Hi all,
One of our users just got a nice shiny new HP laptop with Windows 7
Preinstalled.
WE put on Office 2007 and now we are getting some really weird results when
opening documents
It looks like all the line spacing has been doubled, but when you show
formatting there is no extra line
Is word the only app that does it? Wordpad? Excel?
That feel like it could be some sort of font
rendering/magnification/display driver issue... but then I'd expect
other app to manifest similar behavior.
-sc
From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January
I hate to say it but that is pretty normal with Office 2007. Not to say it
happens on every install, but most I have seen. If you look at the spacing in
the paragraph section of the ribbon you will see a section for spacing I think
the default is after 10. I no longer have Office 2007 I am
Ok, I'll admit to being extremely green when it comes to this sort of
thing (and I don't mean green in the energy efficient sense either J) Can
you explain what you mean when you say it can only support one iSCSI
initiator at a time? Does that mean that if I connect the SAN to the server
and share
You're lucky, I have *no end* of problems even opening documents in the
first place. I've narrowed it down to being a problem only when opening docs
stored on a remote fileserver. If the doc is copied locally first, there is
never a problem.
It's not completely consistent, and lots of times O2K7
Next time on the network do not double click to open, right click and choose
edit if that is available. I have found in 2010 that works just fine. So far
I have traced the problem to the particular profile the user has on that
computer. Currently on 2010 I have the same problem with all
A single iSCSI initiator would limit you to one server connected via
iSCSI at a time.
-sc
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:31 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN solutions
Ok, I'll admit to being extremely green
Ahh. Well, I'm not sure how well that'd work out, although if I can have the
second server set up to connect if the primary server goes down, that
shouldn't be a problem, but I'd prefer to have both primary and backup
server connected at all times, just in case. J I'll definitely keep that
in
There's something else wrong, IMO.
Is this on a single machine, or everything connected to that server?
I have had/used Office 2003/2007/2010 on dozens of machines that were
WinXP/Vista/7/Mac across several LAN's (and WAN/VPN's) with backend
servers that were Win 2K,2K3,2K8/NAS/NFS and haven't
An HDS SAN w 6TB for 20K?
A TRUE HDS SAN is a tier 1 storage product.
I can't even accurately guess, but with the needed tools, apps, etc, you are
looking at maybe $500K. Plus it would have to be professionally installed.
You are not going to be able to touch that thing. Except for
You will want to segregate your SAN traffic as much as possible.
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN solutions
Ahh. Well, I'm not sure how well that'd work out, although if I can have
As long as you aren't requiring something that needs shared storage
(VMware Live motion, Windows clustering, etc...) then you can certainly
do that, it will just obviously require manual intervention.
Definitely dedicated NICs, preferably that support TOE/jumbo frames.
-sc
From: John
Ok. Thanks.
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN solutions
You will want to segregate your SAN traffic as much as possible.
From: John Aldrich
+1 on the top to bottom need if it's your first experience with a SAN. I did a
lot of learning and cursing trying to do my first one without training
(although it was a FC setup which added to my suffering - I had to learn some
Cisco FC switch management on the fly) it can overwhelm you if you
Martin, et al:
The most I know about this SAN is that it's called Hitachi Simple Modular
Storage 100 and it's pretty bare-bones, but then I don't think I need a lot
of bells and whistles. As best I can tell it doesn't have a lot of options
and pretty much you get to choose from a set of pre-set
No, pretty much just simple file sharing. I'm wanting to migrate everyone's
critical files off their PC onto the network and eventually bring email
in-house and put the mail store on the SAN. Definitely want to make sure
this supports more than one iSCSI initiator, in that case, I guess. J
I have a client with a Buffalo NAS and if they have a file marked read only on
an PC and they move it to the NAS the read-only attribute is stripped. Same
thing for moving from folder to folder on the NAS. Has anyone else seen this
before? Any idea if there's a way to fix it? It has to be due
Indeed.
My own $0.02: an HDS solution may not be the best bang-for the buck.
Check out Dell's EMC or EqualLogic stuff?
-sc
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN solutions
No,
No doubt. I definitely plan on having it installed. According to the vendor,
the install would be done for me as part of the package and thats
supposedly included in the price. I dont have a firm proposal in hand yet,
but I figured Id better encourage the vendor to get me more info.
Again,
Chances are it's using something samba-ish on the NAS for the CIFS
connectivity, and a filesystem that may not be FAT on the discs.
I'm not sure that they support file attributes, as opposed to file
permissions.
Can you re-mark it as RO once it's on the device?
-sc
From: David Lum
Here's a question...
Why is he a former CDW Rep, and who is he with now? Was he your CDW rep?
What about your new CDW rep?
