at 5:47 PM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Easiest way is to:
a) create a second website.
b) Configure the second website with the host header
trial.google.comhttp://trial.google.com
c) Set the home directory of the second website to be the test folder
There's insufficient information in your post to answer completely.
Do you have two separate websites setup in IIS? If so, then you can simply use
any number of redirect options (IIS has inbuilt redirect functions, or you can
use .NET, or the optional ARR module) to redirect
Easiest way is to:
a) create a second website.
b) Configure the second website with the host header trial.google.com
c) Set the home directory of the second website to be the test folder
But, what you are asking for now is not what you were asking for before...
Cheers
Ken
From: Daniele Bartoli
Works great in Singapore, Brisbane and Sydney as well.
Surprised that it doesn’t work, considering that Nokia bought Navteq, which
is/was one of the two big mapping firms…
From: rodtr...@myitforum.com [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 8:24 PM
To: NT System Admin
What happens when the WAN sh*ts itself, and your environment is cut in half?
Cheers
Ken
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 10:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DFSR
That can be mitigated with setting referral ordering on the
FWIW Even full-mesh redundancy doesn't help you if your telco pushes some
incorrect config to their core routers, or pushes some bad firmware to devices
etc. You still end up with split network.
Referral ordering relies on all users being able to access the current top
target simultaneously.
Lumia 920 has worldwide free offline maps. So that’s at least one more +1 for
the Lumia
Also sent from Surface Pro
From: rodtr...@myitforum.com [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2013 5:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: _Lumina_822_phone
HTC 8x is a better phone
Lumia 920 has wireless charging as well.
Also typed on Surface Pro
From: rodtr...@myitforum.com [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2013 9:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: _Lumina_822_phone
Some are. The Nokia Drive app is, for example. HTC also has wireless
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: On the subject of security...
Everything is about /management/ of risk, not 99.99% avoidance of risk.
You manage risk by taking countermeasures, I believe, not by ignoring them.
Where do you get this
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: On the subject of security...
I think it has everything to do with the comic, or at least my understanding
of the comic. What I'm
reading from it is that he's using poor web browsing techniques, and
I'd argue that Google's way of searching was/is sufficiently different to the
competition (Alta Vista anyone) to be considered some kind of shift.
If you're going to say that Google didn't revolutionise search because they
didn't invent it, then arguably there's been nothing revolutionised for
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 10:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Color me skeptical
If you're going to say that Google didn't revolutionise search because they
didn't invent it
But they did not create a paradigm shift. Nothing
If you go back to the source, it's supposed to be a phrase used entirely for
changing scientific views of our universe, but since then has become a debased
phrase that can mean whatever you want it to mean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
Would letting blind people see be a
From: Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:27:19 +
To: NT System Admin
Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues
ntsysadmin
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 18 April 2013 6:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: On the subject of security...
If that's the case, then he didn't make his point at all clear.
...
True again - and again unremarkable. My point
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: On the subject of security...
No running executables from untrusted sources, turn off scripting in
my browsers, view all email as plain text, no remembering/caching of
passwords in browsers, using a unique
Some thoughts on this:
- A company going and buying 40,000 iPads isn't BYOD. Corps have been
buying phones (e.g. Blackberries), laptops and tablets for staff for a long
time. If the corp is providing it, it's not BYOD
- The concept of remote VDI isn't new. That said I don't
What happens when the business relies a lot on Access DBs, Excel spreadsheets
etc.?
Do I have to whitelist every macro? Am I still at risk of data
loss/corruption/exfiltration?
Cheers
Ken
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2013 12:54 AM
To: NT System
My thoughts:
a) One size fits all solutions simply don't fit most organisations. Some
e.g.:
a.(e.g. you support users connecting from home today, so obviously
you can obviously scale to support the entire organisation doing the same at
work, or
b. give each user their own
If you're admin on the machine, can't you just run a keylogger? Then you've got
the DA's credentials in the clear (assuming they use a password)
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013 10:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Why don't you use smart card login instead?
Security is about managing risk, and not about avoiding every possible risk.
Work in a big enough org, and the risks are so numerous there's simply no way
to avoid them all - some of them just have to be accepted as is.
