[NTSysADM] RE: Reset KRBTGT account password.

2015-02-13 Thread Free, Bob
Nice. Thanks Also be aware there are potential issues with invalidating kerb tix on 3rd party OS integrations such as *NIX. Before you do this (or raise to 2008 FL which will do it for you) you should account for non-MS OS's in your environment For Windows Servers and Clients this should not

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Domain Server down

2015-01-20 Thread Free, Bob
It’s has to do with what tool you use, not the FL. When you use Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) or the Active Directory Users and Computers console (Dsa.msc) that is included with Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to delete a domain controller computer account from the D

RE: [NTSysADM] Because life just isn't difficult enough yet...

2015-01-13 Thread Free, Bob
You really clicked on that link? Time to wash your hands. lol -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Richard McClary Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:47 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Bec

RE: [NTSysADM] Patch pulled kb3004394

2014-12-17 Thread Free, Bob
Well they did give you SP6a to rectify, frankly, I don't know what all the fuss is about. lol Can't believe this is still live http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246009 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Monday, December 15, 2

RE: [NTSysADM] Did you think your KeePass Master Passwords were safe? PWSafe follow up

2014-12-12 Thread Free, Bob
There are other considerations besides the recent revelations about recovery tools being discussed in this thread... http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/citadel-attackers-aim-to-steal-victims-master-passwords/ The research

RE: [NTSysADM] Problems with the schannel update?

2014-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
putting it in our dev and test environments tonight and tomorrow and all of production in the next few days Sent from Windows Mail From: Free, Bob<mailto:r...@pge.com> Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎November‎ ‎18‎, ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎21‎ ‎AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myit

RE: [NTSysADM] Problems with the schannel update?

2014-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
cle 2992611 for more information. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:03 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Problems with the schannel upd

RE: [NTSysADM] Problems with the schannel update?

2014-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
Disclaimer: This is all YMMV, Caveat emptor but I thought I'd share what I dug up. --As I was preparing to send I see the bulletin has been re-released as expected so much of this is likely moot. My understanding is that at least one of the roots of the root of the problem is the new cipher s

RE: [NTSysADM] Backing up Active Directory

2014-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
Standard guidance is at least 2 DCs from each Domain in the forest. There are a number of resources on TechNet including a detailed whitepaper that can be used as a basis for planning and testing. Basics- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771290(v=ws.10).aspx Also- http://technet.mi

RE: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution?

2014-11-05 Thread Free, Bob
s.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 6:01 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solut

Re: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution?

2014-11-05 Thread Free, Bob
solution? :-P -- Espi On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote: [cid:image001.png@01CFF909.47BB68C0] From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myit

Re: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution?

2014-11-05 Thread Free, Bob
? -- Espi On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote: Passwords can go in a vaulting solution and have all kinds of rigor wrapped around them. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.m

RE: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution?

2014-11-05 Thread Free, Bob
Passwords can go in a vaulting solution and have all kinds of rigor wrapped around them. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Matthew W. Ross Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 9:13 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] H

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-10 Thread Free, Bob
If folks are interested in some of the capabilities of various commercial offerings, this is a good start for an overview of the playing field http://www.scmagazine.com/password-management/products/81/0/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-10 Thread Free, Bob
LOL indeed :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dave Lum Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 7:00 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management LOL -I store mine in Keepass...on my OneDrive. Fr

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-10 Thread Free, Bob
There are multiple options for LastPass including standalone and MFA. I found it was a lot more flexible for personal use. YMMV. They also don't store your passwords in the cloud, read up on the cryptography involved if interested. I repeat- "Not a substitute for a full blown on-prem password va

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-09 Thread Free, Bob
LastPass runs on all of those platforms and my Kindle :-D Actually I can't vouch for WP because I don't have one but it's supported and it does run just fine on my RT tablet. Also has a level of enterprise support & secure password sharing facility. Not a substitute for a full blown on-prem pas

Re: [NTSysADM] #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow

2014-09-30 Thread Free, Bob
You can *sort of* follow here- http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-windows-9-event-live-blog/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:01 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [spam] [dkim-

