That I find to be an odd statement.
I never had to redo much with Samba. I generally found it pretty
easy to track most stuff. The config is in a text file that can be
easily put under revision control.
The shares are simple, except when a tdb tanks and you have a crappy
mapping id mapping
On 8 Oct 2009 at 23:56, Andrew S. Baker wrote:
Yes, it does. Especially with that 5-user SOHO license... :)
I like the verbiage:
--- Included Stuff Follows ---
Evaluate Druvaa insync - Test both Client and Server for 30 days or request one
of the 5 Free annual licenses for SOHO
Greetings!
Although we are a Firefox shop, it seems IE7 breaking stops the opening of
PDFs on any and all browsers. That is, on occasion, a user will attempt
to open a PDF (note - these are part of our medical consulting
application, and ALL these PDFs are on internal servers), they are
Wow, where to start ? Which scenario to describe ?
Try placing a call to Microsoft for support. With my Technet Plus
subscription, I get two 'free' support incidents per year. But I have
never, NEVER gotten direct contact with any tech support. At best, I have
spent 15 to 20 minutes on the
So why did you move away from the NetApp?
-Original Message-
From: System Manager [mailto:mgr...@whitman.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NAS/SAN
We just recently moved away from a NetAPP FAS2020 to an EqualLogic
PS6000. Very
happy
I have to laugh. I just got a proposal this morning for a single N3300 from
a prospective vendor for over $81,000. That's more than twice what I've seen
from any other prospective vendor. I told him he was out of the running for
the project at those prices. J
John-AldrichTile-Tools
~
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
Just make sure the window is down before you try this experiment...
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: test...sorry..
[Everyone will be throwing an
Without knowing the specs, the $ amount is meaningless. It may or may not
be out of line.
A 2TB EqualLogic has been quoted at ~$33,000. Of course, I didn't pay that
much for mine... :-)
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:57 AM, John Aldrich
jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote:
I have to laugh. I just
That's wild. My few experiences with Microsoft PSS have been uniformly
good (and, knock wood, infrequent), even if I've started with an
overseas technician. I've always gotten a 'personal' e-mail address
that I can reply directly to, and post-incident follow up later on from
the tech. The only
Good Morning,
A church network I support needs free Video player software so they can play
videos from DVD and other sources on a couple of the machines on the
network. Anyone know of a good free one? I've tried AVS and it seems to work
fine but is a bit complicated for the preschool needs or to
VLC @ http://www.videolan.org/
Best free player around.
From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DVD playing software
Good Morning,
A church network I support needs free Video player software so
What if you add the server(s) to the trusted sites zone in IE? If you paste in
the UNC path, IE will change it to something like file://server.
Just a thought.
--
From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:12 AM
To: NT System
Tried that in the past... We've also tried downloading a PDF, then
dragging it onto a browser window - still breaks!
This is something we're sort-of used to, but to have so many go south
(NOTHING do do with Daniel R's test questions!) in so short a period -
that had us wondering.
BTW, these
Well, I've received quotes on a similar system for about half that. It was
for approximately 5 Tb of storage with redundant everything except a
redundant machine. J Still, I got a quote from another vendor out of Atlanta
for a LOT less.
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Jonathan Link
Was there an Adobe update that got installed by any chance? On my home
PC it prompted me to update to v9.2 (IIRC) just last night.
At my old place of employment, Adobe was a thorn in my side every so
often. I remember having to visit each PC to uncheck a setting for PDFs
not to open in IE.
OK. Next wild shot in the dark.
Is this Acrobat Reader? Have you tried unchecking Display PDF in
browser in the Internet section of the preferences menu?
From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
Len Hammond
CSI:Hartland
lenhamm...@gmail.com
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jason Morris jmor...@mjmc.com wrote:
VLC @ http://www.videolan.org/
Best free player around.
*From:* Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 14,
+1
From: Jason Morris [mailto:jmor...@mjmc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DVD playing software
VLC @ http://www.videolan.org/
Best free player around.
From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:16
Nope, not an Adobe problem!
Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote on 10/14/2009 08:33:10 AM:
Was there an Adobe update that got installed by any chance? On my
home PC it prompted me to update to v9.2 (IIRC) just last night.
