RE: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-13 Thread pdw1914
to the delivery of healthcare. From: jra...@eaglemds.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:13:11 -0500 Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? “It's a concern I continue to have, even as I advocate the technology for its technical merits.” I know

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2011-01-11 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 10 Jan 2011 at 11:43, techconnect wrote: We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, authenication AD win 2003

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2011-01-11 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
11, 2011 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? On 10 Jan 2011 at 11:43, techconnect wrote: We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says

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2011-01-11 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 10 Jan 2011 at 14:30, Ziots, Edward wrote: If you would like this slide deck ( so as not to kill the listserv) please email me directly. Couldn't you put it on YouSendIt.com and post the link here? Also, I could host them if needed. Z A -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson,

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2011-01-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
...@geoapps.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? On 10 Jan 2011 at 11:43, techconnect wrote: We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that we should not buy any new servers to replace

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2011-01-11 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Indeed...It's a concern I continue to have, even as I advocate

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2011-01-11 Thread Charles Whitby
[mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? On 10 Jan 2011 at 11:43, techconnect wrote: We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that we should not buy any new

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2011-01-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
EMP. Of course at that point we can all just go home. From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Coronal Mass Ejection for instance? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11

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2011-01-11 Thread John Cook
, January 11, 2011 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? EMP. Of course at that point we can all just go home. From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain

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2011-01-11 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Coronal Mass Ejection for instance? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011

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2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Link
10:55 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Indeed...It's a concern I continue to have, even as I advocate the technology for its technical merits. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology

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2011-01-11 Thread Charles Whitby
...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:22 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Coronal Mass Ejection for instance? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: *“**It's a concern I continue

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2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Link
Issues *Subject:* Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Coronal Mass Ejection for instance? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: *“**It's a concern I continue to have, even as I advocate the technology for its technical merits.”* I know

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2011-01-11 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? I'm sorry to say, if war or terrorism happen all bets are really off... On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com wrote

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2011-01-11 Thread David Lum
Me. -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? If you would like this slide deck ( so as not to kill the listserv) please email me directly. Z

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2011-01-11 Thread David Lum
[mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? Please share! Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original

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2011-01-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? Damnit, I hate when I reply to the list instead of in the individual...too many lists and not all act the same.. -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:30 AM To: NT

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2011-01-11 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Sleep robbing, becoming a third world country overnight kinda scary. In your move to all electronic did you digitize all of your old dead-tree charts? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra

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2011-01-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
+ Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? We digitized the pertinent [1

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2011-01-11 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
+, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? We digitized the pertinent

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2011-01-11 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
If you decide to go cloud, this is a domain controller in the cloud http://www.okta.com/ Warm regards, Stu -Original Message- From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: domain controller in the

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2011-01-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
[mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? Yeah. Any real EMR will meet those criteria. We have audit trails the likes of which you wouldn't believe (or then again maybe you would). We can, have

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2011-01-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? If you decide to go cloud, this is a domain controller

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2011-01-10 Thread Steve Ens
bandwagon? I think not everyone will move there If you are a small organizationit may make better sense to stay out of the cloud. Each situation is different. I have one in and one out... On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, techconnect techconn...@bellsouth.netwrote: We are a private

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2011-01-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Jason, I was at TechMentor back in October. Mark Minasi presented a talk about going to the cloud that covered a lot of good points, mostly against it. He's talking about putting out an audio CD of that presentation. http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36453 It might be worth

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2011-01-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Someone needs to take away his magazine reading privileges. Just a couple of questions, assuming no one is concerned about (or has given any consideration to) latency. Does your organization have any redundant internet connectivity? What servers do you have today, and where are they? (How many

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2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Bunting
couldn't resist: http://dilbert.com/dyn_file/str_strip/109703/gif/strip.print On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, techconnect techconn...@bellsouth.netwrote: We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current

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2011-01-10 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
I see the point your board member is making, but the other side of that coin, from my standpoint is, who controls the data? What happens to the data when cloud provider of choice goes poof? What are your RPO and RTO, and how will you achieve recovery if the primary provider goes poof? Also,

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2011-01-10 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? couldn't resist: http://dilbert.com/dyn_file/str_strip/109703/gif/strip.print On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, techconnect techconn...@bellsouth.netmailto:techconn

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2011-01-10 Thread techconnect
Someone needs to take away his magazine reading�privileges. Just a couple of questions, assuming no one is concerned about (or has given any consideration to) latency. Does your organization have any redundant internet connectivity? What servers do you have today, and where are they? �(How

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2011-01-10 Thread Erik Goldoff
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Someone needs to take away his magazine reading privileges. Just a couple of questions, assuming no one is concerned about (or has given any consideration

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2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Link
Any discussion of moving services to the cloud needs to begin with a discussion of budgetary impact. I say this, because it is a board member who brings it up, throwing this back to them with some data along these lines might give this individual board member something to truly consider. Yes, it

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2011-01-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Here's one proposed course of action. Requires a good bit of time, or a consulting partner that you can trust. - Generate cost comparisons - Research Security/Risk - Understand technology complexity First, determine what your actual needs are. Next, spec out those systems in a local

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2011-01-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
The numbers will definitely favor in-house equipment for organizations that do not upgrade frequently... *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Link

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2011-01-10 Thread Rod Trent
silly. J From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Any discussion of moving services to the cloud needs to begin with a discussion of budgetary impact. I say

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2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Link
Which is pretty descriptive of most educational environments... :-) On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: The numbers will definitely favor in-house equipment for organizations that do not upgrade frequently... *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me

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2011-01-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your resources to the cloud. Just because a member of your board says moving to the cloud is the way to go, doesn't make it so. There are a lot of things to consider: 1) Availability ( of your resources) and of the cloud

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2011-01-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
-Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your resources to the cloud. Just because

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2011-01-10 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your resources

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2011-01-10 Thread techconnect
Most definately and thank you. Jason I have a slide deck written for ISACA NE that I can share if you want it to review the issues with moving to the cloud, which should give you talking points. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization

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2011-01-10 Thread Mike Gill
Google App's does have central management for its services. Whether it's good enough to meet your needs, you'll just have to try it out. Also it may make sense to only have certain services be internet based, but others local. Print and file services for example seem obvious. For as many users

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2011-01-10 Thread techconnect
So are there companies that provide AD services from the cloud? And if so, do they just rely on you creating like an ipsec tunnel to their server from our sonicwall and just replicate AD locally? Thanks and sorry if I am having bone-headed questions. Jason ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

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2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Link
, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? I have a slide deck written for ISACA NE that I can share if you want it to review the issues with moving to the cloud, which should give you

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2011-01-10 Thread techconnect
I think you nailed it about the board member, i just wanted some points to come back with other than it doesn't feel right. And as far as google I think they are a wolf in sheeps clothing, their data mining efforts who really knows what they do with it all until someone uncovers something like

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2011-01-10 Thread David Mazzaccaro
I would love a copy as well! Thx -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? Please share! Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology

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2011-01-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? Please share! Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original Message

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2011-01-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? I think you nailed it about the board member, i just wanted some points to come back with other than it doesn't feel right. And as far as google I think they are a wolf in sheeps

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2011-01-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yeah, Jeffery doesn't like it when we kill the listserv. -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud??? If you would like this slide deck ( so

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2011-01-10 Thread Jon Harris
I would add to that list what happens if someone OUTSIDE of the organization gets access to the information in the cloud? How much insurance does the school have and what are the laws about unauthorized release of student information in your location? Jon On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:58 AM,

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2011-01-10 Thread Ken Schaefer
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Someone needs to take away his magazine reading privileges. Just a couple of questions, assuming no one is concerned about (or has given any consideration to) latency. Does your organization have any redundant internet