RE: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread John Cook
Workstations and laptops, about 75 a year. NBD as we always have a loaner or two sitting on the shelf already imaged and ready to drop into place. Servers and Storage - 4 hour. We have a Dell certified tech (sent him to school for a week and it gets us a lot of behind the scenes stuff line

Re: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com wrote: Go with a local business who has a good reputation and uses either true Intel boards or ASUS boards. There is a good deal more to the design and quality of the computer than the motherboard. Is Dell's tech

Re: Want a funny back...

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
Wow. Noscript and Request Policy make that site almost unusable - I see more domains blocked there than I've seen in a while. Kurt On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:56, Mike Sullivan neog...@gmail.com wrote: Is this it? http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/09/16/windows-1-0-vs-windows-8-pic/ On Wed,

Re: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com wrote: How many workstations do you refresh per year? 1/3 of the workstations/laptops?  How many is that? We probabbly buy 30 PCs a year. We're a small company (~130 employees). But time I spend researching, certifying,

Re: Office 2010 weirdness

2012-03-02 Thread Webster
If I activate a read-only copy of Office 2010 on a read-only OS image and then restart the image to get a new pristine read-only copy of the OS and Office, what happened to my activation? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional

Re: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Cynicalgeek
I've made the case with the local vendor that we need to buy a motherboard that can be built across many machines, for many months. They've agreed to make it happen as best as they could (technology changes.) Plus, they gave us the hard drive image on DVD so we could image them ourselves if

Bueller ? .... Bueller ? .... Bueller ?

2012-03-02 Thread Erik Goldoff
sorry, didn't have the web site login to check list activity, nothing in over 24 hours to my inbox ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

RE: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Art DeKneef
There are a few white box notebook distributors out there. Most of them use the Intel notebook spec for the business class laptops. Intel even has an Ultrabook reference design. There are a few other business class laptops out there. All are made by the same ODMs that build the laptops for

RE: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Tom Miller
I finally spoke with my rep and he told me I get state pricing but some sort of non-profit discount. He never explained how I could get a better price via non-profit reseller than Dell direct. I hung up feeling not quite satisfied with the answer. I'll stick with the reseller. Ralph Smith

RE: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
I could not disagree with the advice more. And yes I have received new parts from Dell, although I have not had a great deal of need for replacement parts with Dell's systems as they are extremely reliable out of the box. If you are buying a white box system from a local builder how do you know

Re: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Dell Optiplex. We have also purchased refurbished Optiplex units (with their 3 year warranty) from Insight or CDI. I would look into HP or Lenovo... but Dell usually meets any simular machine with their own version at the same cost. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original

RE: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread David Lum
Aye, I do the same thing - I generally keep 2-3 older PC's available as immediate replacement stand-in's negating the need for 4-hour support. The SBS servers are VM's and the image is fully backed up each night and there's another Hyper-V host available to stand the VM up on (in one case it's

RE: Roles in AD

2012-03-02 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
Lol, that's not actually the reason, but thanks for the excuse. Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:39 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Roles in AD It's because it has an

RE: Office 2010 weirdness

2012-03-02 Thread Jeff Brown
A tree fell on it. In the woods. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office 2010 weirdness If I activate a read-only copy of Office 2010 on a read-only OS image and then restart the image to get a new

Re: Want a funny back...

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. Noscript and Request Policy make that site almost unusable - I see more domains blocked there than I've seen in a while. These days, I find it is very common for websites to pull in resources from many other providers.

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2012-03-02 Thread Rankin, James R
Am I blacklisted, or has no-one else seen any list messages all day? Its eerily quiet... Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

RE: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Sam Cayze
+1 in the support contracts. I've had Dell send a tech to my user that was in South Africa to replace a failed laptop MB. Wasn't any special treatment either. All covered under our support contract. That's a must have for me. Sam Painstaking typed on my mobile phone. Please excuse any

Re: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:52 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: BTDT, I used to think the same way, but the caveats are killers. I have even seen 5 “identical” consumer PC’s (ok, Gateway’s so it’s been a few years) that had two different motherboards and when it came time to upgrade the

RE: Bueller ? .... Bueller ? .... Bueller ?

