Issue after last patches ?

2010-10-27 Thread HELP_PC
In 2 Pcs (SBS2k3 and Win2k3 Server R2) applying the last MS patches and rebooting the PC stucks after windows is shutting down with a grey screen. Psshutdown from remote was accepted but failed to reboot. Manual was needed. In both cases the reboot has been launched from Remote Desktop Any

RE: DNS providers

2010-10-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
They offer DNS hosting, but they don't like strange IP addresses coming across the wire? WTF? As was said - ditch them for DNS hosting then. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 2:31 AM To: NT System

RE: DNS providers

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Hutchings
What do you mean by slaved? Personally your ISP sounds a bit odd (to be polite about it) as if you're offering DNS, by definition you have to allow strange IP's access to your DNS servers. Honestly I'm not a fanboy of many companies but trust me, $20 saves you all this hassle. Paul

Re: Issue after last patches ?

2010-10-27 Thread RichardMcClary
We have had this on one machine which is running Win2K3 R2 Enterprise. Only once did one of us think to try giving the PSSHUTDOWN command (well, a proprietary version), and it worked. The gray screen is all to familiar though. Glad to hear we're not alone! -- Richard D. McClary Systems

Map drive across domains forests via Windows XP

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have never seen much stability when I map a network drive from a Windows XP box in one Active Directory domain to a file share in another Active Directory domain when the two domains are in different forests and there is no trust relationship between the two domains. At some point the drive

Re: Map drive across domains forests via Windows XP

2010-10-27 Thread James Rankin
Group Policy Preferences drive map with an alternative user id specified? On 27 October 2010 13:40, Stephen Wimberly swimbe...@gmail.com wrote: I have never seen much stability when I map a network drive from a Windows XP box in one Active Directory domain to a file share in another Active

RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

2010-10-27 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I had an older HP with embedded RAID controller that had the same issue. -sc From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V ESXi, but the last one wasn't supported for it's raid

Re: DNS providers

2010-10-27 Thread Pete Howard
I had a horrible experience with dnspark. The president of the company is also the main tech support guy may respond once a day to support issues. I had an issue where they decided to change the ip addresses on their mail relays and didnt tell anyone which caused problem on the receivers

I find this kind of funny...

2010-10-27 Thread David Lum
We're releasing an update to our software, please do not install it. WTF? LOL PGP(r) Universal Server 3.0.2 and PGP(r) Desktop 10.0.3 Update Notification This email is to inform existing PGP(r) customers that the latest updates to PGP Universal(tm) Server and PGP(r) Desktop will ship on

RE: I find this kind of funny...

2010-10-27 Thread Don Guyer
Wowfor a minute there I thought I was reading a notice from McAfee. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com

RE: Office Printers

2010-10-27 Thread Ames Matthew B
We do this, but use RFID tags to save us having to log in. The rfid tag also provides the ability to do secure printing, where the job is only released once you get to the printer. -Original Message- From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: 26 October 2010 15:10 To: NT

RE: I find this kind of funny...

2010-10-27 Thread David Lum
Might be worthy to note Symantec bought PGP recently, so we can blame Symantec for this one. From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: I find this kind of funny... Wowfor a minute there I thought I

2008 to 2008 R2 Upgrade Question

2010-10-27 Thread Bob Anderson
Hi all, I have a question on upgrading from 2008 to 2008 R2. We have 2 physical boxes 1 a Dell R710 that hosts our Hyper-V and a Dell R610 that hosts our Exchange 2007. These are just member servers but the 710 holds two of our 3 domain controllers which are Windows 2003

Re: Map drive across domains forests via Windows XP

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Thanks, GPP wasn't around the last time we tried this, although in our case the user has credentials in the other domain which are forced to change periodically. Would there be a fairly easy way for the user to manage the credentials in the GPP? They would need to change the password within the

Re: Map drive across domains forests via Windows XP

2010-10-27 Thread James Rankin
Hmmm, I was thinking that you just had one alternative id for access to the share, but obviously if that share is NTFS-controlled then that isn't really an option. On 27 October 2010 14:50, Stephen Wimberly swimbe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, GPP wasn't around the last time we tried this,

Re: Map drive across domains forests via Windows XP

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I'm sure I've left out other very important details, but in short each user has an active account in both domains, the local divisional domain and the enterprise domain. User accounts are utilized for different applications. At times it would b nice to have drives mapped to shares in each

RE: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews VIPRE Enterprise.

