Ah - you are right.
I was thinking of Loopback Checking: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926642
rather than Strict Name Checking: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281308
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 30 September 2011 3:52
I have a farm of thirty XenApp servers. They all are clones, running the
same applications and desktops, same patch levels, same GPOs, everything.
However - one server consistently displays significantly lower memory usage
than the rest. All the other servers peak at about 85% usage with around
Never mind. I found the difference just as soon as I hit Send :-(
Someone has *drastically *increased the paging file size on my
over-performing server
On 30 September 2011 15:02, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have a farm of thirty XenApp servers. They all are clones, running
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:08 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
Someone has drastically increased the paging file size on my over-performing
server
For the record, care to define drastically? :)
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Slightly more than doubled it
On 30 September 2011 15:18, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:08 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Someone has drastically increased the paging file size on my
over-performing
server
For the record, care to
Another reason this list rocks, sometimes sending mail here helps one fix it
themselves.
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 7:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mysterious memory issue
Never mind. I found the difference just as soon as
Seems to happen a lot to me. Maybe writing everything down makes me realise
what I missed :-)
On 30 September 2011 15:28, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Another reason this list rocks, sometimes sending mail here helps one fix
it themselves.
** **
*From:* James Rankin
Invariably, I don't even hit send.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:28 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Another reason this list rocks, sometimes sending mail here helps one fix
it themselves.
** **
*From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
*Sent:* Friday, September 30,
Well, almost invariably... :)
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 9:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mysterious memory issue
Invariably, I don't even hit send.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:28 AM, David Lum
My apologies but I really should have mentioned something else.
HUGE thanks to Michael B. Smith for his help in helping me learn enough about
PowerShell to write that huge script. And a super huge thanks to James Rankin
for going beyond the call of duty in testing the script.
Thanks
Carl
Top work, it was educational doing a bit of testing for you too, finally
convinced me to bite the bullet and start learning a bit of PS
Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any
moment
-Original Message-
From: Webster webs...@carlwebster.com
Date: Fri,
Somebody reset/forgot the password and we can't log in.
There is only one Domain Administrator account (administrator) and we can't
log in.
How can I reset this password?
--
-cynicalgeek-
cynicalgeekatgmail.com
--
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com wrote:
Somebody reset/forgot the password and we can't log in.
There is only one Domain Administrator account (administrator) and we can't
log in.
How can I reset this password?
Call Microsoft Product Support Services.
--
With a credit card in hand... It'll be the best $250 you spend.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Somebody reset/forgot the password and we can't log in.
There is only one
Touchè.
Although, my intent was, that when I have a problem, I start drafting a
message. I then figure it out while drafting the message, and then just
discard it. It seems to happen so often that it does seem invariable. One
or two might sneak through.
And snarky commentary doesn't count.
Hey! I thought snarky commentary was my job?
- WJR
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:25, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:
Touchè.
Although, my intent was, that when I have a problem, I start drafting a
message. I then figure it out while drafting the message, and then just
discard
It's a responsibility we all take seriously?
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:50 AM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote:
Hey! I thought snarky commentary was my job?
- WJR
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:25, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:
Touchè.
Although, my intent was,
To quote ASB...Indeed.
- WJR
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:54, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:
It's a responsibility we all take seriously?
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:50 AM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote:
Hey! I thought snarky commentary was my job?
- WJR
On
Seems unlikely to me, but without knowing the nature of the issues it's hard to
say. Are they Outlook issues? Does the vendor think the encryption is
interfering with cached Exchange mode?
Ben M. Schorr
Chief Executive Officer
__
Roland Schorr
Rather than remove it, surely the outsourcer should work with Symantec to
identify and resolve the issue? Its hardly a product that's a) unpopular or b)
not useful, and in most cases it will be very necessary
Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any
moment
Without any additional info it may, or may not be insane. With what you've
told us it's pretty difficult to comment tbh.
From: David Lum [david@nwea.org]
Sent: 30 September 2011 5:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Outsourcing Exchange
Our outsourcing
We have a winner. Apparently the .OST's get easily corrupted on machines that
have PGP and calendaring meetings, etc, goes haywire [1]
[1]Haywire defined as it's on my calendar and not yours, or when I modify it I
see both versions (or maybe just the latest, sometimes) but yours only sees one
That's crazy and amazingly, an overlooked step until you suggested it, thanks!
Dave shaking head at overlooking the obvious Lum
From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 9:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Outsourcing Exchange
Rather
What OS? If it's Win7, what's the cost differential between using the
PGP product vs. Win7 Enterprise/Ultimate and Bitlocker?
