Re: Sunbelt Security Newsletter today

2011-04-21 Thread RichardMcClary
Played just fine for me! (Oh yeah, I've been running VIPRE since it came out; CSE years prior to that.) -- richard David Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote on 04/21/2011 12:25:37 AM: Just FYI, Sunbelt's newsletter dated today, issue #111, in their 'Cool Stuff' section, my Vipre throws a

RE: Just lovely...

2011-04-21 Thread N Parr
I just see thousands of breakup and divorces when people load the app to plot their locations on their significant other's device and, uh-oh! -Original Message- From: James Hill [mailto:j.h...@coffeeclub.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread itli...@imcu.com
I have a new admin that believes you don't have to sysprep machines because Mark R. from systernals wrote an article saying duplicate sid's were not an issue. He doesn't have the article for me to refute so I don't know how to answer him or tell him he is wrong? Any help would and will be

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread James Rankin
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx On 21 April 2011 13:52, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: I have a new admin that believes you don’t have to sysprep machines because Mark R. from systernals wrote an article saying duplicate sid’s were not an

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Jonathan Link
Google.. http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:52 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: I have a new admin that believes you don’t have to sysprep machines because Mark R. from systernals wrote an article saying duplicate

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread James Rankin
The most important point is probably the very last in that article *Note that Sysprep resets other machine-specific state that, if duplicated, can cause problems for certain applications like Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), so Microsoft’s support policy will still require cloned systems to

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread itli...@imcu.com
Read the article and skimmed the many many pages of comments. It is just a blog. Which is opinion not fact, right. Why would Mark state this to the public? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Posted At: Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:57 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
For several years now, Microsoft has used blogs to communicate official information. Typically, after a year or two, it makes it into technet/msdn. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent:

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread James Rankin
Mark Russinovich's opinion counts for a hell of a lot more than many facts I have read The bottom line is this - duplicate machine SIDs don't matter. As long as they are not domain-joined machines. Duplicate *domain *SIDs are BAD. And sysprep does other stuff than just SIDs. If you are cloning

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
That being said, the modern Microsoft tools hide sysprep in the background (MDT 2010 and SCCM). They are still doing them though. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21,

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Derek A Johnson
I have an idea. Fire them cause they don't know what they are talking about. go ahead and try not changing the SID and see what happens when you try to work with your machines on the domain. It causes a lot of issues that you don't want. for instance machines mysteriously being moved in ad and

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Tony Patton
Sysprep on XP doesn't reset the WSUS sid, I had to delete the registry entries for it in our image to get the cloned desktop to appear correctly in WSUS. Had to run a script against the ones that were already image to reset them. T Typed slowly on HTC Desire On 21 Apr 2011 14:48, James Rankin

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Jonathan Link
Fire them? Nice. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Derek A Johnson djohn...@realtors.orgwrote: I have an idea. Fire them cause they don't know what they are talking about. go ahead and try not changing the SID and see what happens when you try to work with your machines on the domain. It

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread David Lum
You mean NewSID, right? From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SIDs Sysprep on XP doesn't reset the WSUS sid, I had to delete the registry entries for it in our image to get the cloned desktop to appear

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread David Lum
One thing duplicate SID's do in a domain is cause problem with applying GPO's to the cloned machines - it will appear as something along the lines of unable to process Group Policy due to duplicate SID... or some such thing. I remember going through some server logs years ago and finding it was

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread James Rankin
It was added to later versions of sysprep, the WSUS reset, but I don't know whether it works on XP or not. It definitely does on 2008 R2 :-) On 21 April 2011 14:54, Tony Patton apco...@gmail.com wrote: Sysprep on XP doesn't reset the WSUS sid, I had to delete the registry entries for it in our

Re: Just lovely...

