Re: Free/cheap mailing list software - feedback on Groupman?

2010-10-01 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 30 Sep 2010 at 15:25, Carl Houseman wrote: Well... I want to install the solution on an SBS 2003 server.I wonder how Mercury and Exchange would get along? (!) Yeah, I think NOT having a built-in mail server is a plus for this situation. You didn't mention that in the original mail.

Re: Restricting groups in Active Directory

2010-10-01 Thread James Rankin
Wowthis thread went off on one. Not to try and resurrect it or anythingbut I recall that you mentioned some strange permissions on DCs that could be inherited by the Server Operators group. Do you have any further details on these - purely out of interest. I know a few admins who've used

RE: Strange disappearing DVD Drive.

2010-10-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
There's no such thing with PCI/PCIe anymore. Each device driver needs to register interrupt handling code, and these are chained together. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, 1 October 2010 3:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread James Rankin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069 Probably well overdue, in hindsight -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could

Re: Restricting groups in Active Directory

2010-10-01 Thread James Kerr
good choice Now if you'll excuse me there is a Guinness with my name on it calling me. WJR - from my Crackberry. If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck. -- From: Webster

RE: Free/cheap mailing list software - feedback on Groupman?

2010-10-01 Thread John Aldrich
Yeah... Black-listing is a good reason to let someone else do your mass-mailing for you. Also, would be a good idea to get confirmation from those that you are going to be sending regular mailings to that they are willing to accept those regular mailings, otherwise, you'll start getting spam

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
It will be interesting to see if this version manages to do what EFI didn't... -sc From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: The end of the BIOS is nigh... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Erik Goldoff
It’s all about standards … either it has to emulate BIOS to interface with existing Operating Systems, or the OS developers have to code future versions to it and drop any backwards hardware capability. ( or bloat the os more with dual capability ??? ) Chicken or the Egg ? Erik Goldoff

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:59 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069 We've heard that before. Maybe this time it will come true. Modern BIOSes usually don't take more than a few seconds to boot, so that seems like a non-issue. The single

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: It’s all about standards … either it has to emulate BIOS to interface with existing Operating Systems, or the OS developers have to code future versions to it and drop any backwards hardware capability.  ( or bloat the os

RE: Consultants

2010-10-01 Thread Gasper, Rick
I am jumping in here late but.. If you cannot restore your data in less than a week, you might as well close. The current thinking in D/R is that 90% of businesses fail if data cannot be recovered within 7 days. The first good thing you came up with is that you need help. Keep in mind most

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread RichardMcClary
No more BIOS? That means no more chuckles over Bad or missing keyboard - press F1 to continue :-( James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote on 10/01/2010 05:59:49 AM: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069 Probably well overdue, in hindsight -- On two occasions...I have been

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread James Kerr
Love how they capitalize UEFI but not BIOS. Quality. - Original Message - From: James Rankin To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 6:59 AM Subject: The end of the BIOS is nigh... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069 Probably well overdue, in

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread RichardMcClary
Perhaps it is BIAS? James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote on 10/01/2010 08:21:15 AM: Love how they capitalize UEFI but not BIOS. Quality. - Original Message - From: James Rankin To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 6:59 AM Subject: The end of the BIOS is

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:18 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: No more BIOS?  That means no more chuckles over Bad or missing keyboard - press F1 to continue   :-( Oh, I'm sure IBM's implementation of $NEW_THING will retain their error messages. They've held on for 30 years, why would

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andy Shook
I found the picture of the floppy disk quite hilarious. Shook From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh... Love how they capitalize UEFI but not BIOS. Quality. - Original Message

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Carl Houseman
It's all about names and marketing. The underlying and overall function of the firmware must still be the same. But this is NEW! and You Need It to be on the cutting edge. It wouldn't have the same promotional value had it been called BIOS 2.0 or NGBIOS. For sure, compatibility is a

RE: Free/cheap mailing list software - feedback on Groupman?

2010-10-01 Thread Carl Houseman
Had this really been about sales/marketing, of course I would recommend a 3rd party delivery. But it's not. In case you missed it, it's about sending weekly status to customers who ask for it. They currently do this with Outlook and a DL. I'm pushing Groupman to get past the DL-membership limit

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I liked the following: Mr Doran said the creators of the original Bios only expected it to have a lifetime of about 250,000 machines - a figure that has long been surpassed. They are as amazed as anyone else that now it is still alive and well in a lot of systems, he said. It was never really

RE: Free/cheap mailing list software - feedback on Groupman?

2010-10-01 Thread John Aldrich
Ahh...yeah, I missed that part. Still, having automated unsubscribe is a good idea. :-) Good luck! -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Free/cheap mailing list software -

Hide folders in a shre for users without permissions to that subfolder?

2010-10-01 Thread Phil FromWork
Windows 2003 SP1 I have a share on my file server called Share1 Under Share1 I have multiple subfolders. Permissions are not inherited to the subfolders. How do I prevents users from seeing the subfolders they do nto have any permissions too.. Currently they get an error saying Access denied

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I liked the following: Mr Doran said the creators of the original Bios only expected it to have a lifetime of about 250,000 machines - a figure that has long been surpassed. They are as amazed as anyone else that now

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Like the Y2K issue? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh... I liked the following: Mr Doran said the creators of the original Bios only expected it to have a

Re: Hide folders in a shre for users without permissions to that subfolder?

