EXTREMELY informative and helpful.
Thank you very much!
From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: South Florida position.
As a business owner of a small IT consultancy in Boca Raton, you probably
sarcasm off
There was sarcasm there at all.
/sarcasm off
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: South Florida position.
Your sarcasm does not help your post. Plus, I worked a year in
Folks,
I truly hope this is allowed and that I don't upset people by this e-mail.
We're looking for some reliable people to start and grow with us.
If you know anyone, please forward this to them.
Thanks!
On-Site Computer Field Technician Tech Support Rep (Hollywood, Aventura,
North Miami
Guys,
THANK YOU for your input.
It REALLY is constructive.
And, if you know someone willing to start with low pay and grow (skipping
the sales part as it's an added bonus anyhow), please let us know.
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February
Um.. anyone notice the $25/hr part?
From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 6:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: South Florida position.
I thought I was the only one that paused when I read $12/hr after such an
exhaustive description.
On
Hi all,
Anyone noticing backbone and routing problems?
I've had 2 people call up with routing issues.
One is on Comcast, one is on ATT.
One is going to realpage.com and the other to apptix, but same type of
symptoms on tracerts.
Thanks for your input.
Dave
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Much appreciated.
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Hi gang,
I know I'll probably get laughed at for this but
If I have a mix of 100 and 1000 port PCs on a network, will it bring the
whole network to 100 or will the switch automatically adjust between the 2?
Thanks!
Dave
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Morning folks!
Hope everyone is well.
I am familiar with Nagios (somewhat) and how it works but I was
wondering
Is there anything like Nagios that allows you to put an agent on a machine
and have the machine call the server to update?
The downside to Nagios is having to deal with firewall
Yep.. but.. and I'm being picky here...
What if I don't want to use Nagios?
By the way, this IS to monitor Windows boxes.
Thx
-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
The problem is this user logs onto 2 workstations.
I need the saver on 1, and not the other. :(
-Original Message-
From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Deny GP to single workstation
Screen
The Domain policy is overwriting it.
I enable loopback on the screensaver policy, but no dice.
-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 10:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Deny GP to single workstation
Set the local policy on
Hi folks,
It's been a long day after a long week after a long month... and my brain is
on vacation.
I have a GP in SBS2008 that sets the screen saver policy.
I don't want it to ally to a single Vista machine, so I have denied the
machine account under
delegation, but it keeps showing up.
Could
There ya go!
Your school has 11,546 votes.
From: leedoug...@pellis.com [mailto:leedoug...@pellis.com] On Behalf Of Lee
Douglas
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 9:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT Friday Favour
Done. Good luck, eh
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Andrew Laya
Happy Friday folks!
Anyone know of a quick-to-run utility that can be run on each workstation in an
office to quickly capture information such as make, model hard drive size?
Thanks much as always!
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And YES, I have Googled this but Google doesn’t take an administrators personal
hands on experience into account. ;-)
-Original Message-
From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:35 AM
To: 'NT System Admin Issues'
Subject: Quickly capture
Ugh.. I'm VERY sorry for fat fingering.
Too much coffee, not enough sleep.
-Original Message-
From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Quickly capture security information
And YES, I have
Good to go folks!
Thanks for all the QUICK info!
I love this list.
-Original Message-
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 12:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Quickly capture security information
PSINFO ???
Erik Goldoff
IT
Good Monday morning folks,
Does anyone have a basic (5 pages or so) disaster recovery plan or template
they wouldn't mind sharing with me?
Much appreciated.
Dave
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Thanks Ben.. but I already went through the first 5 pages before posting
here.
Appreciate your input though.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 11:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Basic Disaster Recovery Plan
Clayton,
An absolute goldmine.
Thank you very much for your thoughts, valuable advice and the time you took
to share it.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Clayton Doige [mailto:clayton.do...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 1:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic
Hiya folks,
Hoping someone can help me figure out what i missing here!
I'm working on a SBS2008 server with a secondary Standard 2008 Server acting
as terminal server.
The server is in the domain\mybusiness\computers\sbsservers OU.
Everything is working OK, TS works, I can login and test
God Bless!
Thanks SO Much.
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: GP not applying
Did you enable loopback policy processing?
From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com]
Cool!
Thanks
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Another Option for Remote Support
https://join.me/
Roger Wright
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When it's GOOD there ain't nothin' like it, and when it's BAD there ain't
nothin'
Hi all,
Helping a friend troubleshoot an SBS issue.
The user goes to https://fqdn/remote.
Logs in as domain admin.
Clicks on Connect to a computer.
Selects the server.
Once he hits connect, it keeps asking for credentials and not accepting any.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thank
~ Finally,
Plot thickens..
