Re: Fiber splice question

2011-10-04 Thread Jonathan
+1 Cisco makes them, but I've never seen one from anywhere else. They are intended to go from a terminated fiber end to a transceiver of the alternate type. My understanding is that the fiber has to be offset very specifically for it to worknot something I would consider very practical in the

Re: Torpig/Anserin/Mebroot infection

2011-10-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
anyone want to tell him about an SMTP gateway ? On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:14 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: We don't have a mail server here. Our ISP hosts our email for us, so yeah, we do allow SMTP out. I wonder if there's a way to force all port 25 traffic to one IP in

RE: Something hilarious to start your weeks off.

2011-10-04 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
At a previous job, we would play an FPS game during our lunch hour, this game had the ability to add bots and we could set the expertise level of the bots to be whatever we wanted, and also name the bots. We had a bot that was set at an expert level named A Five Year Old Girlwhenever

intermedia.net hosted exchange, to google apps?

2011-10-04 Thread justino garcia
Any recomend, or taken the leap from intermedia.net hosted exchagne, to google apps -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

Re: Modern equivalent to BGinfo

2011-10-04 Thread James Rankin
I still use the old bginfo 2011/10/4 Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com Hey guys, Anyone use something to print stats to a desktop about a server such as ip etc thats up to date with 2008r2 etc similar to the old bginfo? I have a series of lab boxes this could be helpful with...

Re: Modern equivalent to BGinfo

2011-10-04 Thread Steve Ens
We use this one http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557 2011/10/4 Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com Hey guys, Anyone use something to print stats to a desktop about a server such as ip etc thats up to date with 2008r2 etc similar to the old bginfo? I have a

Re: intermedia.net hosted exchange, to google apps?

2011-10-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Yes http://www.brainwavecc.com/TechDocs/MoreInfo.html. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:55 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Any recomend, or taken the leap from intermedia.net

RE: Modern equivalent to BGinfo

2011-10-04 Thread Randal, Phil
I use backinfo.exe, which works happily on 2008 R2: http://blogs.technet.com/b/johnbaker/archive/2006/02/15/419644.aspx Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Infrastructure Engineer NHS Herefordshire Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T. Services Division Thorn Office

Re: Modern equivalent to BGinfo

2011-10-04 Thread James Rankin
I've never noticed an issue with bginfo on 2008 R2. I deployed it to a load of test users earlier this year without any bother. I did have to do a bit of registry hacking to get around the EULA, but apart from that it worked fine. Am I missing something? On 4 October 2011 16:07, Randal, Phil

RE: Modern equivalent to BGinfo

2011-10-04 Thread Brad DeHart
I use it regularly on all my 2008 R2 systems with no issues. No registry hack is needed for the EULA. Here's the shortcut I place in the All Users Startup folder of every server - \\domain.name\netlogon\Bginfo.exe \\domain.name\netlogon\bgdetails.bgi /nolicprompt /timer:0 Thanks, Brad

Re: Modern equivalent to BGinfo

2011-10-04 Thread kz20fl
I used the registry key autopopulated for that switch in my base profile, that's the registry jiggery-pokery that was flitting upon the corners of my mind Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: Brad DeHart

Re: Modern equivalent to BGinfo

2011-10-04 Thread Steven Peck
Adding yet another to using BGInfo for years. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Brad DeHart br...@khs-net.com wrote: I use it regularly on all my 2008 R2 systems with no issues. No registry hack is needed for the EULA. Here’s the shortcut I place in the All Users Startup folder of every

RE: Modern equivalent to BGinfo

2011-10-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
That util just rocks, very much appreciated! From: Steve Ens [stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Modern equivalent to BGinfo We use this one

Sites I found useful in tracking what malware is coming from particular IPs, to help update your Access lists, IPS

2011-10-04 Thread Ziots, Edward
http://xml.ssdsandbox.net/ip?ip=(IP of offending system) http://www.xandora.net/xangui/malware/search/?by=ipkeyword=(IP of offending system) Has been really good to see what is coming from the sites, so I can quantify my IPS traffic better and add in additional controls. Hope it helps

Re: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
GnuPG: http://gnupg.org In a package, even: http://www.gpg4win.org/ * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote: Have a customer that is needing to encrypt

Re: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:06, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote: Have a customer that is needing to encrypt his signature.  The organization wants it in PKCS#7, any suggestions on programs or ideas to get it done today..   They do not want to create a PKI infrastructure locally. Thx What

RE: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Paul Hutchings
I'm not sure quite what you mean by encrypy his signature, but if you mean he needs to digitally encrypt/sign his emails, you should be able to just go get a trial or paid email certificate from most of the SSL folks. I know Globalsign do trial certs. From: Greg Sweers

Re: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Don Ely
http://www.google.com/search?q=free+email+certificatessourceid=ie7rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Addressie=oe = On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote: Have a customer that is needing to encrypt his signature. The organization wants it in PKCS#7, any suggestions

RE: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Greg Sweers
Its an Italian Medical organization that has him login, create an account, setup the information about his organization and then downloads a file to his desktop that he has to encrypt with their requirements. Once he does that he can then upload documents to their system for review... Haven't

RE: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
As previously stated: GnuPG should do the trick. -Original Message- From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 2:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Needing to encrypt a file Its an Italian Medical organization that has him login, create

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Jonathan Link
Since it's ridiculously easy to stand up a server I see no reason to do an inplace upgrade ever[1]. Assuming your licensing is in shape, stand up a new VM, get it ready, transition services, and then decommission the old VM. [1] Licensing is the issue in this matter, if you're out of licenses

Re: Cisco Anyconnect requesting admin elevation on Windows 7

2011-10-04 Thread Candee
I never ran into this specific issue, but I had other complaints. I finally ditched it. I use the regular Cisco client now - version 5.0 On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:23 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Have any of you guys run into this and if so, how did you make it to a standard user

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Paul Hutchings
We're already on Datacenter so licensing isn't an issue. Based on past experience I'm with you on it, but it's always worth a sanity check as if enough people tell me I'm living in the past and it's a non-issue these days, I'll listen. From: Jonathan Link

Re: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Either GnuPG or OpenPGP might do that. Kurt On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:26, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote: Its an Italian Medical organization that has him login, create an account, setup the information about his organization and then downloads a file to his desktop that he has to

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread John Cook
I've never had a good long term experience with an upgrade of any type. That being said you can't go from 32 bit to 64 bit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979563(WS.10).aspx John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I've always advised against in-place upgrades. I've done more than a few, and the only ones that went really well long term were the ones where I had built and maintained the original box myself, and then done the upgrade. A clean upgrade, when you can plan for it, it always better, IMO, unless

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Even licensing may not be a major issue if you can migrate from the old to the new fast enough. Just don't activate the new until you've decommissioned the old. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Ralph Smith
As stated already my first choice is always to do a fresh install, but just as a note I have done a few in place upgrades with no problems. I had one Windows NT server that had an old accounting app on it that was still required. Installed before I got here, no installation disks and the company

RE: Cisco Anyconnect requesting admin elevation on Windows 7

2011-10-04 Thread Bob Fronk
Had to ditch Anyconnect as well. Lots of Windows 7 issues. Would work for one user, but not another with same notebook and software. We do think it was permission related but no fix was ever found. The newest versions of the standard Cisco VPN client work well for us. (As Candee mentioned

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread kz20fl
IIRC, an upgrade from NT4 was the only way you could get Windows 2000 servers to not run IIS by default. That's probably the only reason I've ever used to upgrade, if I'm not totally mistaken and thinking of something completely different (was a long time ago) Sent from my POS BlackBerry

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Bob Fronk
Assuming there is some need to move the VM to 2008 that is motivating this, I would just stand up a new server. You would want to use 2008R2 and you can't do a 32bit - 64bit upgrade anyway. I have a few VMs that were migrated P2V that are running 2003 and will probably continue to run 2003

