Re: PowerShell - Dependent parameters

2013-04-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
Nice! I didn't know about DefaultParameterSetName. Makes things much easier; thanks for sharing. As a side note, when I was playing with string validation yesterday, I ran across this article http://blog.whatsupduck.net/2012/02/powershell-validatenotnullorempty-bug.html On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at

Re: PowerShell - Dependent parameters

2013-04-13 Thread Jeff Bunting
I think you need sets that aren't disjoint, something like Param( # things to back up [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ParameterSetName='backupinfo')] [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ParameterSetName='mailTo')] [string] $include, # disk or network path to backup to

Re: PowerShell - Dependent parameters

2013-04-13 Thread Jeff Bunting
You could try adding a Position=X to the parameters to deal with the ambiguity; might have to move $eject elsewhere in the parameter order though. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.com wrote

Re: My Experts 2 Experts Conference Presentation from Hamburg, Germany

2013-02-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
I think you gave a good presentation Webster, and I didn't even get a beer at break time. I even learned a couple of things about DFL and KCC. Thanks! Jeff On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Pretty pathetic attempt at a presentation but if you have an hour

Re: Wow! Don't Get Sick!

2012-10-18 Thread Jeff Bunting
Whitelisting has been discussed here many times; for systems dedicated to a primary task or two, I'd think it would be ideal. Is there any good way to do effective whitelisting on the older operating systems? I suppose you might still run into legal issues and vendor finger pointing; just

Re: server 2012 / server 2008 r2 KMS

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Bunting
I don't have any experience with it, but that's how I read the KB article. FWIW, this post seems to agree http://www.winsysadminblog.com/2012/08/upgrading-your-current-kms-server-server-2008-r2-to-support-windows-8-and-server-2012-activation/ Jeff On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Michael B.

Re: XP mapped drive whack a mole.

2012-08-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
Try setting the force option to true. WshNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive Z: , true see http://ss64.com/vb/driverm.html Jeff On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: Running some VB logon scripts for users to map a few drives. Yes I should be using GPP. XP

Re: XP mapped drive whack a mole.

2012-08-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
oh, and don't forget the quotes :-) On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.comwrote: Try setting the force option to true. WshNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive Z: , true see http://ss64.com/vb/driverm.html Jeff On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Kennedy, Jim

Re: VMWare tools

2012-02-24 Thread Jeff Bunting
I've had this happen occasionally on some VMs too. I was thinking disabled autoplay might be the cause of this, but haven't gotten around to testing the theory. Jeff On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Well, that is precisely what had been

Re: Help w/TFTP

2012-02-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
Richard, You need to add a tftp client from windows. Look in control panel, programs features, add windows components. Jeff On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! ** ** I need to copy some router firmware from my PC (well, any

supereseded patches/hotfixes

2012-02-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
Wondering if anyone knows of a queryable online resource that would let me know if a particular windows update or hotfix has been superseded by something newer? I know WSUS used to show this info, but we're not using it in this environment, and IIRC, it isn't searchable. I know KB articles will

Re: supereseded patches/hotfixes

2012-02-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
Thanks, Ed. I didn't realize that info was included, and nicely highlighted. Very nice! However, I was primarily interested in KB2553549, which I suppose is a non-security hotfix. I thought there had been an update released late last year that corrected this problem, but I'm beginning to think

Re: supereseded patches/hotfixes

2012-02-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
| Hereford HR2 6JT* Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 16 February 2012 18:18 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: supereseded patches/hotfixes Thanks, Ed. I didn't realize that info was included

Re: Allowing or not Allowing iTunes on corporate computers????

2012-02-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
I've never seen one with an .old extension... You sure that wasn't manually created? Jeff On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you are joking. Have you looked at: %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Download

Re: ESXi 4 Host access

2012-02-02 Thread Jeff Bunting
You didn't explicitly say, is the admin on the other side using the IP address to ping? I'd avoid names for the time being to absolutely rule out a DNS problem. (incorrect A record on the other side could potentially cause this behavior) Can you ping their workstation by IP from the ESX host

Re: ESXi 4 Host access

2012-02-02 Thread Jeff Bunting
, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.comwrote: You didn't explicitly say, is the admin on the other side using the IP address to ping? I'd avoid names for the time being to absolutely rule out a DNS problem. (incorrect A record on the other side could potentially cause this behavior) # yes

