RE: Guest network security

2013-02-06 Thread Jim Holmgren
I did that at my previous gig. I also printed tent cards up and placed them in all of the conference rooms, where company guests tend to gather. We changed the pwd every 90 days and just printed new cards. It worked well for me with no complaints. Jim Jim Holmgren Director

RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012

2012-12-06 Thread Jim Holmgren
with VMotion, Site Recovery Manager and all the rest of the goodies. It just provides fault tolerance on a lower layer than traditional clustering. I prefer both given the option. Anyone using UCS? We are starting to move heavily into that arena. Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure

RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012

2012-12-06 Thread Jim Holmgren
a bit, but to me, in this case, it is worth the extra effort to avoid that additional downtime. I think it really boils down to what is acceptable risk to the business on a particular system - there is no real cut-and-dried answer. Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth

RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012

2012-12-05 Thread Jim Holmgren
That's a pretty bold statement. ESX clustering does not provide application or OS failover - only hardware failover. I would not call ESX clustering vastly superior to Microsoft clustering. They provide different functionality. Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure

RE: Replicating VMs to DR?

2012-11-26 Thread Jim Holmgren
Just curious - if you don't have a SAN at your DR site, are you going to be able to adequately conduct business in a DR scenario? Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201

RE: East Coast people out there?

2012-10-30 Thread Jim Holmgren
It's a Kwik-E-Mart in the Philadelphia area. Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.comhttp

RE: recommendations for Bluetooth stereo headset that multi-pairs and is not an earbud?

2012-07-10 Thread Jim Holmgren
Jaybirds are awesome - I have had mine paired with both an Android and an iPhone, but as you mention - they are earbuds. They are very comfortable and weather/sweat resistant. I use them when I run or bike or just do yard work. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone

RE: Disable wireless when wired connection detected

2011-12-07 Thread Jim Holmgren
Sophos Antivirus can do this for you. We use it here, but on XP machines it does seem to have a tendency to blow up the wireless drivers occasionally. Haven't seen it happen on any Win7 machines as yet. Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-07 Thread Jim Holmgren
reasonable in cost than 2 years ago. I would not place anything permanent in RAMDisk, but I'm reasonably comfortable hosting TempDB on it. Regards, Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

RE: Antivirus Recommendations?

2011-11-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
We went through this exercise about a 14 months ago. We chose Sophos. I have not regretted it one bit. Easy to deploy, centrally managed, relatively small footprint...and best of all - it actually WORKS. Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation

RE: Antivirus Recommendations?

2011-11-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
Still does require RPC - you also have to turn on Remote Registry service to deploy automagically on Win7 clients. We built an SCCM package for client deployment rather than use the Sophos console. On the positive side, it does an AWESOME job removing Symantec automatically. Jim Jim

RE: Antivirus Recommendations?

2011-11-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
chose Sophos. I have not regretted it one bit. Easy to deploy, centrally managed, relatively small footprint...and best of all - it actually WORKS. Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

RE: web filtering

2011-11-08 Thread Jim Holmgren
We are in the process of implementing Zscaler here to replace our BlueCoat boxes. We have a lot of road warriors, so an on-premise solution was really not practical for us any longer. So far Zscaler performance seems fine and their reporting capabilities are very nice. Jim Jim Holmgren

National IT Support contact?

2011-10-19 Thread Jim Holmgren
? Thanks! Jim Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including

RE: Encrypted email solutions

2011-09-15 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 for Zix. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Encrypted email solutions Used Zix before worked just fine, Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization

RE: Off-topic question -- POV Daughter Card

2011-07-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
is not a supported option. If an attempt is made to move the POV card from one system to another, it may hang on boot and display an error message referring to an invalid machine type and serial number. Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden

RE: Off-topic question -- POV Daughter Card

2011-07-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
Well...I found this cool thing online, for lack of a better term I will refer to it as an Engine that actually allows me to perform a search of the Interwebs. -Jim I got yer Google right here pal... Jim Holmgren Director of Technology Infrastructure XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse

RE: Off-topic question -- POV Daughter Card

2011-07-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
Chicken. From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Off-topic question -- POV Daughter Card Interweb? Sounds Fasinating! What do they taste like? drod...@gmail.com Sent via Dell Streak 7

