RE: Phantom Exchange Server

Engage that MBS guy or equivalent unless you have some PSS vouchers laying around. Not a trivial undertaking. Actually, there's probably no equivalent, just call MBS :-) I sent him a request, just waiting to hear back... MBS is brilliant. Shawn ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

Phantom Exchange Server

Hi All, Strange problem for you... I've inherited a client who is experiencing general weirdness with their SBS 2011 server. Internal email delivery issues, problems adding items to calendars and other strange events. Running the Exchange 2010 Best Practices tool shows that Exchange thinks

Re: SemiOT: They finally pulled the trigger...

On 12-12-12 11:24 AM, Jonathan Link wrote: Even tech with knowledge has its problems... I find Samba3 works quite well in a variety of situations. It's quite stable for me and I have no issues recommending it in small less complex network situations. I have played with Samba4 even to

Trust Issue

Hi All, I've spent a couple of days on this issue and am now looking for some fresh ideas. I have a trust relationship between two domains: c.local and m.local. Running the following command from my file server (fs01) verifies the domain successfully: c:\netdom trust c.local /d:m.local

Re: Trust Issue

The domains are across a wan link. To add the user I do the following: - Right click on folder, Properties, Security - Edit, Add - In the Permissions for Folder window, I click Add - From this location is set to: m.local - I can see a list all users - I add by double clicking or setting to just

Re: Open Source/Free Helpdesk Software with Knowledgebase/FAQ capability ?

We use Request Tracker with great success. Shawn I know in the past that help desk software has been discussed. I have a friend in the state university system here that is looking for a help desk system for an online learning project they're about to launch. The launch is small, about 20

Slow Excel Files

Hi All, I have a Windows 2008R2 file server at the far end of a WAN link. There is a 20ms ping time between the workstations and the server. This is pretty constant. The file server contains a lot of Excel files. Different versions, some with macros some without. Some files are quite

Storagecraft

Hi Guys, The boss just got back from a tradeshow. One of the vendors was a company called Storagecraft. Their software seems to offer an Acronis like functionality. Does anyone have any experience with it? Good or bad? Shawn ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog!

RE: Open source monitor with Agent

The Windows agent is called nsclient++. As JLC pointed out, you configure Nagios to use passive services when collecting that data. I use it on many Windows boxes behind firewalls with great success. I've even managed to write a few custom plugins for things like NTBACKUP, ValultLogix, Oracle

Citrix Printing Help

Hi Guys, Is there anyone who can provide me with some help troubleshooting a Citrix printing policy? The user has what seems to be a correctly filtered printing policy. The correct drivers are installed as the Citrix server can print to the affected printers. Strangely the user is just not

RE: Auto Archive Loosing Email

| Twitter: @bschorr -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 13:55 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Auto Archive Loosing Email Hi Guys, I'm very confused and hope someone can help shed some light on the situation. I have

Auto Archive Loosing Email

Hi Guys, I'm very confused and hope someone can help shed some light on the situation. I have a client who has AutoArchive turned on within Outlook 2007. Connected to Exchange 2003. Suposedly and I haven't seen this myself emails are autoarchiving and NOT being put into his archive folders.

Ratio of IT Support Staff to Users

Hi All, Can anyone point me to some respectable whitepapers that show the number of IT support/admin staff to users? I realize there are a number of variables that come into play: - System Complexity - Standardization - Quality of service etc. I'm looking for general numbers with documentation

Scope Documents

Hi All, After recently being burned by a client/project, I'm trying to come with a new and better scope document. Could you please review the sample below and provide feedback for things that are missing? I'm specifically looking for assumptions and disclaimers that would be important to

RE: Scope Documents

burned? My own PSA is 5 pages, and each SoW is about 4 pages. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:52 PM To: NT System Admin

SBS Server Remote sync options

Hi Guys, I have a client with an SBS2008 R2 server that they'd like to sync remotely to another office. I realize I can sync the file shares fairly easily with RSYNC and such programs but wonder if there's a way to sync everything including Exchange fairly easily? Does anyone have experience

App runs from console but not Remote Desktop

Hi All, I have a Windows 2008R2 64bit Terminal Server. I have on particular app (Caseware) that refuses to run in a Remote Desktop session. Their tech support has been less than useful. Sitting down in front of the server, the app runs perfectly. Running the same app from Remote Desktop it

SBS2003 Migration Question

Hi Guys, It's rather late and my brain's fried.  Hopefully someone can point out what I missed. I have managed to migrate SBS2003 to Windows 2008 Standard Edition w/ Exchange 2010. AD has replicated, the files and permissions are good, Mailboxes all moved, DNS and DHCP looking reasonable.

Communication

Hi All, How do you guys handle internal department communication? Tracking customer requests, internal work loads, to do items, knowing who worked on what etc. We've been having a few internal problems lately with client/staff communication. Shawn ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

Terminal Server Problem

Hi Guys, I have a client with the following setup: - Windows 2000 Domain Controller - Windows 2003 Terminal Server They were running IE6 on the terminal server quite successfully. Their on site IT guy decided to upgrade them to IE8. There seems to be quite a few issues browsing the web now.

Re: Terminal Server Problem

or are these external users coming in over VPN or WAN? -Jeff Steward On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com wrote: Hi Guys, I have a client with the following setup: - Windows 2000 Domain Controller - Windows 2003 Terminal Server They were running IE6 on the terminal

Re: Terminal Server Problem

Thanks Jeff! :) Glad to know it's not unique to my environment. Shawn I can confirm that rbc and scotia bank return blank pages on a W2K3 TS session with IE8. If I have time I will see if I can't figure out why this is so. -Jeff Steward On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Shawn Everett sh

Re: Terminal Server Problem

This particular client is a small company that doesn't like to spend money on IT. They also like to manage the servers themselves which is part of the reason they're in the mess they're in. Shawn I wondered that myself. I figured anyone still running a W2K DC must be hurting for resources

Migrating from SBS 2003 to Server 2008 Standard

Hi All, I wanted to run the high points of a migration plan past everyone. I'm migrating from SBS 2003 to WIndows Server 2008 Standard Edition R2 on new hardware. Both machines are functional. - Take a full image of the existing SBS 2003 server before beginning and test it - Install 2008 on

Slow Printing

Hi All, I have a newly installed Windows 2003 R2 domain controller. There are three locally configured network printers set up on it. The two Lexmark printers print just fine without issues. I have a Konica Minolta C353 that does not print quickly. Printing something as simple as a Windows

Re: Slow Printing

:48:21 AM Subject: Re: Slow Printing Try setting the ports manually. Is it possible to try connecting the printer on the same switch as the server? I had a problem with a Xerox that drove me nuts - until we ran the cable to the main switch. On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Shawn Everett sh

Re: Slow Printing

support is grayed out. Print Spooling is enabled. Network port on the Cisco switch and the Konica are set to Auto Negotiate. Shawn On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com wrote: I have a Konica Minolta C353 that does not print quickly. Pause the print queue and print

IIS Problems

Hi All, I have a Windows 2003 Server running IIS and Exchange. More frequently now IIS crashes and will not serve web pages. Restarting the IIS service does nothing. Rebooting the server works and everything comes back up as expected. The Windows Event logs and HTTPERR logs don't show

Re: IIS Problems

. http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com/msg63814.html http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com/msg63814.html On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com wrote: Hi All, I have a Windows 2003 Server running IIS

Nagios

For those of you that use Nagios, I'd be interested to learn what you monitor and to some degree how you do it. Personally we monitor: - Server Room Temperature - Hardware health on our HP Servers via SNMP - Basic Windows metrics: drive space, CPU load, RAM etc. - ntbackup and backup exec backup

Weird Hidden Folder

Hi All, I have a Windows 2003 Standard Edition server with all the latest patches and service packs installed. A folder was created: C:\data There are active shares and a significant amount of data (150GB) under this folder. Somehow the folder C:\data has become hidden. It's not browsable

