Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Java and proxy.pac

2015-04-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Once our Server applications analyst ... has the rights to receipt printing in our SIS ... I don't know what that means. :-) I did see something about the space chars and tried going through the file to

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Java and proxy.pac

2015-03-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Thanks Ben--yes, the Java app does NOT work if we manually define the path to the proxy.pac file, which is why I was asking if anyone has it working this way exacly (with no wpad). That does seem to

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Java and proxy.pac

2015-03-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Based on this, I’m wondering, are you using JUSTA a proxy.pac file, or is it actually WPAD configuration pointing to a wpad.dat that locates the proxy.pac? In IE for example, we are defining the URL directly

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Local Administrators on computers

2015-03-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@kj.net.au wrote: I don’t think it’s a specific scenario at all – I’m saying that the suggested approach of fixing individual apps simply does not work at scale. And thus anyone who says “there’s no reason why user need admin rights” is

Re: [NTSysADM] OT:Tablet for children

2015-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:52 AM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: Amazon actually has a kids edition of their fire HD tablet. A bit pricey in comparison to the other tablets when you opt for 7 screen and the 16gb of storage (185.00) The first time you have to replace the cheaper tablet

Re: [NTSysADM] Rogue installer process on Win2003

2015-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@smppartners.com wrote: The old msicuu used to do that brilliantly, I don’t know why they ever pulled it. I don't know, but I would guess it's because people would use it for everything, which lead to even more problems down the road.

Re: [NTSysADM] Rogue installer process on Win2003

2015-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: We have other software to update (some HP diagnostics utilities). However, if one of the HP installers (EXE’s) is “touched”, that is, either right- or left-clicked, the AV installer process kicks off again. (I

Re: [NTSysADM] [Semi-OT] Gotta love vendors

2015-02-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Susan Bradley sbrad...@pacbell.net wrote: By default,SillyAppruns as the/Local System/account. This is generally regarded as best practice for services. Better practice than domain admin, right? I once had a vendor tell me that they recommend all users on

[NTSysADM] Lenovo laptops preloaded with vulnerable Superfish malware

2015-02-24 Thread Ben Scott
I don't think I've seen this mentioned here. It has come to light that Lenovo, the world's biggest PC marker, has been shipping many of their laptops pre-loaded with software called Superfish. This software installs a bogus root CA certificate, and uses that to intercept all SSL traffic

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Way OT but maybe someone has a trick

2015-02-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: At this point I will lose nothing by breaking it open. It is a sealed plastic unit so opening it is not going to be fun ... That is why God gave man Dremel. ;-) Once you've got it open, you can look at drilling holes

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: QoS for voice on home network

2015-02-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: I’ve got cable modem at home, 25 down/ 2 up. Also have MagicJack for VoIP. I’ve always had issues with voice quality on the other end of the voice call, not just with MagicJack but other VoIP providers as

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Way OT but maybe someone has a trick

2015-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: Laptop cooler sits under a laptop connects to it by a micro-size power and USB plug cable. Issue is the micro-size plug eventually does not make proper contact inside the cooler. Connection is black boxed and not

Re: [NTSysADM] An Airgap Won�t Secure Your Compute r Anymore

2015-01-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Hacked has a piece about Georgia Institute of Technology researchers keylogging from a distance using the electromagnetic radiation of CPUs. Not really a new threat, although I'm curious if they really mean

Re: [NTSysADM] SSD scrub/sanitize/wipe

2015-01-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I recently had to return a personal laptop for replacement and could not find a method for securely erasing its SSD. Define secure. Personally, for most data, I'd be content with executing a TRIM command over the

Re: [NTSysADM] Freeware in a corporate setting

2015-01-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:56 PM, D R drod...@gmail.com wrote: Question: What would you do if a company 'requires' you to download freeware to be used in a corporate setting? I would read the license, and assuming such use is allowed, do the work. If the license prohibits said usage, I'd

[NTSysADM] Re: Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
REVIEW Seeing occasional but recurring partial machine hangs in Windows 7, apparently related to the network layer. Basic UI elements continue working, it responds to ping, but the machine is unusable. Most processes (including Explorer) hang within seconds. Full report:

