RE: DFSR

2013-04-29 Thread Tim Evans
It depends. There are 2 parts to DFS- the DFS namespace and DHS Replication. You can use the namespace without doing replication, but you can do replication without the namespace. I use the DFS namespace on all shares so that when I replace a file server, all of the links to it will still

RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-29 Thread Tim Evans
They were cool, right? …Tim -Original Message- From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 8:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown. I remember lots of chatter and banter back in the day on the old exchange

RE: Virtualization

2013-04-26 Thread Tim Evans
That sounds like what these guys did: http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/02/21/surface-pro-hijinks-video.aspx Install Server 2012 on 4 Surface Pro tablets, enable Hyper-V, create some VMs, and then use Shared-Nothing Live Migration to move them around over a WiFi Hotspot.

RE: Google Drive

2013-04-12 Thread Tim Evans
When we first started to migrate to that new 10-BaseT thing, we used Cabletron transceivers that allowed us to connect the cable to the AUI connector on our old 3-COM nics. I just checked and you can still buy one of them on EBay for $25. I think we used to pay something like $100 for them back

RE: Google Drive

2013-04-12 Thread Tim Evans
My favorite programming language is profanity. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@live.com] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 5:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Drive You talk to machines much too? ROFLMAO Jon From:

RE: OT: Just A Bunch of Noise, or The Beginning of The End?

2013-04-05 Thread Tim Evans
Woody Leonhard was just commenting on the same thing: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/gartner-and-idc-predictions-oops-forget-what-we-said-last-time-215830 ...Tim -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 9:05 AM

RE: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Tim Evans
Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:28:00 -0800 Subject: Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b

RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool

2013-02-28 Thread Tim Evans
Nice trick. I didn't know that was there. Looks pretty useful. ...Tim From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool For basic testing from a client machine you can also use F12 in

RE: This has been in the news a lot lately, and it's interesting

2013-02-20 Thread Tim Evans
HIV, ROFL! I heard he wasn't wearing any pants either. Seriously, I thought it was a pretty good interview. …Tim -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: This has

RE: MS site?

2013-02-01 Thread Tim Evans
There are quite a few tweets this morning about problems with Office 365, SkyDrive, etc, so this may be related. FWIW, it loads OK from Seattle ...Tim From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 6:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS

RE: Favorite VPN solution?

2013-01-29 Thread Tim Evans
I was looking at OpenVPN, but it looks to me like it won't work in our environment. We have multiple subnets on our internal network, and it looks like the OpenVPN client needs admin rights on the endpoint to update routes. Our users don't have admin rights and that's not something I'm looking

RE: Favorite VPN solution?

2013-01-29 Thread Tim Evans
Issues Subject: Re: Favorite VPN solution? On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: I was looking at OpenVPN, but it looks to me like it won't work in our environment. We have multiple subnets on our internal network, and it looks like the OpenVPN client needs

RE: Mobile app for password management

2012-12-04 Thread Tim Evans
I use Keepass on my iPhone too. They have several different iPhone/iPad ports, as well as Blackberry, Windows 7, Android, Linux, etc ...Tim From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mobile app for password

RE: Window 8 on your PC

2012-11-21 Thread Tim Evans
Mark Minasi has a good one in his latest newsletter: http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws1211.htm ...Tim From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC Here are 2 reviews that I'm currently

RE: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen

2012-10-08 Thread Tim Evans
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134269.aspx ...Tim From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen I was curious so did some random searches. This threa was the only one that

RE: One pooch, screwed Adobe style

2012-09-27 Thread Tim Evans
Wouldn't that be ironic if the compromised build server was compromised by an infected PDF file? …Tim -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: One pooch, screwed Adobe style

RE: Variables in AD group policy preferences

2012-09-18 Thread Tim Evans
On one of our XP systems: %SystemDrive%=C: %SystemRoot%=C:\WINDOWS %ProgramFiles%=C:\Program Files These are set by default ...Tim From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Variables in AD group policy

