Re: [OT] Managing Geeks

Depending on the test, I register as either ISTP or INTP On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 19:34, Richard Stovall wrote: > One word.  (Okay, acronym.  For the sticklers.)  INTJ.  Anyone else? > I would bet there's a higher number in these ranks than the general > populace. > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:54

Re: [OT] Managing Geeks

Absolutely, I'm there, it' me! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud - Original Message - From: Richard Stovall To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Sep 11 22:34:12 2009 Subject: Re: [OT] Managing Geeks One word.

Re: [OT] Managing Geeks

Nope, ESJT here. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > One word. (Okay, acronym. For the sticklers.) INTJ. Anyone else? > I would bet there's a higher number in these ranks than the general > populace. > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:54 PM, John Cook wrote: > > Sent it to

Re: [OT] Managing Geeks

One word. (Okay, acronym. For the sticklers.) INTJ. Anyone else? I would bet there's a higher number in these ranks than the general populace. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:54 PM, John Cook wrote: > Sent it to my boss a few days ago when it came out - he was rolling on the > floor. Egotistical -

Re: [OT] Managing Geeks

Sent it to my boss a few days ago when it came out - he was rolling on the floor. Egotistical - hrumf! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud From: Mike French To: NT System Admin Issues Sent:

RE: [OT] Managing Geeks

As ASB would say...indeed From: Mike French [mailto:mike.fre...@theequitybank.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] Managing Geeks I find an uncomfortable amount in common with this article... http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/91377

RE: [OT] Managing Geeks

Good article. You work for a bank. I've done a bunch of the same. We could probably tell some of the same horror stories... :-) Thanks for the link... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** > -Original Message- > From: Mike F

RE: [OT] Managing Geeks

As do I... From: Mike French [mailto:mike.fre...@theequitybank.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] Managing Geeks I find an uncomfortable amount in common with this article... http://www.computerworld.

[OT] Managing Geeks

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RE: Win 7 Price

Everyone goes through a reseller regardless. That said I expect your negotiating power with that volume is somewhere around 0. :) Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2

RE: Win 7 Price

It's always a numbers game and it's most cost effective if you are buying a large % of new machines then you can add SA and get with the program. Once you are with one agreement then it's only the SA to worry about. In a lot of cases it's about cash flow short term and only after 6-7 years that

Re: Restores from Incremental backups

Palindrome was acquired Seagate was acquired by Veritas was acquired by Symantec. Seagate dropped support for Palindrome about a year after acquisition. That was around 1992? We used the Tower of Hanoi / G/F/S rotation scheme. It would give you a total history of any file by browsing to it. Yo

RE: Restores from Incremental backups

like the old Palindrome, used a Tower of Hanoi rotation scheme, restore a file/folder/system and it would tell you the specific ( and minimum ) tapes required ... but isn't that basically the predecessor of Symantec's NetBackup product ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Securi

RE: Win 7 Price

The official number I came up with after months of research was 192 licenses being the breakeven point where buying an EA made sense, although Microsoft officially touts 250 as their official number. The EA is purchased directly from Microsoft (although you use a LAR to do the paperwork) so then

Re: Win 7 Price

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Tim Vander Kooi wrote: > You negotiate your SA renewals with Microsoft the same way you > can negotiate price with them  up front for Licenses and SA. How big do you have to be before MSFT starts to care? When I checked a few years ago, for my current employer

RE: Win 7 Price

It also makes a great deal of sense when you have an EA or similar since they basically throw the Client OS licenses and SA in for free. Tim -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: W

Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy

I probably didn't word that right, but I think you got the jest of what I was saying. The main GPO includes the setting "hide screen saver tab". I have second GPO, using loop back, configured the exact same way accept the setting to hide the screen saver tab is disabled. The goal was to allow users

Re: Restores from Incremental backups

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Mayo, Bill wrote: > If you want to restore a whole directory or drive, you just select it and > it will automatically restore it to the most recent versions of all the > current files. Oh, I was thinking about a full system restore, not a selective restore. S

RE: Win 7 Price

Not really. You negotiate your SA renewals with Microsoft the same way you can negotiate price with them up front for Licenses and SA. There is a set starting point price, but they can often times be talked down from that price. Tim From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: Win 7 Price

