Re: [NTSysADM] Ping MBS: Password Expire Reminder Email Script

2013-05-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Say, have you had a chance to powershell-ify thit script yet? :) http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx Looking to finally setting

Re: [NTSysADM] Well...

2013-05-16 Thread Kurt Buff
And preferences in the temperature of their beer. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: The British and Americans, two people separated by a common language. :D On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:14 PM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Tonight I met up with

[NTSysADM] bluetooth to serial converter

2013-05-17 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I remember seeing a conversation regarding this kind of device somewhere, but can't seem to locate it. Anyone have a preference as to brand/model? Also, I'm unable to locate one that does RJ45 serial to bluetooth - so far just db9 to bluetooth - anyone seen/used a device like that that

[NTSysADM] This rumor seems to be true...

2013-05-21 Thread Kurt Buff
http://news.msn.com/rumors/rumor-14-year-old-discovers-ipad-2-heart-risk?gt1=51501 ...if a tad inconvenient for marketing department... Kurt

Re: [NTSysADM] This rumor seems to be true...

2013-05-21 Thread Kurt Buff
Not displaying for me... On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:41 PM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote: [image: Inline image 1] - WJR On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: http://news.msn.com/rumors/rumor-14-year-old-discovers-ipad-2-heart-risk?gt1=51501

Re: [NTSysADM] This rumor seems to be true...

2013-05-21 Thread Kurt Buff
Ah - that *is* funny... Kurt On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:56 PM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote: Bad joke, in bad taste...my usual. http://youreholdingitwrong.org/apple-iphone-4-you-are-holding-it-wrong.jpg - WJR On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com

Re: [NTSysADM] This rumor seems to be true...

2013-05-22 Thread Kurt Buff
-it-wrong.jpg - WJR On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Not displaying for me... On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:41 PM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.com wrote: Error! Filename not specified. - WJR On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b

Re: [NTSysADM] IT employee isolation

2013-05-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Kevin Lundy klu...@gmail.com wrote: I have a question for those of you in a regulated industry (e.g. finance, healthcare, defense, etc.). Are the IT employees in a restricted access area of your office? I'm not talking about the data center, just the general

[NTSysADM] TDoS - your new term for the day

2013-06-03 Thread Kurt Buff
http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/hacking-the-tdos-attack/240155809 By Kelly Jackson Higgins Dark Reading May 30, 2013 When an ICU nurse refused to pay scammers who insisted she owed money for a payday loan, they unleashed a robo-dial flood of hundreds of calls per hour that ultimately

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Microsoft's 'Blue' servers

2013-06-04 Thread Kurt Buff
One time pad. :) On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@kj.net.au wrote: Interesting. What encryption algorithm do you use, that you can guarantee that it’s not going to be obsolete years, let alone decades from now? -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/kschaefer Typed on a Lenovo

Re: [NTSysADM] 10Gbe switches- feedback

2013-06-05 Thread Kurt Buff
If it's disk speed you're after, it might be worth your while to use smaller disks and double your disk count, if your cage will hold them. Kurt On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:37 PM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: its being hit by approx 30 users , perc5 dell Jean-Paul Natola

[NTSysADM] Now the fertilizer hits the ventilator - or, through a PRISM darkly

2013-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_print.html Kurt

Re: [NTSysADM] Now the fertilizer hits the ventilator - or, through a PRISM darkly

2013-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013 10:27 AM To: NTSysADM@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Now the fertilizer hits the ventilator - or, through a PRISM darkly http://www.guardian.co.uk

[NTSysADM] Pre-Friday OT: I'm liking the idea of this

2013-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Something perhaps not so controversial. Perfect for late summer outdoors, perhaps... http://www.marxfoods.com/Whole-Wild-Boar?sc=2category=9765 Or perhaps just this? http://www.marxfoods.com/Wild-Boar-Leg-Meat?sc=2category=9765

Re: [NTSysADM] Now the fertilizer hits the ventilator - or, through a PRISM darkly

2013-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel Not hard to imagine at all. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@kj.net.au wrote: snip Given how many companies are involved, and how many people would need to know (technical people, legal people, senior execs), I just don’t see how you could keep