Backup Solutions

Hi All, I have a client looking for a backup solution for their company laptops. The laptops are taken off site regularly and they want them backed up once they come back onto the company network. This should be an automatic process. They're not looking for a job that runs at 3AM and gets the

Exchange 2007 Corrupt PDF Attachments

Hi All, I recently installed my first SBS2008 Server running Exchange 2007. It seems to be running fairly well but I've gotten intermittent reports about PDF attachments becoming corrupt. Has anyone else experienced this? Some Googling shows KB937625 which seems to describe the problem

RE: Managed Services

and databases. What about you? Every situation is different, I welcome comments and questions on or off list. Shook -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Managed Services Does

Managed Services

Does anyone here sell managed services or subscribe to them as a service from a vendor? I'm looking for overall opinions. Do you find them useful, why or why not? Shawn ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Limit Login Install problems

Hi Guys, When I install LimitLoginIISSetup.exe I get an error saying WSLimitLogin cannot be found. If I create this virtual directory under Default Website and then run the installer, the install runs without error. When I check this directory there are no files in there. The file

Re: Monitoring Remotely

Haven't finished reading the rest of the thread... Sherry: Why not just set up seperate service/host groups for each client. I use client config directories with all the config for a given client stored in that directory. Separate websites are only needed if you want an easier screen to look at

Backing up windows workstations

Hi All, I am looking for a good solution to backup multiple windows workstations in a central and organized way. I am familiar with Retrospect, Veritas Netbackup and Amanda. I was wondering if the list had a preferred solution. Shawn ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

ntbackup Question

Does anyone have a script that will tell me if a backup job created via ntbackup is successful. The script I currently have will email the backup report regardless of success or failure. I'd like to see that process improved to emailing only failed jobs. Shawn ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: Strange Simply Accounting Problem

Hi Guys, Here's a strange problem that cropped up on a client's Simply 2008 Enterprise install. This client has about 15 machines configured in a Workgroup on Windows 2003. Yes I know that's bad. :) They cannot seem to connect more than 2 users to Simply. Once they get to 3+ they seem to get

Server Suppliers

Hi Guys, I'm in the process of evaluating non name brand servers and wonder if anyone can recommend a good supplier. By non name brand I mean not Dell, HP or IBM. I would prefer a Canadian supplier and someone who can offer a reasonable range of configuration options if possible. Shawn ~

WYSE Terminal thin clients

Hi All, Is there anyone on the list with experience with XP on Wyse thin clients? Could someone drop me a note off list? Aside from some general concept knowledge I don't know much about them and would like to understand them better. Shawn ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with

Data Theft

Hi Guys, How do you protect sensitive data from employee theft when those employees are authorized to use it. I'm thinking specifically of employees who quit. How do we ensure they don't walk out with said sensitive data on their last days. Shawn ~ Upgrade to Next Generation

Re: OS Remote control app without open ports

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Crossloop yet. It's my favorite program for remote support. Shawn - Original Message - From: Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:34 AM Subject: OS Remote

RE: IT Salary Survey

Just for fun: I'm an RCHE in RHEL5 with a CIS Diploma and 8 years of experience with Windows Admin, Linux Admin, basic Network Admin and PHP/VB programming I make almost 60k. I live in Northern BC Canada. Shawn Forgot that list. What is everyone here making? :) Include degree, Cert too.

Re: IT Salary Survey

Someone always does ;) Do you have similar skills? Shawn I'm a drop-out with no certs. I make more. On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Shawn Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for fun: I'm an RCHE in RHEL5 with a CIS Diploma and 8 years of experience with Windows Admin, Linux Admin

Re: Internet Load Balancing

On Sunday 24 February 2008, Howard J Coates wrote: Vigor 3300v Hi Howard, That looks like exactly what I want. Now I just have to find a US or Canadian dealer. :) Shawn ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

Internet Load Balancing

Hi Guys, I'm looking for a dedicated hardware solution preferably with VPN/Firewall capabilities that can load balance and failover between multiple Internet connections. I'm looking to buy 1 or more cable and DSL connections, plug them into this box and have some level of speed/redundancy