Re: The list?

2013-04-30 Thread Richard Stovall
Sitting or standing straight doesn't work? On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com wrote: True I should lean to read a calendar Sent from my iPad mini On Apr 30, 2013, at 12:39 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: We haven’t hit the end of the month yet.

Re: So where is this new list signup?

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Powershell.com (run by Idera) has a nifty daily tip via e-mail feature. You can sign up at powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/. There is a signup box on the right side of the screen. (Or you can subscribe to the RSS feed, or go to the site everyday...) On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Michael

Re: So where is this new list signup?

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Stovall
You're very welcome. I have been subscribed for quite a while now. On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: Thanks Richard! ** ** *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, April 29, 2013 12:33 PM *To:* NT System Admin

Re: Over and Out

2013-04-25 Thread Richard Stovall
Safe travels, adios, Godspeed, so long, and thanks for all the fish! On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Clayton Doige clayton.do...@gmail.comwrote: Heya folks, some of you will recognise my name, probably most won’t. I’ve been on this list at one email address or another since 1998, and in

Re: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

2013-04-25 Thread Richard Stovall
WJR, I'm kinda hungry. You bringing popcorn to this one? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Every time I see your messages come through I almost delete it automatically, thinking someone accidentally hit Send too soon. Then, I realize your response is

Re: Datadomain / Exagrid - Backup Times over Cat5

2013-04-09 Thread Richard Stovall
Can't speak to Exagrid, but think of the DD boxes as if they are NAS devices. My (older model) 530 can ingest data as fast as I can throw information at it. Regarding speed, I suppose too slow is as too slow does. GigE is fast enough for my backups given their size. Here are some statistics

Re: Quick Powershell question

2013-03-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Excellent. Thank you very much. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: The issues generally only appear when you specify other flags. J ** ** For v2, what you’ve suggest is the proper way. ** ** *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich

Unitrends

2013-03-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Anyone out there using Unitrends Enterprise Backup (the VM appliance version) in a mixed physical and virtual server environment? We're looking at options to protect physical SQL and Exchange and virtual everything else with a single application. Any real world experiences / thoughts to share?

Re: Backups/deduplication

2013-03-28 Thread Richard Stovall
I love my DD530. It just works. The bad news is that it is now EOL and out of support. :( On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@keitercpa.com wrote: I searched the NT archives and I don't think this has been discussed since 2011. ** ** I'm in

Re: First Powershell script

2013-03-26 Thread Richard Stovall
If all the VMs are in a separate OU, you could do an AD search with your VM OU as the root to get the list of machines to backup. There are lots of variations on this theme, of course, but this is really easy to manage and automatically captures new VMs for backup as they are created if placed in

Re: Friday semiOT: funny to me anyway

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Stovall
We are pentium of borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: This day, 1995, Intel dropped the big one...

Re: Friday semiOT: funny to me anyway

2013-03-24 Thread Richard Stovall
Wow. On Mar 23, 2013 1:07 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: This day, 1995, Intel dropped the big one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ---

Re: 2012 DC in 2008 R2 Forest and Domain

2013-03-15 Thread Richard Stovall
, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Can you not prep the forest and domain prior to promotion? - Sean On Mar 14, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I have a new remote location to setup and need to put a DC there. I am planning

Re: apipa scripting?

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Stovall
Darn. I was hoping it was something to do with APIPA Middleton. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:07 PM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: We are running DHCP now, we are just looking to get rid of it as we change some things around. We're looking to tie addresses together, so that we have static

Re: apipa scripting?

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Stovall
:) On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:26 PM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: not quite.. it is friday though ne-c'est pas? - Go team Avatar! On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Darn. I was hoping it was something to do with APIPA Middleton

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-06 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks Laurence. I'll think about it, but I'm leaving town today for about a month to add a new site to our company. Lots of very long days coming up and time to reflect and write will be hard to find. On Mar 6, 2013 4:53 AM, Laurence laurence.chi...@jalapeno-bs.co.uk wrote: Hi Richard good

RE: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-06 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks for the offer, Carl. But wouldn't I want to put it somewhere where it might actually be read? :-) But seriously, thanks for the offer. I'll see if I can find time to put something together. Richard On Mar 6, 2013 7:32 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I would be happy to post