Re: [NTSysADM] Wireshark deciphering wanted

2014-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
Dave, did you ever resolve this? On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, so, OP (Dave Lum) got back to me off-list (earlier this week, but I was busy). He confirmed what I suspected: Capture run on the initiating endpoint, LAN is RFC-1918, NAT

Re: [NTSysADM] Use PowerShell to find product key

2014-09-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Sep 26, 2014 10:03 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2012/04/30/getting-windows-product-key.aspx Cool. The algorithm is useful, if nothing else. But the typecast to float in the OP's code scares me. Although I expect it works in

Re: [NTSysADM] Major Bash Vulnerability -- ALL versions

2014-09-25 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Most interesting thing to me is that this vuln has been around for close to 25 years. One wonders how many times it's been discovered before now. One hopes that number is zero. -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] What is everyones preferred SFTP method

2014-09-25 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at different times, Bambi J Saastad bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com wrote: I have been looking at different options for SFTP What is everyone out there using? Server I like the OpenSSH server. It's free, well-tested, and I already know it from *nix. But since you give no

Re: [NTSysADM] Wireshark deciphering wanted

2014-09-24 Thread Ben Scott
Okay, so, OP (Dave Lum) got back to me off-list (earlier this week, but I was busy). He confirmed what I suspected: Capture run on the initiating endpoint, LAN is RFC-1918, NAT to the public 'net, endpoint is initiating a connection to a public IP address. Only discrepancy is that Mr. Lum

Re: [NTSysADM] Remote change PC from static to dynamic IP

2014-09-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: This is both easier to do and harder to do than it seems like it should be. I’ve got a 265 line PowerShell script that does it reliably (granted, over half of it is comments). I wish more people did that.

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Pinging with less than 3 octets

2014-09-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: ping 2259336413 Pinging 134.170.188.221 with 32 bytes of data: This reinforces the fact that to the machine, IP addresses are just a single 32-bit word, not a dotted quad or even a string of four bytes. The x.y.n.z

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Pinging with less than 3 octets

2014-09-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: But my mozilla browser is overly helpful: doesn't look like an IP name or address, so add www. in front and .com after. That doesn't work! I think then, that in that case, Mozilla is broken. :) I believe that is

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Pinging with less than 3 octets

2014-09-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I posted links to source code yesterday. In BSD, Darwin, Linux, and Windows, inet_aton() (a core socket/winsock function) does this conversion. Someone would have to replace that function in order to override the

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Pinging with less than 3 octets

2014-09-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Two points for Ben. :) Cool. At this rate, I should be caught up to you by the year 2112. :) -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] need a Powershell script to resolve a campus student email problem

2014-09-12 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Dave Hardyman dhardy...@swtc.edu wrote: We had several thousand Google Apps student email accounts become suspended yesterday. Google tech support will not unsuspend the accounts. Have you tried calling your Google sales rep and telling them you'll jump ship

Re: [NTSysADM] Possible to mirror across two different array controllers?

2014-09-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM, James Button jamesbut...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Interesting thought if you can do raid mirroring with different drive types (Ha!) large SSD and a large TB drive for it’s mirror – as a backup Most RAID implementations won't be any faster than the slower

Re: [Exchange] Re: [NTSysADM] 2012 R2 HyperV

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Joseph Schvarcz yossi...@hotmail.com wrote: I only have 2 blades in the VRTX, the other 2 slots are empty, that is an option, but I don’t think my client is going to want to spring for another blade. It'd be kind of a waste/overkill, anyway. For a backup DC

Re: [NTSysADM] Software metering

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:00 PM, CSSU NetAdmin cssunetad...@cssu.org wrote: Anyone have suggestions for software metering software? We would like to know what programs are used- and not - on the machines in our network. The Security Event Log can sort-of tell you this, if you've got auditing

Re: [Exchange] Re: [NTSysADM] 2012 R2 HyperV

2014-09-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Joseph Schvarcz yossi...@hotmail.com wrote: So you suggest making one of the HyperV hosts a DC as well? Not a good idea, IMO. DCs are still special in many ways, and I wouldn't want a VM host trying to do that too, if I could possibly avoid it. Our DCs are

