Re: [NTSysADM] MVMC

2013-05-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
DISK2VHD works for many scenarios. I found another free tool that is pretty good as well. http://www.2tware.com/product/6/2tware+convert+vhd+free *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: LinkedIn endorsement fun

2013-05-31 Thread Andrew S. Baker
LOL You are about to start a very, very bad trend. I can feel it. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:57 AM, James Rankin

Re: [NTSysADM] Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like qeadzcwrsfxv1331

2013-05-31 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Isn't that the game we play? 1. Hackers exploit obvious holes. 2. We mitigate by using specific techniques. 3. Hackers exploit either non-obvious holes that remain, or a weakness of the mitigation technique. 4. Goto step 2 *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker*

Re: [NTSysADM] Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like qeadzcwrsfxv1331

2013-05-31 Thread Andrew S. Baker
CPUs + GPUs *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: Interesting, thanks for posting. Rookie

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: LinkedIn endorsement fun

2013-06-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
LOL *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Next time that happens to me, I’m going to

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

2013-06-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
from your computer. Thank you. *[image: Description: Description: Lifespan]* ** ** ** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:34 AM *To:* ntsysadm *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] RE

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

2013-06-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
, then on-prem after. In less than 2 years, due to Microsoft’s dev shift and due to IT no longer being able to keep up with updates from the accelerated release schedule, a subscription model (Cloud) will be the only way to go. Sent from Microsoft Surface Pro *From:* Andrew S. Baker *Sent

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

2013-06-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*From:* Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:27 AM *To:* ntsysadm The focus is on cloud integration... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market

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

2013-06-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
from Microsoft Surface Pro *From:* Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:27 AM *To:* ntsysadm The focus is on cloud integration... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker

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

2013-06-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
. Sent from Microsoft Surface Pro *From:* Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:27 AM *To:* ntsysadm The focus is on cloud integration... *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker

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

2013-06-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
, really On 4 June 2013 17:04, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: *For dev and test environments, sure, and maybe smaller enterprises without regulatory requirements and/or no budget to spare for private infrastructure, but throw in any kind of data security and integrity - particularly

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

2013-06-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
, due to Microsoft’s dev shift and due to IT no longer being able to keep up with updates from the accelerated release schedule, a subscription model (Cloud) will be the only way to go. Sent from Microsoft Surface Pro *From:* Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Re: [NTSysADM] 10Gbe switches- feedback

2013-06-06 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Even with SSDs, more spindles are a good thing (up to a point, of course) 8 is a very good number. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:55

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

2013-06-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
/in/kschaefer Typed on a Lenovo Helix – apologies for brevity *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [ mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com listsad...@lists.myitforum.com ] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker * Sent:* Friday, 7 June 2013 12:40 PM* To:* ntsysadm * Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Now

Re: cloud spam filtering WAS RE: [NTSysADM] RE: FortiGate FortiMail email security boxes - feedback?

2013-06-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
MessageLabs does have a quarantine function, but I'm not sure of the costs... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Ken Schaefer

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: licensing question about hyperv

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Nope. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Jimmy Tran ji...@jt-solution.com wrote: One final question: with that single

Re: [NTSysADM] Free new e-books

2013-06-18 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Thanks! *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: A new posting of free e-books. A little

Re: [NTSysADM] running multiple wmic commands on a batch

2013-06-18 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Why does the batch file have start CMD ? *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, As way to

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

2013-06-19 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You share nothing -- this is business, not friendship. Never confuse the two. *And if the new gig was a go, they want an immediate start time (within 2 weeks) because their outsourced people doing the support are going to be gone in that time. However, you are working on finishing up projects

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

2013-06-19 Thread Andrew S. Baker
* I usually advise people to turn that down unless there are special circumstances.* VERY special circumstances... In general, don't do it. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-19 Thread Andrew S. Baker
RAID0? I hope you mean RAID1. :) *realistically 6-8 TB and maybe another 10 to 20 users. in the next 5 yrs * Get yourself a Synology device or a QNap. You can get 8-10TB well within your budget. I love the Synology devices, and they'll support iSCSI or NAS *on a seperate note, what is

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I still have one. The domain integration is annoying enough that I finally abandoned it. As for my much newer Synology, I cannot sing its praises enough... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I've used Synology support so far, and they got back to me same day both times. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jimmy Tran

Re: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I've seen this sort of thing in larger networks, but more like 1 or 2 a quarter, at worst. 2-3 a month seems excessive, but some more details would be helpful... Windows versions, AD versions/levels, network configuration, etc *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker*

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

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
) will be the only way to go. Sent from Microsoft Surface Pro *From:* Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:27 AM *To:* ntsysadm The focus is on cloud integration... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com

Re: [NTSysADM] Submit e-mail anonymously

2013-06-27 Thread Andrew S. Baker
The problem is: would anyone in the organization *believe* that it is anonymous, thus, would they actually use it? *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Jun

Re: [NTSysADM] General Windows 8 question

2013-06-27 Thread Andrew S. Baker
So, now when people talk about wanting to be a fly on the wall it's so they can DO things, not just HEAR things... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Jun

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

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Agreed. Those who don't want WINS simply shouldn't install it.[1] *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** [1] Until they find out which service they have that needs it.

Re: [NTSysADM] anti-fragile environment

2013-07-03 Thread Andrew S. Baker
They wish that no one noticed... :) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Bill Humphries b...@red5support.com wrote: So, this isn’t

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: [Exchange] Send As - only working in Cached mode

2013-07-03 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Well, you got a better answer than many receive. It could have been, Works as designed or Will not fix *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at

Re: [NTSysADM] Unable to browse the Web when additional domain controller goes down

2013-07-05 Thread Andrew S. Baker
domain controller I am seeing 5774 Events (NETLOGON) being logged every day. ** ** Regards Pierre ** ** ** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* 04 July 2013 18:47 *To:* ntsysadm *Subject

Re: [NTSysADM] Meraki MR12 review

2013-07-09 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You're welcome. Thank you for the heavy lifting. Also, you can expect that we're moving more towards this utility service model for all manner of solutions -- especially for the more robust ones. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO

Re: [NTSysADM] Free iApps?

2013-07-09 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You are quite the source of cool info this week. :) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: In

Re: [NTSysADM] Small environment Hyper-V

2013-07-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I'm still using iSCSI for shared storage, and shared nothing for live migration... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Richard

Re: [NTSysADM] Free online backup, 15 + 5 + 2 GB

2013-07-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
BoxCryptor is good -- i've been using it for a while. (Although I don't like how they've setup the newest version as compared to Classic) I've just started to use nCryptedCloud, and it is going to do a whole lot to help organizations manage encryption of cloud based storage. If anyone is

Re: [NTSysADM] Meraki MR12 review

2013-07-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I asked first, nyah nyah. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: Hey now I could use some of

Re: [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? The frontie r of high-value scenarios we enable will march outward

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I would be less ambivalent if they had 4 strong, seasoned execs at the head of those 4 new divisions, than with 2 strong leaders + 2 let's see how this turns out leaders. Only time will tell... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO

Re: [NTSysADM] Uhhh...

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Think of it this way: Snowden wouldn't have put himself through the hassle that he did if this thing wasn't hideously extensive. I'm not surprised in the least... (And while it might have a little impact on International business with US businesses, it will have little domestic business impact

Re: [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? The frontie r of high-value scenarios we enable will march outward

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
let's see how this turns out leaders? *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:42 PM *To:* ntsysadm *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? The frontie r of high-value scenarios we

Re: [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? The frontie r of high-value scenarios we enable will march outward

2013-07-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
[mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:42 PM *To:* ntsysadm *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? The frontie r of high-value scenarios we enable will march outward I would be less ambivalent if they had 4 strong

Re: [NTSysADM] Uhhh...

2013-07-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*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 also in that group of organizations you mentioned, and they provide all

Re: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Yeah, but my mail carrier hated me for years on account of that monthly mag... :) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:27 AM, William

Re: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Same here. The vast majority of my Amazon Prime stuff comes via UPS, with a smaller percentage via FedEx. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Wed, Jul 17, 2013

Re: [NTSysADM] Exposure from VPN

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Give her a stand-alone system in your facility that she can use to access the other network. Prevent this machine from accessing anything on your network. Risk minimized. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations

Re: [NTSysADM] Exposure from VPN

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*Pptp absolutely not. It is totally broken and insecure. MS has a KB somewhere saying stop using it.* There are many outside of Microsoft who feel that way (and possibly some inside of it), but I have yet to see a KB article that says so. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker*

Re: [NTSysADM] Exposure from VPN

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
other than PPTP. ** ** ** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:59 PM *To:* ntsysadm *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Exposure from VPN ** ** ***Pptp absolutely

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

2013-08-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Thursday, August 01, 2013 6:43 AM *To:* ntsysadm *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] man-in-the-middle attack ** ** I think you missed Ken's point, Micheal

Re: [NTSysADM] Random thoughts on evaluating SANs

2013-08-02 Thread Andrew S. Baker
yet, so don't have hard numbers for that load - when I have that, I'll probably double the IOPS to account for growth Kurt On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: What's the budget, and will the primary usage be VM hosting? ASB http://XeeMe.com

Re: [NTSysADM] Cool little tool

2013-08-02 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*** TOPIC JUMP *** *My client needs to send “too large for e-mail” large media files (100-300MB). This solution is easier to implement than SFTP, especially from the end users standpoint.* ** What is this I see? You just made a decision that prioritizes ease of use and functionality over

Re: [NTSysADM] Random thoughts on evaluating SANs

2013-08-02 Thread Andrew S. Baker
measurements on the current SQL configs yet, so don't have hard numbers for that load - when I have that, I'll probably double the IOPS to account for growth Kurt On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: What's the budget, and will the primary

Re: [NTSysADM] Google Chrome stores passwords in plaintext

2013-08-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
But you can get it without physical access... that's the point. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:40 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org

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

2013-08-16 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Why do you need 32GB to manage that? I have a host managing more VMs (5 currently) with 16GB RAM, and I was doing some streaming on it for a while. An i3 would be okay, but an i5 would be excellent.(I'm running two different Hyper-V boxen with quad-core E3-1235 processors.) *ASB

Re: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Have you tried setting the permissions on the key so it cannot be modified or appended to? *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, J- P

Re: [NTSysADM] Be afraid

2013-09-05 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I take it that the workarounds aren't helping? *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:22 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm

Re: [NTSysADM] Meraki-Cisco offer

2013-09-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I wonder if I can get a new free device so soon after a previous free device? :) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Jon Harris

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows Update Issues?

2013-09-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*I don't send sensitive information on any of my email accounts I hate to do banking by the web too. I am old and cranky, go figure.* But you access them from your machines where you might be doing sensitive things. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker*

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Speaking in public

2013-09-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Don't overthink it. All the advice you've gotten was pretty good, so I have very little to add. At the end of the day, you're giving a talk for 15-20 min. You'll feel much better at the end of it, than at the beginning, so just keep that in mind as you go through and you'll be fine. Regards,

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows Update Issues?

2013-09-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Well, the cloud version have DNS and certificate issues. :) As long as people keep moving this fast, stuff is going to happen... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…***

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Speaking in public

2013-09-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
ROFL... But true. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:17 PM,

[NTSysADM] OT: A completely modular phone

2013-09-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*Phonebloks* - http://www.phonebloks.com/ Frankly, this is an idea whose time has arrived. I would absolutely support this if it were available (and I'm lending social media support to it now). Will the vendors support it, though? What say you? *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker*

Re: [NTSysADM] Is this domain change, or just DNS play?

2013-09-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
LOL *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM, David Lum

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: A completely modular phone

2013-09-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Phonebloks - http://www.phonebloks.com/ Yah, initially, Android tried to do the modular software, empower-the-user approach. Turns out the carriers really do *not* want that. And in the US, at least, the wireless carriers pretty much own things

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: A completely modular phone

2013-09-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I agree that it would be impossible for anyone to make this device such that it *never* had to be replaced... But I imagine that it is still quite possible to reduce the amount of churn. The real problem is more political than it is technical, however, and that's where I expect the most hurdles.

Re: [NTSysADM] Bank funds stolen without access to rsa token, anyone heard of that?

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew S. Baker
There is missing info in this story, I am sure. Were the funds actually transferred via the bank account, or via a debit card (or alternative)? *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the

Re: [NTSysADM] Network Analyzer

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew S. Baker
It's part of their NSA cross-licensing agreement. :) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:

[NTSysADM] About Careers and Staffing

2013-10-02 Thread Andrew S. Baker
http://www.weblog.keepthejointrunning.com/?p=5369 This is a good read, and should be no surprise to anyone here... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…***

Re: [NTSysADM] Vigilance and planning save the day

2013-10-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
...@lists.myitforum.com listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Thursday, October 03, 2013 6:44 PM *To:* COMPUTING *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Vigilance and planning save the day ** ** Finally, a pretty good security incident response story... http://www.zdnet.com

Re: [NTSysADM] Adobe Customer Data breached

2013-10-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Uh... Isn't Adobe a major Fortune 500 company? Also, you'd be surprised at how many organizations are being breached these days -- most of them having nothing to do with the cloud. Here are some of the big ones for the year:

Re: [NTSysADM] Announcing the release of Version 4 of my Citrix documentation scripts

2013-11-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Thanks for the awesome resource, Webster. Much appreciated (even by those of us without current Citrix infrastructure)... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Sat,

Re: [NTSysADM] wifi in multitenant buildings?

2013-11-06 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Seconded... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: I meant to mention: An

Re: [NTSysADM] 2012r2 inplace upgrade

2013-11-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Indeed. Even though the upgrades have been getting easier and easier and less error prone over time, only go that way if you absolutely have to. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the

[NTSysADM] Re: [Exchange] A bit of sanity prevails at MSFT

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
They're not going to concede (that easily) the on-premise messaging market to the host of open-source solutions that are already making somewhat of an inroads... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information

Re: [Exchange] A bit of sanity prevails at MSFT

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
They're not going to concede (that easily) the on-premise messaging market to the host of open-source solutions that are already making somewhat of an inroads... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information

Re: [NTSysADM] EMET 4.1

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Thanks, Jim *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: It’s out.

Re: [NTSysADM] hyperv on pc-

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
DISK2VHD from SysInternals will get you a useful virtual machine in a few hours... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:02 PM, J- P

Re: [NTSysADM] OT - this so cool

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
:) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Very, very funny, and good for the kids. Kurt On

Re: [NTSysADM] Bye Citrix

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
As Ken points out, consolidation does increase the value of the target, but it does not necessarily increase the risk of success. Pay very close attention to the recent hacking reports put out by Verizon and others. The number of attacks -- successful attacks -- against small business is rising

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: I wonder if I should put this up on ebay...

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I ditched some DOS 5.0 floppies and some BeOS 3.1 disks when we moved last year. :) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Maglinger,

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: I wonder if I should put this up on ebay...

2013-11-18 Thread Andrew S. Baker
...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I ditched some DOS 5.0 floppies and some BeOS 3.1 disks when we moved last year. :) BeOS! Wow! Now that's obscure. :) I don't think I've ever even seen it, outside of screen shots. Did you have

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: I wonder if I should put this up on ebay...

2013-11-18 Thread Andrew S. Baker
, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: BeOS 3.1 disks Did you actually BUY BeOS?? -sc *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Friday, November 15, 2013 10:06 AM *To:* ntsysadm

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: I wonder if I should put this up on ebay...

