RE: Move or Fresh Win7 Install to SSD?

2011-04-04 Thread Guyer, Don
Went with a 60GB OCZ Vertex2, and decided on a fresh install. Win 7 64-bit Enterprise took about 20 minutes, Win7 SP1 about 15 (took 40 prior). Boots up in about 20 seconds. From nuts to bolts, took a few hours with anti-virus, Windows Updates, Office, blah, blah, blah. Thanks everyone for

VPN Connection from behind Cisco ASA Firewall? -- Anything special?

2011-04-04 Thread Jon D
I'm a firewall newb. If someone wanted to connect to a remote VPN from inside my network, is there anything I would have to do to my Cisco ASA firewall? Most things just work when it's an outbound connection, but I'm not sure if VPN connections are different? Thanks, Jon . ~ Finally, powerful

RE: VPN Connection from behind Cisco ASA Firewall? -- Anything special?

2011-04-04 Thread Mayo, Bill
It depends on how your outbound access-list is configured. If you are allowing everything out, then you should be OK. Otherwise, you are going to have allow the protocols/ports that are used by the remote VPN. If it's Cisco, you need UDP 4500, UDP isakmp, TCP/UDP 1, and ESP (from a quick

RE: Battery replacement for APC UPS (out of warranty)

2011-04-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
Maybe not in your back yard, but call Voltex ... A couple of companies ago that was where we got all our APC UPS replacement batteries from. http://www.voltex.com/ They have a Cartersville location which is 'relatively' close if their pricing is favorable. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems,

Re: Battery replacement for APC UPS (out of warranty)

2011-04-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Check CDW, etc for the battery. They may have an after-market replacement for perhaps $250. Then decide, but I'd definitely NOT chuck the UPS! -- richard John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com 04/04/2011 08:24 AM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues

Re: Battery replacement for APC UPS (out of warranty)

2011-04-04 Thread Jonathan Link
Didn't you affirm you had a Batteries Plus nearby? If so, you can get them replaced today. Speaking to your service window, I'd say prompt resolution trumps other concerns. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:23 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: I've got an APC SmartUPS 1500RM2U that is

Re: Battery replacement for APC UPS (out of warranty)

2011-04-04 Thread John Cook
Just did this myself, bought new replacements - old ones lasted 4 years, you get what you pay for. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread Maglinger, Paul
They make excellent door stops... -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 1:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPS won't turn on Yeah...not sure how old this thing is... but it's been sitting around unplugged

RE: Touch screen PCs

2011-04-04 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Just make sure you wipe the peanut butter off your fingers beforehand. From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 6:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Touch screen PCs I have an HP touchsmart in the kitchen and it works great. It has a tv tuner

RE: Battery replacement for APC UPS (out of warranty)

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Err... bought new NAME-BRAND or new aftermarket? :-) -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Battery replacement for APC UPS (out of warranty) Just did this myself, bought new

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Yeah...that's what I'm using an old one for at home...that and for weight when soaking up carpet cleaning residue after cleaning up after my cats. ;-) -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Battery replacement for APC UPS (out of warranty)

2011-04-04 Thread John Cook
New name brand from CDW (we're on Gov contract so it was cheaper than the alternatives) John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Thanks. Didn't manage to get by the Batteries Plus store this weekend, but I might be able to later on this week or next weekend. I just hate to chuck a decent UPS just 'cause it's got a dead battery. :-) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday,

Re: Win7 upgrade question

2011-04-04 Thread Kurt Buff
That's definitely within our budget, now that the new FY is here. On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:29, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: $311.11 at your favorite store. http://www.provantage.com/microsoft-jsf-1~7MSTE00T.htm On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com

Re: Win7 upgrade question

2011-04-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Even better! On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:55, Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net wrote: If you are getting an Enterprise Agreement then you can activate your TechNet Benefit, then spend $311.11 on beer!! Mike From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 March 2011 11:30 To: NT

RE: Battery replacement for APC UPS (out of warranty)

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Thanks for all the advice. As suggested by several people, I went ahead and am going to take the battery tray to Batteries Plus about 30 miles from my house tonight and then bring it back in the morning. I have already moved everything that was on that UPS to another UPS that had a little bit of

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Ens
Hey John, I have a cat too, named it Bunny. Yours foul up your carpet? I have a litter box for mine. Works well. Steve On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Yeah...that's what I'm using an old one for at home...that and for weight when soaking up