I have this in the TS event viewer:
The TS Gateway service is shutting down. To diagnose possible causes for
this problem, verify whether the following services are installed and
started: (1) World Wide Web Publishing Service (2) Internet Authentication
Service (IAS) (3)
Thanks Man
From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 3:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Your copy of “Networking and Security for Dummies
Not sure if anyone's interested but thought I would share...could be good for
educating non-technical type
Thanks a bunch.
Although… they talk about hubs… when was this written?!
From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 3:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Your copy of “Networking and Security for Dummies
Not sure if anyone's interested but thought
+1 for Spiceworks
From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Agentless hardware inventory tool
What about a tool that is cross-platform? Spiceworks, the last time I used
it was buggy and couldn't
Welcome back Marc!
I must ask.. do we each get a free copy of Retina as friends? ;c)
On Jul 13, 2010 6:53 PM, Marc Maiffret mmaiff...@eeye.com wrote:
NTSYSADMIN friends,
I first joined this list approx. 10 years ago when I was 17 years old
and first founding eEye Digital Security. I
How do you know a second one used it?
There is writing on the white out.
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 12:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Bad joke contest
How do you know when a Blonde has been at your computer? There's whiteout
Notice:
Due to recent budget cuts, high unemployment and the rising cost of food,
electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, and the
overall state of the union, The Light at the End of the Tunnel has been
turned off.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
From: Richard
Hi gang,
Does anyone know how to import a whole list into the IIS7 IP address
restrictions?
We're trying to block whole countries with a list of 100's of IP/Subnets and
it would be a nightmare to manually put in.
Thanks
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I already have a list, need to know how to bring them into IIS in bulk.
-Original Message-
From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Importing IP block list in IIS7
there is this
The firewall will block for all sites on the server.
I am trying to block these countries to only a specific site.
Thanks
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:46 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Importing IP block list in IIS7
Why
Awesome
Thank you!
From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Importing IP block list in IIS7
Applicationhost.config?
From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08,
Did someone pull the plug on Nigeria and China?
Barely had any spam today.
I'm getting worried about the hundreds of millions I'm losing in unclaimed
dead Nigerian king accounts.
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Crap. BP top killed the wrong thing.
From: Murray Freeman [mailto:m...@alanet.org]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 5:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Slow spam day?
A few weeks ago, I couldn't believe the heavy amount of spam I was
receiving, and then, for the last 2 weeks, it's
Not sure if anyone mentioned this but you can try showmypc.
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Cool!
Thanks and thank you to everyone else who has chimed in so far.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How to block, but not block?!
Might be pertinent to your project:
Hi all,
I have been asked to provide a solution which I don't think can be provided,
but figured I'd get your input any see if you know of anything out there.
The concept is as follows:
There is an excel file which is highly secretive and guarded.
The CEO wants to make sure people have no way of
Good stuff but I did forget to add something.
A user taking a screenshot of the spreadsheet, then saving it.
So while they are locked down from doing any mods on the file, they can
always screenshot and retype.
Plot thickens.
-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle
Those have a special reflective ink inside from what I read.
-Original Message-
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How to block, but not block?!
You beat me too it.
That reminds me, I always
Good morning folks.
We're having an odd issue with a site and I was wondering if anyone had any
ideas:
Windows SBS 2008, Migrated by someone else from 2003.
Some newly created users get Outlook errors when connecting from inside the
network.
They are logged onto the domain, but when they start
We didn't do the migration, so I can't tell for sure.
There is a user however that was added since that does not have this issue.
Also, the users can connect to network and user shares on the server just
fine with no additional authentication.
-Original Message-
From: Maglinger, Paul
That describes it exactly.
I'll run it after a full backup and report back.
Thank you very much!
-Original Message-
From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SBS Console Error
Check this out
Has anyone seen this?
TOO FUNNY and perfect for the list.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/
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No luck. sees it as network drive which it refuses to back up.
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Symbolic Link to SMB in Windows 2003
Does subst make any difference? I'm not familiar with
I'm trying to get Carbonite to backup a network drive.
In Windows 7, I can mount the drive with mklink and all is fine.
But I cant seem to find a way to mount a \\network file:///\\network
drive in Windows 2003.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks!
~ Finally, powerful endpoint
Thant mounts it as a network drive, which carbonite will not back up.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Symbolic Link to SMB in Windows 2003
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:14 PM,
Why do I even bother clicking?!
Never gona.. Damn.. stuck in my head now.
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Google Home Page Today
As is mine:
http://tinyurl.com/the-real-sc
-sc
Hi all,
I've come across 2 15 touch screen monitors that are spare.
If you have them, what would you use them for?
Let the creativity begin!
Thanks
Dave
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From: Joshua Wilson [mailto:joshua.wil...@wilsongroup.cc]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT Looking for new Webhost
http://myhosting.com/
Joshua
From: Chris
I meant at home.