Re: [Exchange] Re: [NTSysADM] 2012 R2 HyperV

2014-09-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Joseph Schvarcz yossi...@hotmail.com wrote: So you suggest making one of the HyperV hosts a DC as well? Not a good idea, IMO. DCs are still special in many ways, and I wouldn't want a VM host trying to do that too, if I could possibly avoid it. Our DCs are

Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud

2014-09-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Susan Bradley sbrad...@pacbell.net wrote: IMHO Remote desktop services not client backup to the cloud is what he really needs. He needs stupid thin clients that remote to a central repository that is backed up. What if offline is a requirement? (Serious

Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud

2014-09-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Rotate more than one drive. Take the most recent drive off-site. Make it a *daily* procedure/task for the user. Often times with unprofessional people; anything less than daily will be neglected.

Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud

2014-09-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@kj.net.au wrote: My point is that we’re not really addressing the underlying problem at all. The underlying problem is a business-owner who doesn't understand technical issues ignoring the advice of people he hired to understand said technical

Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud

2014-09-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@kj.net.au wrote: The underlying problem is a business-owner who doesn't understand technical issues ignoring the advice of people he hired to understand said technical issues for him. I reread the original post, and didn't get that impression

Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud

2014-09-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: He likes the idea of laptops with an external hard drive for backups. His concern is having the laptop backed up consistently every night. Automatically as well. Perhaps a hybrid solution is the best bet? Cloud

Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud

2014-09-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: Ben, thanks for the new words. I had to look them up. Nice to know what they mean but will never use them in any conversation I'll have in the next 30 years or so I figure. I Googled 13 sided polygon and copy-and-pasted

Re: [NTSysADM] Printer managment

2014-08-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@smppartners.com wrote: The clients are all W7 across the domain. That makes things easier, then. :) There is a reason that certain users get certain printers, they are linked to the department/ floor they work on. Are there any

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@kj.net.au wrote: BTW I have just received both a new SP3, and a 4K monitor. Loving both. How many here read that as Service Pack 3 at first and were confused? raises hand -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] Rebuilding/restoring a SBS 2011 server check

2014-08-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Susan Bradley sbrad...@pacbell.net wrote: Yes, Dell does this. One big hunking C drive. So do many contractors/consultants, I've found. Prolly 'cause the installers all default to this, and it never occurred to them to do it differently. -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] Rebuilding/restoring a SBS 2011 server check

2014-08-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: I’m sure I left out a few things but anything obvious I missed? You should make an offering to the gods, so they cast their favor upon you. I think there's an MSKB that tells you whether it should be fruit, harvest, or

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Although most of my confusion still lays on the early adopters of 4K. Even people in the vfx world here in LA dont understand why consumers would buy it [yet] - and these are people that work with it

Re: [NTSysADM] Password reset for lists.myitforum.com?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: I am trying to look back on past posts on an issue I'm having again. This list is archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com/ I've have the best luck searching it by Googling for

Re: [NTSysADM] Printer managment

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@smppartners.com wrote: I need to be able to point something at any PC on my domain and see what printers it has installed on it. You don't describe your environment, but any Windows that's reasonably recent will have useful tools in

Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Dave Lum li...@theitgarage.com wrote: I would kind of hope the backup would be on the entire drive including programs, etc. so it should restore to pretty close to original…otherwise a full backup isn’t very helpful J. It depends... A pure system image

Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: While the shotgun approach of nuking _EVERY_ driver in the system might solve the _SPECIFIC_ issue of this being a boot device access issue ... Since this has come up twice now... What you see in Device Manager

Re: [NTSysADM] Printer managment

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@smppartners.com wrote: We have two print servers. One is a 2003 server, one a 2012. For this problem, the version of the print server isn't as relevant as what the print clients are running. If they're all running Vista/2008 or later,

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote: hal.dll exists on the installation media. ntoskrnl.exe is built at install-time and is used by hal.dll to handle hardware. Re-installing rebuilds ntoskrnl.exe, not hal.dll. I believe you are incorrect. There are

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:07 PM, James Button jamesbut...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Thanks for that – an example of why I whinge about the use of IDE to mean PATA rather than SATA. pointless diversion Technically speaking, IDE was originally WDC/CDC/CPQ's name for the interface which was later

[NTSysADM] Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
SUMMARY Some of our Windows 7 PCs are going into a partial machine hang condition (locked up/not responding/wedged/etc). It's intermittent, with no trigger or pattern I have been able to discern. Definitely a persistent, repeating problem, though. It seems to be related to the Microsoft

Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Microsoft's documentation on this is not as good as it could be When I wanted to learn and understand this stuff back in the NT days, I went straight to the Custer(Russinovich)(Solomon book). I have quite a stack of them now.

