RE: Rod, give me a buzz?

2013-05-06 Thread David Lum
Nothing wrong with that subject line at all... -Original Message- From: stu sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 8:09 AM To: ntsysad...@gwsin01.mbox.net Subject: Rod, give me a buzz? I will get you the whole list so you can send an invite to everyone.

RE: The list?

2013-05-01 Thread David Lum
Nope it went away April 30th. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 1:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The list? is this thing still on? On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com

RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-29 Thread David Lum
I vote do it. I prefer e-mail to web forum for this stuff. From: rodtr...@myitforum.com [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: End of month plan B for list shutdown. I can set up a list in a few minutes, just say the word. We

DFSR

2013-04-29 Thread David Lum
above - is using 2x/3x+ of the overall disk space as without DFSR, and possible traffic if you are a huge environment with very slow connections. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

RE: Disk space management software

2013-04-26 Thread David Lum
I do exactly this for a small (55 user) SMB client. I have them map to an O: (for Old!) drive that sits on RAID1 SATA drives, make it read only, and I have a Robocopy job that kicks off every week and moves files older than 1825 days (5 years). On occasion we clean up that O: drive You may

RE: LoJack

2013-04-23 Thread David Lum
Depending on the vendor, you might be able to flip the BIOS setting by running an EXE. I know Dell machines can have their BIOS settings changed without having to physically touch each system. Takes some work but depending on the # of systems it might be worth looking at. Dave From: James

RE: LoJack

2013-04-23 Thread David Lum
of Deactivated is useless without switching it over? If that's right, can you ask for them to be delivered Activated, or would you definitely have to at least set them up to run a certain program as you said? Cheers, JR On 23 April 2013 15:27, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote

RE: Synchronize booksmarks?

2013-04-19 Thread David Lum
Yeah, I was not thrilled when I found out Chrome (and now other apps are following suit) installs into the user profile. Mainly an issue for shared systems because I have received support calls about this isn't in my favorites anymore only to find out they installed and set Chrome as their

RE: Endpoint backups

2013-04-17 Thread David Lum
? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Endpoint backups Do any of you guys back up all your

RE: Endpoint backups

2013-04-17 Thread David Lum
...@che.org Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. [Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 17

RE: Push msi install package

2013-04-10 Thread David Lum
I always have better luck with .MSI's vs. exe's. Have you tried the various other switches available with the .MSI file? Dave From: Tom Miller [mailto:tominyorkt...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Push msi install package Hi Folks, We

RE: Blocking executables for the root of a share

2013-04-09 Thread David Lum
from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:45:34 + To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt

RE: Blocking executables for the root of a share

2013-04-09 Thread David Lum
of shared areas Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:45:34 + To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin

RE: UPS vs Switch Sanity Check

2013-04-08 Thread David Lum
LOL yeah, and simpler/faster to replace :-P. Unless a long steep downhill is in play here... From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@live.com] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPS vs Switch Sanity Check Do they also say to use the clutch to slow the car down

RE: OT: Just A Bunch of Noise, or The Beginning of The End?

2013-04-05 Thread David Lum
We have folks here that use Gartner magic quadrant info for decisions. -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 9:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Just A Bunch of Noise, or The Beginning of The End? I just wish

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-22 Thread David Lum
In case you haven’t noticed, privacy is becoming history. The current young generation by and large expects to be able to find out where there friends and family are, where they eat and shop, and where they work, and they also have no problems sharing their own information with people. As these

RE: I almost always agree with the Bruce

2013-03-22 Thread David Lum
+1 Good read, thanks for sharing that Kurt. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 6:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I almost always agree with the Bruce H e makes a very good point... ASB

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment

2013-03-20 Thread David Lum
My info is from 2008 R2, hopefully 2012 is similar Session Host (RDSH). Installed role: Remote Desktop Services. This server is what you'd install say, MS Office on and this is all you need to create an .RDP file to publish an app that folks can use if the endpoints are all on-network on the

RE: Manage JAVA updates

2013-03-18 Thread David Lum
At two locations (%dayjob% and my biggest personal biz client) I use VMWare vCenter Protect (was Shavlik) to patch Java and other non-MS titles. I also notice GFI Vipre Business Premium (used at my other personal biz client) also does patching of Java and a few Adobe items (Flash, Shockwave,

