Hi,
Unless you have proper procedures for safegaurding this stuff, and legals in
place, I would do this all on the customer's premises (or wherever they
instruct you to work) on their equipment. They must have a budget for this
(otherwise how are they paying you?), and it becomes a cost of
Give a look at the comparison table of several unlocking programs at
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
I have used unlocker in cases like yours, and it made the job.
Roberto Grippi
2009/7/7 Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com
No wonder it’s causing an issue, it’s Ed Rendell!
J
Don
Same here, we can't roll out IE7 to a specific dept here as the company is
looking for 50K just to support it on IE7.
The best thing about it is, IE7 was released before we got the
application, it'll work in ie7, but not supported.
I've had to decline IE7 in wsus just to make sure that it
PFE32 was a life saver in the day :-)
think Notepad++ is now the most used app on my work PC, for text,
vbscript, logs regfiles.
Regards
Tony Patton
Desktop Operations Cavan
Ext 8078
Direct Dial 049 435 2878
email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com
Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com
07/07/2009
Is there a parameter to determine what happens when a dupe is detected ?
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From: Michael B. Smith
Actually to install FireFox, you just need to be a power user. Full Admin
rights are _not_ required. Power User rights provide full control over the
Program Files folder, but not full rights to the System32 folder.
Most of our users are power users, but VERY few are admins.
To get the security
A power user is an admin who hasn't bothered to make themselves an admin - yet.
From: Stephen Wimberly [riverside...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.
Actually to install FireFox,
I spent 4 years as a consultant to the SOHO's and I spent most of my
time rebuilding systems that were never backed up and had to explain to
them that ALL of their work was lost for good.
I liked the customers that gave the blank stares, I could do my job
without hassle. Then there's the
Budget? Most SOHO's don't have $1 set aside for an IT budget. Just a
couple years ago, I had a handful of customers that were still using
NT4! I got them quotes for server upgrades and very very simple tape
backup or backup-2-ext disk and most of them said no new purchases just
fix it.
I had
I use ConText for my script editing. Built in file-compare,
color-coding, you can download all kinds of language definitions.
Unfortunately it hasn't been updated since 12/2006
http://www.contexteditor.org/
Thanks,
Jake Gardner
TTC Network Administrator
Ext. 246
IMHO... as long as you disclose what you are doing and why you are doing
it, and if the both you and the customer are comfortable with it, then I
don't see the problem. Businesses that do have DR in place are savvy
enough where you won't get blank stares and will voice any objections
at the
+1SOHO vs corporate is day-and-night. I support a 17-employee law firm and
currently they have no backups that go offsite and I am STILL working on
getting them something as simple as Mozy! In fact my biggest client (a local
government) is just next week finally going beyond site-to-site (a
Thanks to all for helping me with my missing posts yesterday. Turns out
there was an issue with Sunbelt.
My apologies to all for not following list protocol. From now on I'll
contact Sunbelt Support directly.
Bill Lambert
Windows System Administrator
Concuity
A healthcare division of
Another thing about many small shops (I consult to SMBs) is that there often
isn't any sensitive data in AD. It's a list of user and computer accounts,
with little if any personal info put in. A 10 person shop isn't going to
bother filling in all the attributes in AD. Sometimes you don't even get
You are correct of course, I stand corrected on my terminology.
However, like I said, I have 400 systems and I'd rather not manually look at
400 registries to know I'm covered. The only thing that comes to mind is
creating a KiX script that looks for the key values and sends output to a
common
If you're comfortable writing in Kix, what's stopping you? I'd do it with
for /f + list-of-computers + psexec + reg query.
You don't have to look for all of the reg keys, the existence of just 1
means the workaround got installed.
Carl
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
I usually just do something like this when pushing something...
echo Done \\server\publicshare\%computername%.txt
OR
echo %computername% \\server\share\listofpcsthatranthescript.txt
Thanks,
Jake Gardner
TTC Network Administrator
Ext. 246
From: Carl
After taking local admin rights away from users my plate is less full.
YMMV.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, unfortunately, all our users are admins. It sucks, but I use it
to my advantage when I can.