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Paul Hutchings
I'm starting to detect a theme in the responses New servers it is then. Licensing isn't an issue and I know you can't upgrade from 32bit to 64bit so at some point they would need to be rebuilt anyway. Thanks all. From: Bob Fronk [b...@btrfronk.com] Sent:

Re: Cisco Anyconnect requesting admin elevation on Windows 7

2011-10-04 Thread Peter van Houten
With 5.0, do you loose [other] network connectivity? As in when the client fires up, network printing, browsing, etc. disappear. -- Peter van Houten On the 04/10/2011 21:09, Candee wrote the following: I never ran into this specific issue, but I had other complaints. I finally ditched it.

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Sam Cayze
Since it practically takes a button push to deploy a fresh OS, I always stick with that. Eg, Templates in Virtualization, or Syspreped images, etc. That and the warm, fuzzy feeling you get with a new OS install. It's like getting a new kitten. From: Paul Hutchings

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread David Lum
It's like getting a new kitten. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences? Since it practically takes a button push to deploy a fresh OS, I always stick with that. Eg,

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Jonathan Link
Then they get old and poop in unexpected places. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:07 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: “ It’s like getting a new kitten.” ** ** *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:*

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread David Lum
Like people From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences? Then they get old and poop in unexpected places. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:07 PM, David Lum

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Jonathan Link
And hairballsforgot to mention the hairballs. People don't (usually) have those. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Like people ** ** *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:28 PM *To:* NT System

RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Bob Fronk
Well that depends on how much p... Oh never mind, wrong list for that. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences? And hairballsforgot to mention the

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Jon Harris
The one and only time I tired to upgrade a server was 2003 to 2008 and there were so many quirks in the upgraded machine I just rebuilt the machine. It was a VM if that matters. Jon On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.ukwrote: We're already on Datacenter so

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread kz20fl
P2V is pretty much the same, I avoid it wherever possible. I've seen far too many P2V'ed citrix servers. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:18:54 To: NT

Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?

2011-10-04 Thread Jon Harris
I have done a few P2V for machines that really could not be rebuilt did not like it either but last I heard they were still available to be run if needed. The hardware was just too old and too far out of date to keep the machines any other way. The original software developer quit the company

RE: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Greg Sweers
Are these programs assuming that I have a certificate already... I got nailed by a customer for an all day sit down on some new stuff they are doing and this got put on my after dinner plate. :) I am about to read the manual, but any insight here. I don’t have the largest background on PKI..

Re: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote: Are these programs assuming that I have a certificate already... GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) implements the OpenPGP standard. You can generate your own certificate (keypair) locally. Indeed, in classic PGP, this is the way it

RE: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Greg Sweers
Thanks Ben, I have the basics on private/public key and generating your own key, but I think they are wanting it verified by a CA. I posted the requirements below to make it easier and eliminate the barrier (me) from the actual need.. We used to handle about 300 people worldwide utilizing

Re: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
+1000 * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote: Are these programs assuming that I

Re: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 18:06, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote: snip but I think they are wanting it verified by a CA. snip Verify this. Have a nice long telephone conversation with writing utensil at hand, and document what is said. Then send your understanding via email to your opposite

RE: Needing to encrypt a file

2011-10-04 Thread Greg Sweers
Thx Kurt, that’s good advice. I meet with the business owner tomorrow to discuss this project so I should have more details afterwards. Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.com P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL  33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff

RE: Load Balancers?

2011-10-04 Thread Lists - Level Five
We have a few Kemp load balancers for TS and they work seamlessly . Setup in less than an hour . never touch them unless taking a server out of production and need to re-weight . Obviously TS is easier than a whole exchange setup .. From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Monday,

RE: Ticket System: Recommendations, Blackberry App Ticket Support

2011-10-04 Thread Lists - Level Five
We are using a hosted help desk system now, but up until then we were using WebCenter+ , was pretty easy to setup and just uses an SQL or MDB config ... does inventory (not tracking/scanning) and has a web enabled option which is just a 320x240 version of the website. Also has a simple crm and