RE: WAN / Application Optimizer

2009-03-19 Thread Malcolm Reitz
+1 We use Riverbeds extensively in our WAN environment and they make a big difference in performance for most applications. -Malcolm From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WAN / Application

RCN

2009-03-19 Thread Chipshead
Anyone use RCN as a business class Internet provider? If so please s h are your opinion and experiences . We are considering using them in the Boston area. Thanks . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/

IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Ross
FYI http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2318 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Brumbaugh, Luke
I have loaded a server with 2008 STD 32bit with file services and it seems that the xp/2003 machines have slow performance connecting or reading drives. I have checked the taskmgr and cpu is low 1-10% and memory low (4gb installed and 700mg - 950 mg used). Virus protection loaded (Symantec in a

RE: WAN / Application Optimizer

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Blackstone
MAPI and CIFS traffic kick a** over Riverbed! From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WAN / Application Optimizer +1 We use Riverbeds extensively in our WAN environment and they make a big

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread RichardMcClary
The question is, will one have to jump through a bunch of hoops before they can browse to their first page? That alone made IE7 rather dispiclable! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802

Shareware Product

2009-03-19 Thread Dennis Rogov
Hi everyone would anyone know of a shareware tool that will scan my file server and report on each folder and subfolder down to the file level permission access? I currently have a mixed mode of 2000 and 03 AD Thank You Dr ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog!

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Vue, Za
Another pointless MS browsers. Already annoyed the heck out of people. HTF do you get rid of the annoying You have disabled Add-on message on top when there is no disabled add-on? MS needs to dig itself out of the ActiveX hole it dug and partner with Mozilla or Mac and incorporate their

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Leif Wahlberg
dispiclable ??? My dictionary is not smart enough for this. Leif Wahlberg Admin by default From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 21:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE 8 today The question is, will one have

Re: Shareware Product

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Dennis Rogov dennis_rogov2...@yahoo.com wrote: would anyone know of a shareware tool that will scan my file server and report on each folder and subfolder down to the file level permission access? SHOWACLS.EXE from the Windows Resource Kit will do that.

SMS Messaging

2009-03-19 Thread Robert Jackson
We've had a requirement from one of our customers to provide a facility for SMS text messaging. Does anyone have a feeling as to whether we should do this ourselves by getting one or more SMS modems or using one of the many SMS services out there? Our application (to a backend database) has 2

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Ross
Agreed, but you COULD disable all that with a reg setting. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE 8 today The question is, will one have to jump through a bunch of hoops before

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
I'm sure he meant: despicable...honest mistake after a long day at work. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Leif Wahlberg lef...@gmail.com wrote: dispiclable ??? My dictionary is not smart enough for this. Leif Wahlberg Admin by default *From:* richardmccl...@aspca.org

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread RichardMcClary
Correct on both counts - and it was still early in said day! -- Richard Rob Bonfiglio robbonfig...@gmail.com wrote on 03/19/2009 08:34:57 AM: I'm sure he meant: despicable...honest mistake after a long day at work. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Leif Wahlberg lef...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: Shareware Product

2009-03-19 Thread René de Haas
Dumpsec, free. Ren�� -Original Message- From: Dennis Rogov [mailto:dennis_rogov2...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Shareware Product Hi everyone would anyone know of a shareware tool that will scan my file server and report on

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Ross
I dunno why.. but I disagree with statement touting that firefox is the top dog to work with or use.. I have zero issues using IE7, with IE7pro installed and configured. Zero.. EXCEPT a rare occasion when IE uses a lot of memory, or I get the sysfader error..the latter is an issue really with the

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Leif Wahlberg
Not easy to get for us with English as a third language. Leif From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 21:35 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE 8 today I'm sure he meant: despicable...honest mistake after a long day at work. On Thu,

RE: SMS Messaging

2009-03-19 Thread Rod Trent
Why not use the resources of another. Setup a company Twitter account. -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: SMS Messaging We've had a requirement