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-05 Thread Richard Stovall
It has now been a bit over 24 hours since I brought the datacenter back online and, so far, everything seems to be running smoothly. Thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions. Richard On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:50 AM,

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-05 Thread Richard Stovall
* *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP**4, VTSP4* *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 05, 2013 10:25 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown It has now been a bit over 24 hours since I brought the datacenter back

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-05 Thread Richard Stovall
to perform major maintenance on such a complex configuration, regardless of scale. Kurt On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: It has now been a bit over 24 hours since I brought the datacenter back online and, so far, everything seems to be running smoothly

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-05 Thread Richard Stovall
THAT's the Ben9k I know and love. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: It has now been a bit over 24 hours since I brought the datacenter back online and, so far, everything seems

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Stovall
drive gods to be merciful, and the resume won't need to be touched... Thanks again, RS On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: In a few days time I will have to completely shutdown my

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Stovall
[mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: In a few days time I will have to completely shutdown my datacenter for some electrical

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Stovall
: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: In a few days time I will have to completely shutdown my datacenter

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-01 Thread Richard Stovall
I say, oof (TM, -sc) Thanks for the good wishes, and believe me when I tell you that I haven't forgotten for a moment that MBS is headquartered about 70 miles from where I sit. :) On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: “The procedure itself seems

Re: Ping by name tool

2013-02-27 Thread Richard Stovall
Here's a function from a posh script I run for a completely different purpose that pings all the machines listed in a source text file. Perhaps you could add the other things you need and do it all in powershell. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:24 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I’m

Re: Ping by name tool

2013-02-27 Thread Richard Stovall
, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a function from a posh script I run for a completely different purpose that pings all the machines listed in a source text file. Perhaps you could add the other things you need and do it all in powershell. On Wed, Feb 27

Re: Seagate STAR401 BlackArmor NAS 400

2013-02-26 Thread Richard Stovall
I have no experience with the Seagate NASes either. Personally, for this use case, I wouldn't consider something that doesn't support some manner of dual disk failure protection such as RAID 6.* I'd also be looking for something with a minimum of 5 bays so I could have at least one hot spare

Re: Suggestions for a PoE switch for home use

2013-02-18 Thread Richard Stovall
I bought a D-Link switch for my home the other day that's working fine. Eight gigabit ports, of which four are PoE. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004M5HZ3E On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Todd Lemmiksoo tlemmik...@gmail.comwrote: My step-son will be re-building his home network and

Re: Non-corp desktops and RDS

2013-02-15 Thread Richard Stovall
Instead of RDP over VPN, have you looked at RD Gateway? It does require terminal server licences for the users, but eliminates the kind of issues you're describing by tunneling only RDP over SSL and nothing else. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org

Re: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW

2013-02-14 Thread Richard Stovall
I have use Cybernetics gear in the past. Make sure you check the support options very carefully and understand what type of response you're entitled to before pulling the trigger. Also make sure the unit you're considering is on the HCL for both VMware and Hyper-V. For inexpensive iSCSI

Re: Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware

2013-02-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Well, we know it's not made of Wensleydale. On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Stephen Holtz ste...@addisonreserve.ccwrote: And the moon is made up of green cheese! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 10, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: The reporting was vague, but Bit9

Re: OT: Guest network security

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Stovall
I was going to suggest using the SonicPoint solution from SonicWall, but you've got Sidewinders, don't you? Does McAfee have anything like SonicWall's wireless solution where it's all managed from the firewall? PS Sophos has this too, and they give their UTM firewall away free for home use.

Re: OT: Guest network security

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Stovall
on the Sophos solution. What did you use for the hardware? Kurt On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to suggest using the SonicPoint solution from SonicWall, but you've got Sidewinders, don't you? Does McAfee have anything like SonicWall's

Re: OT: Guest network security

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Stovall
. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: So your wireless is served elsewise? Kurt On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I chose to build a new system so it would be small and silent rather than use an old computer lying around

Re: OT: Guest network security

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Stovall
for that a few weeks back. My Fortigate 40C arrives tomorrow. :) *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com

Re: Speaking of Barracuda...

2013-01-30 Thread Richard Stovall
Parr *Sent:* Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:45 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Speaking of Barracuda... I had no port 80 hits originating from my web filter. -- *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 29, 2013 4

OT: Speaking of Barracuda...

2013-01-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Would any of you who have Barracuda spam filters mind checking something for me? The other day I noticed outbound traffic from my spam appliance to port 80 at destinations not owned by Barracuda Networks. I started a packet cap on my firewall and got some very interesting results. In addition

Re: OT: Speaking of Barracuda...

2013-01-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Holy cow! That could be worse! :) On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, no spam filter, just a web filter. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.comwrote: Would any of you who have Barracuda spam filters mind checking

Re: Speaking of Barracuda...

2013-01-29 Thread Richard Stovall
be part of the the spam checking to see if URL's imbedded in emails are legit to aid in scoring? Don't know if they do that sort of thing, just grasping at straws. -- *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:25 PM

Re: OT: Speaking of Barracuda...

2013-01-29 Thread Richard Stovall
The Barracuda tech wrote back a while ago and informed that the behavior I'm seeing is indeed part of their intent scanning methodology. What kind of freaked me out initially, and alerted me to what is going on, was that last Friday my UTM firewall blocked the spam filter from downloading what

Re: SBS2011 RWW

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Stovall
Is this a permanent need or temporary. If the latter, you could do something simple lik open inbound TCP 3389 on the firewall and forward it to the server in question. Limit the ACE to allow traffic only from the user's current ip. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:08 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org

Re: Backdoors Found in Barracuda Networks Gear

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Stovall
Lovely. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/backdoors-found-in-barracuda-networks-gear/#more-18612 A broad variety of the latest firewall, spam filter and VPN appliances sold by Campbell, Calif. based Barracuda Networks

Re: OT?: Network connection on Eaton UPS

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Stovall
Does the USB to serial adapter work on anything else? On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote: Greetings! ** ** We are now the proud owners of 6 Eaton 5PX-3000 UPS units, each with a network card which seems to do nothing useful. (One of these

Re: Linksys exploit - what does this mean to my remote users?

2013-01-14 Thread Richard Stovall
Well, it looks to me like they've figured out how to get a root shell open on various Linksys routers. What that means, essentially, is that the attacker can make that little Internet-connected computer do pretty much whatever he or she wants it to do. Packet capture and forwarding of all your

Re: Max Password Age

2013-01-09 Thread Richard Stovall
Just reset it to 1 and see what happens. :) On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote: If my policy currently is 90 days, and I then shorten that to 60 days, does the clock reset to 0, or will everyone that’s in the 60-89 day window going

Re: Selling SMB-specific IT stuff

2012-12-17 Thread Richard Stovall
CL is less expensive and easier, IMHO. It might be worth putting it up there for a couple of days. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: E-bay…wow how did I not think of that… ** ** Thanks! ** ** *From:* James Rankin

Re: Selling SMB-specific IT stuff

2012-12-17 Thread Richard Stovall
/aunt/uncle/best friend stationed in Korea/Vietnam/Iraq/Kuwait/Afghanistan even though my ad said US only. ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, December 17, 2012 8:52 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues

Re: DNS/Replication broken after MS updates?

2012-12-13 Thread Richard Stovall
See D. Lum's earlier post titled Heads up: MS12-081 KB2758857 issue. They might be related somehow. Uninstalling 2758857 solved his issues. It might be worth a shot starting with that one if you do think it's related to yesterday's updates. In every environment I've ever managed, no matter how

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Damn. Can't y'all barter, or something? On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: I feel your pain although I'm sure yours is much greater that mine. I just try to keep track of my MiFi and HomeFusion data with it. Now they offer a monitoring service for $4.99

Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Richard Stovall
I have never done this, but I know Synology DSM has a Directory Server application. A little Googling turned up the following for Windows clients (assuming that's what you've got). http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/Join_Windows_Client_Computer_to_Directory_Service On Tue, Dec 11, 2012

Re: Server room monitoring/alerts

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Stovall
One of these http://www.networktechinc.com/enviro-rems.html with one of these http://www.networktechinc.com/enviro-sensor-alert.html#ThreeGU On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: Anyone have any opinions on room environment monitoring. Nothing fancy