At my old place of employment, Adobe was a thorn in my side
It truly appears to be an Internet Explorer issue. Adobe Reader will open
a file just fine. However, we get the security policy note on all
browsers tried.
Re-installing IE7 fixes things.
Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote on 10/14/2009
08:33:11 AM:
OK. Next wild shot
Ugh. Fail is probably the worst offender here. I'm beginning to see fails
used as a plural noun.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Verbing weirds words
Verbing doesn't werid
I have an odd question. We are trying to practice upgrading our
Win2000 parent/child domain to Win2003. As such, I have recreated this
configuration in a VMware ESX cluster. (I made copies of a DC for both
the parent and child, and seized all roles, and cleaned out the
metadata for all the missing
What is the app that displays the message, or does it appear to be
coming from the OS? What is the exact message?
From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Weird IE7 problem
It truly
I did RD for Williams International for a year - Most fun job I ever had.
Unfortunately RD gets cut and everyone goes home. Never did get to go back.
Also did RD for a Ceramics company for a couple of years. Great fun
designing new products with the properties you want/need. From there I got
If were to guess, the 2020 is one of their entry level devices and wasn't up
to the task of what they intended to do... I use 2020's in our remote sites
for CIFS shares and D2D backups. Then that data is replicated back to
Corporate and we have an instance on disk and then rip to tape for
I'll ask our Help Desk for a screen shot next time he gets called to a
desk to fix the problem so I can give you the exact wording (as well as
what is in the title bar).
Again, if one already has a copy of a PDF on their own machine, it opens
just fine in Adobe Reader (or FoxIT Reader). If
Wow... I think that price is a wee bit heavy... heehehehehhe Sounds like
he sent you the list price...
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:57 AM, John Aldrich
jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote:
I have to laugh. I just got a proposal this morning for a single N3300
from a prospective vendor for over
I didn't even pay 33k for my 8TB PS5000. And had a quote for 13k for a
single controller model when they were clearancing them out last summer.
Of course we don't know what type of drives/controllers/etc. everyone is
talking about either.
From: Jonathan Link
Could be.. I know that one other vendor propose an N3300 A20 for about $15K
(minus rack - the other vendor wanted $6k for a rack!)
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NAS/SAN
Congrats, Sherry. :)
Let me attempt to provide you with some answers regarding different
outsourcing arrangements that I have seen or experienced. Please note that
some of these perceptions or observations do not bear out entirely as
planned in implementations, because many organizations simply
VLC player
From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DVD playing software
Good Morning,
A church network I support needs free Video player software so they can
play videos
I must be really tired today (or the hangover is affecting my reading
comprehension) but when I saw the subject line I thought he meant as in
software to get rid of the manager.
From: cra...@idfllc.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:15:59 -0700
Subject:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
They outsource extreme chaos ...
I think I'm going to print that out, frame it, and hang it on my wall.
It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sadly true.
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Len Hammond lenhammo...@gmail.com wrote:
A church network I support needs free Video player software ...
VideoLAN Client (VLC).
Cross-platform. Free/Open Source. Simple, compact, lightweight,
easy to understand UI. Low resource consumption for things not
Andrew makes a lot of good points (as usual). Having been through a full
scope inititiative, I don't disagree with any of them.
Unless I have overlooked it in this thread, we've missed another form of
outsourcing. SaaS, cloud computing (fill in buzz word of the week). So
people who use Postini
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:11 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
Although we are a Firefox shop, it seems IE7 breaking stops the opening of
PDFs on any and all browsers.
Use the Adobe Customization Wizard (or whatever they're calling it
this month) to build a setup package that disables the
feet. No building that tall that I know of.
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:15 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: mail server DR ?
so 'show' him how much 450GB of data is ...
measure the thickness of a 1.44mb floppy
Actually, it isn't just PDFs. It's just that the ability to open PDFs
from the server is what folks were complaining about.
Help Desk says ALL downloads are forbidden, not just downloading a PDF in
order to read it.
Help Desk says 3 more since he came in about an hour ago. He forgot to
come
Is it not just a problem in Virtualcenter (if you have it)? If you connect
direct to the ESX host, does it shut down/reset?
2009/10/14 Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com
I have a VM that I am trying to shut down. I went into the OS
(Win2000), and told it to shutdown. And it never did - it
Or alternatively, is a snapshot being removed/still open?
2009/10/14 Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com
I have a VM that I am trying to shut down. I went into the OS
(Win2000), and told it to shutdown. And it never did - it started to,
but never completed; it just hung there, at the Shutting
Note to VMWare developers: need. virtual. power. cord.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
Or alternatively, is a snapshot being removed/still open?
2009/10/14 Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com
I have a VM that I am trying to shut down. I went into
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
Or alternatively, is a snapshot being removed/still open?
No snapshot. At least, I didn't tell it to take a snapshot, and
there's nothing that schedules snapshots.
I'm not trying to shut down the ESX server, just one of
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
Actually, it isn't just PDFs. ... Help Desk says ALL downloads
are forbidden ...
Oh. That's different. :)
You mentioned Firefox does it, too. In Firefox, open
about:config, then add a new Boolean with the name
I'm sure there are appropriate commands to turn off the VM from the
console, but you might not need to go that way. Try browsing to the ESX
host (by ip, if necessary) and logging in to VMware Virtual
Infrastructure Web Access.
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone
To shut down VM
# vmware-cmd /path/to/config/file.vmx stop soft
or
# vmware-cmd /path/to/config/file.vmx stop hard
if you get a 1 in the responce then it is shut down.
service mgmt-vmware restart
to have it reflected in VC
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone
on using Windows for online banking. Not saying it's right or wrong but it does
make you think.
http ://voices. washingtonpost .com/ securityfix /2009/10/
avoid_windows_malware_bank_on . html
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Richard Stovall
richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote:
I'm sure there are appropriate commands to turn off the VM from the
console, but you might not need to go that way. Try browsing to the ESX
host (by ip, if necessary) and logging in to VMware Virtual
I'd like to request a big shiny red power button
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4
From: G.Waleed Kavalec
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Damien Solodow
damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote:
To shut down VM
# vmware-cmd /path/to/config/file.vmx stop soft
[r...@esx010 Testing-RDC004-Win2000]# vmware-cmd
Testing-RDC004-Win2000.vmx stop soft
VMControl error -999: Unknown error: SoapError:
Could be time to see if your outsourced VMWare support is any good.
:-)
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: can't power off a VM on ESX 3.5
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at
Try these two commands. Notice the small x and then a large X.
Ssh in as root.
vm-support -x
This will give you a list of vm's with a vmid.
Look for the vmid of the vm that is hung.
vm-support -X vmid
this will crash the vm though. I just had to do this last week.
hth
-Original
Hey All,
We're using Windows Deployment Services from Windows Server 2008 (Not R2). It's
been very good for out imaging of labs and laptops for over a year now.
We are now beginnnig to acquire computers that cannot use the default boot
image which is included with Windows Vista. Of most
Thanks, Kevin
Server Hosting, and the other options you've mentioned, such as Saas and
BCP/DR, avoid the traditional stigma of outsourcing for at least the
following reasons:
- They rarely displace staff (maybe Server Hosting, sometimes). If
anything, they allow existing staff to move
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Eldridge, Dave d...@parkviewmc.com wrote:
Try these two commands. Notice the small x and then a large X.
Ssh in as root.
vm-support -x
This will give you a list of vm's with a vmid.
Look for the vmid of the vm that is hung.
vm-support -X vmid
this will
I agree if it's hung it needs to be nuked anyway.
Let me know if that worked.
dave
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: can't power off a VM on ESX 3.5
On Wed, Oct 14,
Could always just reboot the host!
-Original Message-
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: can't power off a VM on ESX 3.5
I agree if it's hung it needs to be nuked anyway.
Let me know
Probably not an easy thing to do if you have more than one guest... I have
60 guests across 3 hosts, I wouldn't arbitrarily reboot a single host for a
single guest problem...
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:37 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote:
Could always just reboot the host!
-Original
That's what vmotion's for. You should be able to lose a host a keep
running.
From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: can't power off a VM on ESX 3.5
Probably not an easy
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Eldridge, Dave d...@parkviewmc.com wrote:
I agree if it's hung it needs to be nuked anyway.
Let me know if that worked.
WooHoo! Yes, it did. Thanks so much. I'm not going to actually upload
the files to VMware, as the tool suggests. But good to know it's
there,
+1
About 50 guests here across 6 hosts all live and in production. In fact
I need to install evm enhanced vmotion, so I get to play this weekend.
My two latest procs aren't compatible with vmotion. Anyone install this?
any gotchas?
From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday,
Yeah, I'd like that, if I could get any budget for it.
I have two ESX servers, and that's it. I feel lucky to have my 4tb
Lefthand SAN - almost all of which is consumed by the virtualised file
server.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:43, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote:
That's what vmotion's for.
The malware will be developed for where the majority of people are, no
matter where that is.
And the weak link is the people, not the technology, as the rise in phishing
attempts indicates.
*ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
*Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, I'd like that, if I could get any budget for it.
I have two ESX servers, and that's it. I feel lucky to have my 4tb
Lefthand SAN - almost all of which is consumed by the virtualised file
server.
I have maybe 60 VMs
I have vmotion, I have DRS, I have it all, I still wouldn't do that for one
guest...
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote:
That's what vmotion's for. You should be able to lose a host a keep
running.
--
*From:* Don Ely
Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers. 25 Terabytes of Log Data - Daily
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-
3-servers/
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
My two cents on outsourcing. Yes, I've been proximal to it. No, it did not
affect me directly at that job. But I have strong feelings about it.
While it might provide a better initial bottom line for a company, the hell
that customers go through and lack of productivity as a result make it a
Having worked on both sides of the oursourcing equation I seen the best and
worst. In some cases outsourcing makes good business sense such as Postini
and BC/DR. The problems you run into with outsourcing staff and
infrastructure is getting control of your data if your decide to move
things back
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
The malware will be developed for where the majority of people are, no
matter where that is.
I agree. And the two biggest competitors to MS Windows right now --
Mac OS X and Linux -- have both achieved enough usage
Hmm.. we have 80 servers in three racks in a room next to me. The web
servers are named WEB01, WEB02, etc..
Hey chuck? Can you reset server WEB23871?
Okay. Give me 30 minutes to walk to it.
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:21 AM
To:
Walk to it? That's what iLo/DRAC are for..
From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data
center facility.
Hmm.. we have 80 servers in three racks in a
OK, the error...
The error is actually in the Downloads window of the browser. Normally,
when opening a PDF off our servers, the users never notice this box.
However, when things are broken, one sees the name of the PDF (or other
download target), followed by This download has been blocked by
I'm guessing by outsourcing you mean going out of the country. I'm fairly
certain India is a major source of call centers. In my experience, it's
been technical support of some kind.
Our experience with MS support has been with mixed results on several
products, most recently SCCM. I
+1
Sean Rector, MCSE
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center
facility.
Walk to it? That's what iLo/DRAC are for..
From: Jacob
Hey chuck? Can you reset server “WEB23871? The iLO/DRAC card failed and
caused the server to bluescreen.
Now what? :)
- Sean
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Sean Rector sean.rec...@vaopera.orgwrote:
+1
Sean Rector, MCSE
*From:* Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Considering those have a virtual power button that accomplishes the same
thing as pressing the real one, pretty unlikely unless there is a physical
power loss. The management cards also have their own network interface which
should be on a separate vlan from the servers themselves.
But if
Thats hardcore man!
- Original Message -
From: Damien Solodow
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center
facility.
Considering those have a virtual power button that
With 30k servers I'd think you'd have to be fairly hardcore or you'd be going
nuts.
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center
facility.
Nope - that's pretty standard in large or remote environments. Wish I
had that for my foreign offices.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:14, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote:
Thats hardcore man!
- Original Message -
From: Damien Solodow
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Wednesday,
Neither would I other than a last resort, I had this same issue with a
guest not shutting down a couple weeks ago and called tech support to
resolve the problem. That's the first solution, but I'm assuming he
doesn't have support or he wouldn't have been asking here.
I tend to check google, then this list or my gmail archive of this list
before I persue support on general products. Nine times out of ten someone
has already invented the wheel. For our tax compliance and engagement
software I go to support, though.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, N Parr
I guess my point was that even with all of the capabilities of out-of-band
management, there's still some situations that require manual intervention.
We only have 600 + servers, most of which have some type of out-of-band
management (iDRAC, IP KVMs, etc.), but there are still those situations
SUMMARY
We're being required to enable auditing for Failure in the
Privilege Use category on a stand-alone Vista box. When we do so,
we get many apparently spurious Audit Failure messages. Is there
any known technique which will address this issue while leaving said
auditing enabled?
Hmmm. Let's see... One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen,...
From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: A look
Of course. Can't do much about a bad main board or array controller without
touching the server. J
But the smaller you can make the number of things that require a physical
presence, the easier your life gets.
From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14,
I was outsourced. I worked for Textron for about 10 years, then they outsourced
their support IT staff - server admins, Help Desk, etc - to CSC
(www.csc.comhttp://www.csc.com). Bryan's first paragraph described the
experience pretty well, all the way down to and including ...took 72 hours,
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote:
Neither would I other than a last resort, I had this same issue with a guest
not shutting down a couple weeks ago and called tech support to resolve the
problem. That's the first solution, but I'm assuming he doesn't have
HP ESX support
Dial 1-800-633-3600
Option 2 for new software call
Enter Service Agreement ID
Option 2 for Operating Systems Support
Option 1 for Unix (all flavors)
Option 4 for VMWare
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Hi Folks,
I have a GPO that adds an AD group to each Administrators local group on each
local workstation. There are some users here that need to be admins, and this
seems like a good work-around. Unfortunately this does not seem to work. The
AD group gets added to the local administrators
We do this (add domain group to local Administrators through GPO) and
have no issues with it. Are you certain that it is the domain group
that is getting added and not another local group?
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October
Wow what a pain. I purchased through Dell and I don't have to call them first.
I go straight to Vmware.
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: can't power off a VM on
It's not a distribution group, is it?
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.gov wrote:
We do this (add domain group to local Administrators through GPO) and have
no issues with it. Are you certain that it is the domain group that is
getting added and not another
I do this without any problems, but my environment is all Windows XP. Could
this be a Vista UAC issue?
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have a GPO that adds an AD group to each Administrators local group on
each local workstation. There are
Anyone know of an easy way to convert dhcp to dhcp w/reservations?
We have a 450 user network with all dhcp but need them to not change for
some new software. I was hoping I could just right click on the current dhcp
lease and convert it to a reservation but no such luck :0
Id rather not have
The group is a global security group. All workstations are XP. It does get
added, but we don't see users having the elevated perms.
Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com 10/14/2009 3:02 PM
I do this without any problems, but my environment is all Windows XP. Could
this be a Vista UAC issue?
What is the maximum lease time on MS DHCP server? Could you just crank it WAY
up?
From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: dhcp reservations
Anyone know of an easy way to convert dhcp to dhcp
We also purchased our hosts thru Dell and they are OEM licenses which means
first call to Dell. I have had to get them to up it to VMWare directly. It has
worked out ok up til now.
I don't have any issues with the esx cluster. It just runs. Now when it's time
to upgrade to ver. 4...
Are the access tokens up to date? If these are new groups, or the
group members have been added without logging in afterward, might this
be the issue?
Just a thought.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote:
The group is a global security group. All workstations
I like the idea of a read only or temporary OS to be used for these
critical or high-risk communications. I'm gonna consider that for my own
activities.
I've often wondered if our trust in anti-malware vendors could be somewhat
misplaced. What would happen if their systems were hacked, and their
You said nothing good. Having trouble extracting the ip and mac addresses
to build the import file?
Try the following from a command prompt
netsh add helper dhcpmon.dll
netsh dhcp server server ip scope scope ip show clients clients.txt
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Benjamin Zachary -
Wow, Ben.. Gotta love Microsoft's stance on that one.
We are still running stricty XP for our DoD (NISPOM) stuff due to the lack
of support and knowledge on configuring Vista to be compliant.. Goes with
out saying, once we heard mention of Windows 7 we were contemplating
skipping Vista
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