Re: [NTSysADM] DHCP role

2017-11-30 Thread David Lum
I've pulled DHCP off all our DC's and it wasn't too tough for the network team to accomodate. Using DHCP failover took a bit more work for us to perfect. Using failover you by definiton copy the confif to the new serverstand up new dhcp server, config as failover, then stand down DHCP on

RE: [NTSysADM] Adding *only* reboot right for domain user to a local host, remotely ...

2017-01-23 Thread David Lum
I do this so our NOC can patch/reboot and the GPO setting I use is “allow system shutdown” and that GPO does nothing else. Also, you’ll want to add BUILTIN\Administrators and Domain Admins to that GPO or else ONLY the group specified in the GPO can reboot the system. Don’t ask how I know :).

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: ALL Flash Storage

2016-12-07 Thread David Lum
%dayjob% moved to all flash last year and (we run Epic - medical - databases and about 9,000 concurrent users) the IOPS improvement is "yuuuge". Dave > On Dec 7, 2016, at 6:34 AM, James Rankin wrote: > > I think – SuperFast J > > We mainly use Atlantis, but not being much

[NTSysADM] Automated Xenserver disk report

2014-12-09 Thread David Lum
Does anyone know of a way to generate Xenserver storage reports? Specifically look across the various pools and give me a repoty of available space on both local hosts (not guest VM's) and shared (SAN/NAS) storage? Dave Lum \\ I.T. Garage mailto:d...@theitgarage.com d...@theitgarage.com \\

RE: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation

2014-10-28 Thread David Lum
Boom, winner! From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of geoff taylor Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:02 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation Ah! Run

RE: [NTSysADM] Change Management process and documentation

2014-10-28 Thread David Lum
That's how I handle it for my client. The same mechanism they use to submit Help Desk tickets (SysAid) I create a ticket when I'm making a system change to their systems (patching, upgrades, GPO changes, etc.). It performs double duty as I can then reference that ticket ID in my invoice to them.

[NTSysADM] 2008 R2 SBS2011 VM inplace upgrade Hyper-V host 2008R2 to 2012R2

2014-10-14 Thread David Lum
I rarely do in-place OS upgrades, but this one looks easy. I have a SBS2011 VM running on a 2008 R2 Hyper-V host. I have licenses for 2012R2 and would like to upgrade the host to that OS. I have upgraded a couple other hosts and the VM's made it over with no issue, but I figured I'd check with the

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-09 Thread David Lum
Yes it will, as you are effectively just using OneDrive as a replication medium. I treat all cloud storage as a replication point as I operate under the assumption all cloud data can dissappear without notice. Critical data I have the original, a local copy (at minimum in a seperate physical

[NTSysADM] LDAP requests never drop to zero

2014-09-30 Thread David Lum
Sorry for the cross-post, but this seems to fit both lists. Setup: I have a CAS box is looking at two GC's (single CAS, two mailbox servers). Most performance indicators on the CAs server fall well into the acceptable range, except for LDAP Search time and LDAP read time. LDAP read for

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: DHCP and Active Directory documentation scripts

2014-05-07 Thread David Lum
He used to work at Blackberry? -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David McSpadden Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 10:01 AM To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: DHCP and Active Directory documentation

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: DHCP and Active Directory documentation scripts

2014-05-07 Thread David Lum
He used to work at Blackberry? -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David McSpadden Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 10:01 AM To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: DHCP and Active Directory documentation

RE: [NTSysADM] Speaking of Dropbox... Security flaws discovered today

2014-05-06 Thread David Lum
This is actually what triggered my initial question about Dropbox/file sharing policies... :) -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Sam Cayze Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 12:37 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM]

RE: [NTSysADM] IT sec pros surprisingly cavalier about mobile security best practices

2014-05-05 Thread David Lum
...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 5:37 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] IT sec pros surprisingly cavalier about mobile security best practices http://www.net

[NTSysADM] RE: Moving on to new Position, might be gone from the list for a Bit

2014-05-05 Thread David Lum
Are you moving on because I deleted all those Linux OS files? LOL -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ziots, Edward Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 7:30 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Moving on to new Position,

[NTSysADM] How to start your last 5 days of work

2014-05-02 Thread David Lum
someone here knows Unix enough to tell me what happened next... :) [cid:image001.jpg@01CF65E5.0E6CA0F0] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728 | modahealth.comhttp://www.modahealth.com/ I'm excited to announce that ODS Health is now Moda Health. Please make

[NTSysADM] RE: How to start your last 5 days of work

2014-05-02 Thread David Lum
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Friday, May 2, 2014 12:01 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] How to start your last 5 days of work Next week is my last week at Moda, so today I decided to start my day by oopsing a Unix

[NTSysADM] XP is no longer supported. OK wait, just this one last time...

