I have two in place. Works well, but, you get what you pay for.
Performance is not very good with it. I have also had a few issues with
iSCSI losing connection and the SAN needing to be restarted.
However, for the cost, it's nice. But I wouldn't choose to run production
stuff on it.
JR
Correct - doing an in-place upgrade to a newer version will NOT upgrade the PST
file from binary to UNICODE. In fact, there are folks running Outlook 2007
(and 2010 beta) who are still using old binary PST files because they never
moved to a UNICODE PST file.
Ben M. Schorr
Chief Executive
1.5GB *SHOULD* be o.k., but that 2GB ceiling isn't a hard and fast
limit. I've seen PST files corrupt even at 1.8GB.
Ben M. Schorr
Chief Executive Officer
Roland Schorr Tower
www.rolandschorr.com / www.officeforlawyers.com
Member: American Bar Association - 01473703
Author: The Lawyer's Guide
Live Migration between non-clustered hosts? What version of Hyper-V is this?!?
Frankly, I would not enable the hypervisor when you don't need it. The entire
movement towards *minimising* attack surface means installing the least that
you are able to get away with. Why install something you
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Low end reliable workstations
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote:
... including 90% of Microsoft's stuff, falls into the category of
poorly-written.
I have no idea
I am being told that one of our MRI machines is temporarily moving to a
trailer out on the street and they want to pull overhead a cat-6 and
3phase 480V together. Way out of my league. Anyone see any noise issues
with these tied together? Anything else I'm missing?
thanks
This message
And, PST's are technical unsupported when running from a LAN share.
Lots of places do it, but it can, and has, caused problems...
particularly if connectivity has caused the workstation to lose
connection to the PST while open...
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Ben Schorr
Not best practice, but how many of our cable installations actually are
installed according to best practice? I've had to get on cabling cntractors for
laying cable directly on top of a 277v fluorescent fixture... *sigh* (I got a
new cabling contractor!)
I've never tried what you're being
I'm not sure if the attack surface risk is worth it, but I can see a valid
argument for virtualizing even machines designed to host on a single VM simply
to abstract them from the underlying platform.
Migrating to more powerful hardware, disaster recovery, mgm't, etc... are all
eased
Not sure if it is in your budget, but maybe consider a fiber to copper
converter on either end of the run and have the fiber bundled with the
high voltage.
That should resolve any possible interference issues from the 408, and
also help mitigate lightning/static issues.
Jim
Jim Holmgren
I know it's amazing it might just work fine. :)
Lucky I do have an excellent cable guy that is also researching this. We
will have shielded, outdoor rated cat6E with some sort of lightning
protection. This will be extended thru May/June and this is Colorado. I
will looking into separation even by
You know that is an excellent idea. The cable run is not that long.
thanks
-Original Message-
From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: question on cat-6 and 480V together
Not sure if it is in your
I thought the actually problem with electrical currents and network cable
was (Pun intended) crossing the streams. What I mean to say is that as long
as you run the cables parallel to each other throughout the line the affect
is very minimal with regards to depreciated signal strength but if you
+1, Jim. I must still be asleep... Allergies have been rough this week.
Jonathan L. Raper, MCSE
Sent from my Windows Mobile ® enabled Smartphone. Please excuse brevity any
misspellings.
-Original Message-
From: Jim Holmgren jholmg...@xlhealth.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:16
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Low end reliable
It's actually the opposite.
If at all possible, try to cross electrical cables, and signal cables
(including UTP) at right angles.
The magnetic lines of flux induce more signal noise on parallel
conductors than it does perpendicular conductors.
Now, a CAT 5/6 cable running on top of fluorescent
See I wasn't sure of the physics on it. But what you are saying makes more
sense than that crap I was saying.
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: question on
I forgot to mention this group is asking for a gigabit connection to
this MRI machine. I've already set in motion to see about pulling fiber
to this trailer.
-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:30 AM
To: NT System
Steven is exactly right. Lines of magnetic flux wrap around any conductor
through which a curent is passed. For wat it is worth, magnetic field strength
decreases as a square of the distace, so even a few inches of separation can
make a significant difference.
