RE: Recommendations for DNS/SSL provider

2013-02-26 Thread Jeff Frantz
I've used DNS Made Easy for 7 or 8 years with no issues. For SSL, I was using Thawte which is part of VeriSign. As soon as Symantec bought VeriSign, I bailed on the impending doom and now use Network Solutions SSL certs. Network Solutions SSL prices are reasonable. I've found if you have a

Re: Java 7-15 failures.

2013-02-26 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Have no fear: at the rate that Java exploits and vulnerabilities are being found in Java, they'll be providing more updates shortly. Maybe they'll fix that problem, or maybe more people will get the impetus to work around them. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker*

Re: Need help with VBscript

2013-02-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
First hit on Google: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4394607/vbscript-to-check-if-net-2-0-is-installed Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017

RE: Need help with VBscript

2013-02-26 Thread Tammy George
Thanks, Christopher. I did see that and then wondered if 2.0 is installed on all systems and couldn’t find an answer. Windows 7 comes with .NET 3.5 OOB and my system also has 2.0. Is that the case with all Windows 7 systems? i.e. Is it sufficient to do a check for 2.0 or do I need to check

RE: Need help with VBscript

2013-02-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Yes, all Windows 7 systems come with 2.0 , 3.0 and 3.5 installed If your install only requires 2.0 or higher, then check for 2.0 and you should be fine. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel

RE: Need help with VBscript

2013-02-26 Thread Tammy George
Thank you! From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: February-26-13 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need help with VBscript Yes, all Windows 7 systems come with 2.0 , 3.0 and 3.5 installed If your install only requires 2.0 or higher, then check for

RE: Need help with VBscript

2013-02-26 Thread Tammy George
BTW - is this also the case for Vista XP? i.e. version 2.0 is installed? From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: February-26-13 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need help with VBscript Yes, all Windows 7 systems come with 2.0 , 3.0 and 3.5

RE: Recommendations for DNS/SSL provider

2013-02-26 Thread Damien Solodow
The issues raised by the team member who started the discussion center around some of their practices (obnoxious/exploitive commercials, support for SOPA, etc). I'm not really seeing those as business driving decisions, but there are other issues that do annoy me like their less than friendly

RE: SemiOT: Cisco 2504 WLC tips?

2013-02-26 Thread Glen Johnson
We did this a few years back with a 5508 controller and several aps. Basically, you will need one vlan for the aps to talk to the controller. You will have to convert the access points to light weight aps. That wasn't very intuitive, so here is a link.

RE: Need help with VBscript

2013-02-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Take a look at these: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2007/03/14/mailbag-what-version-of-the-net-framework-is-included-in-what-version-of-the-os.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1164495/windows-7-default-net-framework Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate

Re: 50GB free storage from Box.com

2013-02-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Though my comment was meant to be snarky, that's actually interesting. I may have to look at those units Kurt On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: The Synology SAN/NAS devices have a mobile app that you can use to easily access your own storage from

Re: Communications slow between two servers

2013-02-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'm not familiar with Smart Sync, so can't comment on that. But can you reproduce the problem outside of that software? For example do you see the same slowness if you use RoboCopy or DFSR? Take a look at this post:

RE: 50GB free storage from Box.com

2013-02-26 Thread Webster
You can look all you want but you can't do anything until you buy one. :) snark Thanks Webster -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: 50GB free storage from Box.com Though my comment was meant to be snarky, that's actually interesting. I

RE: Communications slow between two servers

2013-02-26 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Anti-virus? From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:ithelp.e...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Communications slow between two servers Greetings, I have an odd communications issue that I just can't pin down. I have two existing servers, X and Y. X

RE: Communications slow between two servers

2013-02-26 Thread Randal, Phil
The devil's in the detail. Which OS? Scalable networking pack on 2003 SP2 can cause these issues. Try turning off TCP offload, Receive Side Scaling, etc, and see if that improves anything. Oh, and check duplex settings on server and switch. Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople

RE: Communications slow between two servers

2013-02-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
X has AV installed? From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Communications slow between two servers NIC drivers? On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Eric Brouwer

RE: Communications slow between two servers

2013-02-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
TCP offload/chimney settings? It's always that. Don't know why it even still exists. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Communications slow between two servers And NIC firmware? TCP

RE: Recommendations for DNS/SSL provider

2013-02-26 Thread Brian Desmond
DigiCert for certs hands down. I can't comment on DNS providers. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Communications slow between two servers

2013-02-26 Thread Jeff Frantz
Verify duplex settings. A long time ago I had an HP server and a Cisco switch with both sides having auto-detecting speed and duplex. Weird things happened when transferring large quantities of data because the NIC thought the connection was full duplex and the switch thought it was half.

Re: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012)

2013-02-26 Thread Steve Ens
Odd, didn't think that the 2012 server install disk actually came on a CD anymore. I've just used the ISO so far. Right click, mount and then run setup. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:38 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I upgraded my personal lab server from 2008 R2 to Server 2012 last

RE: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012)

2013-02-26 Thread David Lum
That hadn't occurred to me :), I burned the ISO. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012) Odd, didn't think that the 2012 server install disk actually came on a CD anymore.

Re: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012)

2013-02-26 Thread Steve Ens
2012 Hyper V is awesome On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:10 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: That hadn’t occurred to me J, I burned the ISO. ** ** *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:01 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:*

RE: Java 7-15 failures.