2013-11-18 Thread Andrew S. Baker
LOL Good answer *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: I'm still writing the design

Re: [NTSysADM] It's unlikely I will ever buy an LG Smart TV, but

2013-11-23 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Just remember... The open source projects that are large enough, also have enough lines of code in there that it's not necessarily trivial to code review on anything approaching a regular basis. And I suspect that there's no, If X=5, Send Code to NSA lines in there... There are code weaknesses

Re: [NTSysADM] It's unlikely I will ever buy an LG Smart TV, but

2013-11-23 Thread Andrew S. Baker
(3) One of Duck Duck Go's providers/suppliers/vendors/etc is secretly cooperating with the gov't, and/or the gov't has compromised DDG's operations without DDG's knowledge. This is the way I think it will go if enough people start to make moves in this direction. From what I have already

Re: [NTSysADM] It's unlikely I will ever buy an LG Smart TV, but

2013-11-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
, but after compiling the supposed safe code, the backdoors would be back - Original Message - *From:* Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com *To:* ntsysadm ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com *Sent:* Saturday, November 23, 2013 10:24 PM *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] It's unlikely I will ever buy

Re: [NTSysADM] TEST new list

2013-11-28 Thread Andrew S. Baker
It's the same old list... :) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:25 PM, SysAdmin sysad...@networkblade.com wrote: image001.jpg

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: SFTP Server for Windows server 2008 r2

2013-11-29 Thread Andrew S. Baker
+1 Very solid and flexible SFTP server for Windows. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Aakash Shah aakash.s...@uci.edu wrote: +1

Re: [NTSysADM] Home labs on hosted services

2013-12-02 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I've thought about it on several occasions, but it hasn't worked out as a cost effective option for my use cases. I have two VM host servers, 6TB of iSCSI SAN storage, 8 full-time VMs, and 4-8 other VMs that get created for testing, etc. Backups are scripted, so I don't have to think about it a

Re: [NTSysADM] Home labs on hosted services

2013-12-02 Thread Andrew S. Baker
wouldn't be looking at this model if I still had my AD DC and DataNow appliance running 24/7, I agree it's no good for those who want things running permanently. On 2 December 2013 17:10, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I've thought about it on several occasions, but it hasn't worked out

Re: [NTSysADM] Malware: War without End, interesting article.

2013-12-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
As long as you can code something right, you can code it wrong... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org

Re: [NTSysADM] FYI: OpenSRS/Tucows DNS down - DDoS

2013-12-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I still want the prize... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: FYI: OpenSRS, AKA Tucows, AKA

[NTSysADM] New attack steals e-mail decryption keys by capturing computer sounds

2013-12-19 Thread Andrew S. Baker
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/new-attack-steals-e-mail-decryption-keys-by-capturing-computer-sounds/ Truth is steadily becoming stranger than fiction in the land of security *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: 40 Million CC breach at Target....

2013-12-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Kurt, half of your points also apply to 3rd party infrastructure hosting (co-location, etc), and unless you're providing your own telecom services, or encrypting the data end-to-end, there is always a huge reliance upon 3rd parties. There are very few self-contained networks in existence upon

Re: [NTSysADM] New attack steals e-mail decryption keys by capturing computer sounds

2013-12-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
. *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:21 PM *Subject:* [NTSysADM] New attack steals e-mail decryption keys by capturing computer sounds http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/new

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: 40 Million CC breach at Target....

2013-12-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
**http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: 40 Million CC breach at Target....

2013-12-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
, Dec 22, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Kurt, half of your points also apply to 3rd party infrastructure hosting (co-location, etc), and unless you're providing your own telecom services

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: 40 Million CC breach at Target....

2013-12-23 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Sunday, December 22, 2013 8:54 PM *To:* ntsysadm *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] RE: 40 Million CC breach at Target ***OTOH, if we did use colo - and I'm pushing it for backups

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: 40 Million CC breach at Target....

2013-12-23 Thread Andrew S. Baker
) for the SMB market…* On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon's cloud is external to its customers - Amazon's staff, procedures and infrastructure are a risk to its customers

Re: [NTSysADM] Free Powershell training videos

2013-12-28 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Thanks, Scott *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: I don't think I've seen this posted

Re: [NTSysADM] More shameless promo

2013-12-28 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Well done, James. :) Glad you found it helpful. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:43 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Just

Re: [NTSysADM] [NTSysAdmin] home storage with web access?

2013-12-28 Thread Andrew S. Baker
More support for Synology... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for

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