Cheers
Ken
-Original
, the output is a bit mystifying and I'm not sure what
I'm looking for.
Thanks Ken
Richard
From:
bounce-9597307-8267...@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:bounce-9597307-8267...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
[mailto:bounce-9597307-8267...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Ken
Schaefer
Sent: 05
Gartner's just saying that Microsoft might be outsold by Apple and/or Android
devices by 2017 (I'm not really sure because Gartner's not directly quoted
anywhere)
Then there's some quote from some completely different party.
So, given we have no idea exactly what Gartner's actually saying, I
IIS Debug Diagnostics tool does a bunch of things for you automagically, and is
geared towards w3wp.exe issues.
Otherwise you can simply download the Windows Debugging Toolkit (the main tool
you want is WinDBG), or use any user mode debugger (even Visual Studio.Net) if
you want to try to root
Windows RT (WinRT) and “regular
Windows” or am I look at things completely wrong?
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 1:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RT devices?
I think Rod’s confusion stems from the fact that the Surface Pro runs
I think Rod’s confusion stems from the fact that the Surface Pro runs regular
Windows, not Windows RT. Windows RT is only available on the Surface RT
Cheers
Ken
From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com]
Sent: Monday, 25 March 2013 4:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RT devices?
The Windows Defender in Win8 does the same as MSE (AFAICT), so it's just a
name/rebranding exercise.
Cheers
Ken
From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@live.com]
Sent: Saturday, 23 March 2013 11:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront client security
I think they are planning to at
Networking has always been important to finding work. You used to do it at
work, user groups etc. Now you can also do it via LinkedIn or a blog etc.
I think you’re confusing Facebook (a specific social media implementation) with
digital networking/reputation (as a general concept)
Cheers
Ken
friends or a book.
Kurt
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Networking has always been important to finding work. You used to do it at
work, user groups etc. Now you can also do it via LinkedIn or a blog etc.
I think you’re confusing Facebook (a specific
In general (not specifically to address this RDS issue):
You could create a second Forest in the DMZ, which trusts the internal Forest,
but not the other way around. Whilst the host In the DMZ would have FW ports
open to internal hosts, it has no access, per se, to any internal hosts, and
Tivoli to back up endpoints)
4. Weekly report to confirm the above
Dave
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained
I think you need to know what your requirements
I think you need to know what your requirements are.
How do you define up to date? e.g.
- How quickly do you need to deploy something (or even have a range of
critical/medium/low priority updates)?
- And how do you need to report compliance (on demand? At pre-set
intervals?)
James mentioned pre-fetch which IIRC is a Vista/7 technology that pre-loads
frequently used binaries into memory at boot/logon time
Cheers
Ken
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Friday, 8 March 2013 5:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Normalizing a disk image
Know who you need to call, in case things (storage, servers, apps, whatever)
don’t come back up. You don’t want to be trying to find phone numbers when
everything’s going to the dogs.
Cheers
Ken
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 2 March 2013 5:24 AM
To: NT System
USB3.0 - it is bus powered. Get a 512GB SSD, and put it into a USB3 enclosure.
I have the Crucial M4 512GB - they can be had for a good price, plus 256GB
internal SSD. Gives plenty of space for VMs in my experience. I also have a
128GB SD card for storing commonly used ISO files
Cheers
Ken
question is very timely...
At $350 and up, I think that's a little spendy.
However, the 256gb versions might well fit in my budget.
Kurt
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
USB3.0 - it is bus powered. Get a 512GB SSD, and put it into a USB3 enclosure.
I have
, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
If you think you can fit all your VMs onto a 256GB drive, then getting a
512GB would be a waste of money. In another year or two they'll be cheaper
again and you can re-buy if you need more space
, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed.
At this point, however, with (at a guess) ~40gb per VM, that gives me
about 6 VMs.
For what I aim at doing, that should be sufficient.
Kurt
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com
wrote:
If you think you can fit all
The best way you are going to get a true picture of this if is you run the tool
on the client machine, or at the client's location. Not on the server.