2010-10-01 Thread Jonathan Link
This should get you going in the right direction... http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2008/10/09/storage-tips-access-based-enumeration-hidden-secrets-no-pun-intended.aspx On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Phil FromWork philfromw...@gmail.comwrote: Windows 2003 SP1 I have a share on

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Something like that... *ASB* * * On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: Like the Y2K issue? *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, October 01, 2010 10:01 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: The end of the

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Like the Y2K issue? It's interesting to note that Y2K bugs keep happening, even in entirely new code. It's amazing how many programmers just don't expect users to enter a two-digit year, or assume tm.tm_year is the

RE: Hide folders in a shre for users without permissions to that subfolder?

2010-10-01 Thread Paul Gordon
The feature you need to work your Google-FU on is called Access Based Enumeration - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/abe.mspx Paul G. -Original Message- From: Phil FromWork [mailto:philfromw...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 October 2010 16:33 To: NT System Admin

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Everybody programming now will be dead in 3000... why should they bother? -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh... On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Paul Gordon
But how will we pronounce the new acronym?... we're all used to saying Bye-ohs, what about UEFI??? - perhaps You-fee or how about you-ay-fee or even you-ee-fee These things matter!!! J Paul G. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 01 October 2010 12:00 To: NT

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Jonathan Link
Probably the same thing we call our equipment. You effing mo... Oh, sorry. On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Paul Gordon paul_gor...@hotmail.comwrote: But how will we pronounce the new acronym?... we’re all used to saying “Bye-ohs”, what about UEFI??? – perhaps “You-fee” or how about

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread RichardMcClary
Reminds me of a university choral organization to which I belong... A breathing exercise/warm-up has us going F... S... SH... repeaditly. All I can think when doing this is, Hey, that's been my whole afternoon! Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote on 10/01/2010 11:32:43 AM:

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andy Shook
Awesome. Down in the south it's Hey, Bubba. Git to peckin' on that thar F1 key so you can dun git into th' configurin' screen 'n such Shook From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
However, the universal reply is always Byte me From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh... Awesome. Down in the south it's Hey, Bubba. Git to peckin' on that thar F1 key

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: It's interesting to note that Y2K bugs keep happening, even in entirely new code. It's amazing how many programmers just don't expect users to enter a two-digit year, or assume tm.tm_year is the current year not

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread James Kerr
You think people will be reading the archives of this list in the around year 3000? - Original Message - From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:01 PM Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Jonathan Link
What about the 2038 problem? On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: It's interesting to note that Y2K bugs keep happening, even in entirely new code. It's amazing how many

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: What about the 2038 problem? That's a somewhat different beast. Y2K is mainly a human factors problem, as it's humans who like two-digit years, not computers. (Contrary to popular belief, data storage capacity was

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Don Guyer
That's OK, it's all over by 2012. 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 mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Jonathan Link

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Don't forget 12/21/2012... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh... What about the 2038 problem? On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Why did Inbound and Outbound replication get disabled?

2010-10-01 Thread William Robbins
Since no one else has ventured an opinion I will, hesitantly, offer mine. My thoughts are that you may have had an issue similar to what is discussed here when a DC is restored from backups, and had a USN rollback. http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2006/03/08/597.aspx Again, only my

Outbound Email Checking

2010-10-01 Thread Level Five - List
I have a client who has been tasked with outbound mail scanning for content. I was looking at GFI Mail Security, im pretty sure their older version used to have something where you could stop outbound mail if it had keywords and that mail would get forwarded to their 'manager' who could then

RE: Outbound Email Checking

2010-10-01 Thread John Cook
Transport rules http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997187(EXCHG.80).aspx John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Michael B. Smith

Re: Why did Inbound and Outbound replication get disabled?

2010-10-01 Thread William Robbins
I'd have to agree with that. - WJR On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 14:39, Level Five - List li...@levelfive.us wrote: Most reading I have done in the past is to not convert your DC’s on the fly.. In every migration I have done, I would create a new DC vm, migrate the roles to it from the physical

RE: Outbound Email Checking

2010-10-01 Thread David Mazzaccaro
We use MessageLabs here From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outbound Email Checking You can do pretty much any outbound scanning that you want with Exchange

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I was more commenting in the laziness of people. -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh... On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caesare

RE: eeye eeye eeye oh! (www.eeye.com)

2010-10-01 Thread Marc Maiffret
Indeed we hate web visitors, especially to our online store! :) Happy Friday! -Marc From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: eeye eeye eeye oh! (www.eeye.com) Don't you get it, Marc wants you to stay away

Online backup downselect

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
Hi all, Looking at online backup solutions for a couple of very small offices. New product field for me. I've been reading docs and specs and stuff, and come to the conclusion that they all work for the basics. So, anyone here used *more than one* and care to comment on strengths of one vs

Re: Outbound Email Checking

2010-10-01 Thread Sean Martin
ProofPoint here. A lot happier with their latest version. