RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
Subsequent Ctrl-Alt-Del signals result in a black console with a blinking _ in the upper left corner. SO, I have to delete that VM and start from scratch... When I run into this, I check the option to go force the VM into BIOS on next reboot. Then after exiting BIOS, you'll get the option to

RE: Process Monitor

2010-01-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
Process Monitor shows you all activity relating to files and registry keys. So, you can watch every process running and see what files and registry keys its creating/modifying/reading/etc. This comes in handy when you have an application that thinks it needs admin rights to run. Often, this is

RE: Internet Policy

2010-01-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
A Power User is an Administrator who hasn't made themselves one yet. Jesper Johannson http://blogs.technet.com/jesper_johansson/archive/2006/03/12/421870.aspx Mark Russinovich http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2006/05/01/the-power-in -power-users.aspx From: John

RE: RMDIR and Wildcards

2010-01-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
You need to throw in a /d if you want to match against directories For /d %f in (path\directory*) do rd /s %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

RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders

2010-01-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
Throw an E onto your /MOV From the help file: /MOV :: MOVe files (delete from source after copying). /MOVE :: MOVE files AND dirs (delete from source after copying). From: Greg Farber [mailto:gregfar...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Backup Exec 2010?

2010-02-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
My decision to drop Symantec BE for Microsoft DPM, Anti-Virus for Vipre, and Ghost for RIS/WDM is due in no small part to their ridiculous licensing system. Maybe it's just me, but I have the hardest time jumping through their hoops to get my magic key. Half the time, the site was down. Often the

RE: Rediculous Support Clause

2010-02-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
And the ones that tax the system should pay more. Maybe we should make this discussion political J What product are we talking about btw? I know VMWare tried to pull this same thing on us. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:28 PM To: NT

RE: Printing PDF files

2010-02-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
Doesn’t seem too expensive http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313_nkw=hp+laserjet+dimm_sacat=See-All-Categories -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: IE info-disclosure bug disclosed at Black Hat

2010-02-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
You could pull ntuser.dat and read a fair amount of juiciness about where to find some specific file. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE info-disclosure bug disclosed at Black Hat That's a

RE: Reader, Acrobat, and Flash security updates

2010-02-12 Thread Crawford, Scott
To further expand, I'm quite impressed with Adobe's willingness to work within an MSI/Group Policy framework. I find it VERY refreshing to be able to download a working MSI that I can just slap into GP and deploy site-wide. Additionally, their customization wizard for Acrobat reader is excellent

RE: MS Blog RE:10-15

2010-02-12 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yeah, how dare they not test their patches to ensure compatibility with all viruses? /sarcasm From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS Blog RE:10-15 Not my fault! From: Jonathan Link

RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7?

2010-02-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
Is that some kinda play on Fortran? :) -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? Buck Forland! -sc -Original

RE: Reader, Acrobat, and Flash security updates

2010-02-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
or will it be deployed each time the user logs in and the group policy is applied? Is there any way to track when the application is deployed. -- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College On 2/12/2010 12:09 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: To further expand, I'm quite impressed

RE: Rediculous Support Clause

2010-02-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
! *** John C. Kelsey DuBois Regional Medical Center (: 814.375.3073 *: jckel...@drmc.org mailto:jckel...@drmc.org *** -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent

RE: Rediculous Support Clause

2010-02-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
of purchasing new versions of software. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I didn't renew. 3.5 is working well enough for us and Hyper-V, while certainly less feature rich, may very well be good enough now. I plan to start playing with it soon. From

RE: Java Update 18 takes forever via GPO

2010-03-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
I always set the option to uninstall this application when it falls out of the scope of management. Then when a new version is out, I remove the old package from the GPO and add the new one. On reboot, the computer will uninstall the old version (including quick start) before installing the new.

RE: Just had to share

2010-03-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
Even better J http://www.letmebingthatforyou.com/ From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Just had to share Has anyone seen this? TOO FUNNY and perfect for the list.

RE: IE8

2009-12-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
Nope From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 4:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE8 If users are local admins can I realistically block IE8 from getting installed? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk)

RE: IE8

2009-12-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
Sure, there's lots of things you can do to make it inconvenient for them to install it, but a local admin has all the rights of a domain admin on that particular box, which is all rights. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Monday, December

RE: Rube Goldberg

2010-03-17 Thread Crawford, Scott
What makes you think it's not real? http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Rube Goldberg Though not 'real', the following has long been

RE: Rube Goldberg

2010-03-17 Thread Crawford, Scott
guess it is a little bit more genuine than I thought it was... On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: What makes you think it's not real? http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent

RE: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
View/Status Bar will add current line and position to the bottom of the window. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT]: Script Editors That's the spirit. I still use Notepad for my Windows stuff.

RE: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-31 Thread Crawford, Scott
That's new with XP J From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT]: Script Editors Wow. My Notepad has just entered the light. On 30 March 2010 20:54, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote

RE: Bug in Win7 dir command

2010-04-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
Havent tried to reproduce, but if you do a second dir of M:\ does the file size change back? I'm just wondering if it's some weird type of cacheing. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Bug in Win7 dir

RE: please don't change your password!

2010-04-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
Jesper Johansson talks about the difficulty in cracking pass phrases in part 2 of 3 of this series The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512613.aspx From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 4:49 PM

RE: Running Forefront(tm) Client Security - RAM usage?

2010-04-20 Thread Crawford, Scott
Care to elaborate on why you dislike it? From: Hart, Robert [mailto:robert.h...@genexservices.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running Forefront(tm) Client Security - RAM usage? MsMpEng.exe = 66,720K sitting ldle MsPMSPSv.exe = 1,568K

RE: xp media

2010-04-26 Thread Crawford, Scott
Agreed. I have a whole stack of Dell's here, but they wont work on your gateway. http://cgi.ebay.com/GATEWAY-Operating-System-XP-reinstallation-cd-Ver-1- 3-/260590276071?cmd=ViewItempt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item3cac640de7 From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday,

RE: The finer points of NTFS ACLs (was: Software installs on new PCs)

2010-04-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
The values you want are HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Fo rceCopyAclwithFile HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Mo veSecurityAttributes This KB details this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310316 -Original

RE: Open source 'ghost' product?

2010-04-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
clonezilla From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Open source 'ghost' product? I need to image a machine quickly and I don't have Ghost (yet). Is there an open source product that you can recommend?

RE: Deleting extend.dat while outlook is open

2010-04-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
+1 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Deleting extend.dat while outlook is open On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: The issue at hand is after

RE: Print Server suggestions

2010-05-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
Agreed. Once setup, it should be completely automated. You could dump the data from wherever the class schedules are held and run this daily with no manual intervention. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:55 PM To: NT System

RE: Sunbelt, McAfee, Symantec - now Clam

2010-05-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
I agree and I for one would like to hear your suggestions. It seems to me that some form of white-listing is the most obvious alternative. However, I really don't see how that is guaranteed to be effective. Assume that it's possible to actually keep up with all of the software that you DO want to

RE: Big Changes Ahead for IT - Anyone seen this?

2010-05-26 Thread Crawford, Scott
Makes me question my subscription. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Big Changes Ahead for IT - Anyone seen this? Some of the message was subliminal. Oh wait, this isn't admin_misc is it? Here comes

RE: What's your requirement to allow a user DA?

2010-05-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
Not to nitpick, but I want to nit pick J RE: But no one uses the internet on the exchange server so we don't have AV on it How is this relevant? If the AV on the workstation the DA is logged into didn't catch the virus, why would the save AV software on the Exchange server catch it? Or,

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'm sure there's countless places I could find this information, but could you elaborate on that statement a bit? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch Management - again On Fri,

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
Thanks very much for this. It's exactly the kind of info I was looking for. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 5:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch Management - again On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Crawford

RE: Run multliple versions of IE

2010-06-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
This where they're at. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4 B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EFdisplaylang=en From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Run multliple versions of

RE: Run multliple versions of IE

2010-06-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
Have a link? The one I sent expires in 16 days. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Run multliple versions of IE The ones I downloaded were good for 180 days. Download them

RE: DISK WIPING TOOL

2010-06-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
Tu es un drôle de gars. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DISK WIPING TOOL On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I think you meant

RE: Password policy enforcement after a change

2010-06-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
You can find AdFind, along with many other goodies here: http://joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Password policy enforcement after a

RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific)

2010-07-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
So, do you just plan on not getting any viruses before it gets pushed to the client? From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific) Didn't realize it

RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific)

2010-07-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
. If there's a virus running around my little network that last thing I will be worried about is an unprotected clone getting it before AV can be auto installed. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:39 AM To: NT

RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific)

2010-07-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
the appropriate GPO's. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: So, do you just plan on not getting any viruses before it gets pushed to the client? From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific)

2010-07-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
.workstations will stay in that OU until they are actually placed on a users desk. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Nice. What does the moving? From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:52 AM

RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific)

2010-07-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
to view attributes on the CN=Computers container, you will see that the systemflags attribute was changed from -1946157056 to 0. This is by design http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324949 From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:43 AM To: NT

RE: Bad joke contest

2010-07-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
? I thought we were doing bad jokes. Did you hear about the lady who backed into a propeller? Disaster. From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Bad joke contest For the last little bit of Friday,

RE: DHCPv6

2010-07-13 Thread Crawford, Scott
Hmmm...is it though? It's certainly not very hard, but I wouldn't say it's easy enough for me to change it on a regular basis or for every site I visit. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: cscript for domain users

2010-07-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
See joe's and my comments here: http://blog.joeware.net/2010/06/17/2078/ From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: cscript for domain users Ordinary users can't change the default script host. You could

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
One nice feature it had was the ability to install with GP as an .msi though that has been removed. You can also install it on a print server so users can just map to it. The malware toolbar is fairly annoying though you can choose not to install it. I do think malware may be a bit strong in

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yeah, B, A, Start or B, A, Select, Start for two players. Interestingly, typing upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart into a Palm Pre puts it into developer mode. From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
I got some promotional VHS from them that were fun to watch. One of the quotes I fondly remember is But, beware. Complex animations like these require lots of memory. Sometimes more than a megabyte. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:26 PM To: NT

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
It's essentially the major step in jail-breaking it. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion And just what, pray tell, did this secret code give you? Crawford, Scott

RE: Adobe/Java Updates

2010-07-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
There are several tools that will create an MSI wrapper around a command line. WWIW is the one I've heard the most about, but I've never actually used one. -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:21 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Adobe/Java Updates

2010-07-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
Be warned, some executables you cannot just blindly wrap in an MSI and expect it to work. Some executables are merely self-extracting executables that install MSIs, and installing an MSI from within an MSI generally isn't supported. On 7/27/2010 3:50 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: There are several tools

RE: Password question

2010-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
The gotcha is that the functionality has been reduced in 2007 pre-SP3 and 2010 pre-SP1. There is no way to change an expired password without these latest SPs. In 2003, IISADMPWD, with all it's warts, at least let you deal with expired passwords. However it looks to be very nice in 2010 once

RE: Password question

2010-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
As long as you don't check User must change password at next logon you should be ok. If you do check that, you're gonna want to wait for SP1 or put up and IIS 6 box with IISADMPWD configured. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, July 29,

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

2010-08-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
It's very likely a phished account. This happens to us on a regular basis and there's really nothing that can be done to fix it short of educating the users, which is...difficult. The fact that spam was continuing even after the account is disabled could be chalked up to mail still in the

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

2010-08-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
This actually looks promising. We just recently got off 2003 so I'll be investigating this heavily. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298094.aspx The problem we have is that we keep getting on spam lists and then blocked from sending email to hotmail, gmail, etc. Hopefully a

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

2010-08-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yeah, that sounds nice except we have 2000 students with an average of 500 new ones every year so our major issue isn't repeat offenders. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

2010-08-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
, spam, outages and all that other support headaches for me. Great big plus. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook rules Yeah, that sounds nice

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

2010-08-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
Admin Issues Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook rules Not sure on the UM questions. Not an issue here as we don't have student housing or provide phones for them. I'm betting that it is possible though. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

2010-08-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
Outbound anti-spam: I've been asking sunbelt to add this to Ninja for years. Still waiting on it, and I'm not sure why. In any case, I moved off Ninja and Vipre to Forefront so I'll let someone else continue the wait :). Exchange now has outbound message throttling so you can set limits like x

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

2010-08-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook rules Yeah, it's on the investigate list. It does happen with staff on occasion too, but not nearly

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

2010-08-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
google would work with your SIS vendor to create something similar. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook rules Hmm, interesting. I like

RE: Windows Downgrade Circus

2010-08-05 Thread Crawford, Scott
How bout if MS requires that any NIC supported by Windows fails to some base compatibility level like video cards do with VGA mode. Then, require that all drivers for windows appear on Windows Update. Zip, bam, boom, there's no need for any vendor specific discs. Just install from a generic

RE: Cannot restore item in Backup Exec that has been Cataloged

2010-08-05 Thread Crawford, Scott
Ø Has anyone else had an issue with Backup Exec where after cataloging media that you can't restore it? Not since I switched to DPM :) From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cannot restore item in Backup

RE: Kudos to Michael B Smith!

2010-08-05 Thread Crawford, Scott
Reminds of the scene in Strange Brew where Rick Moranis drinks the entire vat of beer he was thrown in to be drowned. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Kudos to Michael B Smith!

RE: Kudos to Michael B Smith!

2010-08-05 Thread Crawford, Scott
that again, been soo long! Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo

RE: File server structure and perms

2010-08-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
Just the contents of the share. Even if you have no access to the share, you'll still see it. -Original Message- From: De Williman, Shih [mailto:sdewilli...@g2.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File server structure and perms Does ABE

RE: Patches

2010-08-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
I can neither confirm nor deny that, but interrupting a service pack install, most definitely does crash the box :)...at least XP SP2 From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patches I have had to reboot systems

RE: Will AMD buy NORTON next???

2010-08-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'll bet you would. :) From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Will AMD buy NORTON next??? Wouldn't give two cents for either... Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan

RE: Trying to limit my helpdesk to Power User rights,

2010-09-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
I would manage the permissions myself. If you don't want them to be admins, you shouldn't be making them power users either. Power Users are Admins who have not made themselves admins yet http://blogs.technet.com/b/jesper_johansson/archive/2006/03/12/421870.aspx From: Ziots, Edward

RE: Assistance with eMail footers

2010-09-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
Are you guys seriously still falling for this obvious troll? From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Assistance with eMail footers I think you will find they are trying to help you say No this is a very bad

RE: iTunes

2010-09-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
Music obtained from peer to peer networks is often infected. No music format that I am aware of has the capability of carrying executable code. All files – music or otherwise – are streams of 1’s and 0’s. I’s solely up to the application playing the files that determine what the bits mean. If

Re: iTunes

2010-09-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
that the bug would lead to usable results by the “attacker” is extremely thin. It is a bit like saying that text files should be banned because some text file might possibly exist that causes notepad to download a trojan and install it. Possible, but not very likely. From: Crawford, Scott

RE: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server?

2010-09-20 Thread Crawford, Scott
http://erlegreer.com/L0L/ From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server? Are you *really* rolling on the floor? Shook From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday,

RE: Speaking of Drobo ... (was: SAN question)

2010-09-23 Thread Crawford, Scott
The difference is that memory is consumed and released over time but for the most part, storage just grows. This is the same as CPU overcommit which is one of the basis of the virtualization revolution. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010

RE: Tower Climbing

2010-09-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
That makes my hands sweaty. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Tower Climbing We have a pair of 70' towers that we have our wireless bridges mounted on. I think they're really tall. I'd never go up

RE: Restricting groups in Active Directory

2010-09-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
You're *incredibly* optimistic. Do you actually think there's a chance that a company that wants all of IT to be Domain Admins has seen the light and doesn't let users run as local admins? From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 10:34 AM To: NT

RE: Restricting groups in Active Directory

2010-09-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
be precedent for limiting administrative user rights. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: You're *incredibly* optimistic. Do you actually think there's a chance that a company that wants all of IT to be Domain Admins has seen

RE: GPO msi packages

2010-10-06 Thread Crawford, Scott
Agreed, but the one big advantage is that you can deploy the wrapped setup.exe with a GPO without having to use scripts. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO msi packages On

RE: OT: weather.com

2010-10-06 Thread Crawford, Scott
What part of ND? Williston here. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: weather.com Humanity. Make fun of them because they aren't us. Growing up in ND, made fun of Montanans (common joke was

RE: OT: weather.com

2010-10-06 Thread Crawford, Scott
, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: What part of ND? Williston here. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT

RE: 64 Bit flash beta 2

2010-10-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
That would be an L2+ http://erlegreer.com/LOL/ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 64 Bit flash beta 2 I enjoy reading your posts, Ben. That one brought a good chuckle... ASB On Thu, Oct 7, 2010

RE: Robocopy

2010-10-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
...and CLI strings like that are why we have GUI's :) I usually add /nfl /ndl /np /log:log.txt so I can see the errors at a glance. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Robocopy I usually use the /mir

RE: Print Drivers

2010-10-18 Thread Crawford, Scott
The setting you're referring to are: [cid:image001.png@01CB6EC7.88E557F0] From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print Drivers If I remember right there's a GP setting that says to let normal users

RE: ESXi

2010-10-21 Thread Crawford, Scott
I've had to recover a file from a windows VM that was on an ESX volume. OnTrack EZRecover scanned for missing partitions and actually found the partition in the deleted VMDK and let me recover the file. EZR doesn't work on linux file systems so I couldn't restore the actual vmdk file, but that

RE: Keyboard recommendation

2010-10-21 Thread Crawford, Scott
+1 The worst is the enter key that's two rows high and then a single key sized backspace with \ to its left. Blech. Make sure you get the inverted T cursor controls and not a + layout or worse. Also, I have to have: insert, home, pageup delete, end, page down in that order. Tell me again who

RE: Keyboard recommendation

2010-10-22 Thread Crawford, Scott
Well, sounds like you're a perfect candidate for mine: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=095 From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keyboard

RE: Keyboard recommendation

2010-10-22 Thread Crawford, Scott
: Keyboard recommendation this looks promising! thx From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keyboard recommendation Well, sounds like you're a perfect candidate for mine

RE: WSUS and non public patches

2010-10-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
Not finding anything on Bing or Google. Do you happen to have a link handy? Or does this require Essentials? From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WSUS and non public patches I believe the System Center

RE: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews VIPRE Enterprise.

2010-10-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
Feel free, they're still there, but not terribly interesting :) -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WindowsSecurity.com/Chris Sanders reviews VIPRE Enterprise. On 27

RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates

2010-10-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
Agreed. I dropped shockwave for a trial. That lasted about a week :) -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates Cool, that is the way I have

RE: trade publications - toss or archive?

2010-10-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'm pretty disappointed it went digital. I'd definitely be willing to pay for it, but they gave out so many free subscriptions, I think it just became a casualty. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Dell vs Kingston ram

2010-11-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yeah, +1 for crucial. I'm all about the name brand RAM though. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell vs Kingston ram Personally, I like Crucial. I don't know

RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive%

2010-11-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
Your entire command line gets parsed on your computer first and then it performs the operation. Assume you're running from a PC named Workstation against a server named Server. Psexec \\serverfile:///\\server cmd /c echo %computername% Gets parsed to Psexec \\serverfile:///\\server cmd /c

RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive%

2010-11-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
...and by %computername%, I of course mean whatever variable you'd like to expand. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive% Your entire command line gets parsed on your computer

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
You'll also need to grant the Write Description permission on computer objects to the users. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'd like to see that batch file if you don't mind. I really miss their MSI option lately. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 9:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Freeware PDF creator? On 10 Nov 2010 at

RE: HOW TO: Change permissions using SubinACL?

2010-11-20 Thread Crawford, Scott
I've kinda been forcing myself to use setacl in new scripts because it can target registry entries among other things. But, I figure the more I use it, the less horrific the syntax will seem :) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 19,

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