Re: Atlantis

2013-03-20 Thread Sean Martin
I haven't used it but we did review the product to support our XenApp 6.5 w/ PVS implementation. Their dedupe capabilities and IO efficiencies were definitely very compelling but we opted to invest in FusionIO as an infrastructure wide solution for high IO needs since their ioDrive and

Re: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Martin
normally run it from a XA server but not sure whether its a pre-requisite. Cheers, JR Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -- *From: *Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com *Date: *Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:50:43 -0800 *To: *NT

Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS

2013-03-04 Thread Sean Martin
advice on the AppSense side of things feel free to shoot me an email offline, although at your current stage I don't think you need do much other than scope for the heavy redundancy in the SQL side of things. Cheers, JR On 28 February 2013 17:29, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS

2013-02-28 Thread Sean Martin
but delivers email RELIABLY From: Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:58:09 -0900 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS Hello

Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS

2013-02-28 Thread Sean Martin
** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:58 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS ** ** Hello everyone, Let me start first by apologize for the length

Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS

2013-02-28 Thread Sean Martin
the profiles with an SQL database. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -- *From: *Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:29:32 -0900 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS

2013-02-28 Thread Sean Martin
. /quote ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS ** ** Thanks for the info Webster

Re: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...

2013-02-27 Thread Sean Martin
In addition to what Michael already stated, disable DNS registration on the NIC you don't want registering in DNS. Get used to managing static routes. - Sean On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Having multiple DGs is wrong. There can only be one

Re: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...

2013-02-27 Thread Sean Martin
command I know and love. Got a tip for me there? Kurt On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: In addition to what Michael already stated, disable DNS registration on the NIC you don't want registering in DNS. Get used to managing static routes. - Sean

Re: Recommended Ultrabooks?

2013-01-10 Thread Sean Martin
I know it doesn't meet the requirements you listed, but have they looked at the cheap chrome books? I picked up one of the Acer Chrome books for my 11 yr old for $199. I understand there's additional management capabilities they can be purchased for education environments. - Sean On Jan 10,

Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB

2012-12-06 Thread Sean Martin
You should see vmotion run over dual 40Gb infiniband, its pretty slick. - Sean On Dec 6, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Since it's still in the lab, I have 5E here. I have CAT6 cable in the rack where it will go when I finish the migration and testing.

Re: AppData - to redirect or not to redirect?

2012-11-13 Thread Sean Martin
Great topic. I definitely subscribe to the avoid redirection if possible practice, but often times it's a difficult sell because of user perception. Implementing redirection can lead to significantly reduced logon times and it is easy for an end user to measure. On the other hand, redirection may

Re: Wow, who knew?

2012-10-30 Thread Sean Martin
I was years into my IT career before I was shown you can drag an executable into the Run window and have it populate the file path complete with quotes. Sure makes it easy when having to add switches. - Sean On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:44 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Yeah I actually

Re: Otish Server room disaster.

2012-10-18 Thread Sean Martin
Wow, I've dealt with heat issues before but always in a scenario when we've been able to react within a couple of hours and avoid massive outages. Sounds like this is one of those unfortunate wake calls that magically releases the funds to build in the appropriate level of monitoring and

Re: solved ... kinda Can't send large attachments

2012-10-17 Thread Sean Martin
I don't know about IronPort specifically, but its not uncommon for e-mail encryption solutions to enforce a specific size limitation on messages to be encrypted. - Saen On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:07 PM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, thank you all, I found one answer, It was the

Re: Spanning disks under server 2003 R2 on a SAN

2012-10-04 Thread Sean Martin
the unit support LUNs larger than 1.99tb, they don't support Dynamic Disks. I'm loving my Lefthand more and more - I've got a 3tb LUN on it, and have no problems at all. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I meant to be a tiny bit more helpful

Re: Spanning disks under server 2003 R2 on a SAN

2012-10-04 Thread Sean Martin
suffer from that limitation. Kurt On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: It's not an EMC limitation... http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01812132lang=encc=ustaskId=101prodSeriesId=3936136prodTypeId=12169 - Sean

Re: Spanning disks under server 2003 R2 on a SAN

2012-10-04 Thread Sean Martin
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: No worries, looking back I think you were perfectly clear. I believe you're running into a SCSI 2 limitation. I'm not sure if its a result of their decision to marry FLARE with DART to support multiple block level

Re: Spanning disks under server 2003 R2 on a SAN

2012-10-04 Thread Sean Martin
about that. If dynamic disks are supported under Win2k8 R2, that would be pretty straightforward. Kurt On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: EMC is one of those companies everyone loves to hate. I've got a fair amount of experience with their Clariion

RE: Why is it, in Notepad...