2011-04-21 Thread Kurt Buff
And I see many apps to manipulate or remove the data... On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:27, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: I just see thousands of breakup and divorces when people load the app to plot their locations on their significant other's device and, uh-oh! -Original Message-

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Tony Patton
Nope, sysprep with the generate new sid option. T Typed slowly on HTC Desire On 21 Apr 2011 14:56, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: You mean NewSID, right? From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SIDs

RE: VMWare/iSCSI question

2011-04-21 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Good question, it avgs just under 1.0 for the duration of the test. The odd thing is that writes remain 90+ MB/s... so that would imply the network segments are configured correctly... I also added a second iSCSI LUN and used the Win2K3 iSCSI initiator and the performance is even MORE

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread itli...@imcu.com
Ok. So non-domain, same sid is ok. Domain, same sid is bad. And mostly because managed type software, WSUS, Virus scanning software, policy enforcement, and such may sometimes use the machine sid as an identifier. Does that sum it up. From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Posted

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread David Lum
Correct. IIRC a systems' domain ID = MachineSID + DomainSID, so anything that relies on the systems domain ID will have issues with identical machine SID's. Dave From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SIDs

RE: Need help with Exchange 2007 / OL2010 Calendaring issue

2011-04-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
Droid 2.2.0 has known problems with EAS. Fixed in either 2.2.2 or 2.2.3, I can't remember which. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Jeff Bunting
WSUS uses its own ID. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\SusClientId Not sure if some/all versions of sysprep reset this or not. Jeff On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:12 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Ok. So non-domain, same sid is ok.

RE: Windows 7 Management tools webcast

2011-04-21 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Ditto. -sc From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 Management tools webcast Thanks TVK I'll be there as will some of my minions. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Crawford, Scott
I believe this will reset the wsus sid as well. wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SIDs Sysprep on XP doesn't reset the WSUS sid, I had to delete the registry entries

Re: Microsoft fail..

2011-04-21 Thread Sean Martin
I'm pretty sure I've run across similiar scenarios using a Windows XP client to research Windows 2008 R2 issues. At least Microsoft is discriminating equally... - Sean On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:13 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Has anyone seen this before? *From:* Kris Laib

Re: Microsoft fail..

2011-04-21 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Wow How would anyone think that this would server a purpose to a knowledge base... or to anything for that matter... W-T-F What's the link to that article? I'd *love* to know what Microsoft is excluding you from seeing... -- ME2 On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:13 AM, David Lum

RE: Microsoft fail..

2011-04-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
   I'd *love* to know what Microsoft is excluding you from seeing... I'd like to hope the lame fix it for me stuff only. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

Re: Microsoft fail..

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew S. Baker
That's what I believe is impacted. They still provide all the data... *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... * On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I'd

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Don't think so, that just purges the cookie for group membership/client targeting and then tells it to check in and detect updates. Gotta hit the registry keys to to reset the wsus sid. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:11 PM To: NT System

RE: Microsoft fail..

2011-04-21 Thread David Lum
Not fix it for me http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934016 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349 Dave From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft fail.. That's what I

Re: Microsoft fail..

2011-04-21 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
ooo, the burn-ability of assumptions... Curse you Odin! -- ME2 On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:24 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Not “fix it for me” http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934016 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349 Dave *From:* Andrew S. Baker

AWS goes down

2011-04-21 Thread Jay Dale
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Amazon-failure-takes-down-apf-2858263645.html?x=0.v=3 Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator Unetek, Inc. Phone: 281.574.2414 Email:jd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential

OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread RichardMcClary
Greetings! Our VoIP system was set up with a stack of Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches handling the VLAN-ing. It is also the default gateway for both VLANs. We have a major ISP upgrade coming. We've been told it will be necessary to configure Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) on our gateway... At

Re: Microsoft fail..

2011-04-21 Thread Sean Martin
Hmmm...those appear to be different Tips than what you originally posted. When viewed from a Windows XP client, I see: This article applies to a different version of windows than the one you are using. Content in this artcile may not be relevant to you. I don't have a non-windows client to test

Re: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Don Ely
Probably need to upgrade your IOS to the enterprise version without any other details. On Apr 21, 2011 11:48 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! Our VoIP system was set up with a stack of Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches handling the VLAN-ing. It is also the default gateway for both

RE: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
You have 3750's at your network edge? That, while not impossible, seems unlikely. But the real question is whether you are running an EMI image or an SMI image. EMI is required for OSPF. Take a gander here:

Re: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Phil Brutsche
Catalyst 3750 switches most certainly support OSPF, if you have the right feature set. OSPF is not present in IP Base. You need to run IP Services to get OSPF. On 4/21/2011 1:47 PM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! Our VoIP system was set up with a stack of Cisco Catalyst 3750