2012-03-02 Thread Ziots, Edward
I hear ya the list was might quiet yesterday Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 8:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Bueller ?

Re: Bueller ? .... Bueller ? .... Bueller ?

2012-03-02 Thread James Rankin
I am hoping this outage was the delayed message issue getting fixed. But it's probably just another problem :-( On 2 March 2012 13:24, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: sorry, didn't have the web site login to check list activity, nothing in over 24 hours to my inbox ... ~ Finally,

Re: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com wrote: I've made the case with the local vendor that we need to buy a motherboard that can be built across many machines, for many months.  They've agreed to make it happen as best as they could (technology changes.) Dell has

Re: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Chipshead
We've been a Dell house for over 10 years. They support their enterprise class products for free even if it's out of warranty. They've spent hours on the phone with me diagnosing old iron and my only costs were parts if needed. Big plus is that all their tech reps speak English as a first

RE: Roles in AD

2012-03-02 Thread Ziots, Edward
Months can be long, and this one just started Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 6:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Office 2010 weirdness

2012-03-02 Thread Webster
Was anyone there to hear if the tree made a sound? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Jeff Brown jbr...@webcoindustries.commailto:jbr...@webcoindustries.com Reply-To: NT Issues

RE: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Jeff Brown
I got nothing for at least 24 hours. -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ??? Am I blacklisted, or has no-one else seen any list messages all day? Its eerily quiet... Sent

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Manuel Santos
I've seen them. 2012/3/1 Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com Am I blacklisted, or has no-one else seen any list messages all day? Its eerily quiet... Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Gary Whitten
I didn't receive anything from Wed 2/29 4:42pm to Fri 3/2 8:51am -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ??? Am I blacklisted, or has no-one else seen any list messages all day?

Re: Hello?

2012-03-02 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Yes, we are here. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Guyer, Donald dgu...@che.org wrote: Anyone out there? I haven’t seen anything since 5PM EST yesterday. ** ** Regards, **

Re: Hello?

2012-03-02 Thread Manuel Santos
I'm here! 2012/3/1 Guyer, Donald dgu...@che.org Anyone out there? I haven’t seen anything since 5PM EST yesterday. ** ** Regards, ** ** Don Guyer Directory and Messaging Services Catholic Health East, ITSS ** ** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any

ping

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
Nothing at all last night... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Rankin, James R
Citrix? Why can't desktops use vpn? Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -Original Message- From: Rhonda Richardson rrichard...@kcumb.edu Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:41:07 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Lee Douglas
It's you g It is awfully quiet On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: Am I blacklisted, or has no-one else seen any list messages all day? Its eerily quiet... Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Steve Ens
Terminal server is what we use. It is built in to the Windows client (or easily downloaded for a Mac). Safe. Easy to setup and to manage. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Rhonda Richardson rrichard...@kcumb.eduwrote: We currently have 50 - 100 folks that want access to applications

RE: Hello?

2012-03-02 Thread John C Owen
Good Morning (From New England) From: Guyer, Donald [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hello? Anyone out there? I haven't seen anything since 5PM EST yesterday. Regards, Don Guyer Directory and Messaging Services Catholic Health

RE: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Free, Bob
Eerie indeed :-) What was really strange to me was that the 3 lists I watch regularly by keeping them in the favorites list in Outlook (this one, gptalk and activdir) were all *completely* dormant yesterday during the workday. I chalked it up to some weird post-leap-day hangover.

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Michael Leone
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Am I blacklisted, or has no-one else seen any list messages all day? Its eerily quiet... It's not just you. Remember - it's never *just* you ... LOL Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread N Parr
Before we had a VDI solution we used our ASA web portal and allowed users to RDP to their personal PC's. From: Rhonda Richardson [mailto:rrichard...@kcumb.edu] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Employee Remote Access to

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Citrix is a great solution, but not cheap or quick to roll out the infrastructure. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life Insurance Company of

RE: Bueller ? .... Bueller ? .... Bueller ?

2012-03-02 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
The lyris website was down, also. Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support From: Edward Ziots [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 6:49 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bueller ? Bueller ? Bueller ? I hear ya the list was might quiet

Re: Bueller ? .... Bueller ? .... Bueller ?

2012-03-02 Thread Webster
It was Bueller's day off. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.commailto:egold...@gmail.com Reply-To: NT Issues

Re: Want a funny back...

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 06:35, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. Noscript and Request Policy make that site almost unusable - I see more domains blocked there than I've seen in a while.  These days, I find it is

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Walker, Michael
Remote Desktop Gateway with Windows Server 2008 R2 - Click the link below for an overview. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731150.aspx Michael Walker Senior Network Engineer Citrus Valley Health Partners 140 W. College Street, Covina, CA 91723 Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882

Re: Want a funny back...

2012-03-02 Thread Michael Leone
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. Noscript and Request Policy make that site almost unusable - I see more domains blocked there than I've seen in a while. My ScriptNo on Chrome blocked 18 (I had previously whitelisted Facebook and Twitter, and Google

Re: VMWare tools

2012-03-02 Thread Michael Leone
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:50 AM, pdw1...@hotmail.com wrote: I just make a console connection to the server, then at the top, click on the VM drop-down menu, click on Guest and select Install\Upgrade VMWare tools. That's what I always do. Sometimes the upgrade to a new version takes 10 minutes

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Hutchings
SSL VPN with an app that proxies TS sessions. From: Rhonda Richardson [rrichard...@kcumb.edu] Sent: 02 March 2012 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Employee Remote Access to Desktop We currently have 50 - 100 folks that want access to applications

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

2012-03-02 Thread S Powell
I played with the Dev preview, and thought it sucked beyond Vista, then I tried using a trackpad, and it makes a huge difference. only played with the beta for a hour or so, but when in desktop mode the lack of an _obvious_ start button is just wrong. metro ... I hate it. it looks wrong to

RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

2012-03-02 Thread Rod Trent
I'm still not getting it and I've been playing with it a while. Why take a failed mobile OS and make it a desktop OS? I mean, sure, I see the logic because it *could* help bolster poor mobile device sales, but. The interface reminds me of the Partridge Family bus. From: James Hill

Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread David Lum
Would like to see your guys' opinion on this. I have an enterprise architect here that says so what if a C-level loses his smartphone, it's only contacts in there... Agree? Disagree? Take the poll :-) Dave -Original Message- From: Virus Bulletin enews

RE: Office 2010 weirdness

2012-03-02 Thread Jeff Brown
You Damn Betcha! Someone from BSA was there and recorded it! From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office 2010 weirdness Was anyone there to hear if the tree made a sound? Carl Webster Consultant and

Re: Office 2010 weirdness

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
The bear? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Was anyone there to hear if the tree made a sound? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Jeff Brown

RE: Hello?

2012-03-02 Thread David Lum
All your base are belong to us From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 8:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hello? Yes, we are here. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Mar 1,

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
There are a couple of options, usually branded as SSL VPNs, though some might use IPSec: o- applications/appliances that give network access, using a downloadable client. These are usually coupled with a way to check the connecting machines for various things, to make sure they are fit to connect

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
Remote Desktop Services via Remote Desktop Gateway is pretty easy to set up and use. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560672(v=ws.10).aspx On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Rhonda Richardson rrichard...@kcumb.eduwrote: We currently have 50 - 100 folks that want access to

RE: Hello?

2012-03-02 Thread Ziots, Edward
IM Not... out to lunchJ Too bad I didn't get my post about the funny Nmap error I saw this morning scanning. Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Manuel Santos [mailto:nel...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: ping

2012-03-02 Thread Ziots, Edward
PONG Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ping Nothing at all last night... ~

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Guyer, Donald
My guess is she meant corp-owned laptops (secure?) and personal desktops (not secure?)...but again, I'm ASSuming. :) Regards, Don Guyer Directory and Messaging Services Catholic Health East, ITSS From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:15 AM To: NT

RE: Hello?

