Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Hell, I've been doing that since, oh, 1990 or so, IIRC. Kurt On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 21:30, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > On 31 Jul 2009 at 12:10, Kurt Buff  wrote: > >> I admit, I don't RDP into users machines. > > NET USE L: \\LUSERCOMP\C$ /persistent:no allows me to browse the contents of > use

RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Gary Whitten
My excuse is DayQuil and I'm sticking to it. :( Completely missed Eric's post on that thread. Back to bed. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 31 Jul 2009 at 12:10, Kurt Buff wrote: > I admit, I don't RDP into users machines. NET USE L: \\LUSERCOMP\C$ /persistent:no allows me to browse the contents of user computers should I need to. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +--

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 31 Jul 2009 at 12:32, David W. McSpadden wrote: > I don't have an oeminfo.ini It's just a text file formatted in a specific way. Create one with your favorite text editor. Put it in Windows\System32. Voila! More info here: http://www.google.com/search?&q=oeminfo.ini Here's mine from a

Re: keylogger help

2009-07-31 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 31 Jul 2009 at 12:56, Joe Heaton wrote: > > My Legal department wants to put a keylogger on a user´s > computer. Anyone have a decent one that they´ve used in the > past? I´ve never used them before, so I am rather clueless about > it, but I don´t want to end up getting som

RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I think Eric just said essentially that. Learn to read. Read to learn. My Public Service Message for the day. -sc > -Original Message- > From: Gary Whitten [mailto:li...@undiscoveredworlds.com] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:02 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT: Star T

RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Gary Whitten
Isn't that the tune they play at noon on half the radio stations on Thanksgiving Day? -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction? Hmm, ok, thanks. I'll

RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Hmm, ok, thanks. I'll has to try and find it... -sc > -Original Message- > From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 7:56 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction? > > > Classic Arlo Guthrie song, always played arou

RE: OT Sort of, SBS with ISA 3rd party cert

2009-07-31 Thread Ken Schaefer
What do you mean by "OWA stops working for some reason". What does "stops working" mean? Exchange services are stopped? IIS web application pool has crashed? Or just that the users can't access the site? For the ISA stuff, look in the logging section and run a trace. Additionally, log onto the S

Re: OT Sort of, SBS with ISA 3rd party cert

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan Kadoo
OWA stops working for some reason. Where in ISA should I look? On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > I’ve done this without issue before (on SBS 2003 anyway). > > > > When you say “OWA breaks” what does that mean? If you are reverse proxying > OWA with ISA, then make sure ISA

Re: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
It's the song, well, vocal performance, by Arlo Guthrie. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:53, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Isn't Alice's Restaurant a movie? > > Is it a song as well? I've seen people refer to it as Paul did, but I've > never recalled hearing it elsewhere. > > -sc > > >> -Original Mes

RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Erik Goldoff
Classic Arlo Guthrie song, always played around Thanksgiving on the radio ... Little over 18 minutes long ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 7:53 PM To: N

RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Isn't Alice's Restaurant a movie? Is it a song as well? I've seen people refer to it as Paul did, but I've never recalled hearing it elsewhere. -sc > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 7:50 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > S

Re: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
No, but you might have heard it. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:09, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > I have never seen that. > > > > -sc > > > > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:19 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Ayup... I still have a bottle I brought back from Rome with me. -sc > -Original Message- > From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:48 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - > 3.0 PROB

RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I have never seen that. -sc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction? You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant... From: S

RE: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Steven M. Caesare
"Woooah!" "Yeah!" -sc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Star Trek Science Fiction? How 'bout those Bears? Hell of a game! Hell of a game! From: Steve

RE: I hope you dont have an Iphone... you going to get 0wned.

2009-07-31 Thread Steven M. Caesare
(Tickles piano keys) "They hate that." -sc > -Original Message- > From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:32 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: I hope you dont have an Iphone... you going to get 0wned. > > Nah...he just collects spores

RE: I hope you dont have an Iphone... you going to get 0wned.

