Huh? Hadn't heard that, but I also didn't watch the vid. We also have VMs
that are using KMS licensing and seem to need to activate just like any other
install.
Maybe they are referring to the fact that depending on your installed server
OS, VMs don't necessarily take a license? For
I still get the The VLSC site is currently down for maintenance.
Friday I was able to start a download of some ISOs, but the downloads failed
about half way through.
BF
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network +
ezi...@lifespan.org
Phone:401-639-3505
Can a DFS root (either Domain, or Stand-alone) be done with a Windows
2008 Machine in a Windows 2003 Domain?
Does anyone know?
Z
~ Finally, powerful
Same here. All weekend long L
Peter
From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 8:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: MS Volume Licensing still down?
I still get the The VLSC site is currently down for maintenance.
Friday I was able to start
Our problem with eset was there implosion of tech support. After getting
status messages of I don't know how to handle that object and no
response from their tech support, we determined them to be
non-responsive. They did not let a threat though, but really, how could
we tell with status messages
Works fine - I'm doing it here.
Sean Rector, MCSE
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From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 8:24 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DFS root with Win2k8 Machine in Windows 2003 Domain
Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan
Is the root of the Win2k8 DFS (Standalone or Directory Integrated DFS) I
have a offsite IT person trying to create it on two of there Win2k8
Servers for fault tolerance, they are a Admin on each of there servers,
but do not have any higher level rights in our AD tree. They are
claiming its asking
The KMS for Vista/WS08 didn't count VM's towards the total count. The one with
Win7/WS08R2 does count them.
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 5:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows KMS licensing
Huh? Hadn't heard that,
Ah HA!! R2 is the magic answer here then, thanks!
From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:31 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows KMS licensing
The KMS for Vista/WS08 didn't count VM's towards the total count. The one with
Win7/WS08R2 does
One you extend an AD Schema, is there really any way to roll back? Has anyone
ever heard of needing to do so?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Mine is Standalone, and when I created it, I used a Domain Admin
account. I'd guess that they need the AD rights.
Sean Rector, MCSE
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From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 9:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DFS
I'm pretty sure you can't reverse schema changes. You might be able to use
forest recovery or some such like to revert back to the previous version
though
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3EDA5A79-C99B-4DF9-823C-933FEBA08CFEdisplaylang=en
2009/12/14 David Lum
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
You have to do an authoritative forest restore. To put it simply, it's a
non-trivial operation.
Therefore: test in a lab and isolate the server where you are doing the schema
updates until you are certain they succeeded.
There are several times I can remember problems with schema updates:
That might be the issue. When you create the root, even though it's a
stand-alone they still need AD rights. Does the root need the
account/password afterwards to work, or just during the first creation?
I take it there is a DFS service that runs it, but does that service
need to run as the domain
U are good
Z
Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network +
ezi...@lifespan.org
Phone:401-639-3505
From: Fogarty, Richard R CTR USA USASOC
[mailto:rick.foga...@us.army.mil]
Sent: Monday, December
Actually Quest has tools that allow the restore of the forest and
Domains, including Schemas (Recovery Manager) but its not cheap, I think
they was quoting at least 6 figures for our implementation, but it was
also based on the number of users accordingly.
Z
Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
I'm 90% sure that it is only needed during creation.
Sean Rector, MCSE
-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 9:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DFS root with Win2k8 Machine in Windows 2003 Domain
That might be
Thanks.
My production environment has 2003 (not R2) Domain functional level and has
Exchange 2007 in it. If I VM the production DC that should be enough, correct?
Actually my setup is ROOT.PVT and I also have SUB.ROOT.PVT, and all my devices
and systems are in SUB.ROOT.PVT, I need to VM a
No, the schema is replicated to ALL DCs in a forest.
I generally VM the schema master after ensuring that it's also a GC (or I
create a new GC and move the schema master role to it).
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
You beat me to it! Yes, ours is R2 as well-thanks Tim.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows KMS licensing
Ah HA!! R2 is the magic answer here then, thanks!