Re: SMS Messaging

2009-03-19 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
What, you mean use a social networking site for business purposes??? Oh my, what a concept. (please note, extreme sarcasm above) On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Why not use the resources of another. Setup a company Twitter account. -Original

RE: SMS Messaging

2009-03-19 Thread John Aldrich
Yep. No one has *ever* thought of that before.. Nothing like LinkedIn or anything. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SMS Messaging What, you mean use a social

RE: SMS Messaging

2009-03-19 Thread Simon Butler
Has your client looked at the costs of doing this? I have been asked before to do it and every time it has been dropped because of the costs. Here in the UK there are no free options, and unless you limit it heavily, the staff will abuse it. You will need to sign up with one of the bulk

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread RichardMcClary
Hope you never get this issue... No browser is allowed to download anything - even if you are running as a domain admin. As PDF files need to be downloaded and then opened by the add-in, this means they cannot be read. It also hoses MS Update as those are files downloaded and installed. It

local printers in TS

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Everett
I set up a new Terminal Server and users are pulling their local/mapped printers to the TS. I know I can uncheck the printer box in Local Resources tab during login, but I have other Terminal Servers that don't show users local printers without unchecking that box. I can't remember what I did to

Re: WAN / Application Optimizer

2009-03-19 Thread Kurt Buff
How well do they fare in high-latency environments, such as between an office in Redmond and one on either the UK or AU? Kurt On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:53, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: MAPI and CIFS traffic kick a** over Riverbed! From: Malcolm Reitz

Re: Shareware Product

2009-03-19 Thread Kurt Buff
Fileacl.exe - it's free, too. One of the nicer features it has is that it has the ability to turn it's report into a batch file, so that you can come back to it later and re-do the permissions. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:10, Dennis Rogov dennis_rogov2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi everyone would

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread David Lum
That sounds like what I see if IE7 enhanced security settings are enabled, which is changed via add/remove of all places... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread RichardMcClary
Hmmm... We never thought to look there (yes, we know how it is done). The screwy thing is, the problem occurs suddenly on machines which had never had apparent problems. Does this enhanced security block all browers and not just IE? That's almost crossing the line into malware... -- Richard

RE: SMS Messaging

2009-03-19 Thread Rod Trent
A lot of companies are doing this now for customer updates and alerting. -Original Message- From: Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: SMS Messaging What, you mean use a

Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/39825?netht=rn_031809nladname=031809 -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
And for managed environments the other options are what exactly? Firefox is not an option in many managed environments due to the lack of any sort of central configuration management. Yes, I'm aware of the Frontmotion stuff, but they do several things wrong: a) they bundle third plugins (flash,

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Michael Ross mr...@itwif.com wrote: I dunno why.. but I disagree with statement touting that firefox is the top dog to work with or use.. Okay, I'll bite... :) It's been a long week; this will be refreshing... :) I like Firefox better. It's faster and

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Despicable? Wow... I cant imagine how you came to that comclusion. ;-) -- ME2 On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Rob Bonfiglio robbonfig...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sure he meant: despicable...honest mistake after a long day at work. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Leif Wahlberg

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: And for managed environments the other options are what exactly? You can have Firefox read additional config files from a network location. You can force it to do so. You can force config options in a config file, or

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Despicable?  Wow...  I cant imagine how you came to that comclusion. Sufferin' succotash! ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread David Lum
In practice, I think Firefox is more secure than MSIE. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10190206-83.html It's patched faster, which might validate the in practice part of that statement. How do you manage patching Firefox in the enterprise? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION

Re: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/39825?netht=rn_031809nladname=031809 Details are rather sketchy, but it does sound ominous. This caught my eye: ... privilege escalation from Ring 0 to the

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread David Lum
I don't have an answer for you - I have only two 2008 Server deployed - but the speed between the Vista -- -- 2008 Server should be significantly faster than XP - 2008. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Brumbaugh, Luke