RE: Virtualization in small office

2013-03-18 Thread David Lum
Even at that, if you have the same Hypervisor it's not all that hard to move it to a new system by moving the virtual disks and creating a new-to-that-Hypervisor VM. Worst case is you have to assign NIC properties and re-activate the OS. I'm just glad Server 2012 lets you merge deleted

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: Virtualization in small office

2013-03-15 Thread David Lum
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 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

RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-15 Thread David Lum
(including proving compliance), you could be devoting almost an entire FTE to the above. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.orgjavascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'david@nwea.org');] Sent: Friday, 15 March 2013 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping 550+ systems

RE: Difference between port forwarding and DMZ

2013-03-14 Thread David Lum
: Difference between port forwarding and DMZ On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:22 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: What’s the risk difference between a server in a DMZ (firewalls on each end) and port forwarding from the Internet to a machine inside a network perimeter? Scenario : I have PC’s

RE: Difference between port forwarding and DMZ

2013-03-14 Thread David Lum
of your firewall. Thanks Webster -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Difference between port forwarding and DMZ I'll make another sweeping statement here: Don't put any machine

RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-14 Thread David Lum
long can they remain as 'unknown' Once you have an idea of what you need to meet, then you can start to work out what combination of technologies and people you need to meet it. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2013 1:40 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-12 Thread David Lum
http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBakerhttp://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market... On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Scenario: * 550 Windows workstations

RE: P2V DC/radius server - resolved [incl. troubleshooting steps]

2013-03-08 Thread David Lum
...@glic.commailto: [cid:image001.jpg@01CE1BC5.945C5770] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.comhttp://www.guardianlife.com/ From:David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt

RE: RD Gateway creds

2013-03-04 Thread David Lum
SSO should work, but they will still have to enter their domain credentials somewhere if they are logging in from a non-domain-joined computer. I forget the exact combination I have now, but from my home PC I only need to enter my credentials once to get past the RDS server and access

RE: Webster's question is very timely...

2013-02-28 Thread David Lum
USB3.0 as it will plug into more things . I have found USB 3.0 will transfer the same speed as my eSATA (ie. from SATA -- USB 3.0 is as fast as SATA -- eSATA, or roughly 80-110MB/s). USB 3.0 truly rocks. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday,

RE: Prevent duplicate DNS entries

2013-02-27 Thread David Lum
addresses? Thanks Webster From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 1:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Prevent duplicate DNS entries Kind of related to my earlier query, is there a way to prevent multiple DNS entries for a given IP address range

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

2013-02-26 Thread David Lum
. 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.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: I upgraded my personal lab server from 2008 R2 to Server 2012 last night. The server is mainly a Hyper-V and not much else. 1

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: Remote Desktop Server (Formerly known as Terminal Server)

2013-02-22 Thread David Lum
Does anyone have any insight to WTF MS was thinking when removing remote control? I'd like to think it was some sensible reason due to an architecture issue, but more likely it's a checkbox missed along the way. Oops we forgot that feature. Eh, like the START button on XP nobody used it...

RE: Migrate DHCP from 2003 to 2008 R2

2013-02-20 Thread David Lum
...@briandesmond.com wrote: I’ve used the KB mechanism many times Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Migrate DHCP from 2003

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread David Lum
and measured service: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 5:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup to cloud? Yes, DR. Their Internet connection download is 10MBps

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-13 Thread David Lum
: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup to cloud? Why would retrieval take that long? Are you talking more about disaster recovery? From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-13 Thread David Lum
/ www.onenote-tips.com Member: American Bar Association - 01473703 Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2010: http://goo.gl.HWqKc Author: The Lawyer’s Guide to Microsoft Word 2010: http://tinyurl.com/abaword2010 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-13 Thread David Lum
is my DR choice :-) On 13 February 2013 17:27, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.commailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Why would retrieval take that long? Are you talking more about disaster recovery? From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 13

RE: symlink c:\users?

2013-02-12 Thread David Lum
In Terminal Server\RDS-land I moved users to a D: drive with very simple registry change and it works flawlessly, all new users drop to the new drive, and it was trivial moving the existing ones over. Depending on your environment it might be time consuming while you wait for all the files to

RE: symlink c:\users?

