RE: LoJack
If I understand your questions correctly. You need the BIOS set to Activated and the software application agent installed on the computer for it to fully work. The software agent is what communicates with the recovery center. The BIOS piece maintains its presence even through reinstalls or different hard drives. So if it is stolen you call them up and then they can track it down or you can send a delete or lock command. Depending on the computer vendor you should be able to have them activate the BIOS setting for you. Though it will not work until the software agent is installed, you create an account and the laptop calls in for the first time. If the vendor can not do this either choose another vendor or plan on touching each system. Like Dave said depending on the vendor model you might be able to create a BIOS file and install that file on each laptop. Still have to touch each laptop. Though you might be able to script something with one of the management systems. An example, Intel has a tool where we can basically create a custom BIOS file then install it on the other systems using Win PE or an EFI boot from a USB drive. Especially when the systems you get are usually a few BIOS revisions behind. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: LoJack But it does need to be set to Activated to work, then? The default setting of Deactivated is useless without switching it over? If that's right, can you ask for them to be delivered Activated, or would you definitely have to at least set them up to run a certain program as you said? Cheers, JR On 23 April 2013 15:27, David Lum david@nwea.org mailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Depending on the vendor, you might be able to flip the BIOS setting by running an EXE. I know Dell machines can have their BIOS settings changed without having to physically touch each system. Takes some work but depending on the # of systems it might be worth looking at. Dave From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com ] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 1:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: LoJack I've looked at the various options and I've even seen a computer with the BIOS stuff installed, but I can't get an answer to the primary query I've got If the BIOS agent is set to Deactivated (rather than Disabled), do you need to switch it to Activated before the anti-theft features kick in, or can you switch it from Deactivated to Activated remotely (even if the thief has flattened the OS or switched hard drives, etc.)? I considered contacting LoJack directly but I'm wondering if they'll think I'm a crook trying to get around the anti-theft features :-) I'm just asking this because if my client buys 100+ machines with the BIOS piece installed but not Activated, are they looking at touching all the machines to get it working properly or can it be switched from Deactivated to Activated remotely in a theft situation? Cheers, JR On 23 April 2013 01:11, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com mailto:jk.har...@live.com wrote: You might want to take a look at the Dell web site. I believe they sell it as an option with their business line of laptops. I think the BIOS part does all the work but I also think that the software does some configuration changes. Jon Subject: LoJack To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com From: kz2...@googlemail.com mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:01:33 + Does anyone know if LoJack CompuTrace can be activated without the software installed? I am looking into this sort of software for a client but am not sure whether it needs to actually have the software installed or if the embedded BIOS feature does everything required? Their website isn't particularly clear about it and most Googling just turns up people complaining about civil liberties. TIA, JR Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: LoJack
Excellent question. And I don't have a good answer. LoJack supports Windows 2000 up to Windows 8 and Mac OS 10.3 or higher. But nothing for Linux. So I guess the question is what do you mean by a different OS. If to the same or different Windows version it should be reinstalled. If it was a Windows OS and somebody tried to install the Mac software I don't know. Can they even do that? If going from Windows to a Linux distro I don't know. My guess is it wouldn't work but I'm probably wrong. I'm sure it is something they thought about. Fortunately, the couple of clients that have this on their laptops haven't lost them. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: LoJack On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: You need the BIOS set to Activated and the software application agent installed on the computer for it to fully work. The software agent is what communicates with the recovery center. The BIOS piece maintains its presence even through reinstalls or different hard drives. So what if I wipe the hard drive and install a different OS? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: RT devices?
It depends on what you mean by managing RT devices or what you need. I'm curious why you think per user isn't good? I don't see the difference but I am probably missing something. As Tobie mentioned, you do have the System Center on premise option with the Intune add-in. So you have the choice of managing the devices either way. You're using Intune to manage the devices through the cloud. Granted it is an additional expense but you are able to keep tabs on mobile devices easy than before I think. From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 6:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RT devices? The issue I have with managing RT devices is that they have changed the licensing- only offering per user licensing and that there is no system center on premise solution you have to go with a cloud solution. I thought Microsoft's strategy was to offer both an on premise and cloud offering and give the costumer the option From: Tobie Fysh [mailto:tobie.f...@freebridge.org.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RT devices? They are able to be managed via System Centre/Intune as far as I'm aware. Tobie From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: 20 March 2013 15:57 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RT devices? I'm very fond of GPOs and full application support. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RT devices? Why is the RT not appropriate for business? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RT devices? The Pro is very slick and I've got a hospital client that is testing them. So far, they are very happy with them. I don't think the RT is appropriate in a business environment. Just IMHO. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RT devices? Not RT but the project I am on, the IT virtual desktop team is testing the Pro device and they love them. They prefer them to the iPads. I can't provide any specifics as that is not the part of the project I am working on. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.carlwebster.com/ http://www.CarlWebster.com From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:r...@finnesey.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RT devices? I am curious to know if anyone is thinking or has deployed RT devices to their end users. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin _ This message has been scanned by MimeCast on behalf of Freebridge Community Housing and found to be free of viruses and not SPAM. If you have any concerns about the message contents please contact the ICT ServiceDesk. _ http://www.freebridge.org.uk http://twitter.com/Freebridge http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kings-Lynn-United-Kingdom/Freebridge-Communit y-Housing/192690183387?v=box_3 This e-mail (including any attachments), is confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee(s). It may contain information covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Do not copy, use or disclose this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free. The sender does not
RE: Forefront client security
From what I remember. Forefront Client Security was the original product/name. The name changed to Forefront Endpoint Protection with the initial System Center products. It is now called System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection. I wonder what it will be called next? -Original Message- From: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife [mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Forefront client security How is this different from SCEP? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained
Would Windows Intune be a possibility for those remote devices? From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Keeping 550+ systems maintained You could look at direct access As long as the remote machines ate Internet connected they can be managed Usually people may still access the web bit not VPN onto corporate On Friday, 15 March 2013, Ken Schaefer wrote: So, if I could summarise your requirements, and current state: Machines: In Office Remote: once-per-day connectivity Remote: once-per-month connectivity Remote: no connectivity 450 ~30 ~30 ~30 Requirement Metric Compliance Update AV Within 24 hours of release 100% of machines. Weekly report Update Acrobat/Java/Firefox/Chrome Within 14 days of release 100% of machines Weekly report Successful Backup (unsure what the scope is here) Unsure what the metric is here (Daily? Weekly? Monthly?) Weekly report Compliance Report Weekly 100% coverage If you need to meet 100% compliance (you don't mention meeting, say, 90% compliance within 1 day, 100% within a week, or dividing machines into in-office vs. remote) then I think your problem is the infrequently connected machines (~10% of the fleet), as they don't connect frequently enough for central enforcement and meeting your turn-around-times. So you might look at: a) A configuration management system that's able to communicate over the internet. Could be as simple as a script that runs as a scheduled task and posts the data back to a web server that you have centrally b) Some way of making remote configuration changes (Go-To-Meeting or something) to enforce updates (if/when required) You could look at using RDS or similar to publish the apps you need to update within 14 days (except the ones listed all have their own updating mechanisms). If that's not working well, then Citrix/RDS might be an option, as at least you can enforce the updating centrally Backup - I'm going to assume that TSM is not going to work for the machines that do not VPN in, so you need something separate for them. I'd also look at your configuration management procedures, and tighten up the link between asset lifecycle management - configuration management - AD configuration, to reduce the time being spent on machines that haven't been removed from AD. You might want to read the ITIL docs to see all the process areas you should have (not saying you should implement ITIL, but it'll help with proactive/consistent management of the environment. If you really need to hit the metrics you have above (including proving compliance), you could be devoting almost an entire FTE to the above. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'david@nwea.org'); ] Sent: Friday, 15 March 2013 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained Excellent questions Ken, thanks. Up to date at this point means 1. Current (within 1 day) of anti-virus signatures 2. Have the latest Acrobat/Java/Firefox/Chrome updates within two weeks 3. Successful backups (we use Tivoli to back up endpoints) 4. Weekly report to confirm the above Dave From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained I think you need to know what your requirements are. How do you define up to date? e.g. - How quickly do you need to deploy something (or even have a range of critical/medium/low priority updates)? - And how do you need to report compliance (on demand? At pre-set intervals?) - And how do you measure your SLA? E.g. what is an acceptable level of 'unknown' state devices? And how long can they remain as 'unknown' Once you have an idea of what you need to meet, then you can start to work out what combination of technologies and people you need to meet it. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2013 1:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Keeping 550+ systems maintained Scenario: * 550 Windows workstations, with 100 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com'); with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Good news everyone, you have just received an e-mail from me! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:
RE: Virtualization in small office
Server 2012 Standard comes with TWO VM instances, not four. You're thinking of Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization in small office I VM even in single-server environments. If you have a SMB with SQL and are buying Server 2012, you're licensed for four VM's, so you can divorce SQL from the DC .If you have the resources (RAM, disk), I'd run the DC, SQL, and file/print each on different VM's. Or at minimum divorce the DC from everything else, since you can get away with small RAM/HDD requirements on a DC in a SMB. Dave From: Hank . [mailto:hgedr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtualization in small office I deal mostly with SMB. Virtualization is a great fit if you have a number of physical servers. But what about a single server situation? I have a couple replacements coming up where there is a single server that is a DC, file and print, runs SQL or some other database for their LOB and thats it. Is it overkill to say setup 2012 Hyper-V and set up one guest server? It doesn't cost any more because server standard comes with two virtual licenses. Both places currently backup to a NAS so I could just install Veeam in order to get incremental backups vs just installing a new physical server and OS and say using Shadowprotect to backup. Any thoughts appreciated. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Virtualization in small office
You don't specify size of office so here is a generalization. This is based on office size of less than 25 users. What I would do is use Server 2012 Standard as the host. Then create 2 VMs. The first VM would run Server 2012 Essentials and the second VM would run Server 2012 Standard. Server 2012 Essentials covers you as the DC and file print. The second VM with Server 2012 Standard allows you to run SQL or some other database separately. You'll have to determine what the hardware will look like. From: Hank . [mailto:hgedr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtualization in small office I deal mostly with SMB. Virtualization is a great fit if you have a number of physical servers. But what about a single server situation? I have a couple replacements coming up where there is a single server that is a DC, file and print, runs SQL or some other database for their LOB and thats it. Is it overkill to say setup 2012 Hyper-V and set up one guest server? It doesn't cost any more because server standard comes with two virtual licenses. Both places currently backup to a NAS so I could just install Veeam in order to get incremental backups vs just installing a new physical server and OS and say using Shadowprotect to backup. Any thoughts appreciated. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Servers in remote locations
Server/VM ratios depend on Server OS version. I think you are thinking of Server 2008 R2 Standard which does give you 4 VMs per server license. However that has changed in Server 2012 Standard. You are only allowed 2 VMs per server license. Server 2012 Datacenter gives you unlimited. While unlimited based on the specs of your hardware. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Servers in remote locations Yea, run VM's. No reason not to and lots of little reasons why you should. I'd run 2VM's if licensing isn't an issue. Licensing shouldn't be an issue, IIRC you can run 4 VM's under one server license. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Servers in remote locations I use VM's whenever possible, even if it's a 1:1. Moves/upgrades are simply much easier. I'd run 2VM's if licensing isn't an issue. Dave -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Servers in remote locations I have got a number of servers at remote locations which are currently serving as RODC and file and print servers. It is time to upgrade the hardware that they are running on and I am curious with hypervisors and the technology of today if people think it is of value to replace the existing servers with servers running 2 separate virtual servers: 1 RODC, DNS, DHCP, and 1 file print; or would you run it all as one physical server with all roles installed? The existing servers are 2008R2 and the new ones will be 2012. Ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SMB IT provider Q
That is a service I provide my clients. But I haven't charged them for the service. Probably because in the past 20 years I have been running my own shop I had to bring in a temp server just twice. And because both times the office was broken into and the server was stolen. Different clients. At one client the thieves were kind enough to remove the backup tape from the server and left it on the table. All my servers are basically the same based on the software installed. Meaning all my physical single SBS 2011 servers are the same, servers for Hyper-V hosting are the same. I also work in the SMB space and this has worked well for me for several years. I like consistency. I have a 4 server lab currently. If a customer needed a server for something RIGHT NOW I would pull one of the lab servers. The lab servers are almost identical to customer servers. There have 32 GB instead of 16 GB RAM. Like Mike said, needing a server like this is very rare. Or has been in my experience. If there is a server problem you usually will have some kind of warning and can go from there. Having a good backup plan and disaster recovery options are better options I think. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMB IT provider Q This is actually the other idea I was considering, have this 2nd server host the patching/anti-virus, etc stuff on a VM and the host could also store the backup images and be leveraged in an emergency. From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMB IT provider Q Why not give the clients each a server which can be re-tasked at short notice? If you store the backup images on a device that you can hyper-v up if necessary then it has great value for the client to have available for themselves. We have a few servers running Hyper-v which we are reconfiguring to do some failover - the plan is that if we need a server at short notice we simply sacrifice the failovers and move the box. The licensing is taken care via a SPLA license or the clients existing licenses. It is very rate to actually need to deploy a spare server, think of recovery objectives. If the server is down they can still work, emails can back-up with the ISP, individual files can be recovered and any server repairs (e.g. new backplane) can be scheduled to minimise disruption. If a client really needs that level of redundancy then they can afford to pay fully for it. 25 users, $4 per user per month = $1200 per year. Don't promise what you can't deliver, but you know the clients well. It might be worth getting involved with a local IT company just to cover your back just in case. Mike From: Ben M. Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: 03 February 2013 17:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMB IT provider Q I'd probably offer it as a service for a nominal fee - maybe $25 a month per customer? Of course you run the risk of having multiple customers suffer failures at the same time and they'll be rightfully upset if you don't have the spare hardware available to get them back up when that happens. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr Tower - Flagstaff Office 928-526-3970 http://www.rolandschorr.com/ www.rolandschorr.com * http://www.twitter.com/bschorr www.twitter.com/bschorr * http://www.facebook.com/RolandSchorr www.facebook.com/RolandSchorr From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SMB IT provider Q I have a couple of clients and they both run SBS2011 Premium in their environments and in both cases I have them on Dell hardware and on top of Hyper-V hosts. It makes sense to me to have ready spare hardware, and it seems to me if I had one server in my lab ready to go as a temporary stand-in Hyper-V host I could offer this as a cheaper alternative as to asking them to have a full 2nd server onsite in a cluster. My thinking is: * Have one server, just powerful enough to work as a stand-in server in either environment (16GB RAM, enough SAS disk space to cover the biggest Hyper-V host) with an IT Garage licensed 2008 R2 Host OS (both my clients are running this). * If either client has a hard server failure, I run my hardware out and restore their backups to this hardware. This gets them up and running while I resolve whatever the issue might be on their production server * Once their primary system is back up, bring this hardware back to my lab It looks like I can get some hardware in the $1000 range for this, but the catch is I'd like to have my clients offset some if not all of the cost. Would it make sense to offer them this spare server available service with a monthly fee associated, or a one-time cost? Surely other IT shops offer the same thing in some
RE: SBS2011 RWW
I think, since it's been a while, that there was a registry setting I changed in order for other servers to show up. And I don't remember what it was. Doing this enable all computers to remain in the correct OUs. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS2011 RWW Anyone here use SBS2011? I have a remote user who needs to be able to use Remote Web Workplace to RDP to a server (not the SBS one), but the list generated on the Remote Web Workplace for non-admins does not include the SBS Servers OU. Moving the server in question to the computer OU is not my first choice.anyone here using SBS2011? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: It is quiet today
S. The world ended last week and there are only a few of us left. Art From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@live.com] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: It is quiet today Looks like today is another quiet day. Jon _ From: jk.har...@live.com mailto:jk.har...@live.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: It is quiet today Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:46:16 -0500 Many of them were pretty inactive. One they changed to a different format that upset a bunch of the people on that list. I tried the new list (Windows Client) for a while and found the effort to usage not a good fit for me. Jon From: r...@finnesey.com mailto:r...@finnesey.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: It is quiet today Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:39:04 + I see they have cut down the number of lists they run -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: It is quiet today On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com mailto:r...@finnesey.com wrote: I have been having an issues where I keep getting unsubscribed. Are you sure you're paid up on your membership dues? Since GFI took over they've been really strict about that. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB
Curious also what was up with the cable. Have a couple of short runs (60 feet or so) that are CAT 5 and are doing fine with gig speeds. Well getting average 550 Mbps on quick speed tests. Art From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB Do you know what happens if you don't pay attention and attach a *CAT5* cable to the NIC that you intend to use for Hyper-V Live Migration? Yeah, it operates at 10% of its overall potential. Thankfully, I noticed before moving a really large VM. Sigh. I was wondering what was up with the speed and then my eye caught the CAT5 marking. Off to the printer it goes. ASB http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com mailto:asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I migrated one server live and one that was shutdown from 2012 to 2012. No difference in the operation other than speed. The one that was off was smaller, which I'm sure helped, but it was faster. The one that was up continued to run without me losing more than a few pings. It was sweet. :) Now, I'm upgrading the other server with 6 VMs on it. We'll see how that goes. LOLThe one-by-one migration from 2008-R2 to 2012 was too slow for me. ASB http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:15 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org mailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Cool. At home I have a 2008 R2 server running Hyper-V and 2 VM's on it, think I'll try the migration tonight myself.. Dave From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com mailto:asbz...@gmail.com ] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 3:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB Well, VM Host #1 just rebooted successfully after the upgrade, and it's looks like all is well. I'm going to practice moving around some VMs using the new Live Migration functionality and see how it plays out. ASB http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org mailto:david@nwea.org wrote: It only needs to host, I already have all those other functions being handled by the guest VM's. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com ] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB I think it only comes down to what this box needs to do for you? If it requires any other roles (DHCP, WINS, DNS, DC, etc) then Hyper-V server isn't what your looking for. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 tel:610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America http://www.guardianlife.com/ www.guardianlife.com From:David Lum david@nwea.org mailto:david@nwea.org To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:12/05/2012 01:48 PM Subject:RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB _ This makes it look like the free 2008 R2 Hyper-V server supports 1TB: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj647789 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj647789 It can be argued that if I'm going to change Hyper-V host OS then why not go to 2012. Next question..how nervous should I be about the guests if on the host I go from full 2008 w/ Hyper-V as the host to 2012 Hyper-V (effectively server core). Seems pretty simple on the surface, am I overlooking anything obvious? I guess the fallback would be to reinstall the full 2008 R2 OS, as least protecting the VM's themselves is pretty straightforward. Time eater, but technically simple. Time for more research. Dave From: Christopher Bodnar [ mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB And the Hyper-V version is free. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 tel:610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life
RE: Exchange 2010 - manage mobile phone
Are the versions of the iOS current? I have had that issue before a few times. Sometimes being at the most current version for that device solved it. The others were solved when we used a real certificate instead of the self-signed one. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2010 - manage mobile phone I have two Exchange 2010 users that can't get their accounts to work with an iPhone and I'm pretty sure it's specific to their account. I can get my account to work on their iPhone (and mine), but I can't get their accounts to work. It does go through the verify process OK, but when opening the mail app it stops at the inbox saying it cannot connect. Looking in the E2K10 console for the users with this issue (and it's only two users, it works for most others) if I go to recipient configuration/Mailbox the option to manage mobile phone is there but when choosing that option there's no device listed. (Other users the option lists the device, or the manage mobile phone is not listed as an option). It's as if a mobile device gets partially associated with their account. Ideas anyone? Maybe PowerShell is needed to strip some partial association? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: small office and branches setup
Yes they do. Backup exec.cloud -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: small office and branches setup Only because Veritas doesn't have a cloud backup. :) -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: small office and branches setup Yeah, back it up with Carbonite! :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Subject: RE: small office and branches setup +1 Maintaining 3 home remote vpn tunnels sounds like a nightmare. Sync the dropbox to a local machine at the home office...back that up. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Strange SBS2011 migration path, looking for some input
