RE: The list?

2013-04-30 Thread Steven Peck
devnul wth! I get sick and ignore my lists for a few day:) From: r...@pge.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: The list? Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:57:18 + It’s Memorex. That is why you hear the sound of shattering glass. From: Webster

RE: UPS vs Switch Sanity Check

2013-04-08 Thread Steven Peck
Do they also say to use the clutch to slow the car down when going downhill because they want to save the brakes? I mean brakes are more expensive then clutch replacements right? Steven Peckhttp://www.blkmtn.org From: sstri...@lrlaw.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE:

RE: IE spelling

2013-03-27 Thread Steven Peck
IE10 introduced spell check. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/08/typing-with-speed-and-accuracy-in-ie10.aspxEach of these spellchecking facilities (auto-correction, and word identification with corrective action menus), use the spellchecking dictionaries installed on your

Re: OT - Suggestions for using Netgear wifi and extender with Security camera setup

2013-03-15 Thread Steven Peck
known of. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi folks. I know this isn't a networking list, but thought I would throw this out and see what comes back. A client has installed a security camera/dvr system in their facility

Re: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1

2013-03-07 Thread Steven Peck
If you dig down in task scheduler there are tons of examples to copy from. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: And one more note: Powershell get-process Powershell -command get-process both dump the process list, but powershell -file get-process

Re: Joomla site move

2013-03-06 Thread Steven Peck
the exact same version of Joomla and then go through the upgrade process. If they give you the database and files you 'should' be able to get it going with that. (That and a LAMP setup). Good luck, Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Laurence laurence.chi...@jalapeno

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Steven Peck
value? Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: Agreed, but I also know that all released information goes through PR. I'm sure this released report was scrubbed clean of anything that could have made Microsoft liable

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-01 Thread Steven Peck
We're all HP blade and SAN here. It's not that bad. We've survived on purpose scheduled power downs, ups maintenance battery exploded wtf power downs. The whole thing is pretty resilient. This is not to say due diligence isn't a good thing. :) We have all physical vCenter Servers now because

Re: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

2013-03-01 Thread Steven Peck
Connect via ip/name to ESXi host you know the DC is on. Log in with local credentials (or root since it's what most do) Right click - power on. Power on vCenter environment Stop messing with systems on the host directly since it annoys vCenter Connect to vCenter, power on the rest. Steven Peck

Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool

2013-02-28 Thread Steven Peck
For basic testing from a client machine you can also use F12 in IE. Go to Network, Start Capture Type in the URL Click around, do stuff. Stop Capture. It will at least get you response request information, various calls etc. and it's most likely on the client system already. That said, play

Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool

2013-02-28 Thread Steven Peck
: Description: Description: Lifespan]* ** ** ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:24 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool ** ** For basic testing from a client machine you can also use F12 in IE

MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool

2013-02-28 Thread Steven Peck
as well : http://www.blkmtn.org/Microsoft_Private_Cloud_Training-Videos Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm quite impressed with that too. Shows how good MS are at publicizing good features they develop (i.e. not at all) Sent from my

Re: MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool

2013-02-28 Thread Steven Peck
:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, 1 March 2013 10:48 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool ** ** I've known about it for years and have mentioned it a time or two on this list

Re: Webster's question is very timely...

2013-02-28 Thread Steven Peck
Do thin provisioning for them? On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. At this point, however, with (at a guess) ~40gb per VM, that gives me about 6 VMs. For what I aim at doing, that should be sufficient. Kurt On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ken

Re: Ping by name tool

2013-02-27 Thread Steven Peck
The BSonPosh module has a ton of stuff similar to this you could use as a starting point http://bsonposh.codeplex.com/ Since it's a script module you can open them up and see how they work as well. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:24 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I’m looking for a ping

Re: Ping by name tool

2013-02-27 Thread Steven Peck
-A $Ping.ProtocolAddress } else { no response to ping } add a $servers = get-content list.txt and then put the rest in a for loop. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: The BSonPosh module has a ton of stuff similar to this you could use as a starting point http

Re: Servers in remote locations

2013-02-26 Thread Steven Peck
We have two ESXi hosts and an external drive array for even the small offices with 1-3 guests. Windows 2012 wasn't out in the release cycle for hardware refresh and we have a large ESXi install base now. We're looking at HyperV but change is slow if at all :) Getting Engineers onsite if there

Re: Powershell witth Quest - listing group memberships of users

2013-02-26 Thread Steven Peck
.memberOF outputs an array and arrays don't play well with other types of info with just a straight select-object I used to use Get-QadUser JDoe | Get-QADMemberOf for this type of stuff Haven't actually had to solve this problem in a while now though. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Michael

Re: Books about software

2013-02-20 Thread Steven Peck
, look at your resources and then do what seems the best fit to accomplish them. Hopefully the company is open to engaging with individuals, figuring out who in a company to talk to would be part of the challenge. Steven Peck Retired Drupal Documentation Team Lead http://www.blkmtn.org http

Re: Windows Phone 8

2013-02-17 Thread Steven Peck
The only blue tooth device I have is my car radio which hasn't cut out. May want to check your headset. Regular calls have been rock solid for me as well as those through the radio in the car. On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Ben M. Schorr b...@rolandschorr.comwrote: Wait…you mean it makes

Re: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Steven Peck
We fall under some of those and we do off site backups. We use Iron Mountain. If we need to under contract thy will overnight physical media to us. We have terra bytes of data we do this with. Fortunately it's not my group that handles it as it's not something that interests me overly much.

Re: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Steven Peck
' or 'we need the committee to decide on agreed terms' is a time suck that is unimportant and get's in the way of getting things done. So as long as I can use the right term to use that gets the guy to write the check for it GO TEAM! Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:21 AM

Re: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Steven Peck
of the word 'cloud services' for an hour or I could use the hour meeting to ensure that the specifics of someone's offering are spelled out and appropriate to my organizations needs. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote

Re: upgrading W2K3 to W2K8 both 32 bit, uninstalling Powershell breaks things.

2013-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
in for a penny, in for a pound. You may just want to go to PowerShell v2 to see if that resolves the whole thing. Although it got grouped in with the Windows Management Framework. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929?wa=wsignin1.0 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Andrew S. Baker

Re: Java

2013-02-08 Thread Steven Peck
I may have missed this link being on the list but here it is anyway as a reminder to peoples. http://www.zdnet.com/a-close-look-at-how-oracle-installs-deceptive-software-with-java-updates-710038/ Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife

Re: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld

2013-02-07 Thread Steven Peck
We're in a gray area ourselves. We have Exchange 2007 and have an Exchange 2010 infrastructure built but are having issues with the F5 load balancers which have devolved into a fight about costs so we're stalled. At this rate the service packs may come out before we move more then test users. If

Re: Where to get copies of my various documentation scripts

2013-01-30 Thread Steven Peck
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YouAreNotYourCode.aspx I don't always agree with Scott but this is timely. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I do not use XenApp, nor Citrix, but I do have a word of advice. Do not deprecate your skills with PowerShell. You

Re: DNS concerns - Server 2003 R2 SP2 Domain Controllers

2013-01-28 Thread Steven Peck
Years ago our networking team insisted on having them on so we had a discussion. Cisco's response at the time was ... we comply with RFC821 and RFC822. My reply was those were deprecated years ago and here's the current standard (2821/2822 at the time) and that was all it took to get them

Re: Limiting who can send all-staff e-mails

2013-01-25 Thread Steven Peck
For many of our distribution lists we've made it so that they can't receive email from outside the company. For our larger distribution lists we've set them to a limited pool of senders. Mostly HR or Senior Management or their admins. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Guyer, Don

Re: Help with this script

2013-01-23 Thread Steven Peck
I tend to find better results for PowerShell cmdlets in BING. Of course, that just may be the way I search. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote: Thanks guys. I did google parameter SearchScope but didn’t get any useful info. **

Re: Help with this script

2013-01-23 Thread Steven Peck
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh849720.aspx In PowerShell v3 don't forget the occasional Update-Help Best to do so under a PowerShell launched with admin credentials Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote

Re: Trying to get a .PFX file from a .CER file in Windows 2008

2013-01-10 Thread Steven Peck
The L is not silent? On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Who is this Mike person of whom you speak? -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: AIX and Windows

2013-01-09 Thread Steven Peck
Did you ask how bringing in a wildly different system you have to support was actually going to save the company money? On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:51 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Being told we are going to be required to maintain the AIX system as a part of the contract cuts.

Re: TechEd vs TechMentor

2013-01-08 Thread Steven Peck
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012 TechEd NA has a lot of their sessions online so you can see what the presentations are like. They have the EU and AU ones somewhere on the site as well. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Damien Solodow

Re: Time sync

2013-01-04 Thread Steven Peck
The drift is to far. We peer servers to DC's, DC's to vPDC The DC's all peer to our routers and the routers are chained to each other and the root outside source we use. Our servers are within seconds. We do not sync with the hosts. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Steve Kradel

Re: Enterprise task scheduler

2013-01-04 Thread Steven Peck
That was where I was confused as well. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Honestly, I'm not sure I see a difference between repeatable jobs and scheduled tasks, other than nomenclature. :) I use Orchestrator for this at a couple of clients and it

Re: Time sync

2013-01-04 Thread Steven Peck
Oh, I should mention the PBX gets time from the routers as well, etc. We do insurance and if the phones and customer call center apps and the time clock apps are off by more then a second or two we all have to go to irritating meetings On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Steven Peck sep

Re: Enterprise task scheduler

2013-01-03 Thread Steven Peck
Why would it not be used for Task Scheduling? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh420338 Not saying it's the best, just wondering why you can't use it for that. If you already have System Center suite then it's something you can try for 'free'. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Kurt

Re: Instant Messaging

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Peck
there will be two steps before your account is enabled, one sign the PHI doc regarding IM and you will have your account archived. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Patrick Salmon psal...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, Lync archives conversations only. Any files sent through during

Re: Disk encryption killer: Anyone see this?

2012-12-21 Thread Steven Peck
This tool seems to have some serious caveats, like you have to have access to a running system and it's memory dump. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: I would say off the record no, if you used popular encryption software and a repeatable process, but

Re: Selling SMB-specific IT stuff

2012-12-17 Thread Steven Peck
Regarding Craig's list... I have a great reluctance to meeting someone in the parking lot of that store that burned down next to the light that doesn't work anymore. The first two times, sure, but they all though my car was part of the deal both times and forgot to pay me. :) On Mon, Dec 17,

Re: Question about RU5 for Exchange 2010 SP2

2012-12-11 Thread Steven Peck
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637981.aspx ^^ There is a check list for installing Exchange rollups. The other answer is, depends on the patch but generally yes. I haven't reviewed this one yet (they are moving me off Ops Manager back to messaging after a two year break). Steven

Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB

2012-12-07 Thread Steven Peck
device to reclaim unused space. (Trim requires physical disks directly attached to a virtual machine or SCSI disks, and trim-compatible hardware.) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: Larger file sizes I think... On Fri, Dec 7

Re: File Services Clustering in Server 2012

2012-12-06 Thread Steven Peck
While I like your summary for the most part, evidently my experience with MS Clusters while admittedly dated, windows2003 era mostly Exchange and SQL, we didn't experience them as fragile. Complex yes, but most issues were the result of shooting ourselves in the foot rather then the cluster

Re: File Services Clustering in Server 2012

2012-12-06 Thread Steven Peck
solved the problem for me. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver8gen/thread/9807a799-bea3-46ad-92a5-732779135f98 On 12/6/2012 at 11:03 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: While I like your summary for the most part, evidently my experience with MS Clusters while

Re: Amazon Web Services continues Windows push with PowerShell - Computerworld

2012-12-06 Thread Steven Peck
This reminds me. I need to see If Azure is viable for hosting my website. /me ads one more thing to task list. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Widely expected. J And required for AWS to be a full-fledged client with Microsoft’s private cloud

Re: DR planning

2012-12-04 Thread Steven Peck
So... we do testing every year and have a complex multi-site environment. So that years scenario was loss of one site. We had a network link that was 'supposed' to be firewalled off form the production network, etc. I wasn't a participant but when they brought up the restored exchange gateway

Re: Surface with Windows 8 Pro announced...

2012-11-29 Thread Steven Peck
This is less then I thought it would be. I had it pegged at $1500. With the separate Touch Cover it's still less then I thought it would be. It's essentially an Ultrabook with touch screen. I plan on getting one assuming I am less broke then I am now. On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Rod

Re: windows phone 8

2012-11-28 Thread Steven Peck
-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:28 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: windows phone 8 ** ** http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download

Re: windows phone 8

2012-11-27 Thread Steven Peck
Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... Original Message Subject: Re: windows phone 8 From: Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com Date: Mon, November 19, 2012 3:43 am To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin

Re: Free Windows 8?

2012-11-27 Thread Steven Peck
I know some people who at the time did successfully activate their copy with this method and were quite proud of it. These are not people I generally associate with. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: I thought I read somewhere that Enterprise is only available

Re: windows phone 8

2012-11-27 Thread Steven Peck
never have to worry about avoiding it. J Tim ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: windows phone 8 ** ** Are the maps still lacking since they switched to using Nokia maps

Re: windows phone 8

2012-11-27 Thread Steven Peck
accurate. Towards the end of the videos they show you the different configuration of tiles. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Gosh, been following this thread closely, must say I’m very eager to give a Windows Phone another go now

Re: Window 8 on your PC

2012-11-26 Thread Steven Peck
I have to be honest, I haven't missed the 'start button' since day 2 of my transistion. While where I work is definitly a 'never going to it' sort of place at the moment, I was at a medical specialists practice recently and they've already migrated their desktops to it. I was shocked. About 75

Re: Window 8 on your PC

2012-11-26 Thread Steven Peck
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/how-to#2TC=windows8 ^^ Lots of little short how to videos there by the way. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Tim Vander Kooi tvanderk...@expl.comwrote: It does not have to be a blank area, just right-click anywhere on the Start Screen and the All

Re: windows phone 8

2012-11-26 Thread Steven Peck
a beautiful line... Original Message Subject: Re: windows phone 8 From: Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com Date: Mon, November 19, 2012 3:43 am To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com It does? Mine's been lasting a day or two. I have turned

Re: windows phone 8

2012-11-19 Thread Steven Peck
It does? Mine's been lasting a day or two. I have turned off NFC because well, I have no NFC devices. I also avoid ad based apps, just purchased. My wife's been lasting as well. On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:42 AM, joeu...@chronic.org wrote: The 920 has an exclusive on battery life issues.

Re: windows phone 8

2012-11-16 Thread Steven Peck
becuase it just works. My old one did as well, but this one seems smoother. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Ben M. Schorr b...@rolandschorr.comwrote: We use OneNote with shared notebooks hosted on our SharePoint server. Syncs beautifully to Windows Phone. Ben

Re: windows phone 8

2012-11-16 Thread Steven Peck
suspect he will go for the Nokia 820 which is a little smaller when it's renewal for him. So... I like my phone becuase it just works. My old one did as well, but this one seems smoother. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Ben M. Schorr b

Re: SSH (PuTTY) session from Windows2008R2

2012-11-12 Thread Steven Peck
http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ Maybe try Kitty. Probably won't work but I figured I would toss it out on the pile. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote: I’d much prefer not using telnet! I see it to be about the same as doing remote management using

Re: OT McAfee wanted for murder.

2012-11-12 Thread Steven Peck
He was bought out years ago. Gizmodo did an article on his increasingly erratic behavior last week and a few months ago. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Stephen Holtz ste...@addisonreserve.ccwrote: Well that explains the problems with their product! ** ** *Stephen L. Holtz, MCSE,

Re: Symantec %@(*OI:TNGF(P*

2012-11-08 Thread Steven Peck
The first rule of Symantec is you don't talk about symantec On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Robert Cato cato.rob...@gmail.com wrote: It is SEP12, I'm sorry I do not know the definition file, that is handled by the security group...and they don't really want to talk about Symantec right now.

Re: MS Uninstaller

2012-11-08 Thread Steven Peck
This one? http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall I use it to unistall bad OpsManger agents installs all the time. It's cause I am lazy and it cleans out the registry :) On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Thought it might help me on this

Re: The Ripple Effect of Windows 8 - Datamation

2012-11-07 Thread Steven Peck
for the change and it went from RAWR IT'S CHANGING to 'Hurry up and migrate me already!' over the course of the year. Any deployment should have some variation of this to properly manage any change, whether the interface is the same or it changes. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8

Re: New job: AD is a mess

2012-11-05 Thread Steven Peck
Might come in handy. AD Replication Status Tool http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/08/23/ad-replication-status-tool-is-live.aspx On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:20 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Learn ADFIND and OLDCOMP.exe for AD cleanup. Also LDIFDE and CSVDE if you need to

Re: East Coast people out there?

2012-11-05 Thread Steven Peck
Now is the time for everyone to look at their supplies and gear and ask, Do I have sufficient resources to go for 7 days? If the answer is no, then I suggest you figure out what you would need and start planning for it. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: East Coast people out there?

2012-11-05 Thread Steven Peck
up get the business needs and priorities down now that you have your managements attention. Good luck, Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the NY area, specifically Queens and my part of the borough

Re: East Coast people out there?

2012-11-05 Thread Steven Peck
Not sure, but companies like this may experience a surge in inquiries so you may want to get your call in now :) On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: That's a great piece of information Jim, Thank you. This seems like exactly what I would need. On Mon, Nov 5,

Re: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?)

2012-10-30 Thread Steven Peck
Ah, a follower of the TIP development method then... This often follows hand in hand with solid SLAs. Test In Production. Service Level Assumptions. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: But how can you properly test stuff

Re: Wow, who knew?

2012-10-30 Thread Steven Peck
On the bottom of the services.msc there is the Extended/Standard tab. It defaults to the Extended view. Had a PSS person point it out to me years ago and last year when on a different call I switched views and the PSS person was surprised. This tech is so rich with these diverse and helpful

Re: You may be an IT geek if...

2012-10-24 Thread Steven Peck
Nice to know seeing as I am building out my home lab now. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: It is how I tested Live Migration and migrating clusters from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012 (note: you can absolutely have single-node clusters!). J

Re: Windows 8 app behaviour

2012-10-11 Thread Steven Peck
I like Aidan Finn's take on it from a while ago. I think he's nicer about it then I am. http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13212 While I don't recall the WIndows XP thing he references I do recall the progman explorer start menu panic in the cube farms during WinNT3.51 - Nt4. So far, every single

Re: Windows 8 app behaviour

2012-10-11 Thread Steven Peck
gah! co-worker thought he'd be funny and grab my chair so it got sent to soon. Sorry about the ending. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: I like Aidan Finn's take on it from a while ago. I think he's nicer about it then I am. http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p

Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen

2012-10-08 Thread Steven Peck
I was curious so did some random searches. This threa was the only one that looked interesting. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w8itprogeneral/thread/4765d750-2925-48aa-8cc0-f68cbf827872 There doesn't appear to be a whole lot of documentation out there at the moment. On Mon, Oct

Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen

2012-10-08 Thread Steven Peck
Phone -- From: Steven Peck Sent: 10/8/2012 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen I was curious so did some random searches. This threa was the only one that looked interesting. http://social.technet.microsoft.com

Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen

2012-10-08 Thread Steven Peck
of REMOVING the apps to make them disappear. D’OH! *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 8, 2012 12:15 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen I was curious so did some random searches. This threa was the only one

Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen

2012-10-08 Thread Steven Peck
** ** lol ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Subject:* Re: Windows 2012 RDS - Start Screen ** ** I swithed to BING a while ago. For my searches it seems to work just fine. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote

Re: Powershell question - property to determine group vs user, using Quest Get-QADUser

2012-10-05 Thread Steven Peck
to a PoSH question before MBS gets in with the solution for once so I could be wrong. :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused about something. I am writing a Powershell script, using the Quest AD CMDLETs. I have

Re: Powershell question - property to determine group vs user, using Quest Get-QADUser

2012-10-05 Thread Steven Peck
have already paid the price for lookup. $TheUsers = Get-QADGroupMember $GroupName -type 'user' foreach ($user in $TheUsers) { if ($user.AccountIsdisabled -eq $false) { Write-Output $user.name } } That should work without the extra Get-QADUser lookup which will speed the script up. Steven Peck http

Re: Server 2012 - System Center 2012?

2012-09-27 Thread Steven Peck
and the other, content for blog posts :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com wrote: I can agree with that, I am in a unique situation where I am deploying a completely new infrastructure and have decided to deploy everything on Server

Re: Everyone is the IT department

2012-09-27 Thread Steven Peck
for many years now and there is always some new 'standard bearer' calling for trample on the 'old' and make way for the 'new'... yet here we still are having built the infrastructure for the 'new' wondering why 'that guy' is babling about random stuff again. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org

Re: Pen test vendors

2012-09-26 Thread Steven Peck
Then he could be a 'personailty' and talk about random stuff and still make money. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: The only danger there is that he might get pulled into Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte land... On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM, David

Re: Personal IT Blog?