[NTSysADM] RE: #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow

2014-09-30 Thread Free, Bob
heh, I remember when W2K was called windowsnext before all these goofy hashtag thingamajigs :-D From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:00 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysAD

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Re: Win 2012R@ RDS, Group Policy and folder redirection errors - MORE INFO

2014-09-19 Thread Free, Bob
LOL. > I use loopback processing as an interview questionbecause it's so hard to > describe properly :-) I've always used loopback as an interview question because it is very easy to describe succinctly *if* you understand it. Same result I guess :-D -Original Message- From: list

[NTSysADM] The LOL tool

2014-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
This made me LOL he goal of this post is to discuss what causes lingering objects and show you how to download, and then use the new GUI-based Lingering Object Liquidator (LOL) tool to remove them. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2014/09/15/remove-lingering-objects-that-cause-ad-replic

Re: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times

2014-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
Leone mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com>> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:27:16 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>>

RE: [NTSysADM] Re: Confused about domain replication times

2014-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
Indeed® Every AD should be designed such that the boss should never have write access to anything important. ☺ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 8:02 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subjec

RE: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times

2014-09-16 Thread Free, Bob
om] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:27 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote: You sho

RE: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times

2014-09-16 Thread Free, Bob
You should get rid of the manual COs.. (including automatically created objects that have been modified). The KDC won’t manage them. A manual object means you know something the KDC doesn’t which isn’t often the case. Sometimes it’s necessary to create them in a pinch but you should always go b

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-29 Thread Free, Bob
wXjl93S32HiU%3D%0A&s=8c8b6a632be04d9566cc57beff2b2f8c883770e8d6f014b9f475d403a02d385e> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote: +n Fruitless web search

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-29 Thread Free, Bob
+n Fruitless web search BTW :-D -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 8:59 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

RE: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Free, Bob
concepts and design principles were best outlined in the original book and provide a lot of context you don't otherwise get. -sc > -Original Message- > From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com > [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob > Sent: Thursday, A

Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Free, Bob
> Microsoft's documentation on this is not as good as it could be When I wanted to learn and understand this stuff back in the NT days, I went straight to the Custer(Russinovich)(Solomon book). I have quite a stack of them now. The knowledge within is not available anywhere else in such a conci

RE: [NTSysADM] Setting auditing in local security policy

2014-08-08 Thread Free, Bob
auditing in local security policy Can’t be “Commandments” if there aren’t 10 of them. ☺ Thanks for this, Bob! From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 1:57

RE: [NTSysADM] Setting auditing in local security policy

2014-08-08 Thread Free, Bob
Modeling isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, actually, it’s really an epic fail IME. Only thing that is truly authoritative is auditpol. I’ve experienced situations where well-intentioned people messed around in 3 or 4 places not understanding all the subtleties and had the system so royally messe

RE: [NTSysADM] Exchange list? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-29 Thread Free, Bob
.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 7:49 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Exchange list? (UNCLASSIFIED) 2 telephone handsets, 4 alligator clips, couple feet of tes

RE: [NTSysADM] Exchange list? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-29 Thread Free, Bob
2 telephone handsets, 4 alligator clips, couple feet of test lead to wire them up, a 9v battery and a pair of wires...or 1 wire and a common ground. Very handy for all sorts of things. I still have a very old pair in my garage. We used to call it a poor-mans-buttinski :) If you guys were real p

RE: [NTSysADM] Consolidating odd-ball fileservers

2014-07-25 Thread Free, Bob
> Check the archive for yesterday hmmm, pondering the meaning of archive ☺ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:52 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Consolidating odd-bal

[NTSysADM] RE: 2012 shares?

2014-07-24 Thread Free, Bob
with Kerberos, whereas once you disable strict name checking you are throttled to SMB1. So I'm very appreciative. And yes, I've done some testing on it now and read up on it. In the toolbag. :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:l

[NTSysADM] RE: 2012 shares?

2014-07-24 Thread Free, Bob
> This trick is also part of the "supported" method to safely rename a domain > controller, which is how I learned it in the first place. "Supported" but not "recommended" according to my DSE. YMMV I had done it in the past (2K3) and was contemplating doing it again and he asked around interna

RE: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...

