RE: Steve Jobs on Flash
HTC EVO is supposed to have flash IIRC. On that note a good friend of ours is a fashion designer and shes been hired to do a new Apple commercial. They are shooting this weekend in NY, she had to get 100 'jobs' look alikes at different ages and dress them all up the same. I joked that it was the Eminem awards from a few years back so I guess we will see when it comes out. Just made me think about it with the 'ego' comment(s). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SBS Console Error
I found the fix for that sbs 2008 outlook popping for password, it was in IIS you have to tell it to ignore client certificates on the Autodiscovery and OAB. I can try to dig up the article but I did that and never saw that issue again. -Original Message- From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS Console Error 99.% that is your issue. Happens on new installs too. Warning if it fails, all of your Exchange and web services will be disabled and you will need to manually change them. Freaked me out the first time it happened. :) Greg -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS Console Error Check this out and see if it helps for the OL issue... http://wintivity.wigital.net/sbs/exchange-2007-sp1-update-rollup-9-fix-o utlo ok-pop-up-sbs-2008/ *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS Console Error Good morning folks. We're having an odd issue with a site and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas: Windows SBS 2008, Migrated by someone else from 2003. Some newly created users get Outlook errors when connecting from inside the network. They are logged onto the domain, but when they start outlook, they get prompted to log in. They continue to get the same prompt for 5-10 times, then they get connected and get e-mails but outlook still says it needs password. On the server side, there is an issue which I think is related: When creating a user via SBS console, there is an error at the end stating: Powershell pipeline returned an error. Please consult your log file for further detail. Nothing interesting in the event logs and nothing in C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\. Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Thanks Dave ~ 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: time limit software
So the issue is the job is all computer/phone based, and is about 90% commission. So a lot of the guys want to sit there 12 hours a day i.e. to make more money. However, there is obviously an issue with that. If they cant get their leads on the lead system then they can't work. i.e. the computer issue. Because it's a high volume sales floor open from 7am - 1am people come and go as they please. Some guys leave in the day to do personal stuff, or go to the gym or whatever and come back for evening sales or West coast sales. They aren't really looking to have them punch in/out since it has no real effect on their pay. The office would love to just have them work as much as they wanted, which is what they used to do, but all the new banking regulations put in place are forcing them to stop working. (Go figure). The idea being now that we had to hire more people to compensate for the hours. (2 guys at 60hours now is 3 guys at 40 hours) they want to just shut the user down after XX hours. The logon times option doesn't work either as described above. I know it exists out there because the old bank we were working with used it. I just haven't been able to contact them to get the answer. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: time limit software For a grand they could get wasppro time management with a biometric clock. You can set it to only allow punches between certain hours of the day. James - Original Message - From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists mailto:li...@levelfive.us To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 4:09 PM Subject: time limit software Ive been tasked on finding some software for a small office (40-50 users) that wants to limit computer usage to 40 hrs / week so no one gets overtime. One of the banks that I consulted with was using it but I never asked what it was, they included it into AD as a group and would put the computers in the AD group and they would lock users out at 40 hours. The stuff Im finding just googling is turning up all kind of parental control stuff which would probably work to start but not a real viable solution. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
time limit software
Ive been tasked on finding some software for a small office (40-50 users) that wants to limit computer usage to 40 hrs / week so no one gets overtime. One of the banks that I consulted with was using it but I never asked what it was, they included it into AD as a group and would put the computers in the AD group and they would lock users out at 40 hours. The stuff Im finding just googling is turning up all kind of parental control stuff which would probably work to start but not a real viable solution. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
dell rant
Ive been a solid dell guy for years but this is about as aggravating as it comes. We have a new server that cannot get the 2.5 15k rpm drives for several weeks due to manufacturing problems. We went and got drives from hp and the drive caddys so everything is great right? NOT, if you have a new Dell 700 raid controller you can only use Dell certified drives, the drives are 'blocked' on the controller From the manual troubleshootingsection: Issue: One or more physical disks is displayed as Blocked and can not be configured. Corrective Action PERC H700 and PERC H800 cards support only Dell-certified SAS and SATA hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD). If you are using a Dell-certified drive but are still experiencing this problem, perform the following actions: 1. Check the backplane for damage. 2. Check the SAS cables. 3. Reseat the physical disk. 4. Contact Dell Technical Support if the problem persists ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
perfmon w/ teamed nics
I have a client that's been having some issues with connectivity so they put perfmon on there and run it against the team and it sits at 100 bytes, even though the packet counters are much much less. Im wondering if I just need to monitor the individual network card instead, or is 'bandwidth interface' just the wrong thing to watch anyway. Im poking around but I think looking up the wrong info im trying to read up on running perfom w/ teamed nics.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: perfmon w/ teamed nics
Thanks, we already have HP Procurve's management tool and syslogging on. We do get a lot of excessive broadcasts which we are working to cut down, but I think the perform 'bandwidth' utility is simply the total bandwidth available, since it never moved from 100 . the onsite tech was claiming 'see see I told you it's the network' and Im like well its 2am no one is working and it never moved from that number . heh Im putting Orions' network toolset on , which im not familiar but heard good things so no time like the present. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: perfmon w/ teamed nics Probably want to look at the individual NIC. That said without more info and some elaboration of issues with connectivity, I wouldn't know where to suggest starting. My only gut reaction is check for a speed/duplex mismatch or other errors on the port. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: perfmon w/ teamed nics I have a client that's been having some issues with connectivity so they put perfmon on there and run it against the team and it sits at 100 bytes, even though the packet counters are much much less. Im wondering if I just need to monitor the individual network card instead, or is 'bandwidth interface' just the wrong thing to watch anyway. Im poking around but I think looking up the wrong info im trying to read up on running perfom w/ teamed nics.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
interesting web tools
www.serversniff.net I was sent there to test some ssl ciphers and seems that they have a nice handful of web based tools.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Migration from Mac Mail to Entourage
A few years ago I used an app called alchemy wizard or something and was able to convert from Mac's email to Outlook Express which I could then run outlook and let outlook detect and import it. It had a bunch of different conversion options. I don't know the last time it was updated, but works on MacOSX http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/ -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Migration from Mac Mail to Entourage Entourage handles public folders and exchange calendars sort of ok. But it is a horrible program. If you have a mailbox of any size you will deal with database issues causing all kinds of flakiness. Bill Holstrom, Don wrote: This being a museum, we have lots of those on Macs. I have tried and tried, but even the latest Macs with the latest Mac and Office don't hook up to Exchange in the best, most full way. So I put Parallels on each Mac, give them a second screen and run Office Outlook that way so they have full e-mail. I think the latest Office for Mac, due sooner or later, will help, but... -Original Message- From: Juma, Lumumba [mailto:lcj...@icipe.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Migration from Mac Mail to Entourage Hi All, My boss has finally agreed to move to Entourage from Mac Mail. I find Entourage a lot more easier having worked with Outlook in terms of sharing Calendar, contacts and inbox folder and access to public folder resources with Exchnage 2007. However, the third party tools to export his large inbox to import into Entourage seem to have hitches. Anybody who has done this successfully? Will appreciate your help. I also want to change his iphone to Exchange ActiveSync. Thanks, Lumumba. ~ 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 7 concurrent connections
You may have seen this, it only mentioned win7 beta but goes into the registry in vista and 2008 server so maybe win7 is the same. http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/10895-RemoveWAT-A-safer-activation- solution. From: jbech...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:jbech...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 concurrent connections Anyone know how many concurrent connection are allowed on a windows 7 PC? I know in XP it was 10, just can't find any info on how many it is in windows 7, also is it different based on the OS version, e.g. Pro, Ultimate. Thanks, Josh ACTS360 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Equipment in Atlanta
Just curious if anyone knows of a local place to pick up enterprise equipment in Atlanta, GA. We are up here deploying a network at telx in downtown and no one even knows where an office depot is let alone a place where I can get a 24 port rack switch J On a side note if any consultants are up in the area, contact me off list as we are in need of some local support here. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers
I have a few customers on postini that have always had it. I experienced just the other day a pretty big problem, I had a client moving from dual t1's to a 10mb fiber, we planned to migrate them this weekend and their pri's went down so we just accelerated and moved them on the fly. They changed their DNS and MX records and everything, 10 hours later, the only site that was still looking at their OLD mx record WAS postini. When doing traceroutes to mail.mycompany.com it kept trying to old IP, I thought all was well so we never checked it , until their IT admin called to tell me that. putting the IP in manually worked and we were all set but cmon. Also, none of their reports seem to work, could be I dont know how to use them, but when I went in and clicked on some reports they were always just 0. I dont use postini's interface but 3 times in my life so I just kinda went 'hmm' and moved on. -Original Message- From: Juma, Lumumba [mailto:lcj...@icipe.org] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers Some time back, I filled the online form hoping some sales rep will get in touch . Have done that again but no feedback yet. Anybody who has a contact I can use to initiate this? We have a local google office but surprisingly, cant find their contacts anywhere. Lumumba. -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers http://www.google.com/support/appsecurity/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=91334 We do offer some discounts to non-profits that purchase through a sales representative. Contact sales to find out if your non-profit is eligible. As an educational institution, we're paying $1.28 per user per month for filtering and 10-year archiving. There was a one-time $900 setup fee as well. John -Original Message- From: Juma, Lumumba [mailto:lcj...@icipe.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers How much are you paying per mailbox for Postini, do they have pricing for non-profits? -Original Message- From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers We also use Postini. We had it a few years ago, before it was taken over by Google, and had multiple issues that would not go away. We dropped them and went to another provider, which turned out to be even worse. Went back to Postini a few months back and it's been a lot better (so far) than our previous experience with them. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers We use Postini here, too. I bought it for archiving; the filtering was just a fringe benefit. But both seem to be working really well, and we've never experienced any problems with the service (we've been using it for around seven months). John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers I've had great success using Googles's Postini mail filtering for two networks, one with just a dozen users, the other with 125. They also provide enhanced services with mailbagging and archiving. http://www.google.com/postini/compare.html Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Juma, Lumumba lcj...@icipe.org wrote: Hi All, We are using a linux box running spamassasin and want to explore third party providers who offer virus/spam filtering smarthosting services. Can somebody help with references of reliable companies that offer such services? Thanks, Juma. ~ 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/ ~ NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: Semi-OT -- Windows isn't the only O/S with problems
You don't have to convince me, the past few months every time I goto a datacenter I keep seeing people deal with this root/ssh hack/backdoor and see people crying after trying to recover data that was wiped with porn and music from the night before. Just speaking to a vlan/switch guy two days ago told me half his boxes were taken over in about an hour and all they could do was rebuild and restore. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Semi-OT -- Windows isn't the only O/S with problems I've been a long-time linux user and yesterday I installed some updates to my Fedora 11 box at home. All of a sudden I started having problems with my email client not wanting to check one of my email addresses. So, I figured, let's just try shutting down the email client and restarting it. No dice. Now, the email client pops up, but there's a back-end piece called Akonadi that tries to start but fails. I have to give linux props though. this is the first time in a LONG time that something like this has happened. just wanted to let all my fellow Windows admins know that despite the claims to the contrary, Linux isn't perfect either. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: gateway metric question
Oddly enough you have to do the same thing with an NLB in 2008 even though it complains and yells about it, it works and wont route the cluster without a gateway on the physical IP that is bound to the virtual NLB. If you need to do some routing, I would trust a route statement before I let the stack decide how it wants to route packets. On that note, if you are running esx just vlan through and just remove the esx mgmt. layer from your network anyway J From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: gateway metric question Yes they are on on the same segment and there's no need to route. That being said all my VLANS including the ISCSI VLANs are routable between each other. I have a few pc's on dissimilar VLANS that weren't able to resolve the file server, when I added the gateway address to the ISCSI NIC they could then resolve the server name on the LAN Side. _ From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: gateway metric question Are all the iSCSI nodes on the same broadcast segment? If there's no need to route to a different segment, then you don't need a gateway on that NIC. Where did you read that about iSCSI client connectivity suffering without a gateway? None of our iSCSI clients or targets have gateways configured and I've never seen any issues because of it. Hope this helps, RS On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:36 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: 2008 server with a LAN pointing NIC and an ISCSI pointing NIC on separate VLANS. Windows give you an warning if you have a gateway address set for both. But from what I understand it's a bad thing as far as client connectivity if you don't have the gateway entered on the ISCSI NIC. So should I bother setting a higher metric on the LAN facing nic or just let windows figure it out? The ISCSI connector is using IP's and forced out over the ISCSI NIC so DNS doesn't come in to play there. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OpenDNS
I use it in most of my sites, just the free version. Pretty much turn it on, disable the adult, shopping, streaming, and social sites and its all set. There is one that says 'unknown' or something its in the top left and if you turn that on, any site that is *not* categorized gets blocked. I did that a couple times heh From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenDNS There are debates about privacy out there, but I also have found the free version to be very useful. I don't have any definite proof, but at least I get the feeling that having them filter out many known malicious sites is a nice addition to the overall defense in depth strategy we've taken with regard to malware. The ability to administratively block particular domains without modifying your internal DNS is also a nice plus. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:24 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I use the free version and have found zero downsides. Environments of 3, 7, 17, and 55 systems. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 _ From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OpenDNS Sensitivity: Confidential What are some of the benefits, security issues, complaints about using OpenDNS? _ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers
Before you do that check out these guys: www.proxmox.com I used to drop it into my datacenter for individual users, and it worked so well that I purchased their enterprise version with clustering and I have about 5000 mailboxes from different companies and it has worked great with basically no admin work. -Original Message- From: Juma, Lumumba [mailto:lcj...@icipe.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers Hi All, We are using a linux box running spamassasin and want to explore third party providers who offer virus/spam filtering smarthosting services. Can somebody help with references of reliable companies that offer such services? Thanks, Juma. ~ 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: IP gurus ..