Re: [NTSysADM] Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Whilst I mull this over, this may help you grab a dump of the hung process as it can trigger on an unresponsive window handle: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900 Hmmm. I'll give it a shot.

[NTSysADM] Re: Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Some of our Windows 7 PCs are going into a partial machine hang condition P.S.: I should mention that the frequency, on my PC, seems to be in the neighborhood of once a week, or maybe once every couple of weeks. So

Re: [NTSysADM] Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Whilst I mull this over, this may help you grab a dump of the hung process as it can trigger on an unresponsive window handle: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900 It would appear ProcDump

Re: [NTSysADM] Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote: My first step would be to scan my machine for malware. Everything here runs Trend OfficeScan real-time, and does a full scan once a week. Nobody runs with admin rights for day-to-day. Software Restriction Policies

Re: [NTSysADM] Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: If you want an instant kernel dump, kill the SMSS process... :) OK, sure. How do I do that on a system which is non-responsive? :-) -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I always keep a CMD window open for scenarios like this. I usually do, too. I also usually have Process Explorer open. But I haven't been able to do much of anything useful with them when this particular failure mode

[NTSysADM] Re: Diagnosing machine hangs in network layer?

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: ... is there a way to force a bugcheck so I can get a kernel dump ...? I found CrashOnCtrlScroll which looks like it will do that much, at least. Tested on a non-hung system and it did indeed bluescreen. http

Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Jimmy Tran ji...@jt-solution.com wrote: Got a dual core Pentium pc with windows 7 home on it. I cloned the hdd and installed it in a quad core i5 pc. It fails to boot and give the error “boot selection failed because required device is inaccessible”

Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote: It's a little more complex than that. Basically the HAL is wrong. I believe a multicore Pentium and a multicore i5 will use the same HAL. You *might* be able to fix it by booting in safe mode and (assuming it boots

Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:08 PM, John C Owen jowen...@myfairpoint.net wrote: I remember XP having a different version for more than one CPU Yes, there was a multiprocessor HAL and a uniprocessor HAL. There were also variants of each for ACPI vs non-ACPI, as well as some weirder things.

[NTSysADM] Re: Win 8, System Image Backup, USB flash

2014-08-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Windows 8 home edition. Can one create a System Image backup to a USB flash drive? FYI: (Previously on NTSYSADM: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com/msg09087.html) Even after updating to Windows

[NTSysADM] Re: FYI: Win 8 install, UEFI vs BIOS/CSM, inaccessible BIOS setup

2014-08-22 Thread Ben Scott
You may recall I had installed Windows 8 to a PC configured to boot in BIOS/legacy/CSM mode, rather than UEFI/modern/secure mode. This led to an inability to access the BIOS/UEFI/CMOS/firmware setup utility. I had hoped to do a system image backup, change boot mode, and do a restore.

[NTSysADM] Re: FYI: Win 8 install, UEFI vs BIOS/CSM, inaccessible BIOS setup

2014-08-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to find a way to install the Windows EFI loader (Windows Boot Manager) without reinstalling the whole OS ... So, I have a Win 8.1 Recovery medium -- a USB flash drive -- that is bootable with the laptop in UEFI

Re: [NTSysADM] Pushing proxy for Firefox

2014-08-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote: Our organization is moving towards using a proxy for internet browsing. Trouble is, we allow multiple browsers (IE, Chrome and Firefox). Chrome is easy since it uses the settings from IE, and IE has

Re: [NTSysADM] Hyper-V versus VMWare

2014-08-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:15 PM, CSSU NetAdmin cssunetad...@cssu.org wrote: We are exploring the benefits of VMWare vs. Hyper-V. We currently use VMWare but it seems the Hyper-V might be more cost effective. Anyone move from one to the other? It seems like third-parties are still more

