Re: Picking up file server tuning again

2012-02-10 Thread Steven Peck
^^ Most MS FTE's will suggest you run that or just start with that as well now. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote: Rather than trying to do this yourself, check out PAL - http://pal.codeplex.com/. It will setup all the right counters for you and crunch

Re: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Steven Peck
I can fully and painfully witness that the Hole Hawg is in fact exactly as described. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I’m guessing this utility

Re: OT - ugh!

2012-02-08 Thread Steven Peck
Unless you are attempting to game the system, the best SEO is to have a well structured code and content people want to read and reference (link to). Being consistent in content significantly helps as well. Pretty much any modern blog or CMS will do this for you. Steven Peck http

Re: OT - ugh!

2012-02-08 Thread Steven Peck
They might have question about what that guy was doing with a squirrel 2012/2/8 Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com That I can also let my mom, dad, and 13-y/o look at? :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original

Re: OT - ugh!

2012-02-07 Thread Steven Peck
I will suggest you invest in your own domain name. (You can still use blogspot). It's pretty cheap, it also makes things more portable and later, you can use it for your email should you go independant and not lose the existing work or your 'identity branding'. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:39 AM,

Re: OT - ugh!

2012-02-07 Thread Steven Peck
While I don't do full out articles and haven't blogged myself in a while, the main reason I do post stuff on mine, is really, so I can find it later. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I get that a lot. J ** ** And I also use my blog as an

Re: ASUS laptops/notepbooks

2012-02-03 Thread Steven Peck
My sister in law has a very old one back many years ago that although battered half to death still is plugging along. We finally couldn't take it anymore and pooled money and got her a low end replacement for it this christmas. It was like 6 or 7 years old. Im shocked that it hadn't died yet.

Re: Wireless bridge between buildings.

2012-02-01 Thread Steven Peck
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: When I was working in construction (plumbing/HVAC), several of our jobs had as a requirement for sign off, 'as-built' plans to be turned over as part

Re: Wireless bridge between buildings.

2012-01-31 Thread Steven Peck
exists as long as they were a requirement of the contract (most times) and you followed up to make sure you got them before handing out the final check and they haven't been mislaid. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue

Re: I'm Baaaaaaaack!

2012-01-30 Thread Steven Peck
Label them in an obscure code. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Guyer, Donald dgu...@che.org wrote: LOL Thank you all. I have no clue, Kat, I've only been here 4 days and most of that time's been spent labeling cables. I'm contracting for now, with the hope of going perm after a short

Re: Wireless bridge between buildings.

2012-01-30 Thread Steven Peck
Well, look on the bright side, you at least know you have a junction. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Properly done, any buried conduit should be easily accessible from the

Re: FW: SIEM

2012-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
** ** That was some impressive restraint Steven, s close to LMGTFY but yet, not quite! ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:42 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: FW: SIEM ** ** I would imagine you put

Re: Silly question: Windows 7.5 Phone + DNS

2012-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
windows mobile we had laying around was running 7.0 Thanks On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: +1. Very useful tool. -- Espi On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: https

Re: On-line file storage? Dropbox-like?

2012-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
skydrive.live.com ? On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Hi Folks, Can someone recommend a dropbox like service that does not require a local client? We share files occasionally with other agencies, and I just need simple site where I can store files, they

Re: Farscape

2012-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com * The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America* * *www.guardianlife.com From:Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin

Re: FW: SIEM

2012-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
. I feel dumb because I am not aware. Not because you all said anything to make me feel dumb. I take what you say with salt and heart. Even the flaming has benefit. ** ** ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Posted At:* Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:35 AM *Posted

Re: On-line file storage? Dropbox-like?