Re: Outlook web access MAC

2012-12-04 Thread Richard Stovall
IMAP? Or as John suggested, a virtual solution? On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk wrote: Ahh Ok we are running exchange 2003 -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: 04 December 2012 15:07 To: NT

Re: Fwd: Kurt's current security recommendations for your computer - the 2012 update

2012-11-08 Thread Richard Stovall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoY0Qa0zU0A On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: Reminds me of War and Peace. You lost me after the first paragraph. Hehehe On Nov 7, 2012 9:31 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Well, that was unintended... This was meant

Re: Church email

2012-10-25 Thread Richard Stovall
www.google.com/a/domain.tld You'll need to login with an account that has admin privileges for the Google account. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:33 PM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: My Church has their email through Gmail. Their net admin left and they want to remove two old email

Re: Otish Server room disaster.

2012-10-18 Thread Richard Stovall
Ouch. Sorry to hear about the troubles. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: So I come in this morning and things are not well. My first thought is my DNS issues are back from yesterday. But I stay calm and decide to walk the server room first. It

Re: Only took my 18 months...

2012-10-01 Thread Richard Stovall
Congratulations. Does this mean we have to call you Mr. Lummy now? On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:56 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: But effective today I get to add “Sr.” to my Systems Engineer job title. W00t! *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //*

Re: Personal IT Blog?

2012-09-20 Thread Richard Stovall
I'm thinking that blog.pimphacker.com has a certain cachet to it. :-) On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jon D rekcahp...@gmail.com wrote: I was kicking around the idea of starting a personal IT blog to keep track of the things I work on. Seems like if nothing else it would be a nice feather

Re: Quick Sonicwall Question

2012-09-14 Thread Richard Stovall
I don't think that will work transparently, but I haven't ever tried anything like that. I think the SonicWall can differentiate between an account is authenticated via the SSO agent and one that is authenticated locally. Even if the account name is the same in each directory, the user will have

Re: IIS 7.5 and OWASP

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Stovall
I think the OWASP Top 10 is a framework for the web application development process and lifecycle rather than a set of guidelines for the web server itself. If you're trying to demonstrate that an out of the box Citrix product adheres to the framework, then I'd imagine you have to get a statement

Re: Azure?

2012-09-07 Thread Richard Stovall
No, I haven't, but I'll gladly pay your first year's fee for blog hosting if you'll do it first and describe the entire process in detail. :-) On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com wrote: Has anyone been deploying VMs on Azure? I need to role out SharePoint, XenAPP,

Re: Windows InTune

2012-08-24 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks very much, Brian. Things have indeed changed quite a bit with the current version and licensing model. I have setup SCVMM 2008 R2 in a test lab before, and I agree that it was simple and straightforward after a surprisingly shallow learning curve. Cheers, Richard Stovall On Fri, Aug 24

Re: Laptop with Serial Port?

2012-08-24 Thread Richard Stovall
I've used the one widely available at Radio Shack on a number of occasions and it has worked flawlessly on both 32 bit XP and 64 bit Win 7. It also has a nice long cable for reaching the backs of switches and whatnot. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com

Re: How to maintain Adobe and Java updates

2012-08-23 Thread Richard Stovall
How do you update Chrome for your users? I've heard about the Enterprise management features, but I haven't looked at them too deeply. All I've seen is an .msi. Don't get me wrong, btw. I love Chrome, and personally I use it almost exclusively. I just haven't looked seriously at deploying

Re: Windows InTune

2012-08-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Which, apropos of nothing, reminds me of a recent conversation with the boss. We were talking about our virtualization infrastructure since our VMware licenses are up for renewal at the end of this month. He asked me if we should go with MS and the newest version of Hyper-V on Server 2012

Re: Need to P2V and old SBS Standard 2003 server - Non OEM and no Key

2012-08-22 Thread Richard Stovall
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/ for the OS key. (I think this will work.) From the SBS console you can backup the additional CALs and re-install them later if you need to. (Again, it's been a while, but I remember this being quite simple.) Technet for installation discs if you need

Re: Friday semi-OT: I can't remember if this has been mentioned on the list yet...