RE: New server

2009-03-19 Thread gsweers
If you can set the speed/duplex on the switch and the server then do it. If they are Broadcom nics make sure you disable the SNP, either by running, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950224 Or by going to cmd prompt and running, Netsh int ip set chimney DISABLED From: Erik

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Good point, unlikely if affects all browsers but depending on how that security is implemented under the hood ... I know Firefox 3.x introduced a feature where it honors certain settings from the MSIE Internet Options

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
I make my own MSI installers. I don't like the Frontmotion stuff due to the bundling of third party plugins. David Lum wrote: How do you manage patching Firefox in the enterprise? -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
Ben Scott wrote: You can have Firefox read additional config files from a network location. You can force it to do so. You can force config options in a config file, or just let them be defaults. Except that makes the Firefox config all or nothing, and opposite of what management has

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread David Lum
ECC brain, I haven't heard that one before.+1!! -Dave -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE 8 today On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:

RE: SMS Messaging

2009-03-19 Thread Simon Butler
Years ago I did it with a old Nokia phone plugged in to a charger, connected to an old laptop running a Psion Gold card and a third party tool. Things have moved on since then. You can get text machines, which is what most of the radio stations will be using. These are basically a form of

Re: SMS Messaging

2009-03-19 Thread Steve Ens
Even in South Africa, all the contests were run on SMSing. Basically nothing here iN Canada. (not that the kids here don't text...they do like crazy) But the companies haven't harnessed that power of texting. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Simon Butler si...@amset.co.uk wrote: Years ago I

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Except that makes the Firefox config all or nothing, and opposite of what management has mandated I need to do (students get a web proxy for content filtering that they can't turn off, staff and faculty do not).

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Ross
All good points.. really. However.. I disagree that it IS more secure.. For example.. a recent issue... http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread John Hornbuckle
The article said this exploit is OS-independent, though, if I read it right. So regular user vs. admin wouldn't make a difference. Or am I totally confused? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us

Re: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
That's how I interpreted it as well, but I dont know anything about SMM. -- ME2 On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:31 PM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: The article said this exploit is OS-independent, though, if I read it right. So regular user vs. admin wouldn't make a

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Ross
Nope.. never had that issue. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE 8 today Hope you never get this issue... No browser is allowed to download anything - even if you are running

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread RichardMcClary
OK, conference call with New Yorkers is over, so in my dying moments I'll toss in a couple of comments... 1. Lots of time, energy, bandwidth, etc have been spent concerning IE vx FF as regards to which is more secure. Currently, I believe the consensus is that Safari is the worst. 2. I agree

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
I became a fan and user of Firefox years ago when it was the only browser to offer tabbed browsing. Just because IE now offers that, I still see no reason to switch back. Ironically, at my work, we still haven't implemented IE7 because of two enterprise applications that have not been certified

RE: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas Gonzalez
The article stated the security people find them and notify intel, but if intel doesn't act, then they (security people) notify the public. Now, here's my question, if there is a vulnerability as stated, how do you or should I say does intel go about resolving the issue? Do they fix it at the

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Sam Cayze
And their updates are always very late... -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE 8 today And for managed environments the other options are what exactly? Firefox is not an

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Mike Gill
I have zero issues using IE7, with IE7pro installed and configured. Think about that for a second. -- Mike Gill From: Michael Ross [mailto:mr...@itwif.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE 8 today I dunno why.. but I disagree with

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
Ben Scott wrote: Firefox config files are just JavaScript, and you're allowed to pull environment variables from the OS. I think you can put simple logic in the config file to determine things like that. Haven't done this myself. It's not the logic that's the problem, it's: a) I have to

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Michael Ross mr...@itwif.com wrote: However.. I disagree  that it IS more secure.. When I say more secure in practice, I mean just that, not that Firefox is immune to vulnerabilities. Every major browser (and some minor ones) have had vulnerabilities. I just

