Re: Log On as a Service question

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
I had to create a specific OU for WebSense systems for the local WebSense account - however as I recall it only needed to be present on the actual WebSense server itself, not on any of the Citrix servers. I just went the easy route and created a Citrix Servers OU with the Restricted Groups/User

Re: Blocking unwanted apple software

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
Don't users need admin rights to install software? 2009/5/28 Linda C Jones linda.jone...@gmail.com I'd like to make it impossible for users to install Safari and Bonjour. Has anyone done this? Linda ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread John Hornbuckle
Tod�s the last day! I get way more work done once I get rid of all those pesky teachers and students. The second month of summer is the best, because 95% of employees are off that month. Is nice and quiet, and I can do whatever I need without worrying about impacting people by

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread John Hornbuckle
I don't think anyone thinks Ex 2010 sucks; it has a number of exciting new features. I just think that for some (many?) shops, the SIS issue could have a significant negative impact. As I mentioned before, we're a 500-mailbox organization. Moving to Ex 2010 would require 500x the storage

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Fergal O'Connell
We have had users (more than 1) who are just about to leave - export their mailbox to PST - and send that PST file to their their personal address - THIS does bring down Exchange. The fix There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. From: Owens, Michael

Can anyone help with this Internet explorer Issue

2009-05-29 Thread RITA KAUR
FY1, Sorry I need immediate help from IT guru's I have a situation running client on a W3K BOX with crystal client running on one box and trying to communicate to the crystal server for processing to the other server. The issue at hand is that the client box is unable to communicate to the

Re: Blocking unwanted apple software

2009-05-29 Thread Jon Harris
Yes and removing all elevated rights works great to keep the trash off the machines, by the way Power User is another elevated you want to kill off. Jon On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Don't users need admin rights to install software? 2009/5/28

RE: Can anyone help with this Internet explorer Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
Did you using TCPview on the Win2k3 Box to see if port 6400 is being opened to the server. The java Error in IE could be a lot of things. Have you used Fidder (Http debugger for IE) to capture the error when you click on userid and password on the webserver? It could be the wrong version of

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, Deploy Sharepoint, and email links instead. :-) But as Brian has mentioned - it's working checking your actual SIS stats. I agree with what he has said - many places get a lot less out of SIS than they think they are. Cheers Ken From: John

RE: IIS 6.0 Update list

2009-05-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
Go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx Put IIS 6.0 in the product to search, write down the KB articles listed for IIS 6.0 There is only 2 post Windows 2003 SP1 MS08-006 (KB942830) and MS06-034(KB917537) Then against your IIS 6.0 servers run the following

RE: Another free Microsoft Press E-Book

2009-05-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
BTW It's a good begineers book for those that aren't familiar with SQL 2008/2005 ( 2005 is just building off 2k5) I bought it, and already reviewed it in my 2k8 studies and again it's a good begineers, (get your feet wet book) wait till Kalen Delaney puts out her set of inside SQL 2008 books,

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Jonathan Link
I miss summers working for a school system. I could modify my schedule and work 4x10, and have three day weekend, for 10 weeks. One summer, my principal let me do the following in leiu of vacation, I worked 4x10+1x8 for 8 weeks, took vacation around 4th of July, so I used 1 vacation day for two

Re: My MX is acting funny

2009-05-29 Thread David W. McSpadden
Right, forgot about that one. My mx is 206.18.123.215 but my outgoing for all port 25 is the 221. Thanks. Got my requests in on all of these. Thanks - Original Message - From: Richard Stovall To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:22 PM Subject: RE: My MX

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread paul chinnery
So what is MS' reason for getting rid of SIS? Perhaps another attempt to convince people to use Sharepoint? From: br...@briandesmond.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Amusing Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:50:57 + Almost. SIS is per database. So

RE: Another free Microsoft Press E-Book

2009-05-29 Thread Webster
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Subject: RE: Another free Microsoft Press E-Book BTW . ( 2005 is just building off 2k5) So if 2005 is just building off of 2005, how do they ever improve the product? Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread paul chinnery
Never mind, Brian. (I gotta start reading the entire thread before replying to any particular post. And thanks for the explanation. From: pdw1...@hotmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Amusing Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:18:59 -0400 So what is MS' reason for

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:21 PM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Just make sure it's not RAID 5: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 His point seems to be that if you have a single disk failure, the system needs to read all the other disks to reconstruct the failed

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread John Cook
Telling them that emailing a link is just as easy as sending the attachment only goes so far - most L-users are so used to sending attachments form their personal email activity they just can't break the habit plus not everyone that they communicate with can access that cute wmv file stored in

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote:  I presume the database takes pains to store these several tables for each mailbox together on disk? [Brian Desmond] Yes. Online maintenance has been entirely rethought to ensure this. Well, that's certainly a

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: OK so before we go down the Exchange 2010 sucks because I think I need single instance [attachment] storage route, let's look at some other new stuff: I'm not saying Exchange 2010 doesn't bring anything to the

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Deploy Sharepoint, and email links instead. :-) SharePoint may well be the most overrated product in the history of Microsoft. I can tell people to email links to files on the file server just as easily. The problem

Re: Can anyone help with this Internet explorer Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:29 AM, RITA KAUR mchani...@rogers.com wrote: I need immediate help from IT guru's If you need immediate help, call Microsoft Support and pay the $250. The issue at hand is that the client box is unable to communicate to the crystal server box and it talks at port

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread John Hornbuckle
This says so much right here... It's a common trap IT people fall into. We tell people that the way they want to use the technology isn't the right way to use it. Huh? Why not? Technology exists to serve humans--not vice versa. I agree that e-mail is an efficient means of distributing and

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Carl Houseman
I have to agree. What's the harm in leaving in a feature that is working perfectly well? We see this all the time, working features removed from upgraded products. They tried to do the same with PF's and we pushed back, and hopefully PF's will continue for the forseeable future. I guess it's

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
Obviously your humour detector is broken (there was a smiley). I have a new name for Sharepoint 2007 - Sharepain 2007, given the number of hours I have burnt over the past two months working on a MOSS migration project for a large customer. Storage and transmission of large files is still an

RE: Another free Microsoft Press E-Book

2009-05-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
Sorry 2k8 is building off 2k5, --- needs more coffee :-) Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
I agree in general. But I can understand the opposite view - people write the product first and release it. It then gets used in ways that are unintended. Now, in Microsoft's case, there are commerical imperatives that stop them from changing the product to suit actual usage. But on the other

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I bet if you look at your SIS ratio perf counter you won't see anything near a 10x reduction. -sc -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE:

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
The harm might be increased CPU or memory usage, reduced scalability etc. Whilst you can quantify some direct benefits (more disks), I assume that most people will be swapping 9GB SCSI disks for new 1TB SATA2 disks that probably consume a bunch less power. Additionally the increased

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Mine is at 40. (150 users, 1 E2003 store) Never thought to look at this particular perfmon counter before this post. Id' be interested to see what others are reporting -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:30 AM To:

Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
We are in the middle of cutting down our reliance on AppSense and as such have had to come up with new ways of mapping drives, printers, deploying shortcuts, etc. We have deployed drive mappings via AD group memberships using a custom AD attribute assigned to the group. However, for our helpdesk

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
Mine is about 1.7 for 500 users on EX2007 2009/5/29 David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com Mine is at 40. (150 users, 1 E2003 store) Never thought to look at this particular perfmon counter before this post. Id' be interested to see what others are reporting -Original

RE: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread Sean Rector
Instead of using a custom AD attribute, what about GP Preferences? I rid myself of a logon script completely by using GPP. WS2k3 Domain, XP clients Sean Rector, MCSE From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
I thought that was for AD 2008? 2009/5/29 Sean Rector sean.rec...@vaopera.org Instead of using a custom AD attribute, what about GP Preferences? I rid myself of a logon script completely by using GPP. WS2k3 Domain, XP clients Sean Rector, MCSE *From:* James Rankin

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread John Hornbuckle
But in this case, we're not talking about a new product--we're talking about a new version of an existing product. We already know how people use it; many use it to store or distribute files. In our case, we're not talking big files. I have a 10 MB limit. But even relatively small files, when

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Carl Houseman
9GB SCSI disks? I hope they're still stuck on Exchange 2000 as well... Swapping out 73GB or 150GB SCSI disks hopefully! As for memory/CPU, does eliminating SIS mean lower RAM or slower CPU requirements for the product? Doubtful. The thing they're eliminating is a bunch of tricky code the

Re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread Jon Harris
If you have one 2008 DC you have preferences, but I have not played with them yet. Jon On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:42 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I thought that was for AD 2008? 2009/5/29 Sean Rector sean.rec...@vaopera.org Instead of using a custom AD attribute, what

Re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
Shame - I can't find the resource to deploy a 2008 DC just yet, what with our new housing system going live and VDI approaching rapidly over the horizon 2009/5/29 Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com If you have one 2008 DC you have preferences, but I have not played with them yet. Jon On Fri,

