Re: Sort of a big day - could have been slam dunk...

2012-01-23 Thread Webster
I have seen customers have the same issues with Crucial RAM on Dell R410 and R710. Dell memory worked perfectly but the Crucial RAM constantly gave them blue screens and random lockups. I personally have never had an issue with Crucial RAM before and neither had the customer. Carl Webster

SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Accounts during setup

2012-01-23 Thread Graeme Carstairs
HI There, I have been asked by our DBA to set-up a VM for each of some SQL servers on our VMWare farm. The SQL instances are to be used as 1 SharePoint 2 Management services such as AV, LanDesk ETc 2 Lync Now its been a while since I installed SQL and 2008 R2 asks about a whole heap of

RE: SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Accounts during setup

2012-01-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I asked the DBa and he says just go with whatevers normal. Useful not. Depends on how you will access the instance and what you need to do. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281953.aspx Quick read that explains it... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~

Re: Sort of a big day - could have been slam dunk...

2012-01-23 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Learning is fun, eh? Think of all the new questions you have obtained for interview purposes. (Or answers, depending on your perspective) Good stuff -- thanks for sharing. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Mon, Jan

RE: Sort of a big day - could have been slam dunk...

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Good going and thanks for the report. One thing for future consideration: you probably cannot reproduce all customer's hardware in your lab, however you could've completely reproduced the software environment and ran through that process before you were on customer site. Note: after doing

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
I prefer Lansweeper for Inventory and Information, you can write your own SQL queries to make your own reports and it's Free / Cheap. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 7:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Kennedy, Jim
We were a big fan of it but had to replace it. It just couldn't handle the size of our inventory and I threw a lot of hardware at it trying to get it to work. So if you are a smaller sized org or won't be using the inventory it is a wonderful product. -Original Message- From: Jay Kulsh

RE: did i screw up? need to fix fast

2012-01-23 Thread David Lum
Yes. I used to think snapshots were the bomb, now I treat them as use only when necessary and get rid of 'em as fast as you can. IMO snapshots increase disaster recovery complexity, and when doing DR the last thing you want is more complexity :-). Dave delete 'em as soon as is feasible Lum

RE: Sort of a big day - could have been slam dunk...

2012-01-23 Thread David Lum
Good point, although since I had never seen this issue and in my home lab and have done several 2008 R2 builds in it with my Action Pack R2 ISO's, it simply hadn't occurred that their .ISO with SP1 would be any different - hence my post to this list so someone else doesn't go through my

RE: SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Accounts during setup

2012-01-23 Thread ed ziots
For the core SQL services, you are going to have a user account per service, so you are running in least context. I would assume ( since I have not worked with sharepoint or its install, that maybe a seperate instance, for Sharepoint and LUN's and the standard DB's will be on the default

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Ben M. Schorr
I've heard that as well. We've never tried to use SpiceWorks in a particularly large org, but one of my clients did and found that it started to stumble when they grew too large. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower

RE: SQL servers and DBA's

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've got large clients that do it both ways. IN GENERAL, I would say that the large clients who have competent and thoughtful DBAs tend to provide them with local admin, and those that don't - don't. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From:

RE: SQL servers and DBA's

2012-01-23 Thread ed ziots
No Seperation of duties, SQL DBA's are sysadmin on the DB instances, and Server folks are admins on the OS. Mileage varies from place to place. Z Edward E. Ziots Senior Informational Security Engineer CISSP,Security +,Network+ From: david@nwea.org To:

Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Webster
My TechNet license keys work for both. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Todd Lemmiksoo tlemmik...@gmail.commailto:tlemmik...@gmail.com Reply-To: NT Issues

Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Accounts during setup

2012-01-23 Thread Graeme Carstairs
I thought something like that, The MS Page is not very helpful surprise surprise, I will spin up a couple of VM's in my Sandbox and test it out, including mirroring to see I fI can get that to work. Thanks Graeme On 23 January 2012 14:30, ed ziots ezi...@hotmail.com wrote: For the core

RE: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread John Cook
Kroll OnTrack, not cheap but very good. John W. Cook Network Manager 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, MCVP From: Thomas Mullins [mailto:tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us]