On the server you can look at the Time-Taken field in the IIS logs to get some
idea of how long it takes IIS to put the page onto the wire.
Mitigate, Transfer, Accept and Avoid are all legitimate risk management
options.
It's a management decision whether to avoid the risk (fork out a lot of money
to upgrade), mitigate the risk through network isolation (but doing so may
compromise the ability of the machine to work) or simply
I probably sound like a broken record, but what requirements and constraints do
you have?
E.g. I did a project to deploy something like this to ~600 branch sites. In
that case, the SCCM, AD, File Print and Wintel teams are all separate, so
that was a key consideration in designing the end
.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013 10:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS Azure cloud evaporates
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
In large, complex environments, with lots
In large orgs, it will be impossible (at least in the near future) to avoid all
issues like this. There's simply too much that isn't automated, or where the
full set of rules aren't loaded into your automation tool, or the tasks are
divided between too many people. Large orgs have SEV1s every
: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013 9:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS Azure cloud evaporates
In large orgs, it will be impossible (at least in the near future) to avoid all
issues like this. There's simply too much that isn't automated
If only that was all that was required to avoid these issues...
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013 10:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS Azure cloud evaporates
If only Microsoft made software where
/AndrewBakerhttp://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker
Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the
SMB market...
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Sure.
But Ford/GM/Toyota sell cars - they're affected by recalls
. Where you stop spending money
has got to be a business decision.
ASB
http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBakerhttp://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker
Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the
SMB market...
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Ken Schaefer
k
I'm not sure about this. Go and have a look at how many books exist on BMC
Remedy (for example). Despite the fact that it's a very popular piece of
software, there's zero third party books on it...
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent:
No - I disagree. Whilst, in IT, there is much marketing BS from vendors wanting
to sell you stuff, the core cloud definitions are pretty well settled IMHO.
Most people use a variation of what NIST has published:
Features:
* Perception of infinite capacity, with rapid elasticity (as far
I suppose one issue is that for every person that says “$20,000 is too much, it
should be $10,000 and lots more people would do it”, there’s another person
that will say “$10,000 is too much, it should be $5,000 and lots more people
would do it”, and so on.
Cheers
Ken
From: Christopher Bodnar
that the specifics of someone's
offering are spelled out and appropriate to my organizations needs.
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
No - I disagree. Whilst, in IT, there is much marketing BS from
implementations of
them out there today.
ASB
http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBakerhttp://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker
Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the
SMB market...
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k
There can't be that many 750K seat Exchange deployments out there. Do they mean
75K?
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 2:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: MCM certification
Microsoft
Let's not get carried away with calling this proposal 'cloud backup'. IMHO
you're offering offsite backup.
For something to be cloud you should look at NIST (or similar definitions),
which include elements like rapid elasticity, user self-service, broad
network access and measured service:
I don't remember the details, but it appears that AES256 encryption for service
tickets and TGTs can be a default in Windows Server 2008:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749438(v=ws.10).aspx
(there's a table about half way down)
Cheers
Ken
From: Donovan Oliver
Are you doing a technical evaluation or a business case?
From a technical PoV, I think the posts already have this covered: there are
some incremental enhancements and no real downsides (platform is stable,
covered in your EA etc.)
From a broader perspective, is your project going to have to
You just need to be aware of things like encrypted files, where changing the
file and re-encrypting will typically change the entire file.
Also, for very large data sets, be aware of the need to size your DFS-R cache
on each server.
Cheers
Ken
From: Brian Desmond
Wired connectivity is going to be around for a while - even for EUC. Lots of
orgs (governments, banks etc.) have limited or no wireless available for
various reasons.
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2013 5:22 PM
To:
A few thoughts:
a) Loosely coupled code allows greater reuse (SOA and all that jazz). I'd
recommend one script to output data to an XML file or ini file (or whatever
format) in whatever schema you decide. Another script picks that up and creates
a Word document. Then, from now on you have
Maybe you are running out of system resources (like non-paged pool). You can
try using poolmon to diagnose that (there's an old blog post on my blog about
using that tool)
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Elijah Buck [mailto:elijah.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Curious to know what you needed to do to come to the last conclusion? How many
users do you have?