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread John Cook
He probably gets carpet remnants for freejust sayin. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Steve Ens

Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Greetings! I was greeted by our overnight vet who was working at someone else's desk. She said she had a rogue AV popping up all the time. Dell PWS-3500; Windows XP Professional 32-bit, SP3 Popups are something like AntiVirus XP 2011. Found that VIPRE had been shut down by the rogue, and it

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Ens
LOLi like remnants...good for the garage... On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:11 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: He probably gets carpet remnants for free….just sayin. *John W. Cook* *System Administrator* *Partnership For Strong Families* *5950 NW 1st Place* *Gainesville, Fl

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread RichardMcClary
They will only puke on rugs, though... /\_/\ /*--.__/ o o \ / Richard == / \ `-. ( --._)-._m)m) Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote on 04/04/2011 10:09:51 AM: Hey John, I have a cat too, named it Bunny. Yours foul up your carpet? I have a litter box for

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Ens
I've found recently that these are killing the profiles...logon as a different user...then nuke the bastage! On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:19 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! I was greeted by our overnight vet who was working at someone else's desk. She said she had a rogue AV

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Richard Stovall
1) Put the drive in a different machine and scan again. 2) Plan for the nuking and repaving process. :) On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:19 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! I was greeted by our overnight vet who was working at someone else's desk. She said she had a rogue AV

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Jonathan Link
I approach these machines with UBCD4Win to perform necessary cleaning. After cleaned with UBCD4win, I'll reboot and run Vipre and other tools in a network disconnected state, putting an update on a USB disk, if necessary. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread RichardMcClary
First thing tried! Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com 04/04/2011 10:22 AM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Press this button if the To is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Getting ready to do this. My HelpDesk guy had hidded the external SATA adapter. Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote on 04/04/2011 10:23:30 AM: 1) Put the drive in a different machine and scan again. 2) Plan for the nuking and repaving process. :) On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:19 AM,

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Yeah... I got two litter boxes, but they sometimes throw up on the carpet. Litter box doesn't help that. :-) From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UPS won't turn on Hey John, I have a cat too, named it Bunny. 

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Don't I wish. :-) From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPS won't turn on He probably gets carpet remnants for free….just sayin.  John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Exactly! :-) Never on the hard surface...or at least rarely. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UPS won't turn on They will only puke on rugs, though...         /\_/\

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Roger Wright
Try a System Restore back a week or so? You should then be able to get VIPRE or MalwareBytes to install run. Roger Wright ___ There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time somebody helped the homely? - Dolly Parton On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:19 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org

RE: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread N Parr
A lot of times I'm successful doing a system restore back to a point your sure it wasn't infected. Then do a full scan to clean up traces of the infection. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 10:29 AM

RE: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Also Vipre Rescue is a good tool to get rid of this crap! It runs in Safe Mode, command-prompt. You have to install it in GUI mode, though. :-( From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Rogue AV kills XP box I've

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread James Rankin
I have seven cats. I get my litter trays cunningly disguised from this website http://www.petcaretakers.com/shop/litterbox-furniture.php On 4 April 2011 16:31, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Yeah... I got two litter boxes, but they sometimes throw up on the carpet. Litter

RE: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Guyer, Don
That malware is a bugger. I worked on 2 systems that had it and ended up wiping after a few hours trying different remedies, with no luck. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer Datasafe Platform Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread Guyer, Don
I thought our 4 was a lot... Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer Datasafe Platform Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com http://www.fiserv.com/ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent:

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
My cat likes to go outside to do her business, which works well for our dogs, since they like a nice cat snack once in a while. The cat snack thing doesn't work so well for us, though, it really adds a whole new meaning to dog-breath. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent:

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread James Rankin
See here for cat profiles ( http://raythestray.blogspot.com/2009/07/rays-pals.html ) on my (now-sadly-never-updated) blog On 4 April 2011 16:38, Guyer, Don don.gu...@fiserv.com wrote: I thought our 4 was a lot… *Don Guyer* Windows Systems Engineer Datasafe Platform Enterprise

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Mike Sullivan
It looks like it goes into the registry and changes the names of a bunch of common programs so that when you try and launch it you end up running their program. http://www.removevirus.org/how-to-remove-xp-anti-virus-2011 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:19 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
SIX cats??? Sheesh! That's a LOT of cats! From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UPS won't turn on See here for cat profiles ( http://raythestray.blogspot.com/2009/07/rays-pals.html ) on my