2009-07-31 Thread Steven M. Caesare
HEY!... are you diggin at my top posting? Hmmph. -sc > -Original Message- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:28 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: I hope you dont have an Iphone... you going to get 0wned. > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Stovall
Did someone say limoncello? It's not replicated beer, but it is pretty daggone good. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoncello) On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > This is true - it's like you're reading from my favorite book: The > Practice of System and Network Administration, b

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Steven Peck
It depends on the nature of the case. We try and open all cases as SA to avoid blowing premier hours. On occasion you can indicate that a case was mistakenly opened as premier when it was an SA case. If you have a TAM they have a presentation on their services level offerings that they will give

RE: Black Hat / Visual studio / I-phones....

2009-07-31 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Will the iPhone patch un-jailbreak? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 _ From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Black Hat / Visual studio / I-phones

Re: Black Hat / Visual studio / I-phones....

2009-07-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Devin Meade wrote: > 1. Any developers that use Visual Studio must patch it, recompile and > redistribute all apps.  Nice. Also, anyone who uses any of that software must obtain the patched software and deploy. In other words, a significant portion of the Wind

Re: Black Hat / Visual studio / I-phones....

2009-07-31 Thread John Cook
Hm, I don't see any Blackberry patches mentioned. Like I said - BBs rule! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud From: Joe Tinney To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Jul 31 18:07:46 2009 S

RE: BB outage?

2009-07-31 Thread Joe Tinney
Good in Dayton and Iowa. -Original Message- From: wjh [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB outage? Anyone having issues with blackberry service? I'm in Atlanta. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

RE: Black Hat / Visual studio / I-phones....

2009-07-31 Thread Joe Tinney
For a moment I thought I was going to avoid death from all of this.. but then your summary email came and smacked me right in the head with some death. Thanks. :-) From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Black Hat

RE: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Missed my personal favorite PICNIC in #1 (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer) Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 _ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 3:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Re: BB outage?

2009-07-31 Thread Russ
All good here in Seattle-Tacoma. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:56 PM, wrote: > No issues here. I'm in TX. > --Original Message-- > From: wjh > To: NT System Admin Issues > ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: BB outage? > Sent: Jul 31, 2009 4:44 PM > > Anyone having issues with blackbe

Re: BB outage?

2009-07-31 Thread Devin Meade
Our BES is working well with our 30 BB's - AT&T in Oklahoma. -Devin On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:56 PM, wrote: > No issues here. I'm in TX. > --Original Message-- > From: wjh > To: NT System Admin Issues > ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: BB outage? > Sent: Jul 31, 2009 4:44 PM >

Re: BB outage?

2009-07-31 Thread chosha2002
No issues here. I'm in TX. --Original Message-- From: wjh To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB outage? Sent: Jul 31, 2009 4:44 PM Anyone having issues with blackberry service? I'm in Atlanta. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resou

Black Hat / Visual studio / I-phones....

2009-07-31 Thread Devin Meade
This week in conclusion: 1. Any developers that use Visual Studio must patch it, recompile and redistribute all apps. Nice. 1. A. It seems that all our doze boxes have the run time version of this and must get the dev patch, not just the iE patch (done yesterday btw). 2. Patch I.E. (relative

Re: BB outage?

2009-07-31 Thread John Cook
No issues with AT&T in N Fla John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud - Original Message - From: Barsodi.John To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Jul 31 17:49:12 2009 Subject: RE: BB outage? My Verizon BB works and

Re: BB outage?

2009-07-31 Thread blazer682
5x5 on my BB in Oregon. --Original Message-- From: wjh To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB outage? Sent: Jul 31, 2009 2:44 PM Anyone having issues with blackberry service? I'm in Atlanta. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource

RE: BB outage?