Cheers
Ken
From: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife [mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov]
Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2013 3:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Max Password Age
It's a pretty nice
for
problems.
If I can't add up all the filesystem sizes, we'll either use thick disks and
overestimate the sizes, or we'll use thin disks and just insure that we keep
100's of gigs of free space on each host store. Management can worry about the
explosion of disk costs.
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k
and
overestimate the sizes, or we'll use thin disks and just insure that we keep
100's of gigs of free space on each host store. Management can worry about the
explosion of disk costs.
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 11:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
or 4TB of guest Ram versus needing to
extend a disk?
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 8:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Time sync
Can ESX support 64 vCPUs or 4TB RAM per guest yet? Or 64 hosts per cluster?
Seems like there are all
Seriously?
Are you an ITIL shop? Do you not have capacity management plans and
systems/tools in place? Or do you just fly by the seat of your pants?
Everything should be monitored, and you're getting nice trending graphs. Sure,
sometimes things go unexpectedly wrong - but that can happen for
I'd hazard a guess that task scheduling includes the ability to run 'repeatable
jobs' at a set time. Repeatable jobs on the other hand could be as simple as a
VBScript file - but VBS files don't run themselves at a set time per day (and
all the reporting, delegation etc. that comes with that
Can ESX support 64 vCPUs or 4TB RAM per guest yet? Or 64 hosts per cluster?
Seems like there are all sorts of corner cases where one product has
functionality the other doesn't yet. For 99% of things they are feature
compatible. It's all about the management and operations tools now.
You need to read this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773013(v=ws.10).aspx
Cheers
Ken
From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com]
Sent: Friday, 4 January 2013 3:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DC server 2003 Time service
I am bringing 2008 R2 servers on line to take
Subject: Re: Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this?
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Another option would be to trick the user into installing this
software, or trick the user into somehow giving away access to the
machine (aka these APTs we keep
System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this?
Good point.
(Although I bet stealing the laptop would be prone to being uncovered, too.
;-)
(Yes, I get that it's before vs after the data theft. :) ) )
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Ken Schaefer k
One option would be to debug via a FW port.
Another option would be to trick the user into installing this software, or
trick the user into somehow giving away access to the machine (aka these APTs
we keep hearing about) and layering this on top.
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From:
Berry wrote:
It's 2007. And I lied about 'dozens', it's 'hundreds' of document libraries
nested under this puppy.
Desperate for a way to recurse the whole thing from the top instead of having
to target each library individually.
-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k
Is this SharePoint 2010? If so, do you have access to SharePoint workspace as
part of Office 2010?
That will create an offline copy of your document libraries (and other
supported lists). You can then cut-n-paste the lot out to a folder on your
local disk.
Cheers
Ken
-Original
If the target computer is Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2), then Aero
should work in the RDP session:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/06/23/aero-glass-remoting-in-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
Cheers
Ken
From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com]
Sent: Friday, 14
What's the business justification for IPv6? Seems like you're just wasting
money if you have no reason to deploy. For internal networks using private IPv4
addressing today, I'm not sure that there's a compelling case that can be made
for deploying IPv6 for most organisations.
You can still
You can create a cluster of VMs sitting on top of your existing ESX (or Hyper-V
or Xen) infrastructure.
That way, you can keep your SQL Server up, regardless of what's happening at
the application, OS or hardware level.
Not sure how you're calculating - if an event happens 5 times a year, and
If the service (e.g. SQL Server or the File Service) fails then VMWare has
limited options for detected and failing that service over to another node.
Likewise if a part of the operating system stops responding/working.
What VMWare does provide well is the ability to cater for faults at the
The application owners (typically business people) shouldn't have any
permissions to do anything of the sort...
DBAs would make the changes, and this should be caught in Dev/Test prior to Prod
Cheers
Ken
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2012 1:14 AM
To: NT
If you are outside the US, then Windows Phone is sadly lacking, compared to
iPhone and Android
I've been a big WinMo/WP user (and currently have an Omnia 7), but when I look
at the apps and info available on iPhone and Android, it's just depressing.
Mapping is poor on WP (well, maybe not
have to
see what they think.
