Additionally, use Process Explorer (your debugger of choice) and see what the
threads in Explorer.exe are stuck on
Cheers
Ken
From: David [blazer...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 4 June 2009 1:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Explorer on W2k3R2 servers
...and available from retailers Oct 22.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/02/technology/microsoft_windows.reut/index.htm?postversion=2009060215
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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Samsung Saga = TVK in a dress
Shook
From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone
Love my Samsung Saga.
From: hank [mailto:hgedr...@myrealbox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:58 PM
To: NT System
+1
We have ours around 65 and 50 for humidity. We have installed a temp/humidity
alarm that will alert the hospital operator (we don't man i/s 24x7) who will
page I/S and Plant Ops if it goes off.
On that same note, we called HP (we use DL 380's) and they said max temp is 95F.
From:
We evaluated Kayako and found the ticketing system quite good. However, its
support for associating those tickets with tasks is quite limited, and if
you will need to find a 3rd party solution to integrate with if you want to
track inventory as well.
- Original Message -
From: Carlos
I assume max temp = max room temp, not actual server temp?
From: paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:35 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: PROPER OPERATING TEMPERATURES FOR SERVERS
+1
We have ours around 65 and
At another job I used Remedy help desk. Very good ticketing system. I have no
idea how hard it is to set up or create new ticket forms, as I did not do
that part of it.
-Original Message-
From: Adam Greene [mailto:maill...@webjogger.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:37 AM
To: NT
Maybe 4 or 5 years ago there were some proof of concepts on exploits that had
desktop.ini executing code that was in the folder it was in. I don't recall any
use of it in the real world and I don't know if it was addressed.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott
I am setting a desktop background for some test VDI workstations via GPO
using the Active Desktop Wallpaper setting. The GPO needs the Active
Desktop setting enabled to work. However, when you enable the Active
Desktop setting, the drop shadows for icons settings disappears. Even
setting the
Neat... I even tried all your base belong to us. It got it right!
Another good site to wile away the time... :-)
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: [OT] Wolfram Alpha
Okay, so
Yes
Subject: RE: PROPER OPERATING TEMPERATURES FOR SERVERS
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:38:14 -0400
From: david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
I assume max temp = max room temp, not actual server
temp?
From: paul chinnery
I have a need for some pretty simple imaging functionality, and am looking for
advice. I admit to being totally in the dark when it comes to system imaging
options; when we reimage a machine new, we just do it using imaging DVDs that
Dell gives us to restore our custom image. It's low-tech, but
On Tue, 2 Jun, 2009 at 16:59, tvanderk...@expl.com wrote:
The part that I find most admins miss in the specs mentioned is the
humidity. When you are running the A/C in a room almost constantly the
humidity tends to drop fairly quickly. ... I have seen plenty of
servers over the years taken
Notable event for October 14, 1979:
Birth of Stacy Keibler (wrestler)
Woo hoo!
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote:
Neat... I even tried all your base belong to us. It got it right!
Another good site to wile away the time... :-)
-Original
G4L (Ghost 4 Linux) is your friend on this. 100% free / Open Source project.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l download the ISO, burn it and boot off
it and you're good to go. Remember, you'll need to use Sysprep or something
similar as G4L doesn't have that included. All it'll do is image the
Remedy can be very good if customized well. That often seems to be $expensive.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Kayako Helpldesk
At another job I used
CRAC's are big, noisy and blow a lot of things around if it's not
secured..and keeps the humidity levels stable.
When ours was installed a couple of years ago, I was doing some serious
praying...we didn't know for sure that it would roll across our raised floor
without collapsing it, and that
http://www37.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pi
That more digits link is interesting after about the 5th click...
-sc
From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: [OT] Wolfram Alpha
Notable event for
I did the same thing...but didn't click on more digits
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
http://www37.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pi
That “more digits” link is interesting after about the 5th click…
-sc
*From:* Rob Bonfiglio
Click it too many times and you get:
Column[{Null,{}}[[2,1]],ItemSize-infinity]
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
http://www37.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pi
That “more digits” link is interesting after about the 5th click…
-sc
*From:* Rob
It's official: Wolfram Alpha is a nerd.
