There are two Registry keys - *HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Devices\* and *HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts - *that, in a terminal services environment,
seem to fill up with vast amounts of printers, apparently enumerated from
any user that has
I just recently purchased an OCZ Revodrive (version 1) -
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-pci-express-ssd.html
120GB, which is effectively a pair of 60GB SSDs in RAID0... RATED specs are
read 540MB/s, write 480MB/s 75,000 IOPS
The newer X2 revision of the card is even faster!! -
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:01 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
There are two Registry keys - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Devices\ and HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts - that, in a terminal services environment,
seem to fill up
Both those keys just appear to fill up with every printer that has ever
mapped on the Terminal Server, every time it populates. It is full of
printers *from session x* corresponding to other users on the Terminal
Server. The user can't see them in Devices and Printers, but they are all
dropped
On 3/29/2011 11:49 PM, Richard Stovall wrote:
Well then,
Good luck tomorrow morning. I suspect, and hope, that this will all
have a happy, uneventful ending.
Luckily, it looks like it did ...
It was still going when I got here at 6:30AM (11 hrs later). So I
powered down; went to the SAN
I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is
rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20
minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under
Write debugging information, with the value %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP
(and checked off
You sure it's a BSOD? Could be a thermal condition, amongst many other
things. Does it have any ASR values set?
On 30 March 2011 13:37, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote:
I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is
rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes
Doesn't sound like it's actually crashing. It's rebooting for some as yet
unknown reason. I would check hardware issues first (bad memory, disk
issues, power supply. etc.)
Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP
Technical Support III
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life
Not a direct answer to your question but something to look at..did you just
install the Feb updates...look for 393802 and MAYBE 2264207. One of them,
probably the first one has some issues with video card drivers that were
written badly. See if there are updates for your vid card drivers or
On 3/30/2011 8:39 AM, James Rankin wrote:
You sure it's a BSOD?
No, I'm not, actually.
Could be a thermal condition, amongst many other
things. Does it have any ASR values set?
Don't think so. Not sure how to check. Don't think we've set anything ..
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security
On 3/30/2011 8:43 AM, Christopher Bodnar wrote:
Doesn't sound like it's actually crashing. It's rebooting for some as
yet unknown reason. I would check hardware issues first (bad memory,
disk issues, power supply. etc.)
That's what we're begining to believe, too. Since I get no DMP file,
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote:
I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is
rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20
minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under
Write debugging
What flavour of system is it? On branded stuff (HP, Dell, IBM, etc.) you can
usually set threshholds within the management software to perform recovery
actions under certain conditions. If you have a functioning ILO/DRAC/other
management card, you can also sometimes replay the last restart, to see
On 3/30/2011 8:51 AM, Kennedy, Jim wrote:
Not a direct answer to your question but something to look
at..did
you just install the Feb updates...
No. Not yet. We usually do Windows updates around the middle of the
following month, but we haven't done any to this server, since it
started
I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I
might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they
log on to a particular server? Other users of the same server need their
roaming profile loaded, so the GPO for Always use local profile is no use,
On 3/30/2011 9:10 AM, James Rankin wrote:
What flavour of system is it? On branded stuff (HP, Dell, IBM, etc.)
HP Proliant 380 G6.
you can usually set threshholds within the management software to perform
recovery actions under certain conditions. If you have a functioning
ILO/DRAC/other
Rack Space is very good about their hosting.
MY big question is if you are using a Windows 2008 R2 server why not use
SQL Standard Edition instead of Express?, also with 1GB ram SQL/Windows
is going to get quite cramped for memory resources, and your application
etc etc might not really run
+1 for Rackspace
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?
Rack Space is very good about their hosting.
MY big question is if you are using a
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I
might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they
log on to a particular server?
Is this for your Terminal Server
I'd start with the simple stuff.
Power cord in tight?
Is the server in a clean server room? If not (or even if it is), check
the fans and heat sinks for dust and clean it out.
Speaking of fans, are all of them running? Air vents not blocked?
