Does it make any difference if you clear out the whole SoftwareDistribution
directory? This is a tactic utilised in one of our AU cleanup scripts which
our desktop guys claim helps out.
On 6 August 2010 03:40, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at an XP Pro SP3 desktop
I like using Spacemonger.
http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: 03 August 2010 01:49
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Finding a huge file dump from June...
All,
On our file server we have a single 1.5tb partition - it's
There isn't even a need for a separate OU - you can just use security group
filtering...
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 6 August 2010 2:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: WSUS tools?
That seems overly complex -
Good point.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
There isn't even a need for a separate OU - you can just use security group
filtering...
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 6 August 2010
Truly...
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Kudos to Michael B Smith!
If MBS got all of the beers we owe him at one time, he'd drown...
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 07:59, David Lum
Wsuster doesn't work from remote
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Inviato: venerdì 6 agosto 2010 11.40
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: Re: WSUS tools?
Good point.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Do it now, you hoser.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Kudos to Michael B Smith!
OMG! Now I've got to watch that again, been soo long!
Don Guyer
I am really confused.
I am using MXToolBox and the SMTP tool.
I get the below results:
220-nachodevice.imcu.local ESMTPIronport Success
Not an open relay.
0 seconds - Good on Connection time
0.546 seconds - Good on Transaction time
OK - 206.18.123.221 resolves to 03030611n4m055.imcu.local
The PTR record for 206.18.123.221 resolves to 03030611n4m055.imcu.local.
Ask your ISP to change it to mail.imcu.com or whatever is appropriate.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:24 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote:
I am really confused.
I am using MXToolBox and the SMTP tool.
I get the
Doing an nslookup, it appears that 206.18.123.221 resolves to
03030611n4m055.imcu.local.
nslookup 206.18.123.221
Name:03030611n4m055.imcu.local
Address: 206.18.123.221
Aliases: 221.123.18.206.in-addr.arpa
-Andy
-Original Message-
From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com]
Great White North, take off eh
-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Kudos to Michael B Smith!
Do it now, you hoser.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Don Guyer
Take off, eh?
Koo-ko-ko-kokoko-ko
There's a mouse in my beer
Shook
-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Kudos to Michael B Smith!
Do it now, you hoser.
-sc
There is a ptr for mail.imcu.com to 206.18.123.221 though.
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Posted At: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:35 AM
Posted To: itli...@imcu.com
Conversation: Local server name appears on the Internet DNS
Subject: Re: Local
In the reverse zone at ATT? It sure doesn't seem like it because the answer
coming back for that IP is 03030611n4m055.imcu.local. A *forward* lookup of
mail.imcu.com returns 206.18.123.221.
You'll need to ask ATT to change the record in their reverse zone.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:23 AM,
Your MX records that were reported by your nameservers are:
5 mx1.imcu.com 206.18.123.221
Your reverse (PTR) record:
221.123.18.206.in-addr.arpa - 03030611n4m055.imcu.local
Banner Received: 220-nachodevice.imcu.local ESMTP
Get your ISP to change your PTR to:
Could my Active Directory be pushing that address out to them?
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Posted At: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:32 AM
Posted To: itli...@imcu.com
Conversation: Local server name appears on the Internet DNS
Subject: Re:
I sure hope not. :-)
I'd call ATT and ask them what's up, and also take the rest of the steps
suggested by Mike French earlier.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:36 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote:
Could my Active Directory be pushing that address out to them?
The problem machine isn't local, but I found a local machine with a 80MB
datastore.edb. Deleted the datastore.edb file and let it rebuild, it rebuilt
to 33 MB. Then I deleted the datastore.edb and the logs folder, and it
rebuilt to the same 33 MB size. But I'll give your idea a try next time I
I am working his list now.
Just curious as to how that name got to the Internet.
My faxed request to my ISP was for mail.imcu.com to have the PTR of
206.18.123.221.
So to have the imcu.local address having it I am a little bit concerned
as to how it was updated...
Beauty, eh?
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Kudos to Michael B Smith!
Take off, eh?
Koo-ko-ko-kokoko-ko
There's a mouse in my beer
Shook
Somebody got something FUBAR'd if that's the case. I see your MX as
MX1.imcu.com from the ultrdns nameservers who claim to be authoritative
for your zone:
The SOA record is:
Primary nameserver: pdns1.ultradns.net
Hostmaster E-mail address: bill.krause.fiserv.com
Serial #: 2010072104
Refresh:
I have a need for a VMWare\Cisco\EMC rock star. Al three would be nice but
Cisco is the least important, I need someone who knows VMWare and EMC very,
very, very well.
Position is in Charlotte, NC. Please send resumes or questions to me off-list.
Andy Shook
Senior Sales Engineer | Peak
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at an XP Pro SP3 desktop yesterday/today and soon after booting, the
startup of the Automatic Updates service (wuauserv) is just killing it,
using up all RAM and stalling everything due to all the swapping.
Due to a recent issue with some files within our system being deleted
and then taking 4 days to restore those files, we are looking for
suggestions/advice on what an efficient backup process should look like.
Here's what we currently have setup:
- Every Sunday of the week we do a full
Oh... I just realized you wanted me to delete the entire SoftwareDistribution
hierarchy... Previously I was only clearing out the datastore\Logs\ files in
addition to datastore.edb.
Found a SBS03 server that uses Microsoft's update servers with a 162 MB
datastore.edb. Deleting and rebuilding
My son's XP Pro gaming machine (which hasn't been rebuilt since 2005 and used
to be my working machine, so it has just about every Microsoft desktop
product installed) has a datastore.edb of 95 MB.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From:
Thanks for the script. I've done everything but the registry changes and
re-registering .dll's, which I doubt will make a difference, at least on the
test machines I've got ready access to. It's starting to look like 512MB of
RAM is really just too little to handle Automatic Updates from MS's
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:23 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote:
There is a ptr for mail.imcu.com to 206.18.123.221 though.
You've got that backwards. Also, you should understand that
reverse-lookups (number-to-name) and forward-lookups (name-to-number)
have no inherent relationship.
My machine the datastore.edb is 165 mb.
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 12:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Automatic Updates has humongous datastore.edb and memory
consumption
Oh... I just realized
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote:
Due to a recent issue with some files within our system being deleted and
then taking 4 days to restore those files, we are looking for
suggestions/advice on what an efficient backup process should look like.
Here’s what
What's your retention period on the tapes? (I'm assuming that the disk
backup gets overwritten each week?)
Why did it take 4 days to restore the file?
Perhaps understanding that will help us provide suggestions.
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5+ year old ThinkPad home machine that seems like I've loaded nearly
anything MS makes on at one time or another is 113MB.
3 month old Dell laptop is 89MB.
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
I just tried that script and it didn't find a number of the registry
entries. Now I'm connected to Microsoft Update and the file size on the
Software Distribution\datastore directory is climbing. L
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent:
I just checked an older machine that I'm running a missed update on and it's
about 100 meg...
Don K
From: Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 11:27:41 AM
Subject: RE:
- We are backing up 7 servers (exchange, terminal, storage server, sql cluster
and two web servers).
- OS - Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008 R2.
- Amount of data backed up - 400GB
- Backup Software - Backup Exec 12
- Tape drive LTO with tapes that can hold 800GB (Native)/1600GB (Compressed)
The retention period on the tapes is at least one full day. For the
full tape backups it's a week. The incremental backups are one full day
as well.
We currently have 5 tapes that we rotate out. One for the weekly full
backup and the other four for the daily incremental backup.
Part of
https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9334#comment
Another Adobe Acrobat vulnerability...
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What was the final result?