What a mess. SBS 2011 Essentials will not support Exchange. That's why he has it installed on another box. It looks like Essentials was installed to replace an old DC and try to update the network. But that's in the past now. I would plan to install a new version of SBS 2011 Premium based on the number of servers. You get the rights for 2 physical boxes (and SQL) and can virtualize some of the other servers on the second box. What are the specs for the latest box you plan on installing SBS 2011 Standard on? What are the other 7 servers doing and can they be combined and virtualized? You will need SBS 2011 Standard and the appropriate number of CALs. None of the CALs they have now are valid for SBS 2011. David is right in that you can do a swing migration. You will need another server for this. Will one of the others work temporarily? Is the rest of the network, AD, users, etc. OK or do they look iffy also? If so I would be inclined to start from scratch and build it so you know exactly what you have. I know it's a pain but you could export the PST files. That should cover most of their Exchange data. Unless they are using Public Folders. If the client is growing, this might be a good time to start over with a good base and review existing policies and build it to match the client's needs and expectations. Art -Original Message- From: James R. Costa, MCP [mailto:james.co...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Strange SBS2011 migration path, looking for some input Hi everyone, I recently started doing some work for a new referral client. Their old IT guy of many years has done some crazy things in his time and it is now my job to resolve it! I'm sure most of us have been there. This network currently consists of 8 servers - 7 of them are Win2K Svr. or Win2K3 Ent. - and the newest hardware is running SBS2011 Essentials. The functional domain roles (PDC, Schema, GC, etc.) are all running on the SBS2011 box, as is DNS, however Exchange is not. It is running in a VMware Workstation VM, on Win2K3. Also, it's not the Exchange 2010 that comes with SBS2011, it's Exchange 2003. Yeah... My original goal was to migrate all the services to the one SBS2011 box and retire the rest of the unnecessary servers. However, I am now realizing that the SBS2011 installation seems to be corrupted. I can't add DHCP without it crashing, it thinks it's not Genuine (it is), and it frequently pops up an error about activation not being possible and to re-install. And if those weren't decent reasons to re-install, here's another one. They are bursting at the seams with users and anticipate exceeding the 25 concurrent user maximum of SBS2011 Essentials within the next 3 months. So they'll need to step up to SBS2011 Standard. There is no upgrade path between these products AFAIK. So I'm looking for a little input on what might be the best procedure to do this. How can I funnel the domain/AD from SBS2011 Essentials and the Exchange 2003 data into a single install of SBS2011 Standard? And of course, this is their only dependable server, and as always, they need as little downtime as possible. This seems a bit tricky, since they ultimately will need to be back on the same box. Any thoughts on migration strategies for this one? Thanks in advance for your input. I have an idea that might work but I'm just not 100% sure. And it would probably be hell to get there. Thanks so much!! -James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Strange SBS2011 migration path, looking for some input
From your description I thought it was a mess. Calling it backwards is being polite. :-) Yes, the new server is powerful enough. I was afraid based on the other machines it had like 4 or 8 gig for memory. That's was one beefy box to run SBS 2011 Essentials. They must have had ideas for that box. If you decide to go the swing migration path and by a kit, help is usually close by with either a call to Jeff or a question to the forum group. It's not hard to do, it just takes time and patience. And hope like heck you don't run into any issues. As for the PSTs, what is the current size of the Exchange 2003 database? With Exchange 2003 SP2 you could raise the database limit to 75 GB. With a few users in the 20-25 GB size, what does everyone else have? Are you sure the other Exchange boxes aren't being used? Ouch! As for the issues of exporting the PSTs those large ones will take time to both export and then import. For the most part my experience has been good but there have been issues exporting large PSTs. Mostly from the computer breaking or having issues. What versions of Outlook are they using? Newer versions will be better than Outlook 2003. And I'm sure they need everything that is stored in them also. From this extra information I'm more inclined to start fresh. Visiting each of the workstations will be a pain but it also gives you a chance to gauge each system's performance and make recommendations. I'll bet each one could use some serious cleaning. Another thought, depending on how much time you want to use towards discovery, would be to use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit to pull an inventory of the desktops. This could give you a rough idea of what is on each workstation. Another idea would be to keep the best older leftover server and use it as another DC and extra storage or backup. But from the descriptions, maybe not. Do you have a boat. It sounds like you have a choice if you need a new anchor. Art -Original Message- From: James R. Costa, MCP [mailto:james.co...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Strange SBS2011 migration path, looking for some input A mess, indeed. Thanks for your input Art. I must have been thinking of SBS2011 Standard when I wrote about not using newer Exchange... was kinda braindead yesterday. You would think Essentials was installed to replace a DC... but it was just added to the mess. While it's a great idea to virtualize those old servers, it's pretty pointless in this case. They shouldn't be there in the first place. There were a total of 6 DCs in the 8 servers for about 23 users, Exchange installed on 3 boxes, only really running on the one VM though. Basically anything they are doing can be combined on one server. Their whole system is pretty backwards right now. I'm thinking SBS 2011 Standard with appropriate user CALs is still the right choice for them. The box it would be installed on is a Dell Poweredge R710, 2x 6-core Xeon w/ HT, 32GB RAM, 6x 2TB/7.2k in RAID5. SO it definitely has the horsepower and capacity they need. All of the other servers are running Win2K/Win2K3 on effectively junk hardware... OLD Compaq ML530 Pentium III Xeon (160lbs.), Pentium Dual-Core whitebox, etc. There is one older-gen Intel whitebox server that could be used for a swing migration. Although I'm still up in the air about which path to take. I could do a swing to that other box, although I have never done one before, and at the same time, I'm inclined to start fresh and visit every workstation to disjoin/rejoin to make sure everything is configured properly. I will check on the public folders. Exporting their mail to PST will be interesting too, as some of the users have mailboxes that are 20-25GB in size. Would you foresee any issues in exporting mailboxes of that size? Thanks again for your input!! James What a mess. SBS 2011 Essentials will not support Exchange. That's why he has it installed on another box. It looks like Essentials was installed to replace an old DC and try to update the network. But that's in the past now. I would plan to install a new version of SBS 2011 Premium based on the number of servers. You get the rights for 2 physical boxes (and SQL) and can virtualize some of the other servers on the second box. What are the specs for the latest box you plan on installing SBS 2011 Standard on? What are the other 7 servers doing and can they be combined and virtualized? You will need SBS 2011 Standard and the appropriate number of CALs. None of the CALs they have now are valid for SBS 2011. David is right in that you can do a swing migration. You will need another server for this. Will one of the others work temporarily? Is the rest of the network, AD, users, etc. OK or do they look iffy also? If so I would be inclined to start from scratch and build it so you know exactly what you have. I know
RE: Fax Server Solution Redux
I'll second the FACSys software. http://www.solgenia.com/collaboration-apps/solgenia-facsys I have it at clients that range from small to a Fortune 100 company. Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile -Original Message- From: Jim [mailto:jim@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Fax Server Solution Redux We're a medium-ish multi-location healthcare company and we're looking to replace all of our POTS fax machines (100 +) with a Fax server solution. I've been investigating numerous vendors, most of whom I found through old posts here. Those posts are from 2009 and before and I'm wondering if anyone has any recent or long term experience with any of them. The vendors I'm looking at include: RightFax, iFAX, FaxBack and Biscom. We're looking at a virtual server solution, which most appear to support, as well as Exchange/AD support. - Jim Terryberry ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows InTune
Andrew, I think we are talking two different things here. True, Windows Server Datacenter 2008 R2, which I think you are talking about, is licensed per processor, minimum of two processors. I was making reference to the Server Management Licenses for System Center 2012 that Richard was asking about. The System Center 2012 Datacenter ML covers up to two physical processors. Based on Brian's example of 3 dual socket hosts he showed 6 Datacenter MLs being needed. Talking about System Center 2012 management Licenses here not the operating system. The correct answer is 3 Datacenter MLs are needed. One for each dual socket host. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Nope... DataCenter is generally licenses per socket. So, if you have a machine with 2 sockets in use, that means 2 DataCenter licenses. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: Brian, Don't you mean you need 3 Datacenter MLs? One for each of the dual socket hosts. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 7:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune It's actually reasonably straight forward. All of the System Center licensing is now rolled together into one big management license [ML]. You either license it for servers or clients. In the case of servers, for virtualization, you would likely want the Datacenter ML on a processor basis based on how many physical VM host CPUs you have. Each Datacenter ML gets you two physical CPUs. So if you have 3 dual socket hosts, you need 6 Datacenter MLs. See http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/0/870B5D9B-ACF1-4192-BD0A-543AF5 51B7AE/System%20Center%202012%20Licensing%20FAQ.pdf http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/0/870B5D9B-ACF1-4192-BD0A-543AF55 1B7AE/System%20Center%202012%20Licensing%20FAQ.pdf You'll want to stand up an SCVMM server to manage HyperV and/or ESX. I found the install and figuring it out to be pretty painless. It includes its own SQL license of sort so you don't have to pay extra for that. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Which, apropos of nothing, reminds me of a recent conversation with the boss. We were talking about our virtualization infrastructure since our VMware licenses are up for renewal at the end of this month. He asked me if we should go with MS and the newest version of Hyper-V on Server 2012 instead of VMware. Long story short, I can't get a conversion done in a week, and Server 2012 isn't going to be generally available until September 4th anyway, so it's a non-starter for the moment. Next year, however... The question I have is how in the heck do I compare the direct costs of licensing ESX(i) and Hyper-V 2012. Obviously I know my annual VMware costs, and I think the Hyper-V bits are actually 'free'[1] in that they are baked into the OS, but it's the System Center licensing that I really don't understand. SCVMM? SCThis? SCThat? SCEssentials? SCWTF_Do_I really_need? If there is a concise guide out there about licensing this stuff for a pure Hyper-V-only environment, I would definitely appreciate a pointer. Thanks, as always, RS [1] I've got current VL versions of Server 2012 Datacenter that I could/will use if moving away from VMware. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Maintaining full capabilities without internet connectivity. Full capabilities without additional Internet-based licensing. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Yeah.I have my reasons for some level of concern, but what's yours? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Which scares the crap outta me. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune What exactly do you want to know? InTune has come a long way in a short time and does a great job. And, Microsoft is investing heavily in the future of InTune, and will eventually marry ConfigMgr and InTune. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:48 PM
RE: Windows InTune
Brian, Don’t you mean you need 3 Datacenter MLs? One for each of the dual socket hosts. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 7:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune It’s actually reasonably straight forward. All of the System Center licensing is now rolled together into one big “management license [ML]”. You either license it for servers or clients. In the case of servers, for virtualization, you would likely want the Datacenter ML on a processor basis based on how many physical VM host CPUs you have. Each Datacenter ML gets you two physical CPUs. So if you have 3 dual socket hosts, you need 6 Datacenter MLs. See http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/0/870B5D9B-ACF1-4192-BD0A-543AF551B7AE/System%20Center%202012%20Licensing%20FAQ.pdf http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/0/870B5D9B-ACF1-4192-BD0A-543AF551B7AE/System%20Center%202012%20Licensing%20FAQ.pdf You’ll want to stand up an SCVMM server to manage HyperV and/or ESX. I found the install and figuring it out to be pretty painless. It includes its own SQL license of sort so you don’t have to pay extra for that. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Which, apropos of nothing, reminds me of a recent conversation with the boss. We were talking about our virtualization infrastructure since our VMware licenses are up for renewal at the end of this month. He asked me if we should go with MS and the newest version of Hyper-V on Server 2012 instead of VMware. Long story short, I can't get a conversion done in a week, and Server 2012 isn't going to be generally available until September 4th anyway, so it's a non-starter for the moment. Next year, however... The question I have is how in the heck do I compare the direct costs of licensing ESX(i) and Hyper-V 2012. Obviously I know my annual VMware costs, and I think the Hyper-V bits are actually 'free'[1] in that they are baked into the OS, but it's the System Center licensing that I really don't understand. SCVMM? SCThis? SCThat? SCEssentials? SCWTF_Do_I really_need? If there is a concise guide out there about licensing this stuff for a pure Hyper-V-only environment, I would definitely appreciate a pointer. Thanks, as always, RS [1] I've got current VL versions of Server 2012 Datacenter that I could/will use if moving away from VMware. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Maintaining full capabilities without internet connectivity. Full capabilities without additional Internet-based licensing. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Yeah…I have my reasons for some level of concern, but what’s yours? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Which scares the crap outta me. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune What exactly do you want to know? InTune has come a long way in a short time and does a great job. And, Microsoft is investing heavily in the future of InTune, and will eventually marry ConfigMgr and InTune. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows InTune We're seeing a greater need for something like Windows InTune for about 10-15 machines that rarely touch our network. Currently, we have no way to manage these machines and assure they're receiving Microsoft, Adobe, Java, or other updates. VIPRE does report home, however, so at least that aspect is covered. Any comments regarding InTune usage results or evaluations would be helpful. TIA... Roger Wright ___ Geocaching: Hide, Hunt, Find Repeat - It's FUN! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: iPhone 4S/IOS 5/Exchange 2010
Does the phone have all the updates applied? Had something similar and after updating the phone it connected. Is Wi-Fi on? Turn it off and try again. Yeah, another quirky thing from Apple. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iPhone 4S/IOS 5/Exchange 2010 A client has some iPhones 4 devices that connect to their Exchange server fine. I have one user with a brand-new phone that I enter the Exchange setup into and the set puts little checks to verify the account works, but when switching to the iPhone e-mail application and trying to send an e-mail it times out and gives the message The connection to the server failed. If I go to the Exchange 2010 server and disable ActiveSync on this account, the Exchange acct setup on the phone does indeed fail at account verification, so that seems to tell me his phone is getting to the server once I re-enable Active Sync. Where do I start at troubleshooting this? Is there anything on the iPhone? Is there some PS stiff I can run on the E2K10 server to see the login requests? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: [semi-OT] LinkSys router UI mockups
It's been a while but we had something like that when I was teaching CCNA classes for the Cisco Networking Academy. Students were able to enter commands into the device as they tried to configure the router or switch. It was a way for them to practice if they were not in the class, or the lab or dialed in to the rack at their scheduled time. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile -Original Message- From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [semi-OT] LinkSys router UI mockups While on the subject... I seem to recall reading about virtual Cisco devices that could be used to simulate the real thing for educational purposes. Does that ring a bell with anyone? Daniel Chenault dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [semi-OT] LinkSys router UI mockups On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: I figure this might come in handy for many: Cisco has published mockups of all their SOHO router configuration web user interfaces. http://ui.linksys.com/ So when you boss/coworker/friend/family/etc. calls asking for help getting their home Internet connection working again, you can follow along and tell them exactly what to click. Here's the latest firmware for the classic WRT54G, for example: http://ui.linksys.com/files/WRT54G/v1-v4/4.20.7/ Nice. Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2
In addition to Andrew's questions. How many offices are there? Do they need resources from the main office? How is email handled? As for what else you get with SBS, maybe you should spend a little time here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/Windows-Small-Business-Server/ed itions.aspx. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2 Independent as in their own domain? Or just independent in terms of the other functions? (file sharing, local DNS, etc) So far, I'm not seeing any value to having SBS here. So far... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: Server will just be for the usual DC, DNS, DHCP, file sharing and WSUS. They will have no more than 20 per office and each office will be setup independent of each other. What other bells and whistles you get with SBS? The user doesn't want to invest in additional money for a backup solution so I'll be using windows server backup. Are they the same versions? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2 What will the server be used for? How many users? Etc... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: I'm getting ready to purchase a few licenses for a client. The main difference I see between the two OS's is SBS includes Exchange. The down side is SBS requires much more resources as seen from my lab. If there are no plans for on premise exchange, should I be going with Server 2008 R2? Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2
Ben, I will have to disagree with you on this. In my experience I haven't had many issues with the different SBSs compared to regular Windows Server. Each has its place and I agree it will depend on the individual client's needs. Yes the wizards are an issue with a lot of people but think of it as a way to configure the server consistently. Is it that much different from someone that runs a batch of scripts setting up a server? Couldn't running those scripts be called wizards? As for failing in weird ways I'm sure David Lum can attest to the fact of what happens when you try to admin a SBS box like a regular Windows Server box. Right Dave? :-) Art -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2 On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: Im getting ready to purchase a few licenses for a client. The main difference I see between the two OSs is SBS includes Exchange. The down side is SBS requires much more resources as seen from my lab. If there are no plans for on premise exchange, should I be going with Server 2008 R2? While I haven't touched it in literally years, I've always tried to stay away from SBS. There are various licensing constraints (e.g., must be a DC holding the FSMO roles) that can cause artificial headaches. Worse, there are a bunch of wizards and canned configuration and other things designed to help you, and if you deviate from the SBS way of doing things, they can fail in weird ways. SBS mainly seems to be designed for a small company that mostly does their own IT but shouldn't. So if this client is one of those (mostly does their own IT, but shouldn't) SBS may be appropriate. But if their IT is handled by clueful IT professionals, I would steer clear. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2
SharePoint comes in two versions, free, SharePoint Foundation Server, and paid, SharePoint Server. SharePoint Foundation most likely will handle all their needs. For server 2008 R2 you have to configure SharePoint from scratch, while with SBS, SharePoint is setup for you with the basics as part of Setup. From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2 Each will have their own domain. Is sharepoint an additional license for server 2008 and SBS? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2 Independent as in their own domain? Or just independent in terms of the other functions? (file sharing, local DNS, etc) So far, I'm not seeing any value to having SBS here. So far... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: Server will just be for the usual DC, DNS, DHCP, file sharing and WSUS. They will have no more than 20 per office and each office will be setup independent of each other. What other bells and whistles you get with SBS? The user doesn't want to invest in additional money for a backup solution so I'll be using windows server backup. Are they the same versions? From: Andrew S Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2 What will the server be used for? How many users? Etc... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: I'm getting ready to purchase a few licenses for a client. The main difference I see between the two OS's is SBS includes Exchange. The down side is SBS requires much more resources as seen from my lab. If there are no plans for on premise exchange, should I be going with Server 2008 R2? Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Machine name with $ sign as username
Why is it unusual? I still have a few locations that have SBS2003 with an additional server and Windows 7 clients working with no problem. If I understand you correctly you have the two servers, both are Domain Controllers, and you created user accounts on both servers? That sounds like you have 2 different domains, not one. The answers given to you are still correct for resetting the secure channel. But it sounds like you have other issues there that need to be fixed. From: Sharie Breaux [mailto:sharielbre...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Machine name with $ sign as username Thanks everyone for your responses - just now getting back to the thread. We have an unusual configuration at our office. We have our main server (Windows 2003 Server Std) for which we log into that domain and authenticate. We then have another server for our Exchange which is a Small Business Server 2003 (cost-saving). I set up each user on both servers with the same username and password. I miss-spoke when I said it was not our domain controller, because you are right, the very fact that the machine is SBS, it is a domain controller. This scenario has been working fine for about 4 years, untill I got a Windows 7 Pro machine. With this new information, do any of your suggestions change? On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: In ADUC you can right click a computer object and Reset Account I usually have better luck removing a computer account from the domain and re-joining it. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com http://www.guardianlife.com/ From:Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:04/09/2012 02:22 PM Subject:Re: Machine name with $ sign as username _ In the NT4 days, nltest was the way to reset it...I have no idea how its done now ---Blackberried -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 18:16:00 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: Machine name with $ sign as username And the error generally means that the secure channel between the machine and the domain controller has failed. -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [ mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Machine name with $ sign as username That's the computer account in the domain. When the computer needs to authenticate, that's the account it uses --Original Message-- From: Sharie Breaux To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Machine name with $ sign as username Sent: 9 Apr 2012 18:59 What program or sevice uses the machine name with a dollar sign as the username? Background: I have a Small Business Server 2003 machine that is not our domain controller. It is our mail server. In the event viewer under the Security tab, there is a failure audit being logged every 30 minutes; Event ID 529; Logon Process: NtLmSsp This is being caused by my machine (Windows 7 Pro) with the username as [machine name]$ How do I troubleshoot this? What other information do you need to help me? Thanks in advance! Sharie ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ---Blackberried ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally,
RE: Machine name with $ sign as username
The problem with removing the computer from the domain to reset the secure channel and rejoining it is the computer gets a new SID and any groups it might belong to are no longer valid. And you have a few reboots in there. Try this in an elevated command prompt. Type: nltest /Server:ServerName /SC_Reset:Domain\DomainController No reboot needed and it preserves the SID because you do not do a rejoin. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Machine name with $ sign as username You can still use nltest. Or netdom. Or remove the computer from AD and immediately rejoin it. -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Machine name with $ sign as username In the NT4 days, nltest was the way to reset it...I have no idea how its done now ---Blackberried -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 18:16:00 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: Machine name with $ sign as username And the error generally means that the secure channel between the machine and the domain controller has failed. -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Machine name with $ sign as username That's the computer account in the domain. When the computer needs to authenticate, that's the account it uses --Original Message-- From: Sharie Breaux To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Machine name with $ sign as username Sent: 9 Apr 2012 18:59 What program or sevice uses the machine name with a dollar sign as the username? Background: I have a Small Business Server 2003 machine that is not our domain controller. It is our mail server. In the event viewer under the Security tab, there is a failure audit being logged every 30 minutes; Event ID 529; Logon Process: NtLmSsp This is being caused by my machine (Windows 7 Pro) with the username as [machine name]$ How do I troubleshoot this? What other information do you need to help me? Thanks in advance! Sharie ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ---Blackberried ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Win7 in VM, pricing, and Action Pack.