Re: .CAB file as a Microsoft systems patch

2012-01-19 Thread Jeff Bunting
I'd go get the appropriate patch(es) from Microsoft. It should come in a .msu package rather than a cab http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS09-048 Jeff On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote: Greetings! ** ** We have “been

Re: IIS 4.0 and .docx MIME types

2011-12-22 Thread Jeff Bunting
Sounds like IIS is successfully serving the file if Word is complaining about the format. Could the document be from a different (prob. older) version of word? Rather than opening, can you save the file locally and try extension as .doc and see if Word will open. Jeff On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at

Re: OT: Gadgets

2011-11-15 Thread Jeff Bunting
Check out sonos.com. Might be more than you want to spend, but sounds like it may be what you're looking for. Jeff On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:51 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Just moved to a much bigger house and I am trying to revamp all my electronic kit. I have a lot of gym

Re: OT: Gadgets

2011-11-15 Thread Jeff Bunting
never mind I didn't know what a squeezebox was till after I posted this. cut your workout time by 5 minutes so you'll have enough energy to make playlists and copy files around :-) On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.comwrote: Check out sonos.com. Might

Re: Quick query on alerting on ESXi

2011-11-09 Thread Jeff Bunting
You can configure email alerts under the alarms tab in virtual center too. Jeff On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: Excellent, cheers! Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -- *From: * Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com

Re: Semi OT: VMWare CLI

2011-08-29 Thread Jeff Bunting
Yes, my co-worker had the same problem. That DLL is part of OpenSSL; I think you have an older version of it somewhere in your PATH. I have version 0.9.8.4 in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\Perl\bin and 0.9.8.9 in C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure

Re: Earthquake!!!!!!

2011-08-23 Thread Jeff Bunting
felt a little tremor down in Roanoke... On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: It’s centered just 25 miles east of me. Yes, I felt it. J ** ** http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005ild.php** ** ** ** Regards,

Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-30 Thread Jeff Bunting
In your example, if you reverse the order of the echo commands you'll only end up with one file in the CollisionTest directory because the long file name version creates a short name of xx~1.xxx, so the act of copying isn't really the problem, but that you have different files with the same

Re: Strange Windows7 issue with mapped drives

2011-07-26 Thread Jeff Bunting
What OS is the server running? On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:27 PM, C. T. qb0...@gmail.com wrote: I'm helping out a friend of mine who tries to support a small shop, and the shop is starting to get Windows 7 Pro. machines. They have a domain setup, and they are trying to map a network drive back

Re: file searching and copying

2011-07-21 Thread Jeff Bunting
) ** ** ** ** :ExitBatch ENDLOCAL *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market…* On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all

Re: file searching and copying

2011-07-21 Thread Jeff Bunting
Thanks much Andrew, your script was helpful indeed! Jeff On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Scott 1. I left it there so the IP could see it run and decide how to use the data. 2. Possibly, but it was quick and dirty. Doesn't hurt with the p

file searching and copying

2011-07-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
I'm attempting to search for particular words in a directory name (must use wildcards!), and, if found, copy the the directory tree while maintaining its structure to another directory. Are there any native tools (or reskit like robocopy) that can accomplish this somewhat easily? thanks, Jeff ~

Re: file searching and copying

2011-07-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
to search the root. ** ** *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:01 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* file searching and copying ** ** I'm attempting to search for particular words in a directory name (must use wildcards

Re: file searching and copying

2011-07-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
for directorys. Change the dir command to eliminate the /s if you only want to search the root. *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:01 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* file searching and copying I'm

Re: Thought on malware cleaning

2011-07-13 Thread Jeff Bunting
There's a desktop.ini file in mine but no other ones. You might be interested in taking a look at the VB script here, which I've found to be useful: http://www.silentrunners.org/ There is a list of launch points the script checks, notated with which OS they are applicable to on the web site.

Re: Final PS noob question for the week, I promise

2011-07-12 Thread Jeff Bunting
James, You might be interested in PowerGUI. It will allow stepping through ps scripts, viewing variables, etc. http://www.powergui.org/index.jspa I've found it to be very useful. Jeff On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Indeed it was the issue. I was

Re: Is this a valid file?