Re: [NTSysADM] Pre-Friday OT: I'm liking the idea of this

2013-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
. Also, since it is not like a pig, it is more lean and not as fatty. So you will need to make sure you compensate your normal 'pork' cooking recipes. Else, it is a wonderful meat to cook for a BBQ. My $.02. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Something

Re: [NTSysADM] Now the fertilizer hits the ventilator - or, through a PRISM darkly

2013-06-07 Thread Kurt Buff
the truth :-| -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013 10:27 AM To: NTSysADM@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Now the fertilizer hits the ventilator - or, through

Re: [NTSysADM] Remote Control

2013-06-11 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Curt Finley cmfin...@ucdavis.edu wrote: I’ve been using LogMeIn to remotely assist users. However the free license now supports a limited number of computers. Can you suggest a tool similar to logmenin to remote control computers? The system must be able to

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: EMET

2013-06-17 Thread Kurt Buff
w00t! Time to learn a new technology... Kurt On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: 4.0 is out of Beta. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=39273 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [NTSysADM] Free new e-books

2013-06-18 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: A new posting of free e-books. A little something for everyone I think. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-fre

Re: [NTSysADM] DPM 2012

2013-06-18 Thread Kurt Buff
hardware. -B -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:13 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] DPM 2012 On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Miller Bonnie L

Re: [NTSysADM] Finding AD groups with legacy members

2013-06-18 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Current project had a consulting group come in and do an AD Assessment. One of their findings was that they have many groups with almost 5,000 members. Most of the groups were created and users added pre 2003 DFL/FFL .

Re: [NTSysADM] Finding AD groups with legacy members

2013-06-18 Thread Kurt Buff
– 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:24 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Finding AD groups with legacy members

Re: [NTSysADM] OT - tips on job change etiquette

2013-06-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: Morning all. Just curious as to thoughts from some colleagues in the field. Say you were in a job as a contractor at a smaller firm, and the job was supposed to convert to full time in a few months, but that didn't

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Kurt Buff
Paranoia, from watching very, very carefully... Kurt On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: No. Centralized storage is incredibly seductive. It's very easy to start putting everything on it, and then all your eggs are in one basket. What happens to

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server-Budget Update

2013-06-23 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:12 PM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: So , somehow the client doubled the budget to 10k So I am looking at the synology 3412RPxs and I am debating weather to purchase a new host box- or upgrade the the curent r300 to a full 24gb of ram- this would allow me to

Re: [NTSysADM] How to send secure communication to your friends and relatives. Cheap!

2013-06-23 Thread Kurt Buff
Hushmail will give your email to the government too. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/hushmail_turns.html On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Alex Eckelberry al...@eckelberry.com wrote: Hushmail J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: smoke signals? morse code? LOL Jean-Paul

Re: [NTSysADM] Wisdom of the crowds: Backup

2013-06-24 Thread Kurt Buff
Perhaps not directly, but would it be an option with any of the other likely candidates, or would they also need administrator intervention? Kurt On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: Would VSS be an option for either a Linux or Mac client of the server? Just

Re: [NTSysADM] How to send secure communication to your friends and relatives. Cheap!

2013-06-24 Thread Kurt Buff
-location-piques-nsas-interest-in-you/ *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Re: [NTSysADM] Wisdom of the crowds: Backup

2013-06-25 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: From: Kurt Buff That's fairly easy, IMHO. How much data do you gather in your daily increment/diff backups, as a percentage of your full backup? You can measure it in bytes, or in number of files. Looking

Re: [NTSysADM] General Windows 8 question

2013-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Shutdown -r -t 0 http://www.leapmotion.com - I've pre-ordered two of them, because I think this kind of interface has a good possibility to provide reasonable augmentation or even replacement of keyboarding. Kurt On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:57 AM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.com wrote: It

Re: [NTSysADM] Submit e-mail anonymously

2013-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:04 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: We have a desire to have employees send all-staff questions to thisaddr...@nwea.org but have the sender be anonymous. We currently use surveymonkey but I have been asked if it’s feasible to just tell our employees to send an