2010-10-27 Thread Webster
Found an e-mail address for the author. He said the site admins were supposed to have pulled all those comments out before release. OOPS! He is having that corrected. Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Subject: RE: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews

Re: AV (again)

2010-10-27 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
This; and what conclusions did you draw to make the descision, Vipre is the one to go with? -- ME2 On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.comwrote: Did any other machines get infected? I wouldn’t jump ship because one machine got infected. No a/v solution is

Re: I find this kind of funny...

2010-10-27 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
An excellent methodology. -- ME2 On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Our PGP system is one where I am very reluctant to apply updates, and only do so if I actually need the update, or their is a vulnerability. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:12 AM,

OT Foundry/Brocade Support

2010-10-27 Thread Brian Desmond
Does anyone have access to this site? I need the manual for a ServerIron 4G load balancer. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To

RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

2010-10-27 Thread Sam Cayze
There is this: http://www.gilham.org/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=aab85845-88d2-4091 -8088-a6bbce0a4304ID=243 But it doesn't look like it's supported From: stephan.b...@bdtechnology.org [mailto:stephan.b...@bdtechnology.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Barr Sent: Wednesday, October 27,

RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

2010-10-27 Thread Carl Houseman
Worse than not supported - not a solution. First and very true comment posted to that article: Snapshots are not a replacement for Backups I think the winning answer in this sub-thread is wbadmin. I'm running a wbadmin backup now on the host of two running VM's. Before this I took the

Re: OT Foundry/Brocade Support

2010-10-27 Thread Sean Martin
Which do you need? *ServerIron ADX Server Load Balancing Guide* *ServerIron ADX Advanced Server Load Balancing Guide* *ServerIron ADX Global Server Load Balancing Guide* *ServerIron ADX Security Guide* *ServerIron ADX Administration Guide* *ServerIron ADX Switch and Router Guide* *ServerIron ADX

Re: OT Foundry/Brocade Support

2010-10-27 Thread Sean Martin
Ah! There's many more options than I listed! These appear to specifically mention the 4G. *ServerIron Hardware Installation Guide* *Server Load Balancing Guide* *Advanced Server Load Balancing Guide* *Global Server Load Balancing Guide* *Security Guide* *Administration Guide* *Switching and

RE: OT Foundry/Brocade Support

2010-10-27 Thread Brian Desmond
Think I got it - figured out the right set of search keywords and Google bypassed their login page for me and found the PDF. Much appreciated! Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Stefan Jafs
I have an HP GL380 G5 server with 2 drives for the OS, it's now telling me that drive 1 is about to fail! 2 months after the end of Warranty! I'm ordering a new drive but how do I replace it? Do I have to shut down and start with SmartStart go to ACU and split the Array or do I simply shut down

Re: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Steve Ens
Depends on how the RAID is setup. You should have hotswap capable drives thereyou can swap with the system on and the rebuild would be automatic. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote: I have an HP GL380 G5 server with 2 drives for the OS, it's now

RE: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Glen Johnson
Me thinks those are most likely hot swap drives. Make sure you've got a good backup, pull the failing drive, put new one in and the raid controller should automatically rebuild. No down time. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:27 PM To: NT System

RE: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
In theory... ;-) I've seen it go both ways. Usually it goes fine, but I have had a non-recoverable failure one time. Good luck! Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com

Re: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Stefan Jafs
Yes they are hot swap, so pull the drive on the running server and then plug in the new one just like Raid 5 and it will automatically re-build? It's my second physical AD server with an virtual as my 3rd back up so I should be ok. Stefan On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Glen Johnson