I've been trying to get LinuxMCE to work and use this as an orbiter, but no
luck..
Thus the quest for other ideas.
I do use X10 at home, but an inwall really doesn’t intrigue me.
-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
Hi Folks,
I have come across some OLD laptops.
I would like to use them as displays.
They all have network, ram, but no hard drives.
I also have a spare server.
Is there an open source, or free solution where I can run a server, put my
own images on it, and it will allow each laptop boot a
My Goal is to make it so they boot, and open a webpage via active desktop or
a page in Firefox, as well as have VNC enabled.
From there, they just sit there and are only used as displays.
On the image side, I want to put in a drive, build the machine in either
Ubuntu or XP.
Once it's how I want
It's a personal cert that's installed via the banks website.
I have even exported it, then imported it.
It shows as imported fine, but when I open IE, it does not show up under
personal certs.
The bank claims that it belongs under personal certs.
I have also tried to install it in other
Hi all,
Got a very odd issue.
We have a domain user who is trying to log onto a bank website.
The bank requires an SSL cert to be installed.
The cert installs and shows as installed under personals certs, but, once IE
is closed and reopened, it's gone.
Anyone have any ideas?
Hello all,
We migrated our VMware virtual machines (4) to a Windows 2008 box with 4 gigs
of ram this weekend.
All went well, with one problem.
Despite the fact that Vmware is set to only use only 3072MB of ram, it
continues to use ALL the available memory on the server bringing it to a crawl.
My problem is VMware itself is still taking close to 4 gigs.
Even if I set it to 1 gig, it still sucks down all the memory.
I have 2 machines shut off for now till I figure this out.
This is what happens when you do things last minute.. I know.
-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale
Hi gang,
I'm looking into branching into Hippa compliance a bit as an IT consultant.
The basic idea is to walk into a doctor's office, tell them what they have
wrong, how to fix it, and implement.
Does anyone have any experience in this?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Hi all,
Need help with a simple batch file.
I need to list all files created/modified today via a batch file.
I have the below but it's not working so well.
Any ideas?
dir c:\ /b /O:N /S | find %date%
Thanks
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Thank you all for your input.
I'm trying out Acronis and we'll see how it goes.
The only thing I noticed missing from it is backup file rotation, so I setup
a full backup for Friday and 1 incremental for each weekday.
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Afternoon all.
I have a need to backup an XP desktop which has about 400GB of data to a NAS
on a nightly basis.
I need to be able to backup locked files as the user does not log out.
We've been using Symantec BESR, but it ALWAYS shows an error for one reason
or another including the fact
Which version?
Does it handle open files?
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I installed Acronis True Image Echo Workstation and.
It choked when it hit the first locked file, followed by a crash.
Hmmm.. Thoughts?
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I'm trying to download SP2 at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-
8245-9E368D3CDB5Adisplaylang=en
When I click download, it goes to:
http://www.microsoft.com/library/errorpages/smarterror.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/d
ownloads/info.aspx
H. Did SP3 come out
I second that!
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Is there a way to convert a virtual machine which was made/opened in Vmware
Workstation ACE, to good ole server?
Thank u!
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Huge blackout hits Florida
Massive power outages struck central and south Florida this afternoon, with
power reported out on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts as a heavy weather system
moved through the region, police and utility officials said. About 4.4
million customers were affected.
Power is
FPL just came out with an official response:
D'oh, we flipped the wrong switch
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So, I'm filling out an SBA form, and it asks for my E-Mall (electronic mall
selling firm's products):
I put in an e-mail address and I get a popup error. It says:
ERROR, Email must begin with http:// or https://.
Hmm..
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So, if you get hacked, does the hacker take over your arm and make you slap
the $#!t out of yourself for implanting this thing?!
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Where can I get recode for Windows? Google was less than helpful.
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Up from Miami, FL on Bellsouth using ffox.
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Hi all,
I'm just starting to look into this, but..
Anyone know of a free mail server that can be used to ETRN to an exchange
server during maintenance?
Thanks!
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Anyone having Cogent issue in South Florida?
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How does BCM handle multiple users (company wide) and centralization?
Last I knew about it, it ran a local SQL server on the client and nothing
server side.
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Hi all,
We have a small IT consulting company that is on the growth and bogged down.
I need to implement some sort of solution for collaboration and
synchronization with the software that come with the Action Pack.
We are currently testing Exchange 2003, and will probably end up using it,
I mean, an outlook account using an exchange backend.
This way they get the info on their mobile pocketpc devices too.
All Windoz.
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Anyone know of a way to reverse an accidental revert to snapshot in VMware?
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I gota go on a diet.
My stupid fat fingers.
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