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Manuel Santos
You can try to recover the failled Linux using a nice freeware program called TestDisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Regards Manuel 2012/1/23 Thomas Mullins tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us Could someone recommend a good data recovery shop? We need to pull some data off an old 40 GB SCSI

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread John Cook
We don't have the Office Suite but we do have Visio 2010 and there doesn't seem to be any differentiation between 32 and 64 bit keys. John W. Cook Network Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I,

RE: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Yep... what he said. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Data recovery Kroll OnTrack, not cheap but very good. John W. Cook Network Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place

RE: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Mullins
Thanks Manuel, I tried TestDisk from the UltimateBOOT CD. But it could not recover that partition. Shane From: Manuel Santos [mailto:nel...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Data recovery You can try to recover the failled Linux using

RE: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Mullins
Thanks John. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Data recovery Kroll OnTrack, not cheap but very good. John W. Cook Network Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Mathew Shember
I did a quick look at the volume license site and it only has one key. Thanks, Mathew From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit We don't have the Office Suite

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Ben M. Schorr
I believe so, yes. Ben M. Schorr Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.comhttp://www.rolandschorr.com | www.officeforlawyers.comhttp://www.officeforlawyers.com | Twitter: @bschorr From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:40 To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
The situation is .. I bought Office 2010 for home and thought I had ordered 64 bit, received 32 bit which I did not notice until after installing. The DVD did not indicated which version was on it. I have no problem uninstalling Office and installing the 64 bit version. Just wanted to know if

RE: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Richard McClary
I once recovered data from a bad partition by: 1. Actually installing a linux distro on a PC 2. Mounting the drive with the failed partition as an external Like I said, once... -- richard From: Thomas Mullins [mailto:tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:46 AM

Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast

2012-01-23 Thread Cameron
And *this* would be why I love this list! I had thought it took a complete snapshot and that was itso now I've just gone through getting rid of my old snapshots. Thanks all! On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:17 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Yes. I used to think snapshots were the bomb,

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
I use photorec from rescuecd  and works pretty well for NTFS filesystems Miguel De: Thomas Mullins tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us Para: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Enviado: Lunes 23 de enero de 2012 16:46 Asunto: RE: Data recovery

Re: SQL servers and DBA's

2012-01-23 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I've had the privilege of working with very competent -- and even stellar -- DBAs, and so virtually all of those environments have operated as MBS outlined below. A few have done it as Ed outlines in his email. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Art DeKneef
The key works with either one. But I would think twice about uninstalling 32-bit Office 2010 and installing 64-bit Office 2010. You need to think about the programs and add-ins that you are using or might use with Office 2010. A lot of them will not work with the 64-bit version. Nothing more

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread John Cook
I've heard that Outlook 2010 64bit has some issues, particularly with mobile devices. YMMV John W. Cook Network Manager 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, MCVP

RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
Very bummed about GMC we use it here to give BES like functionality to some android devices I'm very surprised they're doing away with it, unless they have some sort of BES killer up and coming From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've found the 64-bit capability in Excel invaluable. But then again, I'd rather do data analysis in Excel than writing complex sql queries, because I know how to use Excel better. :) I only lost two add-ins, one in Outlook (which the MAPILabs folks were happy to fix up for me) and one in Word

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Like what? Details, details! (I've been running Outlook 2010 x64 since it was in pre-beta.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
They support Exchange ActiveSync, just like everyone else. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

Update to Events Shell / event log query tool

2012-01-23 Thread Steve Kradel
Hi List, Just a quick announcement that the free Events Shell tool from Zetetic has received an update that makes it dramatically faster for Windows 2003. Here’s the short list: * Proactive check of the OS version for compatibility with the 2008+ Event Log system * Much more efficient mechanism

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Ben M. Schorr
I use the 64-bit version on my desktop and 32-bit version on my laptop. Both work o.k. but again, add-ins do have to be written specifically for the 64-bit version. That will impact some folks more than others. I haven't noticed any obvious performance differences in the 64-bit version but I

Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Webster
I like using Excel 2010 x64 when I have to process netlogon.log files with millions of entries. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Michael Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com Reply-To: NT

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread John Cook
Issues with ITunes, issues with 32 bit MAPI apps, Windows Mobile Device Center.. John W. Cook Network Manager 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, MCVP From:

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Roger Wright
I used the services from www.drivesavers.com several months back. Not cheap, but very professional and expedient. Roger Wright ___ Polarvoid: The state of having no baby pictures, a condition that usually befalls the second-born child. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Mullins

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Reimer, Mark
What numbers are we talking about (becoming too large, or from Jim (below), smaller sized org)? Thanks. Mark -Original Message- From: Ben M. Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Sam Cayze
Our CRM add-on (Sage SalesLogix) does not work on Outlook 2010 x64. Forced me replace 64 with 32 on my workstation. From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread James Kerr
I can recommend that you don't use Secure Data Recovery. Just go with Ontrack. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Miguel Gonzalez miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es wrote: I use photorec from rescuecd and works pretty well for NTFS filesystems Miguel -- *De:*

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
That is true. At last, the last two are. Never used iTunes, and I hope never to need to do so. WMDC is a 32-bit MAPI app, by the way. But as I said in another post, the only MAPI issue I had was a MAPIlabs utility and they were more than happy to come up with an x64 version. So I had no

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Rene de Haas
Given that it was linux partition it's probably not going to be ntfs, but ext2, or newer. For linux file systems there are less options. If there is nothing physically wrong with the drive, you could try mounting it to a running linux system like someone else suggested. Maybe even better to make a

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Kennedy, Jim
It choked on about 3K inventory items for us. Searching and sorting took forever. What the acceptable number below that I don't know. -Original Message- From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I’ve found the 64-bit capability in Excel invaluable. I can honestly say that I never once in my life before now thought that 2 gigabytes would ever be a practical limit in the world of spreadsheets. :-) -- Ben

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Matthew W. Ross
A totally, shot from the hip guess: 1000 computers/servers/devices. And that's if you push a beefy server to run it. A more reasonable number is probably somewhere in the hundreds of devices. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Reimer, Mark

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Mullins tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us wrote: Could someone recommend a good data recovery shop? For actual disk failures, I've used CBL (http://www.cbldatarecovery.com/) with success in the past. They offer free evaluation and quote, and have a no data, no

RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Sam Cayze
Yeah, Google Analytics :) http://www.google.com/urchin/ From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more) Interesting. While the GMC doesn't affect

Re: How to be an exceptional Windows Admin

2012-01-23 Thread Kurt Buff
Can't speak to a simple checklist list this, let alone anything specific to Windows administration, but I am a big fan of this: http://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-Second/dp/0321492668 Kurt On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 07:31, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Replace “SQL”

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Jonathan Link
Dude, I'm really sorry to hear this. :-( On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:25 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I can recommend that you don't use Secure Data Recovery. Just go with Ontrack. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Miguel Gonzalez miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es wrote: I use

RE: When it rains it pours...

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
But you SHOULD virtualize them and use SBS 1+1 to get them there. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: When it rains it

RE: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Sam Cayze
+1 for Knoll Ontrack. They are right down the road from in MN. They have an awesome reputation for reason. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Data recovery I can recommend that you don't use

Re: When it rains it pours...

2012-01-23 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Quit yer griping... :) * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:27 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: 2nd biggest %nightjob% client (17 employees) sends me a text message today: “Ok we’re ready

RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
But then you have to expose exchange to the outside, whereas with GMC the service ran inside and made a secure connection to the Gapps API From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google killing Google

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Oh my - you'd be so wrong. :-P Granted - it's not EVERY use case - but often enough that's it's worthwhile. That's kinda like saying 640 KB is enough for anybody (or whatever the standard misquote is). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Cameron
I've used www.cbldatarecovery.com in the past with 100% sucess rate (I can live with luck!). On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Rene de Haas rene.deh...@gmail.com wrote: Given that it was linux partition it's probably not going to be ntfs, but ext2, or newer. For linux file systems there are

Re: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Webster
That would barely suffice for my lab! LOL Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ On 1/23/12 12:50 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: A totally, shot from the hip guess: 1000

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Rene de Haas rene.deh...@gmail.com wrote: Given that it was linux partition it's probably not going to be ntfs, but ext2, or newer. For linux file systems there are less options. If there is nothing physically wrong with the drive, you could try mounting it to a

