Re: It's About Time!

2011-03-10 Thread Steven Peck
Actually Microsoft has had advertising campaigns to get rid of it before. On both the web and TV kind when ie8 came out. Another interesting perspective was this article http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/08/aye-pirates-be-reason-ie6-just-wont-die.html

Re: Backing up CentOS in a Virtual Environment

2011-03-04 Thread Steven Peck
are not going to have a unified solution. Best of luck getting everything setup and secured. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote: You are absolutely correct we are using LAMP, Apache, MySQL, PHP. I was playing around with WAMP

Re: Morale killer...

2011-03-04 Thread Steven Peck
also can celebrate a new Bob on the list, or a new improved Don as he has evidently upgraded to display as Bob. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:01 PM, My New Display Name for Bob. :) don@gmail.com wrote: An A+?!?! For a senior person?!? I'd run away. I've never

Re: Backing up CentOS in a Virtual Environment

2011-03-03 Thread Steven Peck
at it. Despite many myths, Linux has security and software updates as well. As to the VMware backup being enough? Might be, but how will you know without a documented backup/restore plan of the application itself? Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j

Re: Backing up CentOS in a Virtual Environment

2011-03-03 Thread Steven Peck
not that bad but make them do the work of documenting the app and it will make your life significantly easier. Have fun. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote: Point, well taken, sometimes you are too close to the issue

Re: MS IT Advisory council

2011-03-02 Thread Steven Peck
I didn't get one at all :P On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Ok so no one here likes me, I received it at my work address. :-P On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Tim Vander Kooi tvanderk...@expl.comwrote: It might be members of the list being on the

Re: Anyone worked with this?

2011-03-02 Thread Steven Peck
The only catch with the 'asking for forgiveness' strategy is occasionally it comes with none... On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: That occurred to me as well - it's good to know I haven't lost my wits entirely. Kurt On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:03, Michael

Re: Brian Krebs on security

2011-02-28 Thread Steven Peck
IT specific servers next month and then slowly roll it out to everyone else over time. As to putting it on my desktop? I did all my home systems this weekend and will be testing my work system at some point when I want to play with rebooting :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Feb 28

Re: Brian Krebs on security

2011-02-28 Thread Steven Peck
and we do that because those are 'our' groups servers and don't directly impact the businesses ability to accomplish work. As I like a paycheck, I dislike impacting the business in a negative fashion that makes me go to meetings. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:12 AM

Re: Windows 2008 R2 NLB

2011-02-28 Thread Steven Peck
- Accept Some security docs suggest you change the last two to Reject will will 'break' MS NLB at the guest level. We found out when we made these changes in one of our environments. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.gov wrote

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-25 Thread Steven Peck
It never occured to me to try and type names in the dialer. I click on the people hub and number I want there or use the voice dialer. It's 2 taps for the three stuck on my home screen, 3 for people in the People hub. Why would anyone think of typing in names in a keypad dialer? On Fri, Feb

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-25 Thread Steven Peck
but different :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Alan Davies adav...@cls-services.comwrote: Well I'm used to using a BB with GAL access. So I search for someone by typing Fred and it looks in both my contacts and the GAL and offers results. Seems the easiest way

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-25 Thread Steven Peck
Wrong place. If you don't have a number, just start in the people hub. Your contacts (shortcuts) and recent calls are all there and works the same way. There is also a search button for your GAL located right there. For me it was very intuitive but I've always hated my black berry. Steven Peck

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-24 Thread Steven Peck
copy/paste goes in March. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Its a copy of the functionality, regardless of how its arranged. So yes, its a copy. I'm not saying its not functional or intuitive. And I

Re: vSphere 4.1 U1

2011-02-24 Thread Steven Peck
We had to reboot one extra time after the VMWare initiated reboots to ensure all 'new' HW was properly detected and working. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: The tools upgrade does update the NIC drivers, but that's generally trivial. What

Re: vSphere 4.1 U1

2011-02-24 Thread Steven Peck
Vmware will 'support' guests on ver4, however, if you call them they will press you on upgrading them. We still have some 'sensitive' systems that we are trying to get the 'owners' to agree to the upgrade on. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: Cool. I'll

Re: vSphere 4.1 U1

2011-02-24 Thread Steven Peck
You will, of course, have to redo any MS NLB when you change hardware versions here, let me fix that You will, of course, just want to delete any MS NLB you have Just a personal preference :) On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Randal, Phil pran...@herefordshire.gov.uk wrote: There was a

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-23 Thread Steven Peck
Microsoft instead of the actual culprit. Arstechnica does a pretty decent job overall but is at times a bit over the top. Oh, and Verizon does not currently have a Windows Phone 7 device, CDMA and all that... just saying :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:07 AM

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-23 Thread Steven Peck
/winter. Hopefully more details will be released at MIX. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I agree with what you are saying. However, just to state the party line: the initial release of WP7 was targeted toward

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-23 Thread Steven Peck
reader - some technical books Internet Explorer - work blocks some sites, I read them at lunch WHS Phone app (to access some stuff from home occasionally. It fills my needs without filling me with anger and irritation. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Micheal

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-23 Thread Steven Peck
, Microsoft? ANY bad press for Window Phone 7 right now, whether deserved or not, is not good. From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft? It's called Windows

Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-23 Thread Steven Peck
Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Well, they've had three years to think about that issue. -- ME2 On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: I think your guess is wrong. I

Re: Monday morning not-so-funny

2011-02-22 Thread Steven Peck
moved. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: My parents got the “buy a new modem” thing just last week from their provider (WindStream). Ended up just taking a reset. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant

Re: Good source of powershell scripts

2011-02-21 Thread Steven Peck
for random mining using the search feature, you can at times find gems on poshcode http://poshcode.org/ On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi Chaps, Other than the MS Script Repository can anyone name a good site or place to find

Re: Sounding board on issue we are seeing with a Windows 2003 Cluster with SQL 2005

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Peck
SQL Backup, Anti-Virus dat update or Scan initiation? On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Any scheduled tasks in Windows or within SQL? Or, a task running against SQL (maybe check other servers or workstations that reference the cluster for

Re: widescreen vs standard monitors

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Peck
!!! I am not jealous... not not not. At work I have 2 - 22 wide screen (hate standard size now) At home I have 2 - 24 and a 20 all wide screen On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I have three 27” monitors for my workstation. I am not sure how I could live

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Peck
IE9rc has me for now. Firefox has promised the same thing to many times only to let me down again and again. :) I am 'loyal' as long as my needs are met, it's not like installing new browsers is hard or slow. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Angus Scott

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Peck
but they would be the same across both and (flash, pdf) I really don't care if it's the plug in if it locks up my browsing experience I can't browse. 3. Chrome irritated me early on for some reason I can't remember so I am still dragging around that initial irritation. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Peck
the obvious It's Google - they want to own you debate. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE9 RC released On 11 Feb 2011 at 9:43, Steven Peck wrote: Much

Re: SQl Injection, Rainbow Tables, Social Engineering, oh my!

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Peck
these links seem familar. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I apologize... there is a NSFW message on the last page... On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Here's some more... Talk about Hubris!

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Peck
I've not had issues uninstalling it ? On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: OK...uninstalling now. Looking good, looking good... crickets -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 5:30 PM

Re: Thoughts on this pitch from Trend

2011-02-17 Thread Steven Peck
Here we go http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-01-07/ Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.comwrote: Bla bla, our def files are I the cloud, bla bla, something about virtualization density, bla bla cloud, bla bla bla

Re: Anonymous strikes back at HBGary with stolen emails | Leak prevention - InfoWorld

2011-02-16 Thread Steven Peck
about it and don't taunt the unpredictable people who do random things. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Durf stygm...@gmail.com wrote: I have heard more nefarious speulation that HBGary was being retained by Bank of America and/or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Re: Strange account lockout situation

2011-02-15 Thread Steven Peck
. Another possibility is logged in somewhere else with the old credentials, terminal server, wireless (iPhone with old credentials). Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Sean Rector sean.rec...@vaopera.orgwrote: I haven’t tested that yet. Sean Rector, MCSE