2011-06-29 Thread Jeff Bunting
If it is suspicious, you could try submitting the file here: http://www.virustotal.com/ It will scan with several different AV engines and give the results. Jeff On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: That’s what I thought and I have those

Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-17 Thread Jeff Bunting
Have you looked at the NIC offload settings? I recently had a similar problem on my home machine. I was getting a lot of intermittent DNS failures though TCP connectivity (once established) seemed OK. I had switched among the ISP DNS, Google DNS, and OpenDNS without any better results, so

crash dump debugging

2011-06-15 Thread Jeff Bunting
Have a VM (ESX3.5) that has begun to BSOD with a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA that I'm trying to figure out. Every crash has been win32k.sys referencing memory that doesn't appear to be allocated to a process. 3 out of 4 crashes has been the same address, bda40b20 though the calling process had

Re: crash dump debugging

2011-06-15 Thread Jeff Bunting
drivers. There is certainly a perf hit involved to some extent. If you’re not going to do this, your chances of diagnosing this are going to be really slim. * * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Jeff Bunting

Re: Connecting a built-in Webserver of a security device

2011-06-08 Thread Jeff Bunting
DD-WRT will do this if you're comfortable going the roll your own route. Wireless routers are easier to find (might already have a spare one in the closet even) and are priced cheaper than bridges in my experience. Jeff On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: burn in software

2011-06-06 Thread Jeff Bunting
I've used prime95 for this in the past. It isn't any kind of diagnostic, but will stress the system. Jeff On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I have a shiny new server that's been giving some grief and restarting every so often with critical memory errors

Re: Dell support downloads

2011-05-24 Thread Jeff Bunting
try ftp.us.dell.com Jeff On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Mark Robinson mark.robin...@cips.orgwrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend an alternative website to the Dell support site from which I can download the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation ISO files? Despite entering my

Re: Fake AV site

2011-05-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
closed my browser tab (and performed a full scan with ESET). *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 20 May 2011 01:29 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Fake AV site Ran across a fake AV site this evening, with a faux-windows explorer web page. Anyone have

Fake AV site

2011-05-19 Thread Jeff Bunting
Ran across a fake AV site this evening, with a faux-windows explorer web page. Anyone have favorite places to report this sort of thing? I sent the URL to Google's malware reporting, didn't know if there were other well-regarded places to submit these Here's a .png screenshot of the web page I

Re: Weird mail issue sending PDF attachments (or maybe also other files)

2011-05-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
attachments forward it to an outlook client the last see the attachment! *GuidoElia* *HELPPC* -- *Da:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Inviato:* venerdì 13 maggio 2011 21.45 *A:* NT System Admin Issues *Oggetto:* Re: Weird mail issue sending PDF

Re: Weird mail issue sending PDF attachments (or maybe also other files)

2011-05-13 Thread Jeff Bunting
Are they being sent through Exchange? I didn't see the original post describing the problem, but was wondering if this is the same problem as winmail.dat attachments going out to non-outlook folks. Jeff On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:53 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: Is going out very well

Re: Something odd...

2011-05-09 Thread Jeff Bunting
I haven't seen this with happen with IE8, butdid see it several times on IE6 several years ago. Reregistering the IE DLLs would usually fix it. this article lists some of them: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902932 Jeff On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jonathan Link

Re: frustrating network issue on two servers

2011-04-27 Thread Jeff Bunting
I just encountered a similar problem a couple of days ago. I learned (the hard way) that routing tables are per NIC in Win 2008. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.09.cableguy.aspx Jeff On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:17 AM, G.Waleed Kavalec kava...@gmail.comwrote: OK Everybody

Re: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Jeff Bunting
WSUS uses its own ID. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\SusClientId Not sure if some/all versions of sysprep reset this or not. Jeff On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:12 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Ok. So non-domain, same sid is ok.

Re: VMWare/iSCSI question

2011-04-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
Does the latency to the disks/datastores look OK? Can't think of much else that you didn't already cover... Jeff On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Not an NT-specific question per se, but thought I’d float it out there, as I’ve seen similar

Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run

2011-04-15 Thread Jeff Bunting
Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the

Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run

2011-04-15 Thread Jeff Bunting
:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint

Re: vpn issue

2011-03-31 Thread Jeff Bunting
If I understand the situation correctly, you want to route everything coming from a VPN address back through the VPN tunnel and everything else to the internet? I think what you want to do is make the default gateway 192.168.6.250 and create a static route for VPN: route -p add VPN ENDPOINT IP

Re: Windows Firewall question WIndows 2008 R2

2011-03-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
Does netstat show the port is listening? On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Even allowing ALL IP’s from the for the rule doesn’t seem to help show that port as open. Under scope Local IP’s I selected all, and under remort IP’s I selected all. (

Re: Getting SQL 2008 to use 16GB RAM

2011-03-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
Think you need windows enterprise to support more than 4GB. Or R2 On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:07 PM, G.Waleed Kavalec kava...@gmail.com wrote: Due to a third party app we have some servers running W2K8 *32-bit* SQL 2008 on said machines does not seem to want to use the full 16GB The vendor

Re: Blocking port 445 ramifications?

2011-03-07 Thread Jeff Bunting
AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.com wrote: Having the problem described in KB article 301673 using SMB direct hosting through a NAT device. Why in $DEITY's name are you running SMB across a NAT boundary

Re: Thoughts on this pitch from Trend

2011-02-17 Thread Jeff Bunting
altogether now Cloud is the word Cloud is the word, is the word that you heard It's got groove it's got meaning Cloud is the time, is the place is the motion Cloud is the way we are feeling On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.comwrote: Bla bla, our def

Re: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin

2011-01-26 Thread Jeff Bunting
Working OK on my Win7 x64 IE8 machine. Jeff On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting blank pages on all KB articles when using IE8 under Win7 x64 on one machine only. The Microsoft Support menu is displayed, but inside that box only blankness

Re: Backing up an important file every X minutes?

2011-01-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
The /MON and /MOT switches in Robocopy may be useful for you this. Jeff On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.ukwrote: Assuming you didn’t want to shadow copy the whole drive, or run a “proper” backup every X minutes, what options have you used to back up a

Re: Backing up an important file every X minutes?

2011-01-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
Just reread the OP and my semi-coherent reply. Robocopy works on directories, so it may not be exactly what you want if other files that you don't want to copy reside in the same directory as the one(s) you do want to copy. Jeff On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Paul Hutchings

Re: Whats up with KB2264107

2011-01-12 Thread Jeff Bunting
You have to make a registry change in addition to installing the update in order to be protected from the vulnerability. The KB article describes the different values you can set. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2264107 Jeff On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com

Re: Whats up with KB2264107

2011-01-12 Thread Jeff Bunting
Forgot to add thatI've found that Windows Update doesn't include this one when scanning either. I suppose there's enough chance of breaking applications (particularly legacy apps) that they don't force this one on you. Jeff On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com

Re: How about this for an uptime

2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Bunting
I sometimes have days that feel about that long... On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: uptime \\lswebdev \\lswebdev has been up for: 0 day(s), 1193046 hour(s), 71582772 minute(s), -17 second(s) This is a server I just built, I found the output to

Re: Recommendation for new server (or two)

2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Bunting
The vSphere 4.1 upgrade guide recommends 2 cores and 4gb of RAM to support up to 50 hosts and 500 powered on virtual machines. Jeff On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting the VMUser

Re: domain controller in the cloud???

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

Re: Windows 2008R2 Update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Bunting
to something else. Jeff On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.com wrote: I hadn't, but just tried it; the installer ran for a bit and said that it was already installed on the system. however, this was logged in the Setup log: Windows update could not be installed

Re: wiping drives in a RAID

2011-01-04 Thread Jeff Bunting
Have you checked to see if there are BIOS or PERC firmware updates for this server? Might correct the hardware errors. Jeff On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: Lol... I'd like to do that, but we can't destroy the drives. This particular instance is giving

Windows 2008R2 Update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Jeff Bunting
I'm having a problem with updates on a Win2008R2 VM I'm trying to resolve. Background info: Server was current with patches through Nov. 2010. I pushed out the December updates internally with BladeLogic as this server doesn't have internet access. Updates failed and I found that someone had

Re: Windows 2008R2 Update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Jeff Bunting
probably reregister msiexec and remove the softwaredistribution folder. But for all I know, that might make things worse. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday

Windows 2008 autoupdate

2010-12-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
Had a Win 2008 Enterprise SP2 server update itself and reboot over the weekend. Problem is, as far as I can tell, it is *not *configured to autoupdate. Windows Update shows Download updates but let me choose whether to install them. Local security policy shows everything under Windows update as

Re: Windows 2008 autoupdate

2010-12-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
...@elyriaschools.org wrote: I think it is grayed out because there is a group policy object setting it for you. Double Check your GPO’s. *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, December 20, 2010 12:49 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows 2008 autoupdate

Re: Vmware HA

2010-12-02 Thread Jeff Bunting
1. If you select the Cluster in the left hand tree, there should be a virtual machines tab on the right hand side that will show you all of the VMs and which host they're on. If it isn't showing hosts you should be able to right click on the column headings and add a hosts column. 2. The VM

Re: Um, WTF?

