SAS5/iR multiple raid question

2009-06-05 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, Anyone know if a Dell SAS 5/iR card support multiple raid 1 arrays? The reason I ask is that we've just put in a couple more SAS drives in to our Dell 1900 server and can't find an option to create a new raid1 array anywhere in the Server Management app. The drives show up and look

RE: SAS5/iR multiple raid question

2009-06-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
I'm pretty sure it supports multiple RAID1 arrays. But I recall creating them in the RAID controller BIOS... Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 5 June 2009 6:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAS5/iR

RE: SAS5/iR multiple raid question

2009-06-05 Thread Oliver Marshall
Nuts :( -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Web: www.g2support.com Twitter: g2support Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsletter -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 05 June 2009 09:33 To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Does it do On-access scans and can it be setup to do scheduled scans. I thought Clam was only a on-demand scanner. Jon On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.gov wrote: +1 -- *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Oliver Marshall
Yeah, I'm pretty sure its scheduled only, at least it is in windows. For commercial apps you can look at Sophos. -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Web: www.g2support.com Twitter: g2supporthttp://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter:

Re: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
I have been listing to that trash from the luser for years. What he and you have said may or may not be true. THAT was not the point. He had that agurment ripped out of his hands and it is not up to him or me if he runs AV or not people MUCH higher up the chain and passed down that ALL systems

Re: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
I will most likely go the McAfee route the University has a site license, I just hate that stuff but then if I hear one more time that Mac's don't get Malware I will put Symantec on his system and really trash it. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
The biggest issue I see when dealing with the home/SOHO user is the REFUSAL by the user to have two accounts on their system. One for installing software and one for use. I face this everytime I get called in to fix a system. Two weeks ago I got called into a doctors office because one of his

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Indeed. I liked the toss some old USB flash drives around the parking lot with autorun.inf files on them and your malware of choice, and watch users plug their new find in to their machine... -sc -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Friday, June

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread John Hornbuckle
Did I read somewhere that Win7 disables autorun for removable storage? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 7:25 AM To: NT System

Re: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
I hope it does but I missed the Security presentation held locally last night as part of the Tiki Hut Tour by Microsoft. I did get to hear part of the BitLocker, BitLocker-to-go, and AppLocker presentations but not enough to help me. I will be playing with the RC shortly so I hope to tell you

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Mayo, Bill
It is schedulable. As for on-demand, not really, but you can set it up to watch particular folders (e.g. your downloads folder). http://www.clamxav.com/index.php?page=sentry From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:48 AM To:

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Steven M. Caesare
In Win7RC1 it only is enabled for optical media, IIRC... with MS thinking about making the change for Vista/XP as well (via next SP mebbe?) -sc -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 7:47 AM To: NT System Admin

Re: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Andrew Laya
If you are using McAfee ePO, you can manage Mac clients as well as PCs. The latest version we have finally allows for a push install the Mac cients too. It is a welcome improvement over manual install of the virusscan software. Good luck Andrew On 6/5/09, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
The latest version of ePO sux big time. IMHO Honestly, I would rather be using the older version of ePO.looking forward, (hopefully soon) to moving to Vipre On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Andrew Laya andrew.l...@gmail.com wrote: If you are using McAfee ePO, you can manage Mac clients as

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Heck; the FIRST version of ePO sucked big time. LOL... That was when we made the switch to Trend when was it; around 2000 or so? Doesn't surprise me that it isn't any better... Wish ESET did a MAC version. I really like their stuff... *** Charlie Kaiser

Re: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Steven M. Caesarescaes...@caesare.com wrote: In Win7RC1 it only is enabled for optical media, IIRC... with MS thinking about making the change for Vista/XP as well (via next SP mebbe?) Vista, maybe. I'd be surprised if we see another SP for XP. -- Ben ~

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Good point It'll probably be a critical update that won't mention the behavior change ;-) -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My OS is better than your OS On Fri,

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Sorry I should have said, Yes, and put it into the rules as a law not some vague standard with few teeth that can be ignored. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Steven M. Caesarescaes...@caesare.com wrote: However, without backward compatibility with the Win16 world, adoption of that [Windows NT] would have not necessarily have been a given. NT could run Win16 code. It just didn't allow system operations without