2012-10-04 Thread Sean Martin
Ashamed to admit I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip! On Oct 4, 2012 9:49 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: View - Status Bar gives you the current line number in Notepad. You can use Ctrl+G to go to a specific line. ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* James

Re: vSentry

2012-09-19 Thread Sean Martin
Looks pretty compelling. I'd be interested in hearing about your experience when/if you're allowed to share... - Sean On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: This is the security software I have been testing under NDA. Looks like they are now going public

Re: vSentry

2012-09-19 Thread Sean Martin
, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: It was fast and 100% effective at what I threw at it. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: vSentry Looks pretty compelling. I'd

Re: Something for the thin client crowd...

2012-09-12 Thread Sean Martin
So its like a tablet you can't take anywhere? - Sean On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: 22 Android http://www.viewsonic.com/products/vsd220.htm ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: I don't see any problems with this

2012-09-11 Thread Sean Martin
And SkyNet is born... - Sean On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Do you? Kurt http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2012/09/get-ready-computers-worldwide-automatically-smother-cyber-strikes/57977/ By Aliya Sternstein Nextgov September 10, 2012 The

Re: VMware drops vRAM pricing

2012-08-28 Thread Sean Martin
time! On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.comwrote: Now its official and the announcement received a standing ovation at VMWorld. - Sean On Aug 28, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Discussed last week... :-) On Tue, Aug 28, 2012

Re: Death of the Desktops?

2012-08-24 Thread Sean Martin
Seems like a lot of resonses are based off the individual's interpretation of what they mean by stating desktops are going away. Some are inferring this means the adoption of tablets, or some other device without the typical HID (read: non-touch screen). Others seem to infer they're pointing at

Re: SPF record question

2012-07-18 Thread Sean Martin
As bad as Yahoo can be to deal with, its surprisingly easy to get whitelisted if you're associated with any type of bulk mailing activities. They also recommend DKIM as well. - Sean On Jul 18, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Richard

Re: Way OT: some of you might be interested in this kind of thing

2012-06-20 Thread Sean Martin
Our customer service center has a couple of these. They seem to get used fairly frequently. - Sean On Jun 20, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: It really is work related... http://store.steelcase.com/products/walkstation/ I know I wouldn't mind having one for my

Re: Re-cabling

2012-06-20 Thread Sean Martin
We're building a new Data Center and decided to introduce a couple of Xsigo VP780 Directors for IO aggregation and to maximize on network and fiber channel bandwidth. We're also retrofitting our existing Data Center with them for the build out of our virtualization environment (yes, we're way

Re: Cisco VLAN Questions

2012-04-13 Thread Sean Martin
Sorry this won't be of much help in regards to your question because I'm not much of a network guy. However, I've heard several times over the years that it's considered practice to shutdown vlan 1 for security reasons. - Sean On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com

Re: list delays

2012-03-14 Thread Sean Martin
My real name doesn't really have a 14 in it... - Sean On Mar 14, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: That is boring, though ---Blackberried From: Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:05:18 -0400 To: NT System Admin

Re: New to virtualization

2012-03-13 Thread Sean Martin
I would expect that from any SAN hardware vendor. - Sean On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:07 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: “NetApp makes good SANs, and their support is great! (A drive starts to go bad, and you get an email from support asking where to ship it to,

Re: KVM over IP

2012-03-06 Thread Sean Martin
We're a Dell shop as well, with a standard for Blade servers, but we still outfit each rack with an IP KVM. DRACs, CMCs, iKVMs, etc. all fail. A certain level of redundancy that saves someone an unecessary drive to the office can be very valuable. - Sean On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Heaton,

Re: KVM over IP

2012-03-05 Thread Sean Martin
You're right. It's missing the -IP in the model number. Unfortunately, those 3 little characters appear to double the price. I know we don't pay anywhere near that from our local reseller on the 17in models. http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtSeriesID=763txtModelID=4207 - Sean On

Re: An observation on moving users to new machines

2012-02-10 Thread Sean Martin
On 2/10/12, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: You know that in Office 2010 .NK2 files are no more? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

Re: Storage Feature Matrix

2012-02-09 Thread Sean Martin
supported on all platforms). I'd like to see what other requirements people come up with, if you're willing to share. - Sean On 2/8/12, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Ok folks, Here's a compiled list of features and capabilities in no particular order. Some of these references may

Re: EMC limitations?