True, we found out the problem the hard way. Our voice and data network are configured separately with a 172.16.x.x/255.255.0.0 and our data network 192.168.0./255.255.248.0 with vlans and QOS on the switches. The problem is that the managers need access to the call data and while this has been working for months in this setup stopped working last week although no logical or physical change was made on our data side. I know they are working on integrating the system over our VPN in Israel and I bet they made changes to gateways or similar and just didn’t tell the IT dept. Its working for now even though we still get that extra mysterious hop that I cannot for the life of me determine why. -Original Message- From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP gurus .. I used to work for a Telecom company (I did the IT work), and it was the same way. Their phone systems could not do CIDR, and it always came down to arguments between telecom and IT about it. They weren't going to budge on configuration, I think mainly because they didn't really know how to adjust it. Jay -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP gurus .. Thanks all for the ideas, we think it has something to do with the phone server, because the pbx listens on 192.168.0.1 and 0.2 Both of these IP's have the same result. I think the Avaya has hardcoded subnet masks is the problem, you cant do CIDR it has to be 255.255.255.0 or 255.255.0.0. and it cant be like 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 it has to be 255.255.255.0 . dumb but that’s what they say. So the funny thing is as a test I took my backup server a 192.168.0.114 IP changed the SN to class C, and it still gives me that 'hop' in the middle. We were able to solve our problem, by taking the management computers and putting them into the voice and data network and using the voice IP for the management software connection. Didn’t get much help from Avaya other than 'its your equipment'. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IP gurus .. In addition to the advice from the others, make sure that the MAC address that's responding to the pings is the same as the MAC address of 192.168.0.1 Just sayin' On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:15, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Has anyone seen something like this before? I have a network with 192.168.0.x/22 (255.255.255.248.0) When we goto ping a device @ 192.168.0.1 the reply comes back in 1-3ms so that’s okay, however a tracert yields: 1 * * * 2 1ms 1ms 1ms 192.168.0.1 This is happening only for this one device, I can tracert other devices in the 192.168.0.x or anywhere else and get a simple 1 line response. The reason we are checking this is because our phone gateway is the 192.168.0.1 and people are having some connectivity issues with it The vendor is claiming we have a routing issue even though everything is in the same subnet so there is no ‘routing’ occurring. Im thinking the PBX has the wrong subnet on it but I cant see it until the vendor comes onsite later today… My route table looks correct and even doing the tracert from a 192.168.0.x server I get the same result. ~ 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: IP gurus ..
Thanks all for the ideas, we think it has something to do with the phone server, because the pbx listens on 192.168.0.1 and 0.2 Both of these IP's have the same result. I think the Avaya has hardcoded subnet masks is the problem, you cant do CIDR it has to be 255.255.255.0 or 255.255.0.0. and it cant be like 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 it has to be 255.255.255.0 . dumb but that’s what they say. So the funny thing is as a test I took my backup server a 192.168.0.114 IP changed the SN to class C, and it still gives me that 'hop' in the middle. We were able to solve our problem, by taking the management computers and putting them into the voice and data network and using the voice IP for the management software connection. Didn’t get much help from Avaya other than 'its your equipment'. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IP gurus .. In addition to the advice from the others, make sure that the MAC address that's responding to the pings is the same as the MAC address of 192.168.0.1 Just sayin' On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:15, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Has anyone seen something like this before? I have a network with 192.168.0.x/22 (255.255.255.248.0) When we goto ping a device @ 192.168.0.1 the reply comes back in 1-3ms so that’s okay, however a tracert yields: 1 * * * 2 1ms 1ms 1ms 192.168.0.1 This is happening only for this one device, I can tracert other devices in the 192.168.0.x or anywhere else and get a simple 1 line response. The reason we are checking this is because our phone gateway is the 192.168.0.1 and people are having some connectivity issues with it The vendor is claiming we have a routing issue even though everything is in the same subnet so there is no ‘routing’ occurring. Im thinking the PBX has the wrong subnet on it but I cant see it until the vendor comes onsite later today… My route table looks correct and even doing the tracert from a 192.168.0.x server I get the same result. ~ 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/ ~
IP gurus ..
Has anyone seen something like this before? I have a network with 192.168.0.x/22 (255.255.255.248.0) When we goto ping a device @ 192.168.0.1 the reply comes back in 1-3ms so that's okay, however a tracert yields: 1 * * * 2 1ms 1ms 1ms 192.168.0.1 This is happening only for this one device, I can tracert other devices in the 192.168.0.x or anywhere else and get a simple 1 line response. The reason we are checking this is because our phone gateway is the 192.168.0.1 and people are having some connectivity issues with it The vendor is claiming we have a routing issue even though everything is in the same subnet so there is no 'routing' occurring. Im thinking the PBX has the wrong subnet on it but I cant see it until the vendor comes onsite later today. My route table looks correct and even doing the tracert from a 192.168.0.x server I get the same result. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
dc replication / logonserver
I have a site @ 600 users, with dual 100mb links between the primary and secondary site (a datacenter). We have a sensitive network application being deployed and find people getting kicked out of it because the server cannot authenticate them fast enough (1ms is the limit, don't ask why). So on some of the servers I keep finding their 'logonserver' being listed as the 3rd DC in the datacenter. In AD Sites/Services there is full replication between all 3, and while the link is a full fiber 100mb connection, I wanted to keep that locally. I wouldn't normally think anything of it, but the application developers are pointing this out as the potential problem so I have to make it so all computers and servers in the primary network do not talk to the DC in the datacenter. In DNS no one is pointing to the remote site, so I guess the remote server is just responding faster than the local dc's. WINS/DHCP/DNS all have replication to this DC as well. Isnt there a simple way to do that? I know ive read up on wan links etc and I can force a particular domain controller in the registry but that's not going to be a fun permanent solution I don't think. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: How to check when a file has changed from URL?
A lot of ftp apps can do checksum and file size checks for you. I think smart FTP was one that you could schedule and if the file was changed do a set of tasks .. From: Jackson, Jeff [mailto:jeff.jack...@rbza.com] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to check when a file has changed from URL? You can use comp.exe to compare the two files, it's on winxp and later by default. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to check when a file has changed from URL? Wget and run a filediff check of some sort. From: Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How to check when a file has changed from URL? I have a url that when I launch it, I receive the File Download 'Do you want to open or save this file?' dialogue box. Currently I download this file manually. The file changes every few weeks or so, but I have no idea when. I simply download the file every so often and compare it to the last copy I downloaded. I would like to be able to have a process that checks this URL regularly and inform me when the file has changed from the copy I currently have. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I've tried changedetect.com but was unsuccessful. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: dc replication / logonserver
Thanks. After trying to dig up some old info, I had the sites and services setup but I didnt have them in different sites. So I added the different subnets and create different sites now and put a site link between them. Im hoping this clears up which servers talk to which dc's. Michael, do you think I will still need to run this? Sounds like I will be good after a reboot now that the sites have been updated. Thats good info to have though we are preparing the DR site for a test in the next month or so, and will want to remember to failback all the servers talking to which DC's post rollback I would think :) -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 6:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: dc replication / logonserver Nltest /sc_reset:domain\desired-dc Note that a domain member, once connected to a particular DC, will continue to talk to that DC unless the site is changed or the secure channel reset or the DC isn't available. Netdom can do this too. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: dc replication / logonserver I have a site @ 600 users, with dual 100mb links between the primary and secondary site (a datacenter). We have a sensitive network application being deployed and find people getting kicked out of it because the server cannot authenticate them fast enough (1ms is the limit, don't ask why). So on some of the servers I keep finding their 'logonserver' being listed as the 3rd DC in the datacenter. In AD Sites/Services there is full replication between all 3, and while the link is a full fiber 100mb connection, I wanted to keep that locally. I wouldn't normally think anything of it, but the application developers are pointing this out as the potential problem so I have to make it so all computers and servers in the primary network do not talk to the DC in the datacenter. In DNS no one is pointing to the remote site, so I guess the remote server is just responding faster than the local dc's. WINS/DHCP/DNS all have replication to this DC as well. Isnt there a simple way to do that? I know ive read up on wan links etc and I can force a particular domain controller in the registry but that's not going to be a fun permanent solution I don't think. 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/ ~
RE: Email archiving solution without Exchange
Im running mailarchive free for a pretty big shop @ 200gb datastores, and it works well. We have it running with LDAP/AD on a 2003 domain and now on a 2008 domain, and were able to make AD groups and put users/mgrs in them. I like GFI better but for free mailarchiva worked pretty good the few places I installed it. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email archiving solution without Exchange I used the free version of Mailarchiva for about a month or so to get a feel for it. I have to agree that the search is lightning fast, but the free version is too crippled to be of use to an org of more than a few users. The main reasons I passed on it in production were: 1) The import utility kept crashing. I couldn't ever get it to run more than once in a row without dying the second time. 2) The LDAP/AD integration just flat didn't work. It may be because it isn't supported on the free version, but the documentation says different things in different places about whether it should/will. 3) Because the AD integration didn't work, I could not set up very granular controls on who could see or do what. I also would have had to maintain a user database on the Mailarchiva server itself in addition to AD. 4) The final, huge killer is that there isn't any sort of SIS/deduplication built in to the free version. For us, that would make our storage requirements astronomical for the type of hardware I have available to run it on. I think the paid version supports some sort of SIS at the attachment level. I mostly liked what I saw, but the paid version isn't an option for me at the moment, and the free version wasn't full-featured enough. If it matters, I ran it on Linux. RS On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Andy Ognenoff andyognen...@gmail.com wrote: I've had really good luck with Mailarchiva (has an open-source version). It works with any POP/IMAP server that can copy all messages to a mailbox or Exchange and can run on Windows, Linux, Solaris (I have it on Windows.) The searching is very fast. I have the Enterprise Edition and when I called for support (on setup) I talked directly to the developers. Also has a utility for importing from PST files - which was really helpful as that was our archiving solution previously. S much better now and has already been worth it since we had some discovery requests. http://www.mailarchiva.com/ - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Email archiving solution without Exchange All Looking for an email-server-with-archiving solution that isn't MS Exchange with something like the Sunbelt Email Archiver. Thoughts and ideas welcome, but now that email is legally a business document, it needs to be archived just like any other document. There are a number of Exchange-specific email archiving systems, I'm just looking for something that will work for clients who can't or won't pay the Microsoft Tax for Exchange. TIA Angus ~ 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: Moto Droid and Lack of Xch GAL
Did you check with touchdown by NitroDesk? I haven’t used it myself, but I do sync to my exchange server with push and it works fine http://www.nitrodesk.com/dk_touchdownFeatures.aspx From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Moto Droid and Lack of Xch GAL I have the verizon htc eris. I have not seen this problem come up. I know that i can tell it to sync with my gmail and yahoo contacts. I dont see why it cant pull up the xch gal as it has a specific feature to integrate with xch. On Jan 25, 2010 3:56 PM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: Everyone, I posted this to the Xch list but figured I’d post here also for complete coverage: I’ve been teetering back/forth on getting this phone. Today, I read that it lacks the ability to pull up the Exchange GAL? Can anyone using one verify this for me? This would be a huge con! Thanks, Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: 2008 R2 in a 2003 R2 domain
We just did this project last week and I couldn't dcpromo the 2008r2 box until I did a bunch of things with adprep and domainprep and extend the schema but that was for making it a DC obviously. We did join the network first without issue. From: Neil Standley [mailto:n...@net-venture.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 2008 R2 in a 2003 R2 domain Please forgive me if this has been answered already, I searched through my list emails and couldn't find anything related. Is there anything I need to do to prep my 2003 R2 domain before introducing a 2008 R2 member server? I ask because, well I was stupid and forgot to ask before adding it to my domain and now have a few oddities. After joining this server to the domain, the Domain admins group is automatically added to the local admin group on the 2008 server. When I log in as my domain admin account I find I can't do some things an admin should have rights to do. Such as execute IISReset, see error below. (yes, IIS IS installed and running) This is the exact message I get when trying to run IISReset using my domain admin account. If I login as the local admin I can run this without errors. Access denied, you must be an administrator of the remote computer to use this command. Either have your account added to the administrator local group of the remote computer or to the domain administrator global group. I also could not create a new file on the root of D until I added authenticated users and gave them modify permissions. But again, if I'm logged in as local admin then I have no problem doing this. Thank insert your holy deity of choice here it's Friday! Thanks, Neil ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer
http://www.voidtools.com/ From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer I have two an running Windows 7 at home and work and do not see that issue on either one. _ From: Bob Fronk [...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 Search Indexer I have two Windows 7 laptops (work / home). On each of them the search indexer runs a constant 5-15% CPU. Enough to keep the cooling fans on constantly. Sometimes I will notice slow IE browsing or program opening. Of course, I can disable the search service, and the issue goes away, but then I lose the search feature, which is handy from time to time. Anyone else seeing similar? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SAN solutions