RE: Web Conferencing/Online Meetings

2011-07-13 Thread Jim Holmgren
was on the web conference - Fuze allows up to 100 attendees, everyone else was capped at 25. We have a daily Ops call that usually has 30-40 attendees and too many people were being 'shut out' of GoToMeeting. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation

RE: Web Conferencing/Online Meetings

2011-07-13 Thread Jim Holmgren
only qualm with WebEx is the limitation of 25 people on a web conference. That...and the fact that they update their client about once a week, so it seemed like every time I wanted to use it I had to wait for the latest client to download. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure

RE: OT: Blackberry tag reader

2011-05-25 Thread Jim Holmgren
crApps World. Almost as clever as M$. Have you checked the Apps World from a PC Browser? http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/ Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

RE: OT: Blackberry tag reader

2011-05-25 Thread Jim Holmgren
I don't read any postings - I'm not sure how I managed to reply to this one. Need to up my meds. :) Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main

RE: OT: TechEd 2011...

2011-05-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
Ah memories... I do really miss hanging out at TechEd. I haven't been since...2005 or 2006, I forget which it was. I believe it was in Boston - so probably '06. You long ago snatched the Exchange pebble from my hand, grasshopper. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services

RE: Touch screen tablets

2011-04-22 Thread Jim Holmgren
if it works with an iPhone – you are on the right track. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com

RE: Touch screen tablets

2011-04-22 Thread Jim Holmgren
In that case, it is probably perfect for her. It really is a neat little device, although I dislike the touch-screen keyboard intensely. I suffer from stupidfingers, and I fail miserably with the touch screen. Regarding the pins - for a 'normal' user, they are probably just fine. I agree

RE: Looking for secure video conferencing

2011-04-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 we used Polycom's personal video client extensively at my previous employer. Worked great! Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573

RE: Looking for secure video conferencing

2011-04-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
. Jim From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Looking for secure video conferencing Office Communications Server or Lynx should do it as well. On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Jim Holmgren jholmg

RE: Looking for secure video conferencing

2011-04-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
you have ocs2007r2? If so are there any significant differences between them you have noitced yet? On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Jim Holmgren jholmg...@xlhealth.com wrote: We have deployed Lync here over the last 2-3 weeks, but we have not fully explored the Video capability beyond

RE: Process Monitor reading

2011-04-14 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 Even a web based ticket with MS is only about $100. For non-emergent issues, I really like this option. It is less intrusive on your daily work and cheap at twice the price. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards

RE: Employee Self-Service

2011-04-12 Thread Jim Holmgren
. For purchased tools, I like http://www.directory-update.com/ That being said, it's from Jim McBee (a personal friend and Exchange MVP) so I'm biased. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg

RE: Desktop LCD mounts

2011-04-12 Thread Jim Holmgren
I buy all my home theater cabling (check out their prices on HDMI cables) and TV mounts from Monoprice. Can't beat their pricing! I also bought a load of Cat6 patch cables from them a while back - they worked great and were 'cheap as chips'. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure

RE: Android phones

2011-03-25 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 on Touchdown. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com From: Sean Rector

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-14 Thread Jim Holmgren
Sophos is constantly catching variants of Fake AVs in our environment. Not saying it catches all of them, but I definitely see it catching a lot of them. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 for Sophos. I'm a big fan - easy deployment, easy to manage via console, catches a ton of stuff that Symantec did not and I got great pricing from our local VAR. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
deployment, easy to manage via console, catches a ton of stuff that Symantec did not and I got great pricing from our local VAR. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201

RE: OT? Laptop bag suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Jim Holmgren
Checking into the airport Sunday I was behind a woman that had a polygraph machine in her carry-on. The TSA agents were having a lot of fun with that one. The woman looked a lot less amused at the delay. She got on her way quickly when she flashed some sort of badge at them. Jim Holmgren

RE: Ex 2010 verify recievers

2011-03-08 Thread Jim Holmgren
...or even better, post it to the Exchange list. :) Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell

Words of wisdom

2011-03-07 Thread Jim Holmgren
of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made happy. - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in Managing Support Staff, LISA '97) Just a little wisdom for a Monday afternoon. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager

RE: Seeking secure e-mail options

2011-03-04 Thread Jim Holmgren
into a web portal to retrieve the email. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com From