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Eric Wittersheim
I had a user that got this one. Vipre didn't catch it either. Vipre tech support was able to clean it quickly. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I approach these machines with UBCD4Win to perform necessary cleaning. After cleaned with UBCD4win, I'll

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread Shauna Hensala
wow - you must really love your cats! great to disguise the litter box - how do you disguise the smell? Shauna Hensala Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:34:01 +0100 Subject: Re: UPS won't turn on From: kz2...@googlemail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com I have seven cats. I get my

MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
I considered using an OT tag, but decided this is not OT for the list. We're having an often heated debate on how to attach data drives in Win2003/Win2008 guests in our new VM 4.1 environment. We use Dell Equallogic iSCSI attached SAN arrays. Some folks say it's best to attach all the drives,

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread James Rankin
We have one cat (Seamus) who thinks he was put on the earth to bury poop, so he does a fabulous job of keeping everyone's business under several inches of cat litter crystals. However an aggressive cleaning regime (i.e. every morning and night) is needed to supplement his efforts. As Tracie was

RE: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Had something similar happen to a home system. System restore. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Rogue AV kills XP box Greetings! I was greeted by our overnight vet who was working

RE: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Tammy Stewart
In the last week we have seen an explosion of these threats our guys are working flat out to get better detections in for them. We have a write-up some registry fixes on our support forums to help remove/recover from this bazaa. It even runs in safe mode because exe file association has been

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread William Robbins
Now I've seen it all. :) - WJR On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:34, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I have seven cats. I get my litter trays cunningly disguised from this website http://www.petcaretakers.com/shop/litterbox-furniture.php On 4 April 2011 16:31, John Aldrich

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Damien Solodow
We have a similar layout, so here's been my experience. J First, the Equallogic furnished initiator (their Host Integration Kit) isn't actually an iscsi initiator. It uses the MS one, but it does load a custom DSM. They do however have the DSM available for the ESX initiator as well. What

RE: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Cameron Cooper
Download Kaspersky's Rescue Disk and run that at boot up. Will run in either GUI or cmd line. The rescue disk will run a scan before any windows files will. Thank you, _ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Phone:

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
We've found significant performance differences in favor of MS's initiator for data drives connecting to our EQL boxes via 10Gb pipes. That's the method we are going with.. although I would like to ultimately figure out where the performance penalty is coming in to play... -sc From:

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Thanks to you and all who did or will reply What metrics did you use to determine the performance differences? Perfmon and disk queue length? R/W bytes per second? SANHQ? From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread Richard Stovall
No, NOW you've seen it all. http://www.perpetualkid.com/bubble-cat-gum-hairballs.aspx On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:56 AM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote: Now I've seen it all. :) - WJR On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:34, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I have seven

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Actual thruput tests using a disk I/O metric tool... The differences were upwards of 20-30% in some cases, IIRC. -sc From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Re: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread William Robbins
Wonders never cease. :) - WJR On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:16, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: No, NOW you've seen it all. http://www.perpetualkid.com/bubble-cat-gum-hairballs.aspx On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:56 AM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote: Now I've seen it

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Paul Hutchings
Pretty much what Damien said. It's not so much about right or wrong but best fit IMO. I tend to take a pragmatic approach in that if we're talking 100gb of file data I'll just bung on a VMDK. If we're talking 1tb of file data, or something like SQL or Exchange where an array like an

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread N Parr
We use option two here, there are a lot of very good EQ/Dell best practice white papers dealing with this exact topic. You didn't say what's going to be running on your servers. File, SQL, Exchange, etc. But if you don't do iSCSI inside the guest you lose all capability to make use of the

RE: GPO tattooing (Resolved)

2011-04-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
There is a setting on the power plan on the common tab. 'remove this item when it is no longer applied'. With that unchecked I am confident I am good to remove. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

workgroup printer recommendations

2011-04-04 Thread Bill Humphries
Hi all, So I'm looking to replace a printer that is used by a five person department. I was looking at the HP P2035n, but see some reviews bitching about Win7 drivers. What do you guys like for small workgroups that has decent Win7 drivers? I'd like to keep this under $300. This group

RE: workgroup printer recommendations

2011-04-04 Thread Glen Johnson
When we migrated our print server to 2008 R2, I put the HP Universal PCL5 driver on. X32 and 64. Best change we've made in a long time. One driver for all our HP printers. -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:39 PM To:

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Been my experience that the networking stack in esxi is pretty darn good, but it's iscsi sw ini isn't all that hot. Allowing a guest to boot from and access a san via an iscsi initiator bypasses the need for any guest discs on a clustered filesystem which vmfs is. Always been faster in the few

Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Hi everyone, Directly supporting Drobo devices is new to me - but in the past two weeks I have come to the conclusion that these things are not worth the support headaches. Particularly it seems, when dealing with DroboShare attached equipment. I'm repeatedly seeing delays, timeouts, and

Re: Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Ens
i am looking at some cheap disk archive too...looked at the drobo and the dlink but I think am going to get a Buffalo Terra pro...1U, 8TB ... On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Directly supporting Drobo devices is new to me -

RE: Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread John Cook
QNAP baby, I've come to loath the Buffalo products and their apparent inability to configure NTFS share permissions. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA

Re: Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
+1 on the buffalo comment. I have yet to try a QNap, but they do look impressive from a distance. *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:55 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote:

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-04 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Jeez… You had to send that link, didn’t you. That site’s hilarious… From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UPS won't turn on No, NOW you've seen it all.

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Damien Solodow
File Servers are a bit questionable, but for SQL/Exchange it depends on if you want to use the features of the ASMME for it. If you plan to present any VMFS from the ESX hosts though, definitely install the ESX DSM. If you do VMFS for SQL/Exchange, make sure the virtual SCSI adaptor is the

Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread John Cook
Well I've lost the battle, we're going to be spending an extraordinary amount of money for someone to do digital work in house and I need some best practices (besides sending a surge through the POE switch to that port) and caveats of anyone has any. We've adamantly declared we will do no

Re: Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Ens
Hey John Which model do you recommend? On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:55 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: QNAP baby, I’ve come to loath the Buffalo products and their apparent inability to configure NTFS share permissions. *John W. Cook* *System Administrator* *Partnership For

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Ens
I support one Mac in house, mostly because our editing software is Windows based, and it plays quite well on teh Windows network, sometimes drivers can be a hassle, but otherwsie he takes care of himself... On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Well I’ve lost the

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread N Parr
Something else you made me remember. If you plan to do MPIO at the Host level then your VMFS disks will be able to take advantage of that. EQ just had a good webex about MPIO at the host level vs. guest level a couple weeks ago, below is the recording.

Re: Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread Jonathan Link
+1 for Buffalo. I loathe our NAS device. I have only some netadmin related stuff on it, for backup purposes. It is also slow, and doesn't speak NTFS. I will also reiterate a comment I've made previously. Back when I was looking for cost effective SAN equipment, Buffalo was coming out with some

RE: Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread John Cook
We have a pair of TS-419U devices replicating to each other across the WAN. 4 drive bays, easy setup (I had one of my desktop support guys do it), compact device. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
It shouldn't cause any real problems. Put it on the network and get it to authenticate in the domain, and there should be few headaches, if any. *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-04 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today. Like you and others have pointed out, there's definitely pros and cons for either choice. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM

RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Agreed. However, one caveat: Despite a lot of claims to the contrary, Macs are not immune to malware. You should ensure that you have a good antivirus/anti-malware application installed. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin

Re: Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 4 Apr 2011 at 13:31, John Cook wrote: We have a pair of TS-419U devices replicating to each other across the WAN. 4 drive bays, easy setup (I had one of my desktop support guys do it), compact device. Anyone here had any experience with the NetGear ReadyNAS boxes of this ilk?

An interesting perspective on computing

2011-04-04 Thread Kurt Buff
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nick Selby nick.se...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 03:37 Subject: [Dailydave] Announcement: New non-commercial blog/podcast To: dailyd...@lists.immunitysec.com Hi, everyone, This is to announce the launch of a non-commercial blog and podcast

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread James Kerr
It's not that big of a deal. I've had Macs on my network for the creative guys at a previous gig. At my current employer I won the battle and all the creative guys run Windows. For the same price as a Mac you can buy a nice PC that will smoke the Mac. James On 4/4/2011 1:10 PM, John Cook

Re: OT: WiFi Repeater recommendations

2011-04-04 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 2 Apr 2011 at 16:46, Bob Hartung wrote: You don't mention what your load and application requirements are. How many PCs are at the far end of this link? Is there clear line of sight? Will you use the link for VOIP? Will the link support web access, application access. How much total

RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread John Hornbuckle
How will you handle patch management? I don't put anything on my network that I can't patch centrally. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.orgmailto:john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Well I've

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 4 Apr 2011 at 10:45, Eric Wittersheim wrote: I had a user that got this one. Vipre didn't catch it either. Vipre tech support was able to clean it quickly. Got any details on how they managed to clean it up? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
You don't really need to patch macs since they don't have vulnerabilities. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network How will you handle patch

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Follow the thread and look for a follow-up from Tammy Stewart. Most likely, she is the person who got it cleaned off the first time (at VIPRE Support). It has a link to a tool and to a page in the GFI discussion lists with another tool for fixing the damage done to the registry. As my

RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread RichardMcClary
So then, how many Macs do you p0Wn now? ;-) Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote on 04/04/2011 01:56:10 PM: You don?t really need to patch macs since they don?t have vulnerabilities. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:54

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread James Kerr
LOL On 4/4/2011 2:56 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: You don't really need to patch macs since they don't have vulnerabilities. *From:*John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 1:54 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Succumbing to the

Re: Drobo experiences

2011-04-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I used ReadyNAS some years back -- just before NetGear bought them. They were decent boxes, and came in desktop and rackmount configurations. The biggest issue is always AD integration. At the time, it wasn't all that hot. The QNap devices support iSCSI as well as some other protocols that make

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Ens
LOLyeah right, there are more updates for the one Mac, then for the rest of my network! They just don't advertise them as much. Don't get me started on all the updates for the ipad that I use...patches left and right every day On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Crawford, Scott

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Eric Wittersheim
The gentleman that fixed it brought his bag of trick (software tools) and remoted into the compter. He was going so fast that I had a hard time keeping up with all that he did. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.comwrote: On 4 Apr 2011 at 10:45, Eric

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You can patch them centrally, but not with any native tools that I am aware of... There are quite a few 3rd party options, though. *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, John

RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Indeed. We are looking at Thursby Software for this. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network You can patch them centrally, but not with any native

Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 4 Apr 2011 at 13:59, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Follow the thread and look for a follow-up from Tammy Stewart. Most likely, she is the person who got it cleaned off the first time (at VIPRE Support). It has a link to a tool and to a page in the GFI discussion lists with another tool

RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread John Hornbuckle
Not saying it's not possible-just that a PC-oriented network likely doesn't have the infrastructure. So that one Mac you bring on board now requires the implementation of an entirely separate patch management system. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Its not that they are invulnerable... but they are *nigh*-invulnerable. [regarding The Tick] He's nigh-invulnerable, he'll be ok. -Arthur -- ME2 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: You don’t really need to patch macs since they don’t have

RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
With a heart as warm as bath-water. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network Its not that they are invulnerable... but they are nigh-invulnerable.

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Bill Humphries
If it is one system, just purchase Apple Remote Desktop. It will let you remotely install software and updates. John Hornbuckle wrote: Not saying it’s not possible—just that a PC-oriented network likely doesn’t have the infrastructure. So that one Mac you bring on board now requires the

PCWorld: 'Massive' Epsilon E-Mail Breach Hits Citi, Chase, Many More

2011-04-04 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
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Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

2011-04-04 Thread Mike Leone
On 4/4/2011 12:10 PM, Cameron Cooper wrote: Download Kaspersky’s Rescue Disk and run that at boot up. Will run in either GUI or cmd line. The rescue disk will run a scan before any windows files will. I tried that once. I got as far as the Accept this license screen, and it wouldn't go

Re: PCWorld: 'Massive' Epsilon E-Mail Breach Hits Citi, Chase, Many More

2011-04-04 Thread Jonathan Link
All your client list are belong to us! I'm interested in the long term consequences of this story... On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/article/224147/massive_epsilon_email_breach_hits_citi_chase_many_more.html --

RE: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread John Aldrich
Or just install VNC on the Mac. There are several versions of VNC that work with Mac. -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

Re: Succumbing to the demand for a Mac on my network

2011-04-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Dave! On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:14, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Indeed. We are looking at Thursby Software for this. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Succumbing to the

Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 for Windows Server 2008 R2 available for public download

2011-04-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Long overdue, IMHO! Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 for Windows Server 2008 R2 available for public download http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2011/04/04/microsoft-iscsi-software-target-3-3-for-windows-server-2008-r2-available-for-public-download.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith

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