-Paul
-Original Message-
From: Mike
Great questions.
We are using the cloud server to host a low traffic webpage for a branch of our
company. We started off with SQL express, as recommended by the web development
firm. If needed, we will upgrade to SQL Standard.
Thanks,
Chris Blair
952-697-6270
It's not the server with the printer issue, no (I have lots of issues
lately, my wife tells me the same thing too) :-)
Sorry, I should have been more specific - it's the TS roaming profile that I
am trying to avoid loading for a certain subset of users. Not a standard
roaming profile. I have not
I’m currently using Webtrends but getting fed-up with performance /
configuration / setup issues before I renew the maintenance, I wonder what
you guys are using?
I don’t need anything to sophisticated just visits and demographics are the
most important reports.
--
Stefan Jafs
~ Finally,
Wow that sounds exactly like the problem we had with a DL380G6 about a
year ago. HP shipped us a new mainboard before they figured it out.
Check your version of the ilo firmware. If it's late 1.6x or early 1.7x
there were a lot of problems with random reboots exactly as you
describe. We updated
So, shortly before I left yesterday I went through our GPOs that were applying
to Win7 laptops. The only one I thought might have anything to do with this
turned out to be the culprit, but I'm not exactly sure why. Since we won't be
calling PSS at this point I may not find the answer to that,
Can't you change your current GPO to be more specific instead of authenticated
users? I have several XenApp GPOs that have different settings for different
groups, and I use TS Roaming profiles in them.
Tom
James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com 3/30/2011 9:39 AM
It's not the server with the
It's a computer-level GPO for only allow local profiles. It only applies
to everyone, or not at all. Same goes for setting TS Profile via GPO. Unless
you know different...I've been struggling to understand why TS Profile was a
computer-level GPO for a while now.
On 30 March 2011 15:40, Tom Miller
On 3/30/2011 10:08 AM, Paul Adams wrote:
Wow that sounds exactly like the problem we had with a DL380G6 about a
year ago. HP shipped us a new mainboard before they figured it out.
Check your version of the ilo firmware. If it's late 1.6x or early 1.7x
2.05, it says. Good thought, tho.
Looks
I've used Rackspace and AWS. I'm pretty happy with AWS and their EC2
offerings these days. There's a lot you can do there, including having load
balancing, moving your entire server to a larger instance when you need
something beefier, and integrated backups to S2. Something about having an
image
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Miller Bonnie L.
mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote:
What I don’t understand is why the problem only starts after SP1 is
applied, unless there is a problem with the RTM version applying this policy
altogether.
Or, it could be it was a problem in RTM and it's
Cacti.
AWstats
Google Analytics.
-Sam
From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Website Traffic Analyzer.
I'm currently using Webtrends but getting fed-up with performance /
configuration / setup
Question-does anyone know if this encryption is done using EFS?
Yes, it is specified in the EFS documentation that EFS is used for the offline
file cache. The policy interaction you describe is very interesting. From a
purely theoretical POV, if I disable EFS at the Domain level, that should
You might want to take a look at these two free versions to see if they meet
your need :
http://www.weblogexpert.com/lite.htm
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, Security
' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '
I have a Sony Vaio Z as my primary laptop. It has 4 x 64GB SSDs in a RAID0
configuration. I've had it for 11 months now, and if there's been performance
degradation (through lack of TRIM) it hasn't been enough for me to notice.
Cheers
Ken
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com]
That's right. It's been a while since I created those GPOs. My error.
What's the need to prevent a profile from loading? Perhaps there is something
else we could suggest.
James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com 3/30/2011 10:44 AM
It's a computer-level GPO for only allow local profiles. It only
And this is why I like to run a plain ol' CHKDSK the first time before I
commit to /F or /R or whatever.
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*Technology Services that Maximize Business Results...
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com
RackSpace is very good in this space.
What will you be doing?Microsoft or Amazon will work well here, too, for
most needs.
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*Technology Services that Maximize Business Results...