RE: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Brian Desmond
The bigger question to me is why you're running OSPF with your ISP? OSPF is meant to be an internal routing protocol where-as BGP is an external facing one. What's your ISP/WAN connectivity look like in this refresh? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c

RE: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Mayo, Bill
I agree with what previous posters said, but would add that having OSPF available in the IOS is not the same as having it configured. In other words, if you have not already configured it, I would not expect that any show type commands that reference it would work (until it is configured). I may

Re: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Don Ely
They run, they just don't give you any results because there are no results to be given... The error he got meant that OSPF wasn't even an available feature set... On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.govwrote: I agree with what previous posters said, but would add

RE: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've seen OSPF in MPLS configurations with smaller ISPs. I don't know how common it is though. Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from ATT From: Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Don Ely
That would be the only scenario I can see this being applicable. On Apr 21, 2011 1:06 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I've seen OSPF in MPLS configurations with smaller ISPs. I don't know how common it is though. Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from ATT

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Level 5 Lists
Well the last time I accidentally connected 5 xp ghosted computers onto a domain I had all kinds of issues. We had issues with authentication, enumerating domain accounts would revert to Unknowns (like Domain Admins in the local Administrators group) and all kinds of weirdness. We troubleshot

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Crawford, Scott
Im not going to try it anytime soon Kinda like his method of running windows with no services :) http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2005/07/24/running-windows-with-no-services.aspx Where you'll find decidedly un-Russinovich-like advice such as... Because Process Explorer shows

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Crawford, Scott
Ahh. Makes sense, thx. Is the reverse true? Will killing the registry key cause it to trigger a resetauthorization too? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SIDs Don't think so, that just purges

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I'm sure no one doubts the expertise of MR, but a lot of that article is academics vs. the real world. In the real world you are likely going to deal with an issue and/or have inflated logs. All of which depends on your environment. As with many things, context is everything,. -- ME2 On

RE: OSPF on Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch?

2011-04-21 Thread Brian Desmond
Yeah - I remember that too form when I did CCNP. I don't really remember how it works though. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: RE: Need help with Exchange 2007 / OL2010 Calendaring issue

2011-04-21 Thread Jonathan
Thanks. Having the user check into what version they are on. I tried googling, but didn't really find anything concrete. Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Apr 21, 2011

Re: AWS goes down

2011-04-21 Thread Sam Cayze
You should see what the Reddit admins have been saying for ages about the Amazon services. They have been pretty shy about publicly shaming Amazon for the bad experiences they have with them, however they do post their frustrations in some of the conversations on the site. They are beginning to

RE: AWS goes down

2011-04-21 Thread Rod Trent
You knew this had to happen a few times before providers get serious about their clouds. Amazon will make changes that will improve their offering. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AWS goes down You

Re: AWS goes down

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew S. Baker
+1000 And other, smart cloud providers will make these decisions in advance, learning from the Amazon situation. *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... * On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Rod Trent

RE: Misconfigured Apple?

2011-04-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
Exchange version? Apple version for those two attorneys? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Misconfigured Apple? I have

Re: Misconfigured Apple?

2011-04-21 Thread Mike Sullivan
Could they both be on an early version of iOS4? http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/07/01/3410271.aspx On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have a small law firm about 20 people. A handful of them are using ipads, iphones , macbooks etc ..

RE: Misconfigured Apple?

2011-04-21 Thread Rod Trent
Have those 2 attorneys reported problems with their devices? From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Misconfigured Apple? Could they both be on an early version of iOS4?

RE: Misconfigured Apple?

2011-04-21 Thread Level 5 Lists
No complaints, from the IIS logs this just started happening what looks like about 8 days ago.. maybe an ipad2? Im looking into it tomorrow as this was my initial thought. Its sbs2003 with all the service packs From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:36

Re: Exactly what I've been worrying about...

2011-04-21 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
How long until the first copier-busting app? On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Not just the iPhone - Androids, too. http://thenextweb.com/us/2011/04/20/us-police-can-copy-your-iphones-contents-in-under-two-minutes/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

Re: Exactly what I've been worrying about...

2011-04-21 Thread Kurt Buff
Quite a while, I suspect. I'd guess that encrypting the phone is going to be a very difficult proposition, if you want the phone to actually work. Something like Good's GFE would be useful, but it doesn't cover a lot of what can be slurped by this device. About the only thing I can think of (and