In order to run Windows 7 in a VM you need a Windows 7 license. I don't believe there is a distinction between physical and virtual keys like there are for servers. Microsoft includes the XPMode virtual license in Windows 7 but that's all. You're right the Action Pack includes 10 upgrade licenses. They are for upgrading qualified operating systems. In your example, the 10 'Nix boxes wouldn't qualified. As long as you have the qualified operating system around you're good. If I remember correctly, running Windows 7 in a VM for businesses is a benefit of Software Assurance. Yes I'm being lazy and not looking it up as I am supposed to be doing something else right now. Having said that I think you can install one of your 10 Windows 7 licenses in a VM. This is because Internal-use software licenses may be used for internal business needs. If you still feel leery use your TechNet for Action Pack subscription and download one of your 10 RETAIL licenses. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 7:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 in VM, pricing, and Action Pack. So. for %ownbusiness% I have an MS Action Pack subscription which gives me 10 upgrade licenses of Windows 7, but what I want is to run Win7 in a VM, but the Action Pack licensing (as I read it) doesn't allow it. While I could have 10 physical 'Nix boxes and legitimately upgrade all ten to Windows 7, the licensing doesn't allow P2V of said systems. Looking at pricing, full retail of non-OEM, non-upgrade Win7 is $299. I find it hard to believe anyone really pays that much to VM Windows 7 (at %dayjob% we're a non-profit so what we pay is drastically lower than retail). Anyone have any idea how I can legitimately VM a single Win7 Pro OS and not pay $300 for it, or am I stuck paying that? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Favorite corporate PCs?
There are a few white box notebook distributors out there. Most of them use the Intel notebook spec for the business class laptops. Intel even has an Ultrabook reference design. There are a few other business class laptops out there. All are made by the same ODMs that build the laptops for everyone else. I'll rant on this topic a little as I have also BTDT and still do. I am a local reseller and builder that focuses on business and I have been doing this for a long time. The 20th anniversary of the business is later this year. I have also heard and argued the local vs. national. It depends on the reseller you choose to work with. I can match and sometimes exceed what is offered by the others. It depends on what they want and are willing to pay for. My business class desktop is based on the Intel V-Pro boards. All the servers are Intel server boards. The Intel boards have been extremely reliable for me. Hard drives have their ups and downs also. I focus on the SMB market so I don't have to concern myself with hundreds of new builds in a short time. Not my market or focus. I have been fortunate in that I am still in business through all that has happened in the past few years. I want to believe that part of the reason is because of the extra service I provide to my customers. Will I always be here. No. But when I decide to call it quits I'll make sure all my customers are covered. Art From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Favorite corporate PCs? How many whitebox notebook makers? On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com wrote: How many workstations do you refresh per year? 1/3 of the workstations/laptops? How many is that? Are you paying for 4 hour support or NBD support for workstations and laptops? On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:21 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I've had both refurb and NIB parts shipped but really, if they are still under warranty who cares. it may be cheaper up front but when you figure in downtime (and all of my Dell parts are either there that day or first thing the next AM) for dozens or even hundreds of staff for hours or days not to mention the 24/7 support then suddenly it isn't quite the savings you thought. It's a business case, do you need cheap equipment to get you up and running or do you need to minimize the impact on your overworked staff. Can I build a whitebox cheaper, sure, I do it at home but when it comes to doing hundreds of machines during a refresh it just doesn't pay. Labor in Mexico is WAY cheaper than my time. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 tel:%28352%29%20244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 tel:%28352%29%20215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Cynicalgeek [mailto:cynicalg...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Favorite corporate PCs? I've been on both sides of this over the past 17 years and have heard all of the question answer sessions before. Go with a local business who has a good reputation and uses either true Intel boards or ASUS boards. Is Dell's tech support/replacement part solution that wonderful that justifies the overpriced computer? Have you *EVER* gotten a replacement part from Dell that wasn't s refurb? I had servers on Gold or Platinum support and when a RAID array drive is sent out for replacement it is a refurb. Does that seem fair to you? On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:59 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Local business go out of business at inopportune times and there is much more to the vendor relationship with Dell than just buying a box. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Cynicalgeek [mailto:cynicalg...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 01:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Favorite corporate PCs? Why not support a local business instead of buying overpriced Dell computers? On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: We purchase a number of PCs each month as part of a rotation cycle. I've been a Dell customer for years, but lately don't think Dell has been offering the best price we can get (we are non-profit and state/GSA, although non-profit pricing is usually better). So I'm looking around. For desktops I'm not too picky as long as specs are similar. HP? Lenovo? Big Lots? Thanks, Tom Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please
RE: SBS2003 to SBS2011 upgrade
For the firewall you're going to get several suggestions. There are those by Fortinet, Sonicwall, Watchguard and similar. Then there is Untangle and a few others that I can't think of right now. As for the upgrade my experience has been YMMV. Most have gone well but there have been a few Usually the problem is on the SBS 2003 side with something being a little off. Make sure you double-check everything on the source side (SBS 2003) is clean and passes all the tests. Get rid of any old things that are not needed. Have a couple of backups for just in case issues. Remember you have 21 days to finish. When you start the migration there will be tests done to make sure everything is good. Any errors need to be fixed. There are three ways I have seen this migration done. The Microsoft way following their docs, doing the Swing Migration by Jeff Middleton and starting from scratch and create a new domain. The create new depends on how many users and how clean the current setup is. Sometimes it's nice to just start from the beginning. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS2003 to SBS2011 upgrade I realize that. But I don't think it's supported on SBS2011, even with a separate purchase. Cusomer does not want to furnish a separate server for TMG. So I'm curious about other alternatives for Small businesses... thinking of a cheap firewall device? Original Message: - From: Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:02:41 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: SBS2003 to SBS2011 upgrade They replaced ISA with Forefront. Take look at that. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:59 AM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.com wrote: Looking for input from anyone familiar with a SBS2003 to SBS2011 upgrade. I know SBS2011 doesn't come with ISA/TMG firewall anymore, and the current SBS2003 server is using that so I need a suitable replacement for ISA/TMG. Customer doesn't want to spend money on a separate TMG software package and a server to put it on so... Maybe a small firewall appliance? Their current SBS2003 box is mainly just their firewall, file/print, and Exchange 2003 server. Also curious about any gotchas involved in the 2003-2011 upgrade I need to know about ahead of time while planning this? Thanks J myhosting.com - Premium MicrosoftR WindowsR and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- -cynicalgeek- cynicalgeekatgmail.com -- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Another tablets question
Based on info from an Microsoft System Center 2012 training event Tues. and Wed. and reading between the lines since Windows 8 is still in beta, Not right now but we will have something shortly when Windows 8 ships. I think we all know they will. It's a matter of when the updates will be available to us. From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Another tablets question I agree on waiting until later in the year when Win 8 lands, if possible. There will be more choices then and hopefully much better management tools (I'm hoping SCCM 2012 will be able to manage Win 8 devices (including Win 8 phones).. Rod?) From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 24 February 2012 6:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Another tablets question Certain people in upper management have them. They gave one to our CEO but he grew frustrated with it and gave it back. It does do email really well and they have the Citrix receiver and such for 'work' stuff but he found to do any serious work through the receiver was frustrating and kept his laptop. Personally, I am waiting until this fall/winter to take my plunge in tablet land (and cannot wait until Consumer Preview release next week to nuke and reload my home machine). One of our VMware sales people used to do this 'iPad theater' when he came in to the meetings. he would get his iPad out with the case and set it up with his keyboard, then connect to his iPhone and hit the back end VDI solution so he could 'take notes'. So I started giving him ads to latops and ATT wireless recievers that were cheaper then his solution so eventually he stoped making it a production. 1. iPad battery life! (you just asked for an outlet for your iPhone cause it's battery was dying) 2. weight (you are carrying an additional keyboard) 3. cost (you are ignoring the backend license costs) 4. convienience (soft keyboard takes up half the screen which is the only size option and I see you squinting, a lot) We spend a lot of money on VMware but sometimes they don't listen well to what our goals are so need reminders. Of course, that is often true for any vendor. NOTE: I freely admit there are scenerios where his use case does work, however, in our enviornment it only does so for a very small percentage of users at this time so I feel free to have fun with vendors. They do play back. :) I believe we have something frmo Good Technologies to manage data on them. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Hi All, I'm about to purchase a few tablets for testing. I already have an iPad and it works fine for accessing e-mail (I use NotifyLink to deliver e-mail and calendaring to phones/tablets) as well as using the Citrix agent for accessing our XenApp resources. Anyone have any suggestions for others? I understand the Galaxy and Xoom are pretty good. Important to me are management for business, ease of use for the end user, ease of management, and features for the corporate user. I'm not sure how the iPads can be easily managed in the corporate world either. I'd really like a tablet that could somehow log into my AD network and access file resources, too. Connection to our A/V systems for projector use would be a bonus. Comments and suggestions welcome. Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board office: 757-788-0528 mobile: 757-503-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a
RE: SBS swing - don't feel my pain
About the SBS OU structure, for the most part that's true. But as you experienced, changing the default structure caused you lost time and aggravation. What if a future patch or service pack broke something because of your change? Most of us that have been working with SBS over all the versions learned long ago to leave the default structure alone and create new OUs as needed. As for the Wizards, use the Wizards. That's what they are there for. To help you in doing your job efficiently and consistently. How many admins have created scripts to aid them in doing their job better? Same thing here. The SBS group spent a lot of time finding ways to help make our jobs easier. SBS is not aimed at shops that aren't necessarily server types. (Well maybe with the exception of SBS 2011 Essentials, but that's a different story.) That's a misnomer that keeps being spread by those who truly don't get the product. Like Mike Hoffman said, and in my experience also, these server types are the ones that cause a lot of their own trouble. Because they think they know better. Sure business owners have messed up. But not to the extent of others. Delicate mode/ In following your trials and issues with SBS over time, maybe you should use the Wizards more and stop treating your SBS Servers like regular Windows Servers. There are differences that need to be understood. And for your analogy of default install locations of applications, your generally talking about one application having some of its defaults changed. Yes there can be trouble with the changes. Changing the defaults in SBS doesn't just affect the OS, it can possibly affect Exchange, SharePoint, WSUS, etc. if not done correctly. Best to use what they gave you. Delicate mode off/ Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS swing - don't feel my pain I don't think SBS OU structure matters unless you're doing a swing. Well.SBS has create new user and other wizards that may break, as the product it's aimed at shops with folks that aren't necessarily server types, so I'm sure if one wanted to use the wizards they'd break if you start moving things around. For better or worse I don't use the SBS wizards, but maybe I'll try out the 2011 ones. It's kind of akin to changing the default install locations of an application - in general only the more savvy types will change the defaults, and I have run into an app or two over the years that REQUIRED an application (or portion thereof) to be in a specific location. In fact THAT has happened enough that except for some server apps I do leave the defaults. Even then on servers it's usually just changing the drive letter and keeping the remainder of the default structure intact. Dave From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS swing - don't feel my pain Interesting. so is there documentation out there somewhere out there that dictates what you can and cannot change in the OU structure? -Paul From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS swing - don't feel my pain Thought you guys might like to know this one: After a few days of my SBS2K3 -- SBS2K11 upgrade swing testing bombing out, we (OK, sbsmigration.com ) figured out the fix and I thought you guys might benefit from my pain. Seriously, I have probably 30 hours in the last week/weekend invested in troubleshooting this one issue, but 28 of them Is because I was determined to figure it out myself before opening a ticket with sbsmigratin.com. Hey, I wasn't in a time crunch and I was sure I could figure it out. Short version: An 2003 Domain controller (effectively a 2nd DC from an SBS domain) is the source for an SBS2011 server - the 2011 server migration setup performs a scripted DCPROMO, Exchange 2010 install, and SharePoint install (and a few other things). During the SBS2011 build, it needs to know name, IP, domain admin account, etc so it can do all this. In my test environment the server would complete the DCPROMO and Exchange install, but toward the VERY end of a 90 minute install it would basically GPF (not bluescreen, just an error popup sating SBS2011 install could not complete. Now - SBS servers are a little special as they set up the OU structure slightly different out of the box than a standard server, but your free to rearrange as you see fit. Except. Doing troubleshooting, it turns out all my pain was caused by my OU structure having this (FYI My Business is an SBS-created OU): My Business Exchange Resources Distribution Groups Instead of this My Business Distribution Groups Seriously, that's it. The error log created by SBS2011 install complains about a SharePoint Service not being able to
RE: Hyper-V Design Questions
3. Good news on the existing physical DC. Helps for when you need to reboot the new server with the 4 VMs. Redundancy is a good thing. 4. Since you have 6 NICs available and are not planning to cluster anything now I think I would use 1 NIC for the management of the host and 2 NICs for the 4 VMs. You could put VM1 and VM2 on one and VM3 and VM4 on the other. Or 1 NIC for VM1 and the other NIC gets VM 2,3 and 4. The theory there being they hit the RDS server and access the EMR application and SQL. Since you say traffic is light you could go a couple of different ways and adjust after viewing your performance metrics. 6. Generally speaking, however a server was to be configured on a physical box applies to a virtual one. So I think having the SQL logs and data on separate partitions is better. If the vendor supporting the database feels the traffic is light and the performance impact is low that having the logs and data on the same partition won’t be an issue, I would go with their recommendation. Again it can be changed if their initial assessment turns out to be inaccurate. Only time and usage will tell. 15 light users can turn into 15 heavy users and performance could suffer. I’m curious about their concerns on recoverability. It’s not like you don’t have redundancy and backup built into your plan. I would leave your storage as you have it. Two RAID 1 partitions and one RAID5. First RAID 1- host OS and two VMs. Second RAID1- File data and two VMs. SQL data and logs on the RAID5. Art From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-V Design Questions Thank you Art for your input! The answers to your questions are below. Michael Walker Senior Network Engineer Citrus Valley Health Partners 140 W. College Street, Covina, CA 91723 Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882 mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org mwal...@mail.cvhp.org From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [SPAM] RE: Hyper-V Design Questions Just some general questions and observations. 1. The Hyper-V host server can legally only run the Hyper-V role. So no you can’t move AD and File Print Services to the host. Ok. 2. Are the virtual servers all new servers or replacing existing servers? All are new. 3. Do you have other AD servers in the network? Generally it is best to have a physical server running AD with additional virtual AD server being OK. There is one existing 2008 R2 64-Bit Server running AD, File Print and Remote Desktop Services. Two of the new VMs would add redundancy. 4. How many NICs are you planning for the server? I have 6 NICs - My plan was to use 1 for the host and just 1 for all the VMs or would it be better to give each VM it's own NIC? 5. If these are existing servers, what kind of utilization do they have currently? Utilization is light. There are only 8 users currently, will grow to 15 with the new server and SQL App. Most all will be connecting via RDP. 6. Your first RAID 1 configuration (300GB) doesn’t make sense. You show 300 for system, 60 for host OS and 240 for 3 VMs. (3 x 80) That adds to 600 by my math. So to answer your second question, No I don’t agree with your storage configuration. J Or are you just saying that this is the system partition and it will be used as 60 and 240. I meant 300 total for the RAID Set to be divied up between the OS (60) and the VMs (240). The problem though is 240 GB is not sufficient for all the VMs. I am thinking of changing the storage config to two RAID 5 Arrays - 3x300 + 6x300 + 1 Global Hot Spare. The first RAID Array would be for the OS VMs. The second array would be for the File Data SQL Data. I spoke with the software vendor who will be supporting the SQL Database and they wanted the SQL log files to be located on the same partition as the SQL Data… They said for this small site, performance wasn't an issue and they were concerned about recoverability. 7. Is the SQL data partition configured for growth? Meaning what is the initial use of that 1.2 TB and how long before it gets full. The SQL Data Partition is configured for growth. I do not know the actual size but I am guessing 1.2 TB should last at least 3-5 years. I have 6 open drive bays for expansion if necessary. I’m sure others will have other questions. Art From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V Design Questions Hi All, I have very limited experience with Hyper-V and am about to do my first install. Below is a descirption of my requirements and a proposed configuration. My