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
Well, when something works, you have to nit pick on the marketing guys or your favorite product might not fare well against renewed competition. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Well, if that’s all you can find

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
Much dislike for chrome. I use it for now as firefox is not viable anymore but anticipate moving to ie9 if the performance stuff holds out. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote: Im so over IE. Chrome for life! J *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
| Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T. Services Division Thorn Office Centre, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260160 *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 11 February 2011 17:44 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: IE9 RC released Much dislike

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
sites. *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, February 11, 2011 1:13 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: IE9 RC released FF traditionally has had memory issues. It comes and goes. And yes, FF team maintains it's addons not them but years

Re: IE9 RC released

2011-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
ClearType is awesome and every user I have ever introduced it to in the 'old days' loved it as well. IE7 turned ClearType on so it's been on by default for a few years now. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Seems IE9 turns

Re: Suggestions on reading materials to get back up to speed on 2k3, 2k8, and AD...

2011-02-10 Thread Steven Peck
are weird links but you'll have to just learn who sends those out :) Have fun, best of luck. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.rog On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Leland itli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys and gals, I'm rusty and after a number of years, I'm moving back into a hands-on sysadmin role

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

2011-02-09 Thread Steven Peck
capabilities. Those motherboard manufacturers would be annoyed or upset that they are losing out on supplies to continue their design. Now, I am not saying that I will be rushing out to buy a new motherboard, only that it may really be what the announcement says it is. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

2011-02-09 Thread Steven Peck
, then it will be those motherboard manufacturers that will be doing the recalls not Intel. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: While Intel does make and ship

Re: IPv6 question

2011-02-08 Thread Steven Peck
. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: None of these are true: - Conservation of system resources (CPU, memory) - Smaller footprint, smaller code base, etc - Newer code, more likely to be exploited

Re: Folder transfer over WAN via BITS???

2011-02-04 Thread Steven Peck
Been a year but when tried RichCopy it had some threading limitations that bounced us back to RoboCopy On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Reading this thread, I wonder if anyone has ever tried

Re: [OT] Superbowl

2011-02-04 Thread Steven Peck
so... you brought a bazooka to a knife fight. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Randall yuhro...@verizon.net wrote: Just a rebuff from a proud Steelers fan 1. A Steelers fan and a Packers fan get shipwrecked on an island and some natives take them to their king. At first, the king

Re: W3K R2 x64, read-only SAN volumes and ridiculously long boot-up time

2011-02-01 Thread Steven Peck
from Windows 200 to Windows 2003 with a weird SAN app and read only volumes. The diskperf write test (even on read only volumes) would blue screen our systems. Hitachi SANs for the .. well for the something unpleasant. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Andrew S

Re: Paging file best practices

2011-02-01 Thread Steven Peck
% of our servers. The remaining 5% are either high performance apps or old systems held together with duct tape and hope (as in hope you are not on call when it finally dies a horrible death). Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Michael B. Smith mich

Re: WINS question

2011-01-27 Thread Steven Peck
We make sure that box is not checked as part of the build process. Now that Exchange 2003 is mostly gone from our environments and Outlook clients are mostly 2007, we are starting to decom our WINs servers. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Raper, Jonathan

Re: WINS question

2011-01-27 Thread Steven Peck
on your client machines before joining them to the domain, correct? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA www.eaglemds.com jra...@eaglemds.com From: Steven Peck [sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday

Re: WINS question

2011-01-27 Thread Steven Peck
*Subject:* Re: WINS question Now I am curious, I am on 2003 server, 2003 Exchange and Office 2003 and do not have WINS at all in our environment. Was there something in Exchange 2003 that required it? On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: We make sure that box

Re: Cisco Switch as VM?