Re: [NTSysADM] Print server Upgrade

2013-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Perhaps, but what we did for this very situation recently was to o- Build the new server with a new name o- Populate it with all of the printer definitions with the same share names (making sure to add in the x86 printer definitions) o- Send an email to folks telling them to note their current

Re: [NTSysADM] A very good article to read : Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

2013-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
I see WINS isn't on that list. :) On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303411.aspx

Re: [NTSysADM] A very good article to read : Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

2013-06-30 Thread Kurt Buff
. To paraphrase Brian's comments - if you have an IT organization that thinks getting rid of WINS is their top priority - then they are wrong. :) -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Sunday, June 30

Re: [NTSysADM] A very good article to read : Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

2013-07-01 Thread Kurt Buff
-ipv6-alone.aspx David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 5:35 PM To: ntsysadm

Re: [NTSysADM] VDI Server Hardware Critique

2013-07-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Stephen Wimberly riverside...@loopyguy.com wrote: Please critique the following budget VDI Server purchase. I know there is no correct hardware, but also want to hear what others think. USE: Approximately 50 workstations via Microsoft RDS that will run

Re: [NTSysADM] E-mail retention

2013-07-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:05 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Given this: http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/doc/recmgmt/train/erm/emailman806.pdf Would it be the responsibility of the government entity to know the

Re: [NTSysADM] E-mail retention

2013-07-02 Thread Kurt Buff
Gray bar hotel, anyone? On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for hoosegow. I have havent seen/heard that in ages. :-) -- Espi On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:12 PM, John Matteson john.matte...@gmail.com wrote: Don't ask us to throw your

Re: [NTSysADM] VDI Server Hardware Critique

2013-07-03 Thread Kurt Buff
With drives that small (300gb? that's small), especially if you dedicate one disk as a hot spare, I don't see much of an issue with this setup. Regarding SSDs - can you poll the desktops of the current users, and see how much space their profiles and installed programs, etc., consume? That would

[NTSysADM] Destruction of $170k in computer hardware, $3m wasted?

2013-07-11 Thread Kurt Buff
The stupidity is probably all true, but... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/mission_impossible_mouse_attack/

Re: [NTSysADM] Destruction of $170k in computer hardware, $3m wasted?

2013-07-11 Thread Kurt Buff
It's only a lot of work the first time around. After that, it's a commodity. Kurt On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Like this, very interesting way to get around things. A lot of work but it worked. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, CISA, Security +,

Re: [NTSysADM] Uhhh...

2013-07-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I am down on using the Cloud in it's current form and function. Your data is no safer on-premise because... -- No one encrypts 100% of the data leaving and entering their facilities -- The telcos are

Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue

2013-07-18 Thread Kurt Buff
the folder and see if the files are showing up in a timely manner, growing overly large, etc. Print jobs are on the order of 1-2k, and often less. Kurt -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent

Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue

2013-07-18 Thread Kurt Buff
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 7:24 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: How is ping time to the printers at the time of hang-up

Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue

2013-07-18 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: How many printers are hosted on the print server? 40 - a mix of Zebras, HPs and Ricohs Using driver isolation? Not unless it's the default - I'll take a look at how to do that. Do you have another print

Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue

2013-07-18 Thread Kurt Buff
? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 1:17 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Miller Bonnie L. mille

Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue

2013-07-19 Thread Kurt Buff
Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:15 PM To: NTSysADM@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue All, I've got a little head scratcher, and would appreciate any insight folks might have. Printer Server: Win2k8 R2, fully patched VM running on vSphere 5 (recently

[NTSysADM] A little afield of the normal topic - ShoreTel installation

2013-07-19 Thread Kurt Buff
All, We are using ShoreTel for our phone solution. Works well. I have just recently upgraded from 10.2 to 11.2 to 12.3, after I moved it to a new VLAN - that was a bit of a late night... However, it's running on an ancient SuperMicro server, on Server 2003 R2. It's time to move it to a new

Re: [NTSysADM] A little afield of the normal topic - ShoreTel installation

2013-07-19 Thread Kurt Buff
, their devs are either too stupid or too lazy to build proper Windows apps. But that is just my rant from working so long in the TS/RDS/XenApp world. Thanks Webster -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff

Re: [NTSysADM] A little afield of the normal topic - ShoreTel installation

2013-07-19 Thread Kurt Buff
stuff. Kurt On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, We are using ShoreTel for our phone solution. Works well. I have just recently upgraded from 10.2 to 11.2 to 12.3, after I moved it to a new VLAN - that was a bit of a late night... However, it's

Re: [NTSysADM] A little afield of the normal topic - ShoreTel installation

2013-07-21 Thread Kurt Buff
, don't let anyone fool you there... as far as I have seen, Microsoft does this better than anyone else. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 7:01 PM To: NTSysADM

Re: [NTSysADM] A little afield of the normal topic - ShoreTel installation

2013-07-22 Thread Kurt Buff
be part of the Enterprise CAL. Witch CAL are you using with your EA? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 10:18 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM

Re: [NTSysADM] A little afield of the normal topic - ShoreTel installation

2013-07-22 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Kurt wrote: snip o- Turn off the firewall - disable all of the profiles (Domain, Public and Private), then turn off and disable the service. You do NOT Have to turn off the firewall. I call BS. The install for

Re: [NTSysADM] Way OT: It's Not About The Nail

2013-07-22 Thread Kurt Buff
The time when he walks out the door, of course... On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Vicky Spelshaus vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com wrote: Okay - so one time in HOW many the man is actually right :-) On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown.

2013-07-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Manager are supposed to monitor things So I guess you are now an executive. Kurt On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: I delegated that. ** ** -sc ** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown.

2013-07-23 Thread Kurt Buff
** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Kurt Buff *Sent:* Monday, July 22, 2013 5:22 PM *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. ** ** Manager are supposed to monitor things So I

Re: [NTSysADM] Reverse engineering of diagrams

2013-07-25 Thread Kurt Buff
Perhaps trace by hand? This looks interesting: http://dmitryivanov.net/image-converter-for-visio/ But it might not do exactly what you want.. Kurt On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:27 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: This is a very faint hope, but I have some documents I did many moons ago with

Re: [NTSysADM] Outage?

2013-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
Yours made it through... On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: I have not gotten a message all day is the list down?

Re: [NTSysADM] man-in-the-middle attack

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
I don't know how you'd calculate those odds, but I do know that if it happens, it will come at the worst possible time. That's the nature of these things. My thought: How hard is it to install FireFox on iOS devices? Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:07 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Print Spooler Troubleshooting

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
And if I can get the thing to replicate when I'm not deep in metaphorical alligators, I *will* take you up on the offer Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Same offer I made last week. If you capture a hang dump (using adplus) of the process

Re: [NTSysADM] Access to website from inside WITHOUT host file change

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Well, the correct supported way is to use a different, and globally resolvable, name space for your internal infrastructure, and your external infrastructure. Something like domain.net for internal and domain.com for external, if you can do that. Of course, trying to use http://domain.tld while

Re: [NTSysADM] LDAP lookups

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
I'm guessing which ever one shows as holding the domain A record. Ping mydomain.com.com and see who answers... Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:43 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: In a domain with 3 DC’s, which one handles LDAP requests? If the LDAP is set to query mydomaion.com.com

Re: [NTSysADM] Access to website from inside WITHOUT host file change

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Uh, yeah, in that case, your web site might be broken. I see no reason for a web site to redirect www.domain.tld to the bare domain.tld. Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:46 AM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: I have the www A record in DNS but it will not load the page without the host entry ,

Re: [NTSysADM] Access to website from inside WITHOUT host file change

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
A static A record in your AD DNS for 'www' pointing at your off-site web server should work just fine - that's exactly what I use. What happens when you take the entry out of the hosts file, and add in the DNS entry for 'www'? Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:26 AM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com

Re: [NTSysADM] LDAP lookups

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:43 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: In a domain with 3 DC’s, which one handles LDAP requests? If the LDAP is set to query mydomaion.com.com ,what determines which DC processes the query? I wasn't satisfied with my first answer, so I googled with active

Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 7:50 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync Well, holy moly - look at that! Something that isn't in my Lync

Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Uhhh. Where it is Yammer, BTW... Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Does it integrate with 2010, or do we need to migrate to 2013? Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: By the way

Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync

2013-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
: Oh! Heck, I really don't know. I've only integrated the most recent versions of everything: Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013, Yammer. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday

Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue

2013-08-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 8:18 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue Per our offline conversation, this has been initiated. Many thanks

Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync

2013-08-01 Thread Kurt Buff
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:33 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync Well, if it turns out that the group chat addon doesn't do the job, I'll take a look at Yammer. We have an EA, so

[NTSysADM] Random thoughts on evaluating SANs

2013-08-01 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've probably mentioned it before, but I'm in the process of looking at a new SAN. The EMC VNXe 3100 isn't cutting it for us, due its iSCSI implementation not doing LUNs larger than 2tb, and the LeftHand is approaching EOL rapidly. So, I've started jotting down some of my thoughts on what

Re: [NTSysADM] Folder Actions

2013-08-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Anyone using this product? I have cobbled together some 'hot folder' solutions for a number of things at work, but this looks like it would be easier to use if it is stable and works.

Re: [NTSysADM] Random thoughts on evaluating SANs

2013-08-01 Thread Kurt Buff
We're in an area where SANs are common enough that getting support for hardware issues shouldn't be a problem. At the moment, I'm more concerned with the competency of who answers when I pick up the phone for help on a performance or configuration issue. Kurt On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Jon

Re: [NTSysADM] Random thoughts on evaluating SANs

2013-08-02 Thread Kurt Buff
your VMware hosts support 10Gb? If so, you could roll your own solution for a lot less cash. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, yes - PDF support is very important to any well-oiled IT department! Heh. I've got three VMware hosts, running 35 VMs, which

Re: [NTSysADM] Random thoughts on evaluating SANs

2013-08-02 Thread Kurt Buff
Administrator A+,Network +, Server + “I'd tell you a UDP joke but I'm afraid you won't get it. TCP jokes are the best because you always get them” From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 10:07 AM

Re: [NTSysADM] Random thoughts on evaluating SANs

2013-08-02 Thread Kurt Buff
cost/IO. I don't remember what information is NDA or not so I'll err on the side of caution, but there is also some tight integration being worked on between Dell's 12G servers and Compellent storage. Read up on FluidCache. - Sean On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com

Re: [NTSysADM] Anyone have a trick for ZIP's

2013-08-02 Thread Kurt Buff
Perhaps the lesson to take from it is that any media older than 5 years should be destroyed... Well, maybe that, and copy any data off to new media. Kurt On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: Micheal the eraser helped some and Sam despite you making a joke your

Re: [NTSysADM] Anyone have a trick for ZIP's

2013-08-05 Thread Kurt Buff
. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 10:05 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Anyone have a trick for ZIP's Perhaps the lesson to take from

Re: [NTSysADM] Google Chrome stores passwords in plaintext

2013-08-07 Thread Kurt Buff
/dons pedant hat Actually, that would be 'hear, hear.' /doffs pedant hat Kurt On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Here here. [1] -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [NTSysADM] Google Chrome stores passwords in plaintext

2013-08-07 Thread Kurt Buff
Can you say Javascript? I knew you could... Kurt On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: You can copy chrome’s sqlite db wherever you want it, if you have a way to copy files from the source computer. ** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [NTSysADM] Bandwidth speed test between two LANs

2013-08-08 Thread Kurt Buff
Others have suggested jperf or iperf. Here's a good link on using it, for starters http://port135.com/2012/02/16/what-is-iperf-jperf-and-xjperf-how-can-you-use-them-to-test-network-performance/ On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:43 AM, David McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: I have upgraded my 2 busiest

Re: [NTSysADM] Certificate Authority expiration/renewal

2013-08-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Are you using a single-tier CA, or a two-tier CA, or perhaps even a three-tier CA? We have a two-tier CA, and this is the procedure I worked out: The root certificate doesn’t expire until 2016, but the CRL expires every 180 days. o- Fire up the root CA - we use a 2008 R2 VM that's not joined to