The reason we've not done a GP is because we
Question,
According to the Microsoft article it looks like you need to add a whole a lot
of CSLID's that need the kill bit set, is this what everyone else is doing? So
basically adding each one of these CSLID's to a .reg file and then scheduling a
bat file to be run at the computer startup
I didn't create a batch file I just created a reg file with all the lines
like below. Then I created a new GP and applied it to the OU. In the GP I
run the reg file in the computer start up script with the /s argument.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
Word
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Michael B. Smith
mich...@owa.smithcons.comwrote:
A power user is an admin who hasn't bothered to make themselves an admin
- yet.
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*From:* Stephen Wimberly [riverside...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:39 AM
I was going to, but instead I clicked the fix it myself, and instead of
running the .MSI file I downloaded it and pushed it out via SMS. Gotta love
SMS...10 minutes of work and 400 systems have the workaround.
Yes, that was 46 CLSID's I counted that the .REG file needed. (Excel is your
friend
Nothing really, was just seeing if someone knew about a tool that did this
already before I created my script.
Dave
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild
If you're
It appears that's what we're left to do on our own. Not sure why MS
couldn't just provide us the .reg file ready-to-use. Or for that matter, a
.msi file that works with GP. I tried assigning the msfixit .msi in a group
policy, but it didn't install (on Vista anyway, didn't test w/XP after that,
A while back, Jesper Johansson published a VBScript that helps with this.
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2006/09/29/Set-KillBit-on-Arbitrary-ActiveX-Controls-with-Group-Policy.aspx
It writes a log file in the root of the users C: drive that indicates success
or failure or not
So basically you are just uploading the reg file to the computer startup
script and the command you are invoking is regedit /s name_of_script ?
I thought you needed to put a batch file in the computer startup script
area to get that to work.
Z
Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan
Ed,
I used this page as a guide for what I did.
http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2007/08/14/deploying-custom-registry-changes-through-group-policy.aspx
But basically you are right on target.
Eric
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:
So basically
+1, why MS didn't supply a ready-to-use .REG file (it's for HKLM after all) is
beyond me.
So via GPO fail isn't just me! My .MSI push attempt via GPO to XP didn't work
(none of my clients have SMS). An SMS push (day job has SMS) the same .MSI
worked fine.
Dave
-Original Message-
Couple of questions about this:
Where does the slayocx.vbs (that gets called by your .cmd file) live?
Is it trivial to change the log location from SystemDrive to a network share?
(LogFileName = WshEnv(SystemDrive) \SlayOCX.log)
Thanks,
RS
-Original Message-
From: Tim Evans
FixIt was only for XP and 2003 machines not Vista, or did you not read all
the way to the bottom of the article? It is possible I missed something
though.
Jon
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote:
It appears that's what we're left to do on our own. Not
We actually use this. Reasonably priced, does a good job for securely storing
passwords. You can set up groups and permissions fairly similar to what you
would see with share and ntfs permissions. There is even a bit for storing
personal passwords. Just don't expect it to change your
We are having some sites come up, others not. Anyone else experiencing
this? I heard that some government sites were down recently, today
others are down. At least for us here at the Museum. Anyone else seeing
this?
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
I have it (and the cmd file that calls it) in the netlogon share on my DC's.
Here is a sample line form the CMD file:
%SystemRoot%\system32\cscript /nologo %logonserver%\netlogon\SlayOCX.vbs -k
011B3619-FE63-4814-8A84-15A194CE9CE3 -l
I guess I forgot to mention the best part about this script is
I'm in Alexandria. I was having some intermitent trouble getting to
symantec yesterday. I work for a gov't agency, but don't know if it was
related to the reports that I've seen today. We aren't affiliated with any
of the agencies I've seen listed so far.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM,
No problems here (Connecticut).
You can try this:
Www.Downforeveryoneorjustme.com
-Original Message-
From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Internet
We are having some sites come up, others not.
I generally dump startup script components into \\dcname\netlogon.
When referencing that location in a path or script, use
\\domain.com\SysVol\domain.com\scripts
Carl
-Original Message-
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009
My mistake, I actually did the testing under XP, and David Lum just
confirmed in a separate post it doesn't work under XP.