You should look at all the vendors out there, including software based ones, and then decide what you need. Personally I like Netapp, especially with vmware, but I have also used bare solutions like DRBD w/ISCSI and Starwind on 2003/2008 servers both work pretty well (drbd is a replication tool that can marry on top of IET). You can also find SAN solution providers (I have one here in Boca) that sells Netapp, IBM's, Lefthand etc and can really help you decide whats best instead of hearing all the sales rah rah from each vendor. You can get s-ata drive SAN's for probably a decent price, depends on what you can live with. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN solutions Well, according to the sales guy, a few years ago Hitachi decided they wanted to start making SANS for the SMB market and started producing SANs with no frills. pretty bare bones storage, but with replication on-board. J Although he didn't *say* it is sounds like there are certain pre-configured packages that they offer and that's it. In case anyone's curious they are called Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100. I'm looking at 6 Terabytes in a RAID 6 configuration with dual controllers and on-board replication (still to be determined if it replicates *everything* or just the changes!) and installation, and 3 year nbd warranty for just over $21,000. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN solutions +1 ASB Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _ From: Kevin Lundy klu...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:01:44 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: SAN solutions Assuming these are HDS - you need to make sure and also get all the management tools priced. That is one thing I discovered with HDS a couple of years ago - they don't include anything from a s/w perspective. And at the price below, I'm not sure it is HDS. Unless they have come out with an entry level line of products, I don't think you can get what you describe for any where near 20k. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:56 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Ahh. Got a sales guy who used to work for CDW who thinks he can hook me up with two dual-controller SANs, including on-board replication for a hair over $20K. That's for about 6 Terabytes. I'll ask for more info in that case. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN solutions Hitachi (HDS) makes some awesome SANs. One of the tier 1 providers. Tier 1 price as well. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Just wondering if any of you have heard of NexSan? What about Hitachi?? Any thoughts on either of these as a SAN vendor? I'm still trying to find someone who'll really wow me with their product and give me what I need for a price I can afford and get Management to sign off on. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet
Be aware of the Exchange 2007 implications J You need SP2 integrated and the xml patches for it to install. From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet All- Is there a best practices sheet out there that gives you details about how to best setup and config your W2K8R2 DC's? Thank you, John Bowles ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet
In a domain of 2008r2 only servers you need to install Exchange 2007 w/ sp2 integrated and a couple of xml file fixes. Exchange 2007 doesn't install at all ON a 2008r2 server. From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet to install or to use it? GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Inviato: domenica 17 gennaio 2010 15.07 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet Be aware of the Exchange 2007 implications J You need SP2 integrated and the xml patches for it to install. From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet All- Is there a best practices sheet out there that gives you details about how to best setup and config your W2K8R2 DC's? Thank you, John Bowles ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Migrate DHCP database
We just did this same basic thing from 2003 to 2008r2 and worked fine. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Migrate DHCP database I've done it several times. I can't remember there being any problems with the process, especially when the OS versions are the same. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Because Better Technology Means Better Business On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Anyone follow this procedure before? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325473 This will be from a 2003 domain controller in a child domain to a 2003 member server in the parent. If so any issues you ran into not covered in the article? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 _ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Backup Exec issues
I have BEX 12D running to backup about 1TB of user data, and about 600GB of mail data. The exchange07 cluster has the Symantec agents running on it and I have a front end server doing spam and handling mail delivery. BEX constantly whines and complains about the VSS writer status, something is corrupted, something didn't verify etc etc. Basically every day is a new challenge. We have the Storage groups broken up into 5 parts and some work then some don't, very annoying. Does anyone have a decent replacement for BEX? Im just tired of having to babysit and rerun backups every couple of days. Ive been using it for so long other than ArcServer, I cant think of other competitors. Is Ultrabac still around, I didn't like them back in the day but Ill try anything that will play with my exchange cluster better. Thx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Moto Droid
I picked up an HTC droid and its been pretty good. The browsing has been fantastic, the battery doesn't last as long as Id like. I find myself turning off gps/BT in order to get through the day w/o charging. The email interface is nice and works with ActiveSync a couple of times I ended up with duplicate contacts not sure why. Overall Id say the phone is really good minus those couple of things. The apps are abundant too, many free and useful. -Original Message- From: Fogarty, Richard R CTR USA USASOC [mailto:rick.foga...@us.army.mil] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moto Droid I think so. I have a 3G and LOVE it. But, as Rod has stated, the ATT coverage problem (at least in my area) is a major issue for me. There doesn't seem to be a day that I drop a call or two in the iPhone. Have had the Droid for a week or so now, and haven't dropped one call. It's promising for me. Rick -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Moto Droid Met somebody who has a Droid at this past friday's pub crawl, very intrigueing phone indeed. I think it's enough to ditch the iPhone. Thoughts? Regards, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
isa 2006 vpn
I have a handful of ISA 2006 servers with vpns and Im having an issue with just one. We created the vpn tunnel and they have 2 different static IPs on the other end. The vpn comes up fine and I can ping across it. When I goto hit http://internalip the monitor shows the route going out through my public IP however when I ping it goes out through the internal IP. The network is setup for Route and all my other tunnels seem to exhibit normal behavior except for this 1. Any ideas? Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Google Wave Invitations
FWIW: On both my laptop and desktop running windows 7 ultimate the google chrome addon fails to install. Works fine in firefox though. Im getting some 0x8000417 or something error. I tried to d/l and run as admin and just run it off the site directly both the same thing. From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 3:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invitations I've also got some invites so if after all this you STILL haven't had one, email me off list. Cheers, Andrew 2009/11/25 Greg Olson gol...@markettools.com On its way From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invitations me! Me! Me On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Lee Douglas lee.doug...@gmail.com wrote: Just got 8 more! Mine are very moderately priced. Contact me off-line, please lee.doug...@gmail.com Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Google Wave Invite Available
Id like to get one, tried a couple of other routes but most of them are out L Mucho gracias as I stand in line with the rest of the poor folk heh From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available Got mine! Thanks Jason! On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jason Morris jmor...@mjmc.com wrote: Got Woody and Marvin, now I'm out. From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available I think this is how I received my first gmail account so if anyone have any waves remaining I'd appreciate one and will be sure to pass along any that become available to me. tia On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Me me me! From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:jjohn...@hydraflowusa.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Wave Invite Available Dave, Don, Ken and Joseph. DONE! Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax hydraflow From: David Fernlund [mailto:david.fernl...@sarcom.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Wave Invite Available Yes would be interested in one as well David Fernlund david.fernl...@sarcom.com From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Wave Invite Available Me three. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Ken Hoegeman [mailto:ken.hoege...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available Nor would I On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: I wouldn't turn down an invite... Jason Morris jmor...@mjmc.com 11/24/2009 11:11 AM I started a public Wave, maybe we can get together in there and see how it might work with collaboration amongst us. Search for: with:public sunbelt We could also use that for sending out invites, if still needed. -Original Message- From: Suhail Muhammed [mailto:smuham...@unicef.org] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available A bit late...Any more left? Suhail | | From: | | --- ---| |Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com | --- ---| | | To:| | --- ---| |NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com | --- ---| | | Date: | | --- ---| |11/23/2009 03:58 PM | --- ---| | | Subject: | | --- ---| |Re: Google Wave Invite Available | --- ---| I wouldn mind an invite if there are any more, Thanks Stefan On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I would enjoy an invite if there are any left. Today is my birthday so this would make an excellent gift. -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- The pages accompanying this email transmission contain information from MJMC, Inc., which is confidential and/or privileged. The information is to be for the use of the individual or entity named on this cover sheet. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or
RE: Outlook does not recognize
You may get this if you have hide the user from the organization checkbox because when you goto setup the account outlook cannot find the username in the GAL. What you can do is goto the user account, right click and exchange features and remove all exchange attributes, this will orphan the mailbox. Then go into exchange, drill down to mailboxes, do an update and you should see her mailbox with an X on it, then right click and re-associate it with the user. From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@xpresstel.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook does not recognize I posted this over at EE, thought I would try here as well: I have an interesting dilemma. I have a server running Windows/Exchange 2003 SP2, and a user running Outlook 2007. The other day she reported that her computer kept asking for her password. When I looked at it, it was her email that kept prompting for a user name and password. Her user account was under jpsmith (fake name of course...:)) and her password had not been changed. So I deleted and recreated her profile, thinking that would fix it, but it kept coming back requesting a password. Her computer is on the domain, and she can access network files and such. I then tried to create a new profile again, but this time when I put her account under the server name in the Outlook setup, a Check Name, Microsoft Outlook does not recognize message came up and asked for a different account. The choice that came up was her name, strangely enough. But when I looked at the properties of the account it was showing, it had her login as jsmith, not jpsmith. So I went to the server and looked everywhere in AD and Exchange, but could not find that account anywhere. So I assume it is some sort of orphaned user account. I also know its something server related, because I logged into another domain pc with her proper credentials and tried to add her mailbox and the same thing happened. Where do I go to find this account and remove it? Exchange? AD? Thanks, Jay ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Google Wave Invite Available
Oh yah I guess it would be easier: benzach...@gmail.com if that speeds things up From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Wave Invite Available Id like to get one, tried a couple of other routes but most of them are out L Mucho gracias as I stand in line with the rest of the poor folk heh From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available Got mine! Thanks Jason! On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jason Morris jmor...@mjmc.com wrote: Got Woody and Marvin, now I'm out. From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available I think this is how I received my first gmail account so if anyone have any waves remaining I'd appreciate one and will be sure to pass along any that become available to me. tia On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Me me me! From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:jjohn...@hydraflowusa.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Wave Invite Available Dave, Don, Ken and Joseph. DONE! Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax hydraflow From: David Fernlund [mailto:david.fernl...@sarcom.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Wave Invite Available Yes would be interested in one as well David Fernlund david.fernl...@sarcom.com From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Wave Invite Available Me three. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Ken Hoegeman [mailto:ken.hoege...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available Nor would I On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: I wouldn't turn down an invite... Jason Morris jmor...@mjmc.com 11/24/2009 11:11 AM I started a public Wave, maybe we can get together in there and see how it might work with collaboration amongst us. Search for: with:public sunbelt We could also use that for sending out invites, if still needed. -Original Message- From: Suhail Muhammed [mailto:smuham...@unicef.org] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available A bit late...Any more left? Suhail | | From: | | --- ---| |Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com | --- ---| | | To:| | --- ---| |NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com | --- ---| | | Date: | | --- ---| |11/23/2009 03:58 PM | --- ---| | | Subject: | | --- ---| |Re: Google Wave Invite Available | --- ---| I wouldn mind an invite if there are any more, Thanks Stefan On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I would enjoy an invite if there are any left. Today is my birthday so this would make an excellent gift. -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- The pages accompanying this email transmission contain information from
something besides BEX 12.5
I have a decent network that's been running BEX 11 and recently went to 12.5 and still having big issues with snapshot processing and vss getting locked up. I don't think its necessarily all the servers as much as BEX issues. Ive been tasked with finding a replacement software. We have an Exchange 07 cluster (1tb) A SQL 2005 cluster (500gb) A handful of dataservers with about 2tb of data We have 2 vsphere boxes running on an equalogic san, so anything that ties in with vmware is a bonus, but not required. We have a 15TB SAS array for disk backup, and a 24 drive tape library. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win7 and Server 2003 Admin Tools
Btw ever since I installed this I cant even imagine going back to the 2003 server tools J From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win7 and Server 2003 Admin Tools Good find! Thanks... Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, FL, United States On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Stephan Barr stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com wrote: Here ya go... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enFamilyID=7d2 f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d Then COntrol Panel\Programs And Features\Turn Windows Features On And Off\Remote Server Administration Tools and select that which you desire. Cheer. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't done any online research for this yet, but are there issues running the Server 2003/Exchange 2003 admin tools under Windows 7? It was a bit tricky getting Vista working with some of them so I would expect similar results with Windows 7 Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
outlook / word 2007
I have an sbs client that opens document attachments and frequently hits the save button by accident. On 2003 this still defaulted to the my docs folder (the default save/auto save area) however in 2007 its defaulting to the internet temporary folders. Right now I put a shortcut to that on their desktop to go get it but I would imagine a fix/update is out there somewhere. Google fu is letting me down. Thx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: rdp / citrix error
Well I was seeing in ts licensing no license server found, I installed the license server locally and activated it and upon reboot everything worked. Not sure if that fixed it but I rebooted a few times and wasn't successful. The odd thing was the error was not a license error .. oh well.. I bought myself 120 days at least J From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error Not familiar with citrix, but we have several TS servers. And I have to say-we have the problem with RDP not working on WS03 servers a lot still. There is usually one somewhere when monthly patches require a reboot that will not come back. I always turn off RDP, reboot again, turn it back on, and it's golden. When this problem happens, I've never seen the error message you are seeing of the user cannot logon to the computer because your not in the Remote Desktop Users Group-it simply doesn't respond to an RDP request for logon. So, assuming this is not a DC and you already took users out and put them back in the local remote desktop users group, has anything else changed with the security permissions on the HD of the server or in the registry recently? Maybe a chkdsk /f is in order? -B From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error Right that's the odd thing even the administrator account cannot logon, not even the local administrator or the domain administrator. From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error I have had a few issues with RDP especially on x64 servers. Have had to turn off firewall on server and sometimes disable and re-enable RDP. As long as user is member of local admin he should be able to RDP to server by default. Mike _ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 6:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error Well I rebooted a few times without success. I manually put my username in the allow logon to terminal services. Same error. In the event log I only see a security entry of logon and then logoff. Not sure where to go with it. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error There have been lots of long and drawn diatribes about the 'rdp going to sleep then works after a reboot' issue on 2K3 server. I don't have any links handy but a little google-fu should turn them up. There were a couple of hotfixes alleged to fix it that were met with mixed reactions. Susan Bradley spread it around a lot and I think our own MBS may have blogged about it, I know I've seen emails here from him on the subject From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: rdp / citrix error I get that error occasionally on some of my Citrix servers (neither RDP or ICA can log on, with that error) and a restart clears it. No idea why it happens. 2009/11/6 Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us I have a metaframe 4 server that is responding with the user cannot logon to the computer because your not in the Remote Desktop Users Group. Even the admin account cannot logon, although I can logon locally. I went and checked that domain users and the admin acct are both in the group. I went into local security policy and that group is also there with administrators group. As a test I manually added the administrator account but that didn't seem to have any effect. I get the same error with RDP so this doesn't seem to be a citrix issue. Anyone else seen the RDP perms blow up? I guess I can recreate the connector ??? although I get to the login screen and am able to put credentials in. -- 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. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: rdp / citrix error
Right that's the odd thing even the administrator account cannot logon, not even the local administrator or the domain administrator. From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error I have had a few issues with RDP especially on x64 servers. Have had to turn off firewall on server and sometimes disable and re-enable RDP. As long as user is member of local admin he should be able to RDP to server by default. Mike _ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 6:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error Well I rebooted a few times without success. I manually put my username in the allow logon to terminal services. Same error. In the event log I only see a security entry of logon and then logoff. Not sure where to go with it. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error There have been lots of long and drawn diatribes about the 'rdp going to sleep then works after a reboot' issue on 2K3 server. I don't have any links handy but a little google-fu should turn them up. There were a couple of hotfixes alleged to fix it that were met with mixed reactions. Susan Bradley spread it around a lot and I think our own MBS may have blogged about it, I know I've seen emails here from him on the subject From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: rdp / citrix error I get that error occasionally on some of my Citrix servers (neither RDP or ICA can log on, with that error) and a restart clears it. No idea why it happens. 2009/11/6 Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us I have a metaframe 4 server that is responding with the user cannot logon to the computer because your not in the Remote Desktop Users Group. Even the admin account cannot logon, although I can logon locally. I went and checked that domain users and the admin acct are both in the group. I went into local security policy and that group is also there with administrators group. As a test I manually added the administrator account but that didn't seem to have any effect. I get the same error with RDP so this doesn't seem to be a citrix issue. Anyone else seen the RDP perms blow up? I guess I can recreate the connector ??? although I get to the login screen and am able to put credentials in. -- 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. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Foxit Reader
I use visage soft it lacks all the addons and built in IE stuff that adobe gives you but I find those problematic anyway and try to disable them whenever possible. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 1:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Foxit Reader On 28 Oct 2009 at 9:52, James Kerr wrote: We had problems with FoxIt printing to our color canon copiers so we couldn't implement it. FYI: --- Included Stuff Follows --- Foxit Software - Bug Fix List for Foxit Reader Fixed in Foxit Reader 3.1.3.1030 Fixed the issue in Foxit Reader 3.1.2.1013, where the text in PDF documents cannot be printed with specific printers. - Included Stuff Ends - Seen here: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/bugfix.htm The Adobe customization wizard is also a big +1. 10-4, Good Buddy. But Adobe's bloat is a big -5 ... A -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ 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/ ~
tsadmin console
I have a 2003 ts server that was recently re-done. The admin swears (with screen shot) that previously when they ran the tsadmin option the Users Description was listed there and now its not there. I poked around for it and tried a little google-fu without success. Basically all the users have a Description (this is a stand alone server) sorted by company name and made it easy for the admin to find particular users by sorting by the description field. I would say it cant happen because Ive never seen it but Im staring at a screenshot with it J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: dhcp reservations
So you are running a 2003 or 2008 domain with the win7 mgmt tools and you are able to right click on a current dhcp item and move it into reserved? I have a win7 machine on site as a beta test I suppose I could load up the tools if that works and try it. -Original Message- From: Brian Hintz [mailto:bhi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: dhcp reservations I was hoping I could just right click on the current dhcp lease and convert it to a reservation but no such luck :0 FYI - I am now able to do exactly this with Win 7 and the MS Remote Server Management tools. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Nice link. Thanks for that. I use netsh in a batch file scheduled to run every night that dumps the database and compares it with the previous day's database dump, then mails me the diff with blat. This gives me good insight into what changes on my subnets. Kurt On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 14:32, Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com wrote: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787375(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_addresd ip From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: dhcp reservations Im aware of that and was thinking of unlimited, however whast happening is we have a network with multiple buildings and multiple lans. The network is pretty active in movement and equipment. The problem is that people are bringing devices in. we thought about managing it at the procurve switch but its just too much. We had all the reservations there but had to recently redo the scope when we added 150 computers to the network. Right now we have about 50 procurve switches and the help desk staff is not capable of managing them when they move departments around. What we were doing before was activating the scope, and forcing all macs into reservation so when we deployed new pcs we would put the reservation in there in advance and then the workstation/device was ready to go. I see I can export the current list with mac address and can massage that pretty quick, but didnt see a decent way to import using netsh commands. Thanks I will poke around on the netsh From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: dhcp reservations Typically, Microsoft clients do not change their DHCP address unless the address they had before is no longer available. They request the address they had previously. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Anyone know of an easy way to convert dhcp to dhcp w/reservations? We have a 450 user network with all dhcp but need them to not change for some new software. I was hoping I could just right click on the current dhcp lease and convert it to a reservation but no such luck :0 Id rather not have to input 450 mac addresses. Im tinkering with netsh dhcp server to see if anything looks possible but so far nothing good. 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
dhcp reservations
Anyone know of an easy way to convert dhcp to dhcp w/reservations? We have a 450 user network with all dhcp but need them to not change for some new software. I was hoping I could just right click on the current dhcp lease and convert it to a reservation but no such luck :0 Id rather not have to input 450 mac addresses. Im tinkering with netsh dhcp server to see if anything looks possible but so far nothing good. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: dhcp reservations
Im aware of that and was thinking of unlimited, however whast happening is we have a network with multiple buildings and multiple lans. The network is pretty active in movement and equipment. The problem is that people are bringing devices in. we thought about managing it at the procurve switch but its just too much. We had all the reservations there but had to recently redo the scope when we added 150 computers to the network. Right now we have about 50 procurve switches and the help desk staff is not capable of managing them when they move departments around. What we were doing before was activating the scope, and forcing all mac's into reservation so when we deployed new pc's we would put the reservation in there in advance and then the workstation/device was ready to go. I see I can export the current list with mac address and can massage that pretty quick, but didn't see a decent way to import using netsh commands. Thanks I will poke around on the netsh From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: dhcp reservations Typically, Microsoft clients do not change their DHCP address unless the address they had before is no longer available. They request the address they had previously. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Anyone know of an easy way to convert dhcp to dhcp w/reservations? We have a 450 user network with all dhcp but need them to not change for some new software. I was hoping I could just right click on the current dhcp lease and convert it to a reservation but no such luck :0 Id rather not have to input 450 mac addresses. Im tinkering with netsh dhcp server to see if anything looks possible but so far nothing good. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: NAS/SAN
I was at the vmware forum the other day and netapp did a decent demo on their new offerings with deduping backups, sql and exchange for storage recovery. Also their app has a plugin for vcenter so you could manage the SAN from the vi console which I thought was a nice little bonus. Up to this point we have been building SANS via basic servers using either Datacore or Starwind software controllers. For other areas we also use NFS for less required storage like file sharing etc. My client just purchased 2 PS 6000's and I have another client who has an HP-SAN and running 20 VM's on it ran it to a crawl so they are moving into LeftHand after demoing it out. The hp san was managed and I never laid eyes on it other than running vmware benchmarks on it and it didn't fare too well, it was their entry level product. Starwind reports 3250 IOPS which is okay, but its memory usage masks a lot of that if you get a server with a lot of ram then the disk i/o is pretty good. Datacore does similar at a higher level (and price) but still less than a hardware based SAN of similar size. Im just learning about benchmarking SAN's myself (any tips appreciated). I run DRBD/IET in my datacenter because I can babysit it. I also have a Starwind server that does snapshot backups of all 4 of my esx servers and it does it pretty well. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
BES 4.1 syncing
Anyone run into this, I have a couple of sites where contacts don't seem to be syncing properly. Everything else appears to work. I poked around about finding invalid contacts without names apparently can hang this up but I cant seem to find any on these two particular installs. One is an sbs03 with bes4.1 on it. The other is a 2008 server with ex07 and a standalone bes server. Both having similar issues with just contacts. I tried everything but removing and re-adding the device. I turned sync contacts on/off, resend service books, and deleted the service book off the device itself. Anything else I could try? ty ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: BES 4.1 syncing
Thanks all for the tip. I will try the remove/add of the contact on the device. Both my bes problems are small 3-4 users. I know at one its all of them on the 2007 but on the other its just 1. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 9:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES 4.1 syncing For what its worth I have seen that exact issue before, at 2 different clients. The bad news is, I don't know the fix. In one case I synced the contacts using desktop manager The other was not my client and they reinstalled BES (WTF?) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: BES 4.1 syncing On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have a couple of sites where contacts don't seem to be syncing properly. For all users on the server? That's odd. I've had various cases where a given user will have trouble, but not everyone. Granted, there are only 11 users on our BES, but still. I tried everything but removing and re-adding the device. I would indeed try removing and re-adding the device -- or more precisely, the user. When BB Manager asks if you want to delete the BlackBerry info, say Yes. Then re-add the user and reactivate the device. This is really harmless -- no user data should be lost from either server mailbox or handheld. It only discards server metadata and other behind the scenes stuff. (But remember, backups are *always* a good idea.) We're running BES 4.mumble against Exchange 2003. Behavior may be different against other mail servers. Anything else I could try? Before you do anything else, check the logs. Both Windows Event Spewer and the BES text logs. BES logs *gobs* of debug information to the text logs. This will often at least point out that there is a problem, even if you don't know how to fix it. -- 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: USB Boot drive Frustration
Check out: unetboodin-windows-323 it has a set of premade usb images and will get them and extract them on for you. Most of them are unix live cd ports like gparted but you may find what you need. If you just need to boot an iso or similar off a usb then heres what I have (found it on some site and kept it) . I made several win7 usb's with this method: 1.Plug in your USB Flash Drive 2.Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start All Programs Accessories Command Prompt and select Run as administrator 3.Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window: diskpart list disk The number of your USB drive will listed. You'll need this for the next step. I'll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1. 4.Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number 1 with the number of your disk below. select disk 1 clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=NTFS assign exit When that is done you'll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable. Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable Next we'll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable. In the same command window that you were using in Step 1: 1.Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive. 2.Change directory to the DVD's boot directory where bootsect lives: d: cd d:\boot 3.Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I'm assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer: bootsect /nt60 g: 4.You can now close the command prompt window, we're done here. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: LogMeIn Central!
The new logmein is pretty nice actually. I like that you can make shortcuts on the desktop which go right through and connect. To combat any theft you can click on invalidate all shortcuts if anything became compromised.. im interested to see the hamachi vpn, looks interesting for certain. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: LogMeIn Central! Has anyone checked out the new LogMeIn Central? It now has a wake on LAN option. I was looking at my systems this morning and it showed a power on button for one of my systems that was off. Knowing this system had WOL enabled I tried it and lo and behold, the machine came up! What's weird is I have two other systems offline (laptops) and it doesn't show me that option and they don't have WOL anyhow. I wonder if LogMeIn detects the WOL capability? Anyhow LogMeIn Central is $299/yr and I'm not sure I'll ante up for it, but that is a cool feature. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MSE is released...
As a test I took a 100 user network with a handful of servers, put them on OpenDNS and removed Symantec 11 across the board. So far after about 6 months I have had 3 users actually get something. How, I have no idea, most likely through webmail which I have now also removed in OpenDNS and the bloat is gone (for now). At home I am running OpenDNS w/o any live A/V running for quite sometime, I do a scan every few weeks with malware bytes , since my wife uses the home pc during the days and tends to poke around and so far so good. Im sure its not the end all, but every A/V product I keep running into seems to be wasting more space/time than the viruses that its protecting. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... Braggart. Bet you don't have a Steampunked file server though! -sc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... I've got seven in my production environment. SCC, CCR, DAG, and standalone. _ From: Steven M. Caesare [scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... Hmmph. I only have one Exchange server at home. I figured it was enough for the 4 of us. -sc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... With all due respect - this is something I always disable; even in Vipre. Email is the province of Exchange, not desktop A/V. Before you say that home users don't use Exchange, I'll admit that up front - and say that most of them use port 80/443 tunnelling for webmail, be it Yahoo! Mail, Excite!, Gmail, Hotmail, blah blah blah. So granted, I am probably the exception, rather than the rule; when it comes to having multiple Exchange servers at home. :-) I was on the beta for MSE - for a home product, I think it's the best thing I've seen. For a business product - I'm still on the Vipre bandwagon. :-) Other than a stupid documentation omission. (Which I've reported.) _ From: Stu Sjouwerman [s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... Just bear in mind that MSE does -not- filter incoming email. Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Founder, VP Marketing. P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 s...@sunbelt-software.com _ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MSE is released... AVG is a bit hoggish. Avast is quite fine, though, even on Win7. I'll have to test out MSE and see... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Good point. I suspect this will be looked at as part of the Win7 release and rollout - and in a similar fashion. AVG free on Win7 is still a hog. MSE runs quiet and there doesn't appear to be the performance issues that plague the other free offerings. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... I agree. But given that reality, are companies really going to rush to push out this new release from Microsoft? I doubt it myself. Companies that are taking the free or nothing approach are already using AVG or some other free vendor, since upgrading (even to a free product) has inherent costs involved. Tim -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... That accurately defines the current economical landscape. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... Only for those organizations more worried about being cheap than being safe. I know it sounds harsh, but it's true. Tim -Original Message- From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... I'm sure we'll see it on business networks everywhere the next time AVG Free do an upgrade. Mike -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: 29 September 2009 17:03 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... Well...yeah. For business, System Center and MS Forefront is the solution. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
RE: VMWare tools
I spoke to veeam and they don't support the free ESXi w/o the foundation tools, which I thought was strange because the free version worked .. I checked out vranger 3.3 and it requires vcb, none of my machines are available for backup w/o it. I tested this by doing a new install, if I put in the free license key vranger wont work, if I unregister it back to the 60 day trial which has VCB it works just fine. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare tools Just to reiterate. It is *not* necessary to use VCB with all 3rd party backup products for VMWare. Veeam and vRanger both have the option to do network backups. The benefit of VCB is that your proxy is hooked straight into the LUNs and there are almost no resources used on the ESX hosts. As others have mentioned, the problem comes in when backing up databases such as SQL and Exchange. You have to quiesce the OS and databases somehow or all you'll get are 'crash-consistent' backups that may or may not be useful. I'm using vRanger 3.X + VCB and freezing the databases with the VSS support builtin to the ESX 3.5 U4 VMWare tools. With vRanger you have to be very careful with how to set this up, and I received excellent guidance from their support team. So far I've restored a couple of VMs with SQL databases and everything's been fine. -Original Message- From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare tools Yes, all third party products use VCB, however, VCB by itself is a little more difficult to setup. The third party product eliminates having to do all of the custom scripting. Original Message: - From: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:56:10 -0400 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: VMWare tools vRanger uses VCB. IIRC, all third party backup solutions for VM's require VCB. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM, mse...@ont.com mse...@ont.com wrote: You can use VCB or third party backup solution such as vRanger. The key is what are your backup needs and budget. VCB works in conjuction with third party products to do full VMDK and file level backups. The key is if you need your VM nees quiesed before snapshot. I believe VCB alone may not do this. Plus with VCB alone you will have to setup backup scripts manually. The best solution if your budget allows is a third party solution installed on a backup proxy. Mike Original Message: - From: Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:01:27 -0700 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: VMWare tools I've been using ESXi 3.5 for about six months and I have run up on a need that is not covered in the free hypervisor. So, as any industrious sole might, I went to the VMware website to see what products might suit my needs. And Viola! There I discovered that the marketing folks at VMware are sadists probably hired from the microsoft licensing team. So what I am polling about here is this: What are the essential tools for managing VMware virtual servers? What I need is pretty simple. I just want to make backups of my servers that I can restore to a different host without shutting them down or at the very least by a script that I can run on Saturday nights. I don't necessarily need to have vmotion especially since the products that include it are more than my total server hardware budget. Are there less expensive tools from other publishers that I should check out? The VMware stuff is a little outside my budget as far as I can divine from their website. Any advice is appreciated, Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Microsoft(r) Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ~ 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/ ~ 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/ ~ ~ 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: Officejet 6500 drivers in an XP vm
That's what I do too, I install the printer on a workstation connect it that way so the server gets the driver. Don't forget the printsubs.inf too where applicable. From: Ronald Wulff [mailto:rwu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Officejet 6500 drivers in an XP vm Install the printer on another system in the network, and then share it out. Connect to it from you VM, and let it install the drivers that way. _ From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Officejet 6500 drivers in an XP vm This network printer needs to be connected to an xp vm. As its not wireless (and therefore needs the usb connection first) I thought this would be simple. The setup program ties network and wireless setup together, so it bails as the vm doesn't have a USB setup on it? Anyone know a trick? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
HP Rep (Vmware helps)
Ive been tasked to put together a 2nd proposal for HP equipment instead of Dell, the quote from Dell is about 125k. The CFO likes HP's but I don't have any contacts.. any recommendations for a decent rep appreciated. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: NLB w/ 2008
Right they totally are I have done NLB a bunch of times on 2003 but this is my first 2008. My config looks like this: NIC1: 192.168.200.7/24/192.168.200.1 NIC2: 10.10.10.10/24/no gw NIC1:192.168.200.9/24/192.168.200.1 NIC2:10.10.10.11/24/no gw When I go in and enable NLB the IP's show 0.0.0.0 however if you do an ipconfig the ip's are there. Now, when I goto setup the cluster if I select the 10.10.10.10 or 10.10.10.11 it shows me both NICs of each server. If I bind to the 10.x IP's and then add the IP's 192.168.200.20-.30 the NLB works internally but wont traverse the firewall. If I bind the NLB to the 192.168.200.7 and .9 and then add the IP's it works internally and externally. I was always under the impression you put the heartbeat on a separate nic/subnet and that bonds the two for that IP set. That's how I always do it in 2003 but its definitely not working in 2008 this way for whatever reason. The technet walk through was basically the same thing, create a second subnet, run in unicast mode, and bind them. So not sure what Im doing wrong/differently then Ive always done in the past. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NLB w/ 2008 i don't know what you mean by this statement: I see on the 2008 NICS they all have 0.0.0.0 in them but apparently this is ok. you should have a default gateway on the NLB network and NO default getway on the heartbeat network. your public and private networks must be different networks. _ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NLB w/ 2008 I have two webservers w/ 2008 standard with dual nics. The nics have two different ips in different subnets (192.168.200.x and 10.10.10.x). I created an NLB and added ip's 192.168.200.20-30 into the cluster. Im using the 10.10.10.x network for the dedicated heartbeat. Internally this works just fine and I can hit the website by its IP on http/https (Im listening to 80/443 in the cluster). From the firewall this works as well, however from the outside this does *NOT* work. The traffic passes the firewall successfully and is nat'ed to the right IP set but there is no response. I see on the 2008 NICS they all have 0.0.0.0 in them but apparently this is ok? The only thing I can think of is somewhere there is an issue with the NLB seeing the gateway. I only have 1 gateway and each server in the cluster can see the internet. I thought maybe the cluster wasn't setup right so I tried redoing it and just putting 1 server in and had the same result. Anyone seen this? I can't think of what to even look for. I was thinking maybe the different subnet ip's are the problem but I have this working just fine in a 2003 setup just fine with basically the exact same settings. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
NLB w/ 2008
I have two webservers w/ 2008 standard with dual nics. The nics have two different ips in different subnets (192.168.200.x and 10.10.10.x). I created an NLB and added ip's 192.168.200.20-30 into the cluster. Im using the 10.10.10.x network for the dedicated heartbeat. Internally this works just fine and I can hit the website by its IP on http/https (Im listening to 80/443 in the cluster). From the firewall this works as well, however from the outside this does *NOT* work. The traffic passes the firewall successfully and is nat'ed to the right IP set but there is no response. I see on the 2008 NICS they all have 0.0.0.0 in them but apparently this is ok? The only thing I can think of is somewhere there is an issue with the NLB seeing the gateway. I only have 1 gateway and each server in the cluster can see the internet. I thought maybe the cluster wasn't setup right so I tried redoing it and just putting 1 server in and had the same result. Anyone seen this? I can't think of what to even look for. I was thinking maybe the different subnet ip's are the problem but I have this working just fine in a 2003 setup just fine with basically the exact same settings. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anti-spam solution
www.proxmox.com works pretty well out of the box. I have the enterprise version clustered and host thousands of mailboxes and dozens of domains on it without a hitch. I probably do something on it once or twice a month when someone cant get an email due to the other side's issue. Last I looked their single domain version was free. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anti-spam solution I am currently tasked to get rid of our ineffective Symantec Mail Security which is, at the moment, our only anti-spam defense (besides Outlook's junk mail folder). We have about 500 users running on Exchange 2007 with several different domains. I have trawled the archives of the list getting some suggestions for various appliances/software/hosted solutions. I was wondering what the community considered to be the best configuration for an org of our size. Our problems with Symantec are that if it is turned down, we have too much spam getting through, and when turned up high, it is still letting enough spam through to be annoying whilst pulling out some rather important false positives. Cost is not usually too much of an issue for us (we have ESX, Citrix MPS4, XenApp, AppSense, SCOM and SCCM amongst our chunkier products), but if there is something cheaper (especially for non-profits), that could be factored in. I'd also be interested in anything that did antivirus as well, as I am not convinced by Symantec's products at all. Do most people favour the belt-and-braces solution for smaller orgs - a hosted solution or appliance at the edge and software running on Exchange? Or are there any products out there that do the job well enough on their own? From looking at the archives it seems that IronPort and the-product-formerly-known-as-Ninja are two of the most highly recommended. Does anyone have any particular recommendations for hosted solutions - MessageLabs seems to be quite highly-rated, and I'm tempted by the pricing of Google's offering. Finally, I was wondering if any of MS' products (like ForeFront) are worth a look? Sorry for rambling on, all advice, hints, tips, gratefully received and compiled. JRR -- 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. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Abandoning Cisco
After coming from a Sonicwall web gui type world I found the ASA to be finicky and buggy. I have one that I manage and sometimes I set things up with it and then come to find that it doesnt stick and it has to be done through the command line. For fun I dropped in a pfsense vm on my edge and whenever I need something different I point it to that gateway and it works every time. The ASA not so much, it has a hard time with NATing our SIP traffic and the internal network at the same time. The ruleset was kind of a pain in the butt, I had to go create a network object, a network port then go back to rules and apply a port to the object. At least in the high end Sonicwalls you can create the object and port right at the rule window so Im not all back and forth between different areas. Just my .02 , never been a *huge* cisco fan anyway. Some of their high end datacenter gear does some amazing things but since I play in the small business market (50-250 employees) I dont find much use for their complexity. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Abandoning Cisco questions prompted by bandwidth envy DS3? Holy cow! Haven't you written here that you're at a small mfg facility or something like that? What on earth do you use all that bandwidth for? /questions prompted by bandwidth envy I *love* my Sidewinders. When I purchased them it was from Secure Computing, but they've since been bought by McAfee, I'm afraid. They have excellent prosy services, which some find annoying, but I find very reassuring.. I also find them easy to manage. I have two at HQ in an HA configuration in front of my DS3, and two smaller ones, one in each of my foreign offices. Very nice to manage. Of course the reseller was a good part of that. We got them through NCA, and the folks I dealt with there were stellar. I cannot comment on Cisco firewalls, since I've never used them. 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/ ~
RE: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files
http://www.voidtools.com/ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files I've always resorted to console based searching since XP, because it is much faster and more accurate. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: This is on Win7. I'm sure this works on Win2K3/Xp too. On the Win XP Pro SP2 box I'm tying this on right now, the built-in Search finds a string in TEST.TXT and TEST.ASP, but not TEST.CSV or TEST.FOO. FINDSTR finds all four. Apparently, despite the fact that I told Search to look for files matching *.*, Search still only searches some file extensions. Thanks, Microsoft! I'm remember Vista working the same way, but don't feel like firing up a VM to check. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Backup Server
Symantec has a remote backup app, the name escapes me at the moment but Ive seen it in use by some guys at my datacenter. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup Server Keep a tape backup local, if it's remote someone else has to make sure the tapes get rotated. Can you ensure that happens? I like the idea of a remote server serving as a replication point for your most current backup, so if you could get your data set onto a server and then just transmit the diffs, that'd be great. How to do it depends on what kind of data you're replicating...files, DB's? If you're moving towards a SAN at some point, you can get two Equallogics and set up a replication partnership so that everything is replicated at the block level. I'm sure other SAN vendors have similar offerings. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Here's the situation - we have about 150-200 Gigabytes of data on our mirrored servers. We want to back that data up to something other than the mirrored server. I was thinking of putting a server up at one of our remote offices with either an integrated or external tape drive and load some sort of backup software on it to write the data to tape. We have sufficient bandwidth, I think, to do a backup over the WAN on a nightly basis doing a differential backup, and then on Friday nights, do a full backup. Anyone know of an existing solution for something like this or any suggestions for a roll your own backup solution? Eventually we plan to get a NAS or SAN and will be migrating the data off the servers and onto it, but we'd still like to have an offsite backup that is geographically as well as physically separate. John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Disk based backup
So get a workstation with a 4 bay sata hot swap. Basically for the price I would take a handful of sata drives over tapes. By the time you get a fast library that can keep up your in the multi thousands. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Disk based backup
Why not just take some external drives and mount them in whatever you use (BEX/UB etc) and rotate the drives. At 79 bucks for a 1TB SATA, or 89 for a USB version, you could do a 5 day rotation for 2 weeks for 900 dollars if you can get the data on 1tb. If you want to be more involved do the backups with deltas so you only do changes throughout the week and should be good. With the drives being so fast restoring through 3-4 usb drives isn't really a big deal, not like waiting 30 mins for cataloging a tape.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Going rate for MCSEs...
Isnt that below minimum wage out there? Haha McDonalds gets only a couple bucks less. Wow, people either have no trust in their skills or don't have any at all I suppose. From: Scott Williamson [mailto:scottwilliamson...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT - Going rate for MCSEs... $14 to $16 per hour in so cal? At least according to Craigs List. Have to love those that post jobs on CL... Get what you pay for. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: 2008 64bit print server with 32bit clients
I have been having similar issues with some lower end printers and even some expensive Panasonic devices ,on a 2008 SBS server. I can install both 64 and 32 drivers but all the 32 bit drivers fail to print to the device, so I had to setup a workstation to share out from there.. -Original Message- From: Brougham Baker [mailto:bro-nt2...@brougham.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 4:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 2008 64bit print server with 32bit clients Is the printer driver situation as dire as it looks if your print server is running on a 64 bit os? Had no luck with colour lasers from epson and hp, or bw lasers from hp. The only one that I got working was a brother BW. Is this fixed in 2008 R2? If you download the driver from MS and you add additional x86 drivers- why can't there be a checkbox to say get this from ms too. This is such a missed opportunity- if ms have the signed 64 bit drivers why can't they offer the 32 bit with the same name? Really dissapointed in what I've found so far- I hope I am missing something, Bro ~ 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] web - HDTV
I looked at this for a few days with my cousin a couple of months ago, he has HD Dish and HD Cox cable and wanted to watch the HD channels on his mediapc w/ bluray. He currently sees all the standard channels but HD is just grey screen. We looked at 6-7 different cards and they all appear to sneakily say' over air HD' or in other words antenna based HD. Speaking to a rep at Fry's electronics, he said there is no standard signaling for HD between vendors like it is with analog TV so you cant find a card to accommodate all of the different signaling being used. IDK if I believe that but it does kind of make sense. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
I just picked up a brother all in one with wireless and it was nice and easy to setup on a small network. From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SOHO MFP Printer Questions This is a printer for my mom type question. She needs an MFP with FAX and wireless capabilities. I've been looking online and narrowed my list to an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 or the Epson WorkForce 600. I'm wondering if anyone here uses one of these at home, or set up a similar model for anyone. I just need this thing to work and be easy to use. It will be used wirelessly, so I need to make sure when she brings her laptop out to the office the printer picks and works without fuss. If anyone can add their experience I would like to hear it, or if there is another unit they like a lot in the $200 to $250 range. One thing that bugs me about the Epson is apparently you can't even print black if one of the color carts is out of ink. I don't know if the HP has this problem. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
The brother I picked up from Comp USA was 299 and the HP one comparable was 399 for b/w but the HP color was 499 with 150 off. The Brother scans nice from multiple computers has a 35 page ADF and is fast and quiet. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SOHO MFP Printer Questions On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mike Gilllis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: As for the laser option, well it becomes quite an initial expense in comparison to purchase the printer ... The Brother I mentioned seemed to be about $50 more than a inkjet with comparable features. ... and a set of toners. Have you priced ink cartridges lately? And seen how often they have to be replaced? Now compare that with the page volume of even the *starter* toner cartridge that comes with most laser printers these days. You'd pay it off the first time you need to buy more ink. Which will be about one week after you buy the printer. -- 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/ ~
RE: isa 2006 domain sets
No but that's a thought, what I did notice that was odd, was that when I goto www.microsoft.com the rule shows the IP address not the name. I can resolve by name from ISA and it is pointing to the same internal DNS server (that was my first inclination). I know the rule works because I have several other IP ranges that function. Very odd. From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets That is strange. I have several rules using Domain Name Sets running on my ISA proxies. Are you seeing anything of interest in the event logs? Is the ISA server using the same DNS servers as your clients? Have you tried completely deleting the Domain Name Set and associated rule and then recreating them? I've fixed some odd rule issues that way. -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets Yes that's it, in the same rule I have some ip sets and those work as expected. Strange right? From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets There is no need for the FW client to do this. So you created a domain name set, then you created a rule allowing traffic to that domain name set? That's really all there is to do. Your domains were entered just as *.microsoft.com (without the quotes), with no http://;, right? -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: isa 2006 domain sets Hey all, I have a locked down ISA 2006 box, it works pretty well, but we need to allow some internet access to certain sites. I added a domain name set for like *.microsoft.com and *.symantec.com however that doesn't work. I see in the logs that if I monitor it when I goto the site the monitor agent is reporting the IP address(es) not the name. I went in and put a few of the IP's in manually and that works. Is there something Im missing for Domain Name sets to work? I looked at Schinders isa 2004 article on it and don't think I saw anything relevant unless I *need* to have the fw client to make this work which is not going to happen. The server can resolve names correctly so its not that it cannot resolve the DNS name it just doesn't. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT Funny/Lame: RDP Infinite Loop
Ive done this with radmin before by accident and it did the same thing never tried it with TS J From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT Funny/Lame: RDP Infinite Loop Classic - thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org/ www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote on 09/03/2009 04:01:33 PM: I made RDP divide by zero! (Was trying to test RDP from home into the same box). lol. [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k
I saw this the other day, I don't know why I never think to share it ... not the mindset I guess.. Compared to what some SANs cost and what you get for the money it's a pretty decent deal, just have fun finding a bad drive :) -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Between that, and Google's distributed commodity storage model, I think there's some real compelling point for consideration for how some specific-purpose resources can be provided. -sc -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Wow, that might acutally satisfy our DBAs... for a year or two... :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to- build- cheap-cloud-storage/ ~ 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: SPAM Solution
Yah time machine is decent until you actually goto use it. From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution I learnt the hard way, had 2 500Gb drive in raid 0 in my desktop. Bought a 1Tb drive to put into the esxi box to act as a file store and backup, had 75% of the stuff copied onto it when 1 of the 500's died. Some of the stuff that was lost was about 30Gb of the wife's photo's that she was working on, she still had the originals, but had lost the work she had done on them. After that she bought a Mac and an external hard drive to backup to, but still getting her to backup is a nightmare and all she has to do is connect the external and the Mac does it automatically for her. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 04/09/2009 14:08 Subject: RE: SPAM Solution _ No pictures? Tax/financial records? Home video? A file server (even just using OS software RAID) is amazingly cheap to acquire. I've suffered multiple individual component failures in desktops and servers at home, but have never lost a lick of important data... including music. -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [ mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution local drives, with no backup at the moment. I personally don't have a lot to lose on my computer, but my wife would kill me if she lost her music... I've been thinking about Mozy, or something like that, but haven't gotten around to it. My machines at home are home-built, and the newest is about 2-3 years old now. About all we do on them, really, is listen to music, and play MMOs... If a computer crashed, I'd have to build from scratch. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 10:15 AM What do you do for file storage? Local C: drives and backups? If so, to what? -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [ mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution I have a computer room, with 3 desktops connecting through a router to my cable modem. My daughter connects from her room, through wireless to the same router. That's as complicated as I get at home, unless I fire up my Ubuntu box, which I'm using for learning purposes, but even then, I unplug the third computer to do that. Unfortunately, that room is the hottest room in the house to begin with, doesn't get the same flow through the AC duct as the rest of the house, so my cooling bill is pretty outrageous in the summer. That's not saying that I wouldn't like to do some other stuff, like poke around with virtualization, etc., but I don't have the budget to go out and buy hardware for it, and don't really have space for it either. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 8:00 AM Meh... I had ESXi running at home before we decided to go in on the business. At a cost of free, and with the flexibility you get, I don't see why you would NOT do it on a home net, unless you had some specific hardware you needed that ESXi choked on. And the home net _IS_ for play/non-work use. Music streaming, photo library, home movie streaming, interweb access, IP phone service, online Netflix/dish network, Exchange server, hobby mailing list servers, etc... Doesn't just about everybody have a home net these days? I'd only expect the nerds like us here to actually run a domain and have an IIS server, but we're also the audience that would likely then benefit from having a virtual infrastructure too... Last time I needed to move a server to a newer hardware platform it was just a file copy -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [ mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution Key words for you Steven, were business startup. When I'm at home, work is the farthest from my mind, if at all possible. I play at home, work at work... Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 7:32 AM Really? I have four ESXi hosts, one pair handling my home network, and another pair handling the production, dev, and test VM's, along with VPN and SharePoint servers for a business startup I'm involved with. I'd bet lotsa' folks here have ESXi at home... -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [ mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov
RE: Windows Police Pro
Uhm, don't you guys use opendns? This solves a lot of these problems FWIW Once you get it of course its too late, but a decent a/v on the email and opendns and your more likely to catch swine flu from the keyboard J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SPAM Solution
www.proxmox.com free for one domain, stand alone product, pretty much set it and forget it, runs great in a vm as your front end av/spam server. From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SPAM Solution I have a client that is really tight on money. I need to implement a Anti-SPAM solution. In the past I have worked with 3 different products Barracuda, GFI, and xWall. My favorite by far is Barracuda b/c of the ability to easily sort through the logs to tighten the rules. I HATE GFI, it might be a good product but I was never able to get it to work well for me. This client currently has GFI (which is up for renewal) and I don't think I they can afford a Barracuda appliance. I'm going to be looking at VIPRE but didn't know if there were any other reasonably priced solutions I should be evaluating. Exchange 2003 / 60 email accounts / old hardware. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
isa 2006 domain sets
Hey all, I have a locked down ISA 2006 box, it works pretty well, but we need to allow some internet access to certain sites. I added a domain name set for like *.microsoft.com and *.symantec.com however that doesn't work. I see in the logs that if I monitor it when I goto the site the monitor agent is reporting the IP address(es) not the name. I went in and put a few of the IP's in manually and that works. Is there something Im missing for Domain Name sets to work? I looked at Schinders isa 2004 article on it and don't think I saw anything relevant unless I *need* to have the fw client to make this work which is not going to happen. The server can resolve names correctly so its not that it cannot resolve the DNS name it just doesn't. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: isa 2006 domain sets
Yes that's it, in the same rule I have some ip sets and those work as expected. Strange right? From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets There is no need for the FW client to do this. So you created a domain name set, then you created a rule allowing traffic to that domain name set? That's really all there is to do. Your domains were entered just as *.microsoft.com (without the quotes), with no http://;, right? -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: isa 2006 domain sets Hey all, I have a locked down ISA 2006 box, it works pretty well, but we need to allow some internet access to certain sites. I added a domain name set for like *.microsoft.com and *.symantec.com however that doesn't work. I see in the logs that if I monitor it when I goto the site the monitor agent is reporting the IP address(es) not the name. I went in and put a few of the IP's in manually and that works. Is there something Im missing for Domain Name sets to work? I looked at Schinders isa 2004 article on it and don't think I saw anything relevant unless I *need* to have the fw client to make this work which is not going to happen. The server can resolve names correctly so its not that it cannot resolve the DNS name it just doesn't. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
Thank you I meant to do this today at my son’s school, forget who I am for or against but they are going to try to push kids to tell their parents about health care. I don’t like it at all.. From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this J Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obamas-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: 1. No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. 2. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence of the leader of the free worlds perspective on education. 3. No usurpation of parental rights. Parents have the unequivocal right to guide their children in matters of politics, religion, morality, and etc. The president may have rights and responsibilities to speak to the public, but will violate parental rights by speaking to minors directly without supplying a written transcript or preview of the broadcast. 4. No captive audience. Without and Opt-in policy by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District , our children will be a captive audience to the influence of a politician. I believe need not make mention of historical abuses of this power by other nations. No matter how benign the Presidential address may seem, it reduces our liberty and our authority over our own children. So if you do not force our students to watch either by not broadcasting or having parents Opt-in, then you show your dedication to parental rights and authority. Thank you, Livermore parents ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
For the sake of not on topic no noise, I would be happy to fill you in offline J From: Greg Wright [mailto:greg.wri...@wineselectors.com.au] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th As an Australian, who is lucky to have a system (similar to the one) your president wants to implement, I am amazedby the reticence. If my grandfather falls and breaks his leg, he goes to a public hospital (may have to wait a few hours) and gets it fixed. Properly. Those with Private insurance have extra options if they can afford to pay for it. BUT, m definitely antagonising discussion of a politically motivated US centric, OFF TOPIC post, which is definitely worse than listening to stories about someones home network that has 3 computers, no backup and is used for games. From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, 4 September 2009 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th Thank you I meant to do this today at my sons school, forget who I am for or against but they are going to try to push kids to tell their parents about health care. I dt like it at all.. From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this J Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obamas-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: 1. No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. 2. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence of the leader of the free worlds perspective on education. 3. No usurpation of parental rights. Parents have the unequivocal right to guide their children in matters of politics, religion, morality, and etc. The president may have rights and responsibilities to speak to the public, but will violate parental rights by speaking to minors directly without supplying a written transcript or preview of the broadcast. 4. No captive audience. Without and Opt-in policy by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District , our children will be a captive audience to the influence of a politician. I believe need not make mention of historical abuses of this power by other nations. No matter how benign the Presidential address may seem, it reduces our liberty and our authority over our own children. So if you do not force our students to watch either by not broadcasting or having parents Opt-in, then you show your dedication to parental rights and authority. Thank you, Livermore parents ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Calling Security Experts..
Yah the thing is that the security configurations are not stored in the registry, otherwise I could just boot into a boot disk and regedit and flip it off. -Original Message- From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 5:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Calling Security Experts.. You could also try restoring the previous security registry hive. --Original Message-- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists To: NT Issues ReplyTo: NT Issues Subject: RE: Calling Security Experts.. Sent: Sep 1, 2009 12:06 AM Thanks I get your login is denied due to access rights or something whenever I try to access any share. Im going to try booting w/ bartpe and then copying over secedit from the windows\security\database folder and see where that gets me. -Original Message- From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: Calling Security Experts.. Ben, Have you tried from another workstation connecting to the c$ drive using the local system credentials. This is assuming that its not a DC. net use z: \\servername\c$ /user:%computername%\localadminacct If this works and it should since its a network login not a local login, open the mmc and connect to the computer management on that machine. Go into local users and groups and remove authenticated users and interactive as users. This will make the administrator account effectively not a USER You should be able to log on locally afterwards. I know this worked for me on a 2k server. Not sure if it changes things for 2k3. ~ 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/ ~ Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ~ 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: Calling Security Experts..
Well, I tried replacing the secedit file and that didn't work, I then deleted all the files, they were re-created and put me right back in the same place. I wonder if an in place install will reset these .. Im not going to mess with it too much, the audit went through today, everything looks good, I just have to get this final server completed and send back the cis report. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Calling Security Experts.. Try googleing to see if you can edit secedit.sdb offline and have windows apply the local sec policy changes to the configuration upon next boot. -sc -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Calling Security Experts.. Yah the thing is that the security configurations are not stored in the registry, otherwise I could just boot into a boot disk and regedit and flip it off. -Original Message- From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 5:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Calling Security Experts.. You could also try restoring the previous security registry hive. --Original Message-- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists To: NT Issues ReplyTo: NT Issues Subject: RE: Calling Security Experts.. Sent: Sep 1, 2009 12:06 AM Thanks I get your login is denied due to access rights or something whenever I try to access any share. Im going to try booting w/ bartpe and then copying over secedit from the windows\security\database folder and see where that gets me. -Original Message- From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: Calling Security Experts.. Ben, Have you tried from another workstation connecting to the c$ drive using the local system credentials. This is assuming that its not a DC. net use z: \\servername\c$ /user:%computername%\localadminacct If this works and it should since its a network login not a local login, open the mmc and connect to the computer management on that machine. Go into local users and groups and remove authenticated users and interactive as users. This will make the administrator account effectively not a USER You should be able to log on locally afterwards. I know this worked for me on a 2k server. Not sure if it changes things for 2k3. ~ 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/ ~ Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ~ 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/ ~
Calling Security Experts..
I was setting up a client for their annual pci audit, and accidentally put a Deny Logon for the users group and now even the admin user is not able to login either through rdp or physically in front of the device. I was thinking maybe I could boot in safe mode and get around it, or I could also boot a bart pe disc and access the registry manually which would probably work as well. Any other ideas? Strange thing is that the admin user and a 'log collector' user are only a member of administrators so putting deny login to the users group I didn't think would have any effect. I tried accessing the registry remotely etc but since I have no permissions now I cant do really anything. Thanks in advance for any other ideas. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Calling Security Experts..
Thanks I get your login is denied due to access rights or something whenever I try to access any share. Im going to try booting w/ bartpe and then copying over secedit from the windows\security\database folder and see where that gets me. -Original Message- From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: Calling Security Experts.. Ben, Have you tried from another workstation connecting to the c$ drive using the local system credentials. This is assuming that its not a DC. net use z: \\servername\c$ /user:%computername%\localadminacct If this works and it should since its a network login not a local login, open the mmc and connect to the computer management on that machine. Go into local users and groups and remove authenticated users and interactive as users. This will make the administrator account effectively not a USER You should be able to log on locally afterwards. I know this worked for me on a 2k server. Not sure if it changes things for 2k3. ~ 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: Liveoffice Email Archiving or other solutions?
We had been using GFI's mail archive was is decent, and recently switched to mailarchiva (about 8 months ago). It is open source but runs on windows, their pay version has more features and includes pst importing tools and overall is basic, but functional and works. GFI's is nice with the users login tool and redeliver options, but most of our midrange clients who require some archiving work with MA just fine. From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Liveoffice Email Archiving or other solutions? Been hearing good stuff about them Thx! From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Liveoffice Email Archiving or other solutions? We use NearPoint from www.mimosasystems.com as our in-house email archiving system. It has very good integration with Exchange and provides a lot of end-user self-service functionality. -Malcolm From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Liveoffice Email Archiving or other solutions? Hey All; We have an compliance vault email archiver that's feeling it's age and it's due for a replacement, so we've been tasked to look at email archiving solutions and someone suggested the liveoffice.com SAS site, anyone has any experience with it? Or any suggestions on other SAS or in-house good archiving solutions. Speed, PST imports and Outlook integration would be at the top of the list for functionality. Thx! Carlos Garcia-Moran Server / Storage Engineer Sprague Energy www.spragueenergy.com http://www.spragueenergy.com/ P: 603-430-5355 C: 857-234-0343 F: 603-430-7219 _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Mapped Drives over VPN
Isnt there a reg setting about mapping slow links or something? -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mapped Drives over VPN We're running with Cisco PIX firewalls and using the Cisco VPN client 5.0x. Users can connect but occasionally the mapped drives don't appear in My Computer until manually hitting them, for instance by forcing a connection from the Run line: N:. Once that's occurs all the mapped drives show in My Computer. Why would this be? Roger Wright ___ Charles de Gaulle - The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ~ 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/ ~
security updates/bulletins
On our new pci requirement they want the staff to be on some security update lists. I went to cisecurity.org and sans.org and didn't see anything special. I used to be on ntbugtraq and I suppose I could sign them up for the Microsoft ones (they are 100% MS shop), just wondering what else people are following in these areas. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 2008 Server and/or Exchange in the cloud
www.intermedia.net kind of pricey but stable and easy to manage/setup. Im sure there are others. For that size why not just partner up with an MSP who can put your own server in a datacenter and host it/manage it for a flat fee. You could probably have several of those in your area. From: John Gwinner [mailto:jgwin...@dazsi.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 Server and/or Exchange in the cloud Has anyone run Exchange in a Cloud? Amazon seemingly doesn't support it, unless it's Exchange 2003, which I'm not willing to stay on (our current ASP is still on 2003). Home Support Center Forums Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Thread: How to Set-up Exchange Server (2003 or 2007) on EC2 ??? http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=112740 http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=112740 #112740 #112740 Although we can apparently run our own images and so I think we could just create a Server 2008 image. Booting a Server 2008 image with the Amazon cloud may apparently be a little difficult (The boot volume isn't persistent). One person installed 2003 and upgraded to 2008, but you have to do some tricks with the 10G boot partition they give you. Before I spend a lot of time fiddling with it, I thought I'd check to see if anyone else is doing it. Our project goals: 1) No hardware to maintain. 2) Exchange 2007 or vNext 3) Support for mailboxes averaging about 1.3G, with the largest mailbox being 10G 4) 250 users 5) 30 Blackberry users 6) Windows Mobile/iPhone support 7) Integrated Domain with current domain (something our ASP doesn't do of course) 8) Some redundancy / must be stable == John == ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Social networking sites as a business resource
There was an article not too long ago in the WJ? Or NYT that talked about corporate cyber squatting on company names by their competitiors trying to influence business. I will see if I can dig up the link, but social media has become an important part of the game, a client I work with does entire social media suites for some political candidates over the past few elections and now is being contacted by large businesses to do the same, so there is definitely trends to understanding the importance of it in businesses. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Social networking sites as a business resource On the flip side http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=benefits+involved+with+using+social+net working+sites+for+businessaq=foq=aqi= Some simple things. Your company should establish clear policies on what they actually are looking to accomplish. This should be realistic as you cannot control the information on a social networking site, merely respond in a positive manner which makes you look better. You should have someone or a team responsible for this. They should have a policy and not over react. Check out http://consumerist.com/ They have stories of customer who experienced no end of bad customer service and complained on the internet and sometimes were bad customers themselves. If you look, you will see what kinds of corporate responses generated positive feedback from the internet masses and what was seen as negative. You can use this as a learning tool to set your response policies without learning the hard way. The biggest benefit of 'owning' your namespace in social networking communities is that by keeping it positive, over time you will rank on search results higher then some new post on a random site by an angry customer. Steven Peck On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:10 AM, David Lumdavid@nwea.org wrote: Thanks ME2, I hate when I overlook searching using the long string method, usually I am better than that. Those links are awesome, thank you very much! Dave From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Social networking sites as a business resource There are lots of things to be found online for best practices and recommendations for use. There are less for reflecting the risks, but they are out there and reflected in the top-10 too: http://www.google.com/search?q=risks+involved+with+using+social+networking+s ites+for+business I very much agree with the short-lists of risks offered here: http://www.strikingweb.com/blog/Social-Networking-Risks.html http://www.utahpulse.com/featured_article/networking-dos-and-donts-using-soc ial-internet-sites-business Although, what I see as the largest risk is controlling and editing the feedback and commentary you openly subject yourself to from competitors out to make you look bad, and the jerks of the world. -- ME2 On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:23 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Ive been tasked to find out the potential pitfalls for a business leveraging social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc) as a medium for communication and other business uses. Anyone have a good source for things to be aware of, best practices, etc when considering (or doing) such a thing? TIA, David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ 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: laurinburg, nc 28352
I realized after I posted, the client is in WPB where I am, and has an office in Laurinburg, NC that needs some occasional assistance. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: laurinburg, nc 28352 OK. I can't take it anymore. What does Laurinburg, NC, 28352 have to do with West Palm? Google maps says it's almost 10 hours away by car. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Listsli...@levelfive.us wrote: Well how come you didn't let me know? jeeesh From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: laurinburg, nc 28352 I was there last week. Jon On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Anyone up in this neck of the woods? I have a client in WPB, FL that needs some onsite assistance occasionally at this location. Simple things like setup wireless router, add printers etc. Doesn't need to be a consultant could be anytime if you're working a full time job. Thanks , email me off list if you are in that area. ~ 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 2008 Rdp
I would look at the ts config and on the connector check permissions. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 Rdp They need the right to logon to Terminal Services also, and the right to access the terminal Services Connection, along with the right to logon locally. Also might need to be apart of the Remote Desktop users Local group. If you have auditing turned on for logon/logoff look at the failure type code and post it here. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 _ From: Jonathan Kadoo [mailto:jka...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 Rdp It's strange, I do have logon locally granted and this server is not a DC. JK On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Logon Locally granted ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Jonathan Kadoo [mailto:jka...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 Rdp Good afternoon everyone, I have an issue with a Windows 2008 terminal server. I am trying to set it up so users can access it. When a user tries to login they are told that they must be part of the administrators group in order to login. I have given the user access in Windows 2008 to rdp to the server but still they can't. The user is part of the remote users group on the local box and they are allowed access in the remote settings portion of 2008. Any ideas on where else I can look? thanks Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
laurinburg, nc 28352
Anyone up in this neck of the woods? I have a client in WPB, FL that needs some onsite assistance occasionally at this location. Simple things like setup wireless router, add printers etc. Doesn't need to be a consultant could be anytime if you're working a full time job. Thanks , email me off list if you are in that area. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Kiosk software
Set it up like a TS where it doesn't load explorer just IE. You can also run windows media center in a kiosk mode, but idk how effective it is. -Original Message- From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Kiosk software I have done some searching but am looking for some recommendations. We are looking at setting a single workstation up as an Internet Kiosk for our vendors. They will have access to one site. I am sure we could spend a bunch of time setting up policies and registry hacks in order to do this but I have seen some pretty low cost solutions out there. Does anyone have any recommendations? 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/ ~
RE: laurinburg, nc 28352
Well how come you didn't let me know? jeeesh From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: laurinburg, nc 28352 I was there last week. Jon On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Anyone up in this neck of the woods? I have a client in WPB, FL that needs some onsite assistance occasionally at this location. Simple things like setup wireless router, add printers etc. Doesn't need to be a consultant could be anytime if you're working a full time job. Thanks , email me off list if you are in that area. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Exchange Migration Wizard
Anyone have any help for me on this? I have a domain that's being migrated into a corporate domain. ADMT works and Ive been able to migrate the users and desktops successfully. When I goto run the migration wizard I get an error about not having the right permissions. I went into Exchange on the old domain and made sure the admin acct was a full admin, and as a test I added the new domain admin and the admt acct as exchange admins as well. When I goto run the wizard I point to the server which I can ping by ip and by full dns name, I then put in credentials (tried all of them I have as exchange admins) and I always get popped back with a permissions error. Nothing really to look at from event logs or anything.. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 7 edition comparison
Every laptop/desktop that ran Vista in the past few months that had an issue got bumped up to Win7 beta. I have had less problems with it and it fixed a lot of little issues people were having with Vista. I ran Vista for quite some time both 32/64 versions. I didn't have any real problems with it on my desktops, however, it was noticeably slower on a laptop with the less powerful cpu and drive speeds. Win7 although has many similar functions just 'feels' better to most people that I have running it now. FWIW From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 edition comparison All laptops are now Vista and most of my desktops. We will go with 7 as soon as I have time to finish testing and it is released. Most will be moved to x64 if 1) the hardware supports it and 2) if they don't give me an issue to do the install. I hope to reclaim some of the resources lost to Vista without the extra cost of replacing or expanding. Those on XP are looking at being put on TS long term. Jon On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Peter van Houten peter...@gmail.com wrote: With the impending move of the Windows world to version 7, I thought it would be prudent for the list to discuss this. In addition, most of us would use a Windows desktop, in one form or other, on a personal system to access and/or administer corporate servers/networks. Off the top of my head, questions would be (but not limited to): . Staying with XP? Why / until when . Staying with Vista? ;-) U... . Recommendations to management/clients regarding upgrading? . 32 or 64 bit? . Which edition of se7en (as my 13 year old calls it) Microsoft is not very helpful here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/compare-editions?T1=tab 01 This is better: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/14422-compare-windows-7-editions.html -- Peter van Houten ~ 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: Ubuntu and FTP
Check out unetbootin-windows-323 It is a usb iso maker, however, it points to dozens of different distros, so you can just pop a usb drive in, click on distro select whatever you need and it will stream it and lay it out onto the usb and make it bootable. While the usb feature is nice, the distro links to several live images that are pretty nice (gparted, centos, damn small linux,ubuntu, freedos etc) -Original Message- From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ubuntu and FTP No just the only flavor of linux I have worked with. I don't really want to use a Windows box since we don't want to deal with purchasing another license for it and we want to dedicate the box for this application. Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ubuntu and FTP Is Ubuntu a requirement ? You could put up a simple hardned windows box, and run Filezilla Server on that where the FTP logins do NOT come from, nor have access to, the Active Directory Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ubuntu and FTP Does anyone happen to know of any site (tried google and didnt find much) or have some instructions on how to build a quick and easy FTP server? We need a simple one that only needs anonymous access. It will only be an internal server for one of our apps. Thanks Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association ~ 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: OT: Facebook dislikes you guys
I do oversee a few places that are heavy users and management uses them for sales so we leave it open because there are actual business uses for it. BTW: I need mafia help too! b...@levelfive.us J you guys use diff emails for your FB so I cant find you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Team Viewer - remote support app
What does it do besides remote connection? I use gotoassist (free and now commercial) and I also have some clients on logmein. I see the free version doesn't install on server(s), but doesn't seem too bad if it works just as well. -Original Message- From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Team Viewer - remote support app Cheers Lee, I had a support session from a BIG player using it today - what amused me is that they used the non commercial one - I mentioned it and it was becuase WebFX was down (apparently). It wasnt Mcafee, but it may have well as been! Just tried it on my Macbook to wifes PC, worked great - dead easy for even the slowest of end users to install. Gavin. Lee Douglas wrote: Works great for me - all XP and it's hard to beat free On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@gmail.com mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Came across this today (teamviewer.com http://teamviewer.com) free for non commercial use. Seems to work very well, almost too well for free, anyone used it before? Ideal for me to help family out, especially as its Mac compatible too! Gavin. ~ 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: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)
For a lan if you feel up to the task: http://www.drbd.org I use it in my datacenter, and am now replicating it for clients over 10/100meg fiber for entire esx servers and some just data servers. Seems to work pretty well with little management. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Managed Services
My company offers managed services, and I know that most consulting firms offer something. From 24/7 monitoring, help desk, server updates etc etc also spam/junk hosting, offsite dr, co-location etc. From: KenM [mailto:kenmli...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Managed Services I have a friend who sells managed services. In my opinion they are great fro the small company who does not have an IT staff or are under staffed and do not have the time to make sure AV is updated, Backups are completing and several other things the managed service provides. email me off list and I can give you more info on his company and the services that are provided if you want. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com wrote: Does anyone here sell managed services or subscribe to them as a service from a vendor? I'm looking for overall opinions. Do you find them useful, why or why not? Shawn ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