RE: Server 2012 available to volume licensees

2012-08-17 Thread Tim Evans
Sweet! Thanks for the heads up. ...Tim From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server 2012 available to volume licensees I'm downloading as we speak from

RE: SPF record question

2012-07-18 Thread Tim Evans
I see a softfail as: If the SPF record doesn't match, just ignore it. What's the point? If someone went to the trouble of setting a SPF record up, it should means something. Our MTA is set to override softfails and make them just fails. ...Tim From: Kennedy, Jim

RE: SPF record question

2012-07-18 Thread Tim Evans
Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPF record question On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: I see a softfail as: If the SPF record doesn't match, just ignore

RE: PC that can't Google

2012-01-12 Thread Tim Evans
I believe you can put the hosts file in a nonstandard location specified by HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath The one in %windir%\System32\drivers\etc could be a decoy. …Tim From: Tammy Stewart [mailto:copper...@personainternet.com] Sent:

RE: Windows 8 dev preview video

2011-09-15 Thread Tim Evans
Mark Minasi has a nice write up on win8 server here: http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws1109.htm Sounds like some really cool stuff is in the works. ...Tim From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 8 dev

RE: DigiNotar compromise

2011-09-07 Thread Tim Evans
... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com wrote: If this is true, I find this absolutely unacceptable that a commercial CA would run a system like

RE: DigiNotar compromise

2011-09-07 Thread Tim Evans
-term profits) to pursue an effective security strategy, but didn't. And now their profits have ended, too... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com

RE: DigiNotar compromise

2011-09-07 Thread Tim Evans
...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 [cid:image001.jpg@01CC6D33.220B5730] From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DigiNotar compromise If this is true, I find this absolutely unacceptable that a commercial CA would

RE: Checking shortcut properties

2011-09-02 Thread Tim Evans
Does this help? ' VBScript Set Shell = CreateObject(WScript.Shell) DesktopPath = Shell.SpecialFolders(Desktop) Set link = Shell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath \Test.lnk) wscript.echo link.Arguments wscript.echo link.Description wscript.echo link.HotKey wscript.echo link.IconLocation wscript.echo

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread Tim Evans
Due to problems like this, we've moved our DNS to DNS Made Easy (http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/). There are others that can do it too, but these guys do a good job for us for not much money, ...Tim From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:10 AM To: NT

RE: Acrobat Alternatives - PDF-XChange?

2011-08-18 Thread Tim Evans
We use it here. It's a good product. I personally have no complaints with it. We've run into basically two issues with it, neither insurmountable: * Incompatibility with new Adobe PDF features It seems like Adobe, in their attempt to keep their lead in the software vulnerability

RE: Acrobat Alternatives - PDF-XChange?

2011-08-18 Thread Tim Evans
over the next few weeks. From: Tim Evans [tev...@sparling.com] Sent: 18 August 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Acrobat Alternatives - PDF-XChange? We use it here. It's a good product. I personally have no complaints with it. We've run

RE: [OT] The infection continues to spread (HP)

2011-08-17 Thread Tim Evans
It may be starting already. I received an email this morning with the subject: Critical Alert for your Modular Ethernet Switches and Fixed Port L3 Managed Ethernet Switches. It said: K.15.05.0002 removed from web due to unexpected reboots. K.15.05.0002 was released June 20 but the advisory is

RE: USMT 4.0

2011-08-01 Thread Tim Evans
You need to install the WAIK. You'll find USMT in the TOOLS\USMT subdirectory ...Tim From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: USMT 4.0 Hi Guys, I'm having a brain fart this morning. I'm trying install/load USMT

RE: Lab Resources and other educational things

2011-08-01 Thread Tim Evans
Channel 9 has all (most) of the recent TechEd sessions on line - http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011 There are a lot of other videos on just about every subject you can think of there. Start at http://channel9.msdn.com/ Just about every MS Technology has a home page, like

RE: Windows clustering question

2011-07-25 Thread Tim Evans
Interesting question. I've got a 2008R2 cluster, running several VM's, but no services. When I RDP to the clustername, Iconnecti the passive node, which is hosting none of the VM's and is not the owner of the CSV. It is the owner of the disk witness share, so my guess is that is what

RE: Windows clustering question

2011-07-25 Thread Tim Evans
:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows clustering question If you look in the Failover Cluster Management console, which node is listed as the Current Host Server? active, or passive node? Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com 7/25/2011 8:48 AM Interesting question. I've got a 2008R2

RE: Pacific NW folks: Office 365 presentation at WNUG meeting in July

2011-06-15 Thread Tim Evans
I'm planning on being there. Those meetings are usually pretty good. ...Tim From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Pacific NW folks: Office 365 presentation at WNUG meeting in July Any Seattle-area folks going to

RE: DNS Services with malware blocking?

2011-06-13 Thread Tim Evans
Subject: RE: DNS Services with malware blocking? Did you use the paid service from OpenDNS, our the free service only? -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jun 11, 2011 9:07 AM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com wrote: ClearCloud works well. We

RE: DNS Services with malware blocking?

2011-06-13 Thread Tim Evans
filtering and security features than the basic service: http://www.opendns.com/work/security It's not just about ad removal ASB (Professional Biohttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Tim Evans tev

RE: Capturing video from YouTube?

2011-06-13 Thread Tim Evans
Me too! …Tim From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 8:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Capturing video from YouTube? Cock-gobblin' monkey nuts. I think I'll randomly post that whenever I feel like it now, as it adds exactly as much

RE: DNS Services with malware blocking?

2011-06-11 Thread Tim Evans
ClearCloud works well. We used OpenDNS before and got way too many of the fake AV infections. We changed so ClearCloud and have only gotten one since, so I am very disappointed that it is going away. It sounds like that functionalit is being rolled into Vipre Premium's URL Filtering. Poking

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
We used to get a fair amount of these fake AV infections too. I changed our DNS forwarder to ClearCloud and haven't had any more for several months now. .Tim -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:31 PM To: NT System

RE: videos from hulu

2010-12-30 Thread Tim Evans
Does this help: http://www.wikihow.com/Save-Flash-Animation-from-Website I've used applian apps for other things (not saving videos) and they have worked well. I thought that snagit only captured images. Camtasia can do it, but that seems like overkill to me. I guess it depends on how badly you

RE: integra telecom support in Seattle Portland

2010-12-02 Thread Tim Evans
We have them for MPLS, PRI internet service. Their NOC people are not the sharpest I've run across - in fact IMO some of them have no business being in a NOC. Once we got things configured properly, there have been no further problems. If you are looking at them for just phone service (and it

RE: Registering keywords

2010-11-24 Thread Tim Evans
Sans had a recent diary entry on this too: http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9967 ...Tim -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Registering keywords Gotcha!

RE: Kace software deployment

2010-10-25 Thread Tim Evans
We evaluated them about a year ago. Seemed to be a pretty complete solution except for the help desk part. It was easy to set up. I downloaded a VM, deployed a few agents and was deploying software with a couple of days. We needed a more functional help desk, so we ended up with Altiris

RE: How big are your LUNs?

2010-09-06 Thread Tim Evans
We use it that way, but only allow writing to one location. The other is a backup/failover share. ...Tim From: sdewilliman [mailto:sdewilli...@g2.com] Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 2:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How big are your LUNs? Out of curiosity, is everyone using

RE: How big are your LUNs?

2010-09-06 Thread Tim Evans
is that they are connecting over low-bandwidth pulling down files from the central DFS share has been painful but we also don't want to set up a replicated share in their office in case multiple users from various locations make edit to the same file. On 9/6/10 10:21 AM, Tim Evans tev

RE: Panda Antivirus

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Evans
I downloaded an eval copy from them years ago and I still get spam from them. I've pretty well crossed them of my list for any future consideration. ...Tim From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Panda

RE: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Tim Evans
: to F: in 4:36 or 476.9 MB/Min. I copied 2.1 GB from E: to G: in 5:18 or 413.9 MB/Min. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com _ From: Tim Evans

RE: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-08 Thread Tim Evans
How's the iSCSI performance on that unit? Compared to direct attached SATA for example? ...Tim From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RE: SAN Solution The Elite is bundled with WD drives, either a consumer

RE: OTish: Help with a job advert?

2010-06-07 Thread Tim Evans
Ask for experience in LUA configuration. If they know what it is, that's a good first step. ...Tim -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: Help with a job advert? Experience

RE: VPN stuff

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Evans
That page looks to be pretty old. I don't think Mudge has gone by that name since the L0pght/@Stake days in the late 90's early 2000's I know that MS's initial (NT4 days) PPTP implementation had some real problems. They released PPTPv2 in the Win2000 time frame, which was supposed to address

RE: VPN stuff

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Evans
...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VPN stuff You are correct sir. I realize now that the link was to criticism of the original implementation. Here is one about PPTPv2 http://www.schneier.com/pptp.html On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Tim Evans tev

RE: Kind of OT: Generic Accounts

2010-05-05 Thread Tim Evans
You can get passgen from Jesper's site: http://msinfluentials.com/media/p/6532.aspx ...Tim -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Kind of OT: Generic Accounts On 5

RE: Internet Policies

2010-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
We redirect ours to an internal webpage that lets the user know the site was blocked and then we can look thru the logs to see who has been trying to go where. ...Tim From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Outlook 2010 bug

2010-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
Can't duplicate it here - same setup except for 32 bit Win7 From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2010 bug Just wondering if anyone can replicate this bug:- * Outlook 2010 is open and a new

RE: DNSSEC and the root Domain Name Servers Changeover May 5th

2010-05-03 Thread Tim Evans
My understanding of the issue is that normal DNS traffic uses small DNS UDP packets, less than 512 bytes. Because of this, some pieces of firewalls or DNS servers are configured to reject UDP packets larger than 512 bytes, figuring that it's broken or malicious. Signed DNSSEC packets are much

RE: Open source 'ghost' product?

2010-05-01 Thread Tim Evans
+1 How do you find out what works and what doesn't? Or figure out how to optimize it for your environment? ...Tim -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Open source

RE: Open source 'ghost' product?

2010-04-30 Thread Tim Evans
Imagex generates a file based image rather than a block based image like ghost and the others do. You can mount an Imagex wim file and go in and easily add/remove/replace files. ...Tim -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010

RE: Open source 'ghost' product?

2010-04-30 Thread Tim Evans
included. Modern versions of Ghost include this thing called Ghost Explorer that will let you open .gho files specifically for the purpose of manipulating the contents. On 4/30/2010 11:16 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Imagex generates a file based image rather than a block based image like ghost

RE: Open source 'ghost' product?

2010-04-30 Thread Tim Evans
It's not bad as long as you don't mind using the command line. You can script it to make it even easier. It takes a few minutes to set a WinPE image up, but once you've got it done, you're set until you need to add more drivers. Mark Minasi had a great set of instructions on setting up WinPE

RE: www.Sunbelt-software.com down?

2010-04-29 Thread Tim Evans
And a very fine talk it was too. Complete with a diagram of a self healing fiber ring. I've got to say, you weren't wrong in recommending TEC. The level of expertise was simply astounding. ...Tim From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:10 PM To:

RE: Security - Marc Maiffret

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Evans
Cool! I'm looking forward to your workshop and meeting you guys. This will be my first TEC. I'm doing it this year instead of Tech Ed. ...Tim From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Security - Marc

RE: Security - Marc Maiffret

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Evans
, April 16, 2010 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Security - Marc Maiffret What is this TEC everyone is speaking about? June always is not a good time for me for Tech Ed, an April or May conference would be preferrable. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Tim Evans tev

RE: OT: Comcast Business Docsis 3.0

2010-03-24 Thread Tim Evans
Thanks. There are some good questions here to ask before we sign up. ...Tim From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Comcast Business Docsis 3.0 Ok, I have a little more time now to rant on this... iirc,

RE: Comcast Business Docsis 3.0

2010-03-23 Thread Tim Evans
Really? Yes, I'd like to hear more details. They are trying to get into one of our buildings and $190/mo for 50mb down/10mb up sounds like a pretty good deal. We'd be using it as a backup link and for local internet service. ...Tim -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze

RE: I wonder how VIPRE would have done...

2010-03-17 Thread Tim Evans
Even a blind squirrel find the nut sometimes ...Tim -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I wonder how VIPRE would have done... Ouch! Why'd it have to be McAfee that stopped it?

RE: propogating permissions to subfolders

2010-03-16 Thread Tim Evans
cd \home for /d %f in (user*) do icacls %f /reset ...Tim -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: propogating permissions to subfolders Looks like you are right,

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Evans
and it was effective. I had to chuckle, though, because it took over an hour to create the zones. This VM is also a DC for a 5 machine domain and the ntds.dit file went from around 38MB to 106MB. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com wrote: I run this batch

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Evans
had to chuckle, though, because it took over an hour to create the zones. This VM is also a DC for a 5 machine domain and the ntds.dit file went from around 38MB to 106MB. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com wrote: I run this batch file

RE: Malware DNS

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Evans
I posted a batch file here yesterday that does just that. See the DNS Server service shuts down... thread ...Tim From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Malware DNS I was looking at adding the Malware

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Evans
FWIW, I load the entire domain list from http://www.malwaredomains.com/ into my AD integrated DNS without any problems. over 18000 domains are currently included. I've got a 2003 native domain/forest too. DC's include WS08R2, WS08, WS03 SP2. I have not seen anything like this here. ...Tim

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Evans
the loading of the domain list? Using a boot file per the directions here: http://www.malwaredomains.com/wordpress/?page_id=6#MS? Do you refresh the list manually every once and a while? Thanks, RS On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com wrote: FWIW, I

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Evans
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots Doesn't going through OpenDNS achieve pretty much the same thing? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Evans
...@gmail.commailto:rich...@gmail.com wrote: Most excellent. Thank you very much. I'll give this a whirl at home and see how it goes. Much obliged, RS On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com wrote: I run this batch file: ** begin batch file * @echo off set

RE: Sat Radio for your PBX on hold?

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Evans
This is legal: http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/ ...Tim -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sat Radio for your PBX on hold? Well, I don't think that is *technically*

RE: Policy for external devices

2010-02-26 Thread Tim Evans
To avoid all the me-too's, I'll just post ours here. This is our Portable Computing and Data Storage Device Policy. IANAL and I didn't write this, but here it is: Sparling may provide a portable computing device (e.g. a laptop computer, smartphone, or personal digital assistant) and/or mass

RE: Need Website Tested

2010-02-12 Thread Tim Evans
Win7 x 64, 32bit IE - no problems here ...Tim From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 5:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Need Website Tested Our Windows 7 machines crash when accessing the following site with IE8:

RE: vSphere 4.0 Update 1 and MS Forefront

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Evans
Contacted MS and was informed they don't support Server 2008 R2 in virtual environments. Go figure... WTF? Really - just a blanket statement like that? That seems particularly out of touch with things today. ...Tim From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27,

RE: KMS count question

2010-01-15 Thread Tim Evans
I'm pretty sure it is a combined value. Once you have the 5 server licenses, you only need 20 more to start activating the clients. I've never seen it documented anywhere, but that's the way it seemed to work here From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: KMS count question

2010-01-15 Thread Tim Evans
Good to know for sure, thanks From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS count question Thanks I think I found the answer on Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979804.aspx

RE: RMDIR and Wildcards

2010-01-14 Thread Tim Evans
for %f in (path\directory*) do rd /s %f Add /Q if you're brave and don't want to be prompted for each one ...Tim From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RMDIR and Wildcards Hi, For one reason or another I

RE: RMDIR and Wildcards

2010-01-14 Thread Tim Evans
%f From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RMDIR and Wildcards Hi Tim, Are you sure that syntax is correct, as it doesnt appear to work here :( Gavin. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Tim Evans tev

RE: Using Windows Easy Transfer

2010-01-08 Thread Tim Evans
I haven't used Easy Transfer, but I did use USMT4 which I understand is the same thing ...Tim From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Using Windows Easy Transfer Has anyone got Windows Easy Transfer to

RE: How do you feel about bloatware?

2010-01-06 Thread Tim Evans
don't forget Symantec ...Tim From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do you feel about bloatware? And Java... From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:17 AM

RE: Win7 God mode?

2010-01-06 Thread Tim Evans
Do you use the search box in control panel? I've never had any problems finding things in the new control panel layout with it, as opposed to trying to guess where Microsoft hid it. ...Tim From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 7:33 AM To: NT System

RE: Wipe server Hard drives

2010-01-05 Thread Tim Evans
It depends on the controller. I'm currently wiping several drives on a perc2 controller. I had to boot with the noverify option to get it to come up. There are other boot options you can play with too that might help. ...Tim From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

WS08R2 eBook

2009-12-23 Thread Tim Evans
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf pretty basic, but it seems to cover all the new features. It may be helpful for those working on WS03 - WS08 sales pitch ...Tim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Evans
Sans has a good blog at https://blogs.sans.org/computer-forensics/ …Tim From: bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Fw: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent Does any one know

MVLS site is back up

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Evans
For now anyways. It seems much snappier than before. That would be nice if it stays that way. ...Tim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: MVLS site is back up

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Evans
while I didn't time it, my download seemed pretty quick. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MVLS site is back up snappier yes. Slow for downloads though. I think all of us hungry users are going to

RE: MVLS site up?

2009-12-16 Thread Tim Evans
Yesterday, they were saying that their targeting it back on line today, but I'm not getting anything at all this morning. I was told yesterday that it was a problem with the back end database and that not even Microsoft staff has access to the information. It seems to me that someone screwed up

RE: Windows KMS licensing

2009-12-14 Thread Tim Evans
The KMS for Vista/WS08 didn't count VM's towards the total count. The one with Win7/WS08R2 does count them. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 5:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows KMS licensing Huh? Hadn't heard that,

RE: Consultant PC on your network

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
Do you issue them ID's individually? How does that work? From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Consultant PC on your network We have a guest wireless access point in our DMZ for this, all they get is

RE: Missing find now button

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
Yes, I get the same thing here on both WS08R2 and WS08 SP2 From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Missing find now button So, is anyone able to either replicate this or refute that it happens

RE: Missing find now button

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
Neither do I. I meant to say that I get the same results as Bonnie on both -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Missing find now button I don't see it on 2008 SP2. Tim Evans

RE: Latitude access problem

2009-12-04 Thread Tim Evans
to get where we needed to go. Thanks again for everyone that replied. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.commailto:lenhamm...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com wrote: reset the administrator password? From: Len Hammond

RE: Latitude access problem

2009-12-03 Thread Tim Evans
Have him boot off of http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/ and reset the password. No reinstall needed From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Latitude access problem Dell Latitude Genuises: Just had a

RE: Latitude access problem

2009-12-03 Thread Tim Evans
that it can't do it. At least we can easily get to his data. Thanks for the help. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.commailto:lenhamm...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.commailto:tev...@sparling.com wrote: Have him boot off of http://www.piotrbania.com

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Job Hunting Assistance

2009-11-20 Thread Tim Evans
Hi Andrew, I'd be interested in hearing what Kevin has to say.Please send the conference bridge info when it is available. Thanks ...Tim On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a follow-up (and a needed distraction from the silly political diversion)

RE: Wierd Acrobat issue

2009-11-18 Thread Tim Evans
+1 and/or use a postscript driver if available From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wierd Acrobat issue Yes, almost always print as image. Will cause you less grief. Adobe products don't play well with

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