Re: [NTSysADM] Hyper-V versus VMWare

2014-08-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Microsoft's already caught up quite a bit, and I expect they will eventually match or exceed VMware, but it doesn't appear to have happened yet. You mean on third party support they haven't caught up? Meaning

Re: [NTSysADM] it contracts

2014-08-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:02 PM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: If Microsoft (multi billion dollar empire) can have basically a we are not liable in any way shape or form in their EULA, then why should the rest of us? Just because they say they aren't liable, doesn't mean they aren't

Re: [NTSysADM] Native VNC-like Windows remote control toy?

2014-08-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Danvers, Jim jim.danv...@hphood.com wrote: Are there *any* native, and preferably free, windows solutions to get remote control of a remote machine AND have that machines screen NOT go blank AND not require any user intervention? Well, unsolicited (offered)

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Sys admin day

2014-07-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I didn't get one. 'Course I didn't apply, either. Wow, same here. -- Ben

[NTSysADM] FYI: RunAs Explorer

2014-07-30 Thread Ben Scott
FYI: One thing that's long annoyed me about NT 6.0 and later is that one cannot launch Windows Explorer (EXPLORER.EXE) as an elevated process. This was easily done under XP, but in Vista/2008 and later, it doesn't work. Microsoft says this is by design. Well, I just came across a workaround.

Re: [NTSysADM] Exchange list?

2014-07-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Jul 30, 2014 4:11 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously? Wow, thats amazing... What about, what-was-it... Blue Wave? BlueWave Offline Mail Reader. That thing rocked. I ran a point node for a while, and had an elaborate setup to exchange point mail with the

Re: [NTSysADM] Exchange list?

2014-07-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote: Why, when I was a kid in the then-new interwebz we had dig. You kids with your fancy-schmancy browser-based search engines... We didn't have no stinkin' browser! And we LIKED it cu we didn't know any better! You kids

Re: [NTSysADM] Exchange list?

2014-07-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:51 PM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.com wrote: ZModem was one of my faves. YModem-G. Faster downloads on modems with hardware error correction. -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] Exchange list?

2014-07-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an oldie but goodie: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+in+1998 Heh. I didn't know about that. Cool. GOOG has the best easter eggs. -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] FYI: Win 8 install, UEFI vs BIOS/CSM, inaccessible BIOS setup

2014-07-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: UEFI boot (aka Secure Boot to Windows) is tightly integrated into the boot process. It was the can't get into firmware setup if you install without UEFI aspect that really surprised me. It may be worth pointing

Re: [NTSysADM] Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:18 PM, James Hill james.h...@legitit.com.au wrote: I haven't tried it but this may work for you. I would try using VL media and doing the following:- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824952.aspx Ah, that's something I didn't know about. Good to know.

Re: FW: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...

2014-07-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Susan Bradley sbrad...@pacbell.net wrote: Salesmen embellish. What's the difference between a used-car salesman and a computer technology salesman? The used-car salesman knows when he's lying. (attribution unclear) -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] Polling wrong DC-FIXED- Kind of

2014-07-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:50 PM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: I really would still like to know why it would only attempt to contact the DC in site5 as opposed to the DNS server's that I specified (HQ Servers) on the nic card. DNS != AD It may have been looking up the Active Directory

[NTSysADM] FYI: Win 8 install, UEFI vs BIOS/CSM, inaccessible BIOS setup

2014-07-23 Thread Ben Scott
FYI... SUMMARY Installing Windows 8 in BIOS mode on a UEFI system may leave you unable to access the BIOS/UEFI/firmware setup utility. DETAILS Apparently, when you install Windows 8, it matters whether you've booted the Win 8 installer via the new UEFI mechanism, or the classic BIOS

Re: [NTSysADM] Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Can you use Crap Toshiba install disk, then a keyfinder app to harvest the key, and then once so harvested change it to that key? My understanding is that there *is* no key. There is license information embedded

Re: [NTSysADM] Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused. You have VL media, but no VL key? I have a Volume License Key. But it's for the license we bought at work. I'm trying to borrow the media to use with a home PC. Media is media, but Microsoft *really*

Re: [NTSysADM] Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: This has a potential solution ... http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-retrieve-windows-8-oem-product-key-from-bios/ Hmmm, that does look promising. Perhaps the there is no Product Key info I read elsewhere is wrong.