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Stovall
That guy sucks at Angry Birds. (On the main page.) On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I find this pretty fascinating, and am pre-ordering one. For $75, I think it's worth a look. If this technology gets built into a tablet, it would be a real game-changer,

Re: Backup software

2012-08-02 Thread Richard Stovall
I wonder what Mrs. Clusterpup would think of this revelation... On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:52 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I am so happy we don't use backup exec anymore. We are using Microsoft Data Protection Manager and absolutely love it. I mean it, if it was a girl I'd ask

Re: certificate status could not be determined...

2012-08-02 Thread Richard Stovall
That shouldn't be a problem. We use GoDaddy certs all the time for all kinds of things including Exchange. This may be way off base, but are the GoDaddy intermediate certs installed? -- I've also seen goofy stuff like this when the computer in question could not access the Internet to download

Re: failed DNS request

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Stovall
http://www.itnervecenter.com/content/some-dns-queries-are-unsuccessful-using-windows-server-2008-r2-dns-server What kind of firewall is in place? On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:36 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.comwrote: From one of my customers, they cannot resolve DNS to an IP for

Re: help w/ tracert

2012-07-24 Thread Richard Stovall
What prompted the trace? Is your Internet service down? Is Paetec your ISP? Your e-mail looks to have originated from 98.172.163.12, a Cox ip. On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:43 PM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: ** When I run a tracert to google, here are the

Re: FYI - New edition of Understanding IPv6

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Stovall
It looks like you might be able to register one of your earlier books at O'Reilly and 'upgrade' to an e-book version for $5 which then include lifetime updates. On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I want a discount for having the 1st and 2nd editions!

Re: OT: Straight Talk mobile service

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Stovall
I have used Virgin Mobile for about 1.5 years now and have been generally pleased with it. http://www.virginmobileusa.com On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Anyone switch over from ATT to this? http://www.straighttalk.com/ServicePlans

Re: No more SBS

2012-07-06 Thread Richard Stovall
This whole discussion makes me wonder... Can you get a static ip on a wireless data plan? I've never heard of such a thing, but my never having heard of it don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: You’re talking

Re: How to get security clearance - was OT: making Firefox Sync work without another device

2012-07-06 Thread Richard Stovall
So what you're saying is that there's huge, and then there's *HUGE*? On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote:

Re: SBS 2003 to 2011

2012-07-04 Thread Richard Stovall
For 10 users, I am in this camp also. Even more so if I didn't set up the original environment and inherited it from someone else. On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: I like the clean install method for small sites like this. With a larger site the migration

Re: Ping help

2012-07-03 Thread Richard Stovall
This is very similar to a situation I experienced the other day. It's all in a thread over on the Exchange list (Exchange 2010 AD Topology service weirdness). Unfortunately, I don't have a resolution for you. In addition to the Exchange issue, I saw exactly the same thing with slow logons, slow

Re: Ping help

2012-07-03 Thread Richard Stovall
Have you checked the IPv6 DNS records for your DCs? Do they look right? On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Need help please. We have 3 x 2008r2 domain controllers. We've been fighting with some unusually slow domain logins and other flakiness for a while.

Re: MS-XML attacks against MSIE, Office

2012-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Linky! Where you bean? On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Fabulous! On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Reports of zero-day attacks. Exploitable via web pages or Office documents. All current versions of

Re: Ex 2003 to 2010

2012-06-22 Thread Richard Stovall
??? On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Daniel Chenault dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com wrote: I found this: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3365474/upgrading-from-32-64bit-windows/ ** ** Which makes it sound, essentially, like a walk in the park. ** ** Daniel

Re: IE7 on Win7x64

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Stovall
XP Mode? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: Need help to dodge, yet another curve ball during Win7 migrations! Some of the applications that we have (critical ones) only works with IE7. We

Re: Outlook multi-accounts

2012-05-17 Thread Richard Stovall
That's the expected behavior when opening multiple mailboxes the old way - i.e. they way you described. In Outlook 2010 you can configure multiple Exchange accounts in a single Outlook profile which gives you what you're looking for. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Chenault

Re: Wireless AP choice

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Stovall
What kind of firewall do you have? I ask because the SonicWall wireless stuff is very simple to set up and puts the WiFi management right into the same familiar console where you manage the firewall. On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I need to

Re: Wireless AP choice

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Stovall
PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: All pfSense boxes, I'm afraid:) They do have a captive portal, and I actually may use it for offloading the public task. -- *From:* Richard Stovall [rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:04 PM

Re: OT : International Star Wars Day

2012-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
You mean this guy? http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/obi-wan-kenobi-arrested-hit-run-202349276.html On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Eh... I'm more of an Obi Wan fan. -Original Message- From: Guyer, Donald [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent:

Re: Unable to ping -- why?

