This will get me two things, one a solution at work and the other, content for blog posts :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com wrote: I can agree with that, I am in a unique situation where I am deploying a completely new infrastructure and have decided to deploy everything on Server 2012. All and all I have been very happy with 2012. ** ** Cheers Ryan ** ** ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:50 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Server 2012 - System Center 2012? ** ** No… doesn’t even make good sense for them to do so. ** ** Companies, at least those with some level of operational maturity, need to have a chance to begin testing a deployment of a new server OS and evaluating it before they begin the process of putting critical business applications on that new operating system. ** ** *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com r...@finnesey.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:02 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Server 2012 - System Center 2012? ** ** I would of thought they would have had all the service packs ready when they released Server 2012 but maybe I am just trying to push the envelope a bit too quickly. ** ** *From:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:30 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Server 2012 - System Center 2012? ** ** Yep. Same with Config Mgr. ** ** On a side note, Exchange 2010 SP3 is going to be coming out, which will allow Exchange 2013 boxes in your 2010 environment, and allow Exch 2010 on Server 2012. So, Exchange doesn’t work on Server 2012 at the moment, either. ** ** Joe Heaton ITB – Enterprise Server Support ** ** *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com r...@finnesey.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:41 PM *To:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Server 2012 - System Center 2012? ** ** Am I correct that I cannot use System Center 2012 – DPM or OM with Server 2012 until System Center 2012 SP1 is released? ** ** Cheers Ryan ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http
Re: Everyone is the IT department
My dad has that printed out next to the computers and he does in fact use it. On the article. It's obvious he doesn't actually work in a job with or on computers. Nor does he work with or in a regulated industry. IT NEVER controlled it's users, a businesses management did. IT often took the blame for various implementations things and sometimes they were at fault for their own practices but it's never really been ITs job to 'control' their users. It's IT's job to implement company policies so that a company can get work done. That said, we control our users access to the infrastructure they 'need' to use any BYOD items (which we still don't have a policy for). I see a BYOD policy working for us with a certain segment of our user population. Senior management. Sales. Special directors or managers. Some IT support and/or development teams. I do not see the vast majority or regular employees even wanting to embrace this just due to their job function. I am in fact sure that none of them have the remotest interest in performing their jobs on a screen the size of a phone or tablet. I don't see anything new in this article. It's an idea that has been floating around for many years now and there is always some new 'standard bearer' calling for trample on the 'old' and make way for the 'new'... yet here we still are having built the infrastructure for the 'new' wondering why 'that guy' is babling about random stuff again. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:50 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: ** It's already been discussed and solved. http://xkcd.com/627/ -- *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:22 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Everyone is the IT department I disagree with this guy, but maybe because I’m so oldschool.. ** ** “Dion Hinchcliffe, an analyst at the Dachis Group and a frequent blogger on the changing enterprise, says it's time for IT to acknowledge they can't control users. Everyone in an organization is the IT department. There's really no gatekeeper anymore. Hinchcliffe, who's delivering a keynote at the CITE One-Day Forum in New York City on October 10, says that users are driving technology adoption in two critical areas: communciations, and self-service IT -- particularly in the form of mobile apps delivered through public app stores. The latter is particularly hard for some IT shops to accept, but it's reality, says Hinchcliffe. IT depts are being disintermediated in a relentless way, and so quickly they can't even react to it. There are millions of apps in these app stores, they're disposable and free, they're easy to throw away if you want to. He continues, We're all consumers. That's the whole point of consumerization. We're all smart enough, we have tools, we can select and acquire software in minutes, try a whole bunch of things, and find the perfect thing for the task at hand. That cycle cant be supported by bureaucracy. Full article here: ** ** http://www.citeworld.com/consumerization/20680/dion-hinchcliffe-everyone-IT?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+citeworld%2Frss+%28CITEworld%29 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Pen test vendors
Then he could be a 'personailty' and talk about random stuff and still make money. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: The only danger there is that he might get pulled into Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte land... On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: My 19yr old is a computer geek wannabe (he has done misc. work for me and picks stuff up QUICK). Today I asked if he was serious about wanting to be an IT guy like me, to which he replied in the affirmative. I told him his first task is to “Tell me who Kevin Mitnik is, list some things he’s done, and why might an IT guy care about knowing this”. I figure I’ll get him on the security slant first. J ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:11 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Pen test vendors ** ** Hee hee! ** ** He’s been a (very) successful security consultant since 2000, and he’s a real business partner of mine in KnowBe4. Great guy to work with too. We wrote the Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training together over an 8 month period. Stu ** ** ** ** *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:55 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Cc:* rich...@gmail.com *Subject:* RE: Pen test vendors ** ** LOL Stu, ** ** You know Kevin is Banned from touching computers anymore… J ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org ** ** *From:* Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:50 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Cc:* 'rich...@gmail.com' *Subject:* RE: Pen test vendors ** ** Richard, ** ** If it’s a relatively straightforward outside-in vulnerability check that gives you the low-hanging fruit, combined with an hour of consulting by a white-hat hacker, than I can do that for you here at KnowBe4 for a –very- low price. http://www.knowbe4.com/products/vulnerability-scanning/ ** ** If you want a high-end pen test done, I can get you in touch with my business partner Kevin Mitnick. ** ** Warm regards, Stu ** ** ** ** *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, September 24, 2012 11:20 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Pen test vendors ** ** Anyone have recommendations for reputable external pen and vulnerability testing vendors? ** ** Thanks, Richard ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
Re: Personal IT Blog?
This is a good base. I don't post screenshots or scripts from work. I do modify anything scripted to be generic (note, I have occasionally messed up but fortunatly work naming standards are generic). I started mine as an experiment, then it became a notepad for myself and when I found stuff to write it up and send to my friends. Later it became part of my stuff for Drupal and now it's back to my big notepad mainly PowerShell but it's going to start moving into SCOM. The stuff you write is in search engines and Internet archives. So definitly remember that. Taking stuff down has a limited effect. Some other random thoughts a. If your blog engine has the ability, set a time out on commenting. Comment spam generally tries for older unmonitored posts. It also cuts own on unwanted support requsts. My post comments lock after 2 weeks, but mine is also back to being a low traffic site as I don't post regularly. b. Find a name for yourself. Semi-generic if posible, your writing will shape your site more then your name and I certainly had no idea my present site would survive as long as it did. Domains are cheap and most blog sites have a way for you to use your own domain name. c. It is great when you search for a solution and get your own site. :) d. if you explain something to people more then twice, you have content for a blog post. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: **a) **I wouldn’t use anything from your actual work environment. Setup a lab if you want to post screenshots. Using work equipment has myriad issues: legal ramifications for you is something goes wrong, or if an attacker is able to use this information to get access to your environment **b) **If this is going to be available to others, then write professionally: what you write will be “out there” forever so to speak. At least, with a blog, you can update/change the content if there’s an error. But if write like a 12 year old teen, then people will draw inferences from that. When you next go for a job or maybe get asked to contribute an article to a magazine, speak somewhere etc, people will google you, and your past efforts will come up J **c) **Be prepared to be flooded with spam, inane requests and all sorts of things. I haven’t put anything on my blog for years, yet people still think I’m a free IT resource. Most are polite, and get it if you can’t help. Some are really weird and have some kind of entitlement mentality. ** ** Good luck ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, 21 September 2012 12:27 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Personal IT Blog? ** ** I was kicking around the idea of starting a personal IT blog to keep track of the things I work on. Seems like if nothing else it would be a nice feather in the cap when it comes time to look for a new job. I'm curious if anyone else does this? If anyone does do it, anything to think about? Obviously any screenshots would need server names, IPs, etc blanked out ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers
Is 'pffft' short for the 'Community involvement' part of the MVP? :) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Pffft. I did nothing here but translate. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, September 21, 2012 10:57 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** Thank you so much MBS – proving once again your MVP is well deserved! KUDOS ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Friday, September 21, 2012 7:51 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** OK. ** ** Final word back from NetApp – the storage guy brought in their AD team: If this is occurring then your setup is incorrect and you need to raise a support call. ** ** There should never be a need to set that option, based on what you have shared as your configuration. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:47 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** Currently yes. ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:35 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** Is it bidirectional? ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:14 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** They were joined to Forest 1 DomainB. The error is when trying to map from a server in Forest2 DomainA. There’s a trust at that level as well, if that matters. ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:48 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** His response: ** ** OK, it's guesswork at this stage but I want to suggest that when they ran CIFS setup on the controllers they selected Option 4. That suggests they did not join the controllers to the domain and are using some LDAP/NIS authentication mechanism and therefore, yes, the controllers are suddenly not Windows boxes members of the domain, but are, sadly, probably exposing CIFS and NFS in the same volume (perfectly supported and legal etc) but not what the Windows clients prefer to play with. Check with them, are the controllers (or the VFilers (they'll know what you mean)) ON the domain. If they are then you shouldn't need the setting you specify (even with the old Windows 2003 clients) but if the controllers are NOT part of the domain then you're dealing with 3rd party and will probably need that setting. That would be time for an infrastructure review to understand why Windows SERVER clients are accessing files off a NetApp NAS when that NAS is not inside the home forest, or at least a trusted Windows forest. ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:07 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** I’ve passed the info along. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:49 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** DFL: 2003 OTAP version: 803Pp2 Windows versions of client devices are 2003 and 2008 R2 ** ** ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:29 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers ** ** This is what a senior NetApp engineer says: ** ** You're not dealing with storage as a matter of fact. We natively join the domain and look like a Windows box - for the most part. Question to ask them before I answer you. DFL of AD. Version on OnTAP on the storage and Windows version of the client devices. I'll get back to you when near a big keyboard and armed with the answer i those questions. ** ** First pass? Old information. Probably no longer accurate. ** ** So…what are the answers to his questions? J ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:58 PM *To:* NT System Admin
Re: Btw what is everyone using for enterprise based malware tools
We have Forefront on our Exchange servers behind an anti-spam/av gateway appliance. For servers and desktops we have McAfee Enterprise controlled through EPo. We combine this with a very aggressive patch update schedule for OS and most applications. That's pretty much it. If something beyond a transient 'ad thingy' gets in the sytem gets rebuilt after it's imaged and analyzed but we're not having things get in at the moment. I remember those tools though. Those were the days... :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: What is everyone finding is good fit in your business/organizations for enterprise malware tools, that you always utilize to clean systems infected with malware? ** ** Ones that I know work pretty darn well: Malware Bytes Super-AntiSpyware Sysinternals Tools Vipre Rescue Hijack this ** ** Any others you are using? Feel free to share ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Certification time?
It really depends on what you are interested in and where you are leaning. The MS System Center Suite of products is hot right now and a lot of the training free can be had for free or inexpensive + time. I should probably compile my list. I am taking my VCP test in the next few days but it's a job requirement and they paid for the class. After that I am going to roll into parts of the SC suite of products as it's my current interest/responsibility. At the very least I am going after SCVMM (complement my vcp) and Operations Manager and then see what there is for Orchestrator(if anything) as it seems to be the glue that holds much of the rest together. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: That’s the thing of it. What to chase? I have small company mentality which basically covers all areas. We were acquired and now I am more specialized with engineering support and citirx/vmware. The Microsoft stuff was because they gave it to me as they are a linux shop so the linux people didn’t want to dirty their hands. ** ** They gave me a bunch of training stuff for 2003 and I am wondering if that would be a waste of time….. ** ** Thanks! ** ** *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:27 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Certification time? ** ** Depends what area you want to work in I guess. I have some legacy MS certs but last few years have concentrated on Citrix/VMWare/AppSense because of the relevance to the areas I wanted to specialize in. ---Blackberried -- *From: *Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com *Date: *Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:07:19 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Certification time? ** ** First off to avoid the question and value of certifications; I tend to view them as resume garnish which helps get you by HR filters. ** ** The question is which to pursue? I think all of mine have expired and my new organization seems to place value on them. ** ** They have all the training stuff for 2003 but I am thinking that’s a little too old even though it seems to be in many places. One guy told me why not get it and then take the upgrade test for 2008? ** ** Redhat Engineer? Worth it? ** ** The ever present CCNA and CCNP. At the moment I am out of the networking areas but will probably reup. ** ** Vmware. Any value to VCP? ** ** Citrix? ** ** Any other areas? ** ** Thank you for donating a minute to read this. ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Certification time?
A... nice refinement. Just finishing a new budget lab at home to play with it all so I will keep that in mind. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: More like it is the twine that permits them to interact (push/pull) with each other. ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:58 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Certification time? ** ** It really depends on what you are interested in and where you are leaning. The MS System Center Suite of products is hot right now and a lot of the training free can be had for free or inexpensive + time. I should probably compile my list. I am taking my VCP test in the next few days but it's a job requirement and they paid for the class. After that I am going to roll into parts of the SC suite of products as it's my current interest/responsibility. At the very least I am going after SCVMM (complement my vcp) and Operations Manager and then see what there is for Orchestrator(if anything) as it seems to be the glue that holds much of the rest together. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: That’s the thing of it. What to chase? I have small company mentality which basically covers all areas. We were acquired and now I am more specialized with engineering support and citirx/vmware. The Microsoft stuff was because they gave it to me as they are a linux shop so the linux people didn’t want to dirty their hands. They gave me a bunch of training stuff for 2003 and I am wondering if that would be a waste of time….. Thanks! *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:27 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Certification time? Depends what area you want to work in I guess. I have some legacy MS certs but last few years have concentrated on Citrix/VMWare/AppSense because of the relevance to the areas I wanted to specialize in. ---Blackberried -- *From: *Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com *Date: *Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:07:19 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Certification time? First off to avoid the question and value of certifications; I tend to view them as resume garnish which helps get you by HR filters. The question is which to pursue? I think all of mine have expired and my new organization seems to place value on them. They have all the training stuff for 2003 but I am thinking that’s a little too old even though it seems to be in many places. One guy told me why not get it and then take the upgrade test for 2008? Redhat Engineer? Worth it? The ever present CCNA and CCNP. At the moment I am out of the networking areas but will probably reup. Vmware. Any value to VCP? Citrix? Any other areas? Thank you for donating a minute to read this. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com
Re: Forefront roadmap changes
We can call you a luddite on a public list if you feel you have been missing that experience :) On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Oh, it lives on in FOPE. ** ** FOPE is hugely profitable for MSFT and it represents the BEST kind of revenue stream – recurring revenue. ** ** What we see disappearing is the store-based scanning from Sybari. MSFT is of the opinion that excellent edge protection and excellent client protection means that store-based scanning is no longer necessary. ** ** I think they are full of crap. ** ** What they are really saying is “we have not seen a virus like ILOVEYOU in a long time and we *think* we can prevent it”. ** ** Blah blah blah. On private mailing lists I’ve been called a luddite. :-P** ** ** ** *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:12 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Forefront roadmap changes ** ** So much for the purchase/demise of Sybari. John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership for Strong Families *From*: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent*: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 06:11 PM *To*: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject*: RE: Forefront roadmap changes Yeah, well, TMG and on-premises Forefront for Exchange are the biggest losses IMO. *From:* Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:46 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Forefront roadmap changes Mary Jo Foley’s take. http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-axes-many-of-its-forefront-enterprise-security-products-704166/?s_cid=e550 Mostly the same stuff, but ya gotta love this line: “If you're going to do a big product-family discontinuation that needs some air cover, there's no day better than an iPhone launch day� *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:35 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Forefront roadmap changes I anticipate that UAG will continue development and enhancement. But right now, it’s not on par with TMG. *From:* Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:39 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Forefront roadmap changes Oh really? Interesting. I'm pretty unfamiliar with UAG, having vever run it. But, yeah that sounds likely. Sent from my Windows Phone -- *From: *Kurt Buff *Sent: *9/12/2012 2:51 PM *To: *NT System Admin Issues *Subject: *Re: Forefront roadmap changes I'm going to guess it will, because you can't run UAG without TMG. But that's just a guess... On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I'm still waiting to see if TMGs functionality will be rolled into UAG. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Forefront roadmap changes Nice to see that UAG has been left alone, I think. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: FYI. http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-c hanges-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~
Re: Interesting
Maybe they'll locate the malware in their store before third parties do? On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I do wonder how Google thinks they are benefiting from this. Kurt On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Google buys VirusTotal. http://blog.virustotal.com/2012/09/an-update-from-virustotal.html ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: semi-OT: installing hyper-v 2012 as Layer 1 on PERC based dell server
Pretty sure you can't instal any windows to a removable drive aka USB* I will be experimenting this weekend myself. * note, excludes Windows 8 To Go and Windows PE doesn't count. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Rick Berry rbe...@elevativenetworks.comwrote: I have a lab PE R900 that used to run ESXi 4.x off a USB stick with 8x146GB SAS drives on a single virtual disk ... tried to pave it and just redo it as a layer 1 Hyper-V 2012 server booting from the ISO to install, and it doesn't like the RAID partition regardless of how I present it? Completely doesn't see the USB stick at all, 32GB puppy. BIOS is up to date. It sees the correct size, but regardless of it being blank or formatted (or set primary or whatever other DISKPART things I've tried) it doesn't want to install on it. Nor does it wish to see the USB stick as a install target like ESXi does. I googled around, didn't really see much to guide me but I may be completely missing the point (never did mess around with the prior version of Hyper-V as a straight hypervisor install like ESXi) ... so assuming I'm missing something basic and embarrassingly stupid like you can't install it onto a PERC array directly. Or maybe I'm mistaken in another assumption about layer 1 installation of hyperv 2012 along the chain ... I'm going to venture to guess that the USB stick is not an option like it would be for ESXi? Rick ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Hyper-V Server 2012
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13454 It's just HyperV. Nothing else. It's like ESXi so it's a smaller foot print overall. Hopefully the service pack for System Center will be out soon which will add support for it all. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Adam Meixler ad...@interlink1.com wrote: Hi all, ** ** I just saw 2012 RTM on the MSDN site and noticed the Hyper-V server disc.* *** ** ** Out of curiosity are there any limitations with Hyper-V Server 2012 that are lifted by installing 2012 Standard or DC versions? VM count/LiveMigration/Virtual networking features/HA Cluster nodes/anything? ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Hyper-V Server 2012
http://www.didyouknow2012.com/NewHome.aspx ^^ There is a MS marketing page. Not sure if what you are looking for will be there but I think we are at the point where it is not 'What HyperV is missing?', we are at the stage of 'What free ESXi vs free HyperV gets you'. Both HyperV and VMware are about feature parity now and fighting about the details that 99% of implementations won't care about and cost which will be fun for all us customers. As of this moment we're still primarily a VMware shop (~100 hosts), however the vTax* licensing had us look and we introduced HyperV for some of our in house solutions this last year. VMware has removed the vTax* licensing but that doesn't change the fact that we have 6 HyperV hosts now and are seriously looking at features and marketing vs reality over the next two remaining years of our contract. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org * note, the vTax was seriously irritating to me (and more importantly my boss), we lost some of our training budget to fund it. It was very similiar to when we got hit with the 'Enterprise Plus' surprise shortly after our last contract renewel, so yes, there is a 'chip' involved and while we don't carry it into every meeting with our VMware sales guy, we carry it in occasionally and set it on the table. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Adam Meixler ad...@interlink1.com wrote: Which seems wicked cool given the introduction of shared nothing live migrations, if that’s supported in the free version. ** ** I just know last time I used ESXi there were many limitations once you wanted to do something more than run a VM. I can’t seem to turn up a matrix that outlines what HyperV Server is missing. ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 04, 2012 1:12 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Hyper-V Server 2012 ** ** http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13454 It's just HyperV. Nothing else. It's like ESXi so it's a smaller foot print overall. Hopefully the service pack for System Center will be out soon which will add support for it all. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Adam Meixler ad...@interlink1.com wrote: Hi all, I just saw 2012 RTM on the MSDN site and noticed the Hyper-V server disc.* *** Out of curiosity are there any limitations with Hyper-V Server 2012 that are lifted by installing 2012 Standard or DC versions? VM count/LiveMigration/Virtual networking features/HA Cluster nodes/anything? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware!
While we are not moving away from VMware now, we plan to continue with planned testing on Server 2012/HyperV v3 snice we pay data center licenses anyway. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Looks like this (vRAM entitlement) will no longer be an issue. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/240005840/vmware-kills-vram-licensing-will-fo cus-on-vsphere-cloud-bundles.htmhttp://www.crn.com/news/cloud/240005840/vmware-kills-vram-licensing-will-focus-on-vsphere-cloud-bundles.htm Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ On 4/13/12 1:05 PM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: OK one more thing: vSphere Essentials Plus gives you 6 socket licenses for vSphere Standard. Each license gives you 32gb of vRAM entitlement. 6 x 32 = 192gb vRAM across all three hosts. So 196gb per host seems slightly excessive (consider we can and occasionally do run around 50 VM's on one host with 144gb). From: David Mazzaccaro [david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Subject: RE: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! LOL Yes, that is per host.. and it is HP memory (hence the premium) -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Subject: Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! I'm a penny-pincher, and I saw a only one thing that really stuck out... 196 G RAM - this was $45k alone Ouch! Is that 196 Gig per computer, or total for the 3 servers? Even if it's 196 per computer, Crucial can get you that much ram for $8100... As long as I'm looking at the right memory. http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=ProLiant%20DL380%20G7; Cat=RAM 48GB Kit - ($899.99 each) * 3 for each server ($2699.97) * 3 servers = $8099.91 kiddingHey, I just saved you $36k! Can I get a commission for that? Sm:)e./kidding --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: David Mazzaccaro Subject: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! Just got the ok to move forward with VMware/Citrix/Domain upgrade. I have 10 physical servers, and it looks like this will be the solution: 3 hosts: ($21k each) HP DL380 G7 E5660 Pair of 146 15k drives mirrored 196 G RAM - this was $45k alone Quad port gig adapter 2 Switches: ($1,800 each) HP 2910 1 SAN ($22,700) NetApp 2240 12 x 600GB VSphere Essentials Plus ($5,200) 6 Windows licenses ($13,600): Server 2008 Datacenter Windows/Xenapp licenses ($26,000) $40k services Install/config SAN, switches, hosts, VMware, new Citrix farm, 2008 Domain upgrade, P2V existing servers Total: $185,000 Sound good? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin)
My original degree is electronics tech but they had computers as part of the program. they separated them out after I went through I could have gone either way but ended up in computers. Right now I am just playing with LEDs and having my kids play with LEDs in order to drive interest in the technical and science side of things. ) Steven On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: Nice. Thanks. ** ** ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 12:11 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) ** ** Oops...:) The various 'open source' electronics/make commnuities are as varied as the FOSS ones are. Here are some links to get you started on your new money sink. http://makerfaire.com if in the US. I live close enough to the really big one in May so attend that. http://blog.makezine.com/ http://hackaday.com/ http://www.instructables.com/ - a mass happy mess of amatuer disaster projects to really neat stuff http://www.adafruit.com/blog/ and http://learn.adafruit.com/ http://www.sparkfun.com/ Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: OOOoo… shiny… Thanks! I’d never heard of this. My mind is already racing with projects. *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 11:24 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) You need to move to Ardunio stuff as a hobby :) On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: I’d rather be fishing. J But seriously, I miss electronic board repair. I loved getting down and dirty with an oscilloscope, troubleshooting circuit boards, and programming the automatic testing device. Alas, with module replacements board level repair is almost extinct. *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 10:54 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) There is that. I’d rather do car related stuff (race, or be the tech guy/engineer for a race team), but I am lucky insofar as IT works in a pinch. *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 8:45 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) I'd much rather be writing books for a living than doing IT...but I'm much happier doing what I do than working in a factory. And I'd make considerably less cash writing books, to be fair ---Blackberried -- *From: *David Lum david@nwea.org *Date: *Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:36:46 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) “That all said, you need to do something you love doing.” That. I am constantly amazed at how I don’t tire of what I do, and even when it’s a challenge (recent SBS swings come to mind) even a 14-16hr day isn’t bad at all. Hell I like it enough to get a smartphone (arrived yesterday and I am now hooked up to my e-mail accts and other stuff) and emotionally it was THE LAST thing I wanted to do, but based on feedback here (WEBSTER) and others, I did what intellectually I had to do. In a week I’ll likely be over the top geeked out on the damn thing too. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” - Confucius *From:* Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:06 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) I was going to add a +1 to Chris’ comments. I think you need to consider where you want to be in 5-10 years’ time. Whilst moving to a larger organisation might limit your role somewhat, you get to understand more of how IT actually works (including processes, documentation, requirements etc.) There is more growth for career advancement, and as you move up the chain you’ll acquire more responsibility. Large organisations have architect and senior engineer roles where you are still “running the show” so to speak. It’s always possible to go from a larger environment to a smaller one, but it’s harder to do the reverse. If “challenge” is the thing you are looking for, then I’d look at a larger environment as well. That all said, you need to do something you love doing
Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin)
You need to move to Ardunio stuff as a hobby :) On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: I’d rather be fishing. J But seriously, I miss electronic board repair. I loved getting down and dirty with an oscilloscope, troubleshooting circuit boards, and programming the automatic testing device. Alas, with module replacements board level repair is almost extinct. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 10:54 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) ** ** There is that. I’d rather do car related stuff (race, or be the tech guy/engineer for a race team), but I am lucky insofar as IT works in a pinch. ** ** *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 8:45 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) ** ** I'd much rather be writing books for a living than doing IT...but I'm much happier doing what I do than working in a factory. And I'd make considerably less cash writing books, to be fair ---Blackberried -- *From: *David Lum david@nwea.org *Date: *Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:36:46 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) ** ** “That all said, you need to do something you love doing.” That. ** ** I am constantly amazed at how I don’t tire of what I do, and even when it’s a challenge (recent SBS swings come to mind) even a 14-16hr day isn’t bad at all. Hell I like it enough to get a smartphone (arrived yesterday and I am now hooked up to my e-mail accts and other stuff) and emotionally it was THE LAST thing I wanted to do, but based on feedback here (WEBSTER) and others, I did what intellectually I had to do. In a week I’ll likely be over the top geeked out on the damn thing too. ** ** “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” - Confucius ** ** *From:* Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:06 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) ** ** I was going to add a +1 to Chris’ comments. ** ** I think you need to consider where you want to be in 5-10 years’ time. Whilst moving to a larger organisation might limit your role somewhat, you get to understand more of how IT actually works (including processes, documentation, requirements etc.) There is more growth for career advancement, and as you move up the chain you’ll acquire more responsibility. Large organisations have architect and senior engineer roles where you are still “running the show” so to speak. It’s always possible to go from a larger environment to a smaller one, but it’s harder to do the reverse. If “challenge” is the thing you are looking for, then I’d look at a larger environment as well. ** ** That all said, you need to do something you love doing. And if this environment you’ve found is a good one, and you think you’ll fit culturally, then go for it. ** ** That all said, if I was interviewing you, I wouldn’t give away things like our RTO/RPO, or our DR plans, or device specifics (I might mention vendor if they’re a big one e.g. telling someone that we use VMWare or Dell isn’t really giving that much away). ** ** I’d look at Carl’s questions, and maybe add a few outside your area of responsibility. E.g. if you are not responsible for strategy, then ask for a high level view of what they currently have for strategy. If you are not responsible for ITIL and service management, then ask how the current state is. That may give you a feel for how you’ll have to fit into things that are not your responsibility (aka you’ll have to work with). Some of the above maybe to high level for a smaller org, so adjust accordingly. ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* John Doe [mailto:nottherealjohndoe...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, 17 August 2012 5:02 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) ** ** Thanks Christopher, good info. The first interview was in person. It lasted almost 3 hours - a lot longer than expected but we really hit it off. So a lot of my questions I've already had a chance to ask (Hence why I'm looking for a few more :) ** ** I'd target medium sized environments in the 2K-10K user range I like to be a jack of all trades, I'm afraid that roles in that size of companies are far too specialized. (?) I like the feel and style of SMBs as well. And I can run the show. ** ** Wear a suit and tie Not gonna happen
Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin)
Oops...:) The various 'open source' electronics/make commnuities are as varied as the FOSS ones are. Here are some links to get you started on your new money sink. http://makerfaire.com if in the US. I live close enough to the really big one in May so attend that. http://blog.makezine.com/ http://hackaday.com/ http://www.instructables.com/ - a mass happy mess of amatuer disaster projects to really neat stuff http://www.adafruit.com/blog/ and http://learn.adafruit.com/ http://www.sparkfun.com/ Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: OOOoo… shiny… Thanks! I’d never heard of this. My mind is already racing with projects. ** ** ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 11:24 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) ** ** You need to move to Ardunio stuff as a hobby :) On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: I’d rather be fishing. J But seriously, I miss electronic board repair. I loved getting down and dirty with an oscilloscope, troubleshooting circuit boards, and programming the automatic testing device. Alas, with module replacements board level repair is almost extinct. *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 10:54 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) There is that. I’d rather do car related stuff (race, or be the tech guy/engineer for a race team), but I am lucky insofar as IT works in a pinch. *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 8:45 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) I'd much rather be writing books for a living than doing IT...but I'm much happier doing what I do than working in a factory. And I'd make considerably less cash writing books, to be fair ---Blackberried -- *From: *David Lum david@nwea.org *Date: *Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:36:46 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) “That all said, you need to do something you love doing.” That. I am constantly amazed at how I don’t tire of what I do, and even when it’s a challenge (recent SBS swings come to mind) even a 14-16hr day isn’t bad at all. Hell I like it enough to get a smartphone (arrived yesterday and I am now hooked up to my e-mail accts and other stuff) and emotionally it was THE LAST thing I wanted to do, but based on feedback here (WEBSTER) and others, I did what intellectually I had to do. In a week I’ll likely be over the top geeked out on the damn thing too. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” - Confucius *From:* Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:06 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin) I was going to add a +1 to Chris’ comments. I think you need to consider where you want to be in 5-10 years’ time. Whilst moving to a larger organisation might limit your role somewhat, you get to understand more of how IT actually works (including processes, documentation, requirements etc.) There is more growth for career advancement, and as you move up the chain you’ll acquire more responsibility. Large organisations have architect and senior engineer roles where you are still “running the show” so to speak. It’s always possible to go from a larger environment to a smaller one, but it’s harder to do the reverse. If “challenge” is the thing you are looking for, then I’d look at a larger environment as well. That all said, you need to do something you love doing. And if this environment you’ve found is a good one, and you think you’ll fit culturally, then go for it. That all said, if I was interviewing you, I wouldn’t give away things like our RTO/RPO, or our DR plans, or device specifics (I might mention vendor if they’re a big one e.g. telling someone that we use VMWare or Dell isn’t really giving that much away). I’d look at Carl’s questions, and maybe add a few outside your area of responsibility. E.g. if you are not responsible for strategy, then ask for a high level view of what they currently have for strategy. If you are not responsible for ITIL and service management, then ask how the current state is. That may give you a feel for how you’ll have to fit
Re: Windows 8 now on Technet and MSDN
It is also my primary OS at home. My kids 6 and 9 love it. My wife likes it on her laptop and seriosly wants a tablet. I am buying 4 copies at the $39 special price before Jan 31st. We are discussing trialing it at work but it would probably be limited to IT due to the way the our major in house applications work and some current major update deployment cycles. There are some people, like it or not, that have been trying for months to make it a failure before it is launched with the out of context AOL pics, the OMG MS changed it! Microsoft had a huge change from Win 3.11/Windos 95 (and WinNT3.51/NT4) and at that time the outrage about the venerable progman was just as loud. Last year various press outlooks were all Microsoft MUST change or Apple / Android tablets will bury them... RAR... So Microsoft does something bold and different. They unify the mobile and desktop interfaces. OUTRAGE! Yes, there are bits and pieces that are a bit clunky. They do still work. And after about 3 hours, I didn't really notice. I game a bit and so far everything I play works (RTM). I love IE10 with built in Flash, spell check and the new PDF reader. No more loading Adobe software. I really like the built in HyperV (built a CentOS vm, Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2) which let me play with some stuff on my desktop. The improved copy is also awesome. It's based on the RTM ( and Paul Thurrott is a partisen) but here are some good overview articles for you. Here's a specific overview on some of the desktop bits (RTM) http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-feature-focus-windows-desktop-142642 And here is a round up of articles on other features (also RTM) http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-feature-focus-prerelease-rtm-143963 You should get it and test it. Yes, it is different but there are lots of improvements to go with the change. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:40 PM, steve ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: ** Its my primary OS at home and at work. Love it! Kids love it too and much prefer it over anything else I have - linux or Mac. Sent from my BlackBird. -- *From: * Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com *Date: *Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:34:25 -0400 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: Windows 8 now on Technet and MSDN I have not had time to play with Win8 yet, but I've heard grumbling about it being suited to tablets with touch screens and not traditional desktops and laptops that are mouse and keyboard driven Can anyone here dispel the FUD that I've been hearing? One guy I know even went as far as to say that it is to Windows 7 what Vista was to XP (if there's any truth to thatYuck!) Jonathan On Aug 15, 2012 5:48 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: BTW: There’s a 90-day eval available for those without TechNet or MSDN subs… ** ** http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/08/15/90-day-windows-8-eval-available-for-everyone/ ** ** *From:* James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:46 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows 8 now on Technet and MSDN ** ** I was a bit confused at first as the only Pro version listed was VL which I don’t have access to. ** ** Turns out the Windows 8 DVD that is listed contains both and the key decides whether it is Pro or not. ** ** James. ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE
Re: PS export question
oO Ya, don't use Format-Table. Format-Table will display to the screen but won't go to the file. For this you can use Select-Object. Select-Object has some other side effects that aren't important in this context. I tested with $user = Get-QADUser -sizelimit 0 $user | select displayname, name, passwordlastset -first 10 | Export-Csv ./testFile.csv -NoTypeInformation Once that worked, I removed the -first 10 from select The -NoTypeInformation is to remove the annoying .NET type line that gets put on the first line of the CSV file. The -sizelimit 0 will get you past the default query limit of AD. $user | select displayname, name, passwordlastset | Export-Csv ./testFile.csv -NoTypeInformation Side notes... When dealing with larger data, I tend to dump the query into a variable. This way I am playing with the data locally and not waiting for the query to complete each time I test. There are three nice powershell videos you may want to check out here: http://www.blkmtn.org/TechEd-2012-Videos Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: I’m trying to get a list of passwords last set from AD for my users. ** ** I run: add-PSSnapin quest.activeroles.admanagement Get-QADUser |ft displayname,PasswordLastSet | export-csv -path c:\PasswordLastSet.csv ** ** But the data doesn’t come back as expected. If I omit the export command, the results show fine in PS. What am I doing wrong? ** ** TIA, Jimmy ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PS export question
Format-Table doesn't play nice with the pipeline past itself. From your example I suspect you used Out-File instead of Export-CSV. I just did as a quick test of both and the output is not nearly as pretty as Export-CSV Using select-object you narow down which items get passed down the pipeline but you still preserve all the data, etc. This will play nice with the various Export-* commands. The various Format-* commands are realy for output to the screen as your end destination. They dont seem to play nice with the pipeline past themselves. The downside to select-object is that ONLY the items you select are passed along. Everything else gets dropped. For most basic scripts/cmdline uses this is fine. It only gets complicated if you wanted to do more stuff with other data in the object. So, as a habit when playing with data, I would suggest using select-object as it plays nice with the pipelines which opens up a world of oportunity later. You should definitly check out the 3 videos I suggested earlier. I'm still learning stuff I missed myself and I posted some notes on what I learned in the last one. I need to go back over the remoting one so may post notes on that one as well. http://www.blkmtn.org/PowerShell-neat_function_tricks_for_free MBS or one of the others will point out if I don't have this quite right as he is way better at PowerShell than I am, but the PowerShell community as a practice tends to discourage Format-* as the output point in scripts. It tends to make it less useful in the long run for flexibility and re-use. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: That’s interesting because I just used Format Table to export a list of addresses and SAM accounts for over 4k users, to an Excel file. ** ** Keep in mind, I’m just now FINALLY getting to learn and use PS more. ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, August 06, 2012 3:18 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: PS export question ** ** oO Ya, don't use Format-Table. Format-Table will display to the screen but won't go to the file. For this you can use Select-Object. Select-Object has some other side effects that aren't important in this context. I tested with $user = Get-QADUser -sizelimit 0 $user | select displayname, name, passwordlastset -first 10 | Export-Csv ./testFile.csv -NoTypeInformation Once that worked, I removed the -first 10 from select The -NoTypeInformation is to remove the annoying .NET type line that gets put on the first line of the CSV file. The -sizelimit 0 will get you past the default query limit of AD. $user | select displayname, name, passwordlastset | Export-Csv ./testFile.csv -NoTypeInformation Side notes... When dealing with larger data, I tend to dump the query into a variable. This way I am playing with the data locally and not waiting for the query to complete each time I test. There are three nice powershell videos you may want to check out here: http://www.blkmtn.org/TechEd-2012-Videos Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote:*** * I’m trying to get a list of passwords last set from AD for my users. I run: add-PSSnapin quest.activeroles.admanagement Get-QADUser |ft displayname,PasswordLastSet | export-csv -path c:\PasswordLastSet.csv But the data doesn’t come back as expected. If I omit the export command, the results show fine in PS. What am I doing wrong? TIA, Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments
Re: System Center 2012 - SQL Server 2012?
I think when SC 2012 Service Pack 1 (Which is in CTP right now) is released. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30133 System requirements *Supported operating systems:* Windows 8 Release Preview, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 The Virtual Machine Manager server for the CTP2 release System Center 2012 SP1 will only run on Windows Server 2012 RC. For full prerequisites, see the document “Virtual Machine Manager in System Center 2012 Service Pack 1” at the following link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=254803. Prerequisites for Configuration Manager can be found at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=252950. All other components now support Windows Server 2012 RC and SQL Server 2012 in addition to the operating systems that were supported in System Center 2012. For details on what was supported in System Center 2012, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=255218. On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com wrote: Has Microsoft given any guidance when SQL Server 2012 will be supported as a backend DB? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