2009-07-31 Thread Barsodi.John
My Verizon BB works and my AT&T BB works just fine. I'm in Reno, NV. Perhaps your carrier has an issue, have you checked with them? Thanks, - JB -Original Message- From: wjh [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB outage

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Brian Desmond
I'm not sure exactly how SA incidents work out on the backend in terms of who deals with them (never really had this anywhere). I do know that if you have a premiere case that is taking a lot of hours it's the sort of thing where if you have a chat with your TAM they can convert that into an SA

Re: keylogger help

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Take a look at this - they've been around for quite a while: http://www.keyghost.com/ On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:56, Joe Heaton wrote: > My Legal department wants to put a keylogger on a user’s computer.  Anyone > have a decent one that they’ve used in the past?  I’ve never used them > before, so

Re: Computrace LoJack for Laptops called "insecure rootkit"

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
True, but it's merely a matter of compute power on the backend. I expect that to change soon. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 13:24, Andy Ognenoff wrote: > Maybe - but it doesn't look like Adeona is functional at the moment... > >  - Andy O. > >>-Original Message- >>From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b

Fwd: APPLE-SA-2009-07-31-1 iPhone OS 3.0.1

2009-07-31 Thread Peter van Houten
For the iHeads and their minders courtesy of the Patch Management list. -- Peter van Houten -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 APPLE-SA-2009-07-31-1 iPhone OS 3.0.1 iPhone OS 3.0.1 is now available and addresses the following: CoreTelephony CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2204 Available for:

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
No software assurance here... On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 14:07, Steven Peck wrote: > Keep in mind that if you have software assurance, you can pay for SA > support contract.  This is not as onerous as paying for a TAM support > level either.  We do have a TAM, but on several product lines we have > S

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
This is true - it's like you're reading from my favorite book: The Practice of System and Network Administration, by Limoncelli, et al. I'm working on a number of things to improve the environment as well, including 1) A front counter to the IT area with rotating staff assigned to it part time, g

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Steven Peck
Keep in mind that if you have software assurance, you can pay for SA support contract. This is not as onerous as paying for a TAM support level either. We do have a TAM, but on several product lines we have SA support. We tend to use our SA support more then our premier support. Granted we can

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Brian Desmond
Right so deploying LUA is a project. Have to separate projects and operations. If you can make operations a small part of your team's days then you have more time for projects. Projects are the fun stuff but ops are what most people measure you by. This is one of those ongoing issues with IT org

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
While I agree with the general approach, I believe that my higher impact task is to get LUA implemented. Not that we can't/shouldn't do as you suggest anyway, but I'm over 90% certain that most of our problems are end-user configuration issues. The other thing is that my two guys are relatively you

RE: keylogger help

2009-07-31 Thread Orland, Kathleen
I've checked my email but it must be something I moved to a PST. I won't be in the office until Wednesday. Hopefully someone else comes up with something for you. From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: key

RE: Computrace LoJack for Laptops called "insecure rootkit"

2009-07-31 Thread Andy Ognenoff
Maybe - but it doesn't look like Adeona is functional at the moment... - Andy O. >-Original Message- >From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:59 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: Re: Computrace LoJack for Laptops called "insecure rootkit" > >BTW

Re: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Steven Peck
Yes but your comments are out of context and a distortion. Securnia itself says a link to vulnerabilities is not a good measure without analysis. So merely stating a one line response with a link isn't useful. You could easily do this with virtually any product/vendor, the more visibility the mo

RE: keylogger help

2009-07-31 Thread Orland, Kathleen
I'm not at work today but I do know of one that saves a local plain text log of the keystrokes to the harddrive. I found it on a user's harddrive, he had installed it on his work laptop to track his daughter. I will try to find out for you. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent:

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Brian Desmond
What I would suggest doing is have everyone on your team make a list of the tasks they do, each time they do them for a couple weeks. At the end tally it all up and see where you're spending your time and then dedicate time to figuring out how to automate as much as possible of the top tasks. Ev

Re: Computrace LoJack for Laptops called "insecure rootkit"

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
BTW - I have to wonder if the OSS competitor is also vulnerable to this kind of attack - I'll bet it is: http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/ On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:26, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > > This is intriguing.  I don't use it but have considered it. > > > --- Included Stuff Follows

keylogger help

2009-07-31 Thread Joe Heaton
My Legal department wants to put a keylogger on a user's computer. Anyone have a decent one that they've used in the past? I've never used them before, so I am rather clueless about it, but I don't want to end up getting something that sends info outside our organization. Joe Heaton ~ Finall

RE: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
Ive spent months on setting up Joomla the way my bosses wanted :) I did try drupal 1st but they didn't like it. Most of what features I need like Doc management and Portal List navigation with AD integration seem to be in Sharepoint but the learning curve to make it work 100% seems to be steep f

