Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread geoff taylor
They are no different in my opinion to physical systems. There should be no compelling reason to reboot just to reboot. gt On 25/02/2014 7:35 AM, John Matteson wrote: I'm trying to get some straight information on doing maintenance reboots of virtual systems. Some people I've talked to

[NTSysADM] User Profile Service failed the logon

2014-10-15 Thread geoff taylor
environment: W2K8 R2 member server errors: 1500 and a couple of others on orginal SID 500 administrator account We use SSH which requires keys stored in the profile Normally, when things mess up we log in with a different account, delete the SID 500 profile and then when logging back in

Re: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation

2014-10-28 Thread geoff taylor
Ah! Run screamingpoke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick..its better than suggested email. Here are just some of the reasons: 1) Email does not have a followup and reminder system (automated notifications of approvals, escalations etc) 2) Email will flood your mailbox and

Re: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation

2014-10-28 Thread geoff taylor
...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *geoff taylor *Sent:* Tuesday, October 28, 2014 2:02 PM *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation Ah! Run screamingpoke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick..its better than suggested

Re: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation

2014-10-28 Thread geoff taylor
Management process and documentation Sysaid is pretty epic, we use it for our help desk. Have not used it for change management. *From:*listsad...@lists.myitforum.com mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *geoff taylor *Sent:* Tuesday, October 28

Re: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation

2014-10-28 Thread geoff taylor
...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *geoff taylor *Sent:* Tuesday, October 28, 2014 2:49 PM *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation As I mentioned we being poor just adapted the helpdesk

[NTSysADM] MS14-066 - secure channel vulnerability

2014-11-12 Thread geoff taylor
Looking for opinions on how urgent this is, and your plan of attack. No shortage of people crying Wolf. As usual SANs is balanced and sane recognizing the possible severe implications and yet acknowledging that a well thought out patching approach (expedited perhaps) is the best defense.

[NTSysADM] MS14-066 Round Two

2014-11-23 Thread geoff taylor
I am trying to determine if v 2.0 of MS14-066 is necessary to stem the vulnerability for Win2K8R2 and Win2012. We just got the first version with KB2992611 installed and now MS says that to have the install completed I must also install KB3018238. Fair enough. MS screwed up and now I need to

RE: [NTSysADM] MS14-066 Round Two

2014-11-23 Thread geoff taylor
this is Microsoft crying wolf, but a tech bitching about having to do his job.* ** *From:*listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *geoff taylor *Sent:* Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:17 AM *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com *Subject:* [NTSysADM

RE: [NTSysADM] MS14-066 Round Two

2014-11-23 Thread geoff taylor
at 12:09 PM, geoff taylor geoff_tay...@sympatico.ca mailto:geoff_tay...@sympatico.ca wrote: Agreed. So your take is like mine that KB3018238 is a bug fix, and is not required to patch the vulnerability? gt Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 08:11:44 -0800 From

Re: [NTSysADM] 2012 R2 -- where is Remote Desktop Manager?

2014-12-09 Thread geoff taylor
query session and query user at the command line will give you the information you need Then simply logoff the session you want to dispose of For the console session use PSShutdown (carefully) with the -o option Or am i missing what it is you want to do? gt On 09/12/2014 9:55 AM, Jesse Rink

Re: [NTSysADM] controller and backplane replacement advice

2015-04-03 Thread geoff taylor
My experience has been pretty good with Dell being able to rebuild arrays from the drives. you say you will run a backup, so I presume it is still working? For critical situations like this we always create an image of each drive as a secondary possible recovery mode. P2V or your favourite

Re: [NTSysADM] free helpdesk and inventory software?

2016-06-20 Thread Geoff Taylor
We used Sysaid for many years, at a school and liked it so well we bought it. The free version is restricted to a single Administrator. https://www.sysaid.com/free-help-desk-software On 2016-06-20 8:56 AM, Jesse Rink wrote: Anyone have suggestions or experience with any free

Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm....I thought it had reached EOL

2017-12-19 Thread Geoff Taylor
Look for a Volleyball next week On 2017-12-19 2:41 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: It's a Christmas miracle! -- Espi On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Charles F Sullivan > wrote: Somebody just came in and showed us a package

Re: [NTSysADM] Are the Meltdown/Spectre reg keys needed for workstations?

2018-01-10 Thread Geoff Taylor
Mike is correct.  For more details about the individual results see this Microsoft release: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4074629/understanding-the-output-of-get-speculationcontrolsettings-powershell hth gt On 2018-01-09 5:08 PM, Mike wrote: For CVE-2017-5754 [rogue data cache