2011-01-27 Thread Steven Peck
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9902/index.html ^^ not anywhere near what one would consider cheap. 2011/1/27 Jim Holmgren jholmg...@xlhealth.com ISTR seeing something about a Cisco Nexus series of virtual switches at a dog and pony show recently. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager,

Re: Intel developing security 'game-changer'

2011-01-27 Thread Steven Peck
to comprehend. Educating people on social engineering is a rather time consuming task. Lot's to be learned from the advertising fields in how to present the same overall message in different formats for user consumption. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Rankin

Re: Intel developing security 'game-changer'

2011-01-27 Thread Steven Peck
more questions when confused. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:31 PM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote: Sensitive as always. :) William J. Robbins Enterprise Infrastructure Operations Office of Information Management Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

Re: Verizon Data Services down

2011-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
infect the Verizon network, cause it's not an Apple issue if you hold it wrong :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: rant You think you have problems? We have ATT. ./rant -Original Message- From: Raper

Re: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

2011-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
With ESXi 4.1, when we to a storage motion, we haev three options. Leave the same, thin format, thick format. We store our templates in thin format and our guest systems are thick format. Occasionally we miss one setting change when deploying new guests so we smotion them to correct it. Steven

Re: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

2011-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
caveat of if your environment means over-provisioning could creep up on your very quickly. *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 26 January 2011 16:58 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters? With ESXi 4.1, when we to a storage

Re: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

2011-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
oh, also, we have around 1500 virtualized servers and keeping track of space considerations on that many guests with only a few engineers is just not a good time sink. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Environment considerations. The SAN team sees 'empty

Re: Verizon Data Services down

2011-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
accounting department feels the same way. I assume their billing department must use the same business model as the health care industry. I can’t figure out my medical bills half the time either. *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:54 AM

Re: Verizon Data Services down

2011-01-26 Thread Steven Peck
oh, the 'we didn't find anything wrong re-provisioning' issue. ya, that never happened to us. :) On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.com wrote: I have wondered how VZW would handle

Re: Deprecated Address

2011-01-25 Thread Steven Peck
We get this occasionally. There are around three different locations in the registry where an IP/nic configuration can hang out and bite you and they are semi-dependent on each other. The GUI configuration shows correct information but cmdline doesn't (generally an extra gateway or something).

Re: IIS SMTP Queue Viewer?

2011-01-21 Thread Steven Peck
-with-powershell.aspx Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: There isn’t a queue viewer for IIS SMTP, just Exchange SMTP. *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:33 PM *To:* NT System Admin

Re: A OneNote device

2011-01-21 Thread Steven Peck
My Windows Phone 7 comes with OneNote. It will only sync with your skydrive but it does work. I don't use it in meetings but do tend to use it for a lot of personal stuff as I can grab it anywhere. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Ben Schorr b...@rolandschorr.com wrote: I like my ASUS 101MT

Re: OT:So...our data centre is under water

2011-01-21 Thread Steven Peck
No no. dinosaurs not bears, dinosaurs... http://media.pc.ign.com/media/024/024939/img_7964387.html Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.comwrote: At least the sharks didn't have bears riding on their backs. Sean Martin

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

2011-01-21 Thread Steven Peck
Nice add some stress to the poor guy. I wonder if this should be marked as a 'Friday Funny' :) On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: You asked if you could get more time off. They asked for a few days. Tit-for-tat. Probably a really, really

Re: OT: Background Checks and Drug Test

2011-01-19 Thread Steven Peck
I on the other hand an innocent and frankly if you want me to take a test before you offer me a job, then you had better cover the damn expenses. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: Me either, however I wouldn't be surprised if more start doing so. At least they

Re: OT: Background Checks and Drug Test

2011-01-19 Thread Steven Peck
If you haven't given me an offer contingent on passing, in writing with agreed on pay, then definitely no way I am giving them permission to access my information. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.comwrote: UPDATE I called the recruiter back and asked him

Re: Perhaps the BEST hotfix ever that you may need to install

2011-01-18 Thread Steven Peck
To or three approaches here so miss it no more. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1275090/what-exactly-is-exit-in-powershell Add this to your profile PS C:\ new-alias ^D ex Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan

Re: Weird Windows Explorer issue...

2011-01-18 Thread Steven Peck
oh come on - PowerShell prompt here. Get with the century! Don't be like those fogies inthe other thread, celebrate your youth! :) http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2006/11/20/powershell-prompt-here-powertoy/ STeven Pe On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming

Re: Weird Windows Explorer issue...