RE: Computrace LoJack for Laptops called "insecure rootkit"

2009-07-31 Thread Ziots, Edward
+1 on exposing the flawed software that is supposed to provide security and method of recovery but has been manipulated for evil doing, because the software itself was guarded enough with tamper-resistant controls ( digital signatures, hashes, or encryption itself, which allowed the Black hat fo

RE: Computrace LoJack for Laptops called "insecure rootkit"

2009-07-31 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yep, "sic" exploit... straight from Black-hat. Basically turning the embedded application in the BIOS on itself, and manipulating it for evil-deeds. If they can do this, then it might be easier to slip a trojan or malware into there application as a "advertised" fix, and distribute it, thus ach

RE: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread paul chinnery
Same here. But if you have it installed, you can have the user switch wallpaper on that machine just long enough to get you the info. Of course, then there'd be the inevitable "You made me change my wallpaper now I can't get it back!" So, umm, maybe it's not a good idea. > From: cluster...@g

Re: Computrace LoJack for Laptops called "insecure rootkit"

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
The security devil is all in the details. Just ask MSFT about a misplaced ampersand. This kind of exposure is good - it forces vendors (and savvy users) to pay close attention to those details. I doubt this one is fixable, but that doesn't mean it's not a usable piece of software. This one is *r

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Yeah, I find it highly unlikely that our execs would see the benefit in shelling out that kind of cash annually, but I sure do wish they would. I may try to make the case anyway, especially given that I'm running especially lean after losing one of my team and not getting a replacement. It's just

Computrace LoJack for Laptops called "insecure rootkit"

2009-07-31 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
This is intriguing. I don't use it but have considered it. --- Included Stuff Follows --- Insecure BIOS `Rootkit´ Found Pre-loaded In Major Manufacturers Laptops | CyberInsecure.com A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, T

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Brian Desmond
I think to a large extent it's luck of the draw. I'm not a fan of the outsourced PSS stuff at all but I understand why they do it having been there myself. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:tme...@uoregon.edu] Sen

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Brian Desmond
There's a base one that doesn't have a lot of the benefits that's in the $15K range annually. Premiere works on a hours basis - you buy a block of hours and can use them for various things, support, training, onsite engagements, etc. Agreed it's unlikely to make sense for a small firm on the out

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
That's the difference I should have pointed out. In my environment, just because it's a workstation doesn't mean it's an end-user machine, or rather, it doesn't mean it's a dedicated end-user machine. I have some monitoring boxes that aren't really servers, and a couple of shared workstations that

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
I admit, I don't RDP into users machines. However, we're going to get some Virtual Assist license for our SonicWall SSL VPN unit, and I'm going to start using that for supporting end-users. I don't think I'll star putting BGInfo on the end user machines, but my, it is tempting... Kurt On Fri, Ju

RE: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Ziots, Edward
It is, if you are concerned with the security of your network, and the security and integrity of your information systems. I am just looking at it from a hacking prespective, if you loose the integrity and availability of your data, your business suffers (does it not?).Using flawed applications,

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Steven Peck
We use it on our servers only. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:25 AM, James Kerr wrote: > Thats pretty cool but they wont let me do that at my place, we allow the > users to have their own wallpapers. > > > - Original Message - From: "Kurt Buff" > To: "NT System Admin Issues" > Sent: Friday,

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread James Kerr
Thats pretty cool but they wont let me do that at my place, we allow the users to have their own wallpapers. - Original Message - From: "Kurt Buff" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Happy SysAdmin Day BGInfo is on every machine I RDP int

Re: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Steven Peck
Ya know, that's not actually helpful relevant or useful information to post a snarky out of context link like that to any project with no actual analysis. Both Joomla and Drupal have security teams. Drupal has a security policy and notification list and the vast majority of reported issues are in

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Troy Meyer
No kidding! In defense of Sharepoint though, many times these sites are setup by consultants or employees that leave with no transfer of administration or knowledge. The time you hear about Sharepoint pain is when they then start looking at upgrading to the next version. Make that a little ha