2012-02-08 Thread Sean Martin
, 2012 2:00 AM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Understood. Out of curiousity, did you look into any other solutions other than VNX and LeftHand? And, to respond to your comment about never outgrowing the unit, expect the unexpected. I never thought we would outgrow

Re: EMC limitations?

2012-02-08 Thread Sean Martin
you're running a mixed environment of Windows and UNIX, each company will tell you it will work but you'll always be surprised (especially when you can't get an evaluation unit). Incidentally, EMC lost a sale to us because they wouldn't provide an eval. -Paul From: Sean Martin

Storage Feature Matrix

2012-02-08 Thread Sean Martin
Ok folks, Here's a compiled list of features and capabilities in no particular order. Some of these references may be specific to a certain brand but it allowed us to match capabilities between solutions where the only difference was what they called it. Sub LUN Tiering Staged cache iSCSI

Re: Storage Feature Matrix

2012-02-08 Thread Sean Martin
Scalability Support Hardware Life Cycle Other 3rd Party Integration (ie Linux, Oracle…) Microsoft Integration VMware Integration On 2/8/12, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Ok folks, Here's a compiled list of features and capabilities in no particular order. Some of these references

Re: OT - ugh!

2012-02-08 Thread Sean Martin
Pun intended? - Sean On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: 1 million views? That is all? I can offer content that will exploded your views... -Original Message- From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08,

Re: IOPS's calculations

2012-02-07 Thread Sean Martin
Very true. Large global cache, automated tiering, etc. are all technologies that change the way performance and bottlenecks are measured. There are situations introduced in SAN environment (forced flushing of cache), that can occur in a DAS scenario, are much more prevelant in a SAN and have much

Re: EMC limitations?

2012-02-07 Thread Sean Martin
I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe this was a limitation that was purposely introduced into the VNXe because EMC is marketing it as an entry level all-in-one storage solution. They need reasons for customers

Re: EMC limitations?

2012-02-07 Thread Sean Martin
have been nice of them to disclose that before purchase, methinks... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:04, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe

Re: EMC limitations?

2012-02-07 Thread Sean Martin
http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get

Re: EMC limitations?

2012-02-07 Thread Sean Martin
wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:10, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get into is the creation of technical requirement matrices and business requirement matrices. It helps

Re: EMC limitations?

2012-02-07 Thread Sean Martin
I forwarded the template as requested. I should add that the template provided was what we used to capture all responses. We didn't share the responses between vendors. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I certainly didn't mean to offend you nor do

Re: EMC limitations?

2012-02-07 Thread Sean Martin
on their part was just a bit rich... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 22:30, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I certainly didn't mean to offend you nor do I blame you for being frustrated. It's just that companies aren't going to list their lack of functionality for all to see. What you're

Re: OT - ugh!

2012-02-06 Thread Sean Martin
I'm in Anchorage. You wanna meet up so you can smack me for that off-hand remark about XenServer a few months back? :) If it makes you feel any better, we will be virtualizing our XenApp infrastructure on XenServer in a data center we're deploying in AZ later this year. Did you get to enjoy our

Re: OT - ugh!

2012-02-06 Thread Sean Martin
Virtualization (of any flavor) and storage are two other areas where expert skills are highly sought after. - Sean On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Didn't mean to imply that you're entirely unique between the two of you, just that you occupy a niche - it's

Re: IOPS's calculations

2012-02-06 Thread Sean Martin
Mark, Are you sure that's the data you're after? The difficult data to obtain is typically what the system is capable of and not what they're actually doing. DAS storage typically presents an IO ceiling the applications simply cannot exceed. The actual capabilities of disks can be argued, but

Re: Infrastructure Specialist defined - was: OT - ugh!

2012-02-03 Thread Sean Martin
SAN Support: · Strong familiarity with enterprise data archiving systems and disaster recovery backup systems. uses Flashnet for data archive and Commvault for Disaster Recovery backups · Level 1 2 SAN Storage Support (EMC CX300, EMC AX100, IBM N3400 · Level 1 2 Fibre Channel Switch Support

Re: OT - ugh!

2012-02-01 Thread Sean Martin
Someone further up the hiring chain probably heard your ideas and felt threatened. - Sean On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Jacob Kisner jbdkis...@gmail.com wrote: Because we feel you are not diversified enough to address our issues. Same issues I have addressed over the years poor issue

Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.

2012-01-20 Thread Sean Martin
Depending on the size if the snapshot, it could take awhile to merge the data. Not much we can help with until the snspshot is gone. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:19 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: How did you delete the snapshot - with esxi right? -Original Message-

Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.

2012-01-20 Thread Sean Martin
The only scenario you might want to be aware of is an orphaned disk scenario (Google it). Don't be concerned if this situation occurs, it may appear data has been lost, but that is not necessarily the case. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:06 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: It should

Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.

2012-01-20 Thread Sean Martin
I had actually forgotten about the snapshot. The biggest fear of all storage admins. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:16 PM, WJH nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote: I had actually forgotten about the snapshot. I built the machine last month for a sbs 2203 to 2001 migration. Snapshot was made at some

Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.

2012-01-20 Thread Sean Martin
Depends on how long the snapshot was active and the data change rate of the server. That is why snapshots can be very dangerous. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Its my understanding that this would be an indication of utilizing

Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.

2012-01-20 Thread Sean Martin
super understanding, but I didn't want to tell this client that I made a silly mistake and your new server is hosed. Everything is back up and everyone at client is now asking if I can make that happen every other Friday so they can go home early. Bill Sean Martin wrote: Depends

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Sean Martin
$45-$60k sounds like what the company I work for might offer... - Sean On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I had someone contact me about this $45K to $60K a year position. Told them this was a 6 figure salary job position: JOB DUTIES: ·Must have

Re: Quarterly Admin password change

2012-01-18 Thread Sean Martin
Dave, My bad. The product name is actually eDMZ. I think eGuard Post may have been the previous company. http://www.quest.com/edmz/ http://www.quest.com/privileged-account-management/ - Sean On 1/17/12, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: OK I'm sold. Are you guys talking about products

Re: Quarterly Admin password change

2012-01-15 Thread Sean Martin
We're using eGuard Post which was bought by Quest I believe. - Sean On Jan 15, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to identify how are you folks managing the security requirement of changing Local admin password of all servers quarterly? Thanks in advance,

Re: RAID array rebuild Q

2012-01-03 Thread Sean Martin
I'd opt for the dual RAID 1. You typically don't want to stripe your page file. As far as provisioning, it should be fairly quick regardless of which RAID type you choose. - Sean On 1/3/12, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Haven't created a raid 10 set on that controller, but a raid 1 is

Re: RAID array rebuild Q

2012-01-03 Thread Sean Martin
For some reason I equated page file fragmentation with striping but I realize the two are not related. It's already been a long year - Sean On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I'd opt

Re: RAID array rebuild Q

2012-01-03 Thread Sean Martin
363 consecutive days without another mistake? I'm not liking my odds. - Sean On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason I equated page file fragmentation with striping but I

Re: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager (EqualLogic) vs. tradtional backup softwares

2011-12-31 Thread Sean Martin
On 31 dec 2011, at 02:13, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Ben is spot on. It's time to start letting go of the concept of backups and start embracing the concept of data protection. With technologies like snapshots, cloning, replication, de-duplication and compression becoming

Re: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager (EqualLogic) vs. tradtional backup softwares

2011-12-30 Thread Sean Martin
Ben is spot on. It's time to start letting go of the concept of backups and start embracing the concept of data protection. With technologies like snapshots, cloning, replication, de-duplication and compression becoming more prevalent in data protection solutions, you have a myriad of

Re: ?? on jobsites

2011-12-07 Thread Sean Martin
Why limit yourselves? Search them all. - Sean On Dec 7, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Cesare' A. Ramos cra...@idfllc.com wrote: Hope everyone is well. We are looking to post some job openings and also search for tech positions of different levels and want to see the thoughts of monster.com versus

Re: Dell server RAID tool?