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
From what I can recall while working at SolidWorks (still called Winchester Design at the time), they had an extremely hard time getting developers to adopt to NT, and the initial hardware platform it should be run on was in question too. The concepts were so new to the Windows-world that it

RE: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Ziots, Edward
I bet when there patient information is taken by a backdoor/Trojan/Malware/Spyware, rootkit, and sold on the open market, and they are nailed for HIPPA privacy and other security violations, said DR would have thought twice about letting those users be administrators, which lead to the compromise

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Yes. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.comwrote: On 5 Jun 2009 at 5:16, Jon Harris wrote: The biggest issue I see when dealing with the home/SOHO user is the REFUSAL by the user to have two accounts on their system. One for installing software and

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ziots, Edwardezi...@lifespan.org wrote: I bet when there patient information is taken by a backdoor/Trojan/Malware/Spyware, rootkit, and sold on the open market, and they are nailed for HIPPA privacy and other security violations, said DR would have thought

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Sorry but I think you are wrong on this point. Given everything Microsoft has done to get their way that has led to the market screaming bloody murder, not to mention bringing quite a few anti-trust lawsuits, I'm not at all willing to give them a free pass on that. It was not end users screaming

FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP (Zero Day | ZDNet.com)

2009-06-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Transcripts of instant-message logs filed with the district court show the defendants’ senior employees discussing the configuration of botnets with bot herders. And, in filings with the district court, the FTC alleges that more than 4,500 malicious software programs are controlled by

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Yeap and I warned him (multiple times) but I am not his dad or his mom so I can't send him to his room without supper for ignoring me. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: I bet when there patient information is taken by a

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Agreed or someone/group gets hit hard by for HIPPA violations. That is one reason I don't like and generally refuse to work on doctor's machines. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ziots, Edwardezi...@lifespan.org wrote:

Re: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP (Zero Day | ZDNet.com)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Lets just hope they arrest the IT staff keeping it going in the first place or at least arrest the managment and get the IT staff to testify about what they were told to do (assuming the IT staff were not in on it in the first place). Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Never done one of those machines. Just can't get over the idea of touching anything after one of them. ; Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.org wrote: And lawyers too... *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, June 05, 2009 11:08

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
ROFLOL, that's funny Jon. Wouldn't you like to be able to do that to lusers sometimes? On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Yeap and I warned him (multiple times) but I am not his dad or his mom so I can't send him to his room without supper for ignoring me.

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Nope, my I will admit that was all mine my brain is fried after 4 nights of only 3 hours sleep each. At least my daughter got straight A's for the year, so I will take the blame without question. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:10 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Not to be a stick in

SMS 2003: issue with console on Central Primary server

2009-06-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I did post this to the SMS 2003 group on MyITForum: Got a weird SMS 2003 issue with the console on our Central Primary server. If we launch the console on any other server/workstation, everything works fine. If I launch the console on the Central Primary (same account), my functionality is

Re: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Phil Brutsche
Ben Scott wrote: The fact that UAC strips the admin privileges from processes by default is immaterial; users still confirm the elevation, just like they do for all the other are you sure? prompts. The concept is somewhat better done in Mac OS, where user logon accounts have a password,

Re: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP (Zero Day | ZDNet.com)

2009-06-05 Thread Jonathan Link
And I'm all for extending RICO to these enterprises. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Lets just hope they arrest the IT staff keeping it going in the first place or at least arrest the managment and get the IT staff to testify about what they were told to

RE: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Holstrom, Don
And lawyers too... From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware) Agreed or someone/group gets hit hard by for HIPPA violations. That is one reason I don't

McAfee agent and logon type 2

2009-06-05 Thread David Lum
I am still searching McAfee forums, but does anyone here use McAfee ePO and use a GPO to minimize cached credentials? Our laptops have a cached logon setting of 1 (and have for over a year) and recently (last 2 months only) they are getting locked out, and troubleshooting has it looking like

Re: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Phil Brutschep...@optimumdata.com wrote: I'm sorry, but I don't think you've used Vista enough. I'm sorry, but I don't think you read my message carefully enough. :) If you set up separate admin and non-admin accounts - with passwords - the UAC prompts will