Carl
From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild
Nothing yet, but I am sure its coming and quickly.
Z
Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network +
ezi...@lifespan.org
Phone:401-639-3505
From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com]
Sent:
+1
Phillip Partipilo
Parametric Solutions Inc.
Jupiter, Florida
(561) 747-6107
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From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild
After taking local admin
+2
Jon
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote:
+1
Phillip Partipilo
Parametric Solutions Inc.
Jupiter, Florida
(561) 747-6107
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*Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:53
Actually, reading the news articles attributed to in the diary, it's been
ongoing and sustained since July 4th.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:
Nothing yet, but I am sure its coming and quickly.
Z
Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan
Passwords are very much so sensitive data.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
-Original Message-
From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000
Ugh, my bad, I have a bad habit of reading too fast and missing key bits. :)
That's a bummer about being locked into those choices.
I did use SSH on the pearl. Had to create a lot of customized entries in the
dictionary for the cmds, but it wasn't a big deal.
I think a Full QWERTY is better for
When they have them. Passwords, that is.
I think it's great that you work in/with an organization with rigorous IT
processes. Not all of us do. Not all of us have the luxury of consulting
engagements where the business owner understands IT and demands rigorous
processes. However, and I'll be
I don't like ssh on the iphone, but that's because I don't care to type a
whole lot on it.
I still want a BT keyboard!
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Barsodi.John john.bars...@igt.com wrote:
Ugh, my bad, I have a bad habit of reading too fast and missing key bits.
J
That’s a bummer about
Come on guys, a little bit of help?
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Michael B.
Smithmich...@owa.smithcons.com wrote:
A power user is an admin who hasn't bothered to make themselves an admin -
yet.
MBS beat me to it.
In particular, Power Users defeat most of the security defenses
against even accidental malware infection.
If you are talking about a software restriction policy value that you've added,
it will only block the ability to run chrome.exe out of that location you've
specified-it does not filter out the actual file from existing on the system.
The hash block is also going to only work on that specific
We may be tasked with measuring cell phone signal strength (dB) of
multiple carriers within many buildings, in many cities. Apart from
buying a cell phone from each carrier, and shipping it to each site, I
would like to see if there are any options you guys may have heard of or
tested. I will be
Block the download location on the firewall (Not the best, but it will
help).
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: GPO to block chrome.exe
If you are
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Ken Schaeferk...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
I would do this all on the customer's premises ... on their equipment.
A big part of SOHO consulting is that they don't have the equipment
needed. They're basically renting it from the consultant. They don't
have the
Assuming there's anything behind them.
Also, a password loss can be mitigated in seconds at no cost (call the boss,
say have all 4 people change their pw now).
It's about risk management, not risk prevention. Small businesses do not
work the same as larger enterprises. What is a huge risk for a
+1 BT keyboard for all smart phones
Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
Technical Support
561 1st Street West
Sonoma,Ca.95476
(707) 935-1577Office
(707) 935-9387Fax
(707) 766-4185Cell
gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com
www.abideinternational.com
-Original
Ok, there's a KB for the Pearl. I think I will get that, Fido is all sold out
of iPhones anyway, sigh...
Thanks for the insight guys!
jlc
-Original Message-
From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:33 PM
To: NT System Admin
Yeah, I was afraid that all that was the case. Servers are not R2, no roaming
profiles, so I am largely out of luck unless I want to do more work than is
really worthwhile at the moment.
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:14 AM
To: NT
Truth. However, there are also political and training issues.
1) We haven't, as a company (nor within IT) figured out how to make
our standard apps work under under non-admin accounts. This will take
time and resources to figure out, and then further time and resources
to figure out how to
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Joseph L.
Casalejcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
As a result of working with Fido and a super cheap company, I need a new
phone “from the list of possible ones” handed to me.
I need an ssh client and PIX vpn access, the only options I have are a
Samsung Jack,
Hrm, I sent email to a CCIE I know...
Hopefully he has some insight!
jlc
-Original Message-
From: S Conn. [mailto:sysadminli...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Phones
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Joseph L.
We're going through something similar right now. Although, not everyone is a
local admin, there are enough of them to cause additional workload on the field
techs.
We also have a few thousand Sales Agents who are allowed to bring in their home
laptops and connect to the network.
That's
I've got an iPhone 3G for sale..
:)
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: Joseph L. Casale
I took that list of CLSIDs, and used PFE32 to search and replace
'{'
with
'[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
Compatibility\{'
I then did a search and replace of
'}'
with
'}]\nCompatibility Flags=dword:0400'
Note the \n at the beginning -
We are an XP only organization on the desktop. We have 2 Win2k3 servers where
we use DFS to mirror the data between them. We found that there were
significant issues with trying to access the DFS location from the desktops --
data was not replicated consistently between the two servers, so we
Yes, it does. And has since March '08.
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/apple_iphone_enterprise_ready_with_cisco_vpn/
IT was probably a consequence of the settlement between Apple and Cisco
regarding the iPhone trademark.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sherry Abercrombie
I've had one since 1st Gen. Used to carry a company-issued BB and my
iPhone, but recently ditched the BB and carry just the iPhone now.
Our CEO bought a 3GS and is ga-ga for it. Soon afterwards I heard we are
most likely ditching the BES and BBs and going with iPhones across the
company.
Thanks for that link Jonathan, it has just recently been decided that we
will be ditching our Nortel VPN other network stuff in favor of Cisco, so
that has suddenly become the buzz-word around here, so when I saw this
mentioned, I naturally am very interested. It would probably make our
manager
iPhones have built-in Cisco VPN? That just might give my manager the
justification he needs to get us one. That and the fact that the CEO is
getting one and my manager is already letting them know we don't have one
so therefore are not familiar enough with them to provide necessary
support.
David-
After I made that comment yesterday about google not necessarily giving
end users the final say because they had offered some administrative
tools for enterprises to control the toolbar in the past, and seeing
Bonnies's comment about blocking the installer I got curious and went to
Thanks Bob!
Dave
From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: GPO to block chrome.exe
David-
After I made that comment yesterday about google not necessarily giving end
users the final say because they had offered some
I was thinking in the past I'd had attachments in my Gmail that were well in
excess of 5MB, but that seems to be about the current limit for inbound to
Gmail today. Does that sound right?
--
David
_
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of
Must be the switch out of Beta ;-)
From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Google size limits
I was thinking in the past I'd had attachments in my Gmail that were well in
excess of 5MB, but that seems to be about the
They just increased it from 20 to 25 the other day.
You can store larger files in your draft folders for an ad-hoc file
transfer method in a pinch FYI ;)
Sam
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:30 PM
To: NT System
Ah, I withdraw the objection. It just took about an hour for Google to show
an 8M file I'd sent.maybe they intentionally slow the big files down.
Thx.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:29 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Must be the switch out of Beta ;-)
*From:* David
Ah, great idea. Appreciate it!
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote:
They just increased it from 20 to 25 the other day.
You can store larger files in your draft folders for an ad-hoc file
transfer method in a pinch FYI ;)
Sam
As they should...
From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Google size limits
Ah, I withdraw the objection. It just took about an hour for Google to
show an 8M file I'd
W2K8 x64 standard SP1.
Unable to change features in server manager; fails with 800B0100 error.
Research pointed towards windows update.
I've rerun WU, and get a repeated failure on KB951847, also with 800B0100.
Additional symptoms include nothing listed under installed updates in CP,
although
Anyone else get an invite yet? Looks pretty cool so far...
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The replication works fine in windows 2008. Is just the xp desktops are slow
talking to them.
Anyone? Please?
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With all due respect Brian, You're applying MLB practice to a SOHO perspective.
Even those of us in the SMB space understand the service Erik is doing here.
Owners of small companies will not see the value in your perspective only the
cost. Those of us that cater to the smaller business will do
I'm interested in trying it but it looks like they don't have any 808
numbers so that significantly limits its usefulness to me.
Ben M. Schorr
Chief Executive Officer
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www.rolandschorr.com
b...@rolandschorr.com
Twitter:
Just seems like you're taking an awful lot of risk personally for your customer.