Good info, thanks. Are there SKU's for 7 that DON'T include SA? Or is SA included no matter what? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 7 Price On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:

RE: Restores from Incremental backups

To answer your query, software *can* make it easier. TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) does a perpetual incremental and it always, by default shows you the most recent version of files available for restore. If you want to restore a whole directory or drive, you just select it and it will automaticall

RE: Win 7 Price

I wish I knew that answer :) I don't know if we saved money by not renewing SA. (I was not in charge of that decision). Is there a flat rate on what SA renewals are? From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:09 PM

Re: Win 7 Price

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: > But I just paid for all new system that shipped with Vista Business :(  I > would think the upgrade would be cheaper. You'd think so, but you'd be wrong. Despite the fact that Volume Licenses are "Upgrade Only", they cost almost as much as a

RE: Win 7 Price

It depends on a number of factors. Like how often you upgrade and what products you use. But if you saved money by not going with SA originally, then you shouldn't be complaining about how high the price is now. You should be cheering about how much money you saved even though the price is highe

Re: Restores from Incremental backups

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote: > I think the point was the software (BackupExec, I'm guessing) should be able > to understand incremental restores and not rely on the operator to have to > manually find & select each incremental copy for the restore. Maybe it's because it'

Re: Can't run TaskManager

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Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sean Martin wrote: > I have a couple of OUs containing Computer Objects that need > the same auto lock settings, except I don't want to disable > access to the screen saver settings. Auto lock settings *are* the screen saver settings. How can you both need thos

Re: Can't run TaskManager

Thanks for infecting us all Jeff! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud From: Jeff Bunting To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Sep 11 16:51:17 2009 Subject: Re: Can't run TaskManager WORST E

Manual backup of Certificate Authority?

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Re: Can't run TaskManager

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RE: Win 7 Price

Ok, I guess I would have to see the SA renewal rates. Would I have saved money if we bought XP with SA back in 2001 (Which it turns out we did), and renewed the SA for 8 years? (I'm finding we never renewed). Sam -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sen

RE: Disable F keys

Have you heard of Microsoft SteadyState? It's free and I use it on public-facing library PC's. In part it creates a mandatory profile (well, effectively), but it also has an option that dumps *every* change made during a login session - think of it like rolling back to the same VM snapshot at ev

RE: Win 7 Price

The pricing that you are now running into is exactly why SA exists. If you had purchased SA on the licenses originally you wouldn't be worrying about your upgrade cost now, you could just do it. For me it is very much worth the cost of SA to not have to worry about what version of which software

Re: SATA RAID Performance

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: >> (It helps that Linux's RAID implementation doesn't suck anywhere near >> as much as Windows' does.) > > What do you mean by that? Just off the top of my head... * Faster * Doesn't require a new partition table format * Can configure

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

I actually didn't. Back then it was more common to have a beeper. Remember those clunkers? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:07 PM To: N

Re: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Yeah like ours. All the channels display the same number on caller ID. - Original Message - From: "Tim Vander Kooi" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:17 PM Subject: RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number. And it doesn't work if your trunk

Re: SATA RAID Performance

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jacob wrote: > Actually, RAID0 does have its uses. > But, also... we have over 30 servers in the server farm. Well, in that case, you're really still doing mirroring, just across computers instead of disks. :) I've seen this called "RAIN", "Redundant Array o

RE: Win 7 Price

I got these a couple month's ago before the coupons. -Original Message- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win 7 Price We just got in some new systems last month and they came with a F

RE: Win 7 Price

We just got in some new systems last month and they came with a Free upgrade coupon. Not sure what the status on those are but I do know they expire in October I think it is. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:47 PM To:

RE: Win 7 Price

Depending on how new the system, you may be available for the free upgrade. I just did this with 84 Dell laptops we got last month. They also cut me a deal for SA on 32 I bought within the last 6 months, way cheaper..HTH John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315

RE: Win 7 Price

But I just paid for all new system that shipped with Vista Business :( I would think the upgrade would be cheaper. Alright, what's the point of SA when they release an OS every 3 years or so? Or is that like asking what's the meaning of life? I know it's an apple 2 orange comparison, but I jus