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Mike Hoffman
It's called a challenge. 20 years ago I was given a 1Mb limit on a VMS system within 24 hours I put in a request to raise it as I was generating 10Mb datasets. Mike -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 January 2012 18:49 To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Webster
How does just a partition fail? By not studying hard enough. Or its favorite music group is no longer The Platters. :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ On 1/23/12 12:52 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com

RE: How to be an exceptional Windows Admin

2012-01-23 Thread Sam Cayze
Big fan of that as well. Have it and read it. It's a bible for Admins. It goes well beyond lists and tasks, and delves into decision making, problem solving, and time management. Needs an update... but many of the concepts are timeless. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff

RE: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Mullins
Thanks everyone, The people at Knoll Ontrack were very helpfule. We plan on sending the drive to them in the next few days. Shane From: Sam Cayze [sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Data recovery

Re: When it rains it pours...

2012-01-23 Thread Webster
He is griping all the way to the bank. :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Andrew Baker asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com Reply-To: NT Issues

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread James Kerr
Heh, I just called them and they were actually honest with me. I told them the situation we had and they told me it was highly unlikely that they could recover the data, unlike everyone else who asks for non refundable money up front. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Cameron

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Spiceworks uses mysql, doesn't it? I seem to remember installing it several years ago and figuring out it just needed some indexes that weren't there by default (and mysql didn't have anything like SQL Server's suggested indices). But I could be confusing it with some other product. I've

Re: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Surprise surprise. Google absorbs an apps, gets people to QA it for free, integrates it into their other products, and discontinues the original absorbed app. -- Espi On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: FYI in case any of you are using it… It was on my

Online Backup Provider

2012-01-23 Thread James Kerr
Hello all, We are looking for an online backup provider to backup some of our critical data. Critical data being our finance database and patient electronic health records as well as the databases that go along with them. We may also want to backup files as well. Thanks, James ~ Finally,

RE: When it rains it pours...

2012-01-23 Thread David Lum
That's the plan! Then I will leverage their old server for iSCSI or something storage-y. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: When it rains it pours... But you SHOULD virtualize them and use SBS 1+1

Re: When it rains it pours...

2012-01-23 Thread Don Ely
Speaking of griping Web... You took your toys here for your friends and we're on hiatus? ;-) On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: He is griping all the way to the bank. :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Steven Peck
Many many years ago, I had to send in a Western Digital drive that had the click of death to a data recovery company. Now I knew it was toast as it would go Click, s s shhh Click (sound of the drive head running on the platter). However, managment demanded that it be sent. The data

RE: When it rains it pours...

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Just like someone else I know! Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from ATT From: Webster webs...@carlwebster.com Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: When it rains it pours...

RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread John Cook
Sounds like some other company out in Washington... John W. Cook Network Manager 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, MCVP From: Micheal Espinola Jr

Re: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Surprise surprise.  Google absorbs an apps, gets people to QA it for free, integrates it into their other products, and discontinues the original absorbed app. We are Google of Borg. Privacy is irrelevant.

Re: Online Backup Provider

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: We are looking for an online backup provider to backup some of our critical data. Critical data being our finance database and patient electronic health records as well as the databases that go along with them. We may also

Re: When it rains it pours...

2012-01-23 Thread Jonathan Link
One thought you had work to do, and here you are... :-) On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: He is griping all the way to the bank. :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Spiceworks uses mysql, doesn't it? I believe it uses SQLite. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:43:43 -0800

Re: Online Backup Provider

2012-01-23 Thread James Kerr
Of course what I left out is that I'm looking for recommendations for providers from the hive mind here. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, We are looking for an online backup provider to backup some of our critical data. Critical data being

Re: Online Backup Provider

2012-01-23 Thread Roger Wright
How many sources and how much data are you looking at? Roger Wright ___ Polarvoid: The state of having no baby pictures, a condition that usually befalls the second-born child. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, We are looking for an

RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yeah, well, Microsoft has certainly done this. IM and (internal) voice calling used to be part of Exchange. Now it's a separate product, separately licensed (lots more features though). ACS (Audit Collection System) used to be a standalone product (well, never released, but it was beta-tested

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

2012-01-23 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
I Have 350 followers at Spiceworks, and this is the breakdown of their company size: Company Size KnowBe4 Follower Count 100-249 Employees 94 1-19 Employees 92 50-99 Employees 57 20-49 Employees 52 250-499 Employees 35 500+ Employees 20 So yeah, if you

RE: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
+1 Stu From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Data recovery Kroll OnTrack, not cheap but very good. John W. Cook Network Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office

RE: Sort of a big day - could have been slam dunk...