2012-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
An infrastructure you don't have to maintain is useful as well. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I think that part of the goal is dynamic sharing of data between persons that won't necessarily be defined clearly before the transaction. FTP is great,

Re: Lync

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Peck
leading to the project end. So don't think of a quote as just the time to implement, but in all the time and documentation it takes to prepare, implement and turn over. Of course, you may have had a different idea. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Andrew S

Re: FW: SIEM

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Peck
I would imagine you put the anacronym in the search engine of your choice and look it up. Failing that, you may inquire of the requestor the circumstance under which they wish you to become familiar with it. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:14 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: ** ** **

Re: Silly question: Windows 7.5 Phone + DNS

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Peck
What is the problem? If it is IE browsing you can flush the history which also seems to wipe the cache Settings Applications Internet Explorer | Delete History There is an app in the market place called Network Tools that seems like what you want. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:35 AM, justino

Re: FW: SIEM

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Peck
Ah well in this case, you direct the auditors back to your compliance manager who should have informed the technical people about the business/regulatory requirement. Then ask for a list and go get the numbers for the budget. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:21 PM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com

Re: Silly question: Windows 7.5 Phone + DNS

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Peck
https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ Make sure it's working properly there. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:23 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: For some reason I can't get active synch to connect.. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us

Re: Farscape

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Peck
Farscape was an awesome series and I doubt it. His son was involved withthe project as a producer and later bought rights to it. Jim Henson produced Dark Crystal (which I think was underrated) and his goal was the advancement of pupetry. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr

Re: Lync

2012-01-24 Thread Steven Peck
. We sat with their managers and suggested they look at their existing rules on call processing and then just extend their training to have template responces to people who do this so that everyone ahs the same standardize response to their customer base. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue

Re: Lync

2012-01-24 Thread Steven Peck
connectivity will have to sign off on knowing their communciation is archived in case a compliance review is needed later. It's not often you get to deploy something that changes a way your company commuicates so really, it's fun. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:47 PM

Re: Data recovery

2012-01-23 Thread Steven Peck
Many many years ago, I had to send in a Western Digital drive that had the click of death to a data recovery company. Now I knew it was toast as it would go Click, s s shhh Click (sound of the drive head running on the platter). However, managment demanded that it be sent. The data

Re: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Steven Peck
awaiting they virtualization on Windows 8 because what I have seen so far looks awesome. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Google absorbs an app

Re: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

2012-01-23 Thread Steven Peck
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: It's an effective business strategy. Although it tends to piss people off ... Yes, but it's not like Microsoft doesn't do this for no reason

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-23 Thread Steven Peck
The money we spent on a consultant to get ours configured I'd have to agree. Our in house Citirx guys took a shot at it before the consultant came in and he was all, not bad, not bad, just a few changes to make it all consistent and work right. 3 days later :) On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at

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

2012-01-20 Thread Steven Peck
Just do NOT turn the system off. If you turn it off now, turning it back can be problematic. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:14 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.comwrote: Deleting snapshops can take awhile, especially if they're large. How big was your snapshot? Original Message:

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

2012-01-20 Thread Steven Peck
No computer can accurately give a time line of when it will finish it's operation. If it did that it wouldn't be able to cause anxiety and panic. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:24 PM, WJH nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote: i did delete it using esxi. removing snapshot task has been sitting on 99% for

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

2012-01-20 Thread Steven Peck
oh, on this note for nayone running ESXi.. http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/ You may want to schedule that to run weekly. May help remind you of things. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: No computer can accurately give a time line of when

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Steven Peck
Smart phone with a camera. To heck with that paper thing! On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.gov wrote: It’s kind of like how difficult it would be to research Windows Server problems

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Steven Peck
agencies and nothing is allowed in the facility. They bring their photo ID, the clothes they are wearing and nothing else. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com Reply

Re: Dual Display KVM

2012-01-19 Thread Steven Peck
Synergy lost it's mind to often for me to bother with anymore in a Windows only environment. I used to use Multiplicity Pro from Stardock. Currently I use the Mouse without Borders tool http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27589 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Sam Cayze

Re: Size of this NT admin list

2012-01-18 Thread Steven Peck
Well now it's 29 and that can't be right either. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:34 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: 28 On 18 January 2012 16:30, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Anyone know

Re: amazon AWS + Free windows server

2012-01-18 Thread Steven Peck
is there a link to this? On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:47 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Sound great, what your opinion? The AWS Free Usage Tier will now include Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server. Customers eligible for the AWS Free Usage tier can now use

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-18 Thread Steven Peck
First time hitting the Internetz today eh? On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:29 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Anyone been there today? *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

Re: ADFS + SAML 2.0 w/ Concur = success!

2012-01-16 Thread Steven Peck
Seriously, that will help cut down on search conflicts for others and give people a more trusted point of reference for this stuff. My own little corner really only exists to remind myself how I did something and occasionally save myself from repeating it. On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:22 PM, David

Re: KB2585542 stops access to websites

2012-01-11 Thread Steven Peck
It does say 'some'. I put this on my system last night and it hasn't affected any of our internal sites that I normally connect to. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/11/2012 3:28 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: They outline some steps to disable/enable the

Re: KB2585542 stops access to websites

2012-01-11 Thread Steven Peck
To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: KB2585542 stops access to websites On 1/11/2012 5:08 PM, Steven Peck wrote: It does say 'some'. I put this on my system last night and it hasn't affected any of our internal sites that I normally connect to. I installed it this morning

Re: OT Gmail rant

2012-01-11 Thread Steven Peck
You know, I've been hearing advances in hotmail are making feature parity happen, so, time to check it out and see. Maybe switch over. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Going one

Re: KB2585542 stops access to websites

2012-01-11 Thread Steven Peck
Out of curiousity, when was the last time you had a real 'patched' caused issue? Ours was the patch that reset OCS which was a few years ago. It had a limited impact. Since then we've had no patches which nuked anything. (Disclaimer, we can only put approved patches on certain telecom servers

Re: KB2585542 stops access to websites

2012-01-11 Thread Steven Peck
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Out of curiousity, when was the last time you had a real 'patched' caused issue? Ours was the patch that reset OCS which was a few years ago. It had a limited impact. Since then we've had no patches which nuked anything

Re: OT - Home Router ideas?

2012-01-10 Thread Steven Peck
Router in the basemetn of a two story house? You are going to want something with a decent antenea then. On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:28 PM, winsys winsysad...@gmail.com wrote: Router is in the mechanical room of the basement. He is usually 2 floors up where his home office and bedroom are. He

Re: OT - Home Router ideas?

2012-01-10 Thread Steven Peck
I realize there is a lot of love for dd-wrt but they burned their bridge with me a while ago. I just don't find their stuff dependable enough to actually use anymore. Granted this may have changed in two years, but not enough for me to trust them with something I may have to support. On Tue,

Re: OT - Home Router ideas?

2012-01-10 Thread Steven Peck
this year. Probably RB751U-2HnD or get a board and daughterboards which would cost more. Not sure yet. http://routerboard.com/GrooveA5Hn http://routerboard.com/RB751U-2HnD Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: What problems

Re: OT - Home Router ideas?

2012-01-10 Thread Steven Peck
the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: First their 'tunnels' did not work as advertised and I spent months trying things on their forums only to find out they didn't work per documentation. Second

Re: OT Gmail rant

2012-01-09 Thread Steven Peck
I don't like the new format either. Using the 'Compact' version of it makes it more tolerable but enh. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Heaton, Joseph@DFG jhea...@dfg.ca.govwrote: I'm not sure what the big deal is, personally. I've been using the new format for a while now. I applied a theme

Re: OT Gmail rant

2012-01-09 Thread Steven Peck
YA!!! Because if it were easy to find that would demonstrate a good UI. oh wait On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Its done in exactly the same way that labels (and now Circles) are handled. You hover over it, and you have access to an

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Steven Peck
We did a lot of P2V migrations. Got really tired of manually removing hidden devices http://www.robvanderwoude.com/devcon.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/rmhiddev_nt.txt -- Works a treat (test on your own, etc) Fast. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:28

Re: Interesting Windows 8 logon feature

2011-12-20 Thread Steven Peck
This was demo'd in the Build videos if you want to see a demo of it. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16247659 -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong

Re: things to include in a vm server template?

2011-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
thing that simply doesn't need to be there. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:35 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Any app that gets updated regularly for security updates (a PDF reader, etc) I wouldn’t have on my template – have a GPO or something push them once

Re: things to include in a vm server template?