2012-03-02 Thread Guyer, Donald
Whew! I was afraid I got blacklisted again. Regards, Don Guyer Directory and Messaging Services Catholic Health East, ITSS From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hello? Yes, we are here. ASB

RE: Max available RAM on Vmware Host

2012-03-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Check the quick specs they always have mem requirements laid out. From: Stefan Jafs [stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Max available RAM on Vmware Host I’m doing an hardware refresh and I’m planning

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Matthew W. Ross
It sounds like you want to have users access their desktops via VPN while they are outside your network. Others will suggest much more elegant solutions, but I suggest you setup each desktop to allow them to remote-desktop in to their machines at work. We do this using the Barracuda SSL-VPN.

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread David Lum
Maybe they are home desktops and they have no method to make sure they're fully patched and have AV? We use Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Server), keeps unmanaged PC's off our LAN. David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 From: Rankin,

RE: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Guyer, Donald
We had a CIFS share go down on our SAN yesterday and everyone was running around saying it was because of Leap Day. Until they found out somehow/someone disabled NTP on the device. Regards, Don Guyer Directory and Messaging Services Catholic Health East, ITSS -Original Message-

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Link
Until it is *just* him. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Am I blacklisted, or has no-one else seen any list messages all day? Its eerily quiet... It's not just you.

Re: Max available RAM on Vmware Host

2012-03-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
This isn't up to date, and doesn't specifically discuss performance, but it gives you some info regarding the Intel technology and the population of the channels/banks: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/server-pedge-installing-upgrading-memory-11g.pdf Christopher Bodnar

OT: Lyris slowness

2012-03-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I sent a response to the list at 11:33am and it just showed up at 2:54pm. Definitely something going on. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life

Re: Favorite corporate PCs?

2012-03-02 Thread Terry Dickson
I have a different opinion of my local vendor. They are not exactly local but within 18 miles. They do an excellent job of everything they do. We have had a contract with them for over 20 years and I hope they stay on contract until I retire. I have had them do multiple repairs to a single

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: What was really strange to me was that the 3 lists I watch regularly by keeping them in the favorites list in Outlook (this one, gptalk and activdir) were all *completely* dormant yesterday during the workday. I chalked it up to

Re: VMWare tools

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Link
Here's an idea... No idea if it would work, but I don't see why it wouldn't. Copy the contents of that CD to a fileshare, install from that share. Don't have to deal with the CD being mounted properly or autorun. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: ping

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing at all last night... Try www.cupid.com -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click

RE: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Ziots, Edward
You got the list sign up for Gptalk, I would like to get on that one. Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:24 AM To: NT System

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 14:22, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: I didn’t bother with the Dev Preview all that much but I have installed the CP and spent about an hour with it so far.  I’m running it on a desktop PC so I can’t comment on the touch side of things.  But so far it is quite

RE: Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread John Cook
Well you weren't specific about what type of smartphone. We use Blackberries and initiate a complete wipe, we have policies in place that require the user to send a support request in immediately and /or call our director. We give them the rundown every time a new user gets a device about who

Re: Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread Mike Tavares
On the subject of mobile malware, it maybe over exaggerated at the moment, but it only takes 1 instance for a mobile device to be infected. Depending on the type of malware it could be more than the users contacts that get sent back to the malware authors. Then it becomes an issue of why

RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

2012-03-02 Thread Mike Hoffman
We had the developer preview on some machines and on one tablet performance is actually worse on the Consumer Preview. Once you realise that you should be putting all those Start Menu items on the Task Bar then you never really need the start menu itself - but I miss that bit of thinking time

RE: Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread James Hill
If anything it isn't taken seriously enough. Smartphones are a gold mine of information and an ever increasing access mechanism into company networks. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 4:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread James Hill
Remote Desktop Gateway is an easy solution. You can then control who can access which desktops. No special client software needed (unless they are using a Mac). From: Guyer, Donald [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 5:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Employee

Re: ping

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: [ping] On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: PONG Wow. Ping latency of 27.5 hours. I would have expected TTL to expire by then. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread David Lum
Wow4 1/2 hours for that post to make it... From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop Maybe they are home desktops and they have no method to make sure they're fully patched and