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Chris Blair
My co-worker found an HP alert about Proliant DL360 G6s (like this)
where they can be subject to random reboots, exactly as we have been.
Apparently, it's a known issue with this model server shipped before Nov
2009. Has to do with system board revision earlier than 0S. If the
serial number is
Nice. I would just do it now and blame it on the ongoing crash problem. :)
-Original Message-
From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
My co-worker found an HP
Or just do it now. Planned outages, even during business hours are alwyas
better than unplanned ones. You also seem to have an element of
unpredictability here, so...
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org
wrote:
Nice. I would just do it now and blame
Thanks guys-it must be then that there was some kind of issue in RTM, and as
Ben said, it was silently failing until SP1 applied. We're not trying to
re-enable EFS via GPO at another level (using Computer config\Windows
settings\security settings\public key policies), so I don't think the
Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption
to protect the data at rest?
That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which
then shares that data.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote:
Recently set
Interesting—it might work now for you then. Was there a kb on that?
I did take DFS out of the equation during testing and that didn’t seem to
matter one iota—it would fail with a straight UNC path as well.
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if
the server is stolen.
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
Nope, I haven't seen that problem, although I am not using TrueCrypt on SBS
2003, just Windows 2003, Win7, Win2008 R2
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*Technology Services that Maximize Business Results...
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman
Yes, they are safe to remove.
I created a batch file with these two lines and call it from a group policy
logoff script.
reg DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices /va /f
reg DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\printerports /va
/f
I will have to
My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few
days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the
original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether or not it
really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl
I have been getting an error stating could not load profile when running
published apps from a 2003 server. I thought it was because the 2008 R2 profile
was incompatible, hence I was not wanting to load the roaming profile. However,
thinking about it, I have just realised the error may be to do
Lots of customers have data-at-rest encryption requirements. Otherwise,
Microsoft wouldn't have bothered to develop BitLocker. :)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March
So, is this your roundabout recommendation of suggesting an upgrade? :-)
IIRC Bitlocker wasn't available for SBS 2003
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
Lots of customers have data-at-rest encryption requirements. Otherwise,
Microsoft wouldn’t have
On 22 Mar 2011 at 13:18, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
OK, thanks...
There is also supposed to be a Reader 10.0.0.2 released as well
(according to that release notes link). Your link, when I move around
in its file structure, still has 10.0.0.1.
The 10.0.2 patch is only for the Mac
One may choose to read into it whatever one's heart desires. :-)
Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from ATT
From: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
On 3/30/2011 1:01 PM, Jonathan Link wrote:
Or just do it now. Planned outages, even during business hours are
alwyas better than unplanned ones. You also seem to have an element of
unpredictability here, so...
True. However, the instructions are a bit scary - they say that the
patch may not
I've found SpecOps free gpupdate tool to be useful.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:48, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote:
Any handy plugins avail for ADUC MMC? I can’t help but think how handy it
would be to have another option similar to ‘manage’ but instead be ‘connect
to C$’
-Sam
~
Tried promoting from global to universal, but it didn't help we
apparently have bigger AD issues, symptoms of which are starting to
bubble up. No events in security event log, although the Default Domain
Controller audit policy clearly as logon events, account logon events
and other items set to
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO
+1
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
Lots of customers have
I have a server 2003 VM that was P2V'd a while ago, it from a different
division and has a whole bunch of c**p on it, ideally I would setup a new
server but in the mean time I was trying to do some cleanup, It has Windows
Desktop search 3.01 installed and I wanted to unistall, however it gives me
Not a plug-in, but if you are looking to have more functionality, I can
highly recommend DameWare's NT Utilities. The amount of options available
is staggering. But not free.
Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP
Technical Support III
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life
Do a DCDIAG with the /e /i switches and look closely at the results. You
should be seeing something there.
Also do a repadmin /showrepl
Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP
Technical Support III
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email:
we use peak10 and like it.
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?
RackSpace is very good in this space.
What will you be doing?Microsoft or Amazon will
Take a snapshot, take the plunge :-)
Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device
-Original Message-
From: Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:29:56
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues
Yes from Googeling it seems it should be ok and I do have the luxury of the
snapshot, I'll go for it later after hours.
Thanks
Stefan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.comwrote:
Take a snapshot, take the plunge :-)
Typed frustratingly slowly on my
Anyone know where I can get some generic, VESA LCD monitor stands? I don't
want an arm, I just want to repurpose some flat-panel monitors we had
mounted on walls that we're no longer using and I no longer have the
mounting hardware for the monitors in question. I've got like a 19 and a
20-21 LCD
Monoprice.com
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VESA LCD monitor stands
Anyone know where I can get some generic, VESA LCD monitor stands? I
don't want an arm, I just
I have a bunch of Dell monitor stands I can't get rid of... want to buy them
for cheap? :)
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VESA LCD monitor stands
Anyone know where I
Would that the monitors were all Dell... :-(
-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VESA LCD monitor stands
I have a bunch of Dell monitor stands I can't get rid of... want to buy
Had the 0x35 BSOD before changing DfsIRPStackSize, haven't had one since,
but I have had 0x7e BSOD before and after that change.
Had the 0x7e BSOD before and after protecting the encrypted container folder
from AV RT scans.
Now I've disabled all AV RT scans and if it crashes again, I plan to
Thanks... Had to figure out where on their site to find it (even after a
search) but I found it. Not bad... Thanks!
-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VESA LCD monitor stands
I
Pretty impressive, thanks. For $290, looks like a no-brainer.
-Sam
From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ADUC Pluggins?
Not a plug-in, but if you are looking to have more
Anyone have a tool they have used, free or not. I basically am looking to
get calendar/contacts from some ex-lotus notes users into Outlook/Exchange.
I'm hoping a good conversion tool can catch all the recurring appointments
correctly. Using more standard formats for exporting just won't cut it.
Keep in mind some of the recurrence patterns supported by Notes simply aren't
supported by Outlook/Exchange.
The Quest tools do a good job and can do NSF imports (instead of Domino) - I
think they support PST export too.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com
We just purchased some kind of expensive ones from 3M they are available most
office supply places they are MS110MB and they work pretty well, and have some
nice features.
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:33 PM
+1 for Dameware. It's great.
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote:
Pretty impressive, thanks. For $290, looks like a no-brainer.-Sam From:
Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Another option in this category is Hyena:
http://www.systemtools.com/hyena/pricing.htm
I've used both, but prefer DameWare NT Utilities.
Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP
Technical Support III
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email:
How about AD Reports by Maxpowersoft? Not a plungin and not free (licensed
by technician install), but very handy for reporting on AD, and not too
terribly expensive.
Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE
Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the
Verizon network. Please excuse
I've uninstalled that a few times in similar situations and not seen any
problems.
From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal
Yes from Googeling it seems it should be ok and
Ok, just did it and you where correct. no problems, time to delete the
snapshot, BTW gained back about 8 Gigs.
SJ
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote:
I’ve uninstalled that a few times in similar situations and not seen any
problems.
*From:* Stefan
I recommend you spend an hour or two looking at MDT 2010 Update 1 in detail
(MDT - Microsoft Deployment Toolkit).
Not only will it do everything you want (and then some) - it's free.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original
Win 7 Enterprise is not on the retail disks, when you get your agreement you
will have access to download it. If you have TechNet access then you can start
playing with the MDT and get the ISO from the same place.
You can go straight to SP1 on the builds and deploy from USB or over the net
Excellent. Thank you very much.
Kurt
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 20:03, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
I recommend you spend an hour or two looking at MDT 2010 Update 1 in detail
(MDT - Microsoft Deployment Toolkit).
Not only will it do everything you want (and then some) - it's
Last time I had a Technet subscription was in, ummm - 1997, IIRC. I'll
have to look at that, and our budget, and see if we can fit it in.
Thanks.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 20:08, Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net wrote:
Win 7 Enterprise is not on the retail disks, when you get your agreement you
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