2011-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
oh, why are you including a telnet client? You can enable the MS telnet client natively in the build. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: We put Microsoft Netmon and PowerShell v2 on those that don't have v2 natively and have a GPO to enable remoting. Netmon

Re: things to include in a vm server template?

2011-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
Well, originally it was said Telnet, not ssh. If you need ssh then it makes more sense. PDF readers still don't belong on servers, nor does Firefox. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/9/2011 11:52 AM, Steven Peck wrote: oh, why are you including

Re: things to include in a vm template?

2011-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
kind... Just a bad idea. Read docs on the workstation. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: My point is that you can do these things from a workstation. Why use the resources of the server to do these things? Firefox

Re: things to include in a vm template?

2011-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
The only reason I go into the server room is a 'walk through' to check that the lights are green and not blinky orange/red or have to rack/move a server. The goal is to sit at your desk and use RDP to the servers. I rarely ever sit at a server console anymore. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:43 AM,

Re: things to include in a vm template?

2011-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
I am semi-ranting here because it hasn't been discussed on the list for a while :) On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: Yes, that is a bad habit. Browser exploits are a huge threat vector right now. And yes, big name sites get hit all the time,

Re: test message

2011-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
pick pick pick. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: FYI, based on headers, it took 7 minutes to appear; in the past, it’s been under 1 minute. ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP

Re: OT: wireless access point

2011-12-06 Thread Steven Peck
Usually with the low end ones, if you put it in 'bridge mode' you now have a dedicated device that won't do anything else. As I haven't used thsoe models, you may want to look at the manual to check that. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote:

Re: OT: What a Great Idea!

2011-12-06 Thread Steven Peck
I have the second one (two in fact). It works well. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:04 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: Thats a much better option. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: OT: What a Great Idea!

2011-12-06 Thread Steven Peck
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Re: Big brother, not many care that he's here.

2011-12-02 Thread Steven Peck
It doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide. It doesn't. It's none of their business at all. It is a matter of evaluating companies and what they do and deciding the one that is least likely to do things you object to. If their primary business motivator is something that you find might lead

Re: Virtualization - Sizing, hard disk config

2011-12-02 Thread Steven Peck
in proceedure befuddles one and you end up connecting to them in numerical order until you find the stupid things. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Good for you. It's been an issue in three datacenter restarts I've

Re: syslogs

2011-12-01 Thread Steven Peck
Because their support currently sucks. Use the forums where other people looking for support might be able to help you. If you use emails, you get messages back like sorry I was out sick I'll look at it today. 3 days later you get a similiar message. Call on the phone, after 2-3 hours on hold for

Re: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'?

2011-11-30 Thread Steven Peck
-windows-phone-exempt Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:22 PM, David blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Running a Verizon Droid X, I can't find any trace of CarrierIQ -- and this is the 2nd time I've searched for it. Good news, I reckon...But I agree with your assessment

Re: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'?

2011-11-30 Thread Steven Peck
right, 'cuz I sure can't find it (Goodthing™). On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Evidently it can hide itself. http://androidsecuritytest.com/features/logs-and-services/loggers/carrieriq/ ironic link as the source link is busted http

Re: Ping testing tool

2011-11-22 Thread Steven Peck
With PowerShell v2 you'd want to use Test-Connection PS: test-connection -computername server01, server02, server12 Of course, you'd have to build in the data collection and the delay. For the delay you could use Start-Sleep -s 15 Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9

Re: HP Blade server and Win PE 2.0 environment - NIC driver trouble

2011-11-22 Thread Steven Peck
I am not rightly the right guy on details, but we found that you really had to get the 'first' discovered network for SCCM deployment on WinPE boot media. We disable the physical NICs down to one, then it worked for us. Once the server is finished, we re-enabled the NICs. Usign the cmdline to

Re: HP Blade server and Win PE 2.0 environment - NIC driver trouble

2011-11-22 Thread Steven Peck
Wow. The syntax and spelling part of my brain left for vacation already. :) On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/22/2011 3:04 PM, Steven Peck wrote: I am not rightly the right guy on details, but we found that you really had to get the 'first