RE: Backups/deduplication

2011-03-01 Thread Jim Holmgren
a reduction from 36TB of 'source' data down to 5TB of 'de-duped' storage. Quite an impressive number IMO. I'm really looking forward to rolling de-dupe out further to include our SQL and Exchange environments. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation

RE: MSI deployment software

2011-02-25 Thread Jim Holmgren
6) SCCM Not free, cheap or easy - but pretty reliable. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com

RE: MSI deployment software

2011-02-25 Thread Jim Holmgren
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSI deployment software Well, yeah. Perfect solution, but It may be overkill for Matt though. -Original Message- From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: QUICK question... A/C adapters

2011-02-25 Thread Jim Holmgren
Matt, I believe you are correct. Also not an EE, but in about 10 years of working for RadioShack, that was the mantra. The device will only draw the amperage it needs, but it must have the correct voltage. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation

RE: How do you deploy AV?

2011-02-17 Thread Jim Holmgren
Sophos will hook into AD OUs. As soon as we add a PC to an OU, Sophos will push itself to it. It also works well with SCCM. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201

RE: Dedupe Thoughts?

2011-02-04 Thread Jim Holmgren
Mountain. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com -Original Message- From: Paul

RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

2011-01-31 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 on EQL shelves for VMWare. Great lower-cost alternative for the right environment. EQL and VMWare play very nice together. I really like that you get all the ‘bells and whistles’ included with the purchase – no licensing of separate options. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior

RE: Cisco Switch as VM?

2011-01-27 Thread Jim Holmgren
ISTR seeing something about a Cisco Nexus series of virtual switches at a dog and pony show recently. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main

RE: Riverbed Steelhead

2011-01-25 Thread Jim Holmgren
not make sense to us to switch from Expand at this point. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell

RE: Way OT - Anyone here had Lasik? How has it impacted your daily work (looking at screens, keyboards, etc)

2011-01-24 Thread Jim Holmgren
. will advise you on the proper amount of time to sit out depending on your sport of choice. All I can say is - follow his/her advice. I went from 20/200 to 20/20 in my right eye and 20/80 to 20/10 in my left. Jim Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation

RE: OT advice, please. Received a verbal job offer....

2011-01-21 Thread Jim Holmgren
A week seems like a good time-frame to wait before checking back with them. I would send a Hi, just checking in... message. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201

RE: APC Mgmt Card

2011-01-19 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 - never had any issue with them and I've had dozens. I do seem to recall that some of the earlier APC management cards were 10 Mbit link speed and did not auto-negotiate well, but nailing the switch port at the proper speed resolved the issue. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager

RE: free PDF printer

2011-01-18 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 for PDF Creator. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com From: Erik

RE: So...our data centre is under water

2011-01-14 Thread Jim Holmgren
James, My thoughts are with you as we are in the middle of implementing our DR plan. Given all that you have to deal with, I am not sure I would change your domain level at this point. If you need help - I do have a valid US passport and relatives in Oz. :) Jim Jim Holmgren

RE: DELL UPS

2011-01-12 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 on getting a new supplier. I don't think your DELL server is going to function better/more reliably with a DELL UPS, which is just a rebranded unit made by someone else anyway. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden

WAN Link compression appliances

2011-01-10 Thread Jim Holmgren
What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days? We have an office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices. They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand boxes, I'd like to see what other folks are using. Thanks! Jim Jim

RE: WAN Link compression appliances

2011-01-10 Thread Jim Holmgren
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WAN Link compression appliances +1 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Carol Fee c...@massbar.org wrote: Riverbed CFee From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Monday, January 10

RE: What's Your Phone?

2011-01-04 Thread Jim Holmgren
that Steak Diane for a nice Steak au Poivre? Not that I'm opposed to Steak Diane... :-) Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400

RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Holmgren
have it watch and alert based on event log entries. If we did not already have a large investment in SCOM here, I would be seriously looking into bringing IPMonitor on board. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street

RE: Heads up for Sophos AV users

2010-12-21 Thread Jim Holmgren
Interesting. We are just finishing up our Sophos roll-out. I sent this on to my team to keep an eye out for any server 'weirdness', but according to the article Sophos has already released a fix: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/112752.html

RE: Experience with doing IT Audits

2010-12-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
don't say you must keep emails for X days. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com

RE: Experience with doing IT Audits

2010-12-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
people want to play the ostrich defense ( head in the sand) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:28 AM

RE: Experience with doing IT Audits

2010-12-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
that ALL antivirus software must be updated, don't forget that most backup software has built-in AV capabilities and I have to ding you when Backup Exec AV hasn't been updated since it was installed 5 years ago. Did I ever mention I hate doing these audits? Webster From: Jim Holmgren

OT: Anyone looking for a new gig for the new year? (Baltimore area)

2010-12-15 Thread Jim Holmgren
! Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including attachments

RE: Anyone looking for a new gig for the new year? (Baltimore area)

2010-12-15 Thread Jim Holmgren
[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone looking for a new gig for the new year? (Baltimore area) Congrats Jim. -Original Message- From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Wednesday

RE: Anyone looking for a new gig for the new year? (Baltimore area)

2010-12-15 Thread Jim Holmgren
- From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Subject: RE: Anyone looking for a new gig for the new year? (Baltimore area) Thanks Jim. I'm looking forward to the challenge. My new position will be more like my position at my previous gig, so I'm pretty excited for the opportunity

RE: OT: Anyone looking for a new gig for the new year? (Baltimore area)

2010-12-15 Thread Jim Holmgren
Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Would you be my boss? :-) -- ME2 On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Jim Holmgren jholmg...@xlhealth.com wrote: Hey folks, I've got some openings coming up here in the Baltimore MD area. Some of these are due to expanded headcounts (we

IIS redirect opinions

2010-12-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
should go the other way - redirect http://www.oursite.com to http://oursite.com Just looking for some thoughts and opinions on this. Thanks! Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore

RE: Serial console sessions

2010-11-30 Thread Jim Holmgren
USB to Serial adapter. I keep one in my notebook bag for any Cisco/Brocade/APC work I may need to accomplish. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103cp_id=10311cs_id =1031104p_id=2276seq=1format=2 Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation

RE: NEW HALLMARK POST CARD VIRUS

2010-11-30 Thread Jim Holmgren
Wait...did AOL, Microsoft and The EPA confirm this??? From: MMF [mailto:mmfree...@ameritech.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NEW HALLMARK POST CARD VIRUS I just received a note from a good friend who tells me that there is a new

RE: Trust this computer for delegation

2010-11-19 Thread Jim Holmgren
) for an application on the IIS server - you need to Trust the IIS server for delegation - i.e. let IIS authenticate to the SQL server as the user. That was probably not the most elegant explanation, but hopefully it makes some sense. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth

RE: vipre: SVCHOST.EXE virus.

2010-11-18 Thread Jim Holmgren
What did Vipre Tech Support say when you called them? Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com

RE: Remote Consulting Opportunities

2010-11-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
Seems like you failed the first test. ...Please contact me off-line... From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Consulting Opportunities Hi Andrew, I am interested in this. Could you

RE: Backup solution options

2010-11-10 Thread Jim Holmgren
it would freeze out the smaller businesses. I would wait until you get something in writing. I've been using Commvault for about 8-9 years now both at former employer and current. I find it to be the most rock-solid backup solution I've used. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth

Event Log monitoring

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
after a decent number of member servers. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com CONFIDENTIALITY

RE: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
easier to pick up than previous versionsI'm sure there are some resources others can recommend for learning it in a hurry (sorry I can't help, but I am upgrading 1200 WYSE terminals and don't have much time to hunt through my bookmarks) On 9 November 2010 13:52, Jim Holmgren jholmg

RE: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Event Log monitoring System Center Essentials? The full version of SCOM may be a little overkill for 20 systems. On 9 November 2010 13:31, Jim Holmgren jholmg...@xlhealth.com wrote: What's everyone

RE: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
(no space). Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg

RE: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
is much easier to pick up than previous versionsI'm sure there are some resources others can recommend for learning it in a hurry (sorry I can't help, but I am upgrading 1200 WYSE terminals and don't have much time to hunt through my bookmarks) On 9 November 2010 13:52, Jim Holmgren jholmg

RE: A/V with content filtering

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
Are you looking for Application Control (filter IM/Web Browsers/etc), or Data Control (block SSNs/Credit Cards/etc) - or something different? Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD

RE: A/V with content filtering

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
I believe Sophos can do this. I know you can block all sorts of applications with it, plus storage devices.It also has a firewall and NAC piece. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

RE: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
/ From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Event Log monitoring Speaking of your bookWill you be releasing an Ex2010 revision? Jim From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com

RE: VPN issues

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
I was able to get Cisco VPN working with Win7 in version: 5.0.07.0290 Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400

RE: VPN issues

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
to allow for the version upgrade. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Jim Holmgren jholmg...@xlhealth.com wrote: I was able to get Cisco VPN working with Win7 in version: 5.0.07.0290 Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West

RE: VPN issues

2010-11-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
I was using the Shrewsoft client for a while, I experienced some major issues with it and decided to revert back to the 'real' Cisco client. Of course, YMMV - our XP users have little to no issues with it, but it didn't work reliably at all on my Win7 notebook. Jim Jim Holmgren

RE: SCOM question

2010-11-04 Thread Jim Holmgren
' - but it is another thing entirely to be able to answer 'why do you get Y when you do X?'. For the time being, with SCOM I'm happy to know that When I do X, I get Y. J I've got some SCOM training lined up for 2011. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation

RE: Dell vs Kingston ram

2010-11-04 Thread Jim Holmgren
Wow...I was buying memory from memory4less back in the mid-90's during my first real IT gig. Didn't know they were still kicking. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201

SCOM question

2010-11-03 Thread Jim Holmgren
to alert you every x minutes until resolution. It just seems that this would be a basic setting in any monitoring utility. Am I missing something? Thanks! Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore

RE: SCOM question

2010-11-03 Thread Jim Holmgren
specified on the Alert Aging dialog of the notification wizard. It really is easy. J Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:21 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Vipre and deployment

2010-10-29 Thread Jim Holmgren
Just curious, what is your deployment method? We packaged the Sophos .exe file with SCCM and it is deploying perfectly in our environment. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201

RE: Opinions on Bluehost.com

2010-10-23 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 They host my personal site. No issues at all, and their rates are outstanding. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443

RE: syslog server

2010-10-21 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: syslog server Kiwi From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Thursday, October 21,

RE: AV Opinions

2010-10-09 Thread Jim Holmgren
:-) Sophos is a bit of a memory hog (not sure how it compares to other versions), taking around 150MB (savservice.exe alone is taking 108MB on my machine currently). We are currently using 7.6.20 tht, Matt From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg

RE: EMC CX4 and FAST 2.0

2010-10-07 Thread Jim Holmgren
Good luck, I'll be interested to hear about your experience with FAST. We have migrated most of our VMs to EQL now, leaving EMC for the 'heavy lifting' - DBs mostly. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West

RE: AV Opinions

2010-10-06 Thread Jim Holmgren
Give Sophos a long look. I firmly believe they are the best of breed that nobody seems to talk about. They don't market to the non-corporate crowd, so that probably has something to do with it. I asked this list and a few other resources when I was evaluating solutions. I did not hear from

RE: EMC CX4 and FAST 2.0

2010-10-06 Thread Jim Holmgren
We aren't using FAST on any of our CXs, but we'll soon be implementing the equivalent on some of our Equallogic gear. We have a couple of their new 'hybrid' shelves on order (some SSD and some spindle) and we'll be using it for that. Equallogic does analyze I/O and automagically move the

z-bot scanner?

2010-09-30 Thread Jim Holmgren
Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including

RE: Spam appliances/services

2010-09-23 Thread Jim Holmgren
Barracuda. No per-user fees, very configurable and awesome tech support. I had them at %previousjob% and am trying like heck to get them in at %currentjob%. They'll even send you a 90 eval unit for free if you want to try it out. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth

RE: Email retention

2010-09-21 Thread Jim Holmgren
SOX does not say Thou shalt keep all email for X days/months/years. It says Thou shalt have a retention policy and shall abide by it. Bottom line - let the lawyers set the policy. Your job is really only to enforce it with the appropriate technology. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server

Fusion IO Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Jim Holmgren
, but the performance gained by using RAM disk was worth it. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell

Biometric AD authentication

2010-09-15 Thread Jim Holmgren
suggestions/recommendations from those that have been-there-done-that with Biometric AD auth would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main

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