2014-07-22 Thread Free, Bob
Conversation dear to my heart since the DEC/TEC conference I attended for 10+ years was doomed when Dell absorbed Quest a couple years ago because they didn’t “see it as being worth the expense” It was extremely well supported by MS and the MVP community and was starting to stretch out nicely

[NTSysADM] RE: Password Complexity Implementation Questions

2014-07-16 Thread Free, Bob
Short answer is generally at expiration. Especially complexity which is what you asked about. I could write out a long explanation but this covers it pretty well I think http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/10/11/active-directory-password-policies-when-does-a-password-policy-ch

RE: [NTSysADM] For any of you router jockey's out there...

2014-07-16 Thread Free, Bob
42 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:28 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] For any of you router jockey's out there... What’s the password? From: listsad...@lists.m

RE: [NTSysADM] SOT: mtc time

2014-07-15 Thread Free, Bob
Seems it was 43 once but I think it was just Michael being sarcastic... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:56 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] SOT: mtc time 42? That

Re: [NTSysADM] Microsoft took-over NO-IP namespace to analyze and stop malware

2014-07-01 Thread Free, Bob
-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] Microsoft took-over NO-IP namespace to analyze and stop malware What was the context for that - if you can say? -- Espi On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote: Got a 6MB csv file listing over 22K domains from PSS earlier I bet th

Re: [NTSysADM] Microsoft took-over NO-IP namespace to analyze and stop malware

2014-07-01 Thread Free, Bob
Got a 6MB csv file listing over 22K domains from PSS earlier I bet they are busy. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 1:32 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] Micr

RE: [NTSysADM] Infoblox vs. native Windows

2014-06-25 Thread Free, Bob
+they can do NTP and can be configured in a HA grid. Personally I’m happy with not hosting DNS/DCHP and letting the network folks manage it but that’s what I’m used to. The views and reporting are pretty awesome. The interface overall is …well… weird From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailt

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: As data loss disasters go...

2014-06-20 Thread Free, Bob
y. You are more exempt than I. Not many others have been here as long as we have…☺ We post with old bits. ☺ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] On Behalf

RE: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: As data loss disasters go...

2014-06-20 Thread Free, Bob
lto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com><mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>> > [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com><mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitfor<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitfor> > um.com<https:/

[NTSysADM] RE: As data loss disasters go...

2014-06-20 Thread Free, Bob
m.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 7:41 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: As data loss disasters go... MBS was exempted from the sarcasm tag requirement sometime in the previous centuryas were a few

[NTSysADM] RE: As data loss disasters go...

2014-06-19 Thread Free, Bob
MBS was exempted from the sarcasm tag requirement sometime in the previous centuryas were a few others... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jake Gardner Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 6:23 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NT

[NTSysADM] RE: New RODC question

2014-06-06 Thread Free, Bob
> AD DS provides no mechanism for an external application to access the > password hash. Trying reading unicodePwd (or any other attribute marked as > confidential) and see how far you get. :) Yep, try doing SSO with Oracle DBs and see how fast it gets really uglyyou want us to do what to A

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: P2V DC

2014-06-06 Thread Free, Bob
Watching this thread reminds me of the old saying…”We ain’t got time to do it right but we got time to do it over” From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 9:19 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject

[NTSysADM] RE: New RODC question

2014-06-06 Thread Free, Bob
I'm having difficulty understanding why this is a case for an RO*C. Seems like a federation scenario to me. You simply need to AuthN your internal users to an external service, correct? Is this a well-known external service or more of a one-off? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:lis

RE: [NTSysADM] taskkill logon error

2014-06-05 Thread Free, Bob
sad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 7:15 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] taskkill logon error >>I'm trying to run taskkill in a

RE: [NTSysADM] taskkill logon error

2014-06-05 Thread Free, Bob
>>I'm trying to run taskkill in a batch script to kill a process on from a >>Server 2008 R2 machine to a W7 workgroup machine. > You might want to also try a DA account for the Task kill instead of the > local admin. DA = N/A IMO YMMV :-D From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad

Re: [NTSysADM] It has been a while.....Is it just me....

2014-06-03 Thread Free, Bob
, 2014, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote: > it certainly seems like the Microsoft website forums have a much higher > concentration of dumb questions. Perhaps they're like flypaper for idiots? > ;-) HmmmWhat does that make some of the LinkedIn groups? -Origin

Re: [NTSysADM] It has been a while.....Is it just me....

2014-06-03 Thread Free, Bob
> it certainly seems like the Microsoft website forums have a much higher > concentration of dumb questions. Perhaps they're like flypaper for idiots? > ;-) HmmmWhat does that make some of the LinkedIn groups? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad

Re: [NTSysADM] CRM 2011 SSL cert error - Completely down

2014-06-03 Thread Free, Bob
Did it tip you all the way over? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 10:59 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] CRM 2011 SSL cert error - Completely down And I just listed

RE: [NTSysADM] OK here's a weird one (GPO access denied)

2014-05-30 Thread Free, Bob
Sounds more like the ticket expired for the elevated process but it's hard to reconstruct the sequence from the info given. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dave Lum Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:14 PM To: ntsysa

RE: [NTSysADM] KeePass to all users?

2014-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
now I just want to free up my staff the first 60 minutes every Monday or day after holiday of expired password troubleshooting. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:51 PM To

RE: [NTSysADM] KeePass to all users?

2014-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
What is your overall goal? Just end user passwords or a more comprehensive solution? If the latter, look up privileged account management or privileged identity management. A LOT can be done in that space if you have the wherewithal. We are deploying a comprehensive solution for PAM and have a

[NTSysADM] RE: Expiring Passwords

2014-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
One pretty comprehensive option. Read the intro for supported features. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2012/01/17/sending-an-email-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire-a-powershell-rewrite.aspx From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.

Re: [NTSysADM] Chrome update and EMET.

2014-05-23 Thread Free, Bob
> It's still turning into a long-dash Friggin MS Office (akin to friggin Lyris) That one has bitten us a number of times when copy\pasting from requests or documentation into backend apps, ADUC etc. Had to send a blast to our help desk and other support folks about it and sometimes it still sn

[NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window

2014-05-22 Thread Free, Bob
x27;s the word I was trying to think of. Thanks. :) -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 4:53 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber fie

[NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window

2014-05-22 Thread Free, Bob
tforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:37 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window Nope, I wouldn't. I understand completely. We get that all the time. We have a s

[NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window

2014-05-20 Thread Free, Bob
you really want to be reminded of that every time you >logged in? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 4:20 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Add

[NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window

2014-05-20 Thread Free, Bob
I think many (most?) folks' approach is , just don't change samaccountname... If they want a cosmetic name change, there are plenty of name attributes to make them look nice in the GAL and other systems. Personnel numbers have changed here depending on which HR system was in place. Names chang

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the classroom

2014-04-25 Thread Free, Bob
Didn't Byte win the weight war? Bet the mailman really hated that one From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 1:28 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-17 Thread Free, Bob
Same here, in all the various formats including the newsletters, VIP etc. I have to agreed content is much thinner than it used to be. For you WJR- http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/welcome-windows-nt-magazine From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 8.1 update required to be installed

2014-04-17 Thread Free, Bob
Curious, are you looking at update history the Metro way or via the traditional desktop / control panel interface? The former isn't accurate in my experience. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jay Dale Sent: Thurs

RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns

2014-04-04 Thread Free, Bob
I've had that for quite some time as well. Still good for another year at this juncture. Subscription level: MSDN Operating Systems From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 5:35 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.my

Re: [NTSysADM] Rejoin Computer to Domain Without Removing

2014-03-18 Thread Free, Bob
Similar discussion on activedir a couple years ago. Bonnie may have been involved, don't recall. I had this in my notes from one of the Brians "Login to the afflicted computer as a local admin, disjoin the domain--but enter bogus domain credentials, so the computer's domain account doesn't get

RE: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain

2014-03-11 Thread Free, Bob
Have you looked at C:\Windows\debug\NetSetup.LOG? IME, it's often very illuminating with domain join issues. Useful for other purposes WRT the system's history with the domain(s) as well. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Tuesda

RE: [NTSysADM] who and when an AD user account disabled

2014-03-04 Thread Free, Bob
sts.myitforum.com>> on behalf of Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:40 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] who and when an AD user account disabled Collecting metadata may be more

RE: [NTSysADM] who and when an AD user account disabled

2014-02-20 Thread Free, Bob
Collecting metadata may be more illuminating. You should be able to reconstruct at least some part of the changes to the object by looking at various attributes. Piece of cake with repadmin /showobjmeta From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf O

[NTSysADM] RE: who and when an AD user account disabled

2014-02-20 Thread Free, Bob
Depends on the auditing in place. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:43 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] who and when an AD user account disabled Is it possible, using PoSH

RE: [NTSysADM] time not syncing

2014-02-18 Thread Free, Bob
Hmmm, ever the humble Web “The script is fully documented, and is based on a previous script written by Carl Webster.” Nice… Thanks From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mail

RE: [NTSysADM] OT: NE snow

2014-02-14 Thread Free, Bob
The fight has never stopped. They just don't shoot people with revolvers in water disputes like they used to, well , at least not AS much as they used to The grab is even always on for some of the smaller stuff. Every few years some of the munis get together some consultants to do a study to try

RE: [NTSysADM] OT: Western drought

2014-02-14 Thread Free, Bob
Great commentary on Goodreads about the book. "Why would anyone read a 500 page book about irrigation and dam building? If you are curious why Los Angeles has a population of 10 million, and why California has one of the richest economies in the world, this book has the answers. What began as a

RE: [NTSysADM] OT: Western drought

2014-02-14 Thread Free, Bob
Kind of ironic that what is essentially a desert is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. I'll have to check out that book. I worked in our hydroelectric division for a lot of years and really gone into the history of it and much of what California has grown into is still

RE: [NTSysADM] Microsoft Surface Pro 2

2014-02-07 Thread Free, Bob
For my newer Lenovo I use one the plugables too. The other offerings seemed like too much money and not as well received. I'm glad I didn't go with one of the others in hindsight. I neglected to consider it when I did the WIN8 -> 8.1 upgrade and I had no external display, loaded the latest dri

RE: [NTSysADM] Microsoft Surface Pro 2

2014-02-07 Thread Free, Bob
You aren't the only one that's puzzled :) http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-replenishes-its-surface-2-tablet-stock-725355/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Jafs Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 11:12 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforu

[NTSysADM] RE: Microsoft Surface Pro 2

2014-02-07 Thread Free, Bob
>How can Microsoft have so totally misjudged the Surface Pro 2 sales Hmmm, I can think of about $900M worth of reasons for them to be a bit conservative. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Jafs Sent: Friday, February 07, 201

RE: [NTSysADM] OT: Location Awareness

2014-02-06 Thread Free, Bob
Cue Dos Equis man I don't usually use Google's location service, but when I do, I make sure I'm not logged into any google services stay anonymous my friends :-D From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Thursday, F

RE: [NTSysADM] Security and Risk in Virtualized systems, questions for the list

2014-01-29 Thread Free, Bob
Thanks Ken. Great resource. Totally timely for some homework as I’m taking a trip to Redmond next month to absorb more of the “cloudy goodness” from MS IT. If you have Premier or SA you can sign up for that class and others with vouchers, kind of a cool program. http://msiti.msregistration.com

[NTSysADM] RE: Active Directory auditing software

2013-12-03 Thread Free, Bob
Quest..ummm, Dell Change Auditor is pretty awesome but not for the fiscally faint of heart. It can go into excruciating detail independent of native auditing. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Wednesday, Novem

RE: [NTSysADM] OT: naming for service ID's

2013-10-08 Thread Free, Bob
We do a variation on the latter. Svc Widget Env[nn] From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Bodnar Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 7:00 AM To: NTSysADM@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] OT: naming for service ID's Just looking

[NTSysADM] RE: Account Utility

2013-10-03 Thread Free, Bob
The first two I get, the third is really hard to comprehend. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 8:09 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Account Utility MBS’ script works like

Re: [NTSysADM] Is this domain change, or just DNS play?