Jonathan L. Raper, MCSE
Sent
No worries... I think somebeody else's suggestion of fiber is the best
recommendation of all.
STP is another option.
Incidentally, the whole cross at right angles thing is useful for
doing audio/video as well 60-cycle hum in your audio channels
sucks especially if you've already
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm
Kathleen Orland
Please support me in my efforts: SPCA Friends for Life 2010 Walk-A-Thon
http://ontariospca.akaraisin.com/p/kathleenorland.aspx
- Original Message -
From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues
Greetings! Our DBA has a project going (with the help of an outside
vendor) in which animal welfare agents will enter stats into our
(internal) databases.
This vendor says to set up a web server in a DMZ (done). Then, open a
port between this DMZ machine and our production database server.
Will you have the option of a common ground with the building ? Otherwise
you *could* get niggling intermittent errors from ground loop potential
issues.
I don’t know your distances, but is a fiber run using fiber interfaces on
switches within budget ?
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems,
Why not have a database in the DMZ, and have the production database pull
added transactional data from the DMZ database via a one-way trust into the
domain. Don’t allow the production domain to trust any connection initiated
from the DMZ.
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks,
I will make sure it is. J
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: question on cat-6 and 480V together
Will you have the option of a common ground with the building ?
Otherwise you *could* get niggling
Thanks!
That is pretty much the way things are set now...
DBA is relaying complaints from the vendors who insist that they need to
get into the production servers once they are connected to the DMZ server.
I say we need a different vendor (unfortunately not my call).
My heels are now dug in
Thanks. Not sure what the SRS file is, but I renamed all the others from
.dat to .tad and miraculously, Outlook opened right up. J
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re:
Maybe not my business, but
Why would the vendor need access to production servers once connected to DMZ
???
Would not a trusted VPN ( with signed agreements on usage and security ) for
your vendor to access the production server be better than DMZ access if
they truly do have a business need
Yup!
Furthermore, it seems that, if all they want is to see if new data are
being incorporated into the app on the DMZ machine, they can just watch
that.
Lonely down here in the boiler room, and SAs get insufficient respect...
Thanks again!
--
richard
Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote on
I don't think the 480 line will induce enough noise into the network line to be
a problem (the tightly twisted pairs in the cat 6 cable means a very good
common mode noise rejection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_pair).
I think the problem you are going to run into is lightening. Strikes
Reading about man-in-the-middle attacks at
windowssecurity.comhttp://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Understanding-Man-in-the-Middle-Attacks-ARP-Part2.html
[link points to article itself] I see mention of DNSSEC. Is anyone here using
it? I've read the Wikipedia entry on it, I'm just wondering
Beauty ! Since the extend.dat didn’t help, it wasn’t a plug in … likely a
corrupt form, as I think someone else already mentioned
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '
From: John Aldrich
Well, I wasn't going to work on it dat file by dat file. I just killed 'em
all. let $DEITY sort 'em out. ;-)
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 9:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook strangeness
Beauty
For those of you using thin clients, how do you address printing? We use Wyse
thin clients for our training rooms. We now have a need to provide printing to
local printers/copiers. Usually I give users access via GPO preferences. How
does one do this for thin clients having limited disk
The new version of DPM is really solid too. Again in RC form.
Tim
-Original Message-
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware -- Hyper-v
DPM comes to mind...
-Original Message-
From:
I find that using Citrix to manage the printing has been a damn sight better
than using GPP. For some reason, particularly with 64-bit drivers, I find
the logon screens hanging when logging on and applying group policy printer
preferences. The event logs show lots of spurious access denied errors.
Well since we don't have SA we're screwed and stuck with a product
that_isn't_all_it_was_advertised and that = half baked to me.
- Original Message -
From: Tim Vander Kooi tvanderk...@expl.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Wed Apr 07 10:02:01 2010
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 03:57, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
snip
Now, software has bugs. But I'm sure we could find just as many spelling
and grammatical mistakes in the average post to the list. Does that mean
that just about every here (90%) has a poor command of the English
grin I understand, sometimes it *is* more efficient to hunt bunnies with
a bazooka !
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07,
Okay thank you James. We use XenApp as well and I can take a look. If I
recall our printers are ThinPrint ready. All of our printers (even those at
users desks) are IP and on the network so there is no local' printing here
either.
My client are not in the domain currently so GPP is out
National (assuming you're in the US) code is crystalline on this
point, and local codes are often more strict.
Find an electrician and ask pose the question.
Even better, call a city/county/state inspector and pose the question.
I think you'll find the code is on your side.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010
We're in the process of evaluating some replacement options for an aging
EVA 4000.
So far I'm pretty partial to the Equallogic arrays and the NetApp
offerings, but our HP reseller is making a lot of noise about a P4000
array (formerly LeftHand).
I'm curious if anyone has firsthand
If all your printers are networked, then Citrix/XenApp should be able to
link up to them using the Citrix policies no problem. We use AppSense on our
production farm at the minute to map printers, but as it is so costly, the
new Xen farm will have it all done via Citrix. I wanted to do it via GPP
I'm in a similar position, as I've mentioned here several times. J My only
problem with things like NetApp and Equallogic is that they want you to buy
the whole thing over again when you need more disk space, etc. One of the
benefits of looking at second-tier manufacturers is that they often will
$WORK is setting up something similar. There's a web site with a
SQLServer backend on a different machine, both in the DMZ, with no
domain.
I've opened a one-way port (1433) from the production LAN to the DMZ,
and our production SQLServer pulls data from the DMZ SQLServer as
needed, usually once
+10
Have the production server generate a report or otherwise provide feedback
into the DMZ that it is up-to-date and eliminate this hideous security
problem waiting to happen.
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:16 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
Yup!
I'm trying to come up with guidelines for me Service Desk guys when creating
group accounts. When to use Domain Local is easy, I'm less sure about when we
should use Global vs. Universal. Distribution lists need to be Universal, but
is there any reason in a mid-sized environment to use Global
In a non-bandwidth constrained environment, I wouldn't even spend any time
thinking about it. Just make everything universal and go onto the next problem.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent:
I spent about 6 mos in the ceiling of our office moving bundles of cat5/6
cables off of florescent ballasts and making sure they were 12-18 inches
away from power circuits. Also verified that no parallel runs for data and
power were left. My cable guy said long parallel runs (say ~10ft or more)
There are generally ways to accomplish this. They all involve
planning, permits and licensed contractors. Not your in house IT guy.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
National (assuming you're in the US) code is crystalline on this
point, and local codes are
Always good when the theory and practice actually line up. ;)
-sc
From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: question on cat-6 and 480V together
I spent about 6 mos in the ceiling of our office
Do they need to quench the magnet to relocate an MRI machine like that?
Phillip Partipilo
Parametric Solutions Inc.
Jupiter, Florida
(561) 747-6107
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 7:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT:
I should mention, though you probably already know it, that adding a
new unit is the way Lefthand does their expansion.
If you've got two units in HA, adding a third of the same size give
you double the space - kinda like RAID5 over the network.
I believe that the software can be had separately
I dont think so, its pretty old and EOL'd. The Netapp expansion path for that
one is to upgrade to a FAS 2000 platform :)
From: richardmccl...@aspca.org richardmccl...@aspca.org
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Wed, April
We run a bunch of scheduled reports using custom programming, Office 2003,
Excel and Access and then e-mailing the reports using Outlook 2003.
It works as long as only one person logs in to the server using remote
desktop with the /admin, (virtual Server 2003), keeps Outlook running and do
not
Wow - crickets. I'll take it that nobody has done anything with it. Here's more
info
http://www.dnssec.net/
Tons of other links on there too if you want to get up to speed.
Dave
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
VNC or Dameware, etc :)
From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Keep remote Desktop Runnin.
We run a bunch of scheduled reports using custom programming, Office 2003,
Excel and Access and then e-mailing the
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Orland, Kathleen korl...@rogers.com wrote:
I still think renaming the old profile and creating a new profile for
Outlook to use
Outlook in IMO (Internet Mail Only) mode does not have MAPI
profiles. There is nothing to rename or create.
I was able to do 1 TB to a USB drive in less than 8 hours while the machines
were live. That would depend on how you do the work and the version of USB
you are using.