Sent from Windows Mail
From: Ken Schaefer
Sent: November 26, 2012 7:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
If you are outside the US, then Windows Phone is sadly lacking, compared to
iPhone and Android
I've been a big WinMo/WP user
Subject: Re: DPM licensing questions
Ill have another look at the MS Site today, though since it went all windows 8
it's difficult to ffind anything worth while.
On Friday, 23 November 2012, Ken Schaefer wrote:
I've always found DPM licensing to be pretty straight forward, and explained
When you run gpedit.msc on the target PC, what's the text on the first line in
the left-hand panel?
What do you get if you run rsop.msc instead?
Cheers
Ken
From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com]
Sent: Saturday, 24 November 2012 7:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: GPO confused
I've always found DPM licensing to be pretty straight forward, and explained on
the Microsoft website.
Prior to SC 2012, you bought licenses for the servers you wanted to protect
(plus whatever was required for DPM itself - e.g. a Windows Server license, and
optionally an SQL Server license)
Why should people have to figure it out?
Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, Sleep, Standby, Hibernate were all in one place
before, and it worked for all the hundreds of millions of people using Windows.
Why change it?
-Original Message-
From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com]
Sent:
people press the power button
on touch devices.
James.
-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 9:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC
Why should people have to figure it out?
Shutdown, Restart
Since there's no hierarchy of folders anymore, what does a user do when there's
three icons called Uninstall or Help that would normally be separated
because they were under folders for App1, App2 and App3 on the start menu?
Cheers
Ken
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Do you plan to stand up another CA (or already have another CA in the
environment)?
If so, removing the existing CA is not going to break anything (as the issued
certs will still be valid), provided that nothing is relying on the CRL (or you
have the CRL published somewhere else). You can
as far as transferring the role is all. Someday
I'll learn to complete my thoughts...
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 3:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transferring FSMO roles
RID master is required, otherwise you'll not be able
RID master is required, otherwise you'll not be able to create new objects at
some point in the future. Schema Master is required, otherwise you won't be
able to update the schema at some point in the future. Infra Master and Domain
Naming master are not so important in a single domain
at this
%dayjob%.
In this case, the testing would have had to be done in a separate network,
which I am fairly sure we don't have. I will take that suggestion to the table
when we analyze the breakdowns of this incident.
Robert
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k
, Nov 8, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Even if you don’t have a separate network, you can create a separate group in
WSUS, and put a test machine(s) with your SOE image in that group.
That would allow you to test patches prior to mass
I don't get it - they moved to Windows 8 because it was new' and no other
reason per se, and when that didn't work out, they didn't go back to what they
had that was already working? They decided to go for something completely
different? Who runs a business like this?
Cheers
Ken
-Original
changes rolled out en-masse without end-user
training. Nah, that'll work out...
-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: The Ripple Effect of Windows 8 - Datamation
I don't get
No matter who you migrate to, you’ll also run into issues (false positives seem
to occur all the time, with all vendors).
Did you test the patches before releasing to Production? Might be worth beefing
up the testing regime.
From: Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 8
The point I was making is that there are always more threats after you have
mitigated any particular set of threats. The question is “how far down this
tunnel” do you want to go? DR is no different.
Certainly you can mitigate some threats mentioned so far fairly quickly,
especially in smaller
The problem with security or DR is that spending is, potentially, a bottomless
pit.
You can insure against an almost unimaginable array of business losses - but
all that insurance costs money. So where to deploy your insurance money, and
how much to deploy, is a question that hasn't really
Alternatively, if you want to use CONVERT() in your query, then convert to
varchar, and set the format to 101 (or similar). As long as you are using
DATETIME, then there is a time component, which you need to remove somehow
(either in SSRS display, or by changing to a type that doesn't have
I'm curious to know how people are coming up with these lists. Are they based
on personal experience of hacks in your own workplace? Or what you are
seeing/reading in the media?
My experience is a fair bit different to most of the responses so far.
Cheers
Ken
From: Ziots, Edward
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From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?)
I'm curious to know how people are coming up with these lists. Are they based
, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
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From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?)
I agree
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