2013-02-12 Thread David Lum
\CurrentVersion\ProfileList Value: ProfilesDirectory -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: symlink c:\users? And that registry change was.. :) -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org

RE: Rename 2003 domain

2013-02-05 Thread David Lum
Wow, Webster Desmond and MBS recommend against it. ...and I thought a couple of SBS swings were high on the things could go horribly wrong scale... From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Rename

RE: SMB IT provider Q

2013-02-04 Thread David Lum
said, needing a server like this is very rare. Or has been in my experience. If there is a server problem you usually will have some kind of warning and can go from there. Having a good backup plan and disaster recovery options are better options I think. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david

RE: Dell windows 8 COA

2013-02-04 Thread David Lum
I don't know that the key is embedded in the BIOS so much that the OS install looks for some specific BIOS properties, I've been able to re-install via CD across various Dell models (I can install XPSP3 on a machine that came with XPSP2, for example). Dave From: Crawford, Scott

RE: Robocopy reliability

2013-02-04 Thread David Lum
Alluding, but I digress :) I believe he is misinformed. I have *never* seen that. Sounds more like something he heard through a grapevine vs. experienced directly. I'd wager if pressed for details on this opinion he will be short on specifics. Don't trust pneumatic tires, they all leak, I know

RE: Robocopy reliability

2013-02-04 Thread David Lum
Fail. From: Tigran K [mailto:tigr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Robocopy reliability He was saying we should use just plain old copy. -T On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Matthew W. Ross

RE: SMB IT provider Q

2013-02-03 Thread David Lum
/bschorr * www.facebook.com/RolandSchorrhttp://www.facebook.com/RolandSchorr From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SMB IT provider Q I have a couple of clients and they both run SBS2011 Premium in their environments

RE: Password complexity question

2013-02-01 Thread David Lum
, David Lum wrote: I have seen a few articles on password cracking and using unrelated words, so I have a question Given the Making complex passwords section here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/crack-this-how-to-pick-strong-password s-and-keep-them -that-way/ Could you

RE: MS site?

2013-02-01 Thread David Lum
Works from OR, USA From: Spencer Read [mailto:s93n...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS site? Yep, no response from site! From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: 01 February 2013 14:54 To: NT System Admin

RE: On a lighter note for a Friday, Passed my CISA exam

2013-02-01 Thread David Lum
W00t! From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On a lighter note for a Friday, Passed my CISA exam Just got the official email that I passed my CISA exam, so I guess another Certification on the title and

RE: Been a long day today, but I won...

2013-01-31 Thread David Lum
Nice job Kurt! -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Been a long day today, but I won... So, it's month end, and our UK office is noticing that emails are not processing outbound from

RE: Multi-tenant campus security

2013-01-31 Thread David Lum
Is it feasible to bill per MAC address? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Multi-tenant campus security On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: Ouch - UPnP

2013-01-31 Thread David Lum
See the thread called Shocking? Somehow, not... Having a more descriptive subject line like yours is far too logical :) From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ouch - UPnP

RE: Shocking? Somehow, not...

2013-01-30 Thread David Lum
, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57566366-83/upnp-networking-flaw-puts-millions-of-pcs-at-risk/ David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel:503.267.9764 ~ Finally

RE: Windows Network Awareness and Public Network

2013-01-30 Thread David Lum
to switch some lab systems to Private to get them to talkdon't remember if you can force the Domain profile though Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan

RE: Limiting who can send all-staff e-mails

2013-01-25 Thread David Lum
or scam report to your entire staff, or asks for someone to move their car. That should do it. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:14:36 +

RE: Limiting who can send all-staff e-mails

2013-01-25 Thread David Lum
emails to everybody. That, and I brought up how easy it would be for a disgruntled employee to send an inappropriate message to the entire company. -Paul From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Limiting who can send

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread David Lum
: RE: DC's and VM's Unless you have a fully Hyper-V 3.0 infrastructure and your DCs are all Windows Server 2012. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DC's and VM's Is this still current thinking? Note: Always have

RE: FoxIT reader vulnerability

2013-01-15 Thread David Lum
E-reader...although for all I know they do extra crap too. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FoxIT reader vulnerability Doesn't Adobe (and possibly other PDF viewers)

RE: Ouch today's outbreak

2013-01-08 Thread David Lum
? 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 // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell

RE: Ouch today's outbreak

2013-01-08 Thread David Lum
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

RE: Replacement for SteadyState

2013-01-07 Thread David Lum
Word. Domain-joined system but they auto-login as a local user that belongs to the guest group in Vista, with a few other lockdowns that mimic Steadystate. Public machines are a completely different can of worms, and even the above isn't perfect but I can go several months at a time (been

RE: Occasional local admin needed

2013-01-07 Thread David Lum
they need it you re-enable it and set it to expire again the next day. Still manual intervention on your part but the automatic expire solves the ongoing access issue. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Occasional

RE: Replacement for SteadyState

2013-01-07 Thread David Lum
+1. Requires mindset change and buy-in of powers-that-be, which sometimes can be a hurdle... From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 7:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState how do you handle

RE: Grrr....

