RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-30 Thread Free, Bob
I had to work with one of the Ed’s, (Crowley) when he used to work here and we migrated to win95/Exchange/NT from win31/Vines. Now *that* was fun. Thought I would kill him at first but ended up with an enduring respect for his abilities and I actually really like him today. From: Ryan Finnesey

RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-30 Thread Free, Bob
:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown. Ed was one of the people I worked with on the project. We had over 100 different mail systems going into one single AD/Exchange 2000. very fun project. From: Free, Bob Sent

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-30 Thread Free, Bob
Close enough :-) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: End of month plan B for list shutdown. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote

Re: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-30 Thread Free, Bob
must have had some SNADS and PROFS ? From: Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown. I had to work with one of the Ed’s, (Crowley) when he used to work here and we migrated to win95/Exchange/NT from win31/Vines

RE: The list?

2013-04-30 Thread Free, Bob
It's Memorex. That is why you hear the sound of shattering glass. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The list? It is or is it? Thanks Webster From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-29 Thread Free, Bob
Nice. 502. That's an error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. That's all we know. Typical google :-] -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:40 AM To:

Re: So where is this new list signup?

2013-04-29 Thread Free, Bob
Yea YOU are here but what did you do with Stu? From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: So where is this new list signup? I'm still here. On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Webster

RE: [NTSysADM] Re: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-29 Thread Free, Bob
Since the GFI list is as yet imaginary would it be an imaginary subscription? From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Re: End of month plan B for list shutdown. Also, might be nice to subscribe

RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

2013-04-26 Thread Free, Bob
You're right, the older I get the more it annoys me... that brings up probably the best stat to solve this whole mystery: age Turn your monitor upside down and this will be easier to read in context -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

2013-04-26 Thread Free, Bob
deaned :-] -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION All you top posters, see answer inline. On 26 Apr 2013 at 7:23, Kurt Buff wrote: On

RE: Startup processes

2013-04-25 Thread Free, Bob
It essentially delays presentation of the gina/desktop till startup and GPO processing complete. Windows clients XP and above support Fast Logon Optimization in a domain environment. To turn off Fast Logon Optimization, you can use the policy setting. With logon optimization- Policy settings

RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

2013-04-25 Thread Free, Bob
Ooohhh, the popcorn is so much better when dripping with sarcasm -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION It was normal for 20 years,

RE: BSOD patch, Microsoft urges removal.

2013-04-16 Thread Free, Bob
You will have more fun finding the patch Finding it in different scenarios is laid out here pretty well- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2839011 Just skimming so apologies if that was already mentioned From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@live.com] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 11:46 AM To:

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-22 Thread Free, Bob
It's not necessarily what you know, but who you know... Today it's more along the lines of who knows what you know IME. Street creds trumped simple familiarity long ago. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 10:50 AM

RE: RT devices?

2013-03-20 Thread Free, Bob
I had a MS PFE onsite at the beginning og the year and he had left the power brick for his laptop at his last client so he worked the whole week off his surface RT. It was kind of surprising how well they had it integrated with their business systems. Of course if they couldn't pull it off who

Re: Normalizing a disk image

2013-03-07 Thread Free, Bob
LOL... forgot about that... sync; sync; sync; halt -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 7:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: Normalizing a disk image On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Webster

RE: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-06 Thread Free, Bob
Who said they had licenses? From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown Iran being one of the top countries that hit my blog is a bit unnerving to say the least. I am surprised the

RE: USB3 External HD recommendation

2013-02-28 Thread Free, Bob
In the small form factor, I have had very good luck with the WD Passports over the years. Just got one of the 2TB USB3 models. Whenever I go to get a new one, I check and Seagate is getting bashed in the reviews for reliability so I stick with what has worked for me. From: Webster

RE: Slightly OT: RE: Migrate DHCP from 2003 to 2008 R2

2013-02-28 Thread Free, Bob
We replaced all our old BIND and CNR infrastructure with them and it's working well. The UI is a bit challenging if you don't use it regularly but it's pretty powerful stuff, I especially like the grid concept. --Sorry for the tardy thread resurrection, been away and trying to catch up.

RE: Domain upgrade: 2008 R2 or 2012 ?

2013-02-12 Thread Free, Bob
We have been stuck at 2003 for some time we found during the discovery phase of the upgrade process because the vendor of our Contact Centers' application suite won't support the version we are running on anything else. That is finally getting upgraded so our AD 2008 migration plan is being

RE: Recommended Ultrabooks?

2013-01-10 Thread Free, Bob
I've been playing with the Lenovo Yoga every time I got to BestBuy and I really like it but I can't get past the dinky drive and it's being all chopped up into a bunch of goofy partitions in the model BB offers. I've read of folks upgrading to 256SSD and 8GB. Supposedly they announced some new

RE: Time sync

2013-01-04 Thread Free, Bob
If it's minutes, something's wrong. My experience is much the same as Steve's. Other than some very specialized applications, w32time is sufficient. We do have a very intricate Time Synchronization Network with multiple atomic clocks and other sources but it's not needed on the majority of

RE: Google Maps for iOS. Was: RE: iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

2012-12-14 Thread Free, Bob
: 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: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iOS6

RE: Google Maps for iOS. Was: RE: iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

2012-12-14 Thread Free, Bob
tells you to turn right into when the line on the map show you turning left. Nav free works much better On 14 December 2012 16:33, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: Looked different than the old app on iOS5 to me First experience was an epic fail, I copied a link from the map

RE: Phantom Exchange Server

2012-12-13 Thread Free, Bob
Engage that MBS guy or equivalent unless you have some PSS vouchers laying around. Not a trivial undertaking. Actually, there's probably no equivalent, just call MBS :-) -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:41 PM To: NT

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

2012-12-13 Thread Free, Bob
...@che.orgmailto:dgu...@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: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent

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

2012-12-13 Thread Free, Bob
For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. [Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iOS6 devices erroneously take

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

2012-12-13 Thread Free, Bob
section is very important. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs FYI- Our Exchange guys say the help desk reported

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

2012-12-13 Thread Free, Bob
but I blame Exchange for this one. Shouldn't Exchange keep track of the meeting owner and control the appropriate access? e.g- the Additionally, the Apple iOS 6 device may incorrectly let the device user (attendee) act as the meeting organizer.. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent

RE: DNS/Replication broken after MS updates?

2012-12-13 Thread Free, Bob
I've actually had an experienced PFE tell me there is no reason to run that arg in production unless you have a really good reason and know exactly what you are doing -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:11 PM To: NT

RE: I hate newegg...

2012-12-12 Thread Free, Bob
Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I hate newegg... On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Dell Premium is the slowest site in the world ... I suspect Verizon Wireless's

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-12 Thread Free, Bob
LOL -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: I hate newegg... On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: ... I would hate to be Ben. I hear

RE: Looking for Insight on Registrars

2012-12-12 Thread Free, Bob
lol, HRH Michael B Smith :-) -Original Message- From: Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looking for Insight on Registrars I also dislike GoDaddy. But if I'm going for *cheap* SSL,

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Free, Bob
I suspect Verizon Wireless's web site could give them a run for their money. (Or should that be crawl for their money?) Concur, I h@te checking my usage but it's a necessary evil for my situation. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Free, Bob
, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Dell Premium is the slowest site in the world ... I suspect Verizon Wireless's web site could give them a run for their money. Concur, I h@te checking my usage but it's a necessary evil for my situation. Try administering 30+ mobile

RE: Mobile app for password management

2012-12-04 Thread Free, Bob
+1 From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile app for password management Lastpass.com Has mobile as well as PC/Mac Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509

RE: Exchange 2010 - manage mobile phone

2012-11-30 Thread Free, Bob
Kind of makes me wonder about the security model if you have email enabled accounts using mobile devices that are victims of adminsdholder. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 - manage

RE: Exchange 2010 - manage mobile phone

2012-11-30 Thread Free, Bob
good, most weren't. But even after cleaning those up and delegating properly, this still had to be dealt with... And (shame face) fixing adminCount is trivial, but fixing up the ACLs (in a script) was beyond me. :( I don't speak really good SDDL. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday

RE: Auditing proof of password change

2012-11-29 Thread Free, Bob
www.guardianlife.comhttp://www.guardianlife.com/ From:Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/29/2012 12:20 PM Subject:RE: Auditing proof of password

RE: GPO Hell (Unlinked/Empty GPOs)

2012-11-16 Thread Free, Bob
FindUnlinkedGPOs.wsf in the GPMC scripts should solve the first issue. Have to think about the second one a bit more :) From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO Hell (Unlinked/Empty GPOs) Greetings,

RE: GPO Hell (Unlinked/Empty GPOs)

2012-11-16 Thread Free, Bob
did empty GPOs? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO Hell (Unlinked/Empty GPOs

RE: GPO Hell (Unlinked/Empty GPOs)

2012-11-16 Thread Free, Bob
{ write-host EMPTY GPO: + $tempGPO.name $tempLine = $tempGPO.name + ;EMPTY;; + $tempGPO.modificationtime add-content -path $reportFile -value $tempLine -encoding ASCII } } From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Standing up 2K8DC - finally. Opinions?