RE: Win 7 Price

Not sure about the dollar rate, but without existing software assurance it can be expensive. The was an offer to add SA to existing machines bought in the last 6 months but that ended last month. In effect you are buying a new full license for the software, so you might want to get a financed op

Win 7 Price

I'm getting quoted $254 to upgrade to Windows 7 Pro Volume, which supposedly includes the 15% early upgrade discount (http://preview.tinyurl.com/mlnjmg) Never been in a position that handles MS Licensing. Does this sound accurate? Seems high to me. From: Brian

RE: Can't run TaskManager

Hey. Yall talked about this and now I've got one doing the same. Check the reg key and it was set to 1. Changed it to 0 and now taskmanager runs, but shutdown and logoff are grayed out. This is when you do the 3 finger salute. Damg yall for talking about it. Caused it to spread, whatever "it"

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Why don't you call your cell phone? -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number. In a previous life, I worked in telecom biz. There was th

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

And it doesn't work if your trunk doesn't have separate call ID for internal numbers. All outbound calls from our building appear to come from our main number, whether or not this is the case from company to company depends on your provider. Tim -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mail

Re: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Yeah in your previous life you must not have had a cell phone. ;-) James - Original Message - From: "Phillip Partipilo" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:01 PM Subject: RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number. Doh, that's too easy! Phi

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Doh, that's too easy! Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Phone number to tell

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Interesting.. I have a PRI here. I get a couple of different responses from these. -Original Message- From: Lee, Damon [mailto:d...@silvercrest.org] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number. Automat

RE: Tripwire

We use AA, DA and SA (Security Administrator, on our main file server). Products are easy to learn and use and the handful of times I've had to contact support were great. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon,

RE: Disable F keys

If it was another medium, I'd have a lot to say. :) From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disable F keys It's much worse here in Englandan acquaintance of mine actuall

RE: Restores from Incremental backups

The search catalogs feature doesn't help with this? It's not exactly what you (or I) want, but it is there and it does provide sizes also. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy

That is correctmy memory is rubbish today :-) 2009/9/11 Free, Bob > You don’t need a 2008 DC to deploy GPP. You need an up level > client(2K3/Vista/Win7) for management and the GPP CSE deployed to your > downlevel clients you want to manage. > > > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@

RE: Tripwire

Not bad. As long as we continue to pay them money they continue to support us. I have never had to contact support regarding AA before, so I'm not sure how good the support folks are. I have called for support on Desktop Authority in the past and found their support people to be excellent. Tim

Re: Disable F keys

It's much worse here in Englandan acquaintance of mine actually deliberately failed a drugs test in prison because he hadn't completed the game he was playing on the PS2, and he wanted his release date put back a couple of weeks. I thought the idea was that the inmates were supposed to want to

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

I just pick up the new phone and call my cell it displays the number and I am done. -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number. In a previ

RE: SATA RAID Performance

Are you asking if it was good for me? -sc From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SATA RAID Performance I never recommend RAID in a multiple server Citrix farm. Use the other drive(s) for what you su

RE: Tripwire

We actually have Tripwire here - a lot of damn money every year for something probably never used... From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Tripwire Change Auditor Pro by Qwest(?) can do the AD stuff

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Automatic Number Identification (ANI) 800-444- MCI 800-289-6722 MCI 800-314-4258 MCI 866-692-6447 - 866-my-ani-is -Original Message- From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Phone number

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Awesome, thanks guys. Been through several departments calling the operator, nobody had a clue. I bet any tech seen out working on an AT&T box outside would have it memorized. But probably AT&T's version. That one is MCI :) Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561)

RE: Tripwire

+1 Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.c

Re: Restores from Incremental backups

EXACTLY Jeff. That is specifically what I am talking about. My original question was trying to figure out a way Backup Exec can make this easier and was wondering if there was some feature, or wizard - whatever, that I was NOT aware of. You read my mind. JR Original Message: -

RE: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

800-444-. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Frid

Re: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

1-800-444- On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Phillip Partipilo wrote: > In a previous life, I worked in telecom biz.  There was this great phone > number we used when we clipped a buttset up and you called this number, and > a computer answered and told you the phone number you are calling fro

[OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

In a previous life, I worked in telecom biz. There was this great phone number we used when we clipped a buttset up and you called this number, and a computer answered and told you the phone number you are calling from. That's all it did. We're in the process of going VoIP and our ancient phone sy

Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. If these particular devices don't fall under the compliance guidelines, I'm just going to push for disabling the policy entirely for those machines. Thanks to everyone for the input. - Sean On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Free, Bob wrote: > You don’t need a 2

Re: Restores from Incremental backups

I think the point was the software (BackupExec, I'm guessing) should be able to understand incremental restores and not rely on the operator to have to manually find & select each incremental copy for the restore. I always thought that was an obvious feature it lacked. Not being able to tell be h

RE: Auto Lock via Group Policy

You don't need a 2008 DC to deploy GPP. You need an up level client(2K3/Vista/Win7) for management and the GPP CSE deployed to your downlevel clients you want to manage. From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

RE: Disable F keys

Nah, use an electric fence and razor wire. From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disable F keys Design a plexiglass case to fit around the monitors. - Sean On Fri

RE: SATA RAID Performance

I never recommend RAID in a multiple server Citrix farm. Use the other drive(s) for what you suggest. In a busy Citrix farm, it is amazing how much faster printing is when the spool files are on their own HD. Webster Is that better for you -sc? J From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti

RE: SATA RAID Performance

What do you mean by that? -sc > -Original Message- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:57 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: SATA RAID Performance > > SNIP > (It helps that Linux's RAID implementation doesn't suck anywhere ne

RE: Tripwire

Change Auditor Pro by Qwest(?) can do the AD stuff. You need separate products for objects vs files anyway, as the AD objects are stored in a single DIT file, so something like Tripwire would only show a file change, and not the individual object changes within it. We tried Tripwire here a whi

RE: Tripwire

You can't mine all the who/what/why/where/when info that some admins and auditors want simply from the event logs. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Tripwire Alternately, any tool that can monitor e

RE: Disable F keys

Take away the computers and make them read books or do hard labor... It's prison fergawd's sake... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** > -Original Message- > From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] > Sent: Frida

RE: Tripwire

http://www.gfi.com/ From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Tripwire What are some other software apps like Tripwire that can monitor my Active Directory for changes and my

Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy

That is a thought. Thanks for that. It was just brought to my attention that this is being driven by certain compliance requirements (Federal, PCI, etc.). If I can determine that the specific servers in questions don't fall under those compliance guidelines, I may just request that the auto-lock p

RE: Tripwire

Doh, forgot about that little acquisition by Quest J Curious, how has your experience been with the account management and support since the acquisition? From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Tr

Re: Disable F keys

No, I meant for it on the desktop. Remember that they can use IE to browse the local computer...but it sounds like you have it pretty well locked down. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Owens, Michael wrote: > Well, I actually remember that program from when I was in high school. > Unfortunately

Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy

You could just try a logon script for that OU that writes the Registry keys for the screen saver preferences to HKCU without applying them via a policy - clunky, but probably effective 2009/9/11 Sean Martin > That sounds like an interesting solution, but you're right, deploying > Windows 2008 is

Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy

That sounds like an interesting solution, but you're right, deploying Windows 2008 isn't realistic in our environment just yet. - Sean On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM, James Rankin wrote: > Can you do this with a Group Policy Preference rather than a Policy Object? > If I remember rightly the P

Re: SATA RAID Performance

A colleague of mine and I finally convinced upper management that a similar methodology in our Citrix environment would be beneficial. We've been using Blade servers in our Citrix farm for quite some time. With only two local drives, they were always configured as a mirrored set because, well that

Re: SATA RAID Performance

Is that the Pr0n server farm? - Original Message - From: "Jacob" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:07 PM Subject: RE: SATA RAID Performance Actually, RAID0 does have its uses. We use RAID0 for the data on our web servers.. html files, images, videos.