2012-01-23 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
Good stuff ! Thanks for sharing :) Warm regards, Stu From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 1:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sort of a big day - could have been slam dunk... but it wasn't. * I was loaded for bear - I even brought my

Re: Copy NTFS perms

2012-01-23 Thread Don Ely
xcalcs On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:41 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Is there a way to mirror NTFS permissions from two otherwise nearly identical folder structures? One folder structure had the correct ACL’s, buy they were GUI-copied to another drive and the ACL’s on the new drive

RE: Copy NTFS perms

2012-01-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323275 From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Copy NTFS perms Is there a way to mirror NTFS permissions from two otherwise nearly identical folder structures?

RE: Copy NTFS perms

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Robocopy and xcopy can both copy perms. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 4:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Copy NTFS perms Is there a way to mirror NTFS

Re: Copy NTFS perms

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:41 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Is there a way to mirror NTFS permissions from two otherwise nearly identical folder structures? One folder structure had the correct ACL’s, buy they were GUI-copied to another drive and the ACL’s on the new drive don’t match

Re: Copy NTFS perms

2012-01-23 Thread Rankin, James R
Doesnt robocopy with the SEC switch do perms? Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -Original Message- From: David Lum david@nwea.org Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:41:29 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Google absorbs an app ... discontinues the original absorbed app. Yeah, well, Microsoft has certainly done this. It's an effective business strategy. Although it tends to piss people off, so doing it a lot may

Re: Copy NTFS perms

2012-01-23 Thread Kurt Buff
My standard answer: fileacl.exe Let it produce its batchfile output from the correct tree, do a search/replace, apply it to the new directory. There are other answers, but I like this tool. Kurt On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 13:41, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Is there a way to mirror NTFS

Re: How to be an exceptional Windows Admin

2012-01-23 Thread Kurt Buff
Agreed, needs an update, as the current edition, which I referenced, is from 2007, but I've given a copy to each of my minions as they come on the team. Kurt On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:54, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Big fan of that as well.  Have it and read it.  It's a bible for Admins.

Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I can honestly say that I never once in my life before now thought that 2 gigabytes would ever be a practical limit in the world of spreadsheets. :-) Oh my - you'd be so wrong. :-P Apparently. :) Although

Re: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Jonathan Link
Good Messaging, and others to do this... On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com wrote: But then you have to expose exchange to the outside, whereas with GMC the service ran inside and made a secure connection to the Gapps API ** **

Re: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread John Cook
Don't forget the Sybari acquisition that turned into Forefront. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 06:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Damien Solodow
Yeah, you're much better off pulling a huge log like that into Access rather than Excel. ;) -- Sent using BlackBerry - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 06:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Steven Peck
Yes, but it's not like Microsoft doesn't do this for no reason. They acquire technologies and often incorporate them into existing or expanded versions of product lines to customer benefit. Google does this too but their marketing feel is currently one of 'free offerings forever' which doesn't

Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread David
I believe the keys are the same, but at my %dayjob%, we never install the 64-bit version of Office. I'd look at a lot of blogs before I tried 64-bit office. We never have any trouble with 32-bit office on 64-bit windows. David On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Mathew Shember

Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Webster
My spreadsheet for the netlogon.log files was huge. Iirc, 2.2 million entries. Excel 2010 x64 sorted it faster than Don Ely can chug a beer. Than it was a simple mouse click to remove all duplicates. That left me, or rather the customer, with just over 9000 unique IP addresses. They had some

RE: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-23 Thread Brian Desmond
Do they do something shiny? I thought they were load balancers? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What would you call

RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit

2012-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sure it's a database problem. But today, a spreadsheet is just another representation of a database. :-) And the spreadsheet can do so many math/formula solutions much easier than the database itself. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com

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