Re: OT: Gadgets

2011-11-15 Thread Steven Peck
If you end up needing speakers, I got a set of in wall from monoprice.comand they sound great. They have a way broader selection then I had realized until my boss suggested them when I was looking a month ago. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:51 AM, James Rankin kz2

Re: Disabling but not deleting AD accounts unil Jan 1

2011-11-15 Thread Steven Peck
We move them to an OU for 90 days. We have a scripted process that runs daily (or weekly) and anything older then 90 days nukes their home directories and the account. The mailboxes then float off on the deleted item policy 30 days later. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Jon Harris

Re: Cell Phone Policies

2011-11-13 Thread Steven Peck
wow, that's a nice cliff you've found. inline below. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Jim McAtee j...@zolx.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Steven Peck To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-**software.comntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Saturday

Re: Cell Phone Policies

2011-11-12 Thread Steven Peck
That's our current policy as well. Push back from employees? In this job market? You mean people telling us that we're controlling bastards, we get in the way of inovation and 'just don't understand? Some. But seriously our response is go talk to 'security' and the executive vice presidents

Re: Stupid iPhone 4S Security Loophole

2011-11-12 Thread Steven Peck
In general you need a valid account to access your email. As MBS indicated it may be a local issue with something not honoring the account settings we don't actually know until a few of the repetitive folks do some testing. The rest is Statler and Waldorf in the balcony pointing fingers about a

Re: Cell Phone Policies

2011-11-12 Thread Steven Peck
It is a requirement from our corporate security and legal to show that we are fulfilling our regulatory obligations regarding data. You and I know that someone can do any number of deliberate things. A lawyer in a court room can point to any number of other things. If we can remote wipe a phone

Re: iPhone user can still send emails after being disabled in AD

2011-11-11 Thread Steven Peck
I first encountered the second post, then read why it was written. http://code.technically.us/post/1109586140/exchange-remote-wipe-is-a-terrible-terrible-bug http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2010/09/shut_the_fuck_up_part_mcmx.html Although old, it is funny. Note, there is a little bit of

Re: iPhone user can still send emails after being disabled in AD

2011-11-11 Thread Steven Peck
We just reviewed the basic settings during the deployment and made changes that were approrpriate fro our environment. It wasn't that big a deal. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Mike Tavares miketava...@comcast.netwrote: Its on by default in 2010 as well *From:* Kennedy, Jim

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Steven Peck
Method string ToString() PathNoteProperty System.String Path=P:\Desktop TotalSize NoteProperty System.Double TotalSize=25.3 MB $a | sort TotalSize or Get-folderSize | Sort TotalSize Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:34 PM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Steven Peck
Well, mine was the seriously lazy use what's there method. It's not like I created anything, just discovered and leveraged what was there :) On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Steven’s solution is arguably better than mine. J ** **

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Steven Peck
, just sometimes, a quick script fulfills your needs and has the advantage of just being there already. In the end, either set of tools works. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com wrote: Just use WinDirStat and be done

Re: iPhone user can still send emails after being disabled in AD

2011-11-09 Thread Steven Peck
That might cause the guy with a wiped iPhone to rant on the interwebs :) On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:40 AM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: check EMC, you may not manage it, however you should still see it in there; and be able to disable its connection, or even send a remote wipe to the

Re: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...)

2011-11-04 Thread Steven Peck
The Build conference videos had some stuff on Windows Server 8 that the press ignored so if you haven't looked at those yet, you might want to find them and watch. It's probably not as cool as the stuff that MBS can't tell us but it's better then the nothing the tech press is giving us. On Fri,

Re: Happy Friday

2011-11-04 Thread Steven Peck
Becuase IE9 works fine in my work environment? On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tigran K tigr...@gmail.com wrote: I just assumed everybody is using Chrome. I mean why wouldn't they? On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: If you want the funny - use

Re: Happy Friday

2011-11-04 Thread Steven Peck
Smugness? On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:22 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: LOL. I have never even downloaded Chrome, what does it give me that I'm missing with IE? -Original Message- From: Tigran K [mailto:tigr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:00 AM To: NT

Re: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...