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Jon Harris
Nah them I wish I could just let them pay for the mistake instead of me. They mess up a system I have to fix it while they sit at their desk and do less work than normal. Either that or burn them on a stake, at the moment that would be a hard choice to make. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM,

RE: SAS5/iR multiple raid question

2009-06-05 Thread Troy Meyer
Ken is right this should totally work from the Perc Bios, but I would be surprised if you couldn't do this from the SA tool as well. Have you looked at the Dell site to make sure you are using the current version of the SA tool? Seems like open manage updates come out every 15 minutes, and that

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Troy Meyer
Why wait for 7? Turn off autoruns in group policy XP: Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System Vista: Local Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\AutoPlay Policies -troy From: Jon Harris

Re: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP (Zero Day | ZDNet.com)

2009-06-05 Thread Jonathan Link
And this is different from any other criminal enterprise? On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jonathan Linkjonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: And I'm all for extending RICO to these enterprises. Good idea. Unfortunately

RE: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Sean Rector
+1 Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware) On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ziots, Edwardezi...@lifespan.org

Federal Server Core Configuration (FSCC)

2009-06-05 Thread Juned Shaikh
Hi: Anyone has seen Federal Server Core Configuration (FSCC) Guidelines?? Below link talks about the FSCC but hasn't had any downloaded guidelines http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/solutions/fscc/default.aspx Thanks in advance, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

RE: Kayako Helpldesk

2009-06-05 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
Im now getting all the emails since Tuesday, weird :) -Original Message- From: Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Garcia-Moran, Carlos Subject: RE: Kayako Helpldesk Send email to Donald Bittenbender

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
[quoting restored for context] On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Jon Harrisjk.har...@gmail.com wrote: ... market realities (aka user desires) do tend to rule. Given everything Microsoft has done to get their way that has led to the market screaming bloody murder, not to mention bringing quite

Re: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP (Zero Day | ZDNet.com)

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jonathan Linkjonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: And I'm all for extending RICO to these enterprises. Good idea. Unfortunately this is a whack-a-mole problem. While I think we should punish the offenders, I don't think it's going to be very effective as a

RE: SAS5/iR multiple raid question

2009-06-05 Thread Brian Desmond
I think so too ... you can config it through the Server Admin web page if you have all that installed. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:33 AM To: NT System

FREE: ISO/IEC 27000 (Information technology , Security techniques, Information security management systems, Overview and vocabulary)

2009-06-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c041933_ISO_IEC_27000_2009.zip -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: FREE: ISO/IEC 27000 (Information technology , Security techniques, Information security management systems, Overview and vocabulary)

2009-06-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Oh, Lots more standards available too: http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ -- ME2 On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c041933_ISO_IEC_27000_2009.zip -- ME2

Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Phillip Partipilo
I've got a basic cable tester that essentially just tests continuity and polarity. Every now and then, during our rollout of entire-office gigabit, there is a line that performs like crap. This cheap tester makes the connection look fine, when, after a re-crimp, it obviously is not. I know more

Decision tree / troubleshooting software recommendations

2009-06-05 Thread Richard Stovall
I am looking for a piece of software, but I don't know exactly what I'm looking for and thought I'd shout out to the folks here to see if there are any recommendations. What I'm trying to do is find something that will help me create decision trees/matrices so that less experienced techs can

Re: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Ens
Fluke has awesome testers...but that will depend on your budget.. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: I've got a basic cable tester that essentially just tests continuity and polarity. Every now and then, during our rollout of entire-office gigabit, there

Re: FREE: ISO/IEC 27000 (Information technology , Security techniques, Information security management systems, Overview and vocabulary)

2009-06-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
A much better way to see what is available for free: http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html -- ME2 On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, Lots more standards available too:

NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Joe Heaton
Anyone have any bad experiences using this tool? I've run psgetsid on my network computers, and I'm seeing a ton of duplicate SIDs out there. I'd like to run NewSID on these machines, but want to make sure I'm not getting myself in deeper doing so. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel

Re: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Matthew W. Ross
You are going to hear alot about Fluke, of course... I used a tester from a company called Test-Um, which I just found out was purchased by JDSU. The TestUm won't validate Cat-5e or Cat-6, but it will give you a good diagnosis of the problem for a fraction of the Fluke's price. What kind of

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Andy Ognenoff
We use it as a matter of process for all of our machines. Never had any problems.  - Andy O. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NewSID Anyone have any bad experiences

Re: Decision tree / troubleshooting software recommendations

2009-06-05 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Not sure, but it sounds like a multi-level FAQ or Mind-Map... Check out freemind.sourceforge.net and check it out... It might fit your needs... but then again, you may be looking for something else altogether. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Richard

RE: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Sam Cayze
Some Nics have some impressive testing capabilities too. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cable tester suggestion You are going to hear alot about Fluke, of course...

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Joe Heaton
I'm going to be implementing it as a part of the cloning process from here on, but right now, I have around 60 machines in use that I need to run it on. Does it need to be run under an admin login, or does it grant itself the rights it needs? Will runas work well enough, or do I need to be

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread jesse-r...@wi.rr.com
I mainly only use it on servers after cloaning a server VM. Works great for 2000/2003/2008. I have on occasion use it successfuly on Windows XP machines as well. Never had an issue. Original Message: - From: Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:20:10 -0700 To:

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Andy Ognenoff
I've only ever used it as part of the cloning process so I can't speak to the other scenarios. - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID I'm going to be implementing it

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Joe Heaton
Ok, here's another aspect of this issue that just came to light. I have servers, which were all built from scratch, no imaging, that have duplicate SIDs. Any ideas how this could have happened? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Andy Shook
All from the same media, I assume? Shook -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Ok, here's another aspect of this issue that just came to light. I have servers, which were all

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Joe Heaton
Could be...that would do it? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID All from the same media, I assume? Shook -Original

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Richard Stovall
Are these on an AD domain? Something is definitely wacky if they are. -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Ok, here's another aspect of this issue that just came to light. I

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Joe Heaton
Yes, yes they are in an AD domain. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Are these on an AD domain? Something is

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread John Hornbuckle
I thought that after a machine was joined to the domain, it got a new SID anyway. Am I confused about that? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall

RE: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Maglinger, Paul
You mention that you are crimping ends on network cable. Is the cable solid or stranded wire? Crimping RJ45 plugs on solid wire is asking for trouble. -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: McAfee agent and logon type 2

2009-06-05 Thread Ziots, Edward
I believe that the EPO agent runs as a service, under System, but to talk back to the repository it uses an user account, which is where you are seeing the login. If the Framework account was logon as service you would see a logon type (I believe 5 (Logon as service)) but since this Agent needs to

RE: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Scott Schneider
They make RJ45 plugs for both solid and stranded core. -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: June-05-09 2:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cable tester suggestion You mention that you are crimping ends on network cable. Is the cable

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Ziots, Edward
Waiting for Windows 7 honestly, because Vista was a BUST... Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June

RE: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Ziots, Edward
Id Just set his screen saver as the Blue screen of death, and make it auto-reboot until it complied... either that or FACE the WRAATH of KHAN! Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Come on Z, you know what using that last word does to Shookie... :-) -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My OS is better than your OS Waiting for Windows 7 honestly, because Vista

RE: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Matthew W. Ross
They do make ends for solid conductors, but they are much less common than the stranded type. I've used a stranded end on a solid cable in a pinch, and it's worked for me, but I don't depend on it. I've also been in an argument with another installer about using stranded ends on solid cable,

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Ziots, Edward
ROFL, yes, yes I do, and it aint pretty folks... Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Friday, June 05,

Re: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
I've never had any problems with Vista. I'm curious, what specifically is Windows 7 addressing for you that was a bust in Vista? On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Waiting for Windows 7 honestly, because Vista was a BUST... Z Edward Ziots Network

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Richard Stovall
It may be psgetsid that's the problem and you don't actually have duplicates. It shows all of my DCs having the same sid, but hyena shows 4 additional trailing digits unuque to each that psgetsid doesn't show using the standard command. I have to add machinename$ after the psgetsid command to

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Maglinger, Paul
The latest version of ePO sux big time. What kind of issues are you seeing? We've been running it for quite a while and granted, there have times where things have gotten buggy but most of the time it's been okay. -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser

Re: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Yup EZ, we're skipping Vista here as well and waiting for Windows 7. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Waiting for Windows 7 honestly, because Vista was a BUST... Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA,

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
As I did then, I still will now - respectfully disagree. There are use cases that newsid addresses which sysprep does not. In the best of all possible worlds, sysprep is the right answer.But I often don't live in the best of all possible worlds. From:

RE: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Yes, but even the crimp-on plugs I've used that were made for solid wire are not reliable. Stranded is the way to go. I'm betting he's crimping on solid wire. -Original Message- From: Scott Schneider [mailto:sschnei...@inscapesolutions.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:20 PM To: NT

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
There is a machine SID which is unique to a machine, that is generated during installation. That never changes. There is also a domain SID that is generated when a machine joins a domain (for the computer account). From: John Hornbuckle

Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
The iPhone 3G (maybe only the 3.0 beta) has a hidden BSOD in it that you can see if the phone crashes a certain way. Its very close to a real BSOD msg, but it makes a particular dig at MS. -- ME2 On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Id Just set his screen

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
No, it shouldn't. The generalize process should generate a unique SID for every non-cloned installation. From: Joe Heaton [jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Could be...that would do it?

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Roger Wright
I didn't have any serious issues with ePO 3.6, and it provides very granular control, but I think the layout is a convoluted and illogical mess. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul

Re: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread John Cook
Same here, I have one vista machine for app testing and that's one too many. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud From: Sherry Abercrombie To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Jun 05

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Don Guyer
We're on v4 and controlling clients through the management console is slick. 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

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread John Hornbuckle
Is there a problem with having duplicate machine SIDs, so long as the domain SIDs are unique? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID There is a machine SID which

RE: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Nah, I inherited this network from a previous guy who was a bit of a hack. I suspect everything is dubious... Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, June 05,

Re: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
It's not issues that we're seeing, it's just a huge pain in the butt to manage and the interface is not at all intuitive nor is anything easy to find and configure, it takes hours to manage. The documentation isn't that helpful either. Plus, McAfee is a resource hog when it comes to

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
I *know* it screws with pass-through authentication - which can be a really bad thing. And I don't like errors in my event logs. There are probably other issues - but breaking pass-through auth is enough for me. From: John Hornbuckle

RE: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

2009-06-05 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Browsing a network on a Mac, the icon for PCs is a BSOD. They're stabby allright. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 _ From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System

Re: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Devin Meade
This also is a tone generator and works with the Fluke probe: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=783550RecommendedFOREDC=742687RecoType=ACcm_sp=Product-_-RecoAcc-_-Fluke+Networks+IntelliTone+Pro+200+Probe On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Ziots, Edward
Any issues that you ran into moving from V3.6 to V4.0 Don, we are going that way soon ourselves. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Don Guyer

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Ziots, Edward
More than ¾ of my applications aren't supported with Vista by there vendors, on top of UAC and all the prompting, major reason why we sticking to XP. Honestly, I used Vista at home, and hated it, lack of drivers, application incompabilities, had to relax a boatload of permissions and

Re: server monitoring

2009-06-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I love my SpiceWorks but where's my Nagios?! -- ME2 On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Andrew Greene agre...@cityofanderson.comwrote: I still love my Nagios + nsclient for this. Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson *From:* paul chinnery

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Juned Shaikh
Curious!! how did you find out the duplicate SIDs? One more observation about NEWSID. Once you have run NEWSID and process is completed, if you do a regedit and find old hostname you will most often find atleast couple of places which are not changed and you will have do manual change. That

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
Why do you think Win7 is any different? It has the same security model as Vista. It has the same driver model as Vista. Vista RTM had challenges. Modern Vista really doesn't. Win7 may be marginally faster than Vista (I see a slightly snappier GUI - but I don't see any compute intensive tasks

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Don Guyer
Sorry, Z, our company was already at v4.0 when I started. 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: Ziots,

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