2012-04-26 Thread Richard Stovall
Good suggestion. Also, make sure there is no funky turn-off-the-NIC-to-save-power setting in the driver or NIC management utility. I've seen those do strange things from time to time. And update the driver if a newer one's available. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Ziots, Edward

Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware!

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Stovall
The 26 kilobuck version. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: What version of XenApp? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ From: David Mazzaccaro

Re: Post-update reboot detection

2012-04-12 Thread Richard Stovall
About 2/3 of the way down the page at http://exodusdev.com/products/whyreboot there are some links to MS KB articles about this. The page seems a little dated, but perhaps the links might be a good jumping off point. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com

Re: Compaq ProLiant DL380R01 S.M.A.R.T. Predictive failure

2012-04-12 Thread Richard Stovall
Order 3 *new* drives, have them overnighted, then proceed with your original plan. http://discountechnology.com/Products/HP-Compaq-SCSI-Hard-Drives On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure where to begin on this - I guess it is possible that I've got two new

Re: Compaq ProLiant DL380R01 S.M.A.R.T. Predictive failure

2012-04-12 Thread Richard Stovall
at 13:16, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Order 3 *new* drives, have them overnighted, then proceed with your original plan. http://discountechnology.com/Products/HP-Compaq-SCSI-Hard-Drives On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure where to begin

Re: Looking to grab this info at login

2012-04-10 Thread Richard Stovall
The school I volunteer for is an NWEA client. David, something to keep in mind is that not all schools have the ability to deploy login scripts administratively because they use workgroups instead of some type of domain. More to the point of how this thread is going, I wonder if what they're

Re: Machine name with $ sign as username

2012-04-09 Thread Richard Stovall
In addition to the excellent responses already given, please note that the phrase Small Business Server 2003 machine that is not our domain controller doesn't make any sense in the context of SBS 2003, at least from what I remember about it. I think SBS 2003 must hold all FSMO roles for what is

Re: HP Printers 4100 , 4350, to 4700 etc + duplixers (printer server and Drivers)

2012-03-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Please to be providing a picture of all these hands you have. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:17 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: How are you people manging Driver Print Ques, and Printer servers on HP

Re: Good SBS list

2012-03-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Sending this at 9:06 AM EDT on 3/23/12. It seems like the list's performance has improved dramatically. Maybe they upgraded or fixed whatever problem was causing it. If so, thanks very much for doing so. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Stu! GFI!

Re: Good SBS list

2012-03-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Three minutes round trip according to the headers. Nice. Let's hope it's not just due to low volume. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Sending this at 9:06 AM EDT on 3/23/12. It seems like the list's performance has improved dramatically. Maybe

Re: view active computers on the network Windows domain when file and print sharing is turned off

2012-03-21 Thread Richard Stovall
ADUC? On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Darin dmche...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone now how I can view computers on my windows domain when file and print sharing have been turned off? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Help desk software

2012-03-20 Thread Richard Stovall
On the plus side... Kurt, you're current! No more patches! On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: As far as I can't see, it hasn't been updated since September, 2002. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list...

2012-03-16 Thread Richard Stovall
This is the same RDP vulnerability that EZ (I think it was EZ) posted the other day, right? IIRC, you're not vulnerable unless you expose a server to RDP connections directly through your firewall. If you don't do that, then your risk is essentially nil since the it isn't exploitable through RD

Re: OT Unable to add drives to RAID set

2012-03-16 Thread Richard Stovall
That card looks like a 4 port card. If your existing drives are all connected to it, you're already maxed out. Given that, my guess it that the drive slots likely don't have power. I have no idea what kind of backplane that case has. Did buy this box pre-assembled, or put it together yourself?

Re: OT: Apple hype fails to catch on in England

2012-03-16 Thread Richard Stovall
Speaking of consumption, did someone start early today? :) On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Do I get to keep my red stapler and playing my music? I was told because the receptionist gets to listen to talk radio that I can listen to my music on a

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