RE: OT: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

As I have stated in previous AV threads, I actually use/manage 3 different AV products: Vipre Enterprise (3 clients, ~25 systems, plus my home machines), Trend WorryFree (1 client, 55 systems) and McAfee (%dayjob%, ~500 systems) and Vipre easily has more false positives than the other two: 3 in

RE: DFS Quandary

It's already in 2008 and 2008R2 [cid:image001.png@01CB2FF6.E0DB2670] From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 7:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DFS Quandary It will be in the version after the version after that if you get a jump start on compla

RE: WDS, PXE Proxy & Split DHCP

Tried removing dhcp options 66 and 67 on DC02 so that only DC01 can provide the information? From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 9:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WDS, PXE Proxy & Split DHCP Hello, I have two Windows Server 2008 R2 DHCP serv

RE: Windows 7 - Libraries

I'm afraid it hasn't improved. The limitations I discussed still apply with all of the latest patches on Win 7 and 2008 R2 etc. Having said that a lot of the Win 7 features do have group policy options. However, GPP in particular is limited. I've even come across things that worked under XP

RE: OT: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

Willlburrr!... From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Vipre effectiveness & false positives Not if his name is Mr. Ed. :-) Sent from my HTC Tilt(tm) 2, a Windows(r

RE: OT: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

I've been doing tech edits for magazine articles...not the most fun task. Even on holiday, i have to keep my customers happy! But the rest of the family is sleeping after a long day of having fun... Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from AT&T From: Rich

Re: OT: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

Great (and terribly bored) minds think alike, I suppose. :-) On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Not if his name is Mr. Ed. :-) > > Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from AT&T > > -- > From: Ralph Smith > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010

RE: OT: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

Not if his name is Mr. Ed. :-) Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from AT&T From: Ralph Smith Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives I don't disagree, but when you are presente

Re: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

Unless, of course, the horse, of course... On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Ralph Smith wrote: > I don't disagree, but when you are presented with information you have to > evaluate the validity of the data, and hopefully get clarification from > those involved when it implies that there may be

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

I don't disagree, but when you are presented with information you have to evaluate the validity of the data, and hopefully get clarification from those involved when it implies that there may be a problem. Virus Bulletin actually warned in the explanation of the chart that it was just one result a

RE: Forefront Endpoint Beta

Not really. We just recently setup FCS, and was wondering how different it is now. I understand it works with SCCM now, instead of MoM. Is the interface useful yet? Just finding out what machines are up to date and which aren't is a trial at the moment... >>> Tim Vander Kooi 7/29/2010 4:00

RE: Forefront Endpoint Beta

I have been. It has changed quite a lot over time. May still be a change or 2 coming before it is released. Any specific questions? Tim -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Forefront

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

My point was really that all AV vendors have experience FPs, not just Vipre. I agree that statistics can be a valuable tool, it's just that which ones you choose and how you present them can be misleading. For example, in a horse race between the US and Russia, the US horse won. In the America

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

I track the detection statistics daily of VIPRE against 30+ competitors against hundreds of thousands of real malware in the wild. The detection stats on VirusTotal do not reflect reality. We will reach out to them to find out what exactly is going on with their zoo. I am happy to share data

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

True, but there were people on the VIPRE forum that were hit just as hard by a couple of the FPs that VIPRE had. I'm not knocking VIPRE at all - I like it a lot and would purchase it again with no hesitation. However, when a well known organization like Virus Bulletin publishes test results, i

RE: MD3200i / VSphere

Right, they can't be bonded. With dual controllers (4 nics) you can configure multipath, with a single controller, you can only configure for failover. -mb From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MD3200i / VSphere

Forefront Endpoint Beta

Anyone playing with this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

How about a little perspective on false positives? http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20003074-83.html and a reminder about statistics from Mark Twain: "there's 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, J

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

I've had VIPRE for a couple of years now, and was fortunately not hit hard with the false positive problems others have had. With about 180 Win XP machines, I've had only a half dozen infections in that time - all but one of the rogue AV kind, so I have been feeling pretty good. However, the c

Re: Remote Recycle Bin Access?