I've actually believe it or not spent time working with a bunch of SMBs. I
guess I got the smart bunch of customers because I've always been able to
convince them to do the right thing.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
Some of the Grand Central feature were better. Like the ability to cause
someone you do not like to hear this number has been disconnected jingle,
or some other custom greeting.
--
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-Original Message-
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent:
I'm sure a business would appreciate a quick restore of services. There is no
argument there.
Would the business also appreciate it if your laptop was stolen and potentially
sensitive information was in the hands of someone unscrupulous? We've had
consultants literally held up at gun point and
Looks like you can still do this by editing the Groups settings, but
you have to create and upload the message yourself.
If they ever provide invites to give out I'll let y'all know.
RS
-Original Message-
From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08,
I did SMB consulting for a while and it made me CRY. I have seen everything
you guys have mentioned and more. Anti-Virus? We don't need that, we have a
firewall. And the company I worked for still chose to work with that SMB,
because that SMB actually paid their bills. Basically, for that
Most of my customers are SMBs. I've walked away from a LOT of business over the
years, primarily for the reason you mentioned.
I won't work for a company that refuses to take even the most basic steps to
take care of themselves. They can find someone that charges half my rate and
spends three
NT list homies,
See below, yours truly is doing stufflet me know if you have any questions.
Shook
To view this email as a web page, go
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We had
A siliar situation which I put down to slow interoffice links.
We ended up mapping to local server shares based on IP detection in
scripting and not using the DFS share
HTH
Des
-Original Message-
From: Steph Balog [mailto:validemai...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 8:29 AM
Not yet. Did you get one? When?
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-Original Message-
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 6:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Google Voice
Anyone else get an invite
What steps have you already tried to diagnose the underlying problem/root cause?
Cheers
Ken
From: Steph Balog [validemai...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 3:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: re: Slow DFS connections for windows xp users
Another viewpoint is that even the SMBs with a non-existent IT budget need
IT services, too. The challenge for the consultant is to provide the best
value for the dollar and to recommend an overall plan that will meet the
client's needs. If the client won't/can't implement the plan, should the
I'm down.
Is there a virtual heckling option for this webinar?
-sc
From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Virtualization Webinar July 16
NT list homies,
See below, yours truly is doing
Even connect directly to the server via the fqdn or ip does the same thing.
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
I have applied hotfixes related to the problem, tried connecting via ip and
fqdn rather than through the dfs namespace, rebooted the server, turned of
smb2, turned down security features in the local security policy. And nothing.
Again, the key here is the vista boxes, windows 2008 clients,
During the time when the xp and 2003 clients sit there, it locks the explorer
process up too.
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Hi,
Can you please include the posts that you are replying to, so that we can
follow the conversation?
From what I can see below what you have done below is change settings, which
may or may not be, related to your problem.
The question I asked was what have you done to determine the
Oh; and on the DC offline? Just set it up as a replication partner but not
an authentication DC; a warm spare if you like... Set replication to a week
or something and put it in its own site where no auth traffic will get to
it...
Can't really do that per se. You can twiddle with DNS registration
(quoted below Ken)
That is just it, there is nothing showing in the event logs indicating any
errors. And the network traces are pointless. Pinging and Traceroutes onl send
icmp requests to endpoints (ping) or the hops along the route (tracert). We are
talking smb and rpc. Running dfsdiags
I know its not actually a 'lot of work - but it sounds like a lot of work
just for a VM that I might never use.
IMO - but I am just kinda gutsy like that (maybe a weakness) and I personally
would just bring up the new DCs, forestprep, domainprep, move the FSMOS, let
it set for a day, and
I'm attempting to use MSBA 2.1 but keep getting errors concerning name
resolution. Has anyone ran into this issue? I'm using an account that
has admin rights but when trying to scan a range of addresses I receive
name resolution errors. Any suggestions? We are having no DNS issues on
domain.
There is no fix for the issue, because you haven't worked out what the issue
is yet.
I don't know why you think a network trace is useless. It will show the
actual SMB traffic (including errors, resets and so forth). It has nothing to
do with tracert or ping (don't know why you threw that in).
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