We use SCOM to monitor everything, and we have some homegrown stuff on top of
that. So, we do monitor.
However, what we saw in the early days of virtualization was that dynamic disks
could cause things to go south *very* quickly. I personally would not be
comfortable in a situation where we've
Yeah, they replaced my 6 year old laptop to one with SSD. I went from a 5
minute boot to less than a minute. I used to be able to get a cup of coffee
while I was waiting for the old one! :)
I'm still leery about the MTBF so I'm planning on frequent backups.
-Paul
From: David Lum
Remember even with the Egress filtering you are looking to do outbound, it
could be an internal compromised host or account that is using your legitimate
email servers to send the email out, but I would drop and log all other traffic
from trust to untrust on port 25 and eliminate the hosts.
Great thanks. I did that at my last gig. I'm amazed at the config but am
working to tighten things. New to ASA so it's a little slow going. Apologies
for my ignorance here.
Under access rules, I see Outside, and those rules are limited and seem correct.
Then I see Inside (incoming) with a
Looks right to me, both in sequence and content [1].
- You're allowing SMTP from specific host(s). Correct. Not so much a 'best
practice' ptooey as a must-do.
- Next, you're denying SMTP from anything else. Also correct.
- Implied, but must exist, is the Deny Any Any at the end. You'd be
*and* I'd recommend checking SMTP relay on internal mail server. Is
it allowing internal systems to relay smtp traffic instead of smtp
direct ? Just another loophole that might need to be tightened.
in most cases, *if* internal smtp relay is required, usually limited
to a specific group of
I had the direction incorrect! Thanks for the help folks,
Relay only by exemption on the mail servers, though.
From: Patrick Salmon [mailto:psal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 11:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cisco ASA question
Looks right to me, both in sequence
Lot of details you need to fill in. 50 user production server doing what?
File share, large or lots of small files? SQL server, OLAP or OLTP loads?
Then there's the technology of the SSD drives. Not just the MLC/SLC tech but
drives with brains that can handle raid configurations. If you
Digicert Managed PKI Services.
http://www.digicert.com/managed-pki-ssl.htm
Thanks
Webster
From: Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Digitial Signature Software
We are looking at Digital Signature Software
You still have autorun enabled? REALLY?
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Ouch today's outbreak
This just in: W32/SillyFDC. Not new to the internet, but new here :(
Bites
David Lum
Sr. Systems Engineer //
Welcome to my world...I had the GPO set up but was denied over a year ago.
Guessing that will change.
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 12:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Ouch today's outbreak
You still have autorun enabled?
So you spread the virus then! ;-)
Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY
-Original Message-
From: David Lum david@nwea.org
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 21:01:24
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin
Update - brand new virus variant baby...as of yesterday.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 1:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Ouch today's outbreak
Welcome to my world...I had the GPO set up but was denied over a year ago.
Guessing that
Well that is better. But STILL!
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 4:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Ouch today's outbreak
Update - brand new virus variant baby...as of yesterday.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday,
Love the comment - Unlike LSD that takes you out of reality, ESD brings you
screaming back!
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,
Which apps do you deal with the most?
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: TechEd vs TechMentor
It looks like I might be able to make one of these for the first time.
Any advice on which is
Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, PowerShell, VMware vCloud, Citrix XenApp.
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:24 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
You will get nothing on the last two at either conference.
IMO, TechMentor is for more Beginner to Intermediate level folk. The one I
went to in August was an anomaly. It was at MS HQ and most sessions were
extremely technical.
TechEd runs the range from Beginner to Advanced but the average
I have to agree with Webster, I would side with Tech Ed, especially when
you go to the whiteboard sessions in which you can draw out your
solutions with MVP's and other folks that are SME's on their particular
areas. I remember a few years ago going over a IIS 7.0 design and one of
the M$ folks
Good to know. :)
What has TechEd pricing been like?
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: TechEd vs TechMentor
I
Keep in mind.TechEd registration has usually opened by now, well, actually
they leave it open all year long.
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: TechEd vs TechMentor
Good to know. J
Last time I remember it was like 1,500 or something. I am not sure what
the price is now..
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January
Microsoft makes it very clear that in large deployments, Citrix solutions are
better – in some ways. ☺
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: TechEd vs TechMentor
Sure you will - they'll tell you why the MS
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012
TechEd NA has a lot of their sessions online so you can see what the
presentations are like. They have the EU and AU ones somewhere on the site
as well.
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Damien Solodow
SCOM is just the lowest level of tool you need for something to monitor and
manage an environment - what are you doing for your non-Wintel devices
(network, *nix, security appliances etc?)
You feed all of that into an event management tool - it can auto ticket into
your ITSM system and resolve
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