Make sure you do it from in an elevated CMD prompt. And you need to remove the SYSTEM attribute as well. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > Tried the attrib command and was able to remove the hidden setting on > the main folder but not on

Re: Remote Recycle Bin Access?

SOLVED! ATTRIB -S -H -R all on one line took care of it. I'm in! Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Between attrib.exe and icacls.exe you can make it do what you want (if you > are at least local admin). > > Regards, > > Michael

Re: GPO and folder redirections

That's correct, I remember now. We still had XP desktops so I had to fire up a 2008 server and use the tools on there. I think you have to load the Group Policy CLient Side Extensions onto your older clients (XP desktops, 2003 servers) and it works fine from there. On 29 July 2010 18:39, Phil Brut

Re: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

Pretty incredible timing. One of my analysts just informed me about an hour ago that he upgraded one of our test 2008 boxes to 2008 R2 and the SAN allocated disks dissappeared. I had to uninstall and re-install PowerPath to resolve the issue. It appeared that even though the PowerPath service was

Re: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

I don't know what you have now, but I can tell you from experience at various client sites over the last year or so, none of the following was without issues : Trend, McAfee, Symantec SAV & SEP On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Carl Houseman wrote: > For all of you staunch Vipre supporters, I'm

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

Thanks Edward... -sc From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 We have to uninstall and then reinstall Powerpath 5.3 SP1 on ours and reboot to get it to work. Z

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

We have to uninstall and then reinstall Powerpath 5.3 SP1 on ours and reboot to get it to work. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]

RE: Direct Access behimd pix firewall

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JzzGkCcJNIsJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Software_Firewalls/Enterprise_Firewalls/Checkpoint_Firewall/Q_25148706.html+DirectAccess+Server+Behind+Firewall+Without+NAT&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@but

Direct Access behimd pix firewall

Anyone here running direct access behind a pix firewall? I really don't trust this yet and it is in testing mode. Luke L. Brumbaugh Network Engineer Butler Animal Health Supply Ph:(614) 659-1736 ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE - The

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

I think we ARE seeing this issue. We seem to see four versions of the disc: one for each route (2 HBAs x 2 FC switches to SAN). PowerPath is new here, so trying to get a handle on this. -sc From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:59 AM

Re: GPO and folder redirections

You don't need to raise the FFL or DFL. You also don't need a 2008 or 2008 R2 DC - a member server will be fine. Heck, a Vista or Win7 desktop with the appropriate RSAT will do just fine. On 7/29/2010 12:35 PM, James Rankin wrote: > Spin up a 2008 or 2008 R2 DC, and I think this might let you hav

Re: GPO and folder redirections

Spin up a 2008 or 2008 R2 DC, and I think this might let you have the extra GPOs without raising your FFL or DFL. I'm not sure on this though, off the top of my head - others may be able to confirm or deny. I am pretty sure I was using the new Group Policy Preferences before I upgraded my domain.

Re: Remote Recycle Bin Access?

Tried the attrib command and was able to remove the hidden setting on the main folder but not on the contents. I'll play with icacls. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Between attrib.exe and icacls.exe you can make it do what you

RE: Remote Recycle Bin Access?

Between attrib.exe and icacls.exe you can make it do what you want (if you are at least local admin). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:1

Re: Remote Recycle Bin Access?

It's definitely a perms issue. But Windows 7 balks at altering a "system" folder and its contents. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ralph Smith wrote: > Did you check permissions? If Creator-Owner isn't listed you may have to add > it or give yourself

RE: Password question

2010 sp1. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password question Cool, so with 2010, I don'

RE: Password question

Cool, so with 2010, I don't have to uncheck the User must change password" option? >>> Paul Gordon 7/29/2010 9:38 AM >>> What version of Exchange / OWA? If 2010, then yes, via the ECP, users can perform various self-service activities at will... If 2007, then the option is also there under

RE: Sunbelt's Archiver vs. others

I like Sunbelt's solution and I like RedGate's solution. I think they are both very functional for the small/medium organization. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:38 AM

RE: Remote Recycle Bin Access?

Did you check permissions? If Creator-Owner isn't listed you may have to add it or give yourself permissions even after you take ownership. > -Original Message- > From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:38 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject

RE: Password question

What version of Exchange / OWA? If 2010, then yes, via the ECP, users can perform various self-service activities at will... If 2007, then the option is also there under Options Change Password... Also, as I recall, - since each of the above options require that the user is already logged

RE: Password question

As long as you don't check "User must change password at next logon" you should be ok. If you do check that, you're gonna want to wait for SP1 or put up and IIS 6 box with IISADMPWD configured. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2

Re: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

Our "parent" company is using SEP now and after viewing how well VIPRE functions in our environment is considering it as the only viable alternative when the Symantec contract is up in a month or two. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Carl Houseman wrote:

RE: Password question

The gotcha is that the functionality has been reduced in 2007 pre-SP3 and 2010 pre-SP1. There is no way to change an expired password without these latest SPs. In 2003, IISADMPWD, with all it's warts, at least let you deal with expired passwords. However it looks to be very nice in 2010 once SP1

RE: Password question

Would be going to Exchange 2010. The users' only access would be through OWA, no full client on the desktop. >>> Brian Desmond 7/29/2010 9:01 AM >>> What version of Exchange? This functionality has been there forever although there are some limitations. It's more or less fully there in Exchan

Re: Auditing in Windows 2008 and R2 what are folks doing?

There are TCP syslog options. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:50, Ken Schaefer wrote: > We are implementing this in an even bigger environment. However syslog runs > over UDP (natively) and it’s not reliable. You’d need to use software that > gives you more reliability (e.g. by sending the traffic ove

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

I concur. We've had Vipre for *about* 6 months or so, since just before the new version came out. We've had a few F/Ps, but most of them were nothing serious... a little OEM-included software, usually, specific to the OEM (HP.) This past week, we had some F/Ps of .lnk files, but since they're just

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

We have several hundred customer sites all protected with Vipre. Yes there have been issues, but what software product doesn't have some issues. The performance, reduced management issues, and phenomenal..Did I mention phenomenal support when there are questions or issues is worth it..PERIOD

RE: Physical to Virtual backup

Just in case anyone is curious, I finally gave up waiting for someone here to tell me how to do it, and Googled the question of Virtual to Physical. According to VMWare, it *can* be done, but it's a pain, so I think I'll go with something like Ghost 4 Linux to image the PC in question instead of vi

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

+100. I have very similar setups with nearly identical results. Much happier users and admins! -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre effectiveness & false positives I've been ru

Re: Sunbelt's Archiver vs. others

I'm archiving after 30 days as per recommendation from Sunbelt not to cause issues with BB's, I do not do Direct Archiving. SJ On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Bob Fronk wrote: > Are you using Journaling or SEA Direct Archive? > > > > *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] > *Sent

RE: Password question

What version of Exchange? This functionality has been there forever although there are some limitations. It's more or less fully there in Exchange 2007 SP3 and Exchange 2010 SP1. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mai

RE: MD3200i / VSphere

I have several MD3000i. Each management port has its own IP for redundant management. Each iScsi controller has two ports, again, for redundancy. You can change any of these IPs via the Dell software. I do not know if they can be bonded to increase throughput. I suggest contacting Dell supp

Re: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

I've been running VIPRE Enterprise in two different environments for over two years, one with 175 nodes and one with 250 nodes. Yes, there have been issues with false positives during that time and they've been more than an annoyance. However, since the files have been quarantined and not deleted

