Anyone using GFI WebMonitor?
We are currently using an iPrism for content filtering and we’re looking at possible alternatives. Is anyone using WebMonitor from GFI? Opinions? Any other products you like better for content filtering? Thanks, Michael Tobias IT Administrator Redeemer Classical Christian School www.rccs.org 410.592.9625 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Anyone using GFI WebMonitor?
Thanks very much, I’ll check that one out also. From: Derek Harris [mailto:dhar...@panoramaortho.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using GFI WebMonitor? We’ve been using WebMarshal for several years and have been very happy with it. The policies are very flexible. https://www.trustwave.com/web-security/webmarshal/ From: John Leto [mailto:jo...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:23 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using GFI WebMonitor? We switched from Iprism to the Sophos web appliance a few weeks ago and it’s been pretty good thus far. From: ntsysadmin [mailto:ntsysad...@rccs.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone using GFI WebMonitor? We are currently using an iPrism for content filtering and we’re looking at possible alternatives. Is anyone using WebMonitor from GFI? Opinions? Any other products you like better for content filtering? Thanks, Michael Tobias IT Administrator Redeemer Classical Christian School www.rccs.orghttp://www.rccs.org 410.592.9625 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This e-mail may contain information that is privileged and confidential, the disclosure of which is governed by applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of the information is strictly prohibited. E-mail is inherently insecure and Panorama Orthopedics Spine Center will not accept responsibility for any disclosure or loss of information as a result of this electronic communication. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop
I haven't checked in a while, did they ever update the Mac client so that a TS Gateway can be entered? I couldn't find a solution to that one a few years ago. Mike From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop Terminal server is what we use. It is built in to the Windows client (or easily downloaded for a Mac). Safe. Easy to setup and to manage. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Rhonda Richardson rrichard...@kcumb.edumailto:rrichard...@kcumb.edu wrote: We currently have 50 - 100 folks that want access to applications (specifically licensed to the desktop) and network resources from home or on the road. For those that have laptops, we plan to provide them with a VPN client to give them access to the network, but the majority of the folks wanting access have desktop PCs. How are others providing this type of access for those that don't have laptops? Thanks. Rhonda ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Home Antivirus
About 50% of the PCs I clean for people have McAfee installed. Definitely not at the top of the list for me. Was that spam anyway? :) From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Antivirus Hurry up! Time's almost out on the deal to get McAfee free for 3PCs. http://preview.tinyurl.com/77u2zry ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Computer safety and security best practices...
I feel like many of the malware infections I come across could have been easily avoided if the end user was just a little better informed. I’ve wanted to put together some tutorials for staff here at the school and also for my clients, that would help them to be more security conscious while browsing the web, etc. I already have a quite a few ideas for topics to cover and some online resources that I’m looking at too, but would like to make sure I don’t leave anything out. I’d like to make this training mandatory for school staff but of course clients would have to be made to see the value of it. Do you guys already do training like this for end users or do you point them to any online materials? Thanks, Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Home Antivirus
Lol, sorry, I thought your mail account might have been hijacked by a spammer. Don’t forgot to use those sarcasm tags next time. :) From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 8:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Antivirus Not unless sarcasm is spam. In that case, I stand guilty. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:51 PM, ntsysadmin ntsysad...@rccs.orgmailto:ntsysad...@rccs.org wrote: About 50% of the PCs I clean for people have McAfee installed. Definitely not at the top of the list for me. Was that spam anyway? :) From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.commailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Antivirus Hurry up! Time's almost out on the deal to get McAfee free for 3PCs. http://preview.tinyurl.com/77u2zry ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Computer safety and security best practices...
Someone just told me about that site the other day. That will be one of my resources. Thanks! From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 8:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computer safety and security best practices... Stu does this through his new-ish company, KnowBe4 http://www.knowbe4.com/ Jonathan On Feb 13, 2012 8:22 PM, ntsysadmin ntsysad...@rccs.orgmailto:ntsysad...@rccs.org wrote: I feel like many of the malware infections I come across could have been easily avoided if the end user was just a little better informed. I've wanted to put together some tutorials for staff here at the school and also for my clients, that would help them to be more security conscious while browsing the web, etc. I already have a quite a few ideas for topics to cover and some online resources that I'm looking at too, but would like to make sure I don't leave anything out. I'd like to make this training mandatory for school staff but of course clients would have to be made to see the value of it. Do you guys already do training like this for end users or do you point them to any online materials? Thanks, Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Home Antivirus
I had lost faith in AVG a few years ago, but it seems to work better now. I do have one client that uses the business version with success. I often install the free version for home users whose PCs I’ve just cleaned up. It’s hard to tell someone that the AV they just paid for is worthless and they need to buy something else. Installing the free AVG product makes this a little less painful. I also like to install the free Secunia PSI scanner for home users, to try to help them stay up to date on patches. Any comments on that program? Thanks, Mike From: MMF [mailto:mmfree...@ameritech.net] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 8:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Antivirus Any comments on AVG? I’ve been using it for several years and it hasn’t failed me yet! MMF From: Cynicalgeekmailto:cynicalg...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Home Antivirus The same things that infect MSSE also infect McAfee, Norton, et al. If you're going the paid route, supposedly Kaspersky is the absolute best. I've been using MSSE for almost 2.5 years and have been very pleased. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.commailto:rich...@gmail.com wrote: Hurry up! Time's almost out on the deal to get McAfee free for 3PCs. http://preview.tinyurl.com/77u2zry Receive a $55 prepaid card by mail from McAfee! Expires on 2/15/12 So in two days, the Internet will be a safer place. ;-) If I'm going the free AV route, I'd prolly go MS Security Essentials. While it's limited in features, it does stop malware and spyware, and updates happen with Windows Update. For all of WU's problems, other things all seem to suck more. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- -cynicalgeek- cynicalgeekatgmail.comhttp://gmail.com -- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Home Antivirus
How much less likely is one to get infected running as a non-admin? Does it depend on the OS? I ask because I've cleaned up infections on Windows7 Pro PCs where the user was definitely not running as an admin. One PC in question was also set up to require additional credentials for any software installation. We never did determine the source of the malware. Thanks, Mike From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Antivirus From personal experience it does not matter how good the anti-malware software is if you have users (home or corp) that run as administrators regularly, fight you tooth and nail on patching the machine, and download/install all the neat stuff on the web they will get hit by something. Previous $dayjob$ once I got administration approval to pull admin privileges, start patching on a regular basis, and require proof of need to install anything not on the standard software list with proof that it was not going to open up the internal network to a virus most of the anti-malware software will keep things under control. Most homeowners prefer to run with admin privileges, fight patching, and install all kinds of garbage they really don't need. Those are the ones that get hit repeatably but malware. Jon On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:55 PM, MMF mmfree...@ameritech.netmailto:mmfree...@ameritech.net wrote: Any comments on AVG? I've been using it for several years and it hasn't failed me yet! MMF From: Cynicalgeekmailto:cynicalg...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Home Antivirus The same things that infect MSSE also infect McAfee, Norton, et al. If you're going the paid route, supposedly Kaspersky is the absolute best. I've been using MSSE for almost 2.5 years and have been very pleased. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.commailto:rich...@gmail.com wrote: Hurry up! Time's almost out on the deal to get McAfee free for 3PCs. http://preview.tinyurl.com/77u2zry Receive a $55 prepaid card by mail from McAfee! Expires on 2/15/12 So in two days, the Internet will be a safer place. ;-) If I'm going the free AV route, I'd prolly go MS Security Essentials. While it's limited in features, it does stop malware and spyware, and updates happen with Windows Update. For all of WU's problems, other things all seem to suck more. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- -cynicalgeek- cynicalgeekatgmail.comhttp://gmail.com -- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Computer safety and security best practices...
Wow, that looks like an excellent resource! It will take me a while to go through it all. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computer safety and security best practices... See this site, from SANS: http://www.securingthehuman.org/resources/newsletters/ouch On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 17:15, ntsysadmin ntsysad...@rccs.org wrote: I feel like many of the malware infections I come across could have been easily avoided if the end user was just a little better informed. I’ve wanted to put together some tutorials for staff here at the school and also for my clients, that would help them to be more security conscious while browsing the web, etc. I already have a quite a few ideas for topics to cover and some online resources that I’m looking at too, but would like to make sure I don’t leave anything out. I’d like to make this training mandatory for school staff but of course clients would have to be made to see the value of it. Do you guys already do training like this for end users or do you point them to any online materials? Thanks, Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Reinstallation of Windows 7
I agree, one of the things I love about Win7. Full backup and restore from the DVD is a piece of cake too. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Reinstallation of Windows 7 You can install over the existing installation, you can also format from the DVD and re-install on a blank disk. If you are having troubles booting, the Window 7 DVD also has a great repair startup tool. Much better than XP's. From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Reinstallation of Windows 7 Is there a way to install over Windows 7 starting from the DVD (In case of troubles of booting) TIA Guido Elia HELPPC - HELPPC SERVICE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: OT - ugh!
I have to thank you guys for this thread. I've been doing consulting for about 15 years, for some small businesses and a couple years of full time work for one business in particular. I've recently stopped working full time for my big client (skills were stagnating because of too many other responsibilities there) and decided to grow my business. This thread has given me some good ideas. I wish I could get back all of the referrals I turned down over the years while working for that big client. Thanks! From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 11:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! I hate to sound corny or mystical, but I'll write it anyway: if you believe, the Universe will provide. You just have to be willing to open the damn door when opportunity knocks. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 10:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! Yeah I already figured I'd need 4 more clients of the same size as by biggest one. My biggest client is 3-10 hrs/week during non-server upgrade months. It would take 4 more clients of that size for me to break even with %dayjob%, and I would need at least three of them lined up before I jumped. If I was single it would have been a no-brainer long ago... Dave From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]mailto:[mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! I want it now. :) Three clients isn't enough. I have 5 HUGE clients and close to 80 minor (where major/minor is defined in terms of how much support they want from me) clients. Webster is a lot more willing to travel than I am. I prefer to work from my office at home (I've got a 13-y/o son that lives with me), and with video chat that works for most clients. Not all of them, though. So... I plan to travel 8-10 times a year; while Webster spends most of his time on the road. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]mailto:[mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 5:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - ugh! I can only speak for me, and it has been feast since I went out on my own Feb 1st last year. So far this year, the feast is even better as there is very little agency work so I get 100% of the billables. :) Yes, I am complaining all the way to the bank. If it gets any better, MBS is going to want a referral fee or commission! Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org Reply-To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:31:45 + To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: OT - ugh! That's part of my fear of dropping %dayjob% and going 100% on my own biz - feast or famine! With just three clients I have I'm always amazed at how often their feast/famine cycles coincide, and they even have different fiscal year cycles. I mean, in the span of two months I am doing an SBS 2003 - SBS2011 swing for two of them. One of these clients I can go months with nothing other than patching. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - ugh! I find myself busier than a one-arm paper hanger in a wind storm. Don't know why it took me so long to convince MBS that I should go solo! LOL Now that my fellow CTPs know I can spell AD, I am finding myself doing a lot of AD assessments, assisting with AD migrations and putting in 2008 R2 AD infrastructures. I would say I am now 50% AD and 50% Citrix. I no longer do Exchange and refer all that to MBS. I can't believe how much Citrix work I turn down because I just don't have the time. Right now I am tentatively booked thru the end of July and already starting to worry because no one is calling about August or September yet! :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/ From: James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com Reply-To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:53:32 + To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: OT - ugh! I ran as a contractor through a managed services company for about six years before taking the plunge myself. Whereas now I find myself counting the amount of extra tax I spent the last six years paying
RE: OT - ugh!
I agree totally. Right now about 80% of the IT work I do is on a volunteer basis, for a medium-sized private school. I love the work and enjoy knowing that I'm helping to fill a position that would otherwise detract from the teachers' salaries or maybe not be filled at all. I also have enough side work to keep the bills paid for now. :) Mike If you get into anything just for the money, you will not make it. And it by chance you do make it, you will not be happy. I give away a lot of time and info for free (as I know MBS, ASB and BD do). I have actually told prospects that I have an article written that covers the work they want me to do. They can follow the article and if they have any questions or problems, give me a call. -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - ugh! If you get into anything just for the money, you will not make it. And it by chance you do make it, you will not be happy. I give away a lot of time and info for free (as I know MBS, ASB and BD do). I have actually told prospects that I have an article written that covers the work they want me to do. They can follow the article and if they have any questions or problems, give me a call. You know what? I am not having to worry about money. :) BTW, if you know some Linux/Unix stuff AND you are a packet-head type person, you should get into the Citrix NetScaler. As busy as us XenApp and XenDesktop people are, my NetScaler friends are buried in work and can't keep up. I know three CTPs whose businesses are BEGGING for NetScaler people. And most NetScaler work can be done remotely. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ On 2/7/12 1:30 PM, ANDREW F OFALT afo...@psu.edu wrote: I agree with this, unfortunately I find looking for a job to be a job. Not quite my passion... But I am looking for a job so my plan over the next 9 years would be to 1st 3 years - get a certification in VMware (or on any virtualized platform) and from this list it looks like a Citrix Certification would be a good addition. The next 3 year job - get a up to date certification in CCNE and MCSE. The next 3 year job - to be determined. Or insert you own views for my development at your company. I am pretty good with the basics and consider myself very knowledgeable in most... Contact me offline for the positions you want me in. Also provide the information for each 3 year period you would want me to work. Of course I expect a decent salary and significant increases when changing jobs. Even though I have been at my present job for quite a while, we have had a lot of diversification with the system admins that have gone through our network. Each one brings in his own ideas and setups, then moves on after setting up his own opinion. Then we are left to troubleshoot the problems and try to provide reliability with what was left. They bring in their own new ways so we do see different ways to do and not to do things. We are exposed. I am looking to make it in your next review cycle. Andy0 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Microsoft VM - 5 ways of backing up?