2013-02-26 Thread Ziots, Edward
So true ASB Hello All, We had yet another look into Oracle's Java SE 7 software that was released by the company on Feb 19, 2013. As a result, we have discovered two new security issues (numbered 54 and 55), which when combined together can be successfully used to gain a complete Java

RE: Recommendations for DNS/SSL provider

2013-02-26 Thread Damien Solodow
I really like what I'm seeing for DigiCert, but my concern is that the price point may be an issue given that our current (or RapidSSL) are significantly lower. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Brian Desmond

RE: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012)

2013-02-26 Thread Glen Johnson
+10,. Updated 2 hosts over the weekend. Now converting guests to vhdx, at least the ones I can shutdown during the day. On a related note, when we started all the vhd were created as 127gig dynamic disks. Is it possible to convert them to fixed size but shrink them to about 10 or 20 percent

RE: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread David Lum
I use VM's whenever possible, even if it's a 1:1. Moves/upgrades are simply much easier. I'd run 2VM's if licensing isn't an issue. Dave -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Yea, run VM's. No reason not to and lots of little reasons why you should. I'd run 2VM's if licensing isn't an issue. Licensing shouldn't be an issue, IIRC you can run 4 VM's under one server license. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've recently helped a company build out several branch offices and one to deploy a remote datacenter. We virtualized everything. Absolutely everything. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin

Re: SemiOT: Cisco 2504 WLC tips?

2013-02-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Thanks for the input. I knew about the conversion from autonomous to lightweight, and have the manual that describes the process, as noted below. I already have in place the necessary VLANs - one each for management (which is shared among all switches), production wireless and guest wireless.

RE: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread Art DeKneef
Server/VM ratios depend on Server OS version. I think you are thinking of Server 2008 R2 Standard which does give you 4 VMs per server license. However that has changed in Server 2012 Standard. You are only allowed 2 VMs per server license. Server 2012 Datacenter gives you unlimited. While

Re: SemiOT: Cisco 2504 WLC tips?

2013-02-26 Thread Patrick Salmon
Not quite correct. As I understand it, only control and management traffic goes between the WLC AP. Everything else (ie client traffic) goes direct. If you have any AP's hanging off the PoE port and need to free one up think about using a power injector instead. Not ideal and may not be suitable

Re: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread Steven Peck
We have two ESXi hosts and an external drive array for even the small offices with 1-3 guests. Windows 2012 wasn't out in the release cycle for hardware refresh and we have a large ESXi install base now. We're looking at HyperV but change is slow if at all :) Getting Engineers onsite if there

Re: Seagate STAR401 BlackArmor NAS 400

2013-02-26 Thread Andrew S. Baker
No personal experience, but those reviews give me pause. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu

Powershell witth Quest - listing group memberships of users

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Leone
I am unsure what I am doing wrong. I want a list of all my user accounts, and I want the contents of the MemberOf property, among other things. Get-QADuser -SizeLimit 0 | Select

Re: SemiOT: Cisco 2504 WLC tips?

2013-02-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Not the way I read it, but it's not well written, so I could easily be wrong, and sincerely hope you're correct. That would simplify things a great deal. Thanks, Kurt On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Patrick Salmon psal...@gmail.com wrote: Not quite correct. As I understand it, only control

Re: Seagate STAR401 BlackArmor NAS 400

2013-02-26 Thread Richard Stovall
I have no experience with the Seagate NASes either. Personally, for this use case, I wouldn't consider something that doesn't support some manner of dual disk failure protection such as RAID 6.* I'd also be looking for something with a minimum of 5 bays so I could have at least one hot spare

Re: Powershell witth Quest - listing group memberships of users

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Leone
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: I am unsure what I am doing wrong. I want a list of all my user accounts, and I want the contents of the MemberOf property, among other things. Get-QADuser -SizeLimit 0 | Select

Re: Powershell witth Quest - listing group memberships of users

2013-02-26 Thread Steven Peck
.memberOF outputs an array and arrays don't play well with other types of info with just a straight select-object I used to use Get-QadUser JDoe | Get-QADMemberOf for this type of stuff Haven't actually had to solve this problem in a while now though. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Michael

Re: Seagate STAR401 BlackArmor NAS 400

2013-02-26 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I have my home NAS in RAID5 (4x2TB), and let me tell you it takes a long time to rebuild. I'm willing to risk a larger rebuild window for more storage (at home), so no RAID6 there -- this time, anyway. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO

Color me skeptical

2013-02-26 Thread Kurt Buff
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4013406/i-used-google-glass-its-the-future-with-monthly-updates On several levels, including: o- Too many areas without network capability - where I live, anyway. o- Voice interaction. Really? No thanks. o- Privacy. Do I really want Google to know that much

RE: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread Jon Harris
Personally I would go the one physical running Hyper-V and two virtual servers splitting the work. Unless you prefer to go the VMware route and do the same. I would take the free version of VMware and save the money. I have never had or heard of any good experiences with running a

RE: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
I probably sound like a broken record, but what requirements and constraints do you have? E.g. I did a project to deploy something like this to ~600 branch sites. In that case, the SCCM, AD, File Print and Wintel teams are all separate, so that was a key consideration in designing the end

Re: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread Don Ely
I'll add that if you can... Look into the Cisco 3945. You can put a UCS blade with plenty of RAM, disk and processor, 48 port POE switch and T1, ADSL or 4g cards in it. I call it network in a box or NIB. Sweet setup and simplifies things. On Feb 26, 2013 11:53 AM, Andrew S. Baker