You have to be able to laugh at yourself. M$ is a
tounge in cheek _expression_ and certainly a corporation like Microsoft can laugh
at itself when M$ is used as slang in its reference. Thats why
wenickname really big guys tiny.
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Clearly there are differing opinions about whether it's merely "slang" or
whether it's an inappropriate slur. Simpler just not to use it, don't you think?
I mean, I don't refer to the USAF as the "useless air farce" and expect its
members to think that's funny.
I
don't take offense when
Can we kill this thread now, please?
Rob
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First thing my reference to Microsoft as M$, never thought it would offend someone. I have many friends in Microsoft and even during our personal e-mails I do reference Microsoft as M$ and none ever complained to me and I forwarded Laura's e-mail to them but then again everyone is not the
I agree about the origin but I think that the usage/meaning of M$ has
changed the last years. I think that is evolution or something.
Today I see people using it all around, even those that only work on
Microsoft platforms for many years. I also agree on the relativation
approach. A lot of people
I will be out of the office starting 13/11/2006 and will not return until
17/11/2006.
Hi there,
I am away from the office this week on training and will be back on Monday
20/05/2006.
In my absence please contact either Sean White/Michael Chen or the Helpdesk
on x8081.
Thanks,
Matt D
List
There's a reason for the "OT" portion of the subject line, you know.
;-)
Laura
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M$
;oP
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Useless Air Farce would not be found funny because its just
that, not funny. Funnier is US Chair Force. Thats funny, and people
here laugh at it all the time.
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Humz... This is going into a direction like who will define what's
funny or what isn't? Nobody can, it's personal! And there are a lot of
examples concerning the subject humour, remind for example the issue
of a comic published in Denmark this year?
On 11/13/06, Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF
Hi all,
It could be wrong question but I want to know
about how toacess the restricted or blocked site, which is access denied from office.
I know some tools work like K-PROXY, but it woks on some internet site.
So please suggest me how to access blocked site.
which can work well.
Thanks
Exactly. M$ just isn't funny. Borg, kool-aid, those are funny. M$ isn't.
Go figure.
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Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNASent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:46
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Exactly, is exactly right. You cant impose your own
humor preferences on someone because you consider it unfunny. You just
dont laugh. You can't stop bad jokes, because someone, somewhere is
laughing at them. Just not you.
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Hi Ajay,
This isnt the right forum for such a
request, I suggest you go onto google and type proxy avoidance
Cheers,
Rob
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Hi,
So I
decided to try out GFI event monitor, I am loving it so far, but I am not a
security expert so I am easy to impress.
Anyway,
I got a bunch of emails like the one below. Have you guys seen something similar
in your logs? Is this someone trying to hack ora service trying to run
It's my music drive. What I'm trying to figure out is how did everyone
know about it? :)
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Guido
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As an admin here
You do know I could fire your assets if you do this at my office?
You are introducing risks that as an employee, you don't have the right
to do at a firm. There's a reason us annoying admins block this stuff.
Introduce risks at home please, and not on my watch, okay?
Could be a backup system or something like
that kicking off a run as looks like it. I dont know
the product though.
Rob
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Dear List
readers,
I have a Forest (W2K3 FFL) with
an empty root domain and a single child domain (W2K3 FFL). Today I changed
the password on all my servers in the child domain including the domain
controllers. I meant to exclude them but did not. Now they have the
same password as my
LOL, Susan does he really work in your office?
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CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:50 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] how to access
What passwords are you talking about? For
which accounts?
It will not let you change the password as
the policy mentions: at least 1 day old
Password policies are not defined in the default
domain controllers policy, but in the default domain policy
Cheers,
jorge
From:
You could go home?
There must be a reason why it is blocked - usually put up with it - or if it's
an error get the admin to unblock it - errors often occur around places - such
and sussex, middlesex or phrases that are badly punctuated. I will not give any
such example here though as I am
Thanks
Jorge,
I just figured that out by
virtue of the fact that nothing was defined in the Default Domain Controllers
Policy. Can you answer these questions please?
[1] Why does the Default
Domain Controllers Security Policy have a password section?
[2] What happens if you
change a
He's on the Internet isn't he? If he infects/nails his firm, his firm
in turn could be a bot that attacks us all, right?
We're truly all on the same 'party line' here. We all share the
Internet, so yeah... we all have the responsibility of doing what we can
to keep the bad guys from turning
I'm with Sue on this one. Attempting to By-Pass the proxy is attempting
to subvert the security systems. In out Policy this is a dismissible
offence, regardless of having accessed any restricted sites.
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Hmm. That's a dubious stretch. Does that mean all those folks in China that
find ways to bypass their government-controlled proxy are endangering us all
and should be stopped? There may be lots of legitimate reasons why someone
needs to do this. I don't think it should be assumed that suddenly we
People are boring talking about the exchange problems and start
educate each other :)
Keep going
Let's start again:
M$ its funny or injurious ?
Anyone else ?
A bored list reader
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I'm trying to track
down some interesting behavior in GP processing. I am wondering how AD deals
with object moves. Specifically, I am moving a computer object around between
OUs and it appears that the computer itself is not picking up every move during
GP processing as I would
Oh, I keep forgetting that those places are not just in New Jersey
Steve Comeau
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Rutgers Athletics
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No more dubious than the person who
asked how to get around his/her companies firewall proxy in the first place.
As admins we can only block what we first are told from management then
of course those areas that fall under our base of knowledge (security,
et. al.). Hopefully with some sort
Hi!
Just a quick question to the list, to see what the honrable members (tm)
think.
I have just d/l some of the the updated sysinternals tools from MS (filemon,
regmon, autoruns and pstools to be precise), and I have noticed that most if
not all the utils have grown in size A LOT.
As an
M$ its funny or injurious ?
Neither. Just unfunny and beaten to death.
But I did laugh out loud at US Chair Force when I went through this thread
earlier. That's pretty funny.
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I think MS may have signed them all. Dunno if that increases size.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
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When I was working for Uncle Sam's Flying Air Circus, *that's* what I
called it - even though I was working in a hole in the ground at Minot
AFB, ND. Anybody above the rank of E-5 didn't appreciate the name, but
that's how it was referred to amongst the troops...
Three years ago, when I was
Back in my days of programming in C, if we used the C-Worthy Interface
Library (CWIL), a simple three-line program would be a MINIMUM of 170K.
Maybe it's because a GUI is now included, or somesuch??
Steve Egan
Purcell Systems
System/Network Administrator
desk 509 755-0341 x110
cell 509 475-7682
Steve,
I am with you there. Back in the service I served on the USS
Forrestal which referred to as either the USS Zippo or USS ForestFire
due to ships track record with fires on board. I was something that we
did and never worried about it was a fact of life.
Bob
IT Guy
I know a lot of Softies and my take on it is that none of the Softies I
know would get mad about it, none of them especially like it either.
Sort of like if somebody you didn't know called you Stevie (unless you
like that I guess). It seems a little childish but it mostly demeans
the person
Thanks to all for the tips. All the
demotions and promotions seem to have worked. AD replication is a bit like the
weather in Wyoming:
if you dont like it, wait 15 minutes. Sure enough after a while, things
cleared up. I simply deleted the phantoms in the GUI and they have stayed away.
Can you explain the steps you've taken?
Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards,
Ing. Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Senior Infrastructure Consultant
MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
LogicaCMG Nederland B.V. (BU RTINC Eindhoven)
( Tel : +31-(0)40-29.57.777
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He didn't ask from behind the Government controlled firewall in China
he said from an Office. :-)
I'm assuming there's a reasonable tinfoily admin there. And you know..
you can always ask if you want a site unblocked that you think has a
reasonable 'business' need? Most of the time we're
I have to agree with Darren. I am not too worried what this person can do to
me...
However from the standpoint of the user and his company he is trying to
assume risk that he doesn't have authority to assume (or else he wouldn't
have to post...). Its not wrong to ask, but certainly it would be
We had to compile in bbisw.lib (Big Brother Is Watching). You might think
that's against your rights, but you signged them away when you accepted
the 5k larger eula.txt below (which you didn't read).
Cheers,
BrettSh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I've decided its funny when I use it.
Just b/c I know this
I would think in part it has to be the new GUI EULA that pops up and the code
they use to update the registry of acceptance of said EULA.
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Subject:
Could be various things of which most would probably be a little difficult
to ascertain.
Compiler versions can certainly cause deltas, as well as individual switches
in a compiler. For instance, if I use Borland Builder 6.0 to compile
something and then use Borland Developer Studio (Basiclaly
I moved a computer account from OU A to OU B, then fired up gpupdate on that
computer. Sure enough, it found the new OU and calculated GP accordingly.
Then I moved it back to OU A. On this final move, after issuing both a
gpupdate and gpupdate /force, the workstation failed to find its new OU. I
We don't know that. He could be an admin that is trying to figure out
how his users are getting past his blocking system. There did seem to be
a language issue in his original post.
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You're right. It is funnier when you use it. On 11/13/06, Brett Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:We had to compile in bbisw.lib (Big Brother Is Watching).You might think
that's against your rights, but you signged them away when you acceptedthe 5k larger eula.txt below (which you didn't
Hey, it *could* be an office in China :)
In any case, I think you're fighting a losing battle protecting yourself by
attempting to control or expecting good behavior from others-- others being
defined as people who don't work for/with you. They will always find the
information or the means
Better question ... is there an accept switch to use? If you try a tool in a
loop against a set of servers, it prompts for every one of them...
:m:dsm:cci:mvp | marcusoh.blogspot.com
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Hey Darren, I have looked at some of the source for GPO processing and while
I don't recall any client side caching, I wouldn't be surprised to hear it
had it. Certainly there is nothing on the AD side that I have seen that
could ever make me think a specially formed query for GPOs was responded
Definitely a possibility I considered when I saw the post though I would
have expected different phrasing like My *%^#% users are getting past my
proxy rules, how are they doing it ;o)
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Brett Shirley wrote:
Just b/c I know this kind of thing can go rabbidly out of control, _YES, I
WAS KIDDING._
You're kidding :)
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Which tool and what is the prompt? One thing I've done in the past, when
asked for 'y' or 'n', is simply do this:
Command | echo y
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Contradicting my earlier post - One of the most interesting ways I have seen to
access websites is via google and it's cache - its amazing what is holds and
all on a google URL!
Regards,
Mark Parris
Base IT Ltd
Active Directory Consultancy
Tel +44(0)7801 690596
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Contradicting my earlier post - One of the most interesting ways I have seen to
access websites is via google and it's cache - its amazing what is holds and
all on a google URL!
Regards,
Mark Parris
Base IT Ltd
Active Directory Consultancy
Tel +44(0)7801 690596
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Thanks Joe. I suspect you're right, though I'm not sure where/why it would
be cached. I did fire up Insight for AD and didn't specifically see the
query I would have expected, so I guess it is being cached--strange part is
that it seemed to pick up the change right away the first time I moved the
Disclaimer #1: "You" in the below refers to a generic "you", not a
specific person.
Disclaimer #2: My opinions are in no way intended to represent those of
my employer. They're my own, and they were my opinions long before I became a
Microsoft employee.
That
said...
You
know what I find
I started a mail thread on this internally, and BOY was I wrong,
apparently bbisw.lib is only like 3k, so couldn't possibly explain the
bloat!
They pretty much know what bloated the binaries, and said they'll blog
something about it in the next few days or so on the sysinternals blog ...
though
(I would just like to go on record as saying that I thought Brett's post
was funny)
In the MVP survey this year the final question was give three words
that best describe Microsoft? Boy howdy was that the hardest part of
the survey to fill out. Three words to describe the company? Youch.
You know what I find amazing here?
That you felt compelled to lend more visibility to this topic, when it, truly, does not deserve an iota of your time. I see people use "M$" in conversations, I note their names and learn to avoid them. It's the same thing I do with people who use "1337" and
I have a client that Im having trouble setting up
Active Directory topology for. The layout:
1 Central office with two domain controllers, 1 Global
Catalog, T1 connection
5 Branch offices with 1 domain controller and DSL or Cable
connections.
1 Branch office with 1 domain controller
I was wondering if there is a way to restrict client VPN
connections via computer name. The reason for this is that we only want clients
connecting from approved devices for which they do not have administrative
privileges. In other words, we do not want people VPNing into our network from
Call-Station-Identifier is a much more stable and reliable filter - it is the Client's MAC address. "Client Friendly Name" is optional and may not be sent in many VPN negotiation. The identifier will very likely be sent (I don't want to say ALWAYS since I don't have any relevant doc that say
(Say SBS and it's like waving a red flag in front of me)
For SBS networks we don't use VPN, in fact the only time I use VPN is
for patching, otherwise we use RWW (Remote Web Workplace) which does
not introduce the risks that VPN does. RWW is a web based remote
access and can typically be more
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