2013-09-20 Thread Free, Bob
> I'll lose my membership in the DNS Weenie Club. Can you have concurrent membership in the DNSWC and DNRC? That would be cool :-] -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 9:2

RE: [NTSysADM] I see MMS is no more...

2013-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
> And, I'll just throw this out there for thought: What does a Devices and > Services company need with a user conference? Makes me wonder what Dell was thinking when they cancelled TEC. That left a huge gap. Where else could you see most of the strategists, product team, relevant vendors and M

Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you have all seen today's news

2013-09-06 Thread Free, Bob
Interesting comments from him here- "Undermining the Very Fabric of the Internet": Bruce Schneier on NSA's Secret Online Spying http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/6/undermining_the_very_fabric_of_the From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Mic

Re: [NTSysADM] Wireless Bridge Equip / Vendor Recommendations

2013-09-06 Thread Free, Bob
Wrap your WAP[1] and it will shield it from that pesky lightning and other infiltrators[2]. Tinfoil hats are also making a resurgence. Buy Alcoa stock End of PSA [1] with aluminum foil [2] It also affords protection from the TLA agencies because the foil encrypts all that data, I saw it on

RE: [NTSysADM] AD forest environment

2013-08-21 Thread Free, Bob
We have a dev forest that mimics the trusts and entire config of our primary production forest. We just prefixed everything with an x so it's clearly delimited. There was a onetime synch of identities many moons ago and we create additional accounts there as required. The basic skeleton of the d

RE: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync

2013-08-02 Thread Free, Bob
s something to supplement Lync You mean people engaged in communications and sharing of documents and strategies? Seems like it hit its target market successfully. :) Steven -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free,

RE: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync

2013-08-01 Thread Free, Bob
> I guess I'm so old-fashioned that I really don't get the POINT of it all, if > you know what I mean Me either. It slithered in the door here through HR as a 'pilot' before the MS acquisition IIRC. Once it got a foothold, it couldn't be gotten rid of and was rolled out system wide to anyone wh

[NTSysADM] RE: LDAP lookups

2013-07-31 Thread Free, Bob
NO NO NO Just say NO From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:24 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: LDAP lookups Thanks everyone! That was my assumption after looking at _ldap r

RE: [NTSysADM] Outage?

2013-07-30 Thread Free, Bob
me either till yours From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 4:21 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Outage? Funny is mine the only one that has been sent and received today? I sur

RE: [NTSysADM] Outage?

2013-07-30 Thread Free, Bob
only for you lol From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 4:07 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Outage? I have not gotten a message all day is the list down? PG&E is committed to pr

RE: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] IE 9 and Flash issue with Yahoo mail

2013-07-25 Thread Free, Bob
issue with Yahoo mail Are there any add-ons enabled? Googling around a bit results in similar problems caused by some privacy add-ons. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote: Seemed like a no-brainer to redo the contact so I assumed Chris had already

RE: [NTSysADM] IE 9 and Flash issue with Yahoo mail

2013-07-25 Thread Free, Bob
Seemed like a no-brainer to redo the contact so I assumed Chris had already tried that...hmmm :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L. Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 5:32 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysAD

RE: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia

2013-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
> let's not forget Banyan Vines Indeed Some of us who worked on the real NOS back in the day (or heaven forbid, both) were prone to calling Novell the Red Virus :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Senter, John Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2

[NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? �The frontier of high-value scenarios we enable will march outward�

2013-07-11 Thread Free, Bob
http://allthingsd.com/20130711/heres-microsofts-strategy-essay-and-reorg-announcement-memos/ PG&E is committed to protecting our customers' privacy. To learn more, please visit http://www.pge.com/about/company/privacy/customer/

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: 3 million dollar malware "cleanup"

2013-07-10 Thread Free, Bob
"cleanup" Did they decode the mouse ball's encryption? On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com>> wrote: Surely, they have seen too much! -- Espi On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Free, Bob mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote: Destroy

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