RE: Hyper-V Design Questions
Just some general questions and observations. 1. The Hyper-V host server can legally only run the Hyper-V role. So no you can't move AD and File Print Services to the host. 2. Are the virtual servers all new servers or replacing existing servers? 3. Do you have other AD servers in the network? Generally it is best to have a physical server running AD with additional virtual AD server being OK. 4. How many NICs are you planning for the server? 5. If these are existing servers, what kind of utilization do they have currently? 6. Your first RAID 1 configuration (300GB) doesn't make sense. You show 300 for system, 60 for host OS and 240 for 3 VMs. (3 x 80) That adds to 600 by my math. So to answer your second question, No I don't agree with your storage configuration. J Or are you just saying that this is the system partition and it will be used as 60 and 240. 7. Is the SQL data partition configured for growth? Meaning what is the initial use of that 1.2 TB and how long before it gets full. I'm sure others will have other questions. Art From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V Design Questions Hi All, I have very limited experience with Hyper-V and am about to do my first install. Below is a descirption of my requirements and a proposed configuration. My two questions are at the very bottom of the email in Red. Any feedback or assistance is greatly appreciated!!! Michael Walker Senior Network Engineer Citrus Valley Health Partners 140 W. College Street, Covina, CA 91723 Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882 mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org mwal...@mail.cvhp.org Hardware Software: Dell PowerEdge T710 Dual Intel XEON X5650, 2.66Ghz, 12M Cache, Turbo HT (6 Cores per proc) 48GB RAM (12x4GB), 1333MHz Dual Ranked LV RDIMMs PERC H700 RAID Controller, 1 GB NV Cache (10) 300 GB 10K RPM SAS Drives 6GBps Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Microsoft SQL 2008 Standard Acronis Backup Recovery Virtual Edition Physical Virtual Servers: Physical Host Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM Virtual Machine 1 - AD, File Print Server Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 2 - SQL Server - MS SQL 2008 R2 Standard Minimum Requirements: 2 CPU, 24 GB RAM, 1200 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 3 - App Server - MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 4 - Remote Desktop Server - MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB HD Space Usage: There will be 15 users using RDP to access their EMR Application called MD Office. Each TS Session requires between 50 200 MB. Of the 15 Users there may be 5 using MS Office. Storage Configuration: 10 x 300GB Drives 2 x 300GB (RAID1) - 1 300 GB Virtual Drive System Partition - 300 GB Host OS - 60 GB 3 VMs - 240 GB 2 x 300GB (RAID1) - 1 300 GB Virtual Drive VM 1 Partition - 60 GB File Data Partitioin - 200 GB SQL Logs Partition - 40 GB 5 x 300GB (RAID5) - 1 1200 GB Virtual Drive SQL Data Partition - 1200 GB 1 x 300GB (Hot Spare) QUESTIONS: With the above minimum requirements in mind - 1. Would you keep VM1 for AD, File Print or would you eliminate it and run AD, File and Print on the Physical Host allowing me to use my 4th license for an additional Remote Desktop Server. 2. Do you agree with the Storage Configuration Design or would you change it? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on
That's that quite accurate. He doesn't need to purchase SBS 2011 CALs to do what I think James wants to do. If James is only interested in adding another server to his SBS 2008 environment just for RDS he would be better off just purchasing Server 2008 R2 and the additional RDS licenses as needed. If he will never need SQL. If he plans on using SQL at some future time, then the SBS 2011 Premium Pack is the better way to go. And it includes 5 Premium CALs. So if 5 or less users need access to SQL no further licenses are needed. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on I'm not sure on the RDS. I do know the Premium add-on allows you to run 2008 Server R2 and SQL 2008 on a separate VM or physical box. I am using the add-on to run 2008 R2 Hyper-V host (this is what I had excitement with last weekend), and then a 2008 R2 VM and put SQL on THAT, as well as run an SBS 2011 VM on that same physical host. You *do* need to buy SBS2011 user CAL's. I know Dell's website doesn't let you order the CAL's when ordering a SBS2011 server from their website, you have to order CAL's from them (or somewhere else) separately. Dave From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on So I've spent a rainy afternoon studying the SBS 2011 licensing faq (exciting read). http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/5/C/45CD1DC6-9204-44DD-999B-24B50A9 144B6/SBS%202011_Licensing_FAQ.pdf It states:- Q. I acquired the Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on and want to run it in an SBS Standard 2008 domain. Am I able do to so? A. Yes, beginning September 15, 2011 the licensing was updated to allow you to use the Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on in SBS 2008 domains. Am I correct in believing that I can purchase the SBS 2011 Premium Add-on (only) and install an instance of Server 2008 R2 in a SBS 2008 domain for use of RDS? I also don't need to purchase SBS 2011 user/device cals? That *seems* to be the case. If I wanted to use SQL I'd need Premium Add-on cals but in this case SQL isn't required. Ahh Microsoft licensing, always such fun. James. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on
Good point. I would have to check also if the SBS 2008 user CALs would cover connecting to the 2008 R2 server. I know a regular 2008 server would be covered. In the session I attended concerning the SBS 2011 Premium pack being used in a SBS 2008 environment the only additional CALs you needed were those over the 5 that were included for SQL. If you have 8 users accessing SQL then you needed 3 more Premium CALs. Now that I think of it they did mention to think of it as just another server being added to the network. From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on Basically I want to run RDS on a 2008 R2 box. I did price up just purchasing a 2008 R2 server license but then I also added user CAL's as I don't think the SBS 2008 user CAL's would cover connecting to the 2008R2 server? It is a bit cheaper to do this but I figured for the small amount extra I may be better off with the Premium add-on instead (if sbs 2011 cal's aren't required). Confusing? From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 1:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on That's that quite accurate. He doesn't need to purchase SBS 2011 CALs to do what I think James wants to do. If James is only interested in adding another server to his SBS 2008 environment just for RDS he would be better off just purchasing Server 2008 R2 and the additional RDS licenses as needed. If he will never need SQL. If he plans on using SQL at some future time, then the SBS 2011 Premium Pack is the better way to go. And it includes 5 Premium CALs. So if 5 or less users need access to SQL no further licenses are needed. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on I'm not sure on the RDS. I do know the Premium add-on allows you to run 2008 Server R2 and SQL 2008 on a separate VM or physical box. I am using the add-on to run 2008 R2 Hyper-V host (this is what I had excitement with last weekend), and then a 2008 R2 VM and put SQL on THAT, as well as run an SBS 2011 VM on that same physical host. You *do* need to buy SBS2011 user CAL's. I know Dell's website doesn't let you order the CAL's when ordering a SBS2011 server from their website, you have to order CAL's from them (or somewhere else) separately. Dave From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on So I've spent a rainy afternoon studying the SBS 2011 licensing faq (exciting read). http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/5/C/45CD1DC6-9204-44DD-999B-24B50A9 144B6/SBS%202011_Licensing_FAQ.pdf It states:- Q. I acquired the Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on and want to run it in an SBS Standard 2008 domain. Am I able do to so? A. Yes, beginning September 15, 2011 the licensing was updated to allow you to use the Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on in SBS 2008 domains. Am I correct in believing that I can purchase the SBS 2011 Premium Add-on (only) and install an instance of Server 2008 R2 in a SBS 2008 domain for use of RDS? I also don't need to purchase SBS 2011 user/device cals? That *seems* to be the case. If I wanted to use SQL I'd need Premium Add-on cals but in this case SQL isn't required. Ahh Microsoft licensing, always such fun. James. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage
RE: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit
The key works with either one. But I would think twice about uninstalling 32-bit Office 2010 and installing 64-bit Office 2010. You need to think about the programs and add-ins that you are using or might use with Office 2010. A lot of them will not work with the 64-bit version. Nothing more frustrating than trying to determine why something won't work only to discover that the 64-bit version of Office is the reason. Even Microsoft recommends using the 32-bit version. Unless you really need the large memory capacity for Excel. Art From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit The situation is .. I bought Office 2010 for home and thought I had ordered 64 bit, received 32 bit which I did not notice until after installing. The DVD did not indicated which version was on it. I have no problem uninstalling Office and installing the 64 bit version. Just wanted to know if I could use the same license key or if I had to buy the 64 bit version of Office. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: My TechNet license keys work for both. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ From: Todd Lemmiksoo tlemmik...@gmail.com Reply-To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:40:23 -0600 To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Is the Office 2010 license key same for 32 bit 64 bit Can one use the license key that came with Office 2010 32 bit for a 64 bit office 2010 install? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- T. Todd Lemmiksoo ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Dual Display KVM
I have an Aten CS-1744 Dual-View KVM Switch that has worked flawlessly for me. Does manual or hot key between the 4 ports. The difference is that the dual view is just VGA ports so I think you would need the VGA/DVI converters and this has no PS/2 connections, just USB. The box also supports sound. Art From: Gary Sanderson [mailto:gary.sander...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dual Display KVM I am looking for a KVM that will support dual displays. What I have is 2 docked laptops that each have 1 VGA and 1 DVI-D output and currently have PS2 keyboard and mouse being used but can go with USB if need be. I do not care if the KVM is a manual switch or if it is hot keyed. I need something that will do the job and not break the bank. Does anyone have a recommendation? Thanks, Gary ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Big brother, not many care that he's here.
Along this thought, I saw an advertisement for a new show on the History Channel starting on Thursday, Dec. 8. The premise is a group of people have to evade a group of trackers who are following them while using the available cameras to track them. Or something close to that. I think it will be interesting to see what they do with this. To think it cant be done is naïve. Anyone who has set up a decent surveillance system can tell you how simple it might be. There is really no way around it unless you live in the boonies or never leave the house. Art From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Big brother, not many care that he's here. This CarrierIQ thing brings up a thought. With a smartphones and other current technology it is now entirely possible to have your every action recorded. Who you talk to, what you way, what you and they look like, where you are and how long youve been there and where you went next and how fast did you travel to get there. 1984 is here, and most people couldnt care less because the benefits of the technology outweigh any privacy concerns. The only way to partially opt out is to not have a smartphone and drive an older car, because even then when you walk into stores and make purchases you are still being watched by cameras/banks. Using cash would get you a little more stealth Thoughts? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS Essentials 2011
To answer some of the questions about SBS 2011 Essentials. I have deployed and use it. But like anything, what are your customers' requirements? Essentials is not cloud-based. What do you mean by cloud-based? Parts of it can be in the cloud. It costs less than Standard, supports AD if you want it, can do server and client backup, file storage can be local, no need for CALs (25 are included in the cost), could be lower maintenance, I think it is less complex because of the parts that are not included, Exchange, WSUS and SharePoint, can be setup so the client can do some basic tasks. The beta for integration with Office 365 is out now. For the small office that doesn't want or need Exchange in-house I think it's a great solution. Tie in Office 365 and Intune and you have a small managed solutions package you can offer customers. From: Burian, Matthew J. (mjb) [mailto:m...@burianit.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS Essentials 2011 I would be particularly interested if it integrated with Office 365 for email and collaboration services. _ From: Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 13:05:19 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: SBS Essentials 2011 I've migrated a few clients over to 2011 standard, but haven't touched essentials. Isn't it just integrating the cloud for the storage? On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Mainly wondering about the cloud-based Essentials vs the standard SBS 2011. Its limited to 25 users as I understand, but looks like it might be lower in the maintenance/complexity stakes for the client. Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -Original Message- From: David Lum david@nwea.org Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:54:50 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: SBS Essentials 2011 +1 also interested. I have two clients on SBS 2003 that should really upgrade sooner than later... -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS Essentials 2011 Anyone deployed or used this, any good or bad stories and experiences to share? I have a client who might be a fit for this but am still at the planning stage so could easily look at other alternatives. TIA, JRR Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS Essentials 2011
My experience with the different SBS versions goes back a long ways. Essentials is less work in my experience so far. Partly because there is less stuff to go wrong. Overall, managing Exchange hasn't been a big deal. I always wonder what is going on in some of the companies that talk about having a lot of issues with Exchange and the users. Granted my customers are 100 and less but Exchange makes up a very small part of issues I contend with. With them wanting an Intranet and using SharePoint, Essentials may not work by itself. SharePoint isn't included in the box. If they go with Office 365 they can then have SharePoint online. SharePoint causes customers getting used to doing some things differently. There are more questions about SharePoint then there are Exchange/Outlook. Having someone at the company knowledgeable about SharePoint would definitely be a help. My wife works for a large bank. In the beginning she was always asking questions about how to do something in SharePoint. Sometimes to the point that I asked a couple of times where to send the training invoices. Now she hardly ever asks a question. Working a lot with it has helped. From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS Essentials 2011 Its the maintenance and complexity I was concerned about. Managing Exchange for a client with no on-site expertise and that doesn't want big ongoing support costs is the major issue. So it sounds like Essentials might be a better bet. They also want an intranet so the SharePoint stuff should be handy, but again its the maintenance associated with it that is their major concern. Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird _ From: Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:45:31 -0700 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: SBS Essentials 2011 To answer some of the questions about SBS 2011 Essentials. I have deployed and use it. But like anything, what are your customers' requirements? Essentials is not cloud-based. What do you mean by cloud-based? Parts of it can be in the cloud. It costs less than Standard, supports AD if you want it, can do server and client backup, file storage can be local, no need for CALs (25 are included in the cost), could be lower maintenance, I think it is less complex because of the parts that are not included, Exchange, WSUS and SharePoint, can be setup so the client can do some basic tasks. The beta for integration with Office 365 is out now. For the small office that doesn't want or need Exchange in-house I think it's a great solution. Tie in Office 365 and Intune and you have a small managed solutions package you can offer customers. From: Burian, Matthew J. (mjb) [mailto:m...@burianit.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS Essentials 2011 I would be particularly interested if it integrated with Office 365 for email and collaboration services. _ From: Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 13:05:19 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: SBS Essentials 2011 I've migrated a few clients over to 2011 standard, but haven't touched essentials. Isn't it just integrating the cloud for the storage? On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Mainly wondering about the cloud-based Essentials vs the standard SBS 2011. Its limited to 25 users as I understand, but looks like it might be lower in the maintenance/complexity stakes for the client. Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -Original Message- From: David Lum david@nwea.org Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:54:50 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: SBS Essentials 2011 +1 also interested. I have two clients on SBS 2003 that should really upgrade sooner than later... -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS Essentials 2011 Anyone deployed or used this, any good or bad stories and experiences to share? I have a client who might be a fit for this but am still at the planning stage so could easily look at other alternatives. TIA, JRR Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint
RE: Best way to restrict access to file server?
Some random thoughts since you haven't described the current network, amount of files, do both groups need access to some of the shared files, number of users, budget, etc. Leave the trusted people on the network and apply the appropriate file permissions. Identify the untrusted ports (so to speak) at the patch panel and connect them to a different switch/router and install a small file server or NAS device for their shared files. Any unused port should have the patch cable unplugged. Does the current switch support VLANs? From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Best way to restrict access to file server? I think there are a few ways to skin this cat so I'm throwing it open for any views on the pros and cons of each. An office, network ports are wall mounted and all go back to a central comms cupboard. In the office are two groups of people. The two groups need an area where they can store/share files, but whilst one group has access to the regular LAN one group is untrusted so we want them as far away from the regular LAN as possible. How would you do it? _ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right.
Sam, Can I ask you a couple of questions about Google Voice? Was it difficult to setup with the USB phone? Are you using Outlook integration with it? Reason I ask is someone just asked me to help him with trying to dial from Outlook 2010 using Google Voice through a USB headset. Trying to do some research on it and thought you might have some valuable insight. Thanks, Art From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right. OP here. Well, just got off the phone with my Sprint Rep. They want $130 for the 'Airwave'/MicroCell and $5/Month to use it, with a 24 month commitment. Update on Google Voice, I'm playing around with this more and discovered it's more powerful than I thought. I've found a way to have a USB Deskphone ring if my Cell # is dialed, and I can place calls through that phone via Google Voice (Same number as my Cell). I might play around with that more. If I can't cut it using that, I'll get the Airware, or utilize some of the VOIP offering you guys suggested. Thanks for the tips! Sam Cayze From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right. I few people have told me att will give you a microcell for free. Cheers Ryan From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 5:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right. ATT microcell if you have them. Otherwise why not get some sort of VoIP? I've had Broadvoice for 6 years and it's been very reliable. Thanks, Brian Desmond mailto:br...@briandesmond.com br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right. Is a microcell a possibility? That way you continue to use your phone, it just transmits data over your broadband network... On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: So. Thought I'd build a nice new home office in the basement. After layers of new insulation, soundproofing, and drywall, my cell phone no longer works down there! Oops :-\ Considering how much I telecommute, I need to get some sort of landline installed. VOIP/SIP/Digital through Comcast, I'm considering it all. But, I'm not too well versed on the options avail. I still support an old PBX at our office, and built a SIP fax service/server, but my telco experience is pretty limited outside of that. I'd like to avoid Comcast (Personal reasons and I often cancel it and go through our Municipal WiFi). Any suggestions you guys have off the top of your head? A good service that sticks out that you would like to plug? Something that incorporated with Google Voice would be a plus. (Not sure anything does). I do use the new Sprint/Google Voice offering, so I can mask the new number with my Sprint number, and I can easily have my Sprint number ring the new number too. Thanks. Open to ideas. -Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: PowerShell query for AD group
I got Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches after seeing Don at a local Microsoft event. I found the book helpful and useful since I was learning PowerShell. He gives a few examples and builds from there. The book is good for those wanting to learn in my opinion. At least it was for me. I also got the Windows PowerShell in Action book by Bruce Payette. A much more comprehensive book that covers probably everything about PowerShell. To me this book is an intermediate/advanced level book. Reading different articles and such has also helped. My biggest problem is actually being able to use the commands to do things. Without using PowerShell for a while I find myself forgetting things and having to lookup how to write the command. I'm talking something beyond the basics as the more common commands I have saved to reuse whenever I need them. Art -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerShell query for AD group Steven, Thank you immensely for these links. I am definitely going to check out the e-books, as I've been wanting to learn PS for a long time. Has anyone used Don Jones' book, Learn Windows Powershell in a Month of Lunches? Sounds like an interesting book. Just wondering if it's worth it. Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com 07/11/11 10:13 AM List of free eBooks for you. http://www.hofferle.com/archives/624 http://www.blkmtn.org/ - left hand block has some links to various resources on powershell I find useful. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:57 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Aha! Cheers, I will experiment on that On 11 July 2011 17:54, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Generally you use the select-object (alias: select) statement. ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ** ** *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Monday, July 11, 2011 12:48 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: PowerShell query for AD group ** ** Thanks for that confirmation Another of my PowerShell noob queries again if I may be so bold..how can you skip lines of output from PowerShell like you used to be able to do with the *skip *parameter in an old *for /f *command? (Yes, I am just trying to upgrade my batch scripting skills straight to PS). FWIW I am pumping out the computers in an OU and just returning the name column, but I want to ignore the first two lines of output that are *Name * Is there a way to do this, or do I need nudging in a different direction? TIA, JRR On 11 July 2011 17:18, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: If you have 2008 AD controllers yes. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617195.aspx I have found the Quest AD cmdlets are easier to use. This may be because I have used them longer or that they have been around longer and have had features added to them. There is als the posibility to do it via [ADSI] which is why I started using the Quest cmdlets. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.powershell.aspx** ** I do need to get the time to play with the MS AD cmdlets to get more familier with the logic in them. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:09 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Is there a native PowerShell cmdlet for returning an AD group membership? Or do I need to get something like the Quest PowerShell extensions? -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ** IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER * This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to you and therefore you can read it, even it we didn't mean to send it to you. However, if the contents of this email make no sense whatsoever then you probably were not the intended recipient, or, alternatively, you are a mindless cretin; either way, you should immediately kill yourself and destroy your computer (not necessarily in that order). Once you have taken this action, please contact us.. no, sorry, you can't use your computer, because you just destroyed it, and possibly also committed suicide afterwards, but I am starting to digress.. * *The originator of this email is not liable for the transmission of the information contained in this communication. Or are they? Either way it's a pretty dull legal query and frankly one I'm not going to dwell on. But should you have nothing better to do, please feel free to ruminate on it, and please pass on any concrete conclusions should you find them. However, if you
RE: recovering dead server hard drives
No legal this time or damaged disks. Just a guy that just got served a big dose of bad luck. Spent time with SuperMicro support and we're pretty sure the board is dead. His suggestion was try to find another motherboard on eBay or such. But no guarantee that everything else is still functioning. SuperMicro uses the Intel RAID software on their motherboards. Hooked up drives to another server one at a time. The 80GB drive came up as the Windows system drive. Just the operating system. Good guess on my part. Tried 2 of the 3 250GB drives and after the little pop-up window about installing device driver software Windows displays a window 'I don't recognize this drive. You need to initialize the drive before it can be used.' OK, so windows can't identify the drive without initializing it. Probably not a straight Windows drive. I skip the third drive. Unplug the drives from my server and reboot. Enter the BIOS and enable the Intel RAID on the motherboard. Hook the 4 drives back up and power on the server. At the RAID prompt enter the keys to get to the internal RAID software. RAID software sees all 4 drives individually but not as a virtual disk of any kind. Hmmm.. Placed calls to a couple of local places advertising data recovery services. No one answers, please leave a message. Leave message but no call back. Called guy and gave him the still so far bad news that it looks like he will be spending a lot of money. Thanks Ben for the help. Art -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: recovering dead server hard drives On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: I can put the drives into another system but if I remember correctly software RAID writes to the hard drive and the Windows software doesn't recognize them. Windows tends to want to write some kind of signature to disks, but that's only if they don't have one already. In a legal/forensic situation, you don't want to risk that or anything else; that doesn't apply here. In a data recovery situation it can in theory be bad, but the chances of anything bad actually happening are relatively low. That said, since the guy has no backup at all, you may want to make a block-level disk image of each hard drive before you try anything with Windows. That way, if something weird happens, you've got a way back. If the disks are physically damaged, even powering them on can make things worse, although that is again relatively rare. If you're really worried, mail the disks off to a data recovery house (I like CBL -- free quotes! http://www.cbldatarecovery.com/) and pay several thousand dollars. This is prolly overkill, but it also has the least likelihood of data loss. The owner gambled and lost; that tends to be expensive. If it's the usual sort of SOHO -- i.e., no money -- attach the disks as secondary drives in a working Windows box and see what happens. If it really is Windows software RAID, they should come up as new drives. If it's actually a motherboard-based RAID controller, well you have to find a compatible RAID implementation. If it's an Intel chipset, that might not be too bad. If it's some random Taiwanese product of which they only ever made 50 of them and this guy has one of them, well... see above about thousands of dollars. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: recovering dead server hard drives
I'm sure. Tried one I had from another case that is a working server and same thing happens. Errr.. doesn't happen. -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: recovering dead server hard drives Are you 100% certain it's not just a power supply failure? I've seen over a dozen PS failures just like this... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: recovering dead server hard drives One of my customers referred someone to me who had trouble with a server. He explained that the office lost power and when power was restored everything can back up but the office couldn't connect to the server. After a few quick questions went to the office and the server looked and sounded like it was on but no video. Server was under the counter with screens on the doors. Area was warm when I opened it. Not good I'm thinking. Tried another monitor, same no video. Opened case and saw neither the case fan or the CPU fan spinning. Held in power switch to shut down. It looks like the motherboard is dead. Press power button and power supply fan starts, lights come on but nothing else. No beeps and no video. Thoughts on trying to recover the data. I can put the drives into another system but if I remember correctly software RAID writes to the hard drive and the Windows software doesn't recognize them. So it asks you to initialize them. Does that change anything on the hard drive? I'm trying to see if I can get to the data before the last resort is to a hard drive recovery place. Additional information. Of course he has no documentation on info on the server. Asked if he had a backup and said it was on the server. I see no external drives or tape device. Really not good I'm thinking now. And of course he says all his stuff is on the server. Great! No backup all his office files are on the server. I ask if he knows if the drives are mirrored or using some form of RAID. No idea. Server has 4 SATA drives. One is 80GB which I think is the Windows system drive and three 250GB which are unknown. The sever has a Super Micro motherboard (out of warranty) and I think is setup with software RAID. But I don't know if it might be 1 or 5 or what. Server is a few years old, original guy not around anymore, and so on. I have another server I could try and use the drives on but will have to do a repair because of the hardware change. Original server single socket P4, my server dual socket Xeon, both populated. I certainly don't want to destroy the data so am planning my next move. Thanks, Art ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Cyberattack of the day...
You're comparing two different things here. Granted most people wouldn't know the difference. You say Verisign and others have indoctrinated us to the fact that an SSL encrypted website is secure. I checked and they all seem to say sessions and not websites. Your post below mentions session so I'm confused if you are talking about the same thing or two different things. Kevin was talking about the server. Granted I'm probably splitting hairs, but too many people assume the two are the same because most vendors do not explain the difference. IMHO. If we do not explain the difference and use the correct terminology, who will. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cyberattack of the day... Well, sorta. My point is that it has been drummed into people's heads by Verisign and everyone else that if you see that little padlock, your session is secure. Now, how is that NOT indoctrinating everyone that it's secure? -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cyberattack of the day... Please tell me this is a sarcastic post... John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com 06/23/11 9:51 AM I'm pretty sure that Verisign and the browser folks have done a very good job indoctrinating us with the fact that an SSL-encrypted website is secure. Matter of fact, I think Verisign's marketing info uses the phrase secure your website. So, if everyone from Microsoft to security experts and banks, etc are all saying secure why wouldn't people, including people in IT, believe that SSL==secure? From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cyberattack of the day... I'm constantly amazed at the number of people, including some in IT, who think SSL means the server is secure. I haven't seen this myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if some phishing attacks use SSL just to leverage that misconception. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: SSL certs are already near-worthless, unfortunately. So what do you do to secure your website? If not certs, then what? I didn't say I had a better solution. That doesn't prevent me from recognizing the problem. Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench. (Eugene spaf Spafford) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Woah... why am I brain cramping on this!? (Folder permissions)
If you stop Inheritable permissions from the top level folder, the bottom folders retain the current permissions. And allow you to change permissions on the individual folders. Also you might look into Access Based Enumeration on the new server. That way users only see folders they have access to. Art From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Woah... why am I brain cramping on this!? (Folder permissions) Amazingly simply question, but I've not done this in so long that I can't remember. I have a folder on my file server (Windows 2008 R2) called Secure. Within that folder there are around 50 subfolders. Most users have no access to these folder, but some do need access to a few. So I had set up SYSTEM and Domain Admin full control on the Secure top level folder. Then I tried to change the subfolders where some users needed permissions, but it told me the folder permissions couldn't be changed because they were inheriting from their parent. Do I need to get rid of inheritable permissions so that I can have a few folders that have different permission levels than their parent? If I get rid of inherited permissions, and have to go set all 50 folders manually, which would be a pain, what do I need to set them to? Essentially, I need User A to click on the Secure folder and see nothing in it (or the folder list could be shown, I don't care) but I need User B to click on the Secure folder and see (and be able to read/write to) the folders he needs to access and change. Help!!?? I know I had this set up before, but when I moved to a new server, I lost those permissions. Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: RE: RE: RE: windows 7 forensics
There are a few forensic sites that will help guide you. There are a few software packages that have past court review to show that the original is not changed in any way when making an image. Encase comes in mind but there are others. Of course I can't remember them right now. A couple of them were open source packages. The other information given is good. If the user has to have a computer and you do not have a spare machine, pull the drive and put a new one in and restore from backup. Document everything you do but do not use the saved drive if there is the slightest possibility of the need to go beyond your initial examination. From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: windows 7 forensics Turns out we have a lawyer on the executive team. My instructions are to clone and go from there. Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Jun 9, 2011 2:37 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Get it in writing for CYA. From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: RE: windows 7 forensics understand and agree. However, if the boss says, do it anyway, what approach would you use? Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Jun 9, 2011 2:07 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.orgmailto:john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Honestly, I would (if possible) pull the machine out from under the user (make up some excuse about warranty issue or something) wrap it in tape so the case can't be cracked and have someone sign it and date it for future reference. From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.commailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: windows 7 forensics Good points from all of you. I don't know that a third party will be brought in at all, but want to be prepared in case it does turn into something bigger, which is why I asked the list. What would you guys recommend for cloning for this purpose? The last thing I used was Ghost, but have used dfsee and others... Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Jun 9, 2011 1:45 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.orgmailto:john.c...@pfsf.orgmailto:john.c...@pfsf.orgmai lto:john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: The second you log on as an Admin files have changed. If there are Legal discoveries then the evidence is tainted. Forensic specialists clone the HD with a special setup and do discovery on the clone thus preserving the original for evidence. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonat han.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: windows 7 forensics Some alarm bells are going off. If there's a professional service involved, why are you doing anything? Have you asked them what they would suggest so you could do your own analysis? On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.commailto:ncm...@gmail.commailto:ncm...@gmail.commailto:nc m...@gmail.commailto:ncm...@gmail.commailto:ncm...@gmail.commailto:ncm c...@gmail.commailto:ncm...@gmail.com wrote: for those of you you do not have content filtering in place, when someone asks you to analyze a computer to figure out where they've been what software to use? I've used iehist to examine index.dat files but I'm wondering if there is anything better thats come out since I haven't done this in a year or two. free is preferable, but I need to be able to preserve the system as it is for potential professional forensic analysis in addition to my own analysis. Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmanager@lyris.sunbeltsoftwa re.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmanager@lyri s.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto: listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmanager@lyris.sunbeltsoftw are.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage
RE: Cloning
Windows 7 Pro and above allow you to do an image backup to external hard drive. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 8:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cloning Hi All, Dumb question. It's been a while (like, 6 years) since I've done any drive cloning. I have a user who will be getting a new Windows 7 workstation, but he tends to be a tinkerer and I want to be able to just restore a clone of his drive instead of messing with fixing things. What do people use these days? I used to use a networkable Ghost setup, from Symantec. Worked pretty well, but I stopped renewing it and eventually stopped using it as our network shrunk. I figure I could either make an image and save it to a network drive or an external USB hard drive. Thanks for any pointers in the right direction J Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Personal laser printers
Have you ever compared the costs associated with eFax to a dedicated fax server? Sam is talking thousands of faxes per month. The last time I did a few years ago with the amount of employees (40) and the amount of faxes received per employee per month, it was cheaper to put in a dedicated fax server. Paid for itself in about 15 months if I remember correctly. After that is was almost free in that regard. Plus it saved them as a PDF and delivered them directly to the right person. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Personal laser printers On 5 May 2011 at 14:06, Sam Cayze wrote: +1. Thousands of faxes received here a month. Faxing is rare in most environments but there are still a few companies stuck in the 90's. Unless you know of a way we can more easily have our thousands of independent contractors send us signed work orders from various retail chains without public computers onsite? Unless you have a burning need for the actual fax hardcopy, I would use eFax for this -- it converts the incoming faxes to PDFs and email them to you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Help with Run as Administrator Compatibility mode - UAC in Windows 7
Are you starting the command prompt as administrator? I know I have had a few issues sometimes when I run scripts and do not specifically invoke administrator. Art From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Help with Run as Administrator Compatibility mode - UAC in Windows 7 Ok, I'm beating my head against the wall here, and Google isn't providing me much by way of insight. I believe this is a UAC issue, but being new to Win7 (I never used Vista), I'm at a loss. I need to install a certificate to the Trusted Root store via a batch file. The trick is, this is being done on laptops that are remotely connected via vpn and are not members of the domain. I've got this command in my batch file: certmgr.exe -add mycertname.cer -s -r localMachine ROOT It works like a champ IF I travel to where I have copied CertMgr.exe (in this case I used the env variable %TEMP%) and right click on certmgr.exe. I go into the compatibility tab and click the checkbox for Run as Administrator. Is there any way to change that setting from the command line? I'm trying to make this batch as silent and end-user friendly as possible, and this is the ONLY thing keeping me from deploying it. -- Jonathan, A+, MCSA, MCSE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: USB 2 or ESATA boot drive
The version of TechNet that is included with the MAPS subscription is called TechNet for Microsoft Action Pack Solution Provider. You are right in that it is similar. They are all similar. Depending on the version of TechNet you are entitled to different benefits. For the version of TechNet included in MAPS you have access to the TechNet Portal, Technical Library downloads and access to more software. This extra software from TechNet is only for evaluation purposes only and can not be used in production. Software included in MAPS can be used in Production in your business. The big differences with this version of TechNet are that it does not include access to any of the E-Learning classes or two complimentary calls to PSS. So you have to decide which version is of the most benefit to you. If you are a Microsoft partner the info is available to you. If you are not a partner and am trying to find this information out I'm not sure it is easily found. Hope this helps. Art From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: USB 2 or ESATA boot drive I am looking to hook this up to a laptop specifically an ESATA port. I would then use the external drive to house a Hyper-V server with all the virtual machines on that drive leaving my in-box laptop drive free for other things. I know I could go with a desktop box a lot cheaper but it is not something to just pickup and carry around. I have more time for testing and learning at places other than home so a laptop makes more sense. I currently have a lot of time between things that I feel is wasted and would like to make the best use of my time. That was why I was also asking in another thread about which version of TechNet is included in a MAPS subscription. So far all I can find out is that is it similar to the TechNet Pro but not necessarily the same. As soon as I get a straight answer I will update that thread. Thanks for what you have given me so far. Jon On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Which vendor did you end you using? CDW does not carry this model and the ones I have seen are either only USB connectors, USB/Firewire connectors, or multi-drive boxes for doing RAID 1. My application is specifically for use with removable hard drives, so my solution may not be the best for your needs. But: I've got a bunch of DataPort 10 stuff in use. Most of it's inside PCs, but I have an HD bay frame I keep around for attaching to PCs during cloning trouble-shooting. I've also got a slot bracket in each PC, which brings a SATA port and a Molex power connector out. I plug the frame into that. Not really a throw it in the bag solution (too exposed), but it works for the occasional usage. Frame: http://www.cru-dataport.com/slideshow.php?dir=//DataPort-10// http://www.cru-dataport.com/slideshow.php?dir=//DataPort-10//sel=5 sel=5 Carrier: http://www.cru-dataport.com/slideshow.php?dir=//DataPort-10// http://www.cru-dataport.com/slideshow.php?dir=//DataPort-10//sel=4 sel=4 More recently, I've been eying the DataPort HotDock, which is basically the HD bay frame in an enclosure. In addition to eSATA, it includes bridge chips for USB or FireWire attachment. This will come in handy for a project I've got that's going to involve bringing a SATA drive out from inside a piece of test equipment -- no drive bays to put the HD bay frame in, but I can put the dock on top of it. http://www.cru-dataport.com/products/DataPort-HotDock.php If you just want a single portable drive, their DataPortable 350 appears to have an eSATA connector on the back, despite no mention of it in their marketing copy. You may want to contact their sales people. I know when I was looking previously, I wanted something with just a knob, not a key. No mention on their website, but when I contacted sales they gave me a P/N right away. CDW was then able to special order it from CRU. http://www.cru-dataport.com/products/DataPortable-350.php There are plenty of other vendors out there making good stuff, too. I just mentioned CRU because their stuff is right in front of me all the time. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T
RE: Getting Rid of CAT5?
Without trying to stir up a debate on networking... I agree with everything that has been mentioned here with one exception. You can run gigabit over CAT5 cabling if it has been installed properly. See http://www.gigabit-ethernet.org/technology/whitepapers/gige_1098/copper.html #base I have a few clients that are enjoying it now. The biggest problem I see that causes the most issues is cable installers back in the days of just 10/100 only wired pins 1,2,3 and 6. That was all 10/100 needed. So they skipped the other wires in the cable. Gigabit Ethernet requires all 8 wires to be connected. So you could use CAT5e cabling, but if only 1,2,3 and 6 were connected you would not achieve gigabit speeds. If the existing cabling was installed properly and passes the specs for gig speeds there isn't a big need to replace it. Unless there are other factors coming into play. Art -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Getting Rid of CAT5? On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.org wrote: I work in an old Museum here in the District. My runs are very long, one is over 700 feet and gives me a problem every now and then. Is it worthwhile to switch out our CAT45 and go to CAT6a (there is something above 6a?) As everyone else has said, twisted pair Ethernet is limited to 100 meters (~328 feet) in the spec. This is independent of speed -- anything from gigabit to ten megabit, CAT3 to CAT6A, the limit is 100 meters. Repeaters or switches along the way will let you extend that distance. I'd suggest switches; that keeps the path full-duplex and you don't have to worry about repeater hop limits. Fiber can go longer still. How long depends on the type and grade of fiber. Exact numbers seem to vary by manufacturer. HP (ProCurve) ranges from 220 meters (721 feet) on the cheapest to 70 kilometers (43 miles) on the high end. (http://tinyurl.com/4kdkoda) If you don't have existing modular ports (SFP) in your switches, you can get single-port media converters for small money. Installation is usually the pricey part. I've read nothing good about Ethernet-over-power-lines. The grade of UTP mainly determines maximum speed: CAT3 = 10 megabit CAT5 = 100 megabit CAT5E = 1 gigabit CAT6 = waste of money CAT6A = 10 gigabit The 100 meter limit comes about due to the time it takes for signal propagation in a copper medium. In the event of a collision detection, a jam signal is transmitted. There has to be enough time for the jam signal to reach all other nodes before the next transmission opportunity. Since it's a timing limit, on a full duplex point-to-point link (i.e., most links these days), you can actually go a longer distance and still have it sometimes sort-of work. However, you're out-of-spec, so anything can happen. It might fail on alternating Tuesdays, or it might cause demons to fly out of your nose. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Getting Rid of CAT5?
As it was explained way back then by a Fluke engineer and as I try to remember it correctly your understanding is correct. There were minor differences in some companies cabling between 5 and 5e. The main difference was in the specs between the two. His demo included a couple of their cabling meters and several different types of cabling and ends. He had a mix of CAT5 and CAT5e cable. In the end he showed that if the cabling was installed correctly, either would work with gigabit. The cable meters were cool and expensive then. They haven't dropped that much in price on some of the models last time I checked. This might help some more as it goes into a little more depth. http://www.gigabit-ethernet.org/technology/faq.html Art -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Getting Rid of CAT5? On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: Without trying to stir up a debate on networking... I agree with everything that has been mentioned here with one exception. You can run gigabit over CAT5 cabling if it has been installed properly. http://www.gigabit-ethernet.org/technology/whitepapers/gige_1098/coppe r.html#base My understanding is: In most cases, there is/was no construction difference between CAT5 and CAT5E cables. The difference was in somewhat stricter certification requirements. That doc seem to align with my understanding. It doesn't mention 5E or Enhanced at all, and does state The 1995 cabling standard did not specify two critical performance parameters--return loss and Far-End Crosstalk (FEXT). Given the date of the doc (1998), I think it likely that it just predates the 5E spec. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Creating a bootable flash drive from Win7 to install firmware
I made a bootable USB flash drive with Win PE on it and use that for all the times I need a bootable USB drive. Just add your files and then navigate there to run said file. Art -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Creating a bootable flash drive from Win7 to install firmware I'm having an aggravating time with this. I need to create a bootable flash drive, so that I can update the firmware on my SSD drive (it won't work from within Windows, and the instructions say to boot from a bootable flash drive). While I can find any number of pages that show me how to do that (mostly by using partdisk and bootsect.exe), they don't work for me. Which makes sense - all that does is put a boot sector on the drive. They then say to copy the contents of the Win 7 DVD (they all presume I want to install Win 7 from a USB drive). Since I don't need the Win 7 DVD, I have no OS on the flash drive. When I try to boot, it tells me No BOOTMGR found. So I need to make a bootable flash drive, and - from it - then execute this 2M DOS file to flash the firmware. Anybody have a set of directions that doesn't rely on copying the contents of the Windows DVD? :-) This is the process so far: DISKPART and hit enter. LIST DISK and hit enter. Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1. 4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do. SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number) CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) ASSIGN EXIT BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: (Where H is your USB drive letter) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Opinions on Bluehost.com
Anyone using them or have any comments? Checking for a client who is looking to have a domain hosted and was recommended by one of the members son. Thanks, Art ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows ISO differences?
You mean besides the View clicky thing under the Details column on the software download page of TechNet? I've never seen or heard of a single page that lists all the checksums. I usually find them when I go to the download page and click on View under the Details column. The price lists have been available for quite some time to partners. What you got was a long Excel spreadsheet. Art -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows ISO differences? On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Microsoft part numbers are Top Secret, Burn Before Reading. I suspect because if you could just Google a part number, you wouldn't need a licensing specialist at a reseller. They're in the price lists which are fairly readily available. https://partner.microsoft.com/us/40018460 Well, cool. That's relatively new. I know in the past I was told by MS licensing that I had to talk to my reseller and would I like to be referred to one? Thanks! You don't happen to know where I can get a list of MD5 or SHA1 checksums of their ISO downloads, too, do you? :-) Whether that is the part number for the media or the actual product I don't know offhand. Pretty sure those are license P/N's, not media P/N's. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Networked camera
Since no one has answered the question yet. Look at Axis devices. www.axis.com Have several types of outdoor rated cameras and enclosures. Software to view or record the video. Recording can either be continuous or motion sensitive. They are the cameras we use, sell and recommend. Art From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Networked camera It appears we will be needing an all-weather webcam to monitor some propane tanks on our property (homeland security, BS.) Anyone got any suggestions for something they like? Don't know whether we'll be required to monitor it 24/7 or record it or what.. All I know is that our maintenance manager told me that he's going to need a camera to monitor the propane tanks. John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Upgrade to Outlook 2010 breaks LOB email sending ability
In case someone might know offhand while I research more. Customer has LOB app on the 2008 server they access through RDP from a Windows 7 Pro computer that had Office 2007 Small Business installed and was working just fine. From within this LOB app they could send an email of the invoice from within the program. The Sent Items folder would show the email as sent. Wednesday this computer was upgraded to Office Professional 2010 (Office 2010 Tech Guarantee) with no issues at the time. Until now. We forgot to test this. I have checked all the settings and they are as before the upgrade. Checked with the vendor and they were no help, telling us that the Express version of Outlook 2010 and Windows Mail were not MAPI compliant and wouldn't work. The support tech is confused by Outlook and while we try to explain it to them in words they can understand, does anyone know if something has changed in Outlook 2010 that might cause this? I'm not aware of anything but am checking further. Thanks, Art ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Upgrade to Outlook 2010 breaks LOB email sending ability
No, 32-bit version. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrade to Outlook 2010 breaks LOB email sending ability 64-bit Office version? SJ On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: In case someone might know offhand while I research more. Customer has LOB app on the 2008 server they access through RDP from a Windows 7 Pro computer that had Office 2007 Small Business installed and was working just fine. From within this LOB app they could send an email of the invoice from within the program. The Sent Items folder would show the email as sent. Wednesday this computer was upgraded to Office Professional 2010 (Office 2010 Tech Guarantee) with no issues at the time. Until now. We forgot to test this. I have checked all the settings and they are as before the upgrade. Checked with the vendor and they were no help, telling us that the Express version of Outlook 2010 and Windows Mail were not MAPI compliant and wouldn't work. The support tech is confused by Outlook and while we try to explain it to them in words they can understand, does anyone know if something has changed in Outlook 2010 that might cause this? I'm not aware of anything but am checking further. Thanks, Art -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Outlook 2003 Macro
It has been several years but I did something similar to this for a company that would send out a email already configured with the basic info except for the person's name it was being sent to. Kind of like an automated response form. It was set up so all that needed to be done was for a button on the toolbar to be clicked, up popped the new email and the employee entered the recipients email address, name and a couple of lines and hit send. I don't have the document I used for reference nor remember where I got it from any more but it is doable. I'm getting ready to head out to client sites so I can look a little more later if you don't find what you are looking for. Art From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Outlook 2003 Macro :) Funny how I post and then Google comes good I can use this to make the email generation work: Sub NewMail() Dim objOLApp As Outlook.Application Dim NewMail As Outlook.MailItem Set objOLApp = New Outlook.Application Set NewMail = objOLApp.CreateItem(olMailItem) NewMail.SentOnBehalfOfName = mailto:j...@domain.com j...@domain.com NewMail.Display End Sub So all I need now is the ability to attach a sig to the bottom of it! Anyone? On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I hope someone can assist me here, as its kinda outside of my skill set. I have a user that has a single exchange server, but 2 domains coming into it. He runs Outlook 2003, the Exchange server is 2003 standard. He needs to be able to send an email as a user on the other email domain, but he doesnt want to have to actually remember to always hit the send filed of the email and add the user manually. To compound matters he has to have a different Outlook Signature, when sending as this user. What I need I think is a macro, that I can assign a button to, that will basically. * Create a new email * Fill the From field as the user that has the alternate email address. * Automatically pick a sig, and apply it correctly to the new email. All he then has to do is write the email and hit send. Can anyone help me with this please? -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk http://www.stoof.co.uk/ -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win7 licensing question
True. Mostly. Windows 7 Enterprise is available to Software Assurance customers. So you need to order 7 Professional with SA and you get the right (benefit) of being able to use the Enterprise version and it's included features. SA also gives you other benefits they may be worthwhile to your company. Some free, some paid. Now the mostly part. Enterprise and Ultimate are basically the same. Depending on the features you need and whether the benefits and features of going with SA are useful, that's where the differences come in to play. Art -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 licensing question All, Our CDW rep has told our IT manager that there isn't actually a separate SKU for Enterprise - it's just Pro with SA. Huh? This doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone confirm/disconfirm? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win7 licensing question
Last couple of agreements we just downloaded the software. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win7 licensing question You may need to buy two media's one Pro and another Enterprise but the media is not that bad. Jon On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah - I've been looking at this article with its chart and discussions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions We're only interested in volume licensed versions, so not interested in Ultimate. It's the buy Pro with SA and use the Enterprise features for free thing that doesn't make sense to me. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with it if it's true, I just want to make sure that my CDW rep isn't smoking crack. What you're saying seems to indicate that he's telling it straight, which is pretty cool. Kurt On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 13:46, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: True. Mostly. Windows 7 Enterprise is available to Software Assurance customers. So you need to order 7 Professional with SA and you get the right (benefit) of being able to use the Enterprise version and it's included features. SA also gives you other benefits they may be worthwhile to your company. Some free, some paid. Now the mostly part. Enterprise and Ultimate are basically the same. Depending on the features you need and whether the benefits and features of going with SA are useful, that's where the differences come in to play. Art -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 licensing question All, Our CDW rep has told our IT manager that there isn't actually a separate SKU for Enterprise - it's just Pro with SA. Huh? This doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone confirm/disconfirm? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win7 Pro vs. Enterprise
Bitlocker. Especially if you have laptops. Other things to consider are Applocker, boot from VHD and BranchCache. Art -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 Pro vs. Enterprise All, I've just noticed the Windows 7 has DirectAccess technology, which sounds incredibly cool. But, it requires Win2k8 R2 - I assume for AD and the actual UAG server, if nothing else. We're in the early planning stages of going to Win7 in the new year, and I'm intrigued, but skeptical from a technology/security maturation perspective. I haven't seen any real discussion of it either - anyone have experience they'd care to share? One big reason for asking is because it requires Win7 Enterpise, and we need to make the decision between Pro and Enterprise. And, has anyone seen any other compelling reason to choose Enterprise over Pro? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Migration of SBS 2003 Premium to SBS 200 Premium
If you think the current AD is in a mess I would start clean. The process is a little longer but you can start with a clean AD set up the way you want now. And depending on how many is a relatively small might take about the same amount of time. It's been a while but I think the SBS 2003 Premium SP1 was three CDs. They need to be installed then you can do the migration to SBS 2008. The time spent going to SP1 might be better spent elsewhere. I don't think Jeff's Swing Method depends on SP1 as I have never used the Swing Method. Others I know have and it does work. There's merits to both approaches. It just depends on how dependent you are on the current AD structure. From: Gary Sanderson [mailto:gary.sander...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Migration of SBS 2003 Premium to SBS 200 Premium On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: There were SBS specific pieces that were a portion of SP1. Just installing the component patches doesn't get everything up to snuff. Did you try installing the standard sbs sp1? I don't remember this as an issue, but the last 2003-2008 upgrade I did was close to 2 years ago. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com That is what I was figuring. I have not looked at the download SP 1, and since we are a relatively small organization, and the AD that previous admins left is somewhat a mess, I am thinking of a start from scratch approach. That or the smsmirgation.com approach. -- Gary Sanderson Sound Volunteer Southmont Baptist Church Denton, TX Good stewardship is less about how much money is saved than it is about how much money is wasted. - Anthony Coppedge ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SBS 2008 Noob
I checked a couple of SBS2008 systems and all of them show the correct memory in all locations. And you are right. SBS 2008 is only available in 64-bit. Art From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2008 Noob Setting up my first SBS 2008 server. I have a RAM discrepancy in what the server System Window (right mouse click on the computer Icon and choose properties) displays and what the SBS General Information Window (Windows SBS Console -- Network -- Computers -- Double click SBS Server) Can anyone test to see if they are the same or different on one of your SBS 2008 servers? System window reports 8Gb which is correct. SBS Console reports 4Gb which is wrong. Thanks Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Handling two separate companies on same network
Client has asked about having another company added to the network. Currently small business, 10 employees, SBS 2008. New company will be minority owned and according to him the businesses must be separated. When I asked for clarification he wasn't sure. Instead saying the Federal government was looking closer because of the level of fraud they have been finding. Anyone doing something like this that can offer insight? He would like to NOT have a complete second network if possible. On the server side I could create a new partition and store the second companies data there protected with permissions. Create separate domain on Exchange. Segment the network with two VLANs and have second company on VLAN 2. Install a couple of dedicated computers for the second company. Employees from company one will be working on projects for company two. Anything I'm missing or better ideas? Thanks, Art ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name?
Wouldn't you have domain SID issues? I think I remember something like that trying to do a test some time ago here in the lab. The old ABC.Local identification will be different from the new ABC.Local identification. There is the Microsoft migration paper for SBS2008 that outlines going from regular server 2003 to SBS2008. Or try this link: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/12/03/migrating-from-2003-to-sb s-2008.aspx Art From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name? I have a client that is going to be moving from a 2003 domain with VERY old hardware to Small Business Server 2008 new hardware. Here is my question. Can you think of any problems if we keep the same internal domain name? If I disconnect the pc's from the old domain ABC.LOCAL and connect them to the new SBS domain ABC.LOCAL could that cause any problems? In the past I have always changed the internal domain/DNS names when doing migrations like this. The client would like to keep the same name so that's why I'm asking. With out knowing the repercussions I would think that it could potentially cause a ton of issues. Thanks Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Possible OT: Vista Woes...hanging
Funny. Well not really but I spent Thursday afternoon working on a Sony Vaio with Vista Home Premium that had trouble booting and would just hang. Backed up most data but had some I couldn't get. Getting corrupt errors. Could see disk from UBCG 4 Windows except for some areas it would just hang. Tried running chkdsk and it found bad sectors and then hanged. Figured hard drive was going bad. Still under warranty so back it went. With it happening to three different machines it's unlikely to be the hard drive. Have you tried running MalwareBytes or one of the online scanners? Can you try running Process Monitor to see if it shows anything? Does it do it in Safe Mode? I'm sure you've thought of these but just checking. Anything changed? Other than that I'm not aware of anything that might cause that. From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 7:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Possible OT: Vista Woes...hanging Anyone come across an issue on Vista Home Premium where once something's clicked it just sits at the spinning cursor? It appears to be in a hung state where using task manager or hardbooting is the only way to clear it. Three Sony VAIO's are exhibiting the same issue yet MSE doesn't detect anything. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Microsoft Response Point
I have it in the office and use it and like it for the most part and have offered it to clients before. However, the status of the Response Point system going forward is in question. Microsoft left a lot of the Response Point people go during one of their layoffs and there is no news on when, if ever, there will be a version 2 of the software. Version 2 was being worked on before Microsoft gutted the department. Until I/we hear more from them as to the status and words that it will be definitely around, I'm not offering it to any customers. I'm just not feeling good about the product being improved or updated. It has the feeling of a dead product right now. Too bad since it is a great small business phone system. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Microsoft Response Point http://www.microsoft.com/responsepoint/default.aspx Anyone have any experience with the MS phone system? I have a client who saw this somewhere and is asking my recommendations. I have never seen it before. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Microsoft Response Point
There are some of us that would like that. But I'm afraid for some of the small businesses it won't fly. It depends on what they decide to do with Small Business Server. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft Response Point I have a suspicion that they will be directing people towards an OCS solution for the phone system. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: I have it in the office and use it and like it for the most part and have offered it to clients before. However, the status of the Response Point system going forward is in question. Microsoft left a lot of the Response Point people go during one of their layoffs and there is no news on when, if ever, there will be a version 2 of the software. Version 2 was being worked on before Microsoft gutted the department. Until I/we hear more from them as to the status and words that it will be definitely around, Im not offering it to any customers. Im just not feeling good about the product being improved or updated. It has the feeling of a dead product right now. Too bad since it is a great small business phone system. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Microsoft Response Point http://www.microsoft.com/responsepoint/default.aspx Anyone have any experience with the MS phone system? I have a client who saw this somewhere and is asking my recommendations. I have never seen it before. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT: Time estimate needed
I believe most of us on this list get computers from a vendor that has a Windows XP, Vista or 7 OEM license. That license is married to that machine. When you sell or donate that computer you transfer all rights to the OEM software for that computer to the new owner. How do you make the new end user accept the license agreement? You can install Office so it can be set to the OEM out-of-box-where-you-gotta-accept-big-fat-license-agreement. There is an OEM switch. Those that build PCs normally use the OEM Preinstallation Kit to install Windows and Office. Art From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Time estimate needed Somewhat Off Tread but when we donate computer, we make the end user accept any license agreements. They also sign a form (attorney approved) absolving us of licensing issues. Upon purchase of new machines, we snapshot a box before first boot. When it's donated, restore it back and any original CD's (if we can find them). Can MS OFfice be set to OEM out-of-box-where-you-gotta-accept-big-fat-license-agreement? I think I saw that somewhere in the ORK. Surely someone on this list knows! Dont call me Shirley. -Devin On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net wrote: If the machines are going to be sold on ebay then they will not be getting corporate copies of software. So unless you have one CD for Windows and Office for each then you are hard disk loading. If the machines have a COA on them then Windows is a safe bet, but I would put an Office Trial on each or else you might get implicated. If he then has the correct keys then he can put them in. Mike -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 November 2009 16:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Time estimate needed On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:16 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I'm just installing what he gives me. :-) Be warned that you may still be held liable for copyright/contract/license violations if it turns out this client didn't have the rights to do what he's asking you to do. I didn't know may sound good to you, but the courts don't always agree. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT: Time estimate needed
Another way to do this is to build one laptop, install all the software, configure the settings and then sysprep the image. Use this image on the remaining laptops. Input XP key and computer name when needed. Start Office, insert key and finish. Save sysprep image for later use. 1. Having the restore CD is nice but also adds all the other stuff to the laptop. May or may not be an issue. If they do have the restore CD then it's a matter of pressing a few keys and waiting for it to finish. Very little actual hands on time. 2. When building the first laptop, if all are the same, you can install all the updated drivers and then sysprep. Some devices had vulnerabilities that needed updated drivers. Think Intel wireless NICs. 3. If you install Office using the OEM switch to the image you can activate after starting Office. That's if you have the OEM version of Office. Which I'm guessing you have since these are Dell laptops. I have a few images created this way and it makes redoing a machine pretty easy. Add your favorite tools and common software, Flash, Java, whatever, to the initial build and you can update as needed. Art From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Time estimate needed Ok, I might have overestimated, but I figure the following: 1) Probably does NOT have a restore disk 2) Probably does NOT have the driver disk from Dell (says they're all Dell P4 machines) 3) I'm going to have to manually install Office on each one, and may have to call Microsoft twice for each machine to validate the reg code. I estimated $450 for all. Should be a nice check if we can come to terms. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Time estimate needed If all the machines are the same I would do that job for like 350-400 bucks. Its really a no brainer and doesn't have a lot of hands on work involved. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:55 AM Subject: RE: OT: Time estimate needed P4 machines is what he said. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Time estimate needed Or SP3 :-) On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: A time saver also is to make an XP SP2 slip streamed CD so you don't have to install SP2, its installed when you install the OS. Two hours for each PC seems reasonable as long as they are not ancient. James - Original Message - From: Sean Houston mailto:seanthous...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:42 AM Subject: Re: OT: Time estimate needed I think that's a fair estimate and probably a good basis to charge for a flat fixed cost. If it takes a little over you eat the time, if it takes less you still get the full pay. I would tell them 2 hours if all of the machines are identical and probably 4 hours if they are all different. I think it would depend a lot on the specs of the PC, but it could take anywhere from an hour to several hours to complete that. However, if you are able to clone them additional ones will only take 10 - 20 minutes to copy and change SIDs. Then however long to clean them run diagnostics. If they are all different machines it will be significantly more time consuming. If they are all good machines it shouldn't take too long, but if some of them are very slow it could take a while. Either way you have to do everything 7 times, preferably all setup at the same time. Other things to consider... * do they want just SP2 or do they need SP3? Will you need to do all the windows updates after installing SP2? * If they do have licensing keys for Windows and Office how many times have they been activated? You may need to call microsoft to activate every copy of windows and office on every laptop. * Is the AVG the full or free version? If it is the free version it's a violation of licensing. If it's the full you need the licensing info. Just my thoughts on it, hope it helps! Thanks, Sean Houston On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jeff Brown 2jbr...@gmail.com wrote: engineers formula: Best educated guess; double that; take to next time increment = actual time to complete. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:26 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Hey, guys. I have a potential customer with 7 laptops he wants rebuilt. Here's what he wants: 1 Format Hard Drive [can be done at the same time as
RE: AV/malware comparison site
Thanks Carl. The Virus Bulletin site is what I was looking for. Art From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AV/malware comparison site The most commonly quoted are: http://www.virusbtn.com http://www.av-comparatives.org Carl From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AV/malware comparison site I don't have my computer with me and of course I can't remember the sites name now. And my searching is giving me everything but what I want. I'm looking for the site that compares AV programs and another site that lists whether a program is valid or not. They have been mentioned on the list before but I can't remember them. Thanks Art ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
AV/malware comparison site
I don't have my computer with me and of course I can't remember the sites name now. And my searching is giving me everything but what I want. I'm looking for the site that compares AV programs and another site that lists whether a program is valid or not. They have been mentioned on the list before but I can't remember them. Thanks Art ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: AV/malware comparison site
Thanks for that. Virus Total is new to me so I'll add it to my list. Unfortunately it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. Art -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AV/malware comparison site On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 13:34, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: I don’t have my computer with me and of course I can’t remember the sites name now. And my searching is giving me everything but what I want. I’m looking for the site that compares AV programs and another site that lists whether a program is valid or not. They have been mentioned on the list before but I can’t remember them. Thanks Art I think VirusTotal is one of your desired sites. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Computer books online
Since Bookpool is no longer where have you gone to purchase books online? Thanks, Art ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: TS Licensing
I go by how the business needs are. Going by your numbers you have 150 employees that used computers. How many computers do you have for the employees to use? How many do not need TS access? If they have 50 users that need access from 75 different computers then User CALs are used. The people can use any computer that is open. More users require more licenses. If they have 50 computers and these computers are access by 75 people then device CALs are used. This scenario allows more users without an increase of TS licenses. You can have both types of licenses on the same server. I do not remember how they are assigned other than when they are entered in the licensing server. Hope that makes sense. Art From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 2:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: TS Licensing We use TS extensively, we have less than 200 employees, 50+ that don't use computers at all. We have 70 TS CAL's and have had trouble running short on those. Up to this point we have purchased device CAL's and are thinking we might be better off adding user CAL's? Nothing fancy, all our servers are W2k3 SP2 and our clients are XP Pro. Everything works, we are just running out of licenses. Wondering if anyone out there has 2 licenses servers up so they can run both types and how does that work for you(if it is even possible to do on one network??) (yes, we have 25 temporary licenses, those are plumb full as well) thanks for any help. jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.
Depends on the phone system and the carrier. On a Nortel Norstar with multiple PRI T-1s I use to admin the number displayed was the main office/billing number. They started another company and wanted a different number displayed for the new company. Called the LEC and had them make sure it passed the numbers displayed from our Norstar. Went to the phones of the new company and programmed the number they wanted to be displayed. So in this case I think it could have been any number I wanted. Art From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Phone number to tell you your phone number. I wouldnt say it could be anything. IIRC, if your equipment is incapable of sending ANI [1] or it isnt properly communicated outward, then your LEC [2] provides the BTN [3] off the primary line; which is typically the main business number for the account. 1. Automatic Number Identification 2. Local Exchange Carrier 3. Billing Telephone Number -- ME2 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: TVK is correct in stating that you will get *a* phone number, not necessarily the one you expect. This is especially true for those using an ISDN PRI from a telco. The phone number that shows up on caller ID is set by the phone system that originated the call (or sometimes the telco themselves). That number could be anything at all. Most typically they are either set to be the company's main line or the direct dial number for the extension. Murray Freeman wrote: Interesting because if I make a call from my office, it gives the actual phone number of my direct dial line. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Still struggling with iPhone, ISA and SSL certs...
I had a similar issue last week. This was with a SBS 2003 server with Exchange Server 2003 SP2. OWA was working fine from outside. Tried to setup an iPhone and I think received the same error message. I checked everything I found on the web and all the settings were correct. It just wouldn't connect. Tried my Windows Mobile phone and it wouldn't connect either. It's error message stated it was permissions also. Double, triple-checked and everything was enabled and set correctly. Got so frustrated decided to start from the beginning. Re-ran the Connect to Internet Wizard, verified the SSL cert, checked in Exchange Server Manager for the Mobile Access and made sure the settings were enabled there, checked the users account and verified the mobile settings were enabled, checked the SBS firewall. Everything looked correct and as it was before. Went to my mobile phone. Deleted the server from ActiveSync. Configured the Server Source again from scratch. Ran a sync and it connected and started downloading email. Went to the iPhone and deleted the Exchange Server settings. Configured the Exchange settings from scratch and it connected to the server and downloaded the email, contacts and calendar. Success at last. I don't know what was causing the problem but whatever it was it seemed to have been fixed by starting from the beginning again. Though they are not using ISA Server, SBS is set up with two NICs and is using the internal firewall settings. They have a hardware firewall which I never changed or touched during this exercise. Maybe this will spark an idea or thought that will help. Art -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Still struggling with iPhone, ISA and SSL certs... We've broken this down into several steps trying to get this to work. We backed away from using the iPhone and used a Windows Mobile device to connect to the Exchange server using our internal wireless network without SSL and was able to get that to work through OWA, but the ActiveSync is still not working. We're getting Your account in Microsoft Exchange Server does not have permission to sync with your current settings. We've checked Outlook Mobile Access and Outlook Web Access settings and they're both enabled. We've Google this and tried just about everything we've found and still not working. For those who just tuned in, we eventually want to get this working running an iPhone through an ISA 2006 server to Exchange 2003. -Paul -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Still struggling with iPhone, ISA and SSL certs... Huh? PKI is relatively simple technology. Usually both parties need to trust a mutual third party (a CA). A similar concept to Kerberos or even AD in general (both clients and servers trust DCs) The tricky part about PKI is all the processes you have around managing your CA, key escrow etc. What is the actual issue you are facing? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, 21 August 2009 10:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Still struggling with iPhone, ISA and SSL certs... As the Security Admin and I are still trying to get the hell-spawned-demonic-iPhone-from-the-putrid-cesspool-of-caustic-industri al-waste-products to work through our ISA, we referred back to the ISA 2006 Migration Guide by Syngress. The SA came in the morning and showed me the following section in the book: The topic of Certificate Authorities (CAs)and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is usually enough to drive many administrators away from even considering SSL. There are a number of reasons for this: - The available documentation on certificate authorities and PKI, in general, is difficult to understand. - The subject has the potential to be extremely complex. - You need to learn an entirely new vocabulary to understand the CAs and PKI. Often the documentation on these subjects doesn't define the new words, or they use equally arcane terms to define the arcane term for which you're trying to get the definition. - There doesn't seem to be any support for the network and firewall administrator who just wants to get a CA setup and running so that he can use certificates for SSL and L2TP/IPSec authentication and encryption. Boy, that just seems to sew it up in a nutshell, doesn't it? You'd think that if this opinion is as common as I believe it to be, somebody out there could simplify the process somewhat... *thunk* *thunk* *thunk* (head banging against desk...) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win7 on an Adaptec 29160
Just wondering but what if you started with Vista x64 and then did an upgrade to Windows 7? I know it would be a little more work doing two installs but would it keep working or flag the SCSI controller as not supported? Art -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 on an Adaptec 29160 Given that controller is so old they likely removed support for it! Adaptec doesn't even have a Vista driver so I presume your fsck'ed :( I wouldn't hold your breath for a 7 driver. Time for a new PC:) jlc -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 on an Adaptec 29160 I don't suppose any of you have succeeded in installing Win7 onto a SCSI disk attached to an Adaptec 29160 controller? Vista x64 is just dandy, it has the adpu160m driver to run on that controller, and I thought Win7's driver model was almost the same as Vista's, hrmph. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Trend Micro Client Outbreak - Need to remove it from Domain ...fast
From the Web Console click on Security Settings. You should see groups listed on the left. Click on Desktops. Computers should be listed there. Highlight a computer and click Remove. Of the two choices choose Uninstall the selected agents and click Apply. That should remove the files from the computer. He pushed out the software by adding the computers and choosing to remote install probably. Offhand I'm not aware of a script to remove the software via a GPO. I'm sure it could be done given the time to figure it out. Might be quicker to just use the Trend console based on the number of clients. -Original Message- From: aci [mailto:tkcont...@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 12:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Trend Micro Client Outbreak - Need to remove it from Domain ...fast TIA to any and all replies... Fell into a situation where a previous employee installed Trend/Micro SMB to a test server on the domain. He somehow managed to push out countless client installations to various XP and possibly Vista workstations before he got canned. Trouble is, this is reeking havoc with the SAV console which is no longer able to communicate with most of the managed clients who now may or may not have the T/M AV software on them. I am at crunch time, having to now clean up this mess, as management wants to know who is and is not protected via a properly configured SAV client. Rather than manually audit this situation, I would like to find a way to script the removal of the T/M product via a GPO. Trying to get this done remotely over this weekend as all the PC's are on and there are no users to get in the way of the process and required reboots. I am not a T/M guru by any means, but looking through the console I can't figure out how he managed to push out the clients, nor how to initiate a removal of the clients from the system. Any initial ideas for scripting this would be greatly appreciated ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT: consumer routers resetting to default
Thought I would ask and see if others have experienced this. During the past two weeks I have had customers call and ask them to help them with getting their Internet access working again at their house. In the five cases that I have seen all of the routers have been reset to default. All are made by Linksys, are different models, wireless, had been setup with security and working fine for over a year. After entering the information again the clients can access the Internet fine. Seems strange to me that would happen to this many devices within a relative short period of time. Thanks Art ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: consumer routers resetting to default
That's what I was thinking after the fourth one. Some new thing that was working its way around. Three of them I set up and have remote management disabled, WPA2 configured with a long passphrase, long admin password (16 characters), all the good stuff that we all do. It made me wonder what was going on. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: consumer routers resetting to default That's odd, all right. Can't say as I've had that happen to me before. Wonder if maybe there's some new exploit for routers of a certain chipset? I know that whenever I flash a Linksys WRT with DD-WRT, it reminds you to make some changes to make it more difficult to hack (things such as disabling remote management, etc.) By any chance did these routers have remote management enabled? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: consumer routers resetting to default Thought I would ask and see if others have experienced this. During the past two weeks I have had customers call and ask them to help them with getting their Internet access working again at their house. In the five cases that I have seen all of the routers have been reset to default. All are made by Linksys, are different models, wireless, had been setup with security and working fine for over a year. After entering the information again the clients can access the Internet fine. Seems strange to me that would happen to this many devices within a relative short period of time. Thanks Art Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.12.92/2203 - Release Date: 06/26/09 05:53:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: consumer routers resetting to default
Thanks for the link. The few articles I saw when I searched were from 2004 -2006. I should have read more to see the current articles. Thanks. From: Christopher Nicholson [mailto:christopher.nichol...@sjrb.ca] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: consumer routers resetting to default See half way down through this link: http://www.freeantivirushelp.com/antivirus_security_updates/antivirus_exploi t_router/trend_micro_exploit_router_exploit.html Thank you in advance. Chris Nicholson Lead, Delivery Services IT Delivery Services SHAW ) Communications (: (403) 716-6527 Cell:(403) 470-9816 Fax: (403) 781-4965 * mailto:christopher.nnichol...@sjrb.ca christopher.nichol...@sjrb.ca ACCOUNTABLEBALANCECUSTOMER FOCUSEDINTEGRITYLOYALTY POSITIVE, CAN DO ATTITUDETEAM PLAYER There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: consumer routers resetting to default That's what I was thinking after the fourth one. Some new thing that was working its way around. Three of them I set up and have remote management disabled, WPA2 configured with a long passphrase, long admin password (16 characters), all the good stuff that we all do. It made me wonder what was going on. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: consumer routers resetting to default That's odd, all right. Can't say as I've had that happen to me before. Wonder if maybe there's some new exploit for routers of a certain chipset? I know that whenever I flash a Linksys WRT with DD-WRT, it reminds you to make some changes to make it more difficult to hack (things such as disabling remote management, etc.) By any chance did these routers have remote management enabled? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: consumer routers resetting to default Thought I would ask and see if others have experienced this. During the past two weeks I have had customers call and ask them to help them with getting their Internet access working again at their house. In the five cases that I have seen all of the routers have been reset to default. All are made by Linksys, are different models, wireless, had been setup with security and working fine for over a year. After entering the information again the clients can access the Internet fine. Seems strange to me that would happen to this many devices within a relative short period of time. Thanks Art Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.12.92/2203 - Release Date: 06/26/09 05:53:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: consumer routers resetting to default
I thought that at a couple of places but when I asked if the kids might have the answer was no. So I left it at that. The others there are no kids. And when I went to a couple of places the thin layer of dust indicated it hadn't been touched in a while. And living near Phoenix, Arizona this time of year the heat issue was discussed but none of them were warm or hot. So I kind of dismissed heat being a factor. But I have worked on two different Sony Media PCs that are a few years old that were having hard drive issues. Both computers I had to replace Maxtor drives. They were so hot I could barely hold them. Did the freezer trick with both of them and copied all the files off so the owners were happy about that. It's just been a strange week around here with a lot of weird things people asking me to fix. -Original Message- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: consumer routers resetting to default Chris, I don't know if it is just me but those articles are very badly written and offer no links or data to back up the claims? Art, a long shot [considering the number of calls you made in two weeks] but could it not be related to heat or bored children pressing the reset microswitch for long enough to return to default settings? -- Peter van Houten On the 26/06/2009 22:54, Christopher Nicholson wrote the following: /See half way down through this link:/ / / /http://www.freeantivirushelp.com/antivirus_security_updates/antivirus_exploit_router/trend_micro_exploit_router_exploit.html/ / / / / /Thank you in advance./ * * */Chris Nicholson/* /Lead, Delivery Services/ /IT Delivery Services /*/SHAW/**/ ) /*/Communications/ (: (403) 716-6527 Cell:(403) 470-9816 Fax: (403) 781-4965 * *christopher.nichol...@sjrb.ca mailto:christopher.nnichol...@sjrb.ca* *ACCOUNTABLE ** BALANCE** ** CUSTOMER FOCUSED** ** INTEGRITY ** LOYALTY ** POSITIVE, CAN DO ATTITUDE** **TEAM PLAYER*** * * */“There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t”/* / / *From:* Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2009 2:25 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: consumer routers resetting to default That’s what I was thinking after the fourth one. Some new thing that was working its way around. Three of them I set up and have remote management disabled, WPA2 configured with a long passphrase, long admin password (16 characters), all the good stuff that we all do. It made me wonder what was going on. *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2009 12:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: consumer routers resetting to default That’s odd, all right. Can’t say as I’ve had that happen to me before… Wonder if maybe there’s some new “exploit” for routers of a certain chipset? I know that whenever I flash a Linksys WRT with DD-WRT, it reminds you to make some changes to make it more difficult to hack (things such as disabling remote management, etc.) By any chance did these routers have remote management enabled? John-AldrichTile-Tools *From:* Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2009 12:29 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT: consumer routers resetting to default Thought I would ask and see if others have experienced this. During the past two weeks I have had customers call and ask them to help them with getting their Internet access working again at their house. In the five cases that I have seen all of the routers have been reset to default. All are made by Linksys, are different models, wireless, had been setup with security and working fine for over a year. After entering the information again the clients can access the Internet fine. Seems strange to me that would happen to this many devices within a relative short period of time. Thanks Art Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.12.92/2203 - Release Date: 06/26/09 05:53:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Building new server using answer file
I do my installs with the SBS 2008 DVD. Put the answer file on a USB stick and the install will look for the USB drive automatically. You might have to change the server BIOS settings to not boot off of USB drives. You will get the 'unable to find files' message if you don't. Pretty straight forward in my experience. Art From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Building new server using answer file I'm putting together a new Dell PE840 for a SBS migration from 2003 - 2008, using the sbsmigration.com system. I have an answer file that I need to use while installing SBS2K8, but this is my first experience in doing so, and I'm unclear on exactly how to get the OS install to pick up and use the answer file. Should I be doing the install straight off the SBS disk, or start using Dell's build utility? Appreciate any help. -- David _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Was RE: Drobo Pro - Now Hyper-V blue screen???
Remember I have a Thecus N5200 Pro. After that last episode I sent an e-mail to support. Received an acknowledgement email back and nothing else. Checked a few days after with no response. I was going to call but forgot. Your email jogged my memory and I have a note to call them. I did see they had a new firmware version that mentioned some iSCSI fixes. I have downloaded and applied the firmware update but haven't done anything since. Got sidetracked with a couple of other things. The plan is to start fresh with the new firmware and see if that improved things. Art From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:ees...@usgs.gov] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Was RE: Drobo Pro - Now Hyper-V blue screen??? Art- I haven't been on the list for a while, and I did some scanning but didn't find any further posts from you - have you had any more success? How's performance of the Drobo Pro? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar From: Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 05/21/2009 07:29 PM Subject: Was RE: Drobo Pro - Now Hyper-V blue screen??? _ This has been an interesting experience so far. It shows that I need to read more to figure out what is happening. To pick up from where I left off earlier after adding a Virtual Machine to the N5200 Pro via iSCSI. Bouncing back between the physical server, two virtual servers and a Windows 7 RC machine ( I know using beta software to test stuff) I get a message about the file system having errors and needing to be fixed. Will look at that later and remove the Win 7 machine and use a XP or Vista machine. Everything appeared to be working fine. I could stop/start the NAS VM without issue. Next step was to test what would happen if the power went out. So I shut down all three VMs on the server and powered off the server. Since this is a test box there was no UPS. Powered on the server and waited. The physical server boots and then loads a virtual SBS2008 and five minutes later starts Server 2008 Standard and after another 5 minutes starts the test VM from the N5200 Pro NAS via iSCSI. Except it didn't work out that way. After a while I logged on to the physical server and started Hyper-V Manager. Hmmm.. the NAS VM was off. The first two VMs (each on a separate disk on the physical server) booted just fine. OK maybe I forgot to set the auto startup correctly. No it's set correctly. Try to start the NAS VM and nothing except file not found. What! Looked on the physical server for the network connection and found nothing there. It was blank. Alright I must have set up something wrong. Checked the settings on the server and NAS and all look correct. In Hyper-V Manager created a new hard drive again using the iSCSI connection to the NAS. Then create a new virtual server and it creates the folders and installs fine. Install Integration Services and it looks good. Change the Time Zone and join to the SBS2008 domain. Joins fine. Sits overnight. Checked for updates needed and there are several. Install the updates and reboot, Comes up fine. Check for updates again and see the .NET 3.5 one. Click install, goes through install and shows reboot now. Click reboot, look away, look back and see a blue screen in the NAS VM. Now what did I do? Looked at the screen and went to get a pen to write down the error but not thinking click start the VM again. No go. Get a message about the file or directory being corrupted or unreadable. While deciding I need to start over from scratch, I've decided to update this adventure, go get something to eat and drink and start over again without Win 7 this time. From: Eric E Eskam [ mailto:ees...@usgs.gov mailto:ees...@usgs.gov] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drobo Pro Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/19/2009 01:01:56 PM: Added N5200 Pro and configured for iSCSI. Ah, thought you had a Drobo Pro. I have been looking at Thecus - they seem to be a tight competitor to Qnap. The more I think about it, for the price if it performs you can't beat the Drobo Pro - even if I can't boot off of it. I think I'm going to go ahead and order one as I just don't need all the extra features that Thecus and Qnap offer. I'll post back once I get it and have a chance to test it out. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful
RE: Has anyone seen....
How about Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/foundation.aspx -Original Message- From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@xpresstel.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Has anyone seen http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/dd252609.aspx -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Has anyone seen Holy cow. Google is turning up a Windows FE edition. Forensics Environment. http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2009/02/windows-fe-details-teased- out-of-web.html -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Has anyone seen Only premium that I am aware of is small business server premium -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Has anyone seen Haven't heard of Windows 2008 Premium either... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/editions-overview.aspx Could it be you're using the wrong combination of media/keys? The only reference to FE I've seen is Front End when you're talking about a Front End/Back End configuration. - Andy O. From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Has anyone seen Sorry, technician is onsite and I got my wires crossed... He is trying to install Windows 2008 Premium, but it is coming up saying Windows 2008 FE. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 to SBS 2008
Microsoft has some guides and I think Jeff Middleton has updated his swing method for SBS2008. Or you can look here for some early info. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sbs/standard-server-2003-migration-to-sbs-2008-part-1/ -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 to SBS 2008 Anyone know of any guides on how to upgrade from Windows 2003 Exchange 2003 (Multiple servers) to SBS 2008 ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Faxing solution
I have several customers that use FACSys. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Faxing solution Hello all. We are currently faxing about 3000 pages a month and receiving around 1000. Most of the outbound faxes are documents that are printed first then faxed. I'm seeking a better solution and have talked to eFax but they seem pricey. Can you let me know what you use for a fax solution or recommend a vendor? Thanks! Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.gif
RE: Faxing solution
It depends on the company, type of industry, legal requirements and country. While e-mail works for a lot of situations there are some businesses that have to have fax. I agree that e-mail and a PDF of the document can suffice in most cases, in reality not everyone is there yet. From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Faxing solution Well, I'm impressed or should I be depressed that people are still using fax technology. We have a couple of fax machines, but it's rare that they get used what with something called email. When I started working here 13 years ago, the faxes got used a lot, but over the years it's been reduced to a minimum. We've found that most documents begin life on a computer, so there's not much benefit to using fax. Has anyone considered other alternatives to faxing? Murray _ From: Davies,Matt [mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Faxing solution GFI works for us as well, we have used it with a number of different fax cards, bri and pri cards from Eicon/dialogic and the Dialogic VOIP trunk integration with our Avaya PBX. Matt From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: 12 June 2009 21:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Faxing solution I've used both FaxMaker and RightFax in past lives. FaxMaker was great for both in and outbound faxing while RightFax was very expensive and comparatively a huge pain in the keister to administer. It did work though if you happen to have extra dollars that you feel you must throw around. YMMV TVK From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Faxing solution We use GFI FaxMaker. Never had any major problems with it, but when we did found the support to be good. We don't have that kind of volume, though, and only use it for outbound. The inbound features sound good, but we haven't used them. _ From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Faxing solution Hello all. We are currently faxing about 3000 pages a month and receiving around 1000. Most of the outbound faxes are documents that are printed first then faxed. I'm seeking a better solution and have talked to eFax but they seem pricey. Can you let me know what you use for a fax solution or recommend a vendor? Thanks! Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. This e-mail (including all attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately at h...@generalatlantic.com. Thank You. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.gif
RE: Internet based backup
I365 was bought by Seagate not Symantec. From: E. Peeters [mailto:mlf2...@ibarras.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet based backup I signed my current contract a little bit less than two years ago, so my pricing isn't the most accurate, but at the time, we were talking about $15 per GB stored on their server (after deltaization/compression). They also charged a one-time fee for a number of plug-ins, such as open file manager, sql, oracle and exchange. I do believe they have all inclusive plans now. Contract's up for renewal in September, we'll see what Symantic did to the cost. _ From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet based backup Looks interesting. Any idea of pricing? From: E. Peeters [mailto:mlf2...@ibarras.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet based backup i365 (eVault before being acquired by Symantec) i365.com/data-backups Best vendor I have, it simply works! No if/but/when... One single service issue in over 5 years as a customer. _ From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet based backup Does anyone have any recommendations for the software piece of a solution like the one described below. Something that keeps track of the syncing and does at least file level dedupe? Block level would be great, but I havent found a truly affordable product that does it. Thanks, RS From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet based backup John, We do hybrid solutions for a few clients with similar requirements. The size itself isnt an issue. We install an onsite backup unit (basically a NAS box running an Intel processor and Windows) and a dedicated ADSL2+ line (24mb down and 2mb up). The first backup is then made and copied to a smaller NAS which we provide. Its picked up by a courier and brought back here where we copy the data to the servers. The offsite feature is then enabled on the onsite backup unit and the next backup happens over the internet. We charge a monthly fee, starting for this kind of service at £200 a month depending on storage requirements (I guess around $300 per month currently). Using standard tech (compression and data delta) the actually data sent over the internet is reduced to a minimum. Im not sure where you are in the states, but Im sure a company can do a similar service to this as its all based on standard tech. Olly -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management www.g2support.com From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 20 May 2009 16:21 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Internet based backup Im looking at adding an internet based backup service as a way to have an off-site backup for DR purposes. I am afraid that the initial backup (approximately ½ terabyte) would kill our internet connection, though :-/ What I need is something that is 1) low-cost (or at least not going to charge an arm and three legs) 2) secure and 3) redundant (both redundant servers and redundant internet connection.) Anyone got any suggestions??? John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Was RE: Drobo Pro - Now Hyper-V blue screen???
This has been an interesting experience so far. It shows that I need to read more to figure out what is happening. To pick up from where I left off earlier after adding a Virtual Machine to the N5200 Pro via iSCSI. Bouncing back between the physical server, two virtual servers and a Windows 7 RC machine ( I know using beta software to test stuff) I get a message about the file system having errors and needing to be fixed. Will look at that later and remove the Win 7 machine and use a XP or Vista machine. Everything appeared to be working fine. I could stop/start the NAS VM without issue. Next step was to test what would happen if the power went out. So I shut down all three VMs on the server and powered off the server. Since this is a test box there was no UPS. Powered on the server and waited. The physical server boots and then loads a virtual SBS2008 and five minutes later starts Server 2008 Standard and after another 5 minutes starts the test VM from the N5200 Pro NAS via iSCSI. Except it didn't work out that way. After a while I logged on to the physical server and started Hyper-V Manager. Hmmm.. the NAS VM was off. The first two VMs (each on a separate disk on the physical server) booted just fine. OK maybe I forgot to set the auto startup correctly. No it's set correctly. Try to start the NAS VM and nothing except file not found. What! Looked on the physical server for the network connection and found nothing there. It was blank. Alright I must have set up something wrong. Checked the settings on the server and NAS and all look correct. In Hyper-V Manager created a new hard drive again using the iSCSI connection to the NAS. Then create a new virtual server and it creates the folders and installs fine. Install Integration Services and it looks good. Change the Time Zone and join to the SBS2008 domain. Joins fine. Sits overnight. Checked for updates needed and there are several. Install the updates and reboot, Comes up fine. Check for updates again and see the .NET 3.5 one. Click install, goes through install and shows reboot now. Click reboot, look away, look back and see a blue screen in the NAS VM. Now what did I do? Looked at the screen and went to get a pen to write down the error but not thinking click start the VM again. No go. Get a message about the file or directory being corrupted or unreadable. While deciding I need to start over from scratch, I've decided to update this adventure, go get something to eat and drink and start over again without Win 7 this time. From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:ees...@usgs.gov] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drobo Pro Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/19/2009 01:01:56 PM: Added N5200 Pro and configured for iSCSI. Ah, thought you had a Drobo Pro. I have been looking at Thecus - they seem to be a tight competitor to Qnap. The more I think about it, for the price if it performs you can't beat the Drobo Pro - even if I can't boot off of it. I think I'm going to go ahead and order one as I just don't need all the extra features that Thecus and Qnap offer. I'll post back once I get it and have a chance to test it out. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Drobo Pro
I got curious after sending the last message that I tried a few things. Here's the original test server with three SATA drives. Drive 1 for host running Server 2008 Hyper-V. Drive 2 for SBS2008 virtual. Drive 3 for Server 2008 virtual. Added N5200 Pro and configured for iSCSI. In virtual SBS2008 use iSCSI initiator and connected to the N5200 as additional storage. In virtual Server2008 use iSCSI initiator and connected to the N5200 as additional storage. Both virtual servers see extra storage. Yesterday configured host server to use the N5200 via iSCSI, created vhd on the N5200 and installed Server 2008 to that vhd on the N5200. Used host Hyper-V Manager to configure settings for new virtual server and then told it to start the VM. VM started without a problem. I have the three VMs configured to start at 5 minute intervals. Next step is to power off the server and start it back up to simulate a long power failure and see if all three start. No I haven't done any speed tests yet. Figured I would try to get everything setup and working and then do some of the other tests. The only forum I looked at was the Thecus forum listed on their web site. Answered a couple of questions I had by reading there. I admit I didn't look around much to compare what else was out there. I was looking for something with a little more to offer customers, a chance to experiment with iSCSI some without spending too much and it had to work with Server 2008. A few I looked at didn't have 2008 support yet or it was only in the more expensive stuff. I'll have to look at the Drobo stuff. Art From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:ees...@usgs.gov] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drobo Pro Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/18/2009 05:02:37 PM: I plan on trying to boot from it this week if I can get some time. Please keep us informed! Have you had a chance to benchmark/speed test it? Light is being polite. Some things I have found by just trying things and some from the forums. Which forum are you using? I haven't decided that the lack of information is that Thecus doesn't want to do it or they haven't realized the potential. I think a little of both. From what I gathered, they were genuinely surprised at the level of interest in iSCSI in the SMB space. Thanks for your feedback! And even though I said Qlogic twice yesterday, Qlogic just makes iSCSI accellerator NICs - the other array I was looking at is Qnap: http://www.qnap.com/ http://www.qnap.com/ One of the nice things I like about Drobo, and compels to keep looking at them despite their lightweight technical information and support is their volume/array management. Qnap is close, but no where near as simple as plug in the disk and the array figures it out like Drobo is. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Drobo Pro
I plan on trying to boot from it this week if I can get some time. Light is being polite. Some things I have found by just trying things and some from the forums. I haven't decided that the lack of information is that Thecus doesn't want to do it or they haven't realized the potential. -Original Message- From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:ees...@usgs.gov] Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 5:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drobo Pro Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/15/2009 04:03:03 PM: I'm not using any special adaptors yet, just what's included normally. So far everything works fine. But I will say their manuals ... are not the best. Thanks, Art. So I take it you aren't booting from it? Since their array management is pretty simple, am I to assume the manuals are light in the management of the iSCSI side of things? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Drobo Pro
Kind of. I currently have a server running Hyper-V server that is running two virtual servers. SBS 2008 and another 2008 Server 64-bit. Both servers are virtually local on the box. They attach to a Thecus N5200Pro via iSCSI for additional storage space. The next step is to create a couple more virtual drives on the Thecus and see if I can get them to run. I'm not using any special adaptors yet, just what's included normally. So far everything works fine. But I will say their manuals ... are not the best. Art -Original Message- From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:ees...@usgs.gov] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Drobo Pro Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote on 05/14/2009 01:44:02 PM: Anyone using a Drobo Pro in any sort of environment? Any thoughts or experiences about it you wouldn't mind sharing? Great minds think alike - I was going to ask about using a Drobo Pro with SBS 2003 I found some PCI express Qlogic iSCSI cards for $400 - I'm seriously thinking about picking one up, getting a Drobo Pro and converting my SBS server to it - including getting it to boot from the Drobo Pro via the hardware support for iSCSI boot in the Qlogic. Was wondering if anyone else had tried it yet - oh well, I can be a trail blazer :-) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: I want all new users to have a roaming profile - HOW?
If I remember right using the SBS 2003 Create a new template allows you to do this. Haven't had to create a new user for some time but I would use the template account and it would create the user and allow them to have that roaming profile. Art From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I want all new users to have a roaming profile - HOW? Aha - but NOT if you use SBS and use the user template in the create a new user wizard it doesnt! Sorry though - my bad, should have stated its SBS. G On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Klint Price - ArizonaITPro kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Create a template user, and for the path put \\server\profile$\templateuser when you copy the account, it will rename the templateuser to the new account Klint Gavin Wilby wrote: Hi guys, In the old NT days you could create a template account and give it a roaming path such as \\server\profile$\%username% and if you then created a new user using that template it would always give them the same RP. 2003 server doesnt seem to do that AFAICS, and the TechNet article I have found states you must use ADSIEdit to do this. There *must* be an easier way. Isnt there? -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk http://www.stoof.co.uk/ -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk Sent from Isle Of Man ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: I want all new users to have a roaming profile - HOW?
I dialed in to a client SBS and looked at the docs I created. You're right. The template doesn't save that field as you would like. I would modify the profile tab after the account was created. So much for my memory being good. It must be the heat. From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I want all new users to have a roaming profile - HOW? Hi, Nope - doesnt work :( On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote: If I remember right using the SBS 2003 Create a new template allows you to do this. Haven't had to create a new user for some time but I would use the template account and it would create the user and allow them to have that roaming profile. Art From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I want all new users to have a roaming profile - HOW? Aha - but NOT if you use SBS and use the user template in the create a new user wizard it doesnt! Sorry though - my bad, should have stated its SBS. G On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Klint Price - ArizonaITPro kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Create a template user, and for the path put \\server\profile$\templateuser when you copy the account, it will rename the templateuser to the new account Klint Gavin Wilby wrote: Hi guys, In the old NT days you could create a template account and give it a roaming path such as \\server\profile$\%username% and if you then created a new user using that template it would always give them the same RP. 2003 server doesnt seem to do that AFAICS, and the TechNet article I have found states you must use ADSIEdit to do this. There *must* be an easier way. Isnt there? -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk http://www.stoof.co.uk/ -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk Sent from Isle Of Man -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk Sent from Isle Of Man ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Server 2003 DNS issue - Fixed
I got this working but not exactly sure what made it start working. Called Qwest and they tested the lines and said things were working fine from their perspective. I figured that. Had the office reboot the DSL modem. They did this while I was connected since I lost connectivity. Logged back in and same error messages. While working remotely deleted DNS from the box, rebooted and reinstalled DNS. Ran SBS Connect to Internet wizard. Same problem. Checked everything again with other working SBS boxes and all settings were correct. Frustrated quit and went out and worked on my car. Saturday morning went to the office with my laptop. Checked everything locally just in case being remote was an issue. Same error messages. Configured laptop with server wan settings, connected to the DSL modem and same error messages. What! Must be a Qwest issue somewhere. Called Qwest support and tried to explain what was happening and what I had determined to the woman. Went through the basic support steps and she said it was a server issue. Uh no it wasn't could you check with someone else. On hold for a while, line got disconnected, waited five minutes with no call back and called in again. Got a different tech this time but he actually knew what I was talking about. Went through the basic support steps again with the same result. Put on hold while he went to check on some things and talk with another tech. Things didn't make sense so we started from the beginning again with the basic support steps. After rebooting the DSL modem, open command prompt, ping by IP working. Ping by name working. OK what changed. Open IE and could get to web pages. Checked Exchange queues and saw mail going out. Asked what changed and he said they didn't do anything. We tested a few more things with good results and then closed the call. Client is happy but I wish I knew what changed so I know if I see this again. -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server 2003 DNS issue How is external DNS set up? Forwarders? Root hints? I usually use forwarders. See if you can ping the listed forwarders; then try a Nslookup using those IPs as the server. Any firewall rules that might have been inadvertently changed? It sounds like DNS queries aren't getting replies from outside. Does internal DNS work? You might throw wireshark on the box and see what the DNS queries do... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server 2003 DNS issue Have a client that is having trouble with Internet connectivity and Exchange sending mail externally. Has a SBS 2003 server up to date as of two weeks ago, nothing changed since then that I know of or can see. They can send and receive internal Exchange just fine. Receiving mail externally works fine. Outbound external mail is sitting in the queue. Error message is Unable to bind to the destination server in DNS. Opening IE displays the Page can not be found error message. Nothing in the event logs. Rebooted server, no effect. Ping by IP works. Ping by name doesn't. Error can not find server. Nslookup fails. Checked out several KB articles and all suggestions shown have been configured correctly on the server. Reran the Connect to Internet wizard, no change. Anyone have any ideas while I look some more. It really looks like DNS is broke on this box. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