RE: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Ziots, Edward
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/17839/ Doesn't look like Drupal 3.x-6.x is fairing much better in the security issues than Joomla is. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 -Origina

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
BGInfo is on every machine I RDP into, servers and workstations. It's a damn fine tool. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:56, paul chinnery wrote: > A useful tool I found was BGInfo.  Change desktop wallpaper to it and shows > all kinds of data of the pc as a wallpaper picture. > >> From: dav...@imcu.or

Re: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Steven Peck
So beside all the basic firewall/security/misc etc stuff Why are you using Joomla and how much time/effort are you looking at being able to spend on this? There are other open source solutions that should be able to deal with what you are looking to do depending on exactly what that is. >Fro

RE: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread paul chinnery
A useful tool I found was BGInfo. Change desktop wallpaper to it and shows all kinds of data of the pc as a wallpaper picture. > From: dav...@imcu.org > To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > Subject: Re: Happy SysAdmin Day > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:32:37 -0400 > > I don't have an oemi

RE: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yep, Exactly the point I was going after, since you trust that machine, to upload documents to, also could be manipulated to server up web browser exploits, malware, Trojans and rootkits after gaining control and connecting back to the control server either over encrypted channel or hiding in norma

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Just how much does a premier contract cost? When you are a manufacturing company of less than 300 people, I doubt you can afford it. So far all this discussion does is warn me to stay away from SharePoint. Kurt On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:24, Brian Desmond wrote: > A lot of this is also a functio

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:47, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: >>> ... barcode stickers on all of your books and movies? >>> Did you stamp the kids to make sure they were still up to date? >> >> That explains the barcode tattoos on the back of their necks

RE: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Rod Trent
I don't believe he's talking about stealing data. Who cares about data. These is more of an exploit that can be utilized to gain control of the server and those other servers and workstations connected to it through the network. -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarci

Re: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-31 Thread Kurt Buff
Heh. I already started that refrain! On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:18, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant... > > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:07 PM > To: NT System Ad

RE: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
It's not perfect and we do have it inside, most of the Docs and articles we write on it are non secure type docs like "how to configure a printer" or "how to turn on a virtual guest" but now that we might want to put more secure data into it we are looking at options mostly something portalish with

Re: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Stovall
I disagree that it's perfectly fine to disagree. We must all agree to agree. Agreed? On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Ziots, Edward wrote: > Unfortuntely, Joolma is ridden with security issues. > http://secunia.com/advisories/product/5788/ > > Seen a lot of script kiddies using pre-batched scri

RE: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Ziots, Edward
Unfortuntely, Joolma is ridden with security issues. http://secunia.com/advisories/product/5788/ Seen a lot of script kiddies using pre-batched scripts hunting for joolma enabled sites, to exploit. It might be inside your firewall, but something that is coming up on the security blotter monthly

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread David W. McSpadden
I don't have an oeminfo.ini - Original Message - From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:13 PM Subject: Re: Happy SysAdmin Day On 31 Jul 2009 at 11:16, James Kerr wrote: We have asset tags on our PCs and monitors, whenever I ask som

RE: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Wow, cool. Hasnt really seemed that long since the last one. But this one is the 10th! yay! Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 _ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 3:45 AM To: NT System Admin

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 31 Jul 2009 at 11:16, James Kerr wrote: > We have asset tags on our PCs and monitors, whenever I ask someone what the > asset tag is on their PC most of the time I end up with the monitor tag so I > can't find it to remote in.. Might be worthwhile putting the asset-tag info into C:\WINDOWS\

RE: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
I use scripting to change the "My Computer" icon on the desktop to read "Computer Name", that way our support people can have users read it from the desktop. Has cut down on confusion a lot. TVK - Problems become opportunities when the right people join together. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@

RE: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
The MS one? Nope But I'll give it a try From: roberto.gri...@gmail.com [mailto:roberto.gri...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation I suppose you have evaluated Groove. We think its excel

RE: DHCP For Wireless

2009-07-31 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
+1. That's what I do, works great and you can see all your scopes in one place. TVK - Problems become opportunities when the right people join together. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread roberto . grippi
I suppose you have evaluated Groove. We think its excellent. -- Dr. Roberto Grippi 2009/7/31 Garcia-Moran, Carlos > Hey all; > > > > We’ve been using Joomla as an IT / DR information and document portal for > months now and it’s been working pretty well, but now that we are heavy on > it my

RE: Paging the scripting Guru's - mass shortcut properties rename???

