Points to the sky... white puffy cotton balls... (Aka the cloud, or at
least one of them)
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:32 AM
Also for companies that set EVERYTHING to static IPs and, just to be safe, also
setup every device with a DHCP reservation.
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/
From: Daniel Chenault
Got a really strange one here.
About 1:30pm on Saturday, July 28 our log server starts showing lots of VLAN
mismatch errors.
I'm looking around, but not finding any changes. The only two people that have
access to the infrastructure were not working on Saturday.
Our config is a Cisco 6506
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:21 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
I set printers and most servers to be static…via DHCP…
+1
Dynamic configuration != dynamic address. One can do dynamic
addresses via DHCP, static addresses via DHCP, or static addresses
manually. Static addresses have
I agree with that, and then inventory the MAC addresses and set 1 MAC
per port on the switches to cut down on the piggy backing of multiple
devices.
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
From: Webster
The department for redundancy called as a follow up to the email it sent
reminding you of the informative tweet and would like to remind you that
the suspenders are there to support the pants in case the belt fails.
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Webster
Perhaps, but I have done exactly this at a couple of clients as I too have
discovered some printers forget what their address should be.
Dave
From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 9:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: there should be...
The
Cirrus, cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, stratocumulus, altocumulus,
nimbostratus, altostratus, and cirrostratus, and
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT Cloud
In this case there was a major move; an entire rack of servers that was in NJ
is now in TX. This includes the DC, mail and others. I wake up this morning to
a clamor of users and managers that nothing works! I had already changed that
office from the DC providing addresses to the firewall and
could they NOT use DHCP reservations instead of static addressing ??? sigh
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Daniel Chenault
dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com wrote:
A special hell for someone that sets an entire office to use static
addresses when a perfectly good DHCP server is available.
...like a web server needing to have multiple IP's...
From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 9:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: there should be...
True, but barring special circumstances...
From: Chinnery, Paul
Ouch
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 9:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: there should be...
In this case there was a major move; an entire rack of servers that was in NJ
is now in TX. This includes
Financial institutions are notorious for needing static/DHCP reserved addresses
for clients. Mainly due to constraints set by mainframe based systems.
I don't miss that spreadsheet hell...
Regards,
Don Guyer
Catholic Health East - Information Technology
Enterprise Directory Messaging Services
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Daniel Chenault
dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com wrote:
In this case there was a major move; an entire rack of servers that was in NJ
is now in TX. This includes the DC, mail and others. I wake up this morning
to a
clamor of users and managers that nothing works!
Shadow copies?
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Where did my HD space go?
Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2. It is
complaining about the C
Ewww Mainframe Hell... know that one well
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 1:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: there should
Pagefile?
John W. Cook
Network Operations 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
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
What about the winsxs folder in %windir%?
---Blackberried
-Original Message-
From: David Lum david@nwea.org
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:52:51
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote:
Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2. It is
complaining about the C drive being full. The C drive is 98.5 GB in disk
management and explorer. Both claim there is only 400 MB of free
Are you running windirstat elevated?
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 1:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Where did my HD space go?
Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2. It is
I'd bet on an unmanaged switch having been plugged in somewhere in such a way
as to cause a loop.
-Original Message-
From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 12:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Calling the cisco experts.
Got a really strange
When you ran WinDirStat, did you do Run as Administrator? If not, try that as
otherwise there are a lot of directories you won't have permissions to and so
it won't show you info about them.
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
-Original
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote:
Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2. It is
complaining about the C drive being full. The C drive is 98.5 GB in disk
management and explorer. Both claim there is only 400 MB of free
Not sure how windirstat works. Does it show the white space as well? If not,
find a tool that does, and see what it says.
Joe Heaton
ITB - Enterprise Server Support
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 10:48 AM
To:
OMG I hate that directory.
Joe Heaton
ITB - Enterprise Server Support
-Original Message-
From: James R Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:01 AM
To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Where did my HD space go?
What about the winsxs
That's what it usually ends up being around here.
-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 12:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Where did my HD space go?
Shadow copies?
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries
Download Treesize free, that should tell you
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
Stefan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.comwrote:
Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2. It is
complaining about the C drive being full. The C
Good point.
Kurt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Michael B. Smith
mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
Are you running windirstat elevated?
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 1:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
Some kind of monster log file hidden somewhere?
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 1:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Where did my HD space go?
Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2.
This doesn't help now but this is where Kiwi Kat tools really shines. I have
it grabbing 160 running switch configs 5 times a day 7 days a week. You could
compare them side by side to see differences. Great tool and not very expensive.
If you do a term monitor on the remote switches, are
ADS
-Message d'origine-
De : Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Envoyé : 30 juillet 2012 13:48
À : NT System Admin Issues
Objet : Where did my HD space go?
Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2. It is
complaining about the C drive being full.
It's all links. Ignore it.
-Original Message-
From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Where did my HD space go?
OMG I hate that directory.
Joe Heaton
ITB - Enterprise Server Support
-Original
No. I'll do that.
Michael B. Smith wrote:
Are you running windirstat elevated?
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 1:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Where did my HD space go?
Ok, I have a strange one. This
nope.
John Cook wrote:
Pagefile?
John W. Cook
Network Operations 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
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries
So, I just found an option on windirstat called show unknown. That is
my missing 75 GB.
Michael B. Smith wrote:
Are you running windirstat elevated?
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 1:48 PM
To: NT System Admin
From one of my customers, they cannot resolve DNS to an IP for
www.spokeskids.com . Doing an nslookup shows can't find spokekids.com:
server failed. However, if I do a nslookup with www.spokekids.com
208.67.222.222 then it resolves (figured I would test that to OpenDNS even
though they don't use
That would be one hella huge environment!
Regards,
Don Guyer
Catholic Health East - Information Technology
Enterprise Directory Messaging Services
3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073
email: dgu...@che.org
Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440
I think it's the opposite, actually. The windows system files are projections
FROM winsxs.
The problem with winsxs is that it contains all components for the OS plus
every version ever released in a patch for uninstallation purposes. You can
clean it up somewhat after a service pack by
And where was it hiding?
---Blackberried
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:36:00
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: Re:
fixed it... clearing the cache for the specific site didnt work (even
though it was the correct info showing in the cache for that site), but
clearing the entire server cache did fix it.. go figure.
Original Message:
-
From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.com
Date:
spokekids.com or spokeskids.com?
spokekids.com does not resolve and is not registered
spokeskids.com resolves to 74.203.211.22
spokeskids.com has the following dns servers
NS1.TWTELECOM.NET
NS2.TWTELECOM.NET
please check host files and your dns server to find out where their routing
fails.
http://www.itnervecenter.com/content/some-dns-queries-are-unsuccessful-using-windows-server-2008-r2-dns-server
What kind of firewall is in place?
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:36 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com
jesse-r...@wi.rr.comwrote:
From one of my customers, they cannot resolve DNS to an IP for
It appears that all the individual libraries have been individually ported to
Windows, so it should be (relatively) easy.
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Not yet available for
SMOP for some, perhaps, but beyond my grasp I must say.
It surely would make my network administration tasks much nicer.
Kurt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
It appears that all the individual libraries have been individually ported to
Windows,
no idea where or what it is yet. windirstat just shows it as unknown
with no properties or location.
Rankin, James R wrote:
And where was it hiding?
---Blackberried
-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:36:00
To: NT System Admin
You can try ADS Locator to see if there is files hidden in the Alternate Data
Stream (ADS). Look on site http://www.2kevin.net/datastreams.html for info.
ADS Locator avalailable here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/paragraphs/tools_ads.html
-Message d'origine-
De : Bill
Ah... the word server defines it. Web server, mail server, sql server, fill
in the blank server I'm using a static IP defined as a DHCP reservation.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 12:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: there should be...
I'm a contractor in that environment, he's an employee of the company. Does
that explain it?
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 12:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: there should be...
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:55
aha...
C:\Users\AdministratorVssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (E:)\\?\Volume{61c01cc6-c16f-11de-beb1-00265534e0da}\
Shadow Copy Storage
Of course! You earn more money than him (or you should)
---Blackberried
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Chenault dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:00:01
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues
Is it one huge file, many little files, or some mix?
Now I'm all intrigued and suchlike.
75gb is a lotta pr0n, fer sher.
Kurt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote:
So, I just found an option on windirstat called show unknown. That is my
missing 75 GB.
Oh how boring. That's no fun at all.
Kurt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote:
aha...
C:\Users\AdministratorVssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
When using Space-sniffing products, I usually find that the unknown data
is something that you do not have security perms to access.
--
Espi
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.comwrote:
So, I just found an option on windirstat called show unknown. That is
I always used to set printers a DHCP reservation and Servers static. UPS's
were both a reservation and static just in case they lost their address. Jon
From: david@nwea.org
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: there should be...
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:21:30 +
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Daniel Chenault
dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com wrote:
Sounds like the real problem is someone didn't tell you what they were
doing.
I'm a contractor in that environment, he's an employee of the company. Does
that explain it?
Explain, yes. Excuse, no.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote:
no idea where or what it is yet. windirstat just shows it as unknown with
no properties or location.
Unknown is just apparent disk size minus total size of all
objects discovered. So that's not really telling you
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote:
What about the winsxs folder in %windir%?
It's all links. Ignore it.
I think it's the opposite, actually. The windows system files are projections
FROM winsxs.
+1
The Windows installation is a proper subset of
Sorry for not being more specific. Take a client who would normally
purchase sbs 2011 for example with all the hardware they require for the
server and workstations. Now instead of buying the equipment they use the
entire environment in the cloud, instead of the capital outlay.
Yes they would
Right Networks.
On Monday, July 30, 2012, Jonathan Kadoo wrote:
Sorry for not being more specific. Take a client who would normally
purchase sbs 2011 for example with all the hardware they require for the
server and workstations. Now instead of buying the equipment they use the
entire
But there's still files somewhere, taking up the space.
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 5:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Where did my HD space go?
It's all links. Ignore it.
-Original
What happens if you need to piggy back devices? (Virtual PC running on a
desktop? IP phone and computing device? Etc.)
Or you have a cluster?
Or multiple VMs connected to a physical port?
Etc.
Cheers
Ken
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 2:38 AM
To: NT
+1
Sounds like a lack of proper change control and notification to stakeholders.
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 9:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: there should be...
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:00 PM,
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