2013-01-02 Thread David Lum
: Description: InfoService-Logo240] From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Grrr Bought an SSD to put into an old Dell PowerEdge 840. Seems no matter what I try I can't get joy on it. The server doesn't pick it up

RE: Grrr....

2013-01-02 Thread David Lum
School District - Original Message - From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:44:54 -0800 Subject: Grrr Bought an SSD to put into an old Dell PowerEdge 840. Seems no matter what

RE: Grrr....

2013-01-02 Thread David Lum
Figures. I send these e-mails out, and now it works. I think I needed to format or otherwise initialize this drive, as since that I'd formatted the drive when it was USB, it now shows up when attached directly to the MB. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org

RE: Enterprise task scheduler

2013-01-02 Thread David Lum
We (not me personally) use something called Activebatch quite extensively here. http://www.advsyscon.com/products/activebatch/job-scheduling.asp Dave From: Adam Meixler [mailto:ad...@interlink1.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Enterprise task

RE: Restore 2008 R2 including product activation

2013-01-02 Thread David Lum
: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:59:07 -0800 Subject: Restore 2008 R2 including product activation Is there a way to do a backup/restore of 2008 r2 and not have to Windows re-activation? I

RE: Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this?

2012-12-21 Thread David Lum
Issues Subject: RE: Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this? Oh, great. I wonder what view CMS will take if a laptop is stolen\lost and it's encrypted. Will they still say it's a HIPAA violation? From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 12:29 PM To: NT

RE: Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this?

2012-12-21 Thread David Lum
that is running, and you have the tools and the appropriate skilset. If the box is open and running, then have a field day... Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david

RE: Has anyone used ActiveRoles DNS Manager?

2012-12-19 Thread David Lum
Solved. Need the 2005 client From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Has anyone used ActiveRoles DNS Manager? http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/dnsm.aspx Trying to install it it's telling me I need

RE: Advice re Workstation Backup Solution

2012-12-18 Thread David Lum
You guys have used HRH enough recently I had to go look it upLOL -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Advice re Workstation Backup Solution Again, my $0.02US worth is that

RE: Selling SMB-specific IT stuff

2012-12-17 Thread David Lum
E-bay...wow how did I not think of that... Thanks! From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 6:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Selling SMB-specific IT stuff Ebay? On 17 December 2012 13:54, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david

RE: Managed service

2012-12-14 Thread David Lum
There are many threads on this if you search the archives, but I love this topic, so... Rate: It depends where you are. Portland, OR Metro IT consultants charge between $80-$125/hr. In fact I'm the only one I know below $100/hr, granted I don't know that many others, like three. Check the

RE: Noob networking Q

2012-12-14 Thread David Lum
and lmhosts. That is how I do it physically with my DFS boxes. It will work virtually too. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Noob networking Q Scenario: Two VM's on a 2008R2 Hyper-V host. Host has 3 NIC ports. How

RE: Managed service

2012-12-14 Thread David Lum
--T On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:39 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: There are many threads on this if you search the archives, but I love this topic, so... Rate: It depends where you are. Portland, OR Metro IT consultants charge between $80-$125/hr. In fact I'm

Heads up: MS12-081 KB2758857 issue

2012-12-13 Thread David Lum
access and re-installing it produced the same no file access result. It may be an hour or two before I have more details but figured I should give you guys a heads up ASAP. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful

RE: iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

2012-12-13 Thread David Lum
We had this EXACT issue a few weeks ago...I should have warned you guys. In our case, it was a regular attendee declining it. iOS 6.0.1 fixes that bug IIRC. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iOS6 devices

RE: iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

2012-12-13 Thread David Lum
...don't touch calendar events on a mobile device... That's our official corporate response to the org here. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings - Exchange

RE: Hard set ports on Terminal Licensing server

2012-12-13 Thread David Lum
Oops I mean this one. I think :) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154596/en-us From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hard set ports on Terminal Licensing server We have one of those environments that has those

RE: Heads up: MS12-081 KB2758857 issue - Update

2012-12-13 Thread David Lum
is the culprit, but cannot confirm at this time. Dave -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Heads up: MS12-081 KB2758857 issue On my corporate Win7 PC this update prevents me from

RE: So we killed the CA server....

2012-12-12 Thread David Lum
Brian Komar's book--it makes everything so much clearer. --Steve On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Recap: 2003 DC (DC-SRV02) that was also a CA died a few days ago. Today I stood up a new (2008 R2 ,2nd one in this domain) DC and it is getting these errors

RE: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread David Lum
, 2012 at 4:47 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Seems every time I buy something they give me coupon code to suck me into buying some related and irresistible item that I seem to think I really want. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread David Lum
. I, personally, would still verify the DNS stuff for the dead DC is gone. Thanks Webster From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Subject: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+ You can clean up dead DC metadata from a GUI in 2008 and later? Just use ADUC and Sites and Services per this article

RE: -1) All your passwords are belong to us

2012-12-11 Thread David Lum
As irritating to me is when a space is not an allowed character in the password. I can only guess it’s to make some back-end process less painful, or just lazy programming…. Dave From: MMF [mailto:mmfree...@ameritech.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread David Lum
the dead DC in ADUC, select delete and you are done. I, personally, would still verify the DNS stuff for the dead DC is gone. Thanks Webster From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Subject: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+ You can clean up dead DC metadata from a GUI in 2008 and later

RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB

2012-12-06 Thread David Lum
Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market... On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: It only needs to host, I already have all those other functions being handled by the guest VM's. From: Christopher Bodnar

RE: Outlook web access MAC

2012-12-05 Thread David Lum
this spring/summer... On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Bah, he has until April of 2014, just like XP users! ...says the guy who pulled 2 clients off E2K3 just this year Dave -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com

RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB

2012-12-05 Thread David Lum
What about 2012 – 4Tb limit. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: 05 December 2012 16:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB I have a client system that can physically hold 64GB of RAM, is $2000+ 2008 R2 Server

RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB

2012-12-05 Thread David Lum
-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.commailto: [cid:image001.jpg@01CDD2F4.2824DC90] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.comhttp://www.guardianlife.com/ From:David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org

RE: Outlook web access MAC

2012-12-04 Thread David Lum
Bah, he has until April of 2014, just like XP users! ...says the guy who pulled 2 clients off E2K3 just this year Dave -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook

RE: Exchange 2010 - manage mobile phone

2012-11-29 Thread David Lum
: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 - manage mobile phone Sign in using OWA Lite. Go and clean Device Associations. Re-associate. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday

RE: Exchange 2010 - manage mobile phone

2012-11-29 Thread David Lum
permission inheritance on the user object. And why are you asking this question here, instead of the Exchange list? :P From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 - manage mobile phone Whoa...it showed 4

RE: AD Washout

2012-11-27 Thread David Lum
This was a good thread for me, even though I wasn't affected it has been added to my brain as a wow, I would have never thought of that item. Hunter, how did you find that article? From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:hcole...@mt.gov] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Free Windows 8?

2012-11-27 Thread David Lum
ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. [Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Free Windows 8? Interestingly, On our VLSC site, the keys

RE: AD Washout

2012-11-27 Thread David Lum
not too long after Dan sent out his message. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AD Washout This was a good thread for me, even though I wasn't affected it has been added to my brain as a wow, I would have never

RE: Window 8 on your PC

2012-11-21 Thread David Lum
, 2012 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC Unless all of your apps are from the Windows 8 store (with the modern UI), you practically run in desktop mode anyway. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: AD Washout

2012-11-21 Thread David Lum
Allow Replication With Divergent and Corrupt Partner I think this is on my marriage certificate... From: Dan Bartley [mailto:bartl...@corp.netcarrier.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 7:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AD Washout Ok, this was it. I simply created the Allow

RE: Endpoint Protection with Device Control?

2012-11-21 Thread David Lum
Speaking of Vipre, I noticed v6 of Vipre Business Premium has added mobile device (iOS, Android) policies. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Endpoint Protection with Device

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >