Re: Dang

Ah. I told google to never send anything from Sunbelt to spam. It's made too many mistakes. Kurt On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 19:16, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > Never mind.  Just looked in my spam folder in gmail and saw the message. > Good job Google ;) > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Sherry A

Re: Dang

Ahh. I checked the Lyris server at Sunbelt and saw the message in question. It showed up in my junk folder and I never realized it 'came from' NTSysadmin. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > HUH? > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> That's the

Re: Dang

Never mind. Just looked in my spam folder in gmail and saw the message. Good job Google ;) On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > HUH? > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> That's the second spam I've seen on this list in a very short time >> >> Any id

Re: Dang

What she said... On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > HUH? > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> That's the second spam I've seen on this list in a very short time >> >> Any idea what's going on? >> >> I really don't want an iPhone, I must say...

Re: Dang

HUH? On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > That's the second spam I've seen on this list in a very short time > > Any idea what's going on? > > I really don't want an iPhone, I must say... > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~

Re: Dang

And just in time for Christmas! - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thu Jan 21 22:09:12 2010 Subject: Dang That's the second spam I've seen on this list in a very short time Any idea what's going on? I really don't want an iPhone, I must say... ~ Fin

Dang

That's the second spam I've seen on this list in a very short time Any idea what's going on? I really don't want an iPhone, I must say... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE

hey, how are you ? Just received my iphone 3gs 32gb from this website. www.reovlele.com , much cheaper than others and genuine ,. if you would like to get one,you can check it out, Hope you have a Merry Christmas. Regards, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: Windows 7 Search Indexer

Wild, crazy shot in the dark... Is Outlook not running in cached mode? Just a thought because two of my favorite things about 7 are how well it indexes my Outlook mailbox and how unobtrusive the process is. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Bob Fronk wrote: > Seems to have something to do with

Re: net flow analyser

http://www.actionpacked.com/freeflow This tool is well worth it. I saw a presentation of it just today. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) *Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership* On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Laurence Childs < laurence.chi...

RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer

Remove outlook from being indexed? From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer Seems to have something to do with Outlook. If I close Outlook, indexer calms down. From: Terry Dicks

RE: Reality check

All too prevalant I'm afraid... I've seen a supply chain system that uses Oracle as it's database engine, but COBOL for its logic with similar requirements. The command interface was actually a character mode application and required that the supply chain team have server console login access ...

RE: Reality check

We also have a program that has to be logged in to run. Not only does it need to have a user logged in, it won't auto-start. I have it in "start-up" but it still takes manual intervention. It is maddening. -Original Message- From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Thu

RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer

Seems to have something to do with Outlook. If I close Outlook, indexer calms down. From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer I have two an running Windows 7 at home and wor

Re: Reality check

BTW just because I did not say it before I know this is not possible or practical but it sure would be nice. Jon On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jon Harris wrote: > First I have never run into this where is was not some Win 9x type of > garbage that got ported to a new OS and sold as new. Th

RE: Reality check

I have myself used that software in the past for that purpose. Because of the way this software works (counters, cancel buttons, dialogs when there is a problem, etc), I don't think it would work. Beyond that, this vendor does a lot of "hands on" support, and they would never be able to handle it

Re: Reality check

First I have never run into this where is was not some Win 9x type of garbage that got ported to a new OS and sold as new. That said and understood I personally think it would be very interesting to have a list of these vendors and the products publicly posted where those companies that are compla

RE: Reality check

Alas, I don't have that much power. And we have previously been down the road where this department ran their own network--not a good thing. I have taken some measures to minimize the risk, but beyond that and documenting/reporting the possible issues and concerns, not much else I can do. --

RE: Exchange 2K7 Q

I've never had much luck with the UI. The PowerShell syntax is intuitive though: Get-MessageTrackingLog -Server -Sender f...@domain.com -Recipients david@nwea.org -Start "01/21/10" Tweak as appropriate Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandes

RE: Exchange 2K7 Q

That's what I thought, but I'm not seeing any meeting requests. There's a meeting request in my inbox and I do not see it listed in the message tracking center... From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R

RE: Exchange 2K7 Q

Use the message tracking tool. They are just messages as such. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, 22 January 2010 8:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2K7 Q Is there any tracking in Exchange 2007 where you can see meeting requests/responses/deletions? Sure

Exchange 2K7 Q

Is there any tracking in Exchange 2007 where you can see meeting requests/responses/deletions? Surely some log files or something? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource

Re: Reality check

First, I agree with everyone else. Software in today's world shouldn't have that type of dependency. Unfortunately,current versions of today's software probably haven't changed much if they were originally developed many years ago. With that said, have you investigated the possibility of using the

RE: Exchange list?

Did you subscribe online or via email? Do it online! :-P -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange list? I have yet to see my confirmation/subscription... -Original Messag

Re: Reality check

Perhaps you can take the tack that your department owns the network, and that you won't have such an insecure setup on your network - they can run the software on the server they manage themselves, as long as it doesn't connect to the production network. I doubt it, but... On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at

RE: Exchange list?

I have yet to see my confirmation/subscription... -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange list? It's quite active, but I submitted a complaint about my reply messages

RE: Reality check

Afraid not. The department that uses the software makes the decision about what they use. We can only advise. We previously had a different vendor, and this vendor is actually superior from what I can tell. I don't really deal directly with the vendor for this system, so the only thing I can do

Re: Reality check

You are right. But as you , I´ve fought with vendors when the client were tied to them, and they don´t understand/don´t want to understand the importance of not running with it logged. The most common answer I use to hear is that "all their other clients use it like this and don´t complain"

RE: Reality check

As long as you are tied to the vendor, they will do whatever they want, which means not fixing the problem. Any possibility of shopping around for another vendor? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardi

RE: Reality check

Noo. I can think of a dozen problems with that scenario, both operationally and security wise, without even knowing any further details. -sc > -Original Message- > From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issue

RE: Reality check

Hi Bill. I graduated from ECU in 1983 and did some of my grad work at Pitt Memorial. I have fond memories of Pitt County. Enough of old home week - push back. Really really hard. That's ridiculous. Services are even easy to do in the Win32 API. It takes less than 20 lines of code in C# to sta

Re: Reality check

No, you are not alone. Any company that vends software to run on a server, and which can't figure out how to make it run as a service, should immediately go bankrupt, and their software devs and management should be publicly flogged. Kurt On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 13:04, Mayo, Bill wrote: > I am

RE: Reality check

You are not alone. Unfortunately, it is common enough in the application design field. -Original Message- From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Reality check I am terribly frustrated with an applica

Reality check

I am terribly frustrated with an application vendor who is on-site to add a new module to on of our critical software packages, and I want to confirm it is not just me being difficult. This system already has the requirement that a workstation be logged on with 3 different programs running in the

Re: net flow analyser

+1 Manageengine. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Christopher wrote: > I second Ntop, although my experience using it with netflow is limited, I > know it works with it. > > On Jan 21, 2010 9:54 AM, "Laurence Childs" > wrote: > > Hi All > > i have a customer where we are having trouble lookin

RE: Website Issue

It sounds like they have DNS poisoning upstream of there DNS servers, or definitely a hook into there web=-browsering that is re-directing them to the p0rn site... If you give me the site offline I will look at it from my site and send you back the HTTP traffic log accordingly. Z Edward Ziots N

Re: net flow analyser

I second Ntop, although my experience using it with netflow is limited, I know it works with it. On Jan 21, 2010 9:54 AM, "Laurence Childs" wrote: Hi All i have a customer where we are having trouble looking in to link stats on their LES circuit we have a Cisco router joining the 2 sites toget

RE: building a new server

Stu doesn't get _ANGRY_, he gets _EVEN_! Webster From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Subject: RE: building a new server I was picking on Jon. And with that I'll duck out before we make Stu _ANGRY_ -sc From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Subject: R

RE: building a new server

Ah, well that explains it. My sarcasm detector is busted. From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: building a new server They were picking on you... At least I'm fairly certain that was sarcasm I detected...

RE: Website Issue

Something's obviously changed name resolution for the internal clients. Track that down and you'll find the problem. There's malware that will change the hosts file and put bad sites in. DNS could have been hacked. Figure out where name resolution is coming from and you'll nail the problem...

RE: Website Issue

Thanks Andrew. I'll pass this info onto the colleague and see what he finds out and then post here the results. _ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.

RE: building a new server

I was picking on Jon. And with that I'll duck out before we make Stu _ANGRY_ -sc From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: building a new server They were picking on you... At least I'm fairly certain

Re: building a new server

They were picking on you... At least I'm fairly certain that was sarcasm I detected... On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Glen Johnson wrote: > Huh? > I was trying to make him feel better. > Sure didn't mean to out or be cold to anyone. > Apoligies. > > > -Original Message- > From: Rober

Re: Website Issue

And lastly check that the router is configured with the correct forwarders. Over and out. 2010/1/21 Andrew Levicki > Yes, good point, check the DNS clients' HOSTS file, which is located in: > %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\drivers\etc > > Look for a rogue entry for the DNS name of the company website. >

Re: Website Issue

Yes, good point, check the DNS clients' HOSTS file, which is located in: %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\drivers\etc Look for a rogue entry for the DNS name of the company website. Good luck. Andrew 2010/1/21 Andrew Levicki > Hi Cameron, > > Have you checked that the DNS clients are definitely configur

RE: building a new server

Huh? I was trying to make him feel better. Sure didn't mean to out or be cold to anyone. Apoligies. -Original Message- From: Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: building a new server It's OK to think

Re: Website Issue

Hi Cameron, Have you checked that the DNS clients are definitely configured with the correct DNS servers in their network configuration? Assuming that you have them pointing to internal DNS servers, you should then check that they are configured with the correct forwarders. Having done that, yo

RE: net flow analyser

+1 for the ManageEngine product. -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: net flow analyser Literally just went through this. nfdump and nfsen. http://www.networkupti

RE: Website Issue

How about SpyBot S&D? That's another good anti-malware product. It is my considered opinion that nothing, not even Vipre catches everything. Also, SpyBot can populate your hosts file with redirects to localhost for known malware / spyware sites. -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [m

RE: Website Issue

They have run their AV and run malwarebytes on all the servers and neither found anything. _ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original Messag

RE: Website Issue

Have they done an nslookup on the dns servers to see if they are getting the correct dns entries? Have they been checked for malware that changed the hosts file? -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:42 PM To: NT System

RE: For those of you with co-location...

Delegate the colo people access to their part of antivirus? It seems like a waste of money/resources/etc to run a parallel infrastructure. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, Jan

RE: 16 bit VDM

Most of our users haven't even made it to 2007 yet! I do have a beta 2010, just haven't loaded it yet, but good to know. Thx! Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax:

Website Issue

A colleague's company is having issues accessing their own website, which is hosted offsite. Internally when they try to access it, it goes to a porn site. When anyone externally accesses the site, it goes right to their website. He's cleared the DNS cache on all DNS servers and had the router's

RE: 16 bit VDM

Indeed. And I like it... quite a bit. -sc From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 bit VDM Office 2010 does. :-) From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Thurs

RE: 16 bit VDM

Hey that is what I am running. -Original Message- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 bit VDM Office 2010 does. J From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Thurs

RE: 16 bit VDM

Office 2010 does. J From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 bit VDM Ahh, gotcha. Wouldn't that be nice if it did? : D Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudentia

RE: 16 bit VDM

Ahh, gotcha. Wouldn't that be nice if it did? : D 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

RE: For those of you with co-location...

Good Q John - we handle everything on the COLO servers, they just happen to be elsewhere. COLO and is are 80% Windows servers. I guess we're just unusual that we have two teams handling servers, they should just give them to one team (although that would be eliminating my job...). From: Sherry

Re: 16 bit VDM

Sorry, no it ran it just ran as a x32 not an x64. I would have hoped that it would have done an x64 install on an x64 machine and x32 on an x32 machine. Jon On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Don Guyer wrote: > Are you saying it wouldn’t run? I’m pretty sure I’m running Office 32-bit > on my Win

RE: 16 bit VDM

+1 There isn't a 64Bit Off2K7 I'm aware of, and I have that on a few boxes. -sc From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 bit VDM Are you saying it wouldn't run? I'm pretty sure I'm running

Re: building a new server

How often do any of us setup from bare metal new servers? I have done a fair share but still there are not that many or that often. Large shops have automated methods and small shops don't do a lot period. Consultants may get more of a work out than most but my bet would be even they end up doin

RE: 16 bit VDM

Are you saying it wouldn't run? I'm pretty sure I'm running Office 32-bit on my Win7 64-bit system at home. 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..