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:03, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Our outsourcing vendor has identified PGP’s Whole Disk Encryption as a major
contributing factor to
Well, maybe so. I've never had any problems with the OST's on my whole-disk
encrypted TrueCrypt systems. But I don't use PGP so maybe there's something
special going on there. Then again I've been supporting Outlook/Exchange for
the better part of 16 years and I can't recall ever hearing of a
We have talked about Bitlocker, but there's no guarantee that will be any
better. Heck our Exchange provider didn't know PGP was an issue, and 'll bet
PGP is more prevalent than Bitlocker.
We're being steered to Win7/Office 2010/Remove PGP as all being needed to help
resolve these issues. At
I prefer FDE hard drives for the simple reason that there can't be a software
conflict with the encryption.
Probably not too practical or cost effective though.
From: David Lum [david@nwea.org]
Sent: 30 September 2011 5:45 PM
To: NT System Admin
MDT 2010 Update 1 can handle that for you, pretty darned easily.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
This is my non-professional but completely candid response:
hhbbb.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
*blush*
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: PowerShell script to document a Citrix XenApp 6 Farm
My apologies but I
So if I said Hey team, let's run with this, how many FTE hours do you
estimate would it take to spool this up and spit it out to the first 50
victi...err...users from soup to nuts?
1. Download toolkit
2. Install MDT 2010
3. Figure out how to make it work using light-touch (no SCCM, we're back
I'm trying to figure what was unprofessional about it... :)
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 9:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outsourcing Exchange
This is my non-professional but completely candid response:
Assuming a healthy AD, steps 1 - 4 are less than 3 days of work. (I have
students do this in two labs in my Desktop Transformation course, and they get
through it in 2 days, including spending several hours with ImageX, DISM, and
WinPE; but I'd throw in a day up front for discovery and
Now; that being said - the challenge with desktop transformation tends to be
application compatibility. I have clients where MSFT office plus a few web apps
are 100% of their applications.
That may not apply to you.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
Could you not use Peter Nordahl's password reset to reset the SAM-based
password that's needed for Directory Services Restore Mode?
And once in DSRM, use this procedure to reset a domain admin password:
http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain_admin_password_in_windows_server_2003_ad.
htm
Haven't
Coming into this late.
We have PGP WDE and use Outlook 2007. I've never had any corrupted OSTs
like this. We are not outsourced, so that could conceivably be a factor,
but I'm really having trouble seeing it. Doesn an OST behave so diffrently
when the host server is in the cloud, rather than
We never ran into an issue until we outsourced. We had PGP WDE and Office 2007
for over a year w/ no issue, as soon as we outsourced and relied on .OST
files...poof...
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
I still don't see how WDE is the culprit here. Whether Exchange is local or
not, the OST is getting updated constantly, no? With a hosted environment
those changes just get replicated on a less frequent interval than with
Exchange in the local environment.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:34 PM,
I don't believe it is the culprit.
I've architected, built, designed, run, and maintained six different hosted
Exchange environments over the last 12 years - none of them cared ONE SINGLE
JOT NOR TITTLE whether whole disk encryption was in use or not.
WDE (whether TrueCrypt, PGP, or BitLocker)
The argument is that WDE is accessing the disk making Windows wait for it.
However, this would show up in a perfmon trace wouldn't it? PGP wouldn't show
anywhere but if an under the OS process is tying up the disk and Windows apps
are waiting wouldn't Windows perfmon see that as excessive queue
Jonathan, how big is your org?
Dave
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Outsourcing Exchange
I still don't see how WDE is the culprit here. Whether Exchange is local or
not, the OST is getting
Of course, they're making the argument?
If WDE were accessing the disk all the time when it was on, I'd expect
slower performance on everything. I just don't see it. The only
performance hit comes when it is encrypting/decrypting.
Were you using PSTs before? And just to be clear, we have been
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
The argument is that WDE is accessing the disk making Windows wait for it.
That's just dumb. In that scenario, WDE is functionally identical
to a slow hard disk. That doesn't lead to corrupt files. (Well,
unless the user
Check that your local AV isn't grabbing the OST file?
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:28 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
The argument is that WDE is accessing the disk making Windows wait for it.
However, this would show up in a perfmon trace wouldn’t it? PGP wouldn’t
show anywhere but if
While we do have the much maligned McAfee, I do have exclusions set up,
including paging files, PST and OST files, etc. We're not seeing CPU grabs of
files which is the most common (but still infrequent) issue we see with McAfee.
From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday,
Is there an add-in?
Also, Acrobat Add-ins for Outlook seem to have hit several of my users this
week, for some odd reason (no updates applied to cause new behavior).
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:25 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
While we do have the much maligned McAfee, I do have
Still not making sense to me here.
Any user in AD can bind to a DC with valid creds. No extra permissions needed.
This dedicated bind account though, what does it do?
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132
From: Joseph L. Casale
It's not my choice, it's the way the software works.
So many opensource ldap based apps sh!t the bed in that respect. If you're
checking for a user, let -that user- initiate the bind, if he can't even do
than clearly he shouldn't get access, but most are designed to use one hard
coded account
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