2014-05-01 Thread David Lum
Just this last out-of-band one... https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms14-may [cid:image001.jpg@01CF651F.AAD68210] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728 | modahealth.comhttp://www.modahealth.com/ I'm excited to announce that ODS Health is now

[NTSysADM] IT sec pros surprisingly cavalier about mobile security best practices

2014-05-01 Thread David Lum
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=16783 [cid:image001.jpg@01CF6549.C29ED1C0] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728 | modahealth.comhttp://www.modahealth.com/ I'm excited to announce that ODS Health is now Moda Health. Please make a note of my

[NTSysADM] NSS labs

2014-04-29 Thread David Lum
Is anyone here subscribed to NSS labs? https://www.nsslabs.com/become-client [cid:image001.jpg@01CF63B2.2C36A160] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728 | modahealth.comhttp://www.modahealth.com/ I'm excited to announce that ODS Health is now Moda Health

RE: [NTSysADM] IE exploit

2014-04-28 Thread David Lum
Adobe’s patch addresses CVE-2014-0515 Microsoft’s address CVE-2014-1776 It’s possible they are linked, since this article does make them seem like the same attack vector, but I do not speek enough programmer-speak to know for sure:

RE: [NTSysADM] IE exploit

2014-04-28 Thread David Lum
...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 3:00 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] IE exploit Adobe’s patch addresses CVE-2014-0515 Microsoft’s address CVE-2014-1776

[NTSysADM] Whitelisting product - Savant Protection

2014-04-24 Thread David Lum
Does anyone have any experience with their product? I am considering adding it to endpoints for some additional protection... [cid:image001.jpg@01CF5FA8.C1A2A540] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728 | modahealth.comhttp://www.modahealth.com/ I'm

RE: [NTSysADM] DHCP and Active Directory documentation scripts

2014-04-24 Thread David Lum
Count me in! -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 6:56 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] DHCP and Active Directory documentation scripts Yes I do. Thanks Webster

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

2014-04-23 Thread David Lum
I knew there was a reason I've rarely changed default folders.crap like this! The only thing I really change anymore is the drive letter - I'll put stuff in D:\Program Files\ but I'll leave the rest of the path the same, and up to the installer. I think it was back in my Win95 days I

[NTSysADM] RE: Help me fire my old DC's

2014-04-14 Thread David Lum
Oh man yeah, I remember doing this to myself once too, on a DC that had IIS stuff and I DCPROMO'd it down and rebooted... Things like these are why I like a DC to really do nothing BUT hold DC roles, I even kick DHCP off it if I can. -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] Home router

2014-04-14 Thread David Lum
How is that cheaper than a three pack of UniFi's for $199? -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:44 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Home router the Aerohives run

RE: [NTSysADM] Home router

2014-04-14 Thread David Lum
but more expensive than the Unifi. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:53 PM, David Lum david@modahealth.commailto:david@modahealth.com wrote: How is that cheaper than a three pack of UniFi’s for $199? -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad

[NTSysADM] Heartbleed vulnerability

2014-04-09 Thread David Lum
From: David Lum Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 7:43 AM To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: Heartbleed vulnerability Are many of you guys affected by this? https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Patch+Now+OpenSSL+Heartbleed+Vulnerability/17921 Most likely vectors are apparently Linux-based

RE: [NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file copy puzzler

2014-04-06 Thread David Lum
/forum/#!msg/resara-server/vNKMdFKPml8/zcHqV3PZXtoJ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Friday, 21 March 2014 8:34 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject

RE: [NTSysADM] Re: No communication between VMs on an ESXi host

2014-04-06 Thread David Lum
That is actually kind of a good feeling - the issue I emailed about recently (the 64-bit GUI issue) has both Microsoft, IBM AND NetApp stumped, as I had all three vendors on a conference call on Friday. Much log file flinging is ensuing. I've had good luck with VMWare support, I suspect they'll

RE: [NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file copy puzzler

2014-03-20 Thread David Lum
? Cheers Ken From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2014 3:01 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file

RE: [NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file copy puzzler

2014-03-20 Thread David Lum
and the failing Win7 clients. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Thursday, March 20

RE: [NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file copy puzzler

2014-03-19 Thread David Lum
at 7:35 AM, David Lum david@modahealth.commailto:david@modahealth.com wrote: Over the weekend there was an upgrade to our SAN systems. We now have this bizarre issue where Crystal Reports .RPT files are unable to be copied from a PC to the SAN shares via Windows 64-bit GUI. Renaming

[NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file copy puzzler

2014-03-18 Thread David Lum
. Ideas? [cid:image001.jpg@01CF427C.9729CA30] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728 | modahealth.comhttp://www.modahealth.com/ I'm excited to announce that ODS Health is now Moda Health. Please make a note of my new email address, david@modahealth.com

RE: [NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file copy puzzler

2014-03-18 Thread David Lum
on these Crystal Reports .RPT files. If I open one of these RPT files on a 64-bit machine with Notepad, change one byte, save it to the PC I can then copy it over. Ideas? [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4294.08BD2400] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728tel:503-265

RE: [NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file copy puzzler

2014-03-18 Thread David Lum
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:37 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] 64-bit GUI file copy puzzler We have contacted IBM the SAN vendor. We do get an error message (can't

RE: [NTSysADM] what switch do you prefer for SMB?

2014-03-13 Thread David Lum
+1 again. -Dave Lum -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Craig Wardlaw Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:39 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] what switch do you prefer for SMB? +1 on the

[NTSysADM] One of those dumb things...

2014-03-10 Thread David Lum
avoid spaces for fields I might script, like username and folder names, for a password I've never worried about it. Dumb. [cid:image001.jpg@01CF3C3C.E5155AC0] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728 | modahealth.comhttp://www.modahealth.com/ I'm excited

[NTSysADM] RE: Server 2012 (not R2) DHCP Failover config question

2014-03-04 Thread David Lum
+2012 -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 1:35 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Server 2012 (not R2) DHCP Failover config question Heck yeah. And outside of

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Redesigned Action Pack

2014-02-03 Thread David Lum
I beat the deadline for the higher price and renewed last week :) -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 6:45 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Redesigned

[NTSysADM] 7200RPM SAS vs. 7200RPM SATA

2014-01-30 Thread David Lum
, higher MTBF SAS drives. I get conflicting information... Either way, a 7200RPM SAS drive array should handily outperform 7200 SATA drives if 10+ users are connected to it, correct? [cid:image001.jpg@01CF1DAF.84E8DF10] David Lum Network System Admin, Information Services office 503-265-4728

[NTSysADM] RE: Guest disks on Hyper-V 2012 R2

2014-01-27 Thread David Lum
Short answer: separate VHDX. As a general rule I keep OS drives /VHDX’s separate from everything else, even if it’s virtualized and sitting on the same disk subsystem. Easier if you have to restore/move things around. -Dave Lum From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

[NTSysADM] This doesn't happen every day (excessups.com)

2014-01-23 Thread David Lum
This is an unpaid endorsement because it's so rare for me to see this. I don't do much UPS (battery backup, not shipping) business, but I bought replacement UPS battery from excessups.com a bit more than a year ago. Ran into an issue where I'd requested the wrong part, but their response and

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: IT resumes?

2014-01-23 Thread David Lum
exercise I’m doing right now. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Thursday

[NTSysADM] Server with 144GB of RAM installed for $594

2014-01-23 Thread David Lum
More fun for budget home lab users. http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-C6100-C6105-CLOUD-SERVER-6x-1-8GHz-AMD-6-CORE-HEX-CORE-144GB-RAM-3x-250GB-/181306790824?pt=COMP_EN_Servershash=item2a36ba13a8 Dave

RE: [NTSysADM] LogMeIn Free ... now isn't (free, anymore). Recommendations?

