Re: [NTSysADM] WAN acceleration for small office

2017-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
What exactly is your bandwidth and how many users are you talking about? Do you have any servers at the remote locations at all, and if you do could they be virtualized (or are they already)? If you can answer yes to either flavor of the second question, I'd look at a virtualized WAN accelerator a

Re: [NTSysADM] WAN acceleration for small office

2017-05-24 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Have you considered performance tuning your server/clients? Which server and client OSs are in question? -- Espi On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Tom Miller wrote: > I have a few staff in a remote office in Florida who spend most of their > day working in RDS at our main site in Virginia. We

Re: [NTSysADM] WAN acceleration for small office

2017-05-24 Thread Sean Martin
Take a look at Silverpeak. They offer hardware appliances for ROBO use. I believe cost is based on throughout requirements. No idea how the cost compares to Riverbed. - Sean > On May 24, 2017, at 5:51 PM, Tom Miller wrote: > > I have a few staff in a remote office in Florida who spend most of

[NTSysADM] WAN acceleration for small office

2017-05-24 Thread Tom Miller
I have a few staff in a remote office in Florida who spend most of their day working in RDS at our main site in Virginia. We have decent bandwidth at both locations and decent firewalls, no issues there. The Florida staff complain of latency/laggy experience in RDS. I am wondering if these folk

Re: [NTSysADM] Is 9389 required for External Trust?

2017-05-24 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
AFAIK, 9389 shouldnt be. This may help you further sort out your port requirements: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772723%28v=ws.10%29.aspx -- Espi On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic.com> wrote: > I’m setting up an external trust bet

[NTSysADM] RE: Managed Service Accounts

2017-05-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I make extensive use of them. Anytime I need a service account (for Windows based apps that can utilize them) I use an MSA or GMSA. They work great as they remove the manual password management task from you. For example, I always install MSSQL servers with them, the required permissions are we

[NTSysADM] Managed Service Accounts

2017-05-24 Thread Miller Bonnie L.
So, I'm doing a regular review of admin accounts and found something odd I want to ask about before I change that I can't find any reference to in Google-land. Our "Enterprise admins" group has a managed service account in it, which I don't think should be there, but I really don't know as we h

Re: [NTSysADM] Disabling word macro's.

2017-05-24 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I've seen and heard of different causes and fixes over the years. Are the affected staff using the same documents or are they unique situations? -- Espi On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: > Office 2010 > > > > So we block word macro’s for users, and have the setting set to d

[NTSysADM] Is 9389 required for External Trust?

2017-05-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'm setting up an external trust between two forests. There are firewalls between them. I've been using this as the basis for the firewall rules: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/179442/how-to-configure-a-firewall-for-domains-and-trusts#method3 It does NOT mention 9389 (AD DS Web Service

[NTSysADM] Disabling word macro's.

2017-05-24 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Office 2010 So we block word macro’s for users, and have the setting set to disable and not warn. We have a very small number of staff, like 6 or 8 that still get a pop up warning them macro’s are disabled. It’s very odd as it happens even if the doc doesn’t contain macro’s. Anyone have any

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: recommended SNMP Monitoring tools

2017-05-24 Thread Robert Walker
Have also used Xymon in the past and found it very good. It doesn't support SNMP by default, but Devmon (https://sourceforge.net/projects/devmon/) is pretty straight forward to get going. Robert On 23 May 2017 at 23:49, Stringham, Steven wrote: > Nagios, Cacti. Great combination – but they ta