RE: Sunbelt's Archiver vs. others

Are you using Journaling or SEA Direct Archive? From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sunbelt's Archiver vs. others I'm using SEA but have no experience with others, I have 225 mailboxes and need to add abo

Password question

Cross-posted here and in the Exchange list: Are you able to change your AD password from within OWA? We have the following situation: 1) Novell currently handles our authentication, users, e-mail, etc. We have a Windows domain, but it's only for applications. 2) We are planning a migration

RE: Physical to Virtual backup

I did Google. My interest was to see what experts on the list were doing. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Physical to Virtual backup If you Google the subject of this email you will find a ton of resources

Re: Auditing in Windows 2008 and R2 what are folks doing?

Definitely, for auditing purposes, you should use software that will send reliable Syslogs, as per RFC3195 Or something similar... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > We are implementing this in an even bigger environment. However syslog r

Re: Sunbelt's Archiver vs. others

I'm using SEA but have no experience with others, I have 225 mailboxes and need to add about 25 more, I have been using it for about 15 months and have archived about 5,5 mil emails in about 200Gb. Very easy to manage, works great with Outlook remote and OWA. I’m quite happy with it. Stefan On Th

Re: Remote Recycle Bin Access?

Thanks. I've copied the entire folder (3.5 GB) over to my machine and see two SID entries but can't view the contents. I tried taking ownership but no go. Suggestions? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM

Sunbelt's Archiver vs. others

I'm doing research for a company considering implementing archiving. I like the looks of Sunbelt's product, but wondering if anyone else's research has uncovered any relatively objective comparisons of current archiving products. I've even inquired of Sunbelt Sales but they've been unable to prov

Vipre effectiveness & false positives

For all of you staunch Vipre supporters, I'm just wondering, are you still so staunch given the various false positives over the past year? It seems like I remember reading here about one every quarter or so, and I can confirm at least 3 since (from online records and messages I didn't delete) si

Re: Remote Recycle Bin Access?

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Roger Wright wrote: > I need to browse to a remote XP machine and view the Recycle Bin for a > particular user.  I see the hidden Recycler folder in the root of C: > but it's empty.  Is there another location I can search? The Recycle Bin for a user is stored p

Re: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

I've got some 2008 boxes...nothing R2 yet. As someone has already mentioned, once a server has been zoned to the array, disk management will list several disks. Usually, installing PowerPath and scanning for hardware changes (or rebooting) will update disk management and present the correct disks b

Remote Recycle Bin Access?

I need to browse to a remote XP machine and view the Recycle Bin for a particular user. I see the hidden Recycler folder in the root of C: but it's empty. Is there another location I can search? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog

RE: GPO and folder redirections

Maybe this would work - first redirect those folders out from under "My Documents" to a new folder in the user's profile, such as "My Media Files" The location of these folders is set in the registry under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Use r Shell

RE: online backup for business in the UK

Are the sites connected together? Budget? How much data on each site? How much data changes per day (MBs/GBs)? Off site = not the home site for the data, or building/location with nothing to do with the company? - DFS server at each site? - Robocopy site A to site B, site B to site C, and sit

online backup for business in the UK

Hello All I have had an enquiry from a small company with 3 offices, all internet connected, who have a requirement to back up their data offsite and automatically Does anybody use such a service based in the UK? If so who? How do you find it? Any Gotchas? Regards laurence ~ Finally, powerf

RE: GPO and folder redirections

Exactly. We're on 2003 R2, so I'm only seeing "My Documents", "Desktop" and "Application Data" as options to redirect. :-( -Original Message- From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

RE: GPO and folder redirections

2008 Domains have those ADM files built into GPM. You wont see those in 2003 using GPM by default. -Original Message- From: Wilhelm, Scott [mailto:swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO and folder redirections There are

RE: Auditing in Windows 2008 and R2 what are folks doing?