YMMV
Jon
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Murray Freeman mfree...@alanet.org wrote:
I do have multiple servers to be backed
Right. I only allow PST files on a network share if they are archive
PSTs, not PST files being used as an active mail store.
It's still possible one of those will get corrupted but 1) We have them
backed up, that's one reason they're on the share; and 2) They're
archives and in the unlikely
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
The point is, you have no metric to base your statement on (either
the 90% claim, nor the poorly written claim).
You are correct in that I'm using no metric. My stance is
qualitative, not quantitative. If that makes
Would esata be faster how about a cheap freenas box with iscsi
A freenas box with 4 disk raid 0+1 Iscsi connection??
Any ideas.
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
-Original Message-
From: Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:36:43
To: NT System Admin
Verifiably correct software can be created.
That doesn't relieve it of side effects.
Regardless of which, it is so expensive to produce, it is not commercially
viable.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Ben
I have similar reports that we have automated with VBscripts. Run them as
a scheduled job, and there is no need to tie up a session.
Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Systems Engineer
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
Regardless of which, it is so expensive to produce, it is not commercially
viable.
I never claimed to have a solution, or even that there was one. :-)
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a
Don't use Outlook.
Use Blat, which does SMTP, or if you must absolutely have MAPI, use
CDONTS, or something like it.
Kurt
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 13:19, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote:
We run a bunch of scheduled reports using custom programming, Office 2003,
Excel and Access and then
Hey list.
I have a laptop user, Window 7 Pro, who's Desktop and Document folders are
redirected from the server. That way she can use the Offline Files function to
use her laptop while at home.
Now, She can't re-connect to the share! Nothing has changed on the server end,
but I cannot get
Agreed. Blat is your friend.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't use Outlook.
Use Blat, which does SMTP, or if you must absolutely have MAPI, use
CDONTS, or something like it.
Kurt
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 13:19, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com
Showing your age, Kurt. :-)
CDONTS was replaced by CDOSYS in 2003. (Which has since been replaced by
System.Net.Mail, in around 2007.)
But I still use blat preferentially myself. Rockin' tool.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
LOL!
Yeah, it's been a while since I've set this stuff up.
I use blat in nearly a hundred production scripts I have in place here.
It just works.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 14:08, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
Showing your age, Kurt. :-)
CDONTS was replaced by CDOSYS in 2003.
So, just gettin' your curmudgeon on?
On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com
wrote:
Regardless of which, it is so expensive to produce, it is not commercially
viable.
I never claimed to
Isn't blat even older than that ?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:08:23
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Keep remote Desktop Runnin.
Showing
Looks like I figured out my own problem:
In desperation, I attempted to do a net use * \\Server\Share as the user.
Interestingly enough, it returned with a 2221 error: User cannot be found.
Doing a search on that error lead me to a forum of somebody having a similar
problem, and the fix was to
Same results in the office on the LAN as at home via the VPN?
Can she go online with another server on the network (one that is not
responsible for any of her offline files)?
What if a different user, one without any offline files at all, logs in on
the laptop? Can it go online with the same
Yes. I first used it on NT4. I'd guess in 1999?
checks out website Yep, it was apparently first released in October, 1998.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: pchow...@yahoo.com [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com]
Not surprising, that. I think there's a major missing element in Offline
Files as implemented on Vista/7, in that, if the server is out there and
appears available, but going online fails, there's no indication of the
attempt to go online nor the failure reason presented to (or easily
discovered
Hi,
a) OK, what you did in the lab is not Live Migration. Live Migration relies on
a Cluster Shared Volume - you need to have a cluster to get this. What you did
looks like quick migration, which you could have done with Windows Server
2008 (you don't need R2). It's basically a suspend and
James the issue you are seeing is probably related to Point and print
Restrictions. Basically the print driver isn't installed on the server and so
it would normally provide an elevation prompt. But you can't see that during
logon. You can change it in gpo for the terminal server by setting
Do you have a Windows 2008 or R2 remote desktop server? If so you could create
a remoteapp that they connect to via rd web access or via rd gateway.
I've used this to provide access to one of our apps to an external provider.
Created a nice remoteapp icon for them. They just double click,
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