Windows Backup can also send email notifications. I'm in the process of setting this up now. Mike -Original Message- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft VM - 5 ways of backing up? Wbadmin Start backup -backuptarget:\\targetbackupserver\targetshare -Include:c:,E:,f: -vssfull -allCritical -noinheritacl -quiet -user:domain\username -Password:userpassword OK I took out specific info, but this is the command I use to backup many of our servers. I choose this one because you can see it has multiple drives. This server is running Server 2008 R2, however the same command works on 2008. I would suggest after you set it up to try a restore to verify everything is working fine. That is exactly what we have done. The biggest problem is that everytime you run it, you overwrite the old backup so you only have the latest backup. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Patch management software...
I'm not running any SBS servers here and wasn't really concerned about patching servers anyway. Most of my clients are so small that they have only one or two servers and patching is done manually. I was reading the product's support forum last night and the techs seem to be very knowledgeable and responsive to user requests and feature requests. I feel like I've struck gold finding this... Thanks again to the person that posted about Desktop Central. From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patch management software... I doesn't list SBS as a supported OS though, which is a concern. From: ntsysadmin [mailto:ntsysad...@rccs.org] Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2012 4:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patch management software... Thanks for all of the replies. I'm looking over the recommended apps and installing the demos. So far ManageEngine (http://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/) looks like the winner. The functionality is awesome, web-based UI is beautiful and easy to read/navigate, feature-set - looks like it does so much I will have to read the docs to discover all the features. It does look like it's still free for 25 or fewer PCs, which is just amazing. This will work for most of my clients, I will get quotes for the larger ones. If you're not familiar with this product, I would highly recommend installing the free demo and trying it out. I am VERY impressed. Thanks, Mike From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:dhoe...@ufcoop.com]mailto:[mailto:dhoe...@ufcoop.com] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patch management software... For the small Windows installations you might take a look at Desktop Central by ManageEngine, I believe they still offer a free version for up to 25 workstations. Dennis From: ntsysadmin [mailto:ntsysad...@rccs.org] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Patch management software... I'm looking for affordable patch management software for several of my small business clients. Workstation numbers range from 4-80 PCs running XP, Vista, Windows7 and a few Macs. It's okay if I can't find anything to work with the Macs. I like the Secunia product but I didn't see an offering for users with very small number of workstations. What are people using? Are there any free options out there that are worthwhile? Thanks, Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Patch management software...
Thanks for all of the replies. I'm looking over the recommended apps and installing the demos. So far ManageEngine (http://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/) looks like the winner. The functionality is awesome, web-based UI is beautiful and easy to read/navigate, feature-set - looks like it does so much I will have to read the docs to discover all the features. It does look like it's still free for 25 or fewer PCs, which is just amazing. This will work for most of my clients, I will get quotes for the larger ones. If you're not familiar with this product, I would highly recommend installing the free demo and trying it out. I am VERY impressed. Thanks, Mike From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:dhoe...@ufcoop.com] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patch management software... For the small Windows installations you might take a look at Desktop Central by ManageEngine, I believe they still offer a free version for up to 25 workstations. Dennis From: ntsysadmin [mailto:ntsysad...@rccs.org] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Patch management software... I'm looking for affordable patch management software for several of my small business clients. Workstation numbers range from 4-80 PCs running XP, Vista, Windows7 and a few Macs. It's okay if I can't find anything to work with the Macs. I like the Secunia product but I didn't see an offering for users with very small number of workstations. What are people using? Are there any free options out there that are worthwhile? Thanks, Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Patch management software...
I'm looking for affordable patch management software for several of my small business clients. Workstation numbers range from 4-80 PCs running XP, Vista, Windows7 and a few Macs. It's okay if I can't find anything to work with the Macs. I like the Secunia product but I didn't see an offering for users with very small number of workstations. What are people using? Are there any free options out there that are worthwhile? Thanks, Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now
It is available now on MSDN Technet. It is available to the public 12:00am your time Friday. S -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Anyone have any inside info? Are we talking 12:01am tomorrow, or more like 4:00pm in the afternoon? On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Christopher J. Bosak cbo...@vector-co.com wrote: Public beta tomorrow. I'll have to wait as I don't have MSDN. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 cbo...@vector-co.com You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me From: Michael Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 08:17 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Enjoy Mike Mike Hoffman Drum Brae Solutions Ltd ~ 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: Remote mirror with XP Pro
It wasn't a comment, it was a question. I'm damn sure I'd want to work for an IT manager with a beginners knowledge of systems... S -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote mirror with XP Pro Folks, Lets not bash others on the list.. keep your personal comments to yourself. He is asking for help, and we should give it to him, not question his position and this and that.. Thanks Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: ezi...@lifespan.org Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote mirror with XP Pro Somebody already mentioned robocopy that can accomplish this. Another option is SyncBack. -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote mirror with XP Pro What's your problem? On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:58 PM, NTSysAdmin wrote: Dear dear dear...how did you become an IT manager??? S -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote mirror with XP Pro Good afternoon, I thought you could set up a software mirror through XP Pro, but now that I sat down to do it, I realize I can't. In researching the issue, I see that you can create a mirror on a remote system, but only see references to 200 Server. Does anyone know if this can be done to a 2003 Server volume? Instead of having two local drives configured as a mirrored volume, I'd like to mirror a drive on the XP box to a drive on a 2003 server. This would be done over a gigabit network, BTW. Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Confidentiality Notice: -- This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Server OS Reinstall
Have you tried a repair from the cd?? -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server OS Reinstall I've got a server (Server 2003 R2) that conked out on me over the Christmas holidays. I'm not quite sure what went wrong--the hardware seems to be okay. But there was some sort of corruption in the RAID array and the OS gives a stop 0x0024 every time it goes to boot. A fresh OS install won't be too painful, because this server was only a DC/DHCP/DNS server. But my question is this... When I reinstall, should I give the server the same name it had before? Or will that confuse Active Directory? And if I give it a different name, how do I remove all references to the old server name from AD? Just wondering what best practices are. Amazingly, I've never had to do this before in my years as a sysadmin. Just lucky, I guess! John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ 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: Remote mirror with XP Pro
Dear dear dear...how did you become an IT manager??? S -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote mirror with XP Pro Good afternoon, I thought you could set up a software mirror through XP Pro, but now that I sat down to do it, I realize I can't. In researching the issue, I see that you can create a mirror on a remote system, but only see references to 200 Server. Does anyone know if this can be done to a 2003 Server volume? Instead of having two local drives configured as a mirrored volume, I'd like to mirror a drive on the XP box to a drive on a 2003 server. This would be done over a gigabit network, BTW. Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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: Selling servers
All that is required is a signed copy of the bill of sale or an invoice. Just like any other piece of merchandise. S From: Dallas Burnworth [mailto:dallas.burnwo...@zones.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Selling servers Unless you can transfer the warranty or ownership on the manufacturer's site like Bob says below, you probably want to get with a reseller that can handle lifecycle management in order to address the following: 1. Indemnification of improper use and disposal of equipment-if you sell or donate equipment without legal indemnification you can be liable if those serial numbers show up in a landfill or are used in committing some kind of crime. (Once it leaves your hands you just never know.) A reseller can provide al of the necessary protective services and handle brokering your usable equipment to someone else, and you get the money less the fee. It costs you money instead of time, but all the bases are covered. In California the fine for throwing a PC in the landfill is so high you won't believe me unless you Google it and look it up, but they are the highest. Sometimes you can even go to jail depending on what regulations your industry is required to obey. Other states have big fines too, like MA, MD, ME, NJ, and WA. 2. Not destroying the drives by shredding or degaussing and DOD overwriting-there are lots of ways even damaged drives can have information taken from them. Protect yourself at all times and know what the applicable laws are. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Selling servers I have sold Dell equipment before an eBay. There is a warranty transfer site (see link) http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/change_order/en/tag_transfer From: Travis Robinson [mailto:travis.robin...@octanner.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Selling servers Hello, We are looking at migrating to an all blade environment and have some 1yr old Dell 1950s with Gold support. Has anyone sold off old servers that are still under warranty? Any recommendations on how to do it; eBay or reseller? Any suggestions are appreciated Thanks and Happy New Year Travis ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: LogMeIn
I have a client, A large firm of lawyers. They use PC's servers for their legal work document printing. No connection to the internet at all for that network. Updates are by DVD remote deployment. They have MAC's for email internet. Email hosted off site. S -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: LogMeIn Thoroughly agree. Hell, I'm fighting a battle now to keep personal machines from connecting via VPN. My mantra: If the hardware isn't owned and controlled by the company, I don't want it on the company network. I'm beginning to wonder if all companies should maintain two physically separate networks and provide their employees with two computers - one that connects to the world, and one that is for core applications *only*. Kurt On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:01 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I work for a company with ~300 employees, is there a reason to discourage a few of our employees from installing LogMeIn Free on their systems ... You're letting an outside organization have control of one of your computers. You're okay with that? Cool, can I have control of one of your computers, too? I promise I won't do anything bad. Pinky swear! Sure, all these remote-control companies claim to have great security. *Everybody* claims that. And yet, major security problems keep on happening, all over the place, all the time. From this, we can conclude that claims of great security mean precisely nothing. Security problems don't have to mean them taking over the world. It doesn't have to mean organization-wide intent. It could be one employee with a grudge. Or maybe an undetected remote compromise on a server in their datacenter -- these are high-profile targets, and custom malware would be undetectable by signature-based virus scanners. Or maybe they cut back on security spending when the economy tanked. It might not be something you could detect -- passive monitoring would be invisible. It might not even be something with specific intent -- maybe random malware makes it into their systems, and then propagates over the remote-control system to you. -- 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: XP volume issue
You need to import the unrecognized disks. -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: XP volume issue Good afternoon, Thanks to all who replied to my NT domain problem the past few days. I resolved the problem, and will post more on that in a bit. I have another problem related to the power outage. We have a workstation that has an IDE system disk, and 4 additional IDE drives configured as a striped volume. The system disk seems to be completed corrupted, but the real critical data is on the array. I swapped out the system disk, and loaded a fresh XP install. I can see two of the four disks in the array. Through troubleshooting, I determined one of the onboard IDE controllers went bad. We installed a PCI IDE controller card, and moved all drives to this card. In disk manager, I see 6 disks listed as follows: Disk 1 Dynamic 55.91 GBOnline Failed Disk 2 Dynamic Foreign Disk 3 Dynamic Foreign Disk 4 Dynamic 55.91 GBOnline Failed Missing Dynamic 55.91 GBOffline Failed Missing Dynamic 55.91 GBOffline Failed I'm sure the two missing disks correspond to the two foreign disks. How can I re-associate the two foreign drives with the missing drives? What is the proper way to recreate this array without losing data? This is just a simple, non-redundant disk array. Thanks! Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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: Printing issue
We have a laserjet 4 in the accounts office. It has outlasted 3 HP1320N's and it has been decided to keep it out of the cupboard until it too dies. -Original Message- From: Dallas Burnworth [mailto:dallas.burnwo...@zones.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Printing issue I apologize for not paying attention at the beginning. Not to get too far off the subject, but LaserJet 5? Why are you still using that? They are tanks and last forever, but compared to anything you can get today you are hemorrhaging money just to keep it running. Here are 2 links that will prove it. HP LaserJet Power Calculator. (You will need to know what you pay per KWH.) You can compare new HP printers to Legacy HP printers or current competitive printers. This is really useful and for people trying to save money any way they can, this tells them exactly where the money is going. http://hpbroadband.com/(S(q3zkyv45j14ant45zwnel1rb))/program.aspx?key=In stantOnMFPs LaserJet Page Cost Calculator. 70% of an HP printer's technology (not sure what it is on other brands) is in the cartridge, so it is very important to control the ongoing cost of every printer with consistency in manufacture. In most cases man-hours are much more expensive than just getting the product that is more easily supported and cost the end user or customer less than a single day of consulting fees. http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/mfp/competitive-comparison-m4345mfp.html?jum pid=ex_r2548_go/pagecost I'm not saying don't fix the current issue or anything (sometimes you just have to make things work), but you can use these tools in the future to differentiate your value to your customer/boss etc. from your competition and peers. Dallas -Original Message- From: Tony Volpe [mailto:cpusunb...@cox.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Printing issue Did that (more than once), it did not work. There was no hope fro Laserjet 5 and, as I mentioned originally, even though the Laserjet 4 installs, it goes to offline At 09:23 AM 12/17/2008, you wrote: Sorry missed the local part. Delete the printer, Restart the spooler. Goto the server properties and drivers tab. Remove the Printer drivers and reboot. Do a reinstall of the printer. -Original Message- From: Tony Volpe [mailto:cpusunb...@cox.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Printing issue This is directly connected; not shared; and I do not believe the Port Configuration option show anything but transmission retry time Any other thoughts At 08:45 AM 12/17/2008, you wrote: Make sure SNMP is turned off on the port properties. -Original Message- From: cpusunb...@cox.net [mailto:cpusunb...@cox.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Printing issue I did an upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Pro on two Dell GX270s. Both upgrades went smoothly. One has a Laserjet 1200 attached by the parallel port (LPT1) and it worked well. The other has a Laserjet 5 also connected to the parallel port with a centronics cable. It will not take the Laserjet 5 drivers with Add Printer (error). After may efforts to install the Laserjet 5 , tried the Laserjet 4. It took the driver and it print out the test page then went immediately 'offline'. The offline feature is not checked. It also showed up as shared. If I shut off the share, the Icon show ready then goes immediately to offline. Suggestions please ~ 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/ ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.18/1852 - Release Date: 12/16/2008 6:11 PM ~ 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/ ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.18/1852 - Release Date: 12/16/2008 6:11 PM ~ 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: Odd directory issue
Copy 'from' the NT box to the 2003 box? S -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Odd directory issue Good morning, I am still working to rid myself of a couple of NT servers in our environment, and I'm running into an odd issue. I need to move data from the NT server to my 2003 server. From 2003, I am mapping a drive to a share on the NT box. Some of the directories are displayed blue. I think this has to do with them being compressed by NT. Is this correct? When I browse the blue directories from 2003, they appear empty. If I check properties, I see file counts and size summaries. If I look at the directory from NT, I see the files. How can I get these files to display properly on my 2003 server? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards
as far as I remember...*.* is what you need. S -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, lists li...@bdtechnology.org wrote: ROBOCOPY D:\ \\backup_server\backup_share\original_server\D/XD D:\Programs\Microsoft\RIS\Setup\English\Images\*\i386\ /E That doesn't work either. Same Invalid Parameter error (except now it's a different parameter number, of course). The above assumes that the \D after \original_server is a folder name. Yup, it is. Folder exists. Permission exists. Are you sure there are no spaces in the excluded folder? If not, you will need to enclose in quotes. No spaces. I just tried enclosing in quotes anyway, same result. If I don't use an asterisk wildcard it then will run, so I'm pretty sure it's the attempt at a wildcard that's the problem. I was mainly wondering if someone had a poorly-documented trick that would make the wildcard work. Guess not. :) -- 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: Issue joining 2003 domain (UNCLASSIFIED)
Then your DNS / WINS is fubarred somehow in relation to that server. S -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Issue joining 2003 domain (UNCLASSIFIED) Yes. This had the same outcome. On Dec 11, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM wrote: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Did you put it back in a workgroup first, reboot, then try to join the W2K3 domain? -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: 2008-12-11 12:13 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Issue joining 2003 domain Yes, it is joined to an old NT domain I am trying desperately to decommission. Nothing besides the switches are between the PC and the DC. The funny thing is, XP machines join fine. When I try joining new_domain.local as opposed to new_domain, I get a different error: Network Identification The following error occurred attempting to join the domain new_domain.local: The network path was not found. On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Troy Meyer wrote: Hey Eric, Is the W2K box already a member of another domain? Is there anything filtering traffic between the DC and the old server? I think occasionally we also had to use the complete dns name when trying to add. (ie domain.com not just domain). Weird though, never seen that before. -Troy -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Issue joining 2003 domain Good morning, I am trying to join one of our legacy W2K boxes to our W2K3 domain. I am logged in as the local administrator, and when I try to join I am passing my domain admin credentials like new_domain\administrator. I am getting the following error: Network Identification The following error occurred attempting to join the domain new_domain: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done. I can ping the new_domain DC by name and IP, and I can see the new_domain from Network Places. Any one ever run into this? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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: Issue joining 2003 domain
Run dcdiag /fix a few times. See if that helps. -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Issue joining 2003 domain Deleting the (unrelated) errors from my system resolved the DCDIAG errors. I installed the Support Tools, and ran ADDIAG on the DC. This did not turn up anything either. On Dec 11, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Eric Brouwer wrote: I'm still trying to find ADDIAG, but I was able to run DCDIAG on the DC. It is returning a few errors which I am now researching: Starting test: systemlog An Error Event occurred. EventID: 0x0457 Event String could not be retrieved DC failed test systemlog This error repeats three times. All other tests pass. On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:50 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Somewhere in Win2003 (perhaps still on the CD?) are Support Tools. Try running ADDIAG and DCDIAG (command line utilities). Look in the system logs for both the client and the AD controller and see if those have any links to solutions. That's about as much as I remember back from when I was getting these friendly greetings. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Troy Meyer troy.me...@monacocoach.com wrote on 12/11/2008 10:34:47 AM: Hey Eric, Is the W2K box already a member of another domain? Is there anything filtering traffic between the DC and the old server? I think occasionally we also had to use the complete dns name when trying to add. (ie domain.com not just domain). Weird though, never seen that before. -Troy -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Issue joining 2003 domain Good morning, I am trying to join one of our legacy W2K boxes to our W2K3 domain. I am logged in as the local administrator, and when I try to join I am passing my domain admin credentials like new_domain\administrator. I am getting the following error: Network Identification The following error occurred attempting to join the domain new_domain: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done. I can ping the new_domain DC by name and IP, and I can see the new_domain from Network Places. Any one ever run into this? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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: Issue joining 2003 domain (UNCLASSIFIED)
There are some clues... The network path was not found. Are you using the w2k3 dns server in the w2k IP settings? S -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Issue joining 2003 domain (UNCLASSIFIED) In what way could the DNS be messed up? I can ping the DC and the domain by name and ip. All respond. On Dec 11, 2008, at 3:05 PM, NTSysAdmin wrote: Then your DNS / WINS is fubarred somehow in relation to that server. S -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Issue joining 2003 domain (UNCLASSIFIED) Yes. This had the same outcome. On Dec 11, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM wrote: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Did you put it back in a workgroup first, reboot, then try to join the W2K3 domain? -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: 2008-12-11 12:13 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Issue joining 2003 domain Yes, it is joined to an old NT domain I am trying desperately to decommission. Nothing besides the switches are between the PC and the DC. The funny thing is, XP machines join fine. When I try joining new_domain.local as opposed to new_domain, I get a different error: Network Identification The following error occurred attempting to join the domain new_domain.local: The network path was not found. On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Troy Meyer wrote: Hey Eric, Is the W2K box already a member of another domain? Is there anything filtering traffic between the DC and the old server? I think occasionally we also had to use the complete dns name when trying to add. (ie domain.com not just domain). Weird though, never seen that before. -Troy -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Issue joining 2003 domain Good morning, I am trying to join one of our legacy W2K boxes to our W2K3 domain. I am logged in as the local administrator, and when I try to join I am passing my domain admin credentials like new_domain\administrator. I am getting the following error: Network Identification The following error occurred attempting to join the domain new_domain: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done. I can ping the new_domain DC by name and IP, and I can see the new_domain from Network Places. Any one ever run into this? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ 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: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment?
I'll second Openfiler. Been using it to run a powervault 220s for 2 years now with not one issue. And if you need enterprise support they have that too. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? My ESX instructor learned us how to use OpenFiler, and he said many companies use it for production. I don't use it here, but I was very impressed with OpenFiler. Maybe at some point... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? Planning a move to VMWare ESX, and I'm evaluatiing my SAN choices. I have OpenFiler in a production environment storing some of our data. On of our NAS box's flaked out on me, and I repurposed a server with Openfiler to fill the void and try out iSCSI SAN features. I've been extremely happy with the performance. Using it to run VM's and take advantage of High Availability features is where I am having some pause. Wonder if anyone here has already blazed this trail Thanks, Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment?
Openfiler is a SAN...whether you like it or not...iSCSI target is a PITA From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? Our storage requirements are pretty clear cut and needy so they were happy to pay to do it properly. you dont need openfiler or freenas. just enable the iscsi target on most linux distros (fedora etc) plenty of google reading on that Greg From: Matthew W. Ross [mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? We use OpenFiler here, with good results. Basically, if boils down to: If you want something you support yourself for cheap (This is our case), use OpenFiler or FreeNAS. If you want something with paid support, especially for the hardware, go with a commercial product. For us, the cost savings of OpenFiler iSCSI outweighed the support provided by the Commercial iSCSI solutions. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:48:29 -0800 Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? i use it for our test clusters. but i wouldnt use it in production. Steve and i have had this discussion and he wont convince me. NEVER!!! Greg From: Steve Moffat [st...@optimum.bm] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [ntsysad...@optimum.bm] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 7:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? I'll second Openfiler. Been using it to run a powervault 220s for 2 years now with not one issue. And if you need enterprise support they have that too. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? My ESX instructor learned us how to use OpenFiler, and he said many companies use it for production. I don't use it here, but I was very impressed with OpenFiler. Maybe at some point... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? Planning a move to VMWare ESX, and I'm evaluatiing my SAN choices. I have OpenFiler in a production environment storing some of our data. On of our NAS box's flaked out on me, and I repurposed a server with Openfiler to fill the void and try out iSCSI SAN features. I've been extremely happy with the performance. Using it to run VM's and take advantage of High Availability features is where I am having some pause. Wonder if anyone here has already blazed this trail Thanks, Jonathan ~ 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: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types
Strange I tried both. On a pair of Dell 1950's with 16gig of memory sharing an Openfiler San, (Powervault sc220s). At most I had 6 W2K3 VMs with 2 GB memory running on the HyperV. With ESXi I ran out of space on the LUN after 13 W2K3 VM's. Performance was fine on both. The benefit of being able to upgrade to get VMotion was also a mitigating fact. S -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 9:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types Really? We did a basic test on one of our servers, the free ESX against Hyper-V and the general consensus was that the Hyper-V one is quicker. Besides we love all things MS here. Saying that I haven't run any definitive tests against the two, but the MS offering certainly did feel quicker when the chaps here sat in front of the VMs. Olly -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 08 December 2008 13:35 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types You should have stuck with VMWareESXi (Also Free), is far superior to HyperV Beta...And I'm a Microsoft guy...HyperV won't catch up for a good few years yet. If you think HyperV is fast, ESXi will blow you away. S -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types Hi chaps, I'm looking at moving our VMWare based VMs to our new Hyper-V based servers. New VMs are working a treat, and certainly Hyper-V seems far more responsive than our VMWare based setup. However existing VMWare based VMs are proving an issue. While the VM's have been imported to Hyper-V without any problems it would appear that the HAL of the VMWare VMs have all been set to 'Standard PC' at some point during the installation of the guest OS (all Windows 2003). In order to install the Hyper-V tools we need to be running a ACPI based HAL. My question is this; is there a way in Windows 2003 to move from a Standard PC based HAL to an ACPI based HAL ? I know that MS don't support it (at least from what i can see on the web), but is there a way to hack a solution to it ? The only option we have at the moment is to re-install the guest OS's but that would mean a lot of work and possibly re-config of the apps running on them. Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types
In my eyes it is still a BETA product seeing as it still has a hell of a long way to go before they get it to where it needs to be. S...:) -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Subject: RE: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types You should have stuck with VMWareESXi (Also Free), is far superior to HyperV Beta...And I'm a Microsoft guy...HyperV won't catch up for a good few years yet. If you think HyperV is fast, ESXi will blow you away. HyperV has been out of beta for some time now. Unless your HyperV Beta remark is a snide sarcastic comment on anything less than HyperV Version 3 being a beta release. Webster ~ 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: Memory Upgrade question
Absolute rubbish.. From: Kelsay, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Memory Upgrade question I have been told by our usual hardware vendor that if I use Crucial RAM to upgrade several HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers that I will void my warranty with HP. He states that we can only use HP branded RAM. There is a £300 difference between the HP branded RAM they quoted us and the price we could get from Crucial. I just spoke with Crucial and they state that this is not true. Anyone else ever come across this issue? Thanks, Mark ** This email is sent for and on behalf of Inspop.com Limited ** Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registration no. 310635. Inspop.com Limited (also trading as Confused.com) is registered in England and Wales at 2nd Floor, Friary House, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AE (Reg. No. 03857130 ). Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the Information Security Officer by telephone on +44 (0) 29 2043 4252. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. This email has been swept for viruses before leaving our system. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. We may monitor the content of E-mails sent and received via our network for viruses or unauthorised use and for other lawful business purposes. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Messagelabs. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Old Firewall IP still ghosting around network
DHCP options? WPAD.DAT file?
S
From: Sean Rector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Old Firewall IP still ghosting around network
I changed the IP address of my firewall (ISA 2006) last year, and have been
moving people from the Local Admin group to the Local Users group. When I do
that, even though I have the Firewall Client configured properly, including
updating IE, the users' IE sessions still look to the old IP address. I've
verified that all my settings in DNS Group Policy point to the new IP, so I'm
wondering where I should look next. Ideas?
Sean Rector, MCSE
Information Technology Manager
Virginia Opera Association
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:(757) 213-4548 (direct line)
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RE: Spam Levels Declining?
Correction The Washington Post has been gathering data on McColo for the past four months and passed the information to its internet service providers, Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric. Both decided to pull the plug on the firm on Tuesday :) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam Levels Declining? On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Sherry Abercrombie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, a major spammer was shut down Monday. Correction: A major server hosting provider, McColo, was shut down due to legal action. This provider had a history of ignoring abuse complaints. So if their customer's servers were compromised, they didn't do anything. If a customer was a spammer, the didn't do anything. The actual spammers are not directly affected by the legal action. They will continue to look for neglectful hosts, and continue to try to compromise computers to use as zombie spam cannons. So this treats a symptom, but not the disease. Better than nothing, but far from ideal. -- 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: Old Firewall IP still ghosting around network
In the properties of your internal network/Firewall Client settings. You must
have hard coded the IP address there instead of the DNS name.
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From: Sean Rector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Old Firewall IP still ghosting around network
Both state the new firewall's IP.
Sean Rector, MCSE
From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Old Firewall IP still ghosting around network
DHCP options? WPAD.DAT file?
S
From: Sean Rector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Old Firewall IP still ghosting around network
I changed the IP address of my firewall (ISA 2006) last year, and have been
moving people from the Local Admin group to the Local Users group. When I do
that, even though I have the Firewall Client configured properly, including
updating IE, the users' IE sessions still look to the old IP address. I've
verified that all my settings in DNS Group Policy point to the new IP, so I'm
wondering where I should look next. Ideas?
Sean Rector, MCSE
Information Technology Manager
Virginia Opera Association
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:(757) 213-4548 (direct line)
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RE: Anyone heard of Prevx?
What is a jones? S -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone heard of Prevx? Prevx? Sounds like one of them pills what's supposed to make your jones bigger or keep it pointing at the ceiling for 36 hours. - Original Message - From: Neil Standley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:30 AM Subject: Anyone heard of Prevx? ~ 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: Anyone heard of Prevx?
Never heard of a Jones Outboard.. -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone heard of Prevx? A Johnson. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Painfully sent to you from my Blackberry - Original Message - From: Steve Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Nov 13 18:12:04 2008 Subject: RE: Anyone heard of Prevx? What is a jones? S -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone heard of Prevx? Prevx? Sounds like one of them pills what's supposed to make your jones bigger or keep it pointing at the ceiling for 36 hours. - Original Message - From: Neil Standley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:30 AM Subject: Anyone heard of Prevx? ~ 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/ ~ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ 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: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi
Yup, indeed it does. Also, there is no comparison between any version of ESX HyPer-V At the moment, ESX wins hands down on all fronts. MS will probably catch up in around 10 years. S -Original Message- From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on whiteboxes. Google esx white box Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225 Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware. al -- Al Lilianstrom CD/LSC/CSI/CSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server 2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are: ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware. Those requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop. HVS08 will run on any hardware with driver support for Windows 2008. HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support. ESXi can run on older server platforms that predate those features. ESXi allows over-subscription of memory. That means you could run two VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB. HVS08 has almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core - so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs. Carl From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi Hi folks, I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit more, and might have more comments. I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies on a virtual server that are allowed. I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software necessary (maybe need some more RAM). My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has comments on that, please let me know. Thanks. Mark ~ 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: More Updates
I approved them yesterday, so far they have not shown up as needed. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: More Updates I'm not going to approve them till next month. I can't do this for the 3rd time this month. The first time was the usual. The second understandable. The 3rd? Ridiculous. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: More Updates Yup, I have them on mine also. S From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: More Updates Why did my WSUS download more updates today? Seriously? New Update Alert The following 16 new updates have been synchronized to T3UTIL since Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:15 PM (GMT). Critical and Security Updates System Update Readiness Tool for x64 based systems (KB947821) [August 2008]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821 This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation of future updates, service packs, and software. This tool checks your computer for such inconsistencies and attempts to resolve issues if found. System Update Readiness Tool (KB947821) [August 2008]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821 This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation of future updates, service packs, and software. This tool checks your computer for such inconsistencies and attempts to resolve issues if found. System Update Readiness Tool for Itanium-based Systems (KB947821) [August 2008]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821 This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation of future updates, service packs, and software. This tool checks your computer for such inconsistencies and attempts to resolve issues if found. Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB953155)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120829 A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Server 2008 License Terms. Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB953155)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120829 A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms. Security Update for Windows Vista (KB953155)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120829 A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms. Other Updates Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929 Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is an update to Windows XP that addresses key feedback from our customers and is a cumulative update that includes all previously released updates for Windows XP, including security updates. Windows XP SP3 contains a small number of new updates and should not significantly change the Windows XP experience. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP (KB943729)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943729 Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1). Group Policy Preferences enable information technology professionals to configure, deploy, and manage operating system and application settings they previously were not able to manage using Group Policy. After you install this update, your computer will be able to process the new Group Policy Preference extensions. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128895 SQL Server 2008
RE: Bad drive mappings
It should be \\server\users\%username%, From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Bad drive mappings Has anyone seen this issue? Users log in, and the login script says 'net use h: /home' which should send them to \\server\users\username, per their AD attribute. However, what happens is that they map to \\server\users instead. It will also happen if you drop to a command prompt and type the same net use line there. You can always manually map to the deeper UNC without issue (so it's not an NTFS ACL issue). It seems to happen more frequently to laptop users than desktop users. Thanks, Wayne ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Lol...that's too funny!!! From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster, outer edge of the drive platters, and put your most accessed system files there, or the whole OS? And less accessed files toward the inside of the drive. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Performance no, perhaps even a small hit to performance. But you can keep the data on another partition to keep it from filling and crashing the whole OS if it were just all on one partition. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Basic Drive Partition Question We've been arguing here...and I can't find anything definitive on Google... Is there any gain in performance if you have a single (NTFS) drive in two partitions? One partition for the OS and the other for everything else? I say no but it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 [cid:image001.gif@01C93924.347A83A0] NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.gif
RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
From a friend of mine at Fujitsu. There is no longer any point to short stroking a drive. Modern Drives have recording density zones that basically change with the distance from center. I am not sure there's been a non-zoned drive made in about a decade...:) S From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Not funny at all, actually; it used to be quite common to avoid full stroke access. You never wanted a disk to use more than 20% of its stroke time in order to maximize performance. I saw this in mainframes, in large database rollouts, in large Exchange rollouts, etc. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Lol...that's too funny!!! From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster, outer edge of the drive platters, and put your most accessed system files there, or the whole OS? And less accessed files toward the inside of the drive. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Performance no, perhaps even a small hit to performance. But you can keep the data on another partition to keep it from filling and crashing the whole OS if it were just all on one partition. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Basic Drive Partition Question We've been arguing here...and I can't find anything definitive on Google... Is there any gain in performance if you have a single (NTFS) drive in two partitions? One partition for the OS and the other for everything else? I say no but it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 [cid:image001.gif@01C93926.B896F090] NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.gif
RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Dunno. I bow to her expertise. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Interesting, I see your point. Still though, the head would be jumping around a lot less. Wouldn't that contribute to some gains? From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question From a friend of mine at Fujitsu. There is no longer any point to short stroking a drive. Modern Drives have recording density zones that basically change with the distance from center. I am not sure there's been a non-zoned drive made in about a decade...:) S From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Not funny at all, actually; it used to be quite common to avoid full stroke access. You never wanted a disk to use more than 20% of its stroke time in order to maximize performance. I saw this in mainframes, in large database rollouts, in large Exchange rollouts, etc. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Lol...that's too funny!!! From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster, outer edge of the drive platters, and put your most accessed system files there, or the whole OS? And less accessed files toward the inside of the drive. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Performance no, perhaps even a small hit to performance. But you can keep the data on another partition to keep it from filling and crashing the whole OS if it were just all on one partition. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Basic Drive Partition Question We've been arguing here...and I can't find anything definitive on Google... Is there any gain in performance if you have a single (NTFS) drive in two partitions? One partition for the OS and the other for everything else? I say no but it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 [cid:image001.gif@01C93929.229FA520] NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.gif
RE: Blackberry question
No issues with .docs or .pdf's From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Blackberry question Is there ever an issue with e-mail attachments? For instance, someone sends you a word document. Can you open that on your BB? My understanding was that there was no native support for Office docs. How about PDFs? Again, I'm not trying to flame here, just trying to get a better understanding of what the real truth is. Thanks, Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Blackberry question This was something I posted on another list and I admit I may be off base on some of it. The device: Frequent OS updates. RIM makes OS updates available and free. Whereas with WM, you are pretty much stuck with the version that came on your phone. I'm not saying it's impossible to get updated WM versions, just that it's not a given like it is on BB. While my WM5 users are still on WM5, my BB users have gone from 3.x to 4.x, and 4.5 coming soon. Each of those offers a slew of new or upgraded features. To me that has to be one of the best parts of the whole system. Sure some WM users get upgrades, but you are at the mercy of the provider and not all of them are so generous. Battery life rocks. I can go days and days and days without a recharge. Sure, some WM devices do that too, but not all. Since RIM not only builds the OS, but the phones, there are no issues with underpowered CPU's / hardware. Some WM devices are just damn slow. That's because the OS and device are not designed together. BES: I don't have to upgrade my whole Exchange environment to get new server side features. Just my BES server which takes about 30 minutes and is free as long as I have a valid support contract which isn't too expensive at all. Centrally managed. I can view all users, all user statistics, etc in one screen. Right now I'm looking at all my users and their PIN's. Plus their status, last contact date and time, sent / received messages and the times, filtered messages, pending one. I can create filters for my users on the fly if need be. I can set policies and deploy software. In the next version of BES I will be able to do OTA OS upgrades of devices. I can enable / disable PIM sync data from the server side at a fairly granular level if I wished. I can see what the users device is and all the specs on the device. Model, OS version, hardware, software, applications. For example from the BES server, I can see that I have Gmail, Google Maps, Jewel Rumble, and Live Search installed on my BB. Nobody can connect a device to my BES without getting an account setup by me. No rogue phones, etc. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Blackberry question Martin, Sounds like you prefer Blackberry to WM. Can you give me some reasons for this? Not asking for flames, but real, honest reasons. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Blackberry question Your execs sound like smart guys. Here is a product comparison. http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/professional/#tab_tab_compare Professional is essentially for smaller deployments. It's like BES SBS. It won't support over 30 BB devices. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Blackberry question Can anyone tell me how the Blackberry Professional Software stacks up against BES? I'm being asked to give a comparison between the WinMobile devices we're using, and Blackberry devices. If the execs decide to go with Blackberry against my recommendations, I'd prefer to go with the Professional software, if it will meet our needs. I'm looking at the Blackberry website currently, but would like to hear personal, real world experiences, vs. the sales info on the site. Thanks, Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Before Mulholland chips in...Not as old as me!! :) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question I said USED TO BE. I'm old. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Interesting, I see your point. Still though, the head would be jumping around a lot less. Wouldn't that contribute to some gains? From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question From a friend of mine at Fujitsu. There is no longer any point to short stroking a drive. Modern Drives have recording density zones that basically change with the distance from center. I am not sure there's been a non-zoned drive made in about a decade...:) S From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Not funny at all, actually; it used to be quite common to avoid full stroke access. You never wanted a disk to use more than 20% of its stroke time in order to maximize performance. I saw this in mainframes, in large database rollouts, in large Exchange rollouts, etc. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Lol...that's too funny!!! From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster, outer edge of the drive platters, and put your most accessed system files there, or the whole OS? And less accessed files toward the inside of the drive. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Performance no, perhaps even a small hit to performance. But you can keep the data on another partition to keep it from filling and crashing the whole OS if it were just all on one partition. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Basic Drive Partition Question We've been arguing here...and I can't find anything definitive on Google... Is there any gain in performance if you have a single (NTFS) drive in two partitions? One partition for the OS and the other for everything else? I say no but it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 [cid:image001.gif@01C93929.FD67CB10] NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.gif
RE: More Updates
Yup, I have them on mine also. S From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: More Updates Why did my WSUS download more updates today? Seriously? New Update Alert The following 16 new updates have been synchronized to T3UTIL since Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:15 PM (GMT). Critical and Security Updates System Update Readiness Tool for x64 based systems (KB947821) [August 2008]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821 This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation of future updates, service packs, and software. This tool checks your computer for such inconsistencies and attempts to resolve issues if found. System Update Readiness Tool (KB947821) [August 2008]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821 This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation of future updates, service packs, and software. This tool checks your computer for such inconsistencies and attempts to resolve issues if found. System Update Readiness Tool for Itanium-based Systems (KB947821) [August 2008]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821 This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation of future updates, service packs, and software. This tool checks your computer for such inconsistencies and attempts to resolve issues if found. Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB953155)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120829 A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Server 2008 License Terms. Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB953155)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120829 A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms. Security Update for Windows Vista (KB953155)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120829 A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms. Other Updates Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929 Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is an update to Windows XP that addresses key feedback from our customers and is a cumulative update that includes all previously released updates for Windows XP, including security updates. Windows XP SP3 contains a small number of new updates and should not significantly change the Windows XP experience. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP (KB943729)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943729 Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1). Group Policy Preferences enable information technology professionals to configure, deploy, and manage operating system and application settings they previously were not able to manage using Group Policy. After you install this update, your computer will be able to process the new Group Policy Preference extensions. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128895 SQL Server 2008, the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008. Update for Office Communications Server 2007, Audio/Video Conferencing server(KB 956831)http://www.microsoft.com/uc/default.mspx This Package fixes issues described in KB Article 956831 Update for Office Communications Server 2007, Mediation Server (KB 956829)http://www.microsoft.com/uc/default.mspx This Package fixes issues described in KB Article 956829 Update for Windows Server 2008 for
RE: Cisco ASA 5500
Time to do what the good Dr Shinder says move to ISA.still not 1 documented compromise or security issue since 2000. Get rid of your packet filters and put in a real firewall. :) -Original Message- From: Mike French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cisco ASA 5500 FYI. October 23, SearchSecurity - (International) Cisco warns of security appliance flaws. Cisco Systems Inc. warned of multiple flaws in its ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances and PIX Security Appliances that could be used by an attacker to bypass security controls and gain access to critical systems. The appliances are used to provide a variety of network security features to address Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) security, VPN connections for remote employees and firewall services. Cisco's advisory warned of a Windows NT domain authentication bypass vulnerability, IPv6 denial of service flaw and crypto accelerator memory leak vulnerability. Cisco said its ASA and PIX devices could be susceptible to VPN authentication bypass since they support Microsoft Windows server operating systems, which are vulnerable to a Windows NT Domain authentication flaw. Appliances configured for IPSec or SSL-based remote access VPN may be vulnerable, Cisco said. The IPv6 denial-of-service flaw could cause an IPv6 packet to force ASA and PIX devices to reload. Cisco said devices running software versions from 7.2(4)9 or 7.2(4)10 that have IPv6 enabled are vulnerable to this issue. ASA appliances are vulnerable to a crypto accelerator memory leak vulnerability. Source: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1335 757,00.html MIKE FRENCH NETWORK ENGINEER ~EQUITY BANK Office: 214.231.4565 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing IT Right! ~ 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: Cisco ASA 5500
The Web Proxy filter can go around 350Mbps, and the stateful packet inspection engine supports over 2Gbps. -Original Message- From: Aaron T. Rohyans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cisco ASA 5500 For small to mid-size business, perhaps. It's all personal preference really. That being said, somehow I doubt that ISA has 10Gbps (cleartext) and 1Gbps (encrypted) throughput when sitting on a backbone Service Provider network. Packet Filter Firewalls still serve a purpose :) Aaron Rohyans IT Coordinator, IDC-USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.244.8307 (V) 317.244.4600 (F) -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cisco ASA 5500 Time to do what the good Dr Shinder says move to ISA.still not 1 documented compromise or security issue since 2000. Get rid of your packet filters and put in a real firewall. :) -Original Message- From: Mike French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cisco ASA 5500 FYI. October 23, SearchSecurity - (International) Cisco warns of security appliance flaws. Cisco Systems Inc. warned of multiple flaws in its ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances and PIX Security Appliances that could be used by an attacker to bypass security controls and gain access to critical systems. The appliances are used to provide a variety of network security features to address Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) security, VPN connections for remote employees and firewall services. Cisco's advisory warned of a Windows NT domain authentication bypass vulnerability, IPv6 denial of service flaw and crypto accelerator memory leak vulnerability. Cisco said its ASA and PIX devices could be susceptible to VPN authentication bypass since they support Microsoft Windows server operating systems, which are vulnerable to a Windows NT Domain authentication flaw. Appliances configured for IPSec or SSL-based remote access VPN may be vulnerable, Cisco said. The IPv6 denial-of-service flaw could cause an IPv6 packet to force ASA and PIX devices to reload. Cisco said devices running software versions from 7.2(4)9 or 7.2(4)10 that have IPv6 enabled are vulnerable to this issue. ASA appliances are vulnerable to a crypto accelerator memory leak vulnerability. Source: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1335 757,00.html MIKE FRENCH NETWORK ENGINEER ~EQUITY BANK Office: 214.231.4565 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing IT Right! ~ 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: Stopping users emailing out internal docs
Ahh, but you're used to UK security guards...:) From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs I'm amazed the security guard even noticed the hard disk activity. Are you sure he wasn't responsible ? :) From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 21 October 2008 21:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs It also doesn't protect the cloning of hard drives, which, funnily enough, happened to one of my clients on Monday. Security guard saw some disk activity going on, hit the keyboard and voila, Ghost was in action.CFO's pc, the bugger had installed an extra hdd. S From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Policies to prevent the unauthorized use of usb ports. There's good software that will do this, and will apply even on machines (laptops) that are off the network. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:28 PM, NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would that stop them dragging dropping onto a usb stick? S From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Good job guys, Information Rights Management, that's it... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx Dave From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs And thats still part of Office Server isn't it ? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 October 2008 20:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Microsoft's Rights Management can do much of what you seek. Although it isn't perfect and can be beat it should get you to be able to say you tried really hard to the lawyers. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Remember remember. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 October 2008 19:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs I seem to think InfoPath or Groove or some other MS tool can do this kind of job - you can select an e-mail and effectively make it unforwardable, it was pretty slick...now if I could only remember what product it was... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Hi chaps, We've had a case this week of a client who found out a user, who is in the process of being let go, had emailed out to their personal gmail account a copy of all the internal documents, logos, process diagrams, etc. The user is now undergoing disciplinary action and facing possible legal action. However, while it's almost impossible to prevent a user from emailing a document out if they really want to, companies are obliged to have a policy in place requiring them not to doing so, and here in the UK that policy has to be seen to be implemented and enforced if it is to be referred to in any action. We've suggested a proper compliance level archival service in order to allow for emails to be restored even when users delete emails from their machines (and their recoverable deleted items in this case). Elsewhere we have used similar services to also report on certain file types, file names and sizes of files being sent, and use them to bounce emails under certain conditions. Bouncing certain emails, while a very limited short-stick, does allow for the policy to be seen to be in place if people are as silly as to send out documents with certain names etc (like Accounts2008.xls etc). What do other companies do to help either prevent people sending docs out, or to cover themselves legally should they have to take action against a user for doing so, or to highlight when a user is doing so? Olly -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint
RE: do i have a virus?
Or V2.7 of NOD32 :) S -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: do i have a virus? -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: do i have a virus? Two days ago our printers disappeared from our windows xp machine. After trying to add them again, we got an error that we couldn't run because printer spooler is not running. When I went to start the printer spooler, I got an error saying that it couldn't be run (error 1804). After googling a bit, some people said that we could have viruses on the machine. We have symantec installed, and after scanning we got some viruses that were quarantined. We tried to uninstall Symantec and install McAfee but now we get an error saying that the windows installer cannot be run. Microsoft recommends reregister the windows installer (which we have done) and if it doesn't work, rename dlls and the windows installer and install it again. Since I don't trust very much this reinstall of the windows installer as a solution, anyone can give me any hint of what might be happening or we should check beforehand? I know this doesn't answer your question - UT - dump McCrappy and Symantec and try Vipre. Webster ~ 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: SBS 2008 yet ?
Put it into the free ESXi. You'll never go back..:) S From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2008 yet ? I have a SBS 2008 running fine in a VM with 4gb of RAM. Although the SBS community are stating 8gb should be the minimum. It will not even install unless there is 60gb of hard disk space available. I am also running E2007 at home in much less than 8gb of RAM, although things get a little slow if you are using UM. Both RAM and disk space are cheap. I had to replace two disks in a SAT array last week. UK£45 each for two 500gb drives. Put it in to the free Hyper-V Server then when you can get a better machine or a dedicated system just move it around. It is something I am seriously considering doing when I start my SBS 2008 deployments. Simon -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/http://certificatesforexchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/http://domainsforexchange.net/ From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2008 17:50 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2008 yet ? 8gb of ram ? Holy cow. My 6GB virtual 'monster' that's waiting for it doesn't seem so...monstrous now. From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2008 17:37 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2008 yet ? 60gb and 8gb of ram minimum requirements seemed a little excessive, I need to virtualize my ram :) From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 09:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2008 yet ? I'm bored. When will SBS2008 hit the action packs ? Olly -- G2 Support Online Backups Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.g2support.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs
Would that stop them dragging dropping onto a usb stick? S From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Good job guys, Information Rights Management, that's it... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx Dave From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs And thats still part of Office Server isn't it ? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 October 2008 20:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Microsoft's Rights Management can do much of what you seek. Although it isn't perfect and can be beat it should get you to be able to say you tried really hard to the lawyers. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Remember remember. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 October 2008 19:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs I seem to think InfoPath or Groove or some other MS tool can do this kind of job - you can select an e-mail and effectively make it unforwardable, it was pretty slick...now if I could only remember what product it was... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Hi chaps, We've had a case this week of a client who found out a user, who is in the process of being let go, had emailed out to their personal gmail account a copy of all the internal documents, logos, process diagrams, etc. The user is now undergoing disciplinary action and facing possible legal action. However, while it's almost impossible to prevent a user from emailing a document out if they really want to, companies are obliged to have a policy in place requiring them not to doing so, and here in the UK that policy has to be seen to be implemented and enforced if it is to be referred to in any action. We've suggested a proper compliance level archival service in order to allow for emails to be restored even when users delete emails from their machines (and their recoverable deleted items in this case). Elsewhere we have used similar services to also report on certain file types, file names and sizes of files being sent, and use them to bounce emails under certain conditions. Bouncing certain emails, while a very limited short-stick, does allow for the policy to be seen to be in place if people are as silly as to send out documents with certain names etc (like Accounts2008.xls etc). What do other companies do to help either prevent people sending docs out, or to cover themselves legally should they have to take action against a user for doing so, or to highlight when a user is doing so? Olly -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs
Only with Office 2007 though. S From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Good job guys, Information Rights Management, that's it... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx Dave From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs And thats still part of Office Server isn't it ? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 October 2008 20:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Microsoft's Rights Management can do much of what you seek. Although it isn't perfect and can be beat it should get you to be able to say you tried really hard to the lawyers. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Remember remember. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 October 2008 19:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs I seem to think InfoPath or Groove or some other MS tool can do this kind of job - you can select an e-mail and effectively make it unforwardable, it was pretty slick...now if I could only remember what product it was... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Hi chaps, We've had a case this week of a client who found out a user, who is in the process of being let go, had emailed out to their personal gmail account a copy of all the internal documents, logos, process diagrams, etc. The user is now undergoing disciplinary action and facing possible legal action. However, while it's almost impossible to prevent a user from emailing a document out if they really want to, companies are obliged to have a policy in place requiring them not to doing so, and here in the UK that policy has to be seen to be implemented and enforced if it is to be referred to in any action. We've suggested a proper compliance level archival service in order to allow for emails to be restored even when users delete emails from their machines (and their recoverable deleted items in this case). Elsewhere we have used similar services to also report on certain file types, file names and sizes of files being sent, and use them to bounce emails under certain conditions. Bouncing certain emails, while a very limited short-stick, does allow for the policy to be seen to be in place if people are as silly as to send out documents with certain names etc (like Accounts2008.xls etc). What do other companies do to help either prevent people sending docs out, or to cover themselves legally should they have to take action against a user for doing so, or to highlight when a user is doing so? Olly -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs
It also doesn't protect the cloning of hard drives, which, funnily enough, happened to one of my clients on Monday. Security guard saw some disk activity going on, hit the keyboard and voila, Ghost was in action.CFO's pc, the bugger had installed an extra hdd. S From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Policies to prevent the unauthorized use of usb ports. There's good software that will do this, and will apply even on machines (laptops) that are off the network. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:28 PM, NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would that stop them dragging dropping onto a usb stick? S From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Good job guys, Information Rights Management, that's it... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx Dave From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs And thats still part of Office Server isn't it ? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 October 2008 20:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Microsoft's Rights Management can do much of what you seek. Although it isn't perfect and can be beat it should get you to be able to say you tried really hard to the lawyers. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Remember remember. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 October 2008 19:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs I seem to think InfoPath or Groove or some other MS tool can do this kind of job - you can select an e-mail and effectively make it unforwardable, it was pretty slick...now if I could only remember what product it was... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Hi chaps, We've had a case this week of a client who found out a user, who is in the process of being let go, had emailed out to their personal gmail account a copy of all the internal documents, logos, process diagrams, etc. The user is now undergoing disciplinary action and facing possible legal action. However, while it's almost impossible to prevent a user from emailing a document out if they really want to, companies are obliged to have a policy in place requiring them not to doing so, and here in the UK that policy has to be seen to be implemented and enforced if it is to be referred to in any action. We've suggested a proper compliance level archival service in order to allow for emails to be restored even when users delete emails from their machines (and their recoverable deleted items in this case). Elsewhere we have used similar services to also report on certain file types, file names and sizes of files being sent, and use them to bounce emails under certain conditions. Bouncing certain emails, while a very limited short-stick, does allow for the policy to be seen to be in place if people are as silly as to send out documents with certain names etc (like Accounts2008.xls etc). What do other companies do to help either prevent people sending docs out, or to cover themselves legally should they have to take action against a user for doing so, or to highlight when a user is doing so? Olly -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SOHO Firewall / VPN
SBS 2003 Premium...Then they can RDP to their own workstations via the built in vpn...or securely over https. S From: Kelsey, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 12:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SOHO Firewall / VPN Small office network (about a dozen computers) that needs a firewall / VPN solution. They currently have DSL for internet, but its just plugged in to a small LinkSys router. They want to be able to VPN in from the outside to run remote desktop. Doesn't have to be fancy-shmancy, just basic firewall for outbound control, and VPN for remote desktop. Would a Sonicwall be a good fit? If so, which model do y'all recommend? Thanks all! *** John C. Kelsey, MCSE DuBois Regional Medical Center *: 814.375.3073 * : 814.375.4005 *: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Issues combining the usual email domain with POP
erm..no. They reside in the exchange server otherwise he would not be downloading all those emails everytime he connects. The client is obviously not letting exchange know that the emails have been already downloaded. S From: Phil Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Issues combining the usual email domain with POP The POP emails are not kept on the exchange server they are on each computer that the email client resides. Depending on what client they use. Outlook is kept here, C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook If you want to move them to the exchange server you can import the .pst file for each user. Phil Thompson From: Jeff Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 5:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Issues combining the usual email domain with POP Using Exchange 2003 we have combined the usual domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) with POP. For e.g., we have some of the same users doing business overseas using a different domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) pointing to the same Exchange server...albeit the Outlook client is configured using POP...again alongside Exchange. We now have an interesting phenomenon where the POP is downloading 12,000+ messages in over 1.89GB, again and again. The POP configuration is NOT set to Leave a copy of messages on the server Does anyone know where these POP emails reside...that we might manually delete them? What are we painfully overlooking?? Cheers. -Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: New Drives for Proliant ML310 G2
Why are you doing it that way. Just giving yourself problems. Replace one of the SATA's with a new one and let it rebuild the array, then replace the original, then use Acronis disk director or similar to extend the drive. Simple. Works every time. S From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New Drives for Proliant ML310 G2 I've got a customer that is using SBS 2003 Premium (Fully Patched) on a Proliant ML310 G2 with 80 GB SATA drives that is running out of space. The server is using non-hot plug drives with the onboard SATA controller in a RAID-1. This controller can only support 2 drives in this configuration, so I went to replace these drives with a pair of 250 GB drives and ran into a problem. I used Directory Services Restore Mode, and followed all the procedures in the Microsoft SBS Restore procedure. I even remembered to review the Report for short file name problems. However the damn thing still managed to blue screen on restart: PROCESS1_INITALIZATION_FAILED Stop 0x6B (0xC07A, 0xB, 0x0, 0x0) I figured it was something to do with that damn RAID controller, so I tried repairing the OS (Boot from CD, Install (not Recovery), Repair Existing) and made it worse. I seem to recall that this stupid controller would cause problems like this. What do I need to do to get around this problem? Regards, Jim Majorowicz, MCP Sr. Network Engineer Whitsell Computer Services (503) 297-8440x12 www.whitsell.com We can support you no matter where you are. Ask me for details. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virtual Center query
What version of ESX.. Quick fix is to restart the management service on the esx server. S From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 6:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtual Center query Does anybody have any idea why sometimes some of my ESX servers show as not responding in VirtualCenter, and the guests running on it show as disconnected? The guests themselves are still up and running fine, but they won't respond to VirtualCenter commands (all the options are greyed out). The only way to get around this seems to be shut down all the guests on the affected server, and then restart the ESX server - not really an option when my Exchange, Excalibur and SQL servers are running on this particular ESX box. If ESX was Windows, I guess I'd be looking for a failed service or something, but being a bit of a Unix/ESX amateur I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting TIA, JRR ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virtual Center query
Try: 1. Log in to the ESX Server service console as root. 2. Type service vmware-vpxa stop and press Enter. 3. Type /opt/vmware/vpxa/vpx/init_vpxa.sh and press Enter S From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual Center query ESX 3.5. Tried service mgmt-vmware restart and made no difference. 2008/10/3 NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What version of ESX.. Quick fix is to restart the management service on the esx server. S From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 6:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtual Center query Does anybody have any idea why sometimes some of my ESX servers show as not responding in VirtualCenter, and the guests running on it show as disconnected? The guests themselves are still up and running fine, but they won't respond to VirtualCenter commands (all the options are greyed out). The only way to get around this seems to be shut down all the guests on the affected server, and then restart the ESX server - not really an option when my Exchange, Excalibur and SQL servers are running on this particular ESX box. If ESX was Windows, I guess I'd be looking for a failed service or something, but being a bit of a Unix/ESX amateur I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting TIA, JRR ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT IE7 for Vista
FWIW - IAG works fine in Firefox... S -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT IE7 for Vista That's a no go - we have an IAG box (Intelligent Application Gateway - m$ only) that this computer has to access John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT IE7 for Vista See if those IE-only apps work in Firefox + IE Tab extension. (On a couple of XP machines here, including mine, we need to use this combination to run MS Update. IE 6 crashes as soon as it is opened; IE 7 locks up completely if and when something tries either to open a new tab or a new window.) -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org John Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/02/2008 08:07:48 AM: Installing FF is not an option, We have apps that work through IE only. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT IE7 for Vista Any luck with Firefox? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT IE7 for Vista I have a Vista machine that IE has bombed on I can ping sites an do AV updates but no love trying to get to a web page. Is IE7 for XP the same as I don't seem to be able to find a Vista version that' downloadable. TIA John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ 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/ ~ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ 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/ ~ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the
RE: Cached credentials GPO
Ahh, but did you run gpupdate /force S From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cached credentials GPO Ok here's what happened: 1) Create GPO to limit cached credential retention to 1 (default is 10) 2) Link GPO to appropriate OU 3) At target workstation I ran GPUPDATE It was 15 mins+ before the workstation stopped remembering more than 1 cached credential, I probably ran GPUPDATE every 5 mins on the workstation. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cached credentials GPO What does the number of DCs have to do with it? GPO refresh is initiated by the client... Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 September 2008 4:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cached credentials GPO Thanks. I keep forgetting that even single DC setups have some GPO lag unless kicked. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cached credentials GPO Unless you force them, GPOs refresh in 90 minutes +/- a random interval. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cached credentials GPO OK...apparently I need to wait more than 10 minutes, even in a single FSMO environment...seems to be working now with no additional work on my part. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cached credentials GPO If you change the GPO for cached credentials from the default of 10 to 1...if the machine has already cached 8 logins will it clear those existing credentials? My testing here indicates no... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations
http:// http://www.wiebetech.com Excellent drive stuffworth a good in depth browse of the site. For raid HDD's http://www.wiebetech.com/products/silversata.php HTH Steve From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations You guys using any? Looking at this one: http://tinyurl.com/2wufjo Must Haves: Supporting 2 HDDs (SATA) is a must. RAID 1 - Mirror eSATA external OR gigabit Ethernet is a must... USB 2.0 is too slow for my needs FTP is a nice bonus UNC is a nice bonus Thanks, Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: TS 2008 in CPA/Accounting environment
The only versions of Quickbooks that's supported on a TS is Enterprise. All versions work fine, just not supported. I can't see how you would install multiple versions on 1 TS tho'. S -Original Message- From: wjh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: TS 2008 in CPA/Accounting environment Hi all, I have a 25 person accounting form as a client. I am discussing the possibility of installing a new 2008 TS for them. I was wondering if any of you have any experience with TS in an accounting/CPA environment? Any gotchas that weren't evident at first? Should I expect issues with using TS on x64 with LOB apps? My biggest concern right now is Quickbooks. They have about 6 different years/versions of Quickbooks that they must use to work with different client's files. From what I know, I think Intuit only states that TS is supported in the Enterprise versions, not the Pro. But my guess is that many people use it that way anyway. Any insight? Thanks for any input. wjh ~ 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: logging deleted files
If it's a DC then you should have both Domain Controller Security Policy and Domain Security Policy in Admin Tools, if not, it's not your DC. S From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files I don't have a Domain Controller Security Policy in Admin Tools, just Local Security Policy and yes the Define these policy settings box is missing. I just meant the files in question are on the DC. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files I think you want to go to Administrative Tools Domain Controller Security Policy Local Security Policy if this applies to the domain controller. There should be a box for Define these policy settings. Is that what's missing? I'm not sure what you mean by the file being located in the Domain Group Policy on the DC. Do you mean the file is on the Domain Controller under the C:\WINDOWS\SYSVOL\domain\Policies folder? Ralph Smith Gateway Community Industries 845-331-1261 x234 From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files Thanks for the link Ralph. I have auditing from the folder in question's Properties enabled and also in Domain Group Policy on the DC, which is were the file is located. I can't get anything to show up in event log. In the Local Security Policy the audit local object success and failures are grayed out with no enable box. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files http://sogeeky.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-audit-and-track-file-deletions.html Ralph Smith Gateway Community Industries 845-331-1261 x234 From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: logging deleted files You can turn on file auditing for particular folders if you know which folders are at risk Right-click folder Properties, Security, Advanced, Auditing 2008/9/18 Paul Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there anything that logs the event when files are deleted over the network? A user in one of our departments is deleting files, either unintentionally or not. The best I can do is check my daily backups to find out which day it happened, but we'd like to find out who it is. We don't need something to recover deleted network files, just something that logs the event that includes the username. Is there anything out there that can do this? We have a 2003 AD Domain. Thanks, Paul Everett IS Dept. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message, including attachments. Confidentiality Notice: ** This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and destroy all copies of the original message. Confidentiality Notice: ** This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DHCP fail-over
Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in it's exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
Install it on 2008 core. S From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
So Carl's not allowed to ask more than one question per post. I think your attitude is the bad attitude. They must be giving MVP status to anyone in OZ nowadays... From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V But what is the advantage to spending the resources (RAM, disk) on even a 2008 Server Core config to run the Hyper-V host, when my other choice is to save those resources for the actual VMs and use the standalone Hyper-V server instead? What feature in Hyper-V host services under 2008 makes it advantageous to use that instead of standalone Hyper-V server, for the functional requirement I've outlined? Answer the question or say I don't know. This wasn't your original question. Please take your attitude somewhere else For reference, your original question was: Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? And the answer to that is it depends. You go figure it out for yourself. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Dell account and DIY replacements
Take the Dell exams.only way. S DCSE From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell account and DIY replacements What size of Dell account do you have to have to be able to arrange your own replacement parts? We've just spent the best part of a day dealing with Dell 'reseller' tech support about a duff laptop that just won't power on. Rather than just replacing it they've tried to get us to do everything, including the usual q: Can try you reinstall windows? A: Seriously? It doesn't even power up, how are we going to reinstall the OS? etc. Is there a certain size we have to become for Dell to treat us like grown ups ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virtuozzo Migration
VMWare convertor should handle it no problem. S From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtuozzo Migration We have a client in Miami that has a HP Server running Virtuozzo, the tech employed with the company has left and hence put them in a bind. The client is wanting to move to ESX. Anyone have some specific ideas for migrating from essentially virtual to virtual. Has anyone ever done the P2V tool from within a virtual server to a VMWARE ESX image? If not that then an Acronis image of individual servers and restoring directly onto VMWARE ESX?? I am in the process of setting up a test bed to do this, but obviously if someone has done it before and has any caveats that would be helpful. Thanks Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Slightly Off Topic......RE VM naming convention
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006 S -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VM naming convention Current customer has country codesite codemachine codetype codeenvironment codeincrementing value e.g. au2104vp (Australia, Particular office, virtual machine, production, machine code) -vs- au2104dpAAAB (Australia, Particular office, domain controller, production, machine code) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2008 1:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VM naming convention As silly as it sounds. Name them from characters in the Matrix. That way we know they're not a Real World machine. Yeah, I'm weird... but it works. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me -Original Message- From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:21 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VM naming convention Quick question to you vmware workstation guys. We have decided to use workstation for a few of our engineering power users. We've always used the machine asset number in the naming convention to maintain uniqueness. If we do that with the VMs (ie - 12345vm1) then the number will be wrong when the vm is transported into then next host. On my setup I use the OS description (ie - S2K3x32Stnd_VM1), but these aren't joined to the domain either. What do you guys do? Thanks, Dennis ~ 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: SBS 2003 swing migration?
Pay the 200 bucks and use the SBS migration kit...painless. No downtime. Works as advertised. http://www.sbsmigration.com S From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 swing migration? Thanks MBS, this is an on the side client Shook From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 swing migration? I posted this in another place: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/05/18/sbs-2003-hardware-migration-upgrade.aspx However, since you are now at Peak10, and you don't clarify whether you are talking about an on the side client or a Peak10 client - I just want to ensure that you are aware that if a SBS server detects another SBS server on the same network - it'll shut down. In a service provider environment, you need to ensure that each SBS server is on its own subnet (at least - its own VLAN would be better). Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2003 swing migration? List, Got a client wanting me to redo his SBS environment on new hardware, in other words start from scratch on a fresh box in order to clean up from the crap-o work his former IT shop did. I can build from scratch, migrate data and join the PCs to the new domain but is there a better way? TIA, Shook ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: cleaning up C drive of SBS 2003
Where are the Exchange Log Files, and are they being deleted when the SBS Server is backed up? S -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: cleaning up C drive of SBS 2003 Thank you for the responses. Ccleaner reported that could clean up about 300 Mb of logs, cookies and other minor stuff. However, after running it, still the C drive doesn't show that space clean up. Why? Do I need to reboot the server? Thanks, Miguel --- El jue, 21/8/08, Brumbaugh, Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: De: Brumbaugh, Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: RE: cleaning up C drive of SBS 2003 Para: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Fecha: jueves, 21 agosto, 2008 11:40 Try ccleaner, analyze first then run it for real if OK I love this thing. -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: cleaning up C drive of SBS 2003 Hi, I have a SBS 2003 server that is running out of space in the C drive. I have performed almost everything already in that drive: - Move pagefile.sys file to other partition. - Move Sharepoint databases to other partition. - The Exchange databases are already moved. So basically all data is in other partitions. Also our TrendMicro AV is installed in other partition. Removing log files from c:\windows\system32\logfiles and using the cleanup tool from Windows has been enough for months since I performed a reassignment of more space to that drive. I could reassign more space again bringing the machine offline but I'd prefer not to do it, plus I don't know why is running out of space now. Anything that I should look at? Or any tips? I have read that I could move the uninstall files for Windows updates but I'd prefer not start messing up with that stuff. Thanks Miguel __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.es ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.es ~ 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: CAL question
No, you are creating users, therefore each one needs an XP cal and an Exchange cal. If they all log on with a generic account, then you can license the device. S From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CAL question Ok.. Just to make sure I am correct. MS Licensing CAL per device. One device in a remote location. (Windows XP / Office 2007 / Exchange 2003) I create 4 user accounts and mailboxes and they can access through that single PC, at different times of course. I don't need user CALs for this, correct? Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Freelance MOSS/WSS consultant needed in Southern UK
Have you not escalated it?? From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Freelance MOSS/WSS consultant needed in Southern UK Hi chaps, Well, after 5 days, we’ve realised the MS chap assigned to us is an idiot. I think we are going to need to bring in some outside help just to undo the configuration changes which have been given to us over the last few days. What we will probably be needing is for someone to remove all the WSS/MOSS detritus and re-install WSS 3 for us and restore from the folder of stsadm based backups we have. While that happens we will be getting a new blank MOSS box up and working and then the client will move the sites over as they want to. Can anyone recommend anyone in the south of the UK with the skills to untangle WSS/MOSS and reinstall it for us ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again.
Your guests should be synching with their dc's. S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. We are synchronizing our guests with ESX hosts. ESX hosts are synchornizing with NTP server. Exception are domain controllers. Mike Original Message: - From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:27:56 -0300 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Only if yours guests are synchronising time with your esx hosts. not sure why you would want to do that? From: Tim Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 August 2008 12:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. If you are running a DC virtualized, setting the clock back could have an impact. ...Tim -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Dang... vmware makes one little small mistake and the world unleashes an arse kicking on them. MS makes many big mistakes all the time and we don't even flinch? Maybe vmware should drop the ball daily and we would be happier? Man, that's life! Software has bugs, all I know is my history w/ esx has always been extremely positive, and even this bug was trivial! Set clock back, turn on vm's, set clock forward, **NO** harm done. Wow... -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Hopefully they unbugged it with the new update accordingly, so you don't reapply faulty SP... Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ 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/ ~
RE: Evaluating AV
I always wonder about start up scans...if the pc doesn't have a virus when it is shut down, then why enable start up scans. Waste of time if you ask me S -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Web filtering software for Windows 2003
Yup. OpenDNS is pretty cool. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 5:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Web filtering software for Windows 2003 +1. I use it at home to. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of clients on openDNS now and am pretty happy with it. From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web filtering software for Windows 2003 OpenDNS works great for this and is free. It lacks reporting by user but will give a report of which sites have been filtered. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web filtering software for Windows 2003 Hi, Can anyone recommend a basic web filtering package to run on a windows server for a small company of around 15 users? The only requirements are that it can block via category and it can provide some level of reporting to an admin to show who's doing what and who's breaking what rules. Olly __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3324 (20080804) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
Connect by IP address until you get your DNS sorted out. S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop of Death I am on my XP desktop, and I run mstsc.exe to open a session on a server. (In the most recent case, the server was a VM, so remote session is the only real possibility.) Again, I am logged into my XP desktop as my personal account, and I try to log into a remote server with a different, administrative account. My warning message is that the remote server already has my personal, non-admin account logged into a session on it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 07:39:51 AM: Can you clarify this? I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. Is this: a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and (trying to) open a session to a server -or- b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote desktop session somewhere else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop of Death OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: DMZ\Firewall Question
Lol...that's funny. From: Anatoly Podgoretsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DMZ\Firewall Question Second NIC to LAN Anatoly Podgoretsky http://www.podgoretsky.com - Original Message - From: KC Cartermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:23 PM Subject: DMZ\Firewall Question I have a server in the DMZ that has no access from our network. I need to give access from our domain to a single folder on the server. What methods and what ports need to be opened on a firewall to allow a user to access this folder; either using a browser or My Computer so a domain user can drop files in the folder and retrieve files from the folder, while FTP is a great way to do this is there a method of access as simple as dragging and dropping a file. Any ideas are appreciated MS 2003 environment ASA Firewall ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw
It's just FUD people. An article that warns about an imminent hack attack. Come on. Where are the details. It's the end of the interwebs as we know them I suppose S From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 1:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw Umm... Crap. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080724230931.2rdnlz0ashow_article=1 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: My First 2008 Server
Yes you do...same article. To prepare a Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 domain for Windows Server 2008 1. Identify the domain infrastructure operations master role holder as follows: * In the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, right-click the domain object, click Operations Masters, and then click Infrastructure. 2. Log on to the infrastructure master as a member of the Domain Admins group. 3. Insert the Windows Server 2008 DVD into the CD or DVD drive. Copy the content of the \sources\adprep folder to an Adprep folder on the infrastructure master. 4. Open a command prompt, and then change directories to the Adprep folder. 5. Type the following command, and then press ENTER: adprep /domainprep /gpprep From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My First 2008 Server From TechNet you don't need the adprep /domainprep http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/7120ec57-ad86-4369-af22-773ed9b097fc1033.mspx?mfr=true Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Three steps actually: Adprep /forestprep Adprep /domainprep Adprep /domainprep /gpprep At least, that's what I do. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.comhttp://theessentialexchange.com/ -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: My First 2008 Server Woohoo! My new server arrived yesterday, and it'll be my first 2008 server in a domain/forest that currently has all 2003 machines. I'll need to make it a DC, so I want to make sure I don't miss anything. Looking at a couple of TechNet articles, it looks like I need to run adprep /forestprep on the schema operations master and adprep /domainprep /gpprep on the infrastructure operations master server. Is that all? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttp://www.taylor.k12.fl.us/ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Raid restore help advice????
Personally, I would run chkdsk utility. S -Original Message- From: george rovithis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Raid restore help advice Hi everyone help if you can i have a dl380 g2 and 2 hard drives on a raid volume crashed, i have salvaged as much as i can using different utilities and have restored quiet a bit on another hard drive. Replaced the brocken hard drives with new hard drives and the machine did rebuild. I know am getting NTFS errors event id 55 file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run chkdsk utility on d: d is a raid 5 logical disk with 5 hard drives does anyone know of any utility that will fix this or any way of fixing this i dont want to format hoping that it might work again maybe a miracle ??? any help or advice would be appreciated _ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Raid restore help advice????
Use the /r switch. It can take an long while depending onn the size of the drives. S -Original Message- From: george rovithis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Raid restore help advice i have tried that with out any switches and with /f switch but it stops From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:17:41 -0300 Subject: RE: Raid restore help advice Personally, I would run chkdsk utility. S -Original Message- From: george rovithis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Raid restore help advice Hi everyone help if you can i have a dl380 g2 and 2 hard drives on a raid volume crashed, i have salvaged as much as i can using different utilities and have restored quiet a bit on another hard drive. Replaced the brocken hard drives with new hard drives and the machine did rebuild. I know am getting NTFS errors event id 55 file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run chkdsk utility on d: d is a raid 5 logical disk with 5 hard drives does anyone know of any utility that will fix this or any way of fixing this i dont want to format hoping that it might work again maybe a miracle ??? any help or advice would be appreciated _ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ ~ _ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-ussource=wlmailtagline ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: DNS flaw plugged by vendors
FUD S From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DNS flaw plugged by vendors http://securosis.com/2008/07/08/dan-kaminsky-discovers-fundamental-issue-in-dns-massive-multivendor-patch-released/ Is anyone taking any remedial action about this out-of-band? It seems to be presented as quite threatening... ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: xp sp3 keyless
Hmm, I have a slipstreamed VLK XP3 install. It asks for a key. S -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: xp sp3 keyless That's a feature of XP SP3 -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 7:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: xp sp3 keyless And you gleaned this information from where? S -Original Message- From: Ara Avvali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: xp sp3 keyless Hi everyone, Unless I am mistaken xp sp3 should allow you have an installation without a key entered. This is great for testing. But when I am doing the install it will still ask for a number and wont bypass. Any idea what I am missing? Thanks ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Can't Safely Unplug USB drive
You can't just pull it out? It's stuck?..:) I don't think I have ever used the eject usb thing ever...nor have I lost any data. S From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can't Safely Unplug USB drive Yeah I tried this too. The drive letter my thumb drive is on doesn't show up in the list here either. -- Mike Gill From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can't Safely Unplug USB drive Try handle.exe Cheers Ken From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 June 2008 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Can't Safely Unplug USB drive Is there an app that will show me programs or processes that are accessing a drive letter? This is one of my biggest frustrations with Vista. Before it was almost impossible for me to be able to eject a USB hard drive, now it is impossible any time. But now, I can't even safely remove my thumb drive. I've exited out of all programs, down to the AV and sidebar and even stopped the index service. Nothing suspicious is seen in the task manager. I'm just at a loss. I've tried process monitor and can't get it to show me anything. -- Mike Gill ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Control of MSN Messenger contacts
They do, it's called Live Communications Server. S -Original Message- From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Control of MSN Messenger contacts Hello, is there a MS software for controlling the contacts people are allowed to have in msn messenger? We have to allow some people access to messenger, but want them to have just the approved contacts in there. Microsoft should have some kind of integration of messenger with AD Thanks. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1
There is another type of firewall that doesn't use software? :) -Original Message- From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 I am not sure if ISA is the firewall of choice for a pure Microsoft environment Tom. There are plenty of other boxes I would trust more, maybe I am being old skool and need edukatin, but it's still a software firewall. Don't get me wrong, I use the product, but that's to secure things like Windows Mobile etc, and even then I plop in the DMZ behind another hardware box. -Original Message- From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 May 2008 20:22 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 I don't think that's fair. If you have an all UNIX or Linx environment, there are plenty of good firewalls out there. ISA is the firewall of choice only when you're running mostly Windows clients and servers. If you're running mostly *IX clients and servers, you might be happy with another firewall. HTH, Tom -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 10:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 If it's not ISA, it's crap! -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 8:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FW: ISA Server 2006 SP1 From another list http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/05/23/isa-server-2006-serv ice- pack-1-features.aspx ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1
I wouldn't go that far, but I will say that there have been no documented vulnerabilities...:) -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 9:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 I don't think this is really a valid argument anymore. There have been bugger all vulnerabilities in ISA Server. It installs its own hardened TCP/IP stack. And provided you have rock-solid drivers for whatever hardware you are using, then it's a stable system. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2008 6:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 Lol :P you know what I mean, dedicated box, not one based on a standard windows OS (yes I know loads of others use a linux kernel, but it's cut down) -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 26 May 2008 20:40 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 There is another type of firewall that doesn't use software? :) -Original Message- From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 I am not sure if ISA is the firewall of choice for a pure Microsoft environment Tom. There are plenty of other boxes I would trust more, maybe I am being old skool and need edukatin, but it's still a software firewall. Don't get me wrong, I use the product, but that's to secure things like Windows Mobile etc, and even then I plop in the DMZ behind another hardware box. -Original Message- From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 May 2008 20:22 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 I don't think that's fair. If you have an all UNIX or Linx environment, there are plenty of good firewalls out there. ISA is the firewall of choice only when you're running mostly Windows clients and servers. If you're running mostly *IX clients and servers, you might be happy with another firewall. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: computer problem
Processors don't make noises.. -Original Message- From: DAVID SMITH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: computer problem I have a computer that when ever you bring a program up it sounds like the processor is about to take off. It gets real loud. If you look at the task manager it has a program about 99%. If you add more memory will it fix the problem. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Removing SBS2003.
Yup, that's how they sell it.they talk el crappo The restrictions are built into the OS, not AD. It also leaves Exchange on a DC which is not good. S From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 9:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Removing SBS2003. Ken, I understand what you are saying, I don't believe it is and AD issue but we were informed from MS presales partner support that any Windows 2003 SBS domain that needs to be changed to full blown windows and exchange, without any of the SBS restrictions needs the SBS server transitioned using the transtion pack. This removes any licensing and user limits, and also converts your SBS cals to full blown cals. For the cost of the transition pack, it makes sense, rather than going out and buyin Exchange, WIndows, and all the cals required. Graeme On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can get some specific technical details, I'd be really interested to know what they are. Active Directory isn't aware of SBS or otherwise (there is no such thing as an Active Directory that thinks it's SBS), so whoever your contacts are will need to elaborate on what it is they are claiming. Cheers Ken From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 May 2008 9:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Removing SBS2003. Ken, thats interesting as we were told by Microsoft that we would need to transition the SBS server first, as this would fix the domain to full 2003 AD type not SBS restricted, and then move to new hardware as if not transitioned then the domain still thinks it is SBS and you can get unusual results. Graeme On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would be recommended if you want to keep the existing SBS server in the environment. If you want to transition to alternate machines (e.g. separate Exchange servers, DCs, WSS boxes, because the existing hardware is due to be retired), then this isn't really necessary. Cheers Ken From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 May 2008 5:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Removing SBS2003. Microsoft do an SBS 2003 to windows Transition pack. You run it on your SBS 2003 server and it converts it to a full blown Windows 2003 DC running full Exchange 2003 standard. It also converts your SBS cals to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 cals. It is the recommended way to carry out this change. It works successfully we have done upwards of 10 transitions, but there were 2 which were problematic but a free call to PSS resovled the issues. This leaves you with a full 2003 functional domain without any of the SBS restrictions. Graeme On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, you can just transfer the roles. SBS 2003 will complain, but you get a couple of hours before it starts its shutdown sequence. Just run dcpromo on the SBS 2003 box, and that will remove AD from the SBS2003 box and references to that server in AD (no need for metadata cleanup). Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 May 2008 5:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Removing SBS2003. It goes something like that... except that the SBS2003 server won't let any other machine hold the FSMO roles. You need to violently rip SBS2003 out and tell the 2003 DC to seize the roles. The procedure would go something like this: 1) Bring up 2003 machine 2) Add 2003 machine to SBS2003 domain as an additional domain controller 3) Let the DCs sync 4) Pull the plug on the SBS2003 server 5) Tell the 2003 DC to seize the roles Joe Fox wrote: I guess the subject says it all. I have a SBS2003 server on my network, and want to replace it with a 2003 Server. Is it as simple as bringing the new 2003 box online, promoting it to domain controller, and then transferring the FSMO roles to it from SBS? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. -- Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. -- Carbon
RE: Salary Advice
OGC :) From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice Thanks .. i am really looking forward to it.. large dell shop and get some real hand on exp with ESX and just about everything else ive been doing for the last few years just on a larger scale. Plus there are some nice carrots for the next year, OCS, OPSmgr, Win2k8 etc.. oh and they money is a bonus :) From: James Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice Well, good luck at the new gig dude. - Original Message - From: Greg Mulhollandmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:49 PM Subject: RE: Salary Advice The salary game is always a funny question to me. What some people would value as 100k others would value at 70k so you sometimes cant compare salaries. My theory is if i really think i am worth 150k and it wont be a pain to move then i will chase that money. However if i think i know i can get more somewhere else but life and work circumstances mean moving is not advisable or possible then i will be happy with what i get. To me the place i work is just as important as what i do and the money i get paid.. Incidentally today is my last day at my current job.. :) From: Kevin Lundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 2:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice I'm in the Tampa area and if I had an opening, I'd hire someone with the skills you describe for about 80k. You said medical industry but I didn't see any mention of regulatory compliance. If you are responsible for that, maybe another 10k. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Christos Ruci [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, I need some advice on what you all think the relevant salary is for my current position. Currently I am the MIS (IT) Manager for a medical company with the following responsibilities. -9 offices -200 employees -2 technicians underneath -no network administrator -normal network management (Exchange,IIS, ISA, FTPS, Fax Serveretc) -in-house Web Application development/testing/hosting -Open 24 hours -Also manage the record management department (I created an in-house system to make all items electronicmember files, applications..etc) My salary is in review and I know they will be asking me what I think a fair salary is due to the upcoming changes that are to occur and the additional projects I am to complete. --I am heading a company move to another city and need do the wiring, design of the IT room, design of all the seating, moving of numbers, ordering of T1's/PRI's...etc --I am switching the company over to a VOIP system rather than a normal analog system. --I am also in the process of implementing a cyber center where we will be hosting all of our server with a DS3 connection back to corporate. (Due to being in Florida we needed something more secure for hurricane season) --I am also implementing redundant vendors for voice and data. Of course there is more but that is the jist of it. I should also include that I have been with the company for 3 years and 5 years prior experience. I have a BA in CIS and pursuing my MBA as well. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Salary Advice
I am, waiting on medi-vac... From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice LOL -- you have to explain in-jokes... related article: http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/7806.cntns Besides aren't you supposed to be in hospital?? From: Steve Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice OGC :) From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice Thanks .. i am really looking forward to it.. large dell shop and get some real hand on exp with ESX and just about everything else ive been doing for the last few years just on a larger scale. Plus there are some nice carrots for the next year, OCS, OPSmgr, Win2k8 etc.. oh and they money is a bonus :) From: James Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice Well, good luck at the new gig dude. - Original Message - From: Greg Mulhollandmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:49 PM Subject: RE: Salary Advice The salary game is always a funny question to me. What some people would value as 100k others would value at 70k so you sometimes cant compare salaries. My theory is if i really think i am worth 150k and it wont be a pain to move then i will chase that money. However if i think i know i can get more somewhere else but life and work circumstances mean moving is not advisable or possible then i will be happy with what i get. To me the place i work is just as important as what i do and the money i get paid.. Incidentally today is my last day at my current job.. :) From: Kevin Lundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 2:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice I'm in the Tampa area and if I had an opening, I'd hire someone with the skills you describe for about 80k. You said medical industry but I didn't see any mention of regulatory compliance. If you are responsible for that, maybe another 10k. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Christos Ruci [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, I need some advice on what you all think the relevant salary is for my current position. Currently I am the MIS (IT) Manager for a medical company with the following responsibilities. -9 offices -200 employees -2 technicians underneath -no network administrator -normal network management (Exchange,IIS, ISA, FTPS, Fax Serveretc) -in-house Web Application development/testing/hosting -Open 24 hours -Also manage the record management department (I created an in-house system to make all items electronicmember files, applications..etc) My salary is in review and I know they will be asking me what I think a fair salary is due to the upcoming changes that are to occur and the additional projects I am to complete. --I am heading a company move to another city and need do the wiring, design of the IT room, design of all the seating, moving of numbers, ordering of T1's/PRI's...etc --I am switching the company over to a VOIP system rather than a normal analog system. --I am also in the process of implementing a cyber center where we will be hosting all of our server with a DS3 connection back to corporate. (Due to being in Florida we needed something more secure for hurricane season) --I am also implementing redundant vendors for voice and data. Of course there is more but that is the jist of it. I should also include that I have been with the company for 3 years and 5 years prior experience. I have a BA in CIS and pursuing my MBA as well. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Salary Advice
I'm sort of semi retired. I Live in Bermuda...a Senior Tech here starts on around 80k. MCSE required I also have an engineer in California and pay him 200 an hour. Charge him out at 300. And I have a Citrix tech onsite in Miami and pay him 180. S -Original Message- From: Vue, Za [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice Yeah I like to know too. What is the current salary of the manager/technician? Asking to go from $60K to $130K during a review you might as well start packing. If I am the employer I will hire two managers/technicians for $60K each to split your duties. -Z.V. -Original Message- From: Phil Guevara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice Steve, would you mind sharing your demographics and qualifications? Id love to make 130 and want to know what I need for that. Best, Phil -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice I wouldn't get out my bed for any less than 130K S -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice Your company is a little bigger then mine, with more locations but it sounds like you have a job with around the same responsibilities as mine. It really depends on what you think you can get but somewhere is the high 60's sounds about right, maybe even the low 70s. I know that's what I would want to move to a company with more employees. I am in Miami so the salaries shouldn't be much different in Tampa I don't think. Some on this list will say more I'm sure. ;-) James - Original Message - From: Christos R [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Salary Advice Tampa, Fl. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP??
And what's the difference? You still need to upload them to the ISP. S -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? Your server and connections are ready to support the traffic for large files ? Let an Isp doing the job! GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: sabato 26 aprile 2008 2.20 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? What's wrong with WebDAV? It's free, part of IIS, and built into every Windows Server since Windows 2000? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Phil Guevara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? Thanks all for the suggestions. I have also found www.senditglobal.com which looks pretty simple to use as well and is free. Best, Phil -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? www.Yousendit.comandwww.sendthisfile.com both work well. Roger Wright From: Phil Guevara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? What do you guys use for large file transfers? An alternative to FTP or EMAIL Best Regards, Phil ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP??
As can downloading... -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? But I understand you want other people to download.(Upload may be controlled by yourself) GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di NTSysAdmin Inviato: sabato 26 aprile 2008 16.58 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? And what's the difference? You still need to upload them to the ISP. S -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? Your server and connections are ready to support the traffic for large files ? Let an Isp doing the job! GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: sabato 26 aprile 2008 2.20 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? What's wrong with WebDAV? It's free, part of IIS, and built into every Windows Server since Windows 2000? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Phil Guevara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? Thanks all for the suggestions. I have also found www.senditglobal.com which looks pretty simple to use as well and is free. Best, Phil -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? www.Yousendit.comandwww.sendthisfile.com both work well. Roger Wright From: Phil Guevara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Large File Transfer - Alternative to FTP?? What do you guys use for large file transfers? An alternative to FTP or EMAIL Best Regards, Phil ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Need opinion on Blade Servers
Where you get 5K from? Nearer 3 From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Need opinion on Blade Servers Some of us have little or no choice in the matter but is she can get the big bucks and training then I would go for it as well but $5k just to run 3 or maybe 4 virtual machines it a lot and that does not even include the cost of training, just the ESX software. Jon On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Mike Semon [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think virtualization of any kind for this project would be overkill. I don't use VMware Server in production. VMware server like other hosted virtualization solutions does not scale like those that utilize hyper-visor technology. Hosted virtualization products also have higher virtualization overhead so loose some of the advantages of virtualization. Good in test and dev environments but not something I would unleash in production environment. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Need opinion on Blade Servers ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