Ok here is another weird one. Still running Windows 2003 R2 FFL/DFL Domain, put a Windows 2008 R2 server into the servers OU accordingly, and set the audit policy locally via auditpol. I reboot the Windows 2008 R2 server and the audit policy is gone. Basically everything I set via audi

RE: GPO and folder redirections

There are GPs for those folders too. So, if you want to keep them local or redirect them elsewhere, you should be able to do that. HTH, Scott --- Scott Wilhelm Computer Technician Massena Central School District St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES (315) 764-3700 ext. 3046 "The harder I work, the luckie

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

We use power path here and yes before power path is put on, in disk management you will see multiple disks once power path is installed and server is rebooted it seems to fix itself. From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Iss

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

So you are pretty certain that it's simply seeing the same disk via different paths? If that is the case, and PowerPath is installed, I would take it up with EMC support. Bill Mayo From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010

GPO and folder redirections

Is there a way, using GPO and folder redirection to *exclude* some directories under "My Documents"? I'm thinking of using Folder Redirection, however, I can't find any way, using the GPO editor, to exclude things like "My Pictures" and "My Music." -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries

RE: Windows 7 - Libraries

I find this a bit disheartening, as we will be rolling out W7 boxes in the not too distant future. Has this improved since the timeframe you mentioned here? Did this by any chance have to do with one particular server O/S? IIRC Server 2k3 was a little less "equipped" for W7 GPOs than W2k8. Of co

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

Just did an uninstall and a reinstall and it seemingly worked, had the SAN man trespass the LUN, accordingly but still seeing some funky items there. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

I'm running PowerPath v5.3 (build 11) on a 2008R2 server connected to my CX4-240. I haven't seen this behavior. Dell r710 with QLogic HBAs. To the best of my understanding, you are correct - PowerPath basically makes sure that even though there are multiple physical paths to the target LUN, o

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

Not using MirrorView... We have a DMX 1000 SAN, on the backend and Qlogic HBA's on the server, along with the Powerpath V5.3 SP1, which claims via the documentation to support Windows 2008 R2. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Ema

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

I don't have PowerPath on any 2008 servers, so I can't speak to that. Are you using MirrorView? If so, it is possible that you are seeing the mirror copy of the disk as well as the original. Bill Mayo From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thur

RE: Auditing in Windows 2008 and R2 what are folks doing?

I'll chime in with my 2 cents. We are in the same situation, but we did have a small SCOM implementation. Only used for KMS reporting. I convinced management to buy licenses so we could monitor the domain controllers using ACS. Prior to that I looked at this product: http://www.diskmonitor.com/

EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

Folks, Is anyone out there using EMC powerpath with Windows 2008 R2, to present LUN's from an EMC SAN to servers/Clusters etc etc? My SAN Guy, basically is telling me that the role service of Multipath I/O is added to the server when the EMC Powerpath is added but when the drives are prese

RE: Physical to Virtual backup

At least it would keep your users up and running until you rebuilt your physical box in one way or another. And since we're on the topic of VMware. All you Central IL admins, don't forget the VMUG meeting next week in Normal at ISU. Been a while since we had one and I'm sure it will fill up fas

RE: WDS, PXE Proxy & Split DHCP

I'm not sure if that will work-the WDS server is probably set not to listen on port 67, which is where a normal (non-pxe) DHCP server is probably sending the packets. It looks like from here (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680753.aspx) that you should be able to figure out which

RE: Auditing in Windows 2008 and R2 what are folks doing?

Thanks Ken, appreciate the insight as always. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:50 AM To: NT System A

RE: Auditing in Windows 2008 and R2 what are folks doing?

We are implementing this in an even bigger environment. However syslog runs over UDP (natively) and it's not reliable. You'd need to use software that gives you more reliability (e.g. by sending the traffic over TCP) if you need this to produce reliable log files centrally. Cheers Ken From: Zi