2012-11-09 Thread Free, Bob
working with AD but don't forget to check for Lingering Objects. Lingering Objects can really foul up replication between DCs. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Subject: RE: Standing

RE: Windows 8 app behaviour

2012-10-11 Thread Free, Bob
I thought this was the only tile you needed MBS? [cid:image001.png@01CDA7B0.4FF6A7E0] -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 8 app behaviour This is only

RE: Listing all groups / finding a group on shared folders security

2012-09-27 Thread Free, Bob
You need to audit changes of membership and validate they are appropriate. You can roll your own processes or use 3rd party software. Every group needs to have an owner identified that attests to its membership and necessity periodically. Identifying the purpose of the group has already been

Re: SOLVED RE: Deploying Printers in Group Policy not working for non-admins

2012-09-05 Thread Free, Bob
Thanks for the follow-up. Much appreciated Indeed(tm) Always appreciate the tickets being closed and KB updated :) From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 5:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: SOLVED RE: Deploying Printers

RE: Offline/online detection

2012-08-16 Thread Free, Bob
That's exactly what I was thinking, since that's kind of what NLA was designed for, couldn't it be leveraged? Actually went down the rabbit hole to look at it this AM to satisfy my curiosity but wsck got in the way :-] -Original Message- From: Steve Kradel [mailto:skra...@zetetic.net]

RE: DNS Lookup Failing for One Address

2012-08-15 Thread Free, Bob
AKA fishing lesson :) From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS Lookup Failing for One Address I have a theory. Often when Mr. Smith asks a question he isn't looking for an answer to that

RE: DCs in saperate OU

2012-08-14 Thread Free, Bob
Thought someone was reading our private conversations there for a sec :-] -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 7:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DCs in saperate OU Just had this conversation last week with several

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: Problem with computer not getting its security group

2012-08-10 Thread Free, Bob
voila`. You have a secure channel problem From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: Problem with computer not getting its security group 2 things are sticking out to me. 1. The

RE: help w/ tracert

2012-07-24 Thread Free, Bob
Or more apropos to the concurrent threads...pong :-] -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: help w/ tracert Like a tennis match. -Original Message-

RE: chagne AD p/w option

2012-07-20 Thread Free, Bob
Did I miss a portion of this conversation? What on earth does this have to do with the original question about userAccountControl flags being manipulated? AdminSDHolder has nothing to do with the original issue stated. I would also respectfully submit that this behavior is indeed by design,

RE: chagne AD p/w option

2012-07-20 Thread Free, Bob
/b/askds/archive/2009/05/07/five-common-questions-about-adminsdholder-and-sdprop.aspx Neener neener :) Dave From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]mailto:[mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 9:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: chagne AD p/w option Did I miss a portion

Re: The security database on the server ...

2012-07-19 Thread Free, Bob
on the server ... Just don't mail that list unless you want to see a world record of auto-replies ---Blackberried From: Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:31:29 + To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt

RE: The security database on the server ...

2012-07-19 Thread Free, Bob
/auto-reply. Dave From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]mailto:[mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The security database on the server ... Yep, worst auto-responding list I've ever seen. It's malware harvester heaven...how to get lots

RE: ipPhone attribute displayed in Outlook 2010

2012-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
a little dumb :) Excellent article and just what we want...too bad our Exchange is outsourced so we have no access/control of Exchange :( From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]mailto:[mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ipPhone attribute

RE: W7 workstation cannot install drivers

2012-07-13 Thread Free, Bob
Check that SYSTEM has Full control on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR Ensure you don't have any GPOs that govern device driver installation, restrictions or signing requirements. -Original Message- From: L. M. Rappaport [mailto:r...@lmr.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: File/Folder Permission

2012-07-12 Thread Free, Bob
Read up on DAC in WS2012, makes ABE look like child's play. http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/05/22/introduction-to-windows-server-2012-dynamic-access-control.aspx From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: OT - Clean Joke -

2012-06-29 Thread Free, Bob
Ahhh..usenet. Reminded me of a couple of Spafford’s quotes that are still fairly relevant today if you just replace ‘usenet’ with your medium of choice. “Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of

RE: Backup a DC

2012-06-29 Thread Free, Bob
, 2012 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup a DC This begs the question: Who patches the DC's, the same team that does the rest of the servers? From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup a DC Then you

Free eBooks from MSPress

2012-06-27 Thread Free, Bob
I've seen links to a couple individual ones here and there (thanks MBS) but here is a page with quite a few - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/05/04/free-ebooks-great-content-from-microsoft-press-that-won-t-cost-you-a-penny.aspx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

RE: Ex 2003 to 2010

2012-06-22 Thread Free, Bob
We did. Roughly 25K mailboxes in the prod env. From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ex 2003 to 2010 Is it possible to transition from Ex2k3 to Ex2k10? I've found a couple of documents that say yes,

RE: How many in your company can join systems to domain

2012-06-21 Thread Free, Bob
To each his own but you can do that just fine with ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota set to zero. The value of ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota is actually rather irrelevant with properly delegated permissions. We have a LOT of OUs with tens of thousands of computer objects and zero in the default container

Re: in-depth AD

2012-06-13 Thread Free, Bob
Actually, you do have a test environment. What you do not have is a production environment. Very ironic in this context. That quote came from one of the original AD lead dev managers, Don Hacherl. About as knowledgeable person as there is WRT AD :-) -Original Message- From: Ben

RE: Reality check

2012-06-12 Thread Free, Bob
To Hunter's point, and the gist of several of these conversations, if you minimize administrative authority through delegation, in this case, who can edit GPOs, that is poor-man's change control. You can actually wrap plenty of process around it even in the absence of AGPM or a 3rd party

ADREPLSTATUS - AD Replication Status tool

2012-06-12 Thread Free, Bob
Just looked at this briefly and it should prove useful, especially if you aren't used to regularly using/interpreting some of the lower level tools like repadmin. It has what looks like a great monitoring facility plus an educational element. Besides automagically discovering and monitoring it

RE: ADREPLSTATUS - AD Replication Status tool

2012-06-12 Thread Free, Bob
this: Supported operating systems: Undefined I hope Undefined is supposed to be Server 2012 as that is in the list of supported OS versions. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com

RE: Reality check

2012-06-08 Thread Free, Bob
Hope you keep your resume up to date. That is a recipe for disaster. I sure wouldn’t want to work in an environment where 1st tier support had power like that and there weren’t even rudimentary policies in place. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 9:29 AM

Re: To notify, or not notify (LinkedIn)

2012-06-08 Thread Free, Bob
, 2012 9:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: To notify, or not notify (LinkedIn) On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: https://lastpass.com/linkedin/ password and linkedin both come up as in the list. But 12345 does not. Interesting. peekaboo was also

RE: Schema upgrade/rollback

2012-06-08 Thread Free, Bob
To cut to the chase- bottom line- schema rollback = forest recovery. --Additional detail All due respect to Carl's link and it's author, that is not the party line from MSIT any longer, they do not recommend taking the SM offline and as noted in the blog comments, some updates fail unless

RE: User provisioning AD web Front End.

2012-04-18 Thread Free, Bob
Which we replaced DRA with over time. I've heard it's improved but went through a lot of hoops to get rid of DRA back in the day when it was acquired and rebranded. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-13 Thread Free, Bob
finale of Justified. :P - Will On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 20:04, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: Nah, I'm just misbehaving. The NewAndImprovedWill(tm) won't rise to the bait anyway. From: Lora Cates [mailto:lora.ca...@rocketmail.commailto:lora.ca...@rocketmail.com] Sent

Re: GPO weirdness

2012-04-13 Thread Free, Bob
Read Jerry's article there entitled Loopback 101for all the nitty gritty http://www.gpoguy.com/MailList/tabid/58/forumid/1/postid/3803/view/topic/Default.aspx From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:chanks...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Re: GPO weirdness

2012-04-13 Thread Free, Bob
Gpresult output is very dependent on how you are running it, permissions, arguments, UAC potentially and varies by OS...uh oh...the ubiquitous more-info. gpresult with the proper arguments and /v redirected to a file can be very illuminating. Also don't forget you now have very extensive event

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-13 Thread Free, Bob
I made no such claim :-p From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal Ain’t no man on this list (of which I am aware) a “gentleman” regardless of what he may have

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-13 Thread Free, Bob
...@rocketmail.com]mailto:[mailto:lora.ca...@rocketmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 4:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal See...now you've outed yourself. -lc From: Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com To: NT

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-13 Thread Free, Bob
. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]mailto:[mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal Hey now. You may be within arm’s reach soon if I’m not mistaken… From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-13 Thread Free, Bob
Trying not embarrass a newcomer should not be misconstrued as an attempt to curry favour :-p From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal I didn’t SAY that, but I sure did