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Jonathan Link
+1 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: 9GB SCSI disks? I hope they're still stuck on Exchange 2000 as well... Swapping out 73GB or 150GB SCSI disks hopefully! As for memory/CPU, does eliminating SIS mean lower RAM or slower CPU requirements for the

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
The thing they're eliminating is a bunch of tricky code the programmers don't like and which needs a lot of regression testing with each new release. Do you have any actual information from informed sources on this? Or this just your backside driving? Maybe the code is shared with RIS

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Jon Harris
I agree with several others that said just because you can don't make it right. I have one user whinning that wants to store EVERYTHING in his Exchange mailbox. His box is 1 GB at the moment and he has been hinting that he might like to have more. I only get lucky in that we don't control our

RE: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread Matthew Bullock
Sorry to go OT but what VDI appliances are you looking at? Pano or something else? I'm thinking about purchasing the Pano test kit but am looking for a couple other options to test as well. -mb From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:47 AM To:

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
5.25 for roughly 350 users. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:33 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: Mine is at 40. (150 users, 1 E2003 store) Never thought to look at this particular perfmon counter before this post. Id' be interested to see what others are reporting

Re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
We are going to be using our existing Chip PCs (Windows CE with Excalibur) with VMWare View to complement our existing ESX 3.5 infrastructure 2009/5/29 Matthew Bullock mbull...@root9.com Sorry to go OT but what VDI appliances are you looking at? Pano or something else? I’m thinking about

RE: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread Liu, David (G2DD)
Not true. You only need a 2008/Vista box to edit policies. XP clients with the proper CSE will get those settings. Deployable via WSUS. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Custom AD attribute question

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ralph Smith
14.5 for 200 users. From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Amusing 5.25 for roughly 350 users. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:33 AM, David Mazzaccaro

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread John Hornbuckle
Who says what's right, though? That brings us back to trying to force humans to adapt to technology rather than designing technology for the way users work. I used to fall more into the camp of believing that users needed to adjust their ways to fit the technology. But as I've worked on my

RE: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
At my last employer, they did exactly that. I'm not sure which attribute it was, possibly division? But it was something they wanted the help desk people to populate that was not shown in ADUC by default. I don't have the details but I know it can be done. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems

Re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread Jon Harris
Being an EDU Microsoft about gives us the licensees. Lousy pay and benefits are made up for with the nice extras that companies like Microsoft and a couple of other give us to work with. Jon On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:47 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Shame - I can't find the

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Of course. -- ME2 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, paul chinnery pdw1...@hotmail.com wrote: So what is MS' reason for getting rid of SIS? Perhaps another attempt to convince people to use Sharepoint? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Take a look at this if you are still interested in modifying the attribute through ADUC: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727064.aspx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Carl Houseman
If I'm wrong, I welcome an informed source to say so and reveal the complete and unfiltered decision process for why a working feature with positive benefits to many was removed. Not that that would ever happen of course, because an informed source would be prevented from airing anything with

Re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
I meant a staff resource :-) We are a non-profit and get our MS kit for next to nothing. When I first started here I was recommending getting a copy of System Center Essentials, and I was handed the full SCOM 2007 product 2009/5/29 Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com Being an EDU Microsoft about

Re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
That's the one I was thinking of, cheers! I'll probably go for Group Policy Preferences when I get the chance (should be pretty soon), but as I have already fudged a logon script together to map drives and printers based on AD group membership, I think I'll have a bash at completing the circle

RE: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Don Guyer
Only thing I've seen so far was it killed the sound driver on my home PC and a coworker's computer. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com

Re: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Jon Harris
Has anyone done the Server 2008 SP 2 yet or am I the guinea pig for it? Jion On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.comwrote: Only thing I've seen so far was it killed the sound driver on my home PC and a coworker's computer. Don Guyer Systems Engineer -

RE: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread Sean Rector
I do not have a 2k8 DC - I have my own Vista workstation, which gives me access to the pref's. They propagate to the 2k3 DC's and workstations just fine. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Don Guyer
I'm trying to figure out which server is going to be our GP. J Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Jon Harris

Re: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Steve Ens
Go for it Jion! On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone done the Server 2008 SP 2 yet or am I the guinea pig for it? Jion On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.comwrote: Only thing I've seen so far was it killed the

Re: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Jon Harris
Looks like I am the GP for this one. Pulling it down now to my first server. Jon On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.comwrote: I’m trying to figure out which server is going to be our GP. J Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services

Re: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
+1 -- ME2 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.comwrote: Only thing I've seen so far was it killed the sound driver on my home PC and a coworker's computer. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W.