It knew that 8675309 was a prime number, but not that it was Jenny's
number.
-sc
From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: [OT] Wolfram Alpha
I did the
Bingo.
Deleted the desktop.ini file from each of the folders and the real name now
show.
I'm sure it will be back sooner or later but at least I now know why.
Thanks.
Glen.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:19 PM
To: NT
Indeed. ;-)
From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: [OT] Wolfram Alpha
Click it too many times and you get:
Column[{Null,{}}[[2,1]],ItemSize-infinity]
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Steven M.
We like Symantec System Recovery.
-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Recommendations for Simple Imaging
I have a need for some pretty simple imaging
That just shows that they have very large amounts of storage, since they
can store infinity.
From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: [OT] Wolfram Alpha
Click it too
Well, we had a guy who knew how to customize it when I was there, so any time
we needed a new form, he created it for us. :-) And Remedy itself is not cheap,
I know.
-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:18 AM
To: NT
I hear ya. We put in a big Leibert and the first I noticed was just how noisy
it was. That's when I started keeping my office door closed. I didn't want to
retire and find out I'd lost some of hearing due to the constant noise from the
a/c.
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:20:43 -0500
Subject: Re:
I use winPE and imageX from Microsoft with a standardized image. My PCs are up
and running in 20 minutes.
Mark Minasi has a good description in his newsletters
http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws0701.htm
kind regards
Doris Trimmel-Wyss
Stabstelle EDV
Verein für Konsumenteninformation
ZVR:
I was running an SMS query and found that 4 of our servers were not
showing any value for this attribute. At first I thought it was an SMS
issue, but eventually found that the value is null on the client.
Everything else from the Win32_OperatingSystem class looks normal on these
machines, as do
I'll take a peek to remedy, I used it before a long time ago. Webhelpdesk wants
crazy money like 30K
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote:
http://www37.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pi
That “more digits” link is interesting after about the 5th click…
Hmmm, it appears that, like the cake, pi is also a lie...
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security
Same issue:
http://www37.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ea=*C.e-_*NamedConstant-
From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: [OT] Wolfram Alpha
Click it too many times and you get:
We used this product and it worked shockingly well.
http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/pdfconverter.asp
Cheers!
Cameron
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
We're using remedy now - all the tools - Incident, Knowledge, Problem, coming
soon Runbook automation.
Version 7.1 of Incident Management.
It's really tight with ITIL and has a learning curve but you can definietly
Task, Assign, track, report, email, etc. so it seems to be a good tool for the
I've just spent 4 weeks dealing with their tech support :(
Uninstall, reinstall, use their removal tools, reinstall, uninstall,
install latest version, Turn off DEF, turn off UAC, send us your system
information and all I got back was 'We still don't know why it doesn't
work!
When it works it's
Yep. Very powerful, and very expensive (particularly for a tailored
solution.)
--
ME2
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
Remedy can be very good if customized well. That often seems to be
$expensive.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: John
The cake is indeed a lie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
(: 814.375.3073
*: jckel...@drmc.org
***
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
I've never investigated this, but I do wonder what Sysinternals'
BGInfo has to say - I wonder if it gets its info from the same place.
Kurt
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 07:07, Christopher Bodnar
christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote:
I was running an SMS query and found that 4 of our servers were not
Googling bginfo boot ti� brings up a few items, but not about the value
being null. Might help though.
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
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM, John Hornbuckle
john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote:
I have a need for some pretty simple imaging functionality ...
For payware, I like Acronis TrueImage these days. It's very GUI,
and all functionality is available from the bootable CD. The UI is a
little
Should read bginfo boot time.
:)
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
-Original Message-
From: Don Guyer
Oh but it isn't.
It's been on the shelf all along
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [OT] Wolfram Alpha
The cake is indeed a lie!
G4L *is* smart enough to do a whole disk or a single partition. It is also a
bootable linux CD. :-)
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Recommendations for Simple Imaging
Yeah - I'm sure its expensive - for enterprise use and scale - we did use it
out of the box this time without modifications to keep it simple, so to speak.
From: Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues
What is a good Mac OS X(?) Anti-Malware software? I have zero experience
with Mac's and was just instructed to begin looking for some software for
one. Anyone got a good recommendation they will offer up?
Thanks and I am off to see what is out there.
Jon Harris
~ Finally, powerful endpoint
That's a good question. The most common answer you're going to find is we
don't need antivirus/anti-malware. For the most part that is true, as OS X
is based on Unix (BSD to be exact, I think.) That being said, there has been
some recently publicized (in this list even, I think J) activity that
For the most part that is true, as OS X is based on Unix (BSD to be exact, I
think.)
Please to be explaining.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Well the user in question has repeatly stated that he does not need AV but
the Univeristy just said make it so (cutting out his argument that he does
not need any). That said we will not install anything from Symantec after
the last time we used their stuff and had it NOT find viruses. McAfee
Our Mac guru here recommends ClamAV, or actually for the Mac version I think
it's ClamXAV. Free, open source, certainly worth looking into. It's what
he uses at home on his personal Macs.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote:
Well the user in question has
+1
From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac Anti-Malware
Our Mac guru here recommends ClamAV, or actually for the Mac version I
think it's ClamXAV. Free, open
I have heard the same suggestion made. It is supposed to be a very good
product and for a 1 off, I would lean in that direction. At work, we
corporately use McAfee across the board, on PC and Mac clients, and have no
issues with it.
Andrew
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Sherry Abercrombie
This just in since there's a Mac thread going
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud
From: Threat Monitor
To: John Cook
Sent: Thu Jun 04 13:05:14 2009
Subject: A new era of Mac hacks?
For those of you running SMS software on an Internet facing server, what
product(s) are you running\supporting so your servers can process text messages?
Thx 4 ur hlp.
(Dang,�m freak� hilarious)
Shook
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Here we use Sophos Antivirus which has a MAC client, we have
very few MAC's here but it seems to work fine and gets updates automatically
through the same system that updates all the Windows clients.
From: Andrew Laya [mailto:andrew.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009
*nix (Unix, Linux, *BSD) is much more difficult to infect, as you don't
automatically have admin privileges the way you do in the Windows world.
By default when you create a new account on a stand-alone PC, that account
has Admin privileges which most viruses and other malware can exploit to
Yeah, I use KlamAV at home (uses ClamAV in the background, with the GUI
interface being a KDE util, thus the K in KlamAV.)
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac
Thanks for the pointers, all. I'll check these options out.
-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Recommendations for Simple Imaging
I have a need for some
+1
From: Andrew Laya [mailto:andrew.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac Anti-Malware
I have heard the same suggestion made. It is supposed to be a very good
product and for a 1 off, I would lean
The developer for one of my clients is trying to figure out what is causing his
app to crash on a regular basis. He's begun to fixate on a system I can't
positively identify that connects via SQL on a regular basis. I suspect it's
the hosted web server, but I don't have to contact information
Command prompt from a windows machine that would be aware of/ has connected to
the MAC address.
arp -a
The switches and routers in the environment would also have this info in their
arp tables.
From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:37 PM
To: NT
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:37, Jim Majorowicz jmajorow...@gmail.com wrote:
The developer for one of my clients is trying to figure out what is causing
his app to crash on a regular basis. He’s begun to fixate on a system I
can’t positively identify that connects via SQL on a regular basis. I
Can you outline the topology? The SQL server is at the client site (behind
a DMZ?), and the web server is co-located at a web hosting company? Is
that correct?
Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of
OK, maybe I'm a bit dense today, but I don't see Wireshark at portableapps.com
... Got any pointers ?
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin
OK, nevermind ... They don't include it in portableapps , but point to a
portable version on sourceforge.net ...thanks
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:43 PM
To:
Well the first internet malware was a UNIX worm...
In any case, I'd be careful asserting that for the most part based on
UNIX = not susceptible to malware.
I've been admin around UNIX-based boxen for years... and all the system
vendors put out security patches... many of which can be
Depending on your type of network switch, you can do a show mac-address
(on Cisco anyway) and it will tell you the switchport that the mac
address is connected to. You can track it down that way.
***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
(: 814.375.3073
*:
On the same subnet?
If so, ping-sweep the subnet and then check your local arp cache.
-sc
From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Finding a neddle in a haystack
The developer for one of my
Given what little detail the OP posted, it seems unlikely that the MAC
address will be present on any switch he can examine.
Wireshark listening to a monitor/span port will allow him to pinpoint the IP
address that's talking on port 1733, though. That would certainly be
helpful.
Kurt
On Thu,
-Original Message-
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Subject: RE: Finding a neddle in a haystack
Got any pointers ?
*6076AD007
Shook
Webster
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
So, that was kind of nettling you, eh?
From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Finding a neddle in a haystack
Can't stand it any longer, the correct spelling is
http://slashweb.org/programming/25-best-programmer-webcomic-strips.html
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:26, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Subject: RE: Finding a neddle in a haystack
Got any pointers ?
I never said they weren't susceptible to malware, just that they are LESS
susceptible to malware. Less =/=0 :-)
I specifically said That's not to say that it's not possible to infect a
Unix-based O/S,
just that it's a LOT harder to do than a Windows O/S.
Just a clarification as it appears
Yea, although I am a FOSS advocate, G4L has too many limitations with NTFS.
WinPE is free, adding driver support is trivial, and imagex is fast.
jlc
-Original Message-
From: Trimmel-Wyss Doris [mailto:dtrimmel-w...@vki.at]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
So MAC addresses are only locally significant. If you've got this machine
offsite then there's no way that MAC address is showing up on your end unless
the app is carrying it as metadata or something...
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
Active Directory, 4th Ed -
For the sake of those interested in such things on the list To
suggest that:
...we don't need antivirus/anti-malware. For the most part that is
true, as
OS X is based on Unix
...is shaky at best.
-sc
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Thursday,
Typo. :P
From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Finding a neddle in a haystack
Can't stand it any longer, the correct spelling is needle.
Thank you, I feel better now.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at
He was pulling information from some SQL utility.
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Finding a neddle in a haystack
So MAC addresses are only locally significant. If you've got this machine
Sooowhy didn't you fix it in the subject line when you vented? :)
_
From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Finding a neddle in a haystack
Can't stand it any longer, the correct spelling
So, I think my comment stands - you'll need to monitor port 1733, IIRC.
That's easy enough to do, as someone else pointed out, with 'netstat
-anp tcp | findstr 1733', or by installing wireshark on the machine
and building a bpf filter for that source port.
I like wireshark because you can just
Yeah, I was able to prove that was the source. Thanks for all your help guys.
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Finding a neddle in a haystack
So, I think my comment stands -
UAC fixes this in Windows Vista and newer.
And creating new accounts on a standalone PC, IIRC, does not make them
Administrators - only the initially created users are automatically admins
For malware that spreads automatically, I hear it's just as easily to exploit a
buffer overflow in a
[subject line changed to reflect the nature of this thread]
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Ken Schaeferk...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
UAC fixes this in Windows Vista and newer.
Windows NT 3.1 (the first release) fixed it with user accounts.
There wasn't anyone holding a gun to anyone's head
Inline...
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)
[subject line changed to reflect the nature of this thread]
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at
Hi,
I think you're missing the points that:
a) users were made admins by default, and so drive-by malware (e.g. autorun
stuff, or via a browser vulnerability) could pretty easily compromise the
machine. Other OSes avoided this by prompting users. UAC brings this to Windows
b) (a)
I'm not convinced it's one that can be fixed.
There will always be gullible users vulnerable to social engineering, no
matter how much the non-gullible types try to educate them.
Ken Schaefer wrote:
b) (a) notwithstanding, the biggest problem at the moment is PEBKAC,
and that's a platform
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