Re: [NTSysADM] Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/bipass-uefi-provided-product-key-to-install/a271067b-d655-4b46-8b52-b3f191b9370c As you noted, doesn't really apply, but this suggestion, from a

[NTSysADM] Re: Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
Success! Here's the latest: INVESTIGATION I tried using a Dell-branded Win 8 Pro OEM disc. It installed without asking for any license info (beyond EULA acceptance) or edition. Upon reboot, it was running Windows 8 Home. Upon Internet connection, it activated itself. No need to enter a

Re: [NTSysADM] Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Kramer, Jack jack.kra...@cabs.msu.edu wrote: I don't see any retail media ISOs available in VLSC for our account. If you’re large enough you’ll have them simply by virtue of someone in your organization having bought them. So, yes. How does one buy a Retail

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I'm curious about your Dell OEM CD. I haven't seen one for win8 ... Dell P/N was H27WW, if that helps any. ... but the ones I've seen have had some dell customizations included. I did actually do a search for

Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Frank Ress frank.r...@gastechnology.org wrote: But user conferences like PASS events (PASS Summit, SQL Saturdays, SharePoint Saturdays) and 3rd party tech conferences like Connections and TechMentor (I’ve gone to several, highly recommend) are great for

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
In the following, all terms in quotes are my own terminology, which may not necessarily align with Dell's, Microsoft's, or anyone else's. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: 1. Dell from my experience has been getting better about the shovel ware on their

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: I have heard that the media is the same for 8.1 and 8.1 Pro and the key determines which features are turned on or off. As mentioned earlier, this is demonstrably false for some Win 8 media, and demonstrably true for

Re: [NTSysADM] Online server backups

2014-07-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:18 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Was looking at the likes of Carbonite and Mozy, but haven't got around to any testing yetany input is appreciated. A side client of mine tried Carbonite Pro a couple years back. The software was hard-coded to

Re: [NTSysADM] SMB Signing Confusion

2014-07-11 Thread Ben Scott
Server != client. You need to enable the options to sign communications for both servers and clients. You need to apply that to both servers and clients. I think there is also an option to require signing you will want enabled (I don't have a reference convenient to me now). -- Ben On Jul 11,

Re: [NTSysADM] Mouse trails

2014-07-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:43 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: You may have to do something like restart the shell to get it to kick in. It's not the shell... I can exit Explorer, and kill the remaining EXPLORER.EXE, and I can still toggle the trails on and off using CONTROL

Re: [NTSysADM] A quiet weekend and start of the week

2014-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: Looks like a good start to the week. No major issues being asked about and nothing much in the news! We moved our servers across town to the new building over the weekend. We're still in business today. I call that a

Re: [NTSysADM] This is good news

2014-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Though long overdue, it should migrate to other browsers pretty easily... http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html It won't help. Security requires understanding.

Re: [NTSysADM] copy files to folders

2014-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:13 AM, David McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: Copy file x to folder y. Where file x is passed as parm %1 and folder y as parm %2. 050114.7z is moved to folder May 2014. So today 06/03/2014 the job would be looking at 04/19/2014. I'm confused on your requirements.

Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm.... TrueCrypt

2014-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Hank Arnold arnol...@optonline.net wrote: I ***HATE*** plumbing. L I'm rather fond of it, myself. Sure beats going outside in the middle of winter. ;-) -- Ben

Re: [NTSysADM] It has been a while.....Is it just me....

2014-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: Or is this list SIGNIFICANTLY more quiet than the old Sunbelt NT Sysadmin list? I have the same impression. But I also have the impression that volume had been dropping steadily even before the transition (with a bigger jump

Re: [NTSysADM] It has been a while.....Is it just me....

2014-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Melvin Backus melvin.bac...@byers.com wrote: Probably because the old list never stopped working, it just died functionally. AFAIK, they’re still sending out quarterly admin notices, etc. The posts are still queued in Lyris for delivery. ;-) -- Ben

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