2010-11-19 Thread Jeff Bunting
Here's another take on this incident: http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2010/11/china-hijacks-15-of-internet-traffic/ Jeff On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/u-s-based-internet-traffic-redirected-to-china *David Lum**

Re: ..and now for something completely different..

2010-11-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
Specifically, they will try to renew their existing lease with the leasing DHCP server once half of the lease duration time has gone by. Jeff On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: AFAIK, Windows clients prefer the dhcp server they used

Re: Questions on the Application of Restricted Groups to Local Groups on Servers, Workstations

2010-11-12 Thread Jeff Bunting
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: (1) Good luck on changing the This is how its always been done, why change argument ( Like Jim said, when they get burned they get burned) http://site.despair.com/blog/2007/10/18/2008-demotivator-tradition/ :-) Jeff

Re: IE8 and SmartScreen Filter

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Bunting
from https://smartscreen.microsoft.com/faq.aspx As an Enterprise administrator or an individual user, you can add your own list of trusted sites for your company or yourself and then turn SmartScreen filter off for the Trusted Sites zone. 1. From the Internet Explorer *Tools* menu, click

Re: Windows 7 question

2010-10-22 Thread Jeff Bunting
You can just open the hosts file to see if has been changed, or just make your own new one. It is just a text file. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Ok... sounds like there may be an issue with leftover crap from the fake antivirus. :-( I'll

Re: ESXi

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff Bunting
Yes, the ESX filesystem is VMFS3. I haven't used this, but there's a driver here: http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/ Jeff On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Thanks… it’s a

Re: Need System/Application Security Advice

2010-10-08 Thread Jeff Bunting
pass through a separated authentication layer. This way anonymous users can never attempt to directly attack your application or database. a -- *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 07 October 2010 22:05 *To:* NT System Admin Issues

Re: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me

2010-10-08 Thread Jeff Bunting
Why do you need to power down VMs to reboot vCenter? vCenter might be the problem with the missing VMs. VMWare support might be able to help you with those. Jeff On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:51 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I have 7 production systems running on 3 different ESX boxes

Re: Need System/Application Security Advice

2010-10-07 Thread Jeff Bunting
Wouldn't restricting the systems the account can logon to in AD prevent this? I've done this in the past, but the web servers were in their own domain. Jeff On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: So what steps should be taken to secure it since no

Decrease number of CPUs in Windows?

2010-08-26 Thread Jeff Bunting
I'm curious, would decreasing the number of processors in a multi-processor vm cause a problem with Windows? I'm not talking about multi to uni processor changes, only multi to multi, like from 4 to 2 (or 8 to 4). I googled around a bit, but haven't found any info; most articles only discuss

Re: Decrease number of CPUs in Windows?

2010-08-26 Thread Jeff Bunting
=emailutm_campaign=footer On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.comwrote: I'm curious, would decreasing the number of processors in a multi-processor vm cause a problem with Windows? I'm not talking about multi to uni processor changes, only multi to multi, like

Windows 2008 Firewall

2010-08-06 Thread Jeff Bunting
Anyone have some good links to in-depth articles to recommend about the builtin Win2008 firewall, particularly in regards to profiles? I have a 2008 domain member which says the public profile is active rather than the domain profile, which, from what I've read, should be applied automatically.

Re: Windows 2008 Firewall

2010-08-06 Thread Jeff Bunting
– 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 06, 2010 1:47 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows 2008 Firewall Anyone have some good links to in-depth articles to recommend about the builtin Win2008 firewall, particularly in regards

Re: burn in testers

2010-07-20 Thread Jeff Bunting
BurnIn Test http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm I haven't tried it as a bootable app, but I think it supports that. Jeff On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a bootable burnin apply that we can run overnight to

Re: Diagnostic tool

2010-07-13 Thread Jeff Bunting
I've used this one before: BurnInTest http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm Jeff On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Matt Plahtinsky cbusitl...@gmail.comwrote: I have a laptop that is driving me crazy with random hardware problems. Can anyone recommend a good software tool to run hardware