2011-11-03 Thread Steven Peck
Because if they stand still the mob will catch them. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:33 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I have a few Mac Hardware, Windows OS people in our district, and they run great. Out of curiositywhy? -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross

Re: From the Mac Enterprise list

2011-11-01 Thread Steven Peck
So, we're talking Enterprise A not Enterprise E On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:25 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: It's a small list John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families *From*: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@coffeeclub.com.au] *Sent*: Tuesday, November

Re: CITRIX - Outlook 2003 - Destroys BODY of Email

2011-11-01 Thread Steven Peck
We don't let client systems scan email. We have gateway scanners and AV on the Exchange servers. On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: ** On Citrix/RDS servers with offloaded network file and app storage the need for realtime AV scanning is rapidly

Re: Hyper-V VM's and unnecessary heart failure

2011-10-31 Thread Steven Peck
I got one of my co-workers into PowerShell specifically because of the ability to run a script that would kill CD rom connections in our VMware environment before patching. On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:55 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: I’m not sure I’d have felt guilty

Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-27 Thread Steven Peck
If you give them money, they will be more then happy to take it from you at the new improved rates that let them buy more boats. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:36 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: If you have support you can upgrade. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong

Re: Backup Network and Windows Failover cluster

2011-10-24 Thread Steven Peck
forget to set some of the above right. Usually 'register with DNS' so other systems can't route to it properly. I suspect a HOST file would do something similar for you. As we don't manage TSM and it is hosted primarily on the UNIX servers here that's all I got. Hope something is useful Steven

Re: Backup Network and Windows Failover cluster

2011-10-24 Thread Steven Peck
hits the same backup server no matter which node it's on. I'm not sure this will work for my Commvault though.. hmmm... -BenN On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Err. so. I will tell you how we do it. We use Tivolli Storage Manager. TSM uses a local

Re: Scheduled Maintenance 4 PM Today

2011-10-20 Thread Steven Peck
Regardless of the TimeZone, I want to take this moment and thank Sunbelt for hosting the lists they do as it has provided a learning and support resource for me for years. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Michael White mswhite...@gmail.com wrote: What time zone? On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:11

Re: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says

2011-10-18 Thread Steven Peck
Sounds like it. To be honest, I believe that MS has a point. They aren't saying they are not important, they are saying to not panic. You need to asses the information for each one. Zero day threat - 1. RDP will hit your system remotely and blow it up - you should probably do something about this

Re: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says

2011-10-18 Thread Steven Peck
be. Zero day’s can be pretty effective in a spear phishing attack. So if you are someone that might be more of a target zero days become more of an issue. ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:57 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject

Re: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says

2011-10-18 Thread Steven Peck
read Russinovich’s “Zero Day” book, you’ll want to panic. Of course, since he works for Microsoft, maybe they’ll want him to revise it. ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2011 1:11 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Zero-day

Re: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says

2011-10-18 Thread Steven Peck
:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:10 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says ** ** You didn't read my words did you? Microsoft is saying evaluate. Things that don't require user interaction

Re: How you know some SE's aren't really in the Windows management space

2011-10-14 Thread Steven Peck
I am on the systems management team that does patching and I know just enough about SCCM to monitor my turn at patch night. Beyond that I focus on SCOM and maintain our OCS environment. What I know about those other tools is overheard conversations and mentions on this list. On Fri, Oct 14,

Re: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread Steven Peck
The most recent big one was the Mac Defender. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Defender Apple's initial response was 'head inthe ground'. Due to outrage they did eventually provide a fix. QUOTE According to Sophos, by May 24, there had been sixty thousand calls to AppleCare

Re: AV and malware protection?

2011-10-12 Thread Steven Peck
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Alan Davies adav...@cls-services.comwrote: Mind you, we still haven't figured out how to bind an iBook to an alien spacecraft like your lot ... Somewhere there is a vendor who has a class on how that is done. We're not allowed to teach it outside the US. ~

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