2012-09-21 Thread Steven Peck
name. c. It is great when you search for a solution and get your own site. :) d. if you explain something to people more then twice, you have content for a blog post. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: **a) **I

Re: NetApp CIFS, Windows Servers and Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers

2012-09-21 Thread Steven Peck
Is 'pffft' short for the 'Community involvement' part of the MVP? :) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Pffft. I did nothing here but translate. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, September 21, 2012 10:57

Re: Btw what is everyone using for enterprise based malware tools

2012-09-18 Thread Steven Peck
a transient 'ad thingy' gets in the sytem gets rebuilt after it's imaged and analyzed but we're not having things get in at the moment. I remember those tools though. Those were the days... :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org

Re: Certification time?

2012-09-18 Thread Steven Peck
) as it seems to be the glue that holds much of the rest together. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: That’s the thing of it. What to chase? I have small company mentality which basically covers all areas

Re: Certification time?

2012-09-18 Thread Steven Peck
. ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:58 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Certification time? ** ** It really depends on what you are interested in and where you are leaning. The MS System Center Suite of products is hot right

Re: Forefront roadmap changes

2012-09-12 Thread Steven Peck
We can call you a luddite on a public list if you feel you have been missing that experience :) On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Oh, it lives on in FOPE. ** ** FOPE is hugely profitable for MSFT and it represents the BEST kind of

Re: Interesting

2012-09-10 Thread Steven Peck
Maybe they'll locate the malware in their store before third parties do? On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I do wonder how Google thinks they are benefiting from this. Kurt On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: semi-OT: installing hyper-v 2012 as Layer 1 on PERC based dell server

2012-09-06 Thread Steven Peck
Pretty sure you can't instal any windows to a removable drive aka USB* I will be experimenting this weekend myself. * note, excludes Windows 8 To Go and Windows PE doesn't count. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Rick Berry rbe...@elevativenetworks.comwrote

Re: Hyper-V Server 2012

2012-09-04 Thread Steven Peck
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13454 It's just HyperV. Nothing else. It's like ESXi so it's a smaller foot print overall. Hopefully the service pack for System Center will be out soon which will add support for it all. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Adam

Re: Hyper-V Server 2012

2012-09-04 Thread Steven Peck
in house solutions this last year. VMware has removed the vTax* licensing but that doesn't change the fact that we have 6 HyperV hosts now and are seriously looking at features and marketing vs reality over the next two remaining years of our contract. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org * note

Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware!

2012-08-20 Thread Steven Peck
While we are not moving away from VMware now, we plan to continue with planned testing on Server 2012/HyperV v3 snice we pay data center licenses anyway. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Looks like this (vRAM entitlement) will no longer be an issue.

Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin)

2012-08-18 Thread Steven Peck
in the technical and science side of things. ) Steven On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: Nice. Thanks. ** ** ** ** *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 12:11 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re

Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin)

2012-08-17 Thread Steven Peck
You need to move to Ardunio stuff as a hobby :) On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: I’d rather be fishing. J But seriously, I miss electronic board repair. I loved getting down and dirty with an oscilloscope, troubleshooting circuit boards, and

Re: Questions to ask an interviewer (Sys Admin)

2012-08-17 Thread Steven Peck
://blog.makezine.com/ http://hackaday.com/ http://www.instructables.com/ - a mass happy mess of amatuer disaster projects to really neat stuff http://www.adafruit.com/blog/ and http://learn.adafruit.com/ http://www.sparkfun.com/ Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Maglinger, Paul

Re: Windows 8 now on Technet and MSDN

2012-08-16 Thread Steven Peck
should get it and test it. Yes, it is different but there are lots of improvements to go with the change. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:40 PM, steve ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: ** Its my primary OS at home and at work. Love it! Kids love it too and much prefer

Re: PS export question

2012-08-06 Thread Steven Peck
test. There are three nice powershell videos you may want to check out here: http://www.blkmtn.org/TechEd-2012-Videos Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: I’m trying to get a list of passwords last set from AD for my users

Re: PS export question

2012-08-06 Thread Steven Peck
. It tends to make it less useful in the long run for flexibility and re-use. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: That’s interesting because I just used Format Table to export a list of addresses and SAM accounts for over 4k users

Re: System Center 2012 - SQL Server 2012?

2012-08-06 Thread Steven Peck
I think when SC 2012 Service Pack 1 (Which is in CTP right now) is released. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30133 System requirements *Supported operating systems:* Windows 8 Release Preview, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 The Virtual Machine Manager

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