Lots about this deal to make me nervous.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:39 AM, John Aldrich
jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote:
No doubt. I definitely plan on having it
+1 This is exactly right.
This is also one of the reasons I discontinued use of our Buffalo
Terastation entirely. Backups with robocopy would copy the entire directory
structure over again when using /mir, file attributes would change between
shares as you've experienced, and you can't set file
You should look at all the vendors out there, including software based ones,
and then decide what you need. Personally I like Netapp, especially with
vmware, but I have also used bare solutions like DRBD w/ISCSI and Starwind
on 2003/2008 servers both work pretty well (drbd is a replication tool
I have looked at Equallogic and EMC. I really can't afford EMC. I found an
Equallogic VAR through one of our fellow list members and they have given me
an unofficial quote due to the project having previously been registered
with another local VAR. I've advised the local VAR that I can't afford
Dont know why hes a former CDW rep, and yes he was my CDW rep. We didnt
do a lot of business with CDW, due to their pricing structure being out of
line with just about everyone else. I have no idea who my current CDW rep
is, actually. No one has introduced themselves to me. J
Yeah, I'm planning on all SATA, at least to start with. The nice thing about
the Hitachi is that it can mix/match SATA and SAS. That's something I need
to look at though, is whether you have to buy the whole intelligence when
you want to expand or if you can just buy an expansion chassis like some
Kind of what I figured. Yes you can mark it RO once it's there. I just checked
another client with a Buffalo NAS, same issue. Who knew?
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Buffalo NAS - weird read
I'd have to agree. I've never had an issue with Office 2007 opening files
from network shares. As all my users are thin-client, no-one would be able
to open anything - and I would probably have been crucified.
2010/1/19 Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com
There's something else wrong, IMO.
There's an outside chance a robocoy or richcopy might re-mark the
attributes once there then, but I've never tried.
If not, then you might have to be like Nineh Cherry and take a Buffalo
Stance.
-sc
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:08
Have you looked the versions of these Dell re-sells?
Can be significantly cheaper, IME.
-sc
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN solutions
I have looked at Equallogic and EMC.
Check to see if you can mix/match on the same shelf. In many cases you
cannot, and requires a new shelf be added to the SAN head, which may not
be cheap.
-sc
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Don't know if these articles will help or not:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms630960(VS.85).aspx
http://www.petri.co.il/msg-exe-net-send-vista.htm
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Evan Brastow
ebras...@automatedemblem.comwrote:
Hi all,
I have a legacy application I wrote in
Good point. I know that some of the ones I've looked at will allow you to
mix/match within the same tray. I know that some of them will not (I don't
think EQ will, for example.)
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
When we upgraded Exchange to 2007, we had to install W2k3 dc's. Right now we
are in mixed mode as we have to keep a couple of the W2k DC's running. W2K3-DC
(server) is the ops master and pdc emulator.
However, I have run into two situations where it seems the old W2K DC (DC1) ops
master seems
What does replication look like in your environment? Run DCDIAG and
REPADMIN to get a health status for AD replication.
Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Infrastructure Service Delivery
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Been searching the net and found a slew of info but I'm still not sure:/
If I write a function that generates output as it runs a console program
how can I correctly return a value based on an event I test so that I can
later call the function in an If statement like so:
If (!(function_name))
I may be dense this afternoon, but huh?
Lol,
Ok, an example (stupid, but an example)...
Function Test_Time {
$a = Get-Date
If ($a.Minute -gt 30) { Return 1 }
Else { Return 0 }
}
If (Test_Time) { Write-Host 'gt 30...' }
Else { Write-Host 'lt 30...' }
This works only by fluke
Did you run the DCDIAG command with the /e switch so it would test all
domain controllers? Also run Repadmin /replsum * so it reports on all the
domain controllers.
Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Infrastructure Service Delivery
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel
You should NOT have time skews...
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: just who's in charge here (dom controller query)
Make the other one a GC too.
You should have time skews like that. That's
You can always avoid output, as far as I know.
Anything output by a function is put onto the pipe. That's by design.
Give me a specific example where you think you can't avoid output?
-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January
My gut would be to use variables, but then you need to create variables
with a scope such that the variables exist outside of the function.
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/04/14/controlling-the-scop
e-of-variables.aspx
Running 'Get-Help Set-Variable' led me down this rabbit hole,
This page has a good discussion on powershell output with some examples. I
think output can always be avoided as Michael said.
http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!811.entry
Jeff
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com
wrote:
I may
Hi
Excel, Wordpad, etc ok, PowerPoint Publisher similar problems.
Also suspect something along those lines, but the documents print wrong as
well.
Its weird
2010/1/19 Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com
Is word the only app that does it? Wordpad? Excel?