RE: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Yes, it should rebuild, and you should be fine. Its been a while since I've touched HP, but you should have a GUI loaded on the system that will show you RAID rebuild progress. With it being an AD server, I'd double check what FSMO roles that server is running prior to doing anything, just so

RE: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Louis, Joe
Did you mean DL instead of GL? I've been using DL 380s since G1. Most of the Proliants are similar. Cant say that I've ever seen one where the RAID 0+1 is in a box that doesn't support hot swappable drives. It should be as simple as pulling the one going bad and putting the new one in. You

RE: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
+1 We've also re-scanned arrays (on HP, specifically) and seen the array come back as healthy with no errors - and run that way for years after the fact. Joe is right. It may be a false alarm. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA

Re: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews VIPRE Enterprise.

2010-10-27 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 27 Oct 2010 at 12:37, Webster wrote: Found an e-mail address for the author. He said the site admins were supposed to have pulled all those comments out before release. OOPS! He is having that corrected. I hope someone archived them for posterity first ;-) -- Angus

Re: Office Printers

2010-10-27 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 27 Oct 2010 at 14:30, Ames Matthew B wrote: We do this, but use RFID tags to save us having to log in. The rfid tag also provides the ability to do secure printing, where the job is only released once you get to the printer. I hope they're subcutaneous RFID tags, otherwise someone could

RE: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Bob Hartung
Try removing the drive and then plugging it back in. I've had Dell RAIDs report a failed drive but re-seating the drive resolves the issue. I think what happens is that over time the contacts develop a little oxide and the connections weakens. Re-seating the drive scrapes off the oxide and the

RE: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews VIPRE Enterprise.

2010-10-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
Feel free, they're still there, but not terribly interesting :) -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews VIPRE Enterprise. On 27

Re: VMWare vs Hyper-V

2010-10-27 Thread Jon Harris
Sorry did not look it up but the fix I am thinking of was on the MS TechNet site and involved a registry hack. Jon On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Is wbadmin what you're referring to?

Re: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Richard Stovall
+1 And make sure you pull the right one no matter what you end up doing. The ACU will let you blink the drive lights individually to be double sure. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Bob Hartung bhart...@wiscoind.com wrote: Try removing the drive and then plugging it back in. I've had Dell

Re: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0)

2010-10-27 Thread Richard Stovall
Actually, now that I think about it, you should run the ADU before you do anything. Sorry if I missed an earlier post where say you've done that. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: +1 And make sure you pull the right one no matter what you end up doing.

Windows CE

2010-10-27 Thread Santino Codispoti
Does anyone know what plans Microsoft has in teams of continueddevelopment for the CE platform for development of embedded devices? It as seemed the focus as switched to Windows Phone 7 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Windows CE

2010-10-27 Thread Martin Blackstone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/default.ms px -Original Message- From: Santino Codispoti [mailto:santino.codisp...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Windows

Re: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews VIPRE Enterprise.

2010-10-27 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Where? I want to see too!!! -- ME2 On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: Feel free, they're still there, but not terribly interesting :) -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Wednesday, October

Re: Office Printers

2010-10-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: I hope they're subcutaneous RFID tags, otherwise someone could use your card. Don't make the mistake of putting the RFID tag in the hand or wrist, because then they'll just lop off your arm. Go for a major organ,

Re: Windows CE

2010-10-27 Thread Santino Codispoti
Yes I have been reviewing the product site for the last few days. I just do not know if Microsoft is committed to this platform. Will they continue development on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will they also continue development on CE 6.0 - Original Message From: Martin Blackstone

RE: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews VIPRE Enterprise.

2010-10-27 Thread Webster
Right here ME2: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Product-Review-VIPRE-Enterprise.html . Just checked at 9:12PM Central and the comments are still there. Comments from Sunbelt are scattered all through the article. Webster From: Micheal Espinola Jr