RE: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro

2009-07-21 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Somehow I got this one too. It's a rootkit of some sort. Pretty sure this is what I used to remove it: http://www.combofix.org/ Malwarebytes, Symantec, MRT none of those picked it up. Search results looked normal, but when you clicked a link it redirected somewhere. For me it was right

VMWare VSphere vs. Vcenter Server

2010-02-03 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I am looking for a quick high level overview of the difference between Vcenter Server and VSphere. What can I do if I buy just VCenter, and what can I do if I have Vsphere. The environment that this would be going into would be a 3 standalone server environment, no SAN. I know that Vsphere

OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I am not even sure what the subject of this should be. I have a server, it's about 3 years old, the warranty expires in 15 days. It runs a %mission critical App%. This App is going to be replaced with %new mission critical app%. This server meets the hardware requirements for %new app% just

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Anderson
that, they tend to start breaking down more often. That doesn't mean you won't find the odd outlier that has been running for 6 years with nary a problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer

RE: PCI compliance

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I changed this on some Exchange servers. I had no issues with people not being able to connect. I cant say for sure that I ever tested IE6, but I had a large enough user base that if something had broken I would have heard about it. Jeremy From: paul d [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent:

RE: BES 4.1 syncing

2009-10-05 Thread Jeremy Anderson
For what its worth I have seen that exact issue before, at 2 different clients. The bad news is, I don't know the fix. In one case I synced the contacts using desktop manager The other was not my client and they reinstalled BES (WTF?) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott

Certificate Authority

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I need to retire a 2003 DC that is a certificate authority. If it is not being used for anything, can I just uninstall the CA then demote the server? Anything I sould be aware of? TIA. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

quick easy Sharepoint question

2009-11-10 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I am looking for any recommendations on a Sharepoint plugin (?) that will allow me to have a page similar to an inversion board or PHPBB. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Iscsi from old server

2009-11-10 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Look into FreeNas. Its BSD based, so I think you are going to lose openmanage, but the OS will run off of a Flash Drive. I installed and ran it once, I had a P3 933, about 8 IDE Drives in RAID 0 array for a totals storage size of about 200 GB. It worked, made a great ISCSI target. It was

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-11 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I PPTP to my house and play MP3's from a SMB share. Bandwidth, we don't need no stinkin bandwith From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS Where my cubicle is, I get fluctuating cell

Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-14 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Morning / Afternoon everyone. I got tossed a project that was a former engineer / consultants baby. Basically I was given a Citrix XenApp 5.5 server and told to make it work. The last time I saw Citrix it was running on NT4, but with dreams of bonuses and being showered with praise at my

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-14 Thread Jeremy Anderson
: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Citrix question, could use some guidance Morning / Afternoon everyone. I got tossed a project that was a former engineer / consultants baby. Basically I was given a Citrix

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-14 Thread Jeremy Anderson
to the alternate, external, address. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance I did add altaddr at the command prompt, and 1494 is open

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-14 Thread Jeremy Anderson
is not recommend or safe. You need to add the FREE Citrix Secure Gateway software on that server. I wrote a 3-part series on doing that. Webster -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Subject: Citrix question, could use some guidance Morning

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-17 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Hey Webster, or anyone else. I am still having some trouble grasping the point of streaming Applications vs published applications. Do you have an article that shows the pros and cons of each, or can you explain in semi-plain English? Thanks.. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-17 Thread Jeremy Anderson
and it is immediately ready for use (no apps to install) Option 2 is for users who need offline access to streamed apps. Webster From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance Hey

RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Sony Vaios had a similar setup in the WinXP days. Everything was set to single click instead of the normal double click for files, applications, etc. Don't know why I remember that, or if its applicable here. PS Sony Laptops often cause me to sit in the corner for hours rocking and

RE: Early OT: Friday Link

2009-11-19 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Dont Forget Tuscan Whole Milk, thats what started it all. http://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Whole-Milk-Gallon-128/product-reviews/B00032G1S0/ref=cm_cr_pr_link_113?ie=UTF8showViewpoints=0pageNumber=113sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending From: Joseph Heaton

RE: Compaq nc6400 Laptop OEM ISO download?

2009-11-20 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Just use whatever OS OEM disk you have laying around and type in the key from the bottom of the laptop. You will have to install the drivers from Hpaq's site, but no big deal. Using a normal OEM disk will be a lot cleaner than a Hpaq restore anyways. OEM media is OEM media. I have used Dell

HTTP to HTTPS redirect -

2009-11-30 Thread Jeremy Anderson
OK, so here is a weird one. XP clients. The one I know of for sure is SP2 and IE6 but reports are from IE7 and SP3 as well. This happens for the clients online insurance web applications, as well as Gmail. I am going to refer mostly to Gmail when describing the symptoms for ease of the

RE: HTTP to HTTPS redirect -

2009-12-01 Thread Jeremy Anderson
settings? -sc *From:* Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] *Sent:* Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:44 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* HTTP to HTTPS redirect - OK, so here is a weird one. XP clients. The one I know of for sure is SP2 and IE6 but reports are from IE7 and SP3

Win 7 Stealing Focus

2009-12-14 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Anyone know how to keep Windows7 from stealing window focus? For example if I am typing in this email box and another window wants my attention it just blinks instead of taking my input from this box? Thanks? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Disabling NETBIOS

2009-05-04 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have investigated this a bit, and I just wondered if anyone had any opinions they would like to share. Should I disable NETBIOS? I have no legacy clients (but a lot of Mac's and Linux Machines) Are there security pros and cons? Group Policy cons? Will I have to ping machines by fqdn (i

NTDS KCC Error 1568

2009-05-05 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have 4 DC's 2 in each site. on ONE DC I am getting this error : None of the domain controllers in the following site that replicate the following directory partition are configured to use the following transport, even though the site itself is configured to allow replication over this

RE: NTDS KCC Error 1568

2009-05-05 Thread Jeremy Anderson
for me ? /me shakes head From: Jeremy Anderson [jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NTDS KCC Error 1568 I have 4 DC's 2 in each site. on ONE DC I am getting this error : None of the domain controllers

RE: iSCSI target on Server 2008

2009-05-13 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have run FreeNAS as an ISCIS target before, connecting with the built in MS ISCSI initiator. Feature set I was impressed by, performance, not so much. Of course I had like 5 20GB IDE drives in a JBOD array in a p3-933 box. It was Cool - just not something I'd put into real production.

RE: iPhone and battery life

2009-05-18 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I had a user complaining that he couldn���t get his (Active-sync) email on his phone. I checked the server logs, made some tweaks, and told him to recreate his account. 2 hours later he complains to me that his battery is already dead because of all the email he get You just cant wi.

OT: Google Aps

2009-06-01 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I was just informed by my boss that we will activly be presuing using Google Aps Enterprise in our company and if the 30 day trial goes well, then we will be off Exchange and using Google Aps. After my initial almost fall over and hit the floor, and quick panic about how long I will have my

RE: server monitoring

2009-06-02 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Anyone have any comments on Uptime? From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: server monitoring Someone else mentioned it, but I'm using (more and more, but not exclusively)

RE: Kind of OT: PDF to Word converters

2009-06-03 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I think the origional question was convert a PDF to DOCX. In that respect I have no idea. I do know that many PDFs are just pictures and that OCR text cant be pulled from them. (eaisily) If the question is save a Word doc as a PDF, then use the free MS plugin, Save as PDF

RE: Strange folder view

2009-06-03 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have not see that error - but on mine at home if I am in my laptop (xp), and I browse to my Vista Desktop like this - \\desktop\c$\users\username\documentsfile://\\desktop\c$\users\username\documents Documents dosnt actually work - but

RE: Strange folder view

2009-06-03 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Ahh yes, good old Desktop.ini. When I started my current job they had a picture of Hannibal Lector as the background of the accounting folder. Very dark and irritating to see the document icons. I asked if I could disable it and the head accountant was like God Yes, we have been asking for

RE: IPhone 3g Nightmare

2009-06-24 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Assuming that ActiveSync is set up and properly working for you.. Also, somthing that is often overlooked is buying a SSL cert that supports mobile phones / Devices 1. Click the Settings app. 2. Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars. 3. Select Add Account… 4. Select

RE: IPhone 3g Nightmare

2009-06-24 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Remote Wipe exist on ActiveSync, although I have not tried it on an iPhone. But no one has let me wipe their phone yet. From: Rod Trent [rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IPhone 3g

RE: Blogging

2009-06-25 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I keep trying to blog / maintain my personal web site, but I guess I am pretty lazy. That being said, I use MojoPortal on Server 2008, its running in my closet and I think my cat is sleeping on top of the webserver. www.mapiadmin.net From: Rod Trent

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

2009-07-08 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I did SMB consulting for a while and it made me CRY. I have seen everything you guys have mentioned and more. Anti-Virus? We don't need that, we have a firewall. And the company I worked for still chose to work with that SMB, because that SMB actually paid their bills. Basically, for that

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

2009-07-08 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain I did SMB consulting for a while and it made me CRY. I have seen everything you guys have mentioned and more

RE: Spicecrap

2009-07-10 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have Embarq, and although I am not necessarily impressed whit the service (it seems that my actual speed is much less than what I am paying for) I have naked DSL, static IP and it allows inbound Port 25. (I still have to relay off of Embarq's SMTP servers to send to Craigs list and AOL

RE: File Lock Down

2009-07-13 Thread Jeremy Anderson
We apologise for the fault in the unsubscribe. Those responsible have been sacked. From: Gene Giannamore [gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Lock Down You are so

RE: OT: Help me STU!!! (was RE: Xen 5.5 diagram)

2009-07-14 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Shookie baby, slip a sable under the tree, for me I've been an awful good girl Shookie baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight From: Sherry Abercrombie [saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Help me

RE: Apple vs Microsoft?

2009-07-15 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I am working in a mixed enviroment, and well, meh Disclaimer - we do not have an Xserv, just AD. Here is the deal, if you are managing windows clients, stay with Windows servers. Group Policies, login scripts, remote managment, WSUS, user managment. Its all gonna work best from a windows

RE: UAC--argh...

2009-07-15 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I think I remember this happening at my house. If i logged in as a user with domain admin priviliges, I recieved all sorts of UAC prompt errors, and creating file shares was a PITA. When I logged in as the domain admin, it all was quite fine. DOMAIN\Administrator. No UAC issues at all. Not

RE: Internal Site link using SBS 2008

2009-07-16 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Companyweb is just a CNAME record in DNS - you can change it to point to any A Record you want. -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Internal Site link using SBS 2008 Hi

RE: Internal Site link using SBS 2008

2009-07-16 Thread Jeremy Anderson
up a split DNS structure. This is assuming of course that he wants the link to point to http://companyweb. It sounds like he might actually want it to point to a different URI. I haven't worked with SBS 2008, but I assume this is possible. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson

Child Domain

2009-01-24 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I am setting up a child domain for a new buisness unit. We want to keep them seperate in the future, but at the beginning, all the users will still exist in the parent domain. My two questions are 1) what are the implications of having the child domain on the same subnet of the parent domain.

RE: Child Domain

2009-01-24 Thread Jeremy Anderson
. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 5:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: Child Domain

2009-01-25 Thread Jeremy Anderson
, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jeremy Anderson jer...@mapiadmin.netmailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net wrote: I am setting up a child domain for a new buisness unit. We want to keep them seperate in the future, but at the beginning, all the users will still exist in the parent domain. My two questions are 1) what

RE: SMB question..

2009-01-26 Thread Jeremy Anderson
SBS has some core fundamental design changes that allows Exchange to run Better and More Secure on a Domain Controller. Plus the wizards and installers are set up in a way that allows all the services to co-exist in a happy way, preventing some issues like DLL overwrites and such. It may not

RE: SMB question..

2009-01-26 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I'm really ambivalent about those things. Their purpose is largely to let people who have no business mucking around as administrator think they know what's going on. IT management is not something you want an untrained person doing, even for a small business. Just like you don't want a

RE: Scripting question

2009-01-28 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I run a lot of mine on reboot as a Computer Group Policy Object. -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Scripting question I've got a short script that only works if you're

RE: Scripting question

2009-01-28 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Perhaps I am missing something here, but you can use the File System Object Computer Group Policy to manage permissions on specific folders, including ownership and rights based on groups. Windows Settings\Security Settings\File System http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757015.aspx

RE: Help: PDF viewing slow over WAN via RDP/TS

2009-02-04 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Does the Problem exist when using another reader such as Foxit ? From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Help: PDF viewing slow over WAN via RDP/TS Have

WSUS In a child Domain

2009-02-06 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I am trying to manager my Child domain WSUS server from the parent domain. I am logging in to my workstation as an Enterprise admin ( I know - don't yell at me about Security) and my user account is in the WSUS Admins group. The WSUS admin security group only exist in the parent domain, not

RE: WSUS In a child Domain

2009-02-06 Thread Jeremy Anderson
group contain on the child WSUS server? -troy -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WSUS In a child Domain I am trying to manager my Child domain WSUS server from the parent domain

Primary Group Membership

2009-02-13 Thread Jeremy Anderson
My google FU seems to be failing. I need a quick n Dirty script to run against all users in the domain and list their UPN and Primary Group membership. Or, even better, a list of any user in the domain that has anything BESIDES 'domain users' as their primary group. TIA Jeremy ~ Finally,

RE: Primary Group Membership

2009-02-13 Thread Jeremy Anderson
: ((objectCategory=user)(objectClass=user)(!primaryGroupID=513)) -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Primary Group Membership My google FU seems to be failing. I need a quick n

RE: Times

2009-02-13 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Ladies and gentlemen, he said, The Universe as we know it has now been in existencehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe for over one hundred and seventy thousand million billionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers years and will be ending in a little over half an

RE: Sony Laptop automagically sending emails and opening documents

2009-02-13 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I actually had a user that did that. Turned on the recognition accidently, and then I had to trouble shoot. I finally figured it out as he was yelling at somone over the phone and menu's and dialog boxes were opening. From: Kennedy, Jim

OS X connecting to domain fileshare

2009-02-17 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have an OS X 10.5.6 and it is successfully had been bound to the domain. The account shows up and I can log in using any domain user and password. However; when I try to mount or browse a share (I press the apple key + k) and I type in SMB://server/fileshare it prompts me for a user name

RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare

2009-02-18 Thread Jeremy Anderson
, something that's been done automatically since 10.4 by directory services when you bind to an AD domain. -Anders On 2/18/09, Jeremy Anderson jer...@mapiadmin.netmailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net wrote: I have an OS X 10.5.6 and it is successfully had been bound to the domain. The account shows up

RE: Dell and Internet Explorer

2009-02-18 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have seen the Blank New Window issue as well. My fix is to download the IE7 installer from MS and reinstall. Havn't gone wrong with that yet -Original Message- From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:03 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare

2009-02-18 Thread Jeremy Anderson
isn't properly setup, something that's been done automatically since 10.4 by directory services when you bind to an AD domain. -Anders On 2/18/09, Jeremy Anderson jer...@mapiadmin.netmailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net wrote: I have an OS X 10.5.6 and it is successfully had been bound to the domain

RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare

2009-02-18 Thread Jeremy Anderson
. From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare Just verified as well using Kerberos.app that I have a valid ticket that will expire in 9:58

RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare

2009-02-18 Thread Jeremy Anderson
-domain.domain.com but your mac may be trying to connect to ad-domain or domain.com. You can run a hostname from the command line to check the local mac's FQDN. From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:07 AM To: NT

RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare

2009-02-19 Thread Jeremy Anderson
! ;-) John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttp://www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare I think I got

RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare

2009-02-19 Thread Jeremy Anderson
? This is probally my final hurdle to getting these things running properly. From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare I am forced to support

RE: Question

2009-02-20 Thread Jeremy Anderson
If you have a laptop with LAN And WIFI connections, depending on the binding order, doesn't it occasionally register the Wrong IP address in DNS? So your wired connection is on the Network with the proper address, and the WIFI link is connected w/ an APIA address, and WIFI is set first in the

RE: Password Policy Change

2009-03-04 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Late to the game, but doesn't this work as well? Dsquery user -name * -startnode my_OU,dc=company,dc=com -limit 0 | dsmod user -pwdneverexpires no And you can also add -mustchangepwd yes to the end of that and force everyone to change their password at next logon. Jeremy -Original

RE: Semi OT: XP drivers and T61

2009-03-08 Thread Jeremy Anderson
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-67853.html -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi OT: XP drivers and T61 If is a T61, the odds are good it's an Intel

RE: Semi OT: XP drivers and T61

2009-03-08 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Yeah - but you are right, when I go to click a download, it says No available Downloads Here are the full set of drivers: http://www.mapiadmin.net/General%20Documents/t61.zip Jeremy -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 4:52

RE: Semi OT: XP drivers and T61

2009-03-08 Thread Jeremy Anderson
and running soon. Thank you for your patience. http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/ -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi OT: XP drivers and T61 Yeah - but you are right, when I go

RE: Question on duel OS booting

2009-03-11 Thread Jeremy Anderson
No issues - EXCEPT DNS. You stated that the DHCP server assigns an IP based on the MAC address. So both OS's will get the same DHCP lease. That's OK. However, each OS with Different hostnames will register its name and IP in DNS. So you will have 2 different A records pointing to the same

RE: sysprep question

2009-03-11 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Isn't a New SID created every time you join a machine to a domain? So, If I have Machine A, I remove it from the Domain and into a workgroup, clone it to Machine B and Machine C, then join Machine B and Machine C to the domain both machines will have unique SID's I have NEVER had a problem

RE: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection - made OT

2009-03-18 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have a SSID in my apartment complex called fish-tacos And when wireless was still new - we once drove through a subdivision and changed all the open access points to Star Wars characters. There was the Luke, Chewbacca, DarthVader, and Yoda networks. From: Mark A. Ross

2wire DSL modems

2009-03-18 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Generally the password is the serial number on the bottom of the device and the older ones are easily hacked using pharming If you come across a 2Wire DSL router, ANY 2Wire DSL router, if you enter this URL into a web browser (replace 192.168.1.254 with the Router's address), this will reset

Easy DNS Question

2009-03-27 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have 4 DNS servers in 2 sites. All 4 servers are domain controllers. DNS is AD integrated. In the DNS Console I am showing all 4 servers. When I right click on the Zone corp.company.com and choose properties and then I select the SOA tab. Each server list itself as the Primary Server.

RE: ADUC - Change Office on multiple users

2009-03-30 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Dsquery user -name * -limit 0 -startnode OU=company,dc=contoso,dc=com | dsmod user -office NEWOFFICE From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ADUC - Change Office on multiple users I need to edit the office text in ADUC

DNS Woes

2009-03-30 Thread Jeremy Anderson
All, I am having some serious issues with DNS and scavenging in my domain. The problem is that server A records are being scavenged. Here is the background. About 400 windows machined, 300 Linux machines, and 80 Macs. All the windows boxes are in the domain, 4 domain controllers provide DNS

RE: locating one machine

2009-03-31 Thread Jeremy Anderson
If I Recall correctly, when you try to connect to a C$ share on a machine and the username is greyed out, it has something to do with Simple File sharing (Your PC or theirs) or its Windows XP home Edition / MCE. Its pretty obvious at this point that its not on the domain - or its foubared.

RE: Redundant Print Servers

2009-04-01 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Is there any best practice reasons Why a Print Server should NOT be on a domain controller? From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Redundant Print Servers +1 All our Print servers are on ESX VM's and not

OT - Exchange Cluster question

2009-04-01 Thread Jeremy Anderson
All, I know this is a bit off topic; however this is the discussion list I participate in the most and I was hoping for a quick answer. If no one knows, of course I will take it to an Exchange list. I have Server 2k3 Ent, Exchange 2k3 Ent, active passive cluster. I got an error Error:

RE: OT - Exchange Cluster question

2009-04-01 Thread Jeremy Anderson
for this before it happens. From: Jeremy Anderson [jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT - Exchange Cluster question All, I know this is a bit off topic; however this is the discussion list I participate

RE: OT - Exchange Cluster question

2009-04-01 Thread Jeremy Anderson
runs in its own thread of store.exe, which is a cluster resource. That resource failed. From: Jeremy Anderson [jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Exchange Cluster question I have too

RE: Time to relax content filters?

2009-04-03 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I work for a large Internet Dot Com retailer, you would recognize the name, I guaranty it. We are in the Fortune 500. We are a service company that just happens to sell.. Culture is our number one focus and we are asked to bend over for our customers and as an extension for other

RE: Time to relax content filters?

2009-04-03 Thread Jeremy Anderson
to a Dilbert like cube farm. J -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Time to relax content filters? I work for a large Internet Dot Com retailer, you would recognize the name, I

RE: From managed SAV 10 client to unmanged SEP 11 (going nuts...)

2009-04-08 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I like the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility For this... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 -Original Message- From: Jay Kulsh [mailto:a...@kulsh.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: From managed SAV 10 client to unmanged SEP 11 (going

RE: Router with Firewall and DSL or HDSL modem

2009-04-08 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I am pretty sure they exist (netgear has one http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WiredRouters/DG834.aspx), but can I ask your aversion to having a DSL modem separate from the firewall? I have done many setups with the cheap DSL company provided modem and robust firewalls behind

OT: Stickers

2009-04-21 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I am surrounded by Linux and Mac FanBoys, and they all have stickers. Apple even ships with stickers. Where can I get some MS Logo stickers? Even some retro Office 2000 Stickers would be cool. Exchange Stickers? Sharepoint Stickers? Something for my laptop? MS - I know they are business

RE: Error authenticating to exchange

2009-04-21 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Before flattening the box, Reset the Computer account in AD, remover the server from the domain w/ the network cable unplugged, reboot, plug in Network cable, rejoin to domain, reboot, Good Chance everything is good now�� And make sure the DC is a �. From: Michael B. Smith

Password Policy - - how do you handle this?

2009-04-28 Thread Jeremy Anderson
The security guy is insisting that we set the Min Password Age to 1 day. I agree in theory that this is a swell idea, but in practice, I think it will be a disaster. We have users that forget their passwords every other day (Don't ask) and company politics that are going to let this bad habit

RE: Password Policy - - how do you handle this?

2009-04-28 Thread Jeremy Anderson
next logon. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Password Policy - - how do you handle this? The security guy is insisting that we set the Min Password Age to 1 day. I agree in theory

RE: Remote access options

2009-04-30 Thread Jeremy Anderson
The Screen Sharing is powered by Bonjour, which is a non-routable protocol. There is Apple Remote Desktop, but I*think* that only comes on an X Serve. From: Andrew Laya [mailto:andrew.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access