Thanks everyone for the datapoints, your efforts are much appreciated. I'm
starting to think, even if I can do something to drop the datastore.edb down
to ~100 MB and the startup of wuauserv becomes almost tolerable, they'll want
to use the machine for another
Pardon my 2nd cross-post in as many days... we are looking at using USA.NET for
hosting our Exchange environment, does anyone here have an experience with
them, good bad or otherwise?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
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So you're not keeping the backup to disk at all?
BTW, I can't see how the retention of the tapes can be classified as at
least one full day.It would have to be a week or something.
Otherwise, how would you restore on Friday, what was lost on Wednesday if it
was only created on Tuesday
Sorry... the retention times are indefinite.
Each night the backup-to-disk backup jobs run incremental, but run to
the same folder each night. So the files on the disk, that we needed,
weren't on there.
_
Cameron Cooper
Network Administrator | CompTIA A+
Get more disk space, keep a couple of weeks on there. Heck even on a NAS,
disks are cheap, enclosures are relatively cheap.
What was the cost of using the personnel involved to restore this backup?
Is that more than you could spend on additional disk capcity?
I have one week of backups
For the Full Backup to Disk... by alternating backup jobs... what do you
mean there?
_
Cameron Cooper
Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified
Aurico Reports, Inc
Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896
ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com
From: Andrew
4 days? What is your rate of transfer? Maybe an issue there. My
largest server, 300GB server, I can restore in about 2-3 hours. (You
mentioned 400GB in a later email.)
Sam
From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:29 AM
To: NT System Admin
I've been using them as a pop address for over 10 years now and never
had an issue. I know that doesn't really help with your question but
still a good reference.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 12:37 PM
To: NT System
We do full backups from all server to disk(s) on our backup server every
night.
Every Thursday night, a full backup from the backup server to tape is
started and completed by Friday afternoon. Tapes are taken off site Friday
evening when I go home.
Recovery from the backup server for
Here's the info for the restore to disk job:
- Amount of data restored: 57GB
- Job Rate: 1,841.00 MB/Min
- Job time: 29minutes and 36 seconds
The data was restored to a drive on a different server, so at this point
the speed of the NIC (1GB) would be a
Yep,
And still going to keep coming, until Adobe changes its ways...
Z
Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06,
Anyone have some good links to in-depth articles to recommend about the
builtin Win2008 firewall, particularly in regards to profiles? I have a
2008 domain member which says the public profile is active rather than the
domain profile, which, from what I've read, should be applied
automatically.
Apparently 3 or 4 MSFT people have recently jumped ship over to go over to
Adobe to help them develop their own SDL...
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 2:47 PM
Well starting with good development practices, along with the SDLC would
help greatly. Maybe back to Waterford Model, or Spiral Model of
application development...
But security needs to be full integrated, and regression tested at each
step of the software development cycle, and they should
Look up Network Location Awareness/NLA as to the magic of the
locations/profiles.
I've only really deployed the Windows Firewall on servers so I just set the
rules to apply across all profiles and force them all to behave uniformly.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c -
Does anyone have any experience with relocating the VAMT (Volume
Activation Management Tool) used for proxy activiations of Windows
Server 2008, et al? We have a modest amount of Windows Server 2008
boxes, and the VAMT was the best tool for us to handle the activations.
I need to move this
Why not do full backups every night? It looks like you have plenty of space on
the tape and that amount of data should only take 4-5 hours to backup.
Benefits:
* You don't have to mess around with multiple step restores.
* Restores happen faster since you only have to access one tape.
* It
Thanks Brian. I found part of the answer to my question. (form
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754893%28WS.10%29.aspx)
- Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 support only *a single profile on
the computer* at a time. If the computer is connected to more than one
network,
They've hosted our exchange for years. We're happy.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:36 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Pardon my 2nd cross-post in as many days… we are looking at using
USA.NEThttp://usa.net/for hosting our Exchange environment, does anyone
here have an experience
with
We need a supplier for about 5,000, 2Gb USB keys with promotional
information and our logo / name printed.