From: Tim Evans
Yeah, appears to be getting here now. Hope it doesn't cause issue to anyone
else's mail. Not sure how that happened.
-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 9:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: test
U are good
Damn them, I was actually able to get there last week, but not today….
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
From: chipsh...@comcast.net [mailto:chipsh...@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 10:30 AM
To: NT System Admin
I agree but you asked which vendor would we look at IF Vipre was not
available. I did not want to imply that NOD32 was my first choice either.
It is simply on my short list. I have had enough issues with McAfee and
Symantec in the past where either they cost me time or allowed bugs through
to
My boss wants to add some intellegence to our logon scripts with
IFMEMBER. I had planned to use Group Policy user logon scripts.
Is IFMEMBER still kosher on modern Windows networks? I know it's
pretty old technology...
Thx,
RM
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
I was hoping you would have said, Yes, they had support problems in the
past, but are now rated as the best tech support in the industry! Alas.
When I switched, they wanted to know why, which was the first contact I
had been able to have with them in two tears that was related to any
topic
Bin your logon scripts, and use Group Policy Preferences. Vastly easier.
You can use net user rather than ifmember if you want to use native Windows
commands in logon scripts. I'd still go the Group Policy Preferences route
though
2009/12/14 RM r...@richardmay.net
My boss wants to add some
As I was not either. At my former place it all came down to money, who was
cheaper. The only influence I had was to choose the competition which did
not include McAfee or Symantec. Not the best way to do things but then some
places don't think like that mine did/does.
Jon
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Letting bugs through is why I am getting rid of AVG - it would let adware
onto a machine and not warn us. At least Vipre is configurable to quarantine
it if it gets through, where AVG wouldn't even notify us.
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent:
As I remember, I used to just do a
net user *%username% */domain | find *groupname*
and checking for the errorlevel. Pretty crude but always seemed to work.
Doubtless the list bods will have some more elegant ways of doing it :-)
Group Policy client extension is available as an update via WSUS
I use VB script when I can't use GP Prefs, but really focus on the GP Prefs.
There is a recent update for XP machines to get them to read prefs properly, as
well.
RM r...@richardmay.net 12/14/2009 10:44 AM
We haven't rolled out the GP Prefs client. It would take a while to get it out
Good pointI never made a habit of nesting groups much when I was in my
logonscripting-days though
2009/12/14 Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu
The problem with Net User is that it doesn’t do recursive searches.
IfMember actually searches the token to see which groups SIDs you have so
if you're looking for an old school method, don't forget Kixtart
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
_
From: RM [mailto:r...@richardmay.net]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Is IFMEMBER still OK to use on a
That seems to be a short coming of many of the older style AV products. The
newer ones are better at catching newer vectors as well as other malware
which is why Vipre and only a couple of products can do. That said there
are others in the market but I look at more than just can the software
I have used IFMEMBER in the past and it worked fine. It is easy to use,
however, going forward like others have said, GPO is the way to go. If you
want to use scripting, look at KIX. It is easy to use and powerfull.
Mike
Original Message:
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From: RM r...@richardmay.net
Date: Mon,
Here is the syntax of an IFMEMBER statement that I have used:
ifmember Domain\AD Group
copy C:\Folder name\File Name \\Server name\File path
Original Message:
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From: RM r...@richardmay.net
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:28:57 +0100
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject:
Anyone know how to keep Windows7 from stealing window focus? For example if I
am typing in this email box and another window wants my attention it just
blinks instead of taking my input from this box?
Thanks?
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I
service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open
license tickets for XP pro and I want to install XP Pro in this device so
that it can join the domain. I made all the Vista disks when I got the
You might have to build an install with SATA drivers. I had to do that for a
laptop. Or, tell the system to emulate PATA in the BIOS. Often times there's
an option for that in the BIOS
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009
Download nLite and the SATA drivers. Use nLite to build a bootable ISO
containing those drivers.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Len Hammond lenhammo...@gmail.com wrote:
Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account
I service. It came with Windows Vista Home
Press F6 and load the sata drivers at the start of the setup.
