RE: 64Bit Vista on laptop?

Ben, I 100% agree with your comments here. But in the context of the original post, the issues where: a) Application compatibility of AMD CPUs coupled with b) Outlook and iTunes running twice as slow My position (still) is that: a) There are no app compat issues with Outlook/iTunes and AMD

RE: mpls and site links

Then, at the moment, clients will authenticate to an indeterminate DC. If your DCs are not physically located in the same site, then I would define sites in AD based on the location of your DCs and add your subnets to those AD sites. That will enable clients to connect to the least cost DC for

RE: Is there a way to remotely gather the version and service pack of a Microsoft Exchange Server?

Psinfo -s? -Original Message- From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 10:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Is there a way to remotely gather the version and service pack of a Microsoft Exchange Server? Microsoft publishes the following manual

OS Remote control app without open ports

Does anyone know of an open source remote control app (I guess anything like that would be VNC based) that will allow a tech to control a remote machine at will without requiring any ports to be open on the firewall at the destination end? I want to push something out to a ton of laptops and

Re: OS Remote control app without open ports

Something has to open a port, or you aint getting though it. To possibly circumvent that issue, you would need to initital the connection from inside the firewall - if the firewall isnt filtering outbound. Its not inline with your OP, but I would recommend DameWare's Mini Remote Control. You'd

RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

I'll second that. I've used Dameware's software for quite some time and have been very pleased with it. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me -Original Message-

RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

And with Dameware you can set the port that you want to use. Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open

RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

Well, I suppose if you use a protocol other than TCP/IP (e.g. IPX/SPX) you can get around the port requirements :-) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 28 April 2008 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OS

Re: OS Remote control app without open ports

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an open source remote control app (I guess anything like that would be VNC based) that will allow a tech to control a remote machine at will without requiring any ports to be open on the firewall

RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

You are probably looking for something similar like the logmein.com service. Maybe there is an in-house solution out there. It works like Ben said: The only way around that is to have the remote *always* initiate a connection to a system you control, and then use that as a back-channel to get in

RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

Touche! :) -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports Well, I suppose if you use a protocol other than TCP/IP (e.g. IPX/SPX) you can get around the

RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

Hi Ben, Excellent solution. There are a number of options that allow this type of back-channel access. Not that I would consider any of them secure, but there are a number of solutions. Thanks! Tom -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008

Licensing question for a SBS box transitioned to win2k3

I transitioned a SBS2k3 SBS box to win2k3 and I have bought the licences packs (no product keys like SBS but just pieces of paper). The licenses service is disabled(It remained disabled like in SBS) Am I obliged to enable it and register the licences ?(expecially for Exchange) TIA

Re: OS Remote control app without open ports

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Crossloop yet. It's my favorite program for remote support. Shawn - Original Message - From: Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:34 AM Subject: OS Remote

System Availability

Hi, I was wondering if there is a best practice for a systems availability metric? For example, if I just measure how long Exchange was available per month that might not be a good indicator. If it was down during office hours it would have a higher impact than if it was done at the weekend.