Re: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
Ever since the PIII Intel has included a microcode update mechanism. Not all processor errata are fixable though, and the microcode update needs to be applied on every boot. Microsoft has use it in the past to fix CPU specific reliability problems: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936357 Thomas

Re: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
Apparently at least one of these SMM rootkits has been around since May of last year: Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145703/hackers_find_a_new_pl ace_t o_hide_rootkits.html or here if the above wraps unusably:

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
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RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread John Cook
I have to disagree with the second sentence:-) John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From:

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote:  a) I have to learn enough JS to do it Well, I've already had to do that to do things like configure our proxy auto-configure script, which MSIE uses as well.  b) I need to have the JS query a database of some kind

RE: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection

2009-03-19 Thread Mike Gill
2WireXXX is the default name a vendor uses for its AP's, I can't remember what one. It's no different than seeing Linksys. The owners of the house aren't the ones to be worries about. It's their kids. You can't assume they are idiots. My wife's nephew is just going into college, and a few months

Re: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
Are you suggesting that such a thing could survive a cold boot? The rootkit has to be stored somewhere it can execute from, and I don't think it'll have much success storing itself in the BIOS. Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: Since it's at the hardware level, even booting off a cleanup CD won't be

Re: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
Ben Scott wrote: Sounds like yet another reason to run as an regular user, not with administrator rights. (Ring 0 being supervisor mode on i386; Ring 3 is user mode, IIRC.) In this case ring 0 is the kernel. All user level processes - regardless of whether the user is root or Administrator

IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Bill Lambert
Has anyone been able to DL it yet? Went to MS site and tried but no joy. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Ross
Think aboot what? Its no different than saying firefox is fast with FastFox installed From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE 8 today I have zero issues using IE7, with IE7pro installed and

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Both the boss and I got it with no problems just a few minutes ago. Don't worry, it will be a critical security update on WSUS any second now I would assume. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE8

Re: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: In this case ring 0 is the kernel. All user level processes - regardless of whether the user is root or Administrator or john.smith - run in ring 3. Right, but administrators can do things like inject kernel code.

RE: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

2009-03-19 Thread John Cook
Can you say Blue Pill??? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche

Re: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: T24gMTkgTWFyIDIwMDkgYXQ ... Aw jeez, not this shit again. http://www.afunnystuff.com/pictures/Forum-pics/Aw-jeez-not-this-shit-again.html -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
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RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 19 Mar 2009 at 13:24, John Cook wrote: I have to disagree with the second sentence:-) @#...@#$%@#$% Lyris at Sunbelt, went through this a few weeks ago ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Brian Desmond
So can you elaborate on what slow performance means? When, where, what, etc... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Brumbaugh, Luke

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Roger Wright
Yep... installing now. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE8 Download... Has anyone been able to DL it

Re: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Am I the only one who thinks Sunbelt should consider an alternative? Everybody else: NO! :) -- B ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Am I the only one who thinks Sunbelt should consider an alternative? Everybody else: NO! In case that wasn't clear: No, you're not the only one who thinks that. I really don't get why anyone uses Lyris for lists. The

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Brumbaugh, Luke
Most people have psts on their home drives on the fileserver, (please don't blame me I hate PSTs), the XP machines will slow down to a crawl. Word docs, etc won't save, drives are disconnected and machines will freeze. Vista however still running. I'll have to reboot the server to cure the

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Brumbaugh, Luke
I have done some googling, and have removed Symantec all together, and turned off power savings on the nic. I hate doing 2 things at once, but this is a main fileserver. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Steven Peck
What kind of weird sites are you people going to? I have zero issues with IE7 standard. I use a combination of FF and IE7 on a variety of different boxes. I find on systems I have both installed, I tend to use IE7 because no matter what the FF folks tell you, overtime FF eats memory and kills

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Carl Houseman
Nobody but Angus seems to have this problem either. And he never used to have it before a few months ago, so something happened, something changed in his local configuration, it would appear, causing mail to go out as Base64 RTF for the text content. Carl -Original Message- From: Phil