Hth
Rene
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Len Hammond lenhammo...@gmail.com wrote:
Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account
I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open
I have a 3 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop with SATA drive that runs XP ,
matter of fact I upgraded the 320gb drive to a 500gb drive and reinstalled
XP just fine.
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
_
From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com]
XP works fine on SATA it's more likely a BIOS issue as mentioned. You can
emulate PATA operation; check it out.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Len Hammond lenhammo...@gmail.com wrote:
Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account
I service. It came with Windows
Some bioses can make the SATA controller emulate IDE. Check to see if the bios
has a Compatibility Mode for the SATA controller.
Else, you can use the F6 method or the nLite method already mentioned to get
the drivers installed on the system.
Good luck!
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
+1 We have to do that here reasonably often.
From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: newer laptop and Windows xp
XP works fine on SATA it's more likely a BIOS issue as mentioned. You can
emulate
Now the site says ……
Media fulfillment isn’t available while the site is undergoing maintenance,
however, we are offering to ship media at no cost to our customers as necessary.
If you prefer not to wait for VLSC availability, please contact your local
Volume Licensing Call Center by
I get something quite similar:
The Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center is undergoing maintenance as part
of a series of enhancements to improve the licensing management experience for
partners and customers.
We apologize for any inconvenience and our goal is for the site to be available
They must have installed Internet Explorer 8 on the servers. J
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 3:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Microsoft Volume Licensing site - broke
I get something quite similar:
The Microsoft Volume
Hi-
You can however defunct nearly every schema change which basically hides the
attributes and classes and allows them to be reused. They're still physically
in the database but otherwise inaccessible.
Is there a scenario where this is not sufficient?
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
It's new enough to have the IDE emulation setting.
Loading XP now. That was too easy! I expect this build to last less than a
year, as I hope to take this church to Win7 sometime late next summer. We
have to raise some funding for new licensing - shouldn't be too bad with
Microsoft's Charity
All,
I'm contemplating getting much more familiar with Xen for my own
education, especially now that it's supposed to be able to replicate
VMs in realtime for failover.
I'm thinking of having someone put together at least one, and perhaps
two boxes with a single quad-core CPU and 8 or 16 gbytes
Rack mountable or not?
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Kurt Buff
[mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
To: NT System Admin Issues
[mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Mon, 14 Dec 2009
15:38:46 -0800
Subject: Hardware question...
All,
I'm
Not - I'll be putting these in the corner of my office at home.
Kurt
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 15:56, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote:
Rack mountable or not?
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Kurt Buff
[mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
To:
I would buy a couple of these...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101272
...and ad my own processor/memory/supported RAID card. But i'm cheap like that.
Want something smaller/quieter?
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Kurt Buff
I built my own from i7 quad core CPU, gigabyte mobo, ( only ) 6gb RAM , board
will hold up to 24gb, and some SATA drives in this Antec case :
I'd rather pay someone to do it - been a while since I've touched
hardware. Nice case, though. I'll keep that in mind.
Kurt
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 16:13, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote:
I built my own from i7 quad core CPU, gigabyte mobo, ( only ) 6gb RAM , board
will hold up to 24gb,
Don't need RAID - just a single drive. But that looks like a definite
possbility. I can add RAM and a hard drive. I've munged a couple of
procs, though, and would rather someone else do that.
Kurt
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 16:07, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote:
I would buy a
Or go to slickdeals.net, pick out the best deal on a Dell T100 and add memory
(max 8 gb), probably around $400 delivered and it comes with a warranty.
- Original Message -
From: Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
The beautiful thing about the SuperMicro is that it's all setup for work
without CPU, Ram or Hard drives... everything else is all set. The reason I
recommended a raid card was because the internal intel raid isn't likely to be
supported by Xen.
Compared to a similar Dell or HP, the Supermicro
Damn near foolproof building a box nowadays, and you can control the costs ...
Right now I can get SATA drives around $90 per TB at Fry's so it makes for a
good inexpensive desktop server.
(I'd rather have a rack and rackmount servers from HP, but this will do nicely
for now )
Erik Goldoff
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