2014-01-22 Thread David Lum
I just tried this. You open a port in your firewall and then you have a URL to the machine you installed the app on. Not as friendly as LogMeIn, everything is configured on each target system (which can actually be good or bad). To access from over the Internet you need to know the public IP.

[NTSysADM] Any RDS guru's out here?

2013-09-25 Thread David Lum
I have an RDS farm that we are changing the SSL certificate form a wildcard to a farm-specific one. Our RDSH servers are also using the wildcard cert to digitally sign RemoteApp. Does this SSL need to be the same cert as the RDS gateway server SSL? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM

[NTSysADM] RE: Any RDS guru's out here?

2013-09-25 Thread David Lum
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 6:53 AM To: NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Any RDS guru's out here? I have an RDS farm that we are changing the SSL certificate form a wildcard to a farm-specific one. Our RDSH servers are also using

RE: [NTSysADM] Change control....GPO

2013-09-23 Thread David Lum
:55 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: For you guys with a pretty well defined change control process - are incremental GPO changes (in this case we have a GPO that controls IE's trusted sites, I want to add enable auto logon with current credentials for sites

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

2013-09-20 Thread David Lum
.ourdepartment.internaldomain.local It just doesn't feel like we'd need to stand up an actual domain in the forest to achieve that... David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

[NTSysADM] Change control....GPO

2013-09-20 Thread David Lum
in larger environments it might be submitted by one person, reviewed and approved by another but not necessarily held until a formal change request meeting is convened? Normally I'd just whip this change out, but I need to think about the accountability process in general. David Lum Sr. Systems

[NTSysADM] RE: GPO to set preferred wireless to 5GHz

2013-09-19 Thread David Lum
, if that actually makes a registry change or if it's done at some deeper driver level. ? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] on behalf of David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Think strategically, not tactically..

2013-09-18 Thread David Lum
, business cases/ROI, plus methods of allocating costs. Plus methods of tracking projected costs/outcomes against actual realised outcomes) Cheers Ken From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent

[NTSysADM] GPO to set preferred wireless to 5GHz

2013-09-18 Thread David Lum
Do any of you guys configure your wireless via GPO? If yes, do you also set the preference to 5GHz (assuming you have systems that go both ways, so to speak). I am able to configure the basic wireless settings, but I'd like a way to set the preferred to 5GHz via GPO. David Lum Sr. Systems

[NTSysADM] RDP access to servers

2013-09-17 Thread David Lum
We have about 100 Windows servers, and on occasion we have some non-IT employees and vendors that need RDP access to a server here and there. Do you guys create AD groups for these, or do you add the user directly to the server? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Think strategically, not tactically..

2013-09-17 Thread David Lum
: Lifespan] From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:32 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting wireless - advice - multiple answers

2013-09-13 Thread David Lum
] Troubleshooting wireless - advice - multiple answers What's happening on the 6th floor in the vicinity of those rooms? And all this science I don't understand It's just my job five days a week Elton John Rocket Man On Sep 13, 2013, at 11:50, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote

RE: [NTSysADM] Win8.1 / Server 2012 R2

2013-09-09 Thread David Lum
Nothing on Action Pack yet. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Matthew W. Ross Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 10:36 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Win8.1 / Server 2012 R2 Not on VLSC

[NTSysADM] AD groups - Global, or Universal?

2013-09-05 Thread David Lum
not finding anything online saying as much. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

Re: [NTSysADM] Upgrade 2003 DC's

2013-08-30 Thread David Lum
of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.commailto: mime-attachment.jpg The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.comhttp://www.guardianlife.com/ From:David Lum david

[NTSysADM] SSL and RDS servers

2013-08-29 Thread David Lum
on two servers? I am fairly cert illiterate so I am not sure of the mechanism a browser uses to match SSL cert with particular host. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

[NTSysADM] RE: SSL and RDS servers

2013-08-29 Thread David Lum
Of David Lum Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:28 PM To: NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.commailto:NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] SSL and RDS servers Assume two RDS Gateway servers...URL to get to them is https://rdservices.nwea.org. Currently I am using a wildcard cert

[NTSysADM] Upgrade 2003 DC's

2013-08-29 Thread David Lum
* Transfer FSMO roles back (optional) Now in one case the DC is also a certificate server, although we aren't 100% sure if/how it's being used. Surely there are some caveats to consider? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware

2013-08-26 Thread David Lum
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 9:20 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware I missed these recommendations (I was on PTO last week) so I ended up paying $400 for one

RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS-Solved

2013-08-26 Thread David Lum
+1 I would have never figured that one out... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 8:25 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS-Solved Thanks for following up. That was a very

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware

2013-08-26 Thread David Lum
@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware Good heavens. Do these things have a BMC on them? DRAC, I mean? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Monday

[NTSysADM] Looking for Hyper-V server hardware

2013-08-16 Thread David Lum
are out of my price range... * Tower * Xeon proc * 24+GB installed * HDD's / optical drive not necessary, I have my own David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

[NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware

2013-08-16 Thread David Lum
Of David Lum Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:19 AM To: NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.commailto:NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Looking for Hyper-V server hardware My old home lab PowerEdge 840 server is giving me issues so I'm looking to upgrade, looking to spend ~500 (can be used

[NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware

2013-08-16 Thread David Lum
Of David Lum Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 1:33 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware Hmm...maybe I'm thinking too narrow of a box (see what I did there?). Looks like all i-series CPU's support Hyper-V too

[NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware

2013-08-16 Thread David Lum
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 1:33 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware Hmm...maybe I'm thinking too narrow of a box (see what I did there?). Looks like all i-series

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware

2013-08-16 Thread David Lum
Information Security) for the SMB market... On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:33 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Hmm...maybe I'm thinking too narrow of a box (see what I did there?). Looks like all i-series CPU's support Hyper-V too. Thinking furtherI have a PC

RE: [NTSysADM] Odd RDP issue - resolved

2013-08-14 Thread David Lum
Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.commailto: [cid:image001.jpg@01CE98EA.12C431E0] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.comhttp://www.guardianlife.com/ From:David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david

[NTSysADM] Sounded so easy

2013-08-13 Thread David Lum
the it divorced from the everything else server. I hate having a DC that does much of anything else... David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

RE: [NTSysADM] Cool little tool

2013-08-07 Thread David Lum
tool David, Would you say this easier than an Office365 SharePoint? On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:25 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: This will sound like a sales pitch and it is, but it's because I just implemented it and think it's cool, I am not getting referral

RE: [NTSysADM] Google Chrome stores passwords in plaintext

2013-08-07 Thread David Lum
Saw that. Not sure how much I care, as it's been said many times once you give up physical access all bets are off. As the Chrome guy says We want to be very clear that when you grant someone access to your OS user account, that they can get at everything. Dave From:

RE: [NTSysADM] Google Chrome stores passwords in plaintext

2013-08-07 Thread David Lum
... On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:40 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Saw that. Not sure how much I care, as it's been said many times once you give up physical access all bets are off. As the Chrome guy says We want to be very clear that when you grant someone access

RE: [NTSysADM] Google Chrome stores passwords in plaintext

2013-08-07 Thread David Lum
. I'm baffled by this. -- Espi On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:40 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Saw that. Not sure how much I care, as it's been said many times once you give up physical access all bets are off. As the Chrome guy says We want to be very clear

RE: [NTSysADM] 10Gb Ethernet

2013-08-02 Thread David Lum
Late to this party…what kind of disk subsystems are you transferring to and from? I don’t see even ½ that when going from SAS to SAS on the same machine. Then again it’s probably because I am going from RAID1 to RAID 1 and not multispindle RAID5 or 10… From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

[NTSysADM] Cool little tool

2013-08-02 Thread David Lum
) authentication. The best part is I didn't find it that complex at all, and it's pretty cheap if you need it for just a few select users, no license cost if you are sending to other users in your e-mail domain. Features here: http://www.liquidfiles.net/features.html David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM

RE: [NTSysADM] Cool little tool

2013-08-02 Thread David Lum
this service? -- Espi On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:25 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: This will sound like a sales pitch and it is, but it's because I just implemented it and think it's cool, I am not getting referral fees. So there. :) Liquidfiles.net. You can get