2011-11-24 Thread Sean Martin
Dell Open Manage Server Administrator - Sean On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:00 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.com wrote: I have a H700 controller in my Dell server running Windows 2008 R2. What's the name of the application I need to download from Dell to manage/check my RAID

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2011-11-23 Thread Sean Martin
Ditto to that! And a Happy early Thursday to those that don't celebrate Thanksgiving! - Sean On Nov 23, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Early Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! This is list is truly something to be thankful for! Jon ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: SSD for lab Hyper-V server

2011-11-04 Thread Sean Martin
MLC is the TLA you're looking for. Multi Level Cell SSDs provide higher density at a lower cost. SLC provide fast performance and endurance, but at a higher cost. I like the comparison covered in the following paper. http://www.supertalent.com/datasheets/SLC_vs_MLC%20whitepaper.pdf - Sean On

Re: Dell.com down

2011-10-17 Thread Sean Martin
Works in Anchorage AK. - Sean On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John C Owen jo...@innovativefoto.comwrote: It’s up here in Londonderry, NH Verizon FIOS ** ** *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 17, 2011 6:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues

Re: fake-out NetBIOS

2011-09-29 Thread Sean Martin
We disable it on all of our SQL servers so our DBAs can leverage DNS aliases for DBs. Makes it easy to move DBs between SQL servers. - Sean On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:15 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: That’s perfect, thanks! I have never run into this before nor even heard of

Re: fake-out NetBIOS

2011-09-29 Thread Sean Martin
-out NetBIOS Are y'all positive that disabling strict name checking is necessary in conjunction with a CNAME? Most apps will get the canonical name (de-alias) when looking for SPNs, etc. --Steve On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: We disable

Re: Virtualisation software

2011-09-20 Thread Sean Martin
That depends. If you have software assurance then the upgrade costs from ENT to DC licensing should be pretty cheap. There are substantial cost savings to be had by going with DC. - Sean On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: If you're starting out, without

Re: 3ncrypt3d email solutions

2011-09-15 Thread Sean Martin
Kim, Thanks for the information. We use ProofPoint as well and although I haven't personally come across that issue, I'll pass it on to our Information Security team. The fact that you had to change the subject of the e-mail is the reason we used a very specific tag, such as [enc]. This prevents

Re: 3ncrypt3d email solutions

2011-09-15 Thread Sean Martin
of the Outlook Add-in you mentioned. I’d like the info so I can at least let the bosses know the option exists. ** ** Thanks, Kim ** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:40 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re

Re: Encrypted email solutions

2011-09-14 Thread Sean Martin
Proofpoint should be worth a look. - Sean On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:38 PM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting my research on encrypted email solutions. Right now we are relying on users to sign and encrypt their email that contains protected information. We have TLS set up, only

Re: RDS Q - Webster?

2011-09-13 Thread Sean Martin
C'mon now, it warmed up a bit later this afternoon. - Sean On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Greetings from Anchorage, Alaska where it is cold and wet. My apologies, I do not use RDS and have never set it up beyond what is necessary to install XenApp

Re: OT: PMI PMP Certification

2011-08-29 Thread Sean Martin
Much deserved congratulations. From what I understand that was no easy feat. - Sean On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: For everyone who was waiting with bated breath… I took the exam today and passed! What’s next? I’m thinking

Re: Earthquake!!!!!!

2011-08-23 Thread Sean Martin
Pshh...and when you're done with the kiddie experience in CA, come to Alaska if you really want to shake. We may even throw a volcanic eruption in for good measure. Oh, and there was photo evidence of a funnel cloud forming near Iliamna. :) - Sean On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Joseph Heaton

Re: Did you know...

2011-08-22 Thread Sean Martin
Similar to dragging an executable to the run dialogue to aid in launching with specific switches. I believe quotes are automatically added if the path contains spaces, but...don't quote me on that. /rimshot - Sean On Aug 22, 2011, at 8:04 PM, James Hill j.h...@coffeeclub.com.au wrote:

Re: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania

2011-08-19 Thread Sean Martin
I’m waiting for the Flyers season to start up, that’s my real passion. +1000 to that! Go Rangers. -Sean On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Guyer, Don don.gu...@fiserv.com wrote: Guess Vick will be coming to you guys within the next few years, after he doesn’t produce a SB win. ** **

Re: Sherry's Back

2011-08-16 Thread Sean Martin
Congratulations and welcome back! - Sean On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Sherry Abercrombie sabercrom...@nhdallas.com wrote: Hello everyone, I’m finally back. After being laid off in April 2010, I was unemployed for about 4 months, finally landing a job answering Help Desk and eventually

Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Sean Martin
Should be no issue. We're mostly FC with our CX700s and CX4 (except for an aging Celerra gateway providing iSCSI for some dev systems). We're in the process of a storage uplift and regardless of the platform, we'll be introducing iSCSI to slowly phase out FC. - Sean On Aug 12, 2011, at 11:46

Re: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage?

2011-08-05 Thread Sean Martin
Ultraedit - Sean On Aug 5, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: One more reason to use the command line. :) Agreed! On that subject, is there a good text based editor for Windows anybody can recommend? If anybody is familiar with the emacs vs vi wars in

Re: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update

2011-08-03 Thread Sean Martin
I find it a little hard to believe that VMWare was able to react this quickly to customer outcry. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but the revised licensing seems a lot like a Plan B they had waiting just in case customers responded poorly to the original vRAM entitlements that were announced

Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot

2011-07-26 Thread Sean Martin
Easy -- so I don't have to wait for it to load up when I RDP into the server. You have got to be kidding me. - Sean On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:28 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Easy -- so I don't have to wait for it to load up when I RDP into the server. :D I like to keep

Re: Schedule batch files to run accoss multiple servers and multiple schedules

2011-07-26 Thread Sean Martin
We use a product called UC4. I dont think its cheap, but its pretty powerful. - Sean On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 22:30, Dean Cunningham dean.cunning...@gmail.com wrote: Looking for suggestions to manage scheduling of batch files

Re: iphone multiple device ID

2011-07-23 Thread Sean Martin
Does he have two devices? I have several ActiveSync users with iPhones and iPads. - Sean On Jul 23, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: We recently upgraded Exchange from 03 to 10. We created a whole new domain, I happen to notice that on the CEO’s mailbox there are 2

Re: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge

2011-07-14 Thread Sean Martin
+1 I have voice messages weekly from them. - Sean On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: They’ve been knocking on our door for awhile. They seem to be a pretty big company. We haven’t used them yet, but they do call pretty aggressively. ** **

Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

2011-07-13 Thread Sean Martin
) ** ** ** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Subject:* Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes ** ** XenServer will be dead soon. You might as well move to HyperV now if you want to avoid VMWare. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource

Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

2011-07-13 Thread Sean Martin
That's the way I read it. We, like many others I'm sure, are waiting an official explanation from our account rep. - Sean On Jul 13, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Greg Olson gol...@markettools.com wrote: So one thing that I’m hoping I’m getting confused on is this: Let’s say Right now I have an

Re: Dell

2011-07-13 Thread Sean Martin
This is one of those scenarios where leveraging a channel partner over Dell Direct would probably yield better results. - Sean On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. As we generally buy from Dell with a CC, I'd give serious thought about pushing

Re: Dell

2011-07-13 Thread Sean Martin
ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com wrote: I did not know Dell had a channel. Is this something new? I always think of the Dell model as direct Cheers Ryan From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: OT - problems installing HP Management Agents on VMware ESX 4.1

2011-07-12 Thread Sean Martin
Out of curiousity, what benefits are provided with the HP agents? The reason I ask is because we're in the early stages of implementing VMWare in our environment. I've been working closely with our new Architect who was previously a consultant that designed and implemented VMWare deployments. He

Re: Encrypting Event Logs

2011-05-12 Thread Sean Martin
determination. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject

Re: Encrypting Event Logs

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Martin
... * On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning/afternoon, My manager has requested I look for ways to encrypt the event logs on our DCs. Apparently during one of our many audits (governing body to remain nameless) one of the auditors insisted that we should

Re: Encrypting Event Logs

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Martin
Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt

Re: Encrypting Event Logs

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Martin
No, I'm pretty sure they aren't even much help providing examples of solutions. - Sean On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Are they shilling for a company that provides a product? On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti

Re: Encrypting Event Logs

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Martin
: Encrypting Event Logs Ttttbt. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:43 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues

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