RE: building a new server

+1 As long as it's not the same stupid thing over and over you're fine. $10 says you won't forget the F6 thing for a year or more too :). Big mistakes and "how the hell did I possibly miss that?" mistakes are rarely repeated because they usually flip the "I'll never forget it" bit. That bit liv

Re: building a new server

It's OK to think it, but to out him in a worldwide fourm. That's cold. Robert On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > That wasn’t nice to think of Glen. > > > > -sc > > > > From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:59 PM > > To: NT S

RE: building a new server

That wasn't nice to think of Glen. -sc From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: building a new server Amen and here I thought I was the only one that thought that. Jon On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12

Re: building a new server

Amen and here I thought I was the only one that thought that. Jon On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Glen Johnson wrote: > Don’t beat yourself up. > > If I had $10 for every stupid thing I’ve done, I could buy google, ms and > still have money left over. > > > > *From:* David W. McSpadden [mail

RE: building a new server

Don't beat yourself up. If I had $10 for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy google, ms and still have money left over. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: building a new server Damn it I

RE: building a new server

Use the Smart Start CD to do the OS install. You wont have the problem with the drivers. Which Smart start CD you using. Version 8.30 is the latest.. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:40

Re: For those of you with co-location...

Depends on the OS's. Here, the same team manages the colo servers and it's anti-virus protection as well as internal servers, however, the colo stuff is all *nix and the internal stuff is all Windows, so different solutions. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:31 AM, David Lum wrote: > We have two sys

RE: building a new server

It's an easy miss if you go long enough between building servers and don't do it very often. Sometimes long stints with non-RAID SATA and IDE drives suck the SCSI knowledge right out of you. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

Re: For those of you with co-location...

Wouldn't that depend on how the colo was setup and managed right? Is it owned by your company or leased space someplace with non-employee's doing the work? Jon On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:31 PM, David Lum wrote: > We have two systems infrastructures here – internal > file/print/SharePoint/E-ma

For those of you with co-location...

We have two systems infrastructures here - internal file/print/SharePoint/E-mail, and client facing web and SQL server farms. They're in separate forests with a trust. We have one team that manages the colo, but for anti-virus it's my team that handles the internal servers and workstations AV.

Re: building a new server

Damn it I am so stupid most of the time. From: Steve Ens Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: building a new server Like the others, it is a controller driver, but funny that the new OS's don't have those drivers built in yet. On Thu, Jan 21, 20

Re: building a new server

Like the others, it is a controller driver, but funny that the new OS's don't have those drivers built in yet. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, David W. McSpadden wrote: > I have a DL320 G5 with SATA Raid controller and two 160GB drives. I > want to mirror them and I did that through the BIOS

RE: 16 bit VDM

We have about half of our users at 64 bit XP right now, with a gradual roll-out of 64-bit Win7 taking place. Notable issues: (1) a particular piece of code we rarely use happens to use an ancient copy protection algorithm, which relies on some 16-bit code. We keep a few 32-bit machines online for

R: building a new server

Press F6 to load the RAID drivers GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Inviato: giovedì 21 gennaio 2010 18.16 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: building a new server I have a DL320 G5 with SATA Raid controller and two 160GB drives. I want to mirror

Re: building a new server

Need to add the sata driver durint eh windows boot when it asks to press an f key if you have any additional storage drivers to add. 2010/1/21 David W. McSpadden > I have a DL320 G5 with SATA Raid controller and two 160GB drives. I > want to mirror them and I did that through the BIOS. I bo

RE: building a new server

Sounds like you need to load the controller driver. F6 if windows 2003 or there is a menu choice for that if 2008. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: building a new server I have a DL320 G5 wi

RE: GPO Best Practices

Actually that feature was updated in 2kSp4 so you could even do it on a W2K domain -Original Message- From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO Best Practices You can do it in 2003 as well

building a new server

I have a DL320 G5 with SATA Raid controller and two 160GB drives. I want to mirror them and I did that through the BIOS. I boot and see 1 logical disk but when windows Cd boots it says no valid drive was found??? What am I doing wrong??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resou

RE: net flow analyser

Literally just went through this. nfdump and nfsen. http://www.networkuptime.com/tools/netflow/ http://www.honeynor.no/sharewiki/index.php/Nfsen http://code.google.com/p/installnfsen/wiki/InstallNetFlowWithNfSen http://www.manageengine.com/products/netflow/download-free.html -Original Mes