That feel like it could be
Thats it.
We played with that and it sorted it out, but we cant make it stick.
I also discovered that it affects all Office 2007's especially on older
documents created pre 2003.
Now I need to get the spacing to strick.
2010/1/19 Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us
I hate to say it
My gut would be to use variables, but then you need to create variables
with a scope such that the variables exist outside of the function.
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/04/14/controlling-the-scop
e-of-variables.aspx
Ok Guys,
If you say it always can, it's just me:)
I did find
Open a blank document and change spacing to zero and then click on the default
then exit word. All new documents should then be golden, but I am not sure how
to correct already stored documents.
-Original Message-
From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
Alright, using your example your variable is available while inside the
function. I tested this (Win 7, so Powershell v2) by creating your
function:
function my_function { set-variable -name backupstatus -value 1;
$backupstatus}
Then I ran your function:
my_function
Do to an idiot here messing with a day end scripting pc process I am
being ask to find out what people would use to run an app remotely. I
tried psexec but I can't seem to get it to work.
Ideally I would like these operators to get the screen of the app just
as though they were logged on.
Gotta
I don't understand what it is you're trying to achieve. You mention psexec and
then you also talk about a screen like a terminal server.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
I think the OP is asking for something similar to what I've heard you can do
in *nix - run a command on a remote machine using SSH and display the GUI on
your local desktop. Or similarly using Screen to show the CLI from the
remote machine on your local machine.
John-AldrichTile-Tools
My analysts only want the helpdesk to run an app remotely that sits on a
server without having to log onto that server to run it. The screen I am
talking about is just the app screen itself so they can click on the
various options and then it closes. My .02 they should fire the guy
doing this
Pretty much.
Psexec docs show this.
Psexec -I \\server file:///\\server
c:\whateverfolder\programtorun.exe
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely run exe
I think the OP is
To execute a program on a remote machine, you are going to have to
present credentials to that remote machine.
psexec is the most well known of these kinds of apps, but RDP could be
considered one of them as well.
I would guess there's a GUI wrapper for psexec, but I haven't searched
for one, so
EZ-Execute:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Remote-Utils/EZ-execute.shtml
--
Peter van Houten
On the 20/01/2010 00:11, Kurt Buff wrote the following:
To execute a program on a remote machine, you are going to have to
present credentials to that remote machine.
psexec is the most well
Waitaminnit...
I think I remember that from a long time ago. Didn't you send it to me
before it was released publicly?
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 14:16, Peter van Houten peter...@gmail.com wrote:
EZ-Execute:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Remote-Utils/EZ-execute.shtml
--
Peter van
Kurt do you have this file? The links are all broken.
thanks
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: remotely run exe
To execute a program on a remote machine, you are going to have
Never mind I found it on expertsexchange of all places.
-Original Message-
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely run exe
Kurt do you have this file? The links are all broken.
thanks
Well, if I was ever going to have one I'd want it to be done by an expert!
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Eldridge, Dave d...@parkviewmc.com wrote:
Never mind I found it on expertsexchange of all places.
-Original Message-
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent:
I know i'm surprised lyris didn't spit back at me. LOL :)
-Original Message-
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: remotely run exe
Well, if I was ever going to have one I'd want it to be done by
Well I'm in the middle of implementing my second Apple Xsan. You can't beat
the price really. We have a few video editing stations connected via fiber and
then one windows server that hosts the backup system/tape library.
ADIC/Quantum provides the windows/linux connectivity to the Xsan.
Apologies...I see the host has disappeared. The date stamp on my file is
2004 and Softpedia says it is freeware, so I suppose I could send it to
you. Let me know.
I always found the CLI easier (or rolling my own .bat)
--
Peter van Houten
On the 20/01/2010 00:26, Kurt Buff wrote the following:
Alright, using your example your variable is available while inside the
function. I tested this (Win 7, so Powershell v2) by creating your
function:
Yeah, I am seeing some differences between psv1 (xp) and psv2 on my R2 server,
spent ages chasing something until it dawned on me, sigh...
~
I finally found my copy - it's also from 2004. I haven't used it since
then, probably.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 14:45, Peter van Houten peter...@gmail.com wrote:
Apologies...I see the host has disappeared. The date stamp on my file is
2004 and Softpedia says it is freeware, so I suppose I could
What, if anything is listening on port 80?
Cheers
Ken
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 3:24 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IIS Not serving Pages in Exch 03
This ugly problem started again today. Changing the password in the metabase
Actually %logonserver% isn't necessarily the DC that the secure channel
is established with, it is the one that authenticated the session you
ran the command from.
It is not maintained so it can be returned even when the DC it indicates
is unreachable.
If you want to know who the SC is
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