Re: Auto Lock via Group Policy

Can you do this with a Group Policy Preference rather than a Policy Object? If I remember rightly the Policy option locks the option to change it regardless. The Preference option might give the user the option to change...although you will have to install a 2008 DC, load the GP management tool on

RE: Disable F keys

Well, I actually remember that program from when I was in high school. Unfortunately for me I wasn't given much funding to do it the way I would like. What I've done, was make every client load an Internet Explorer shell directly into the Citrix Web interface. When they log on, they get one opti

RE: SATA RAID Performance

Sweet. What are you using to keep those all in sync? -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SATA RAID Performance Actually, RAID0 does have its uses. We use RAID0 for the data on

RE: Tripwire

I agree with the looking the direction of ScriptLogic (now Quest). I have used Active Administrator for years and really like it. It's is simple to deploy and is quite granular in the levels of alerting that it provides for. Tim From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2

Re: Disable F keys

You might also consider DeepFreeze if you haven't already. I'm not sure it will disable shortcut keys and such...but it will return the machine to a set state on every reboot. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Owens, Michael wrote: > It is for a juvenile prison. > > The main reason is, I dont

RE: Tripwire

Alternately, any tool that can monitor event logs can give you alerts and logging on AD changes, almost all this stuff is in one event log or another, and this includes user adds/deletes, GPO add/change/deletes, etc... Dave From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Friday, Septemb

Re: Disable F keys

Design a plexiglass case to fit around the monitors. - Sean On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Owens, Michael wrote: > Haha already done. :) The wierdest thing to get used to is them punching > monitors. > > -- > *From:* Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] > *Se

RE: Tripwire

Change Auditor from Quest (formerly NetPro) for AD and their Security Manager for the OS. Others have products in that space, NetIQ, the original Quest products like Intrust, etc. They can quickly become behemoths by the time you get all the associated infrastructure deployed. If you want

RE: Tripwire

ScriptLogic has tools along this line. http://www.scriptlogic.com/ Dave From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Tripwire What are some other software apps like Tripwire that can monitor my Active Directory fo

Auto Lock via Group Policy

Windows 2003 Domain Windows XP Clients Windows 2003 Servers Windows XPe Thin Clients I'm deploying a GPO to auto lock all desktops/servers after 15 minutes of inactivity. This GPO also disables access to the screen saver tab in Display properties. That works just fine. I have a couple of OUs conta

RE: Disable F keys

Haha already done. :) The wierdest thing to get used to is them punching monitors. From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disable F keys Yank the cd/dvdrom drives out of th

RE: SATA RAID Performance

Actually, RAID0 does have its uses. We use RAID0 for the data on our web servers.. html files, images, videos. The o/s is on a single drive, the data is on a RAID0 with three drives. Huge performance gain. But, also... we have over 30 servers in the server farm. So if a hard drive in the RAID0 c

Re: SPAM Solution

Sounds like you also need a vacation. Maybe I'll get to take one in the new year after I get done with all the major projects I'm working on at the moment. James - Original Message - From: "N Parr" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:52 PM Subject: RE:

Re: SATA RAID Performance

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Phillip Partipilo wrote: > Those are almost always software RAIDs, so your CPU would be doing all of > the parity processing on RAID5 so performance there would quite suck. It depends on the workload (and just how crappy the fake RAID implementation is). A lot

Tripwire

What are some other software apps like Tripwire that can monitor my Active Directory for changes and my Server OS's for changes?? Per the audit staff we need something to show all AD changes/adds/deletes by whom, and when. All OS file changes/adds/deletes by whom, and when. Anyone have anything

Re: Restores from Incremental backups

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:10 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com wrote: > I understand the whole differential versus incremental pros/cons. ... > So, that's why I was wondering about an easier method to restore > incremental backups. If you really understand, why are you looking for something you obviousl

Re: SATA RAID Performance

ok this is on my gaming PC so I guess I'll just stick with using acronis to image the C: drive every so often to the second drive. I don't want any performance hits. Wish I had the cash for a RAID card and some SAS drives but that's not gonna happen. - Original Message - From: Richa

Re: optiplex 755 random reboots

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, tony patton wrote: > I've never found the dell diagnostics to report any issues, no matter what > was faulty. FWIW, I've had them pinpoint or confirm failures for RAM and hard disks, but that's it. I've also had failures in same that their diags didn't find.

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