2011-01-18 Thread Steven Peck
and I have no idea what gmail did to my edit on my name!!! :( Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: oh come on - PowerShell prompt here. Get with the century! Don't be like those fogies inthe other thread, celebrate your

Re: DHCP reservations explained...

2011-01-18 Thread Steven Peck
and some poor security guard that gets to stand near it until a replacement goes in. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I’ve seen four full cabinets (over 120 servers) in a data-center go offline because of a power

Re: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch

2011-01-13 Thread Steven Peck
I figured it was hyperbole as well. That said, I have a home lab setup to play with technology. Sometimes I play a lot and sometimes I ignore it. However, because I have it available I can play with it. Some situations like learning a new technology because you want to prepare to leave your

Re: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch

2011-01-13 Thread Steven Peck
Are those antenna's removable? I have a point to point bridge with some old Linksys WAP54g's that need replacing and would rather keep my existing external antenna's. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.comwrote: Just got one

Re: Installing SC OM2007 - SQL Server question

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Peck
Do what 80% of businesses do ignore it until something goes down. Then spend time tuning it and configuring alerts Then spend time disabling alerts because of whiny co-workers Then spent time turning them back on because of business demands not quite sure what it means but it must be

Re: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Peck
/default.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx no URLl for friend. Don't over complicate your lab, you are building something that is a tool to play with. Does it really need redundant power supplies and your house re-wired for 30 amp lines? :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed

Re: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Peck
through things before you set them up. http://www.microsoft.com/events/vlabs/default.mspx ^^ This and various PowerShell links are in a block on my site. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: so I have a home lab. I run

Re: OT question (was RE: AD and firewall ports)

2011-01-06 Thread Steven Peck
Ironically, 10 years ago, the new guy on my team's previous job was at a lumber yard and he took a pay cut to get into IT (desktop support, entry level). He's making more now and enjoys his job now so it was a 'right' choice at the time but still, he did take that inital pay cut. On Thu, Jan 6,

Re: Upgrading VMware ESX 3.5 to 4.1 advice needed

2011-01-05 Thread Steven Peck
updates on your systems once you migrate to 4.1. It takes 3 reboots for the guest systems to be really solved in some cases. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/5/2011 1:31 PM, John Cook wrote: http://kb.vmware.com

Re: What's Your Phone?

2011-01-05 Thread Steven Peck
My wife and mine do not seem to suffer from the issue. Nor does a co-worker and 2 friends handsets as far as we can tell. My wife has the smaller 200mb(?) plan as she often has readily accessible wifi and I haev the bigger plan as work wifi is 'filtered' and I can't be bohered to go around it.

Re: What's Your Phone?

2011-01-04 Thread Steven Peck
, this is all rumor at this point. I still love my Windows Phone. OneNote FTW! Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:56 PM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: The WP7 platform is structured differently from WinMo, and Microsoft is supposed

Re: What's Your Phone?

2011-01-04 Thread Steven Peck
And evidently Evernote is being updated to Windows Phone so it will be there when you come back :) On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Yeah, I miss OneNote. But, EverNote does a good job on Android. *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent

Re: BGINFO

2010-12-25 Thread Steven Peck
We have it in the startup part so it only updates when someone logs on. It's only a glance status not a substitute for torubleshooting. We have Server Name: Server Domain: (Dmz's are in work groups and named per DMZ) IP Address This is more for when you are multi-tasking and helps keep you aware

Re: Server Core help

2010-12-22 Thread Steven Peck
Bing search on How to configure system failure and recovery options in Windows 2008 Came up with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307973 which is windows 2003 but similar to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424384%28WS.10%29.aspx If you modify Step 4 to wmic RECOVEROS set AutoReboot =

Re: Server Service Issues

2010-12-10 Thread Steven Peck
We had a few issues and now have to disable the 'automatic updates flag'. We are planning on a 'scheduled enable' at a predictable time the next time we the VMTools update is needed. Yay fo rPowerCLI and scripting. In this issue, have you tried process exolorer to identify which dependent