2009-07-31 Thread Troy Meyer
Gavin, Depending on your skillset, this is fairly easy to do in powershell. The article here presents most of the important points http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/nov08/hey1 103.mspx Basically you are getting a list of files, traversing them and if they are

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Brian Desmond
If you've got a premier contract you've got a TAM and their job in part is to be there when you have problems with getting the correct level of support or the quality of support and to fix it. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig..

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread RichardMcClary
If they call me, I can ask for this information. It's when I get an after-the-fact email, and nobody has a clue where that person was working... James Kerr wrote on 07/31/2009 10:16:10 AM: > We have asset tags on our PCs and monitors, whenever I ask someone > what the asset tag is on their P

Re: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
We were part of a University who spent lots of money on Microsoft (in EDU terms anyway. Microsoft almost gives things away to the EDU space.) But, my manager wasn't all that great on keeping up with the account numbersso I'm not sure which level of support I got compared to what I was suppose

RE: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Ralph Smith
Same exact thing here! I finally made it so can look up the computer by the monitor number attached to it because I got tired of wasting time trying to explain the difference. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread James Kerr
We have asset tags on our PCs and monitors, whenever I ask someone what the asset tag is on their PC most of the time I end up with the monitor tag so I can't find it to remote in.. - Original Message - From: richardmccl...@aspca.org To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, Jul

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread RichardMcClary
Well, we have a body of students who use whatever computer is not occupied by its full-time assigned user. The computer name is in big black letters on a big white lable. Still, these students, again working at whatever machine they can find available, send me an email saying "My computer did

Re: Happy SysAdmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread James Kerr
Good read, one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone calls me and asks if the system is down. That get me pissed every time. James - Original Message - From: "James Rankin" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:21 AM Subject: Re: Happy SysAdmin Day Glad

RE: DHCP For Wireless

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Jackson
We're on 3.2.7s. However it does look like I can specify an interface on which the DHCP scope can be activated. Cunningly called "Default Route". Looking at the docs, the Default Route is the internal IP address of the firewall interface to which the DHCP scope will be applied. Regards, Rab. ==

Re: OTish: Got me a new toy

2009-07-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: >> ... barcode stickers on all of your books and movies? >> Did you stamp the kids to make sure they were still up to date? > > That explains the barcode tattoos on the back of their necks. And I > thought it was just a fad. Who knew Kurt

Wiki / Sharepoint / Collaboration Tool recomendation

2009-07-31 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
Hey all; We've been using Joomla as an IT / DR information and document portal for months now and it's been working pretty well, but now that we are heavy on it my bosses are asking for more things that it wasn't meant to do. Any suggestions on a new one I could look into? AD Security integrat

RE: DHCP For Wireless

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Stovall
Version 3.10 of the device seems like it should be able to do it. http://www.gta.com/support/showReleaseNote/?id=1 What version are you running? http://www.gta.com/support/docs3/ You could always set up a Linux box on that network and run DHCP from there. -Original Message- From: Rober

RE: DHCP For Wireless

2009-07-31 Thread N Parr
We tagged the "Guest" SSID on our Aironet's with a specific VLAN and then set the DHCP scope for that vlan to use our ISP's DNS servers. So those wireless users are separated from the rest of our network on their own VLAN and routed directly out to the internet. -Original Message- From:

RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS

2009-07-31 Thread Brian Desmond
A lot of this is also a function of the fact that you get totally different support if you're calling on a pro case (when you call and put it on a credit card) versus a premier contract. Premiere support comes with SLAs, a TAM to complain to, etc. The pro cases folks are outsourced and come with

RE: DHCP For Wireless

2009-07-31 Thread Brian Desmond
Can the firewall/router act as a DHCP relay? If so just configure the scope on a DHCP server and set it as the DHCP relay. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

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