Re: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-15 Thread Graeme Carstairs
You could look at direct access As long as the remote machines ate Internet connected they can be managed Usually people may still access the web bit not VPN onto corporate On Friday, 15 March 2013, Ken Schaefer wrote: So, if I could summarise your requirements, and current state: **

Re: Meraki

2013-03-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
My understanding was that the devices came with a 3 YEAR cloud license... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Jon Harris

RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Ken Cornetet
Why would you run CSG internally? I run a Xenapp 5 farm with just a web interface for internal users. External users come through a different CSG/WI box in the DMZ. From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CSG 3.2

RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Webster
I have LOTS of customers who run CSG internally. Some require that all traffic is encrypted and they also have a Citrix policy that says everyone uses RC5 128-bit ICA Encryption. I would change IIS to use 444 and upgrade CSG to the latest version 3.3.1

Re: 2012 DC in 2008 R2 Forest and Domain

2013-03-15 Thread Richard Stovall
Duh. That's what I get for being too deep in the weeds of day to day work and not thinking clearly. This is the (really!) obvious solution, but I'm already at the remote site. I will just install a 2008 R2 DC since I have no plans to move to 2012 AD terribly soon. Thank you. On Thu, Mar 14,

RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Greg Sweers
Thank you Sir. That is good info. To get fully up to speed on this, not expert mind you but good enough. What materials would you suggest to read. Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-644-3479 Cell 813-644-3476 Fax From:

Re: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread kz20fl
Export the relevant parts of the Citrix eDocs website into PDFs, for a start. Read Webster's blog :-) Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -Original Message- From: Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:47:13 To: NT System

RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Webster
Carlwebster.com of course! LOL Edocs.citrix.com and support.citrix.com are the two best and where I go (since I am one of the really weird ones who actually read product documentation). Thanks Webster From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:47 AM To: NT

RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Webster
BTW, someone wrote an excellent script to document the XenApp 5 (PS45) Farm. :) If you want to leave the customer with a document that will garner you high praise you should use the script. blush http://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-documentation-scripts/

Re: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread kz20fl
I'd be paying particular attention to the support roadmap for XenApp 5 on 2003 (what you're referring to as PS4.5). You may need to factor in some form of upgrade plan. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -Original Message- From: Webster

RE: Virtualization in small office

2013-03-15 Thread David Lum
I VM even in single-server environments. If you have a SMB with SQL and are buying Server 2012, you're licensed for four VM's, so you can divorce SQL from the DC .If you have the resources (RAM, disk), I'd run the DC, SQL, and file/print each on different VM's. Or at minimum divorce the DC from

RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-15 Thread Art DeKneef
Would Windows Intune be a possibility for those remote devices? From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Keeping 550+ systems maintained You could look at direct access As long as the remote

Re: OT - Suggestions for using Netgear wifi and extender with Security camera setup

2013-03-15 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Questions: 1. How far away are these buildings? 2. Are both APs indoors? (I don't know if they have an option for external antennas, and if you are using them.) Do you have an option to use outdoor APs? 3. What kind of bandwidth requirements are you anticipating? How much bandwidth is the

Re: OT - Suggestions for using Netgear wifi and extender with Security camera setup

2013-03-15 Thread Steven Peck
I originally had two Linksys 54G WAPs in the attic doing point to point to a neighbors house until heat killed them. I now have 2 Groove 5Hnof these and some external antenna's doing point to point to a friends house. http://routerboard.com/RBGrooveA5Hn Mine came with PoE injectors so they only

Re: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread kz20fl
You will need the XenApp PS extensions loaded and the Policies module as well. I think Web's documentation is quite thorough. I normally run it from a XA server but not sure whether its a pre-requisite. Cheers, JR Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY

RE: Virtualization in small office

2013-03-15 Thread Art DeKneef
Server 2012 Standard comes with TWO VM instances, not four. You're thinking of Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization in small office I VM even in

RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Webster
XenApp 5 (PS45) PoSH cmdlets have no built-in support for remoting like XenDesktop or XenApp 6.5 does. So you have two choices. One, get PoSH remoting working and run the script from the remote session. Two, run the script from a controller that has Word 2007+ installed. Ok third choice,

RE: Virtualization in small office

2013-03-15 Thread Art DeKneef
You don't specify size of office so here is a generalization. This is based on office size of less than 25 users. What I would do is use Server 2012 Standard as the host. Then create 2 VMs. The first VM would run Server 2012 Essentials and the second VM would run Server 2012 Standard. Server

Re: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Martin
No doubt. I read the entire article but missed the link the readme. Thanks for the nudge. - Sean On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:05 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: ** You will need the XenApp PS extensions loaded and the Policies module as well. I think Web's documentation is quite thorough. I

RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Webster
Very thorough if you ask me. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/43555945/XA5_InventoryReadMe.rtf BTW, I had a guy email me yesterday saying my new scripts need to do A, B, C, D and E. I told him to look at the help text. Everything he asked for the script does if he had just looked at the help text.

RE: Virtualization in small office

2013-03-15 Thread David Lum
My bad, I sit corrected! From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization in small office Server 2012 Standard comes with TWO VM instances, not four. You're thinking of Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Art

Re: OT - Suggestions for using Netgear wifi and extender with Security camera setup

2013-03-15 Thread Don Kuhlman
Thanks folks!  I appreciate it. Don K From: Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:49 AM Subject: Re: OT - Suggestions for using Netgear wifi and extender with Security

RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-15 Thread David Lum
I think we have the tools needed (We have KACE that can sit in the DMZ, we have an ePO server that agents can check in with currently), I was mainly trying to get an FTE estimate From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...

2013-03-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Followup on my problem - it's solved, and here's what the problems(s) were and the solution(s) Turns out that not only did both NICs have a DG, but the one that was supposed to be present in the server subnet was in a switch port that was tagged in a completely unrelated VLAN. No connectivity on

Re: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...

2013-03-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Oh, yeah - I also deselected Register with DNS on the NIC in the DMZ. Kurt On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Followup on my problem - it's solved, and here's what the problems(s) were and the solution(s) Turns out that not only did both NICs have a DG,

RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Webster
Glad to help. Thanks Webster From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5 I agree 100%, I just didn't catch the link to the readme when I read the article the first time. I'll test it out and let you know how it goes. Thanks a ton for putting

RE: Anyone have experience with System Center Essentials?

2013-03-15 Thread Rod Trent
You do realize that SCE 2010 EOL is 2014 and they are no longer developing any new versions? From: Tom Miller [mailto:tominyorkt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 4:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone have experience with System Center Essentials? We use System

Re: Virus outbreak action items endpoint management Q

2013-03-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:43 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Do any of you have a documented process to follow if you have a widespread virus/malware outbreak? Covers things like what actions what teams take identify, mitigate, remediate, etc. Not now, but once I hire a new guy (I have

Re: Virtualization in small office

2013-03-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Hank . hgedr...@gmail.com wrote: I deal mostly with SMB. Virtualization is a great fit if you have a number of physical servers. But what about a single server situation? That's pretty much the exact same scenario I was facing a year ago. You may find the

RE: Meraki

2013-03-15 Thread Jon Harris
Yes but at the end of 3 years you have to renew the license or the device will stop passing traffic. At least that is what the sales drone told me. I still don't know a lot of homeowners or mom pop SMB's that will buy into something that requires this type of commitment or yearly price. I

RE: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...

2013-03-15 Thread Jon Harris
Ah wouldn't have been easier to just trash and start over, but congrats on finding and fixing most of the issues. When you get the backups working correctly you will at least know the correct way to set up Lync. Jon Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:33:42 -0700 Subject: Re: Lync issue - something I

RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-15 Thread Jon Harris
If that is all you want and you have users as Local Admins I would put it at a minimum of 2 FTE and would try and get at least 3 or 4. If you get rid of the Local Admin then one or two should be able to keep up with load based on what you have to work with for tools. That was just my $0.02,

Re: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...

2013-03-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Unfortunately starting over wasn't an option - too many people already using it and have contact lists built, so that got nixed. What's even better is that the manager of the department found a script to enable accounts for Lync, and ran it at the root of the domain - so now all of our service

RE: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...

2013-03-15 Thread Jon Harris
You got to love management that does not look before they leap!NOT! Jon Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:05:01 -0700 Subject: Re: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand... From: kurt.b...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Unfortunately starting over wasn't an