RE: PC power management

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
Our desktop team settled on a product called Night Watchman. I believe it meets all your requirements. I know very little about it other than the fact there is a web page that I can power up my remote desktop from if I need it :) From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Thursday, April

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
Volumes have been written about this. There are even those who gasp disagree with Brian's recommendation. I'm not saying any of it is good or bad but a lot of smart folks have argued pros and cons of various methodologies over the years. You might want to read up on it a little for your own

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
, 2012 at 13:38, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: Volumes have been written about this. There are even those who gasp disagree with Brian's recommendation. I'm not saying any of it is good or bad but a lot of smart folks have argued pros and cons of various methodologies over

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
Lora meet Brian Desmond, author, Directory Services MVP, Conference Speaker and all around GoodGuy™ Consensus on empty root these days is pretty much against unless you have a really good reason. I have 2 forests built that way in the past here back when that was the prescriptive guidance but

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: GPO Reporting

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438tel:312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132tel:312.731.3132 From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO Reporting There are free scripts provided with GPMC

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
, and this topic was apropos to the research and planning I'll be doing to consolidate AD gone wild here. -lc From: Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
Will would be one happy fella once again. From: Lora Cates [mailto:lora.ca...@rocketmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal My, my! What happens were I to like it? ;) -lc

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
Fires up the jiffypop lol From: Lora Cates [mailto:lora.ca...@rocketmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal So I take it you lost? :) What, dare I ask, was your position on said matter in the arena? -lc

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
Think I'm going to need a steady supply so I'm ordering jiffypop from Amazon on Subscribe and Save :-] From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal Wow...

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
. Jon On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: Fires up the jiffypop lol From: Lora Cates [mailto:lora.ca...@rocketmail.commailto:lora.ca...@rocketmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain local vs

RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal

2012-04-12 Thread Free, Bob
? -lc From: Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:15 PM Subject: RE: Domain local vs. global vs. universal Fires up

Re: BB curve 9300 installation

2012-03-27 Thread Free, Bob
The something fancier mode may need drivers, but the ordinary USB flash drive mode does not. AKA- MTP vs MSC--Media Transfer Protocol (commonly referred to as MTP) is part of the Windows Media framework vs USB mass-storage device class (MSC) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott

RE: [dkim-failure] Re: OT: Re: OldCmp.exe

2012-03-23 Thread Free, Bob
was meant to be extended to Joe, I was thinking about the product it was designed to work with. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: oldcmp is hardly a MS product...one can only hope joe doesn't see this :) in this case it was the age old problem

RE: GPO puzzle solved, but why.

2012-03-23 Thread Free, Bob
I have tried to fix it with those suggestions, I'd rather shove an icepick in my ear than ever touch that junk again. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO puzzle solved, but why. Have a

RE: GPO puzzle solved, but why.

2012-03-23 Thread Free, Bob
: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]mailto:[mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO puzzle solved, but why. I have tried to fix it with those suggestions, I'd rather shove an icepick in my ear than ever touch that junk again. From: Miller

RE: (homedrive)

2012-03-14 Thread Free, Bob
of premier dollars if you have such a contract in place. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (homedrive

Re: (homedrive)

2012-03-14 Thread Free, Bob
Using it is painful enough I would hate to have to administer it Sent from my iPhone On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:46 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: You have never configured BMC Remedy then :) Cheers Ken From: Jeff Brown

] Re: List Speed?

2012-03-14 Thread Free, Bob
do the potty mouth thing and you will get a rise out of someone ... maybe by tomorrow when they get the emailLOL From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: List Speed? In the absence of

RE: (homedrive)

2012-03-13 Thread Free, Bob
, if not in the profile tab? From some of the links, I'm guessing a group policy preference, but not sure. -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (homedrive) Accept-Language: en-US Content

RE: (homedrive)

2012-03-13 Thread Free, Bob
That is the non-legacy way :-) And it makes Citrix look better EG j/k -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (homedrive) I always do home directories and profiles via GPO. Carl

RE: Proxy server and ISA

2012-03-12 Thread Free, Bob
Why do you need the registry value? My answer would be -- Because IE Maint policy is total bunk and it's way better to figure out the keys involved and use GPPs to manage them. I refuse to enter that branch of the editor anymore, been burned way too many times. It is the biggest piece of dung

RE: Proxy server and ISA

2012-03-12 Thread Free, Bob
My experience is that if you open it once and never ever touch it again it may work. There were not too many other options early in the W2K era but there are way too many other options now to even consider using it. A few quotes I've gathered over the years from Darren Mar-Elia who is a Group

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