Avocent setup

2010-06-24 Thread Jeff Bunting
Anyone know if a cisco console cable will work to configure an Avocent DSR-2035? I thought I did this in the past, but nothing seems to be working on this particular unit I'm trying. Thanks, Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Jeff Bunting
I just wanted to comment about changing the extension to .txt. The only reason I can imagine to do this is to be able to open the file through explorer which could potentially be dangerous when dealing with a file of unknown origin. You're safer launching a text editor and using File, Open to

Re: Technet

2010-06-16 Thread Jeff Bunting
and it was a must-have back in the day if you made a living supporting MS technology *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, June 15, 2010 5:44 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Technet So I see that MS has a new Standard level Technet subscription

Re: Technet question

2010-06-15 Thread Jeff Bunting
The ones I took about a year ago were self-paced web based courses. Jeff On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: A little bit OT I'm sure, but perhaps someone can tell me of their experiences. The Technet Pro subscription comes with 12

Technet

2010-06-15 Thread Jeff Bunting
So I see that MS has a new Standard level Technet subscription: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/bb892756.aspx Anyone know what exactly it contains? I haven't been able to find specifics anywhere on their site, only TechNet Standard does not include some enterprise editions of

Re: DNS question

2010-06-03 Thread Jeff Bunting
BTW, CNAMEs pointing to MX records is a no-no. It may or may not work; but isn't RFC compliant (unless this has changed recently?) Jeff On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: In fact that is what I do with my sites. 1 A Record for the actual server, several

Re: Server 2003 becomes unresponsive when USB drive is connected

2010-05-21 Thread Jeff Bunting
Does the USB drive have any of its own special drivers? I have a Lacie external drive that has a USB Boost driver that enables it to transfer faster. Works fine on my XP workstation, but I did have a problem with explorer hanging on a Win2003 server I used it on. Jeff On Fri, May 21, 2010 at

Re: RichCopy version 4.0.217 Error Code 32

2010-05-17 Thread Jeff Bunting
The files you are copying are in use probably. ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION32 (0x20) On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) joe.haral...@ge.com wrote: Does anyone know why I'm getting these error code 32 messages when using Microsofts Richcopy tool to move over some

Re: IBM server spec lookup

2010-05-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
Last time I did this I just googled the model number and specifications. Some of the hits came from vendors, but they had PDFs from IBM. Jeff On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: OK, so I was just reminded how much I really dislike IBM’s website….again.

Re: Removing SWF objects in Temporary Internet Files

2010-04-26 Thread Jeff Bunting
If you add the VNC service to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network it should run in safe mode (with networking). Jeff On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Well, I fear remote connections into Safe Mode probably will not be

Re: Removing SWF objects in Temporary Internet Files

2010-04-26 Thread Jeff Bunting
by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.com wrote on 04/26/2010 10:15:30 AM: If you add the VNC service to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network it should

Windows 2003 AHCI woes

2010-04-22 Thread Jeff Bunting
Anyone familiar with Proliant DL180 G6 know if there is a compatible AHCI driver for Windows 2003SP2? After installing Windows on these servers, the DVD drive is not installed, apparently because the SATA controller isn't installed (unknown PCI device in device manager). I discovered that

Re: Windows 2003 AHCI woes

2010-04-22 Thread Jeff Bunting
Thanks guys. I didn't think it was going to be a problem; just wanted to confirm that wouldn't be any side effects I hadn't considered. I was surprised that the HP install disc didn't preinstall everything necessary or at least have a technote somewhere about installing on 2003. Jeff On Thu,

Re: Web Service Waiting for SQL Server

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
I'm couldn't decide if this is a windows service or a web service from the thread; If it is registered with the service manager what about setting the web service to attempt to restart every x minutes in on the recovery tab? Not as elegant, but little work required. Only downside I can think of

Re: Window Manager

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
Hyperionics has a free addon that adds a pushpin to the title bar to keep a window on top (among other features). I don't know if it is possible to make it work with desktops.exe however. FileBox eXtender http://www.hyperionics.com/ (I think it only has XP visual styles, so if you're using Aero

Re: Fun little phishing game (VeriSign)

2010-03-24 Thread Jeff Bunting
So no one else was bothered that the phishing sites are on the local intranet? :-) On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Eldridge, Dave d...@parkviewmc.com wrote: Actually not a bad sampling. Of course the average user would never scrutinize every page they look at like we are with these. J

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