RE: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Kelsey, John
I've done it on about 5 servers so far and 1 DC. Straighforward install, no issues*yet* *** John C. Kelsey DuBois Regional Medical Center (: 814.375.3073 *: jckel...@drmc.org mailto:jckel...@drmc.org *** -Original

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Jim Mediger
An older article referring to Exchange 2000 and older I'm assuming the material still holds true. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;198673 There is a common misconception that the primary benefit of single instance storage is that it greatly reduces the storage space

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: As for memory/CPU, does eliminating SIS mean lower RAM or slower CPU requirements for the product?  Doubtful. Someone already explained that Exchange 2010 moves from a single set of tables for all mailboxes, to a

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jim Mediger j...@holaday.com wrote: “Disk space savings from single instance storage are transient and drop off very quickly over time.” I believe that is misleading at best. It may even be deliberate propaganda to justify removing SIS. We've had several

Re: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Sean Martin
Biggest headache for me was waiting 4 hrs for the thing to download...(yay Clearwire!). No issues to report on my Vista x64 machine. - Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Kelsey, John jckel...@drmc.org wrote: I've done it on about 5 servers so far and 1 DC. Straighforward install, no

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Jonathan Link
Wouldn't it have been nice that MS had done product research and created a traditional upgrade keeping SIS, and then released a Datacenter Edition for large scales of server farms/user bases which didn't have SIS? I wonder what percentage of revenue is the small to medium business market compared

Re: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I'm downloading/installing now. Download via Comcast took ~10-15 minutes. This will also be for Vista [Ultimate] x64. -- ME2 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.comwrote: Biggest headache for me was waiting 4 hrs for the thing to download...(yay Clearwire!).

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Sean Martin
SIS Ratio = 65 - 2400 mailboxes - Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jim Mediger j...@holaday.com wrote: “Disk space savings from single instance storage are transient and drop off very quickly over time.” I

RE: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Don Guyer
Just found out that our SQL Admin installed on his 64-bit boxes yesterday, no issues so far. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306

Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Working on an issue with the developer of the vmxnet3 driver at vmware and I could use some guidance here. After an upgrade to vSphere, if I delete the e1000 nic from a 2008 server and add a vmxnet3 nic, all the servers think they only have Local connectivity? In the Network and Connection

Re: Two Factor Authentication

2009-05-29 Thread Don Kuhlman
We're using RSA and have for a while. We just changed our systems to use F5 Passage boxes along with the RSA tokens to establish full VPN tunnels from our own laptop systems.  If you're working off a non corporate system, you can still connect using VPN, but you won't get a full network tunnel,

Re: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Jon Harris
I just finished on the host for 6 VM's and it seems a bit more responsive but no problems. I will start on the VM's next week. Jon On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.comwrote: Just found out that our SQL Admin installed on his 64-bit boxes yesterday, no issues

RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Richard Stovall
I haven't used vSphere yet. We're still happily chugging along with 3.5u4. That said, it sounds like the virtual switches might have become mangled somehow. Can you ping vm to vm on the same host? On different hosts? From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent:

RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
It's not a Host issue, since when I snap the vm's back pre upgrade they work fine. It's surely something screwey in the OS. What would cause a Windows Server 2008 to think it has only Local connectivity? What *smart* service does this monitoring? Thanks! jlc From: Richard Stovall

Re: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: After an upgrade to vSphere, if I delete the e1000 nic from a 2008 server and add a vmxnet3 nic, all the servers think they only have “Local” connectivity? Do they actually have any connectivity? It sounds

RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Are these 64bit VMs? At least one other person is having similar trouble. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/212090 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
heh, Ritmo2k is me! From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue Are these 64bit VMs? At least one other person is having similar trouble.

RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Do they actually have any connectivity? It sounds just like what would happen if the vmnet3 driver was broken and so you didn't actually have any working network cards anymore. yeah, its odd? Ie cant browse though, but the thing has network access... I believe it's the Network List Service

RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Richard Stovall
I suppose that's what I get for linking to the first Google hit. Good luck with it. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue heh, Ritmo2k is me! From: Richard

Re: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: yeah, its odd? Ie cant browse though, but the thing has network access... Odd indeed. Things to try, that might help narrow down what's broken: Compare ping by name vs by IP address. Compare web browsing

RE: Windows 2008 Networking Issue

2009-05-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Odd indeed. Things to try, that might help narrow down what's broken: Compare ping by name vs by IP address. Compare web browsing to a web site by name vs by IP address. Try tracerouting to the outside world (or proxy server, if you have one of those), by IP address. I will do this

Re: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Kurt Buff
2.1, for about 250 mailboxes. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:36, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Mine is about 1.7 for 500 users on EX2007 2009/5/29 David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com Mine is at 40.  (150 users, 1 E2003 store) Never thought to look at this particular

NuVox - Comments?

2009-05-29 Thread Roger Wright
Anyone have experience with NuVox as your data and voice provider? Can you share your comments, please? Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. ~

RE: NuVox - Comments?

2009-05-29 Thread Chris Orovet
We just started using their service. They messed everything up in the begining giving us the wrong equipment and the tech didnt really seem sure about what was going on. They sent out another tech with the correct equipment a few weeks later who pulled everything together and finished the install

RE: NuVox - Comments?

2009-05-29 Thread Bob Fronk
I have two voice PRIs with them. No problems. Good support. (surprising for a 3rd party LEC) - Bob Fronk P Please print only as needed. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NuVox - Comments? Anyone have

Re: Custom AD attribute question

2009-05-29 Thread James Rankin
Unfortunately we are all on thin clients connecting to a Windows Server 2003 published desktop. Workstations are very thin on the ground here. Guess we'll just have to wait till the big push towards 2008 AD :-) 2009/5/29 Sean Rector sean.rec...@vaopera.org I do not have a 2k8 DC – I have my

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Kelsey, John
5.5 for 1600 mailboxes. *** John C. Kelsey DuBois Regional Medical Center (: 814.375.3073 *: jckel...@drmc.org *** -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 13:46 To: NT

RE: NuVox - Comments?

2009-05-29 Thread Roger Wright
Thanks. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 2:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NuVox - Comments? I have two voice PRIs with them. No problems. Good

RE: NuVox - Comments?

2009-05-29 Thread Roger Wright
Thanks. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Chris Orovet [mailto:coro...@atsi-inc.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NuVox - Comments? We just started using their service. They

RE: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Sam Cayze
I found that on my previously flawless, meticulously clean running home PC: 1. There are now about 5 UAC confirmations that pop up for AutoRun apps that I have (Weird, since I have UAC disabled) 2. When the PC comes out of sleep, it takes about a minute for the keyboard and mouse to 'wake up'.

Re: VISTA SP2

2009-05-29 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
I've installed it on a few servers herea DC and two Hyper-V hosts. None of them are being used very much though. So far nothing negative to report. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone done the Server 2008 SP 2 yet or am I the guinea pig for

Scripting ms iSCSI ini

2009-05-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anyone know of any examples how to non interactively script the ms ini such that I can mount a lun on a target to a specific drive letter, then unmount it? All the examples I see use iscsicli interactively which won't help me... Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Gene Giannamore
We have a need for a semi-mobile satellite setup at a remote construction site. Basically because of theft, we need to lock up the equipment at night (even then it might get stolen). So we hope we can find some equipment we can setup each day for internet access, mainly to access our terminal

DL380 G5 Chassis

2009-05-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anyone got a dead DL380 they wanna sell? I have almost all the insides of one that had the physical chassis ruined. I need to locate a server offsite for some backup purposes so it's not mission critical. Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Erik Goldoff
You could use a portable sat like truckers have for internet access, BUT ... You're NOT gonna like RDP over VSAT. VSAT is high latency, minimum 600ms or more as you have to roundtrip 100,000 miles to see the result of a keypress ( sync satellites are 23,000 to 26,000 miles up in orbit ) I

Acronis Disk Directory - Free Trial

2009-05-29 Thread Sean Martin
Does any know what features are available with the trial version of Acronis Disk Director? I believe we plan on purchasing the product but we have an immediate need to resize the system partition on 7 newly built servers. There's too much red tape to go through to get the full product purchased

Re: iPhone and battery life

2009-05-29 Thread Sean Martin
So ATT just rolled out their 3G network up here in Anchorage, AK last Tuesday. I definitely see a noticeable difference in battery life. However, I'm still able to get a full day's use out of my iphone before needing to charge. - Sean On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Ken Schaefer

RE: Acronis Disk Directory - Free Trial

2009-05-29 Thread Brad DeHart
I haven't used Acronis but I've used GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) on several Windows system partitions with no problems. Thanks, Brad DeHart Network Administrator Kern Health Systems (661)664-5068 br...@khs-net.com From: Sean Martin

RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Gene Giannamore
No highspeed mobile internet access, there might dial-up speeds for mobile internet, we will be testing ATT and Verizon next week (2 laptops, 1st and 2nd gen iphones). Tempted to try out peersync, or similar solution, across satellite, for this situation. Gene Giannamore Abide International

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