Re: Windows 7 Scheduled Task

I have looked through most of them. I killed the EasyShare ones and the msfeedsync ones but left the rest. I haven't had any classes on 7 yet but it would be nice to have a notification that scheduled task xxx ran at 1:00 am and completed successfully then have the radio button to show in the

Re: 16 bit VDM

Not the hijack this but on this line has anyone running Windows 7 with the virtual machine had any issues with these older software packages or hardware drivers? I never got to that point in my testing when I left the office. I would think that this would be a big help along those lines. I am ev

RE: 16 bit VDM

We ran into one issue this week. New win7 machine wouldn't run our id badge printing software. It couldn't find the parallel port security dongle. XP works fine. Virtual XP mode wouldn't work either. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:04 PM To

Re: 16 bit VDM

I started to do the switch and found that Office was still 32 bit, there may have been other issues but that was the biggest one on the test machine I had. I had a graphics system that was scheduled to remain an x32 XP system due to software licensing issues so the Web developer could have migrate

RE: Windows 7 Scheduled Task

Egads. Ditto. Altho I have to say I like the fact that the OS (and things like antimalware) are using the task scheduler as a common dispatch point, rathter than processes running amok everywhere doing their own thing. -sc From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Thursd

RE: Windows 7 Scheduled Task

Those are the default tasks that you get from a new install, most likely. Now that local admins aren't admins all the time, many things that must be run with admin privs are done with scheduled tasks. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:31 AM

RE: Windows 7 Scheduled Task

I just looked at mine for the first time. There's a c...@pload listed under Windows and a few for Apple and Google software. HTH, Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax:

Re: 16 bit VDM

Heh. We still have machines on the floor that still use Win9x! That's because of the serial ports we use for diagnostics, and the DOS programs that have never been re-written. At least I've been able to get them off the network. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:23, Michael B. Smith wrote: > As long a

Windows 7 Scheduled Task

Has anyone looked at all the Scheduled Tasks in Windows 7 Pro?? I have a ton of tasks I have never scheduled and I am just wondering when and how they were set up??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: 16 bit VDM

We are a small shop and have switched over half of our users to 64bit. The only problems have been Printer drivers and 16bit Apps. So far we have solved all the printer driver issues, in a couple of cases with new printers but we would have had to do that anyway since those printers did not ha

Re: net flow analyser

ntop is one. There are lots of others. http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=netflow+open+source&aq=0s&aql=&aqi=g-s1&oq=net+flow+open+source first hit On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:55, Laurence Childs wrote: > Hi All > > i have a customer where we are having trouble looking in to link stats on

RE: 16 bit VDM

As long as they don't require special drivers. I moved PART of an org to 64bit with little trouble. When we tried to expand into their manufacturing and instrumentation areas, we gave up. Some of those computers were (and are) running NT 4 because drivers had never been updated... -Original

RE: 16 bit VDM

You know that 64 bit OS can run 32 bit apps in a windows on windows (WOW) environment) So going to 64 bit might not be as much of a pain as you think it might be. Although getting vendors and developers to play along has been the real issue so far IMHO.. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan

RE: 16 bit VDM

Humm. Change one gp setting, break maybe one or two apps. Switch 200+ computers to 64bit, and break who knows what? I think we have a differing definition of "easier". Just for fun, have any of you folks switched an org to 64? If so, what kinds of problems did you face? -Original Message

RE: Too many replies causes Outlook to not send???

Good idea! John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Too many replies causes Outlook to not send??? That might be it; see previous list threads about gmail showing a "messa

Re: Too many replies causes Outlook to not send???

That might be it; see previous list threads about gmail showing a "message clipped" on Outlook HTML messages because they are large. Try saving a problem message as a text file and see what the actual size is. Jeff On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > It doesn’t appear to b

RE: net flow analyser

I heard from our network guys that there is a free version through Solar Winds, but it's limited to real time stats. 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..

net flow analyser

Hi All i have a customer where we are having trouble looking in to link stats on their LES circuit we have a Cisco router joining the 2 sites together and i want to look at the stats from that do you know of a good NetFlow analyser package that is free? thanks Laurence ~ Finally, powerful en

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