Re: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
Am I the only one who thinks Sunbelt should consider an alternative? Mailman lists don't have this problem. Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: @#...@#$%@#$% Lyris at Sunbelt, went through this a few weeks ago ... -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I can easily reproduce scenarios that make IE7 crash. IE7 eats waaay more memory and cant handle it. I'm running current versions, side-by-side, aaand I have 30+ extensions loaded into FF (while no add-ons with IE7). My most recently necessity has been to disabled Flash in IE7 because I can

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Andy Ognenoff
Do the XP machines work until Outlook is opened? Some notes from MS about PSTs on network shares not being supported: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019 All operations take longer. Write operations can take approximately four times longer than read operations.  - Andy O.

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Ross
Im running it. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE8 Download... Has anyone been able to DL it yet? Went to MS site and tried but no joy. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Carl Houseman
Can't remember the last time when IE7 just gave up and walked away. But I only' have 10-20 tabs open at any given time. My tab recovery support is via IE7Pro. Which brings up my next batch of questions, what is the recommended process for IE7Pro users to move to IE8? Remove IE7Pro before

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Roger Wright
I just did an in place upgrade to IE8 and my IEPro settings came over okay. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Yes tab recovery is built into IE8. TVK From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE 8 today Can't remember the last time when IE7 just gave up and walked away. But I only' have 10-20 tabs open at any given

Re: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Wittersheim
Anyone have an idea when IE 8 will be on WSUS? On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Scot Parsons spars...@scetv.org wrote: Me too. *From:* Michael Ross [mailto:mr...@itwif.com] *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:45 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: IE8 Download... Im

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I can make IE7 crash on fewer tabs, but it depends on the web sites open. As I see it, it has an issue with AJAX heavy sites. I'm not a web developer, so I could be misreading the issue. I'm not familiar with IE7Pro. I'm always open to re-evaluations. If you're using it, I'll take it would be

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Blackstone
Hopefully not for a while. From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE8 Download... Anyone have an idea when IE 8 will be on WSUS? On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Scot Parsons

Re: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Steven Peck
Not soon enough for some, to soon for others. :) Steven On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully not for a while. From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Bill Lambert
Sheeshstill no joy...what am I, chopped liver?heh Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Scot Parsons [mailto:spars...@scetv.org] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE8 Download... Me too. From: Michael Ross

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Roger Wright
www.microsoft.com/ie took me right to it. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE8 Download...

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Brian Desmond
That is your problem right there. PSTs on a file server is a MAJOR no-no. You will bring this server sooner or later down doing that. You are running out of probably nonpaged pool. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed -

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Carl Houseman
If you're sticking with IE7 then IE7Pro (or Maxthon) is essential for full featured tabbed browsing. TBD on whether IE7Pro is really needed for tabbed browsing enhancement in IE8. Carl From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:53 PM

Re: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Don Ely
I got it... On 3/19/09, Bill Lambert blamb...@concuity.com wrote: Has anyone been able to DL it yet? Went to MS site and tried but no joy. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 NASDAQ:

2008 TS RemoteApp

2009-03-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone using this: http://www.tsfactory.com/pages/49/remoteapp-TS-Terminal-Services-users-gro ups-filter-avoid-block-/ Is MS going to make this functionality available in R2? Or is that not currently planned. Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Ross
Yes me too, but the little blue symbol is no longer represented in the lower right corner. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE 8 today I just did an in place upgrade to IE8 and my IEPro settings

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-19 Thread Ziots, Edward
Funny part is already been hacked by a drive-by-exploit from a hacker at CANSECWEST, so is IE8 really more secure. If they can use existing hacking techniques to root a box with it on, then your browsing experience may not be any more secure than it is with IE6.0 or 7. Z Edward Ziots

RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver

2009-03-19 Thread Brian Desmond
All that said if you're stuck with these things we can take a shot at tuning the box some. X64 is another option that will help drastically. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:03 PM

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