RE: File server disk corruption

2012-03-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I've done some pretty crazy stuff with TestDisk. From: Shaun N Owens [snow...@ucdavis.edu] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 12:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: File server disk corruption Our file server is giving an NTFS – 55 error: The file system structure

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Rankin, James R
Hey, I am working all week in Liverpool, I get lonely without my dose of SysAdmin Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:57:17 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Banned-hammer strikes again. -- Espi On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: Am I blacklisted, or has no-one else seen any list messages all day? Its eerily quiet... Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

2012-03-02 Thread Jon Harris
Thanks I was not aware they had put that beta our there yet. Jon On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:22 PM, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: I didn’t bother with the Dev Preview all that much but I have installed the CP and spent about an hour with it so far. I’m running it on a desktop PC so I

Re: Max available RAM on Vmware Host

2012-03-02 Thread Stefan Jafs
Actually I found out that the consultant did not realized I had Enterprise Plus that supports 96 GB / processor and that's why he said max 144 GB but I'm ordering 192GB / server On Friday, March 2, 2012, Christopher Bodnar wrote: This isn't up to date, and doesn't specifically discuss

Re: Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Does generic marketing exaggerate reasons for buying generic product? But, to your question: A smart phone usually contains a lot more than just contacts - but that would depend on your organization. -- Espi On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:59 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Would like to

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Jon Harris
That was what I based my reply on. Laptops got VPN but were owned by the company and controlled by the company in previous and current positions. Home desktops personally I would still not like the idea a whole lot but I no longer have to do the security side of things. Jon On Fri, Mar 2, 2012

RE: VMWare tools

2012-03-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
That works. At least it does on ESX 3.5. It's also an MSI file so it can be deployed with group policy, which is very helpful. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare tools Here's an idea... No

Re: File server disk corruption

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:36, Shaun N Owens snow...@ucdavis.edu wrote: Our file server is giving an NTFS – 55 error: The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume Share Volume. I have run chkdsk several times and it doesn’t seem to

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
I googled the term, it the first hit. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 13:05, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: You got the list sign up for Gptalk, I would like to get on that one. Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org

Re: Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 09:59, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Would like to see your guys' opinion on this. I have an enterprise architect here that says so what if a C-level loses his smartphone, it's only contacts in there... Agree? Disagree? Take the poll :-) Dave Well, that

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
Is there a Mac RDP client that works with RDG? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: Remote Desktop Gateway is an easy solution. You can then control who can access which desktops. No special client software needed (unless they are using a Mac).

Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
http://www.gpoguy.com/GPTalk-Subscribe.aspx ? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: You got the list sign up for Gptalk, I would like to get on that one. Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization

RE: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Free, Bob
Just go to Darren's gpoguy.com. It's right on the home page. -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ??? You got the list sign up for Gptalk, I would like to get on that one. Z

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: ???

2012-03-02 Thread Free, Bob
That or the SAN the other person mentioned that had to have its time service disabled so it could grok 2\29 :-] j/k... nobody knows a SAN vendor *that* dumb...well, otoh, maybe we do -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 12:51

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
No, there is not. From: Richard Stovall [rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop Is there a Mac RDP client that works with RDG? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, James Hill

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread James Hill
For ages there wasn’t. Microsoft’s Mac rdp client still doesn’t. But you can buy software now that does. Itap seems to work well. There are versions for iphone/ipad, and for Mac OS. This link is for the Mac client:- http://itap-mobile.com/desktop/rdp From: Richard Stovall

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread James Hill
Actually there is now, see my response to Richard, when it eventually appears on the list that is. From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop No, there is not. _

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks. That has been my experience as well, but I was hoping against hope based on James' reply. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: No, there is not. -- *From:* Richard Stovall [rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, March

Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
And it came to pass that Richard finally saw James' earlier link to itap-mobile.com... Thank you, James. I will check it out. It looks perfect for a very specific use case I have. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. That has been my experience

RE: Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
On the other hand, mobile malware is almost non-existent. Losing a smartphone (or having it stolen), on the other hand, is an all-to-regular occurrence... On the phone: contacts, email, documents, one factor of many 2FA systems, a way to social engineer into an environment -Original