[NTSysADM] RE: Hyper v 2012, deleted tree of snapshots, but AVHDX files remain

2013-08-02 Thread David Lum
The Hyper-V GUI also shows progress of the merging. I am just glad we can leave the VM's up like ESX has been able to do, I hated having to power off to merge snapshots! It was a huge deterrent to going snapshot crazy (which can be good and bad...) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] Cool little tool

2013-08-02 Thread David Lum
productivity benefits? :) Understood. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBakerhttp://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market... On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote

[NTSysADM] man-in-the-middle attack

2013-07-31 Thread David Lum
attack that is unlikely to happen. In short, what are the odds of a MITM attack actually happening between my remote employee and our ADFS server? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

[NTSysADM] LDAP lookups

2013-07-31 Thread David Lum
In a domain with 3 DC's, which one handles LDAP requests? If the LDAP is set to query mydomaion.com.com ,what determines which DC processes the query? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

[NTSysADM] RE: LDAP lookups

2013-07-31 Thread David Lum
NO NO NO Just say NO From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto: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.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: LDAP lookups

RE: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia

2013-07-18 Thread David Lum
to talk about Novell,. Expensive yet had directory services that far exceed Window NT. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 11:37 AM To: ntsysadm

RE: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia

2013-07-17 Thread David Lum
The weight of e-mail I receive is amazing! I had to delete a much of SPAM from my laptop to lighten it enough for me to pick it up. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:08 AM To:

RE: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia

2013-07-16 Thread David Lum
+1 Got my CNA (the little cert) on 4.1 but worked with and knew 3.12 MCH better From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Rod Trent Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:10 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia

[NTSysADM] So, the Russia listened to me about secure e-mail. Sort of.

2013-07-11 Thread David Lum
On 6/21 I said use name mail. Someone is Russia was listening! http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57593274-83/kremlin-finds-way-to-avoid-leaks-typewriters/ David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

RE: [NTSysADM] VDI Server Hardware Critique

2013-07-05 Thread David Lum
I have never heard this term before today, looking it up now. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jim Majorowicz Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 3:52 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] VDI Server Hardware Critique Be

RE: [NTSysADM] E-mail retention

2013-07-02 Thread David Lum
-mail retention On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:05 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Given this: http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/doc/recmgmt/train/erm/emailman806.pdf Would it be the responsibility of the government entity to know the correct retention period for each message they receive? I'm

RE: [NTSysADM] A very good article to read : Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

2013-07-01 Thread David Lum
Along the lines of one more service running that (theoretically) isn't needed, http://blogs.technet.com/b/jlosey/archive/2011/02/02/why-you-should-leave-ipv6-alone.aspx David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 -Original Message

RE: [NTSysADM] General Windows 8 question

2013-06-27 Thread David Lum
Is not Windows 8.1 just a fancy way to say Win8 SP1? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of rodtr...@myitforum.com Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:41 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] General Windows 8 question Yes,

[NTSysADM] IE10 finally did it..

2013-06-26 Thread David Lum
://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/06/25/ie-10-blocks-more-malware.aspx David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

[NTSysADM] How to send secure communication to your friends and relatives. Cheap!

2013-06-21 Thread David Lum
? Just thinking aloud, as it were. But hey we stopped 1.4 shootings by opening up your letters! David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

RE: [NTSysADM] OT - tips on job change etiquette

2013-06-19 Thread David Lum
When I interviewed for %dayjob%, I made it clear that I moonlight with my own biz. However, I also made it clear that %dayjob% would have priority during my scheduled work hours, and that %moonlighting% would actually give me areas of work that would improve what was required by %dayjob%. When

[NTSysADM] Random e-mail of the day: RFC1149

2013-06-19 Thread David Lum
Most of you have likely seen this, but I ran across it again today and it still makes me chuckle: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764

RE: [SPAM] Re: [NTSysADM] Home drives

2013-06-07 Thread David Lum
My company is still insisting we be able to back up our offsite folks who never connect via VPN. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L. Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 9:13 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [SPAM]

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: password change notification to users not physically connected to domain

2013-06-05 Thread David Lum
I think I need to make that my sig line! From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 10:51 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: password change notification to users not physically

[NTSysADM] RE: An Exchange Q (query-based DL) - self-answered

2013-05-28 Thread David Lum
caveat is you can no longer use the GUI to modify the group. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 6:13 AM

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