Re: [NTSysADM] Certificate Authority expiration/renewal

2013-08-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Authority expiration/renewal Thanks for the responses. We have a single-tier CA and I'm renewing it tomorrow morning. Here's hoping all goes well! - Tammy -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware

2013-08-16 Thread Kurt Buff
In Seattle, and probably other places as well, you can often find good used equipment at places like Re-PC and 3R Technology. Kurt On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: Look at an older precision workstations, they have pretty much the same guts as servers. I’m

Re: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS-Solved

2013-08-24 Thread Kurt Buff
Dang A lot of work to uncover poor coding. I wonder if that coder still works there? Kurt On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:12 PM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: Ok, so after looking at thousands of procmon lines , I finally figured out what was causing it- This is not the normal bug thats

Re: [NTSysADM] IE9 or IE10 and adobe forms

2013-08-29 Thread Kurt Buff
OMFG. That's funny shit. And true Kurt On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: NSFW. ** ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs ** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Finally.

2013-08-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: I accidentally hit CTRL-Enter before finishing that email... and apparently that's a shortcut to instantly-send a message in Gmail. Yay! I love learning new things... but anyways - So, yea, this

Re: [NTSysADM] Finally.

2013-08-30 Thread Kurt Buff
Someone else gets it too... http://www.salon.com/2013/08/30/the_parody_shirt_the_nsa_doesnt_want_you_to_wear_partner/ Kurt On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: I may have missed some article by someone else somewhere, but Its to see Forbes

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Finally.

2013-08-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Finally. From: blazer...@gmail.com To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com +13 On Aug 30, 2013 11:05 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: I accidentally hit CTRL

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Finally.

2013-09-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Of Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, 2 September 2013 4:01 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Finally. Aside from reading all those Le Carre novels? I've already designed more secure systems than were obviously in place, as have many people on this list, perhaps including

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Finally.

2013-09-01 Thread Kurt Buff
) for the SMB market…*** On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. Does that matter? Well, I suppose you think it does, but I doubt it. With scale should come resources, and the NSA obviously does have resources, including people with far more training

[NTSysADM] We have met the enemy...

2013-09-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Your new word for the day: synanthropy http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opinion/sunday/squirrel-power.html

Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you have all seen today's news

2013-09-08 Thread Kurt Buff
/History/History.aspx So what would a military complex envision exactly if not .gov utilization? - WJR On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what you probably haven't seen, and it's IMNSHO better coverage. What Bruce has to say is always worth

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting wireless - advice

2013-09-12 Thread Kurt Buff
Grab a spare laptop, and outfit it with the appropriate stuff from here: http://www.metageek.net Kurt On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:00 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Scenario: Five floors, 50 AP’s managed by a single controller (Meru). A few (less than ten, more than two) users report

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting wireless - advice

2013-09-12 Thread Kurt Buff
BTW - when I say grab a spare laptop, I mean plant that laptop in the affected area for a week or two, and gather the data. Put a sign on the machine or put it in the plenum, or something, so it doesn't grow legs. Kurt On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Grab

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting wireless - advice - multiple answers

2013-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:48 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: snip Per Meru, all AP’s are on the same channels, all AP’s are set to full broadcast power Uh, when I was reading about WAP deployment, two things popped up: o- Don't set your WAPs to full power unless absolutely necessary -

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting wireless - advice - multiple answers

2013-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
That, and other interference, is exactly what the MetaGeek products will help with. Kurt On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Microwave ovens? On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Just curious… are you guys using

Re: [NTSysADM] WTF is up with Microsoft?

2013-09-14 Thread Kurt Buff
It's a business, and they're playing hardball. Kurt On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: In case you didn't know... I don't even... http://www.scroogled.com/mail/Privacy http://www.bing.com/explore/rewards -- Espi

Re: [NTSysADM] Server 2012 Ghost printing issue

2013-09-15 Thread Kurt Buff
What does Wireshark have to say? Kurt On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Beach Computers Web Hosting gro...@beachcomp.com wrote: Folks, Grasping at straws here and still open to all ideas. Thank you. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On

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