Re: Microsoft Breaking the bank patch wise this month, 17 bulletins

2010-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
And by next Saturday we'll have them fully deployed on our systems per normal. Just another patch cycle is all. :) On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Maybe, But I’d be really sure to get the IE patch that is going to be released deployed, I would

Re: Microsoft Breaking the bank patch wise this month, 17 bulletins

2010-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
of the description it is hardly to evaluate under the 'breaking the bank' headline. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: And by next Saturday we'll have them fully deployed on our systems per normal. Just another patch cycle is all. :) On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM

Re: Microsoft Breaking the bank patch wise this month, 17 bulletins

2010-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org email%3aezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re

Re: Microsoft Breaking the bank patch wise this month, 17 bulletins

2010-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
to the environment. Best of luck on your environment. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Good deal, too bad the organization here has different times for each and everyone one of their systems they have agreed upon and its all

Re: Microsoft Breaking the bank patch wise this month, 17 bulletins

2010-12-09 Thread Steven Peck
? Devil is in the details J *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, December 09, 2010 12:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Microsoft Breaking the bank patch wise this month, 17 bulletins We are in 2 countries and 5 timezones. We have

Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?

2010-12-07 Thread Steven Peck
We don't need to proselytize your religious view here folks. This is a techie list and the person that brought it up the issue also claimed to be a victim. That falsely pretends that they are here. No one on this list said it except the original poster which caused this echo chamber. We could

Re: Win 2003 R2 strangeness

2010-12-06 Thread Steven Peck
you begin using crappy leaky sieve software again you can request alleged patched/updated version of it. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:27 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Mainly laziness. Also, I don't know but what they'll want to start using

Re: Blogging software

2010-12-03 Thread Steven Peck
) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uknigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk -- *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 01 December 2010 19:23 *To:* NT System Admin Issues

Re: Blogging software

2010-12-01 Thread Steven Peck
I would suggest getting rid of Windows 2000 as the starting point. Microsoft Web Platform Installer can then be used to get a number of different possibilities depending on what you want. If you are just 'blogging', then Wordpress is the hands down winner and you can even use th eMS write tool

Re: OT: For the ladies

2010-11-24 Thread Steven Peck
I have a windows phone 7 which has it's own website for me to call myself should I ever want to make it ring. :) On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com wrote: Says it is coming out of Idaho. (203)953-1569. On Nov 24, 2010 11:40 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming

Re: A Very Potter Musical

2010-11-18 Thread Steven Peck
parts of me going flying all around On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Like a record, baby. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Are you spinning round and round sir? -sc -Original

Re: A Very Potter Musical

2010-11-17 Thread Steven Peck
ABBA cadaver - new zombie band. Well, new in a relative sense. On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:36 PM, RS rich...@gmail.com wrote: ABBA cadaver? Whu? On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: Abra Cadavra...hocus pocus... Abra Ca-pocus. Hocus-Cadabra On Wed, Nov

Re: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Steven Peck
I see where the problem is. Jonathan is 'jumping' not running. In order for this list to function, someone must be 'running'. Steven On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: *[jumps up and down, shouting out like a young child*] Pick me! Pick me!

Re: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-10 Thread Steven Peck
Point out to management that if your power settings don't turn off your monitors in a very short time frame, then your systems suck up power which sucks down money. Also, if I recall, such a GPO would affect everything which means any virtualized systems will now be trying to run a screen savor

Re: VMWare vs Hyper-V

2010-10-26 Thread Steven Peck
and is a different technology would also affect my decision. I would imagine that MS has SA support available for HyperV as well. That said, they both work but unless you have a lot of non-Windows systems you are wanting to virtualize you could use either. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Oct

Re: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

2010-10-26 Thread Steven Peck
will have their own issues but both solutions will work. I have friends running comparibly sized HyperV installations and they are about as satisifed as we are with VMware. Most issues revolve around working with our storage teams (seperate) and getting latency numbers we're happy with. Steven

Re: Powershell Help

2010-10-20 Thread Steven Peck
If you needed sub-directories so you would add a -recurse PS: Get-Help Get-ChildItem -Examples look at example 2 and 3. dir is aliases to Get-ChildItem. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: dir -path c:\path

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