Do you guys have any good suppliers?
--
Stefan Jafs
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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With or without conflicker?
Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote on 08/06/2010 02:54:20 PM:
We need a supplier for about 5,000, 2Gb USB keys with promotional
information and our logo / name printed.
Do you guys have any good suppliers?
--
Stefan Jafs
~ Finally, powerful
Preferably without :)
SJ
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:04 PM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
With or without conflicker?
Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote on 08/06/2010 02:54:20 PM:
We need a supplier for about 5,000, 2Gb USB keys with promotional
information and our logo / name
http://buymemory.com/
Been working with them for years. They were able to do just what you
asked for me with very short notice a few months back. We only ordered
200 but they vectorized our logo and had them shipped in two days. Tell
them I sent you.
From:
This next Patch Tuesday is massive and a lot of interesting
vulnerabilities are coming out. I would start stock piling the mountain
dew and such as it is sure to be a fun one. I am doing a webinar
Wednesday morning after patch Tuesday to go over all of our analysis of
the patches and many nuances
No need to copy any files - the KMS server doesn't really track anything (it
keeps the last 50 activations as a rolling list, but that's it). If you're
worried about meeting the minimum number of systems for activation, note
that when you reinstall the KMS key on the same KMS server, you will
On odd numbered Sunday's, use Backup #1, and follow that week with
differentials to that same file.
On even numbered Sunday's, use Backup #2, etc.This will allow you to
recover necessary files from disk for up to 14 days.
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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Bob Hartung bhart...@wiscoind.com wrote:
Why not do full
Back in action, you are.
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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Marc Maiffret mmaiff...@eeye.com wrote:
This next Patch
Which is darn strange. If you have the WSUS admin console installed you have
the wsus assemblies and the main method to connect to the server
(AdminProxy.GetUpdateServer) is overloaded to optionally take a hostname,
sslflag and port.
Lack of time perhaps?
-Anders
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:59 PM,
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote:
We need a supplier for about 5,000, 2Gb USB keys with promotional
information and our logo / name printed.
We use http://www.promolocker.com/ and have been happy with them.
They were able to supply us with flash drives
Holy smokes - those guys are still around? I was buying memory from
them back in the late 90's when I first joined this list! Back then, I
think they had about 5 sales people. I had forgotten all about them.
Jim Holmgren
Manager of Server Engineering
XLHealth Corporation
The
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Bob Hartung bhart...@wiscoind.com wrote:
Why not do full backups every night?
+1. If you can get away with it, this hugely decreases complexity
and time-to-restore. Simplicity is golden. Complexity breeds
failure. KISS.
We were doing fancier things before
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
Back in action, you are.
Talk like Yoda, you do. ;-)
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
I am at a loss for words on this one
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/08/dog_eats_rockford_mans_big_toe.html
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 15:16, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
Back in action, you are.
Talk like Yoda, you do. ;-)
-- Ben
The farce is strong in this one...
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a
Use the Fork, Luke! Not the Spoon!
On Aug 6, 2010 7:11 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 15:16, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:32 ...
The farce is strong in this one...
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource
I see your schwartz is as big as mine...
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 15:16, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com
wrote:
Back in action, you are.
Talk like
So, she's a baritone.
On Aug 6, 2010 7:16 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
I see your schwartz is as big as mine...
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 15:16, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 6,
Ummm, wow.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
I am at a loss for words on this one
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/08/dog_eats_rockford_mans_big_toe.html
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Sirius/XM just announced today that they will be starting a Star Wars
channel. Interesting should be.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com wrote:
So, she's a baritone.
On Aug 6, 2010 7:16 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
I see your schwartz is
Sooner is my advice. For my customers I don't keep in production XP machines
with less than 2GB RAM
GuidoElia
HELPPC
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Da: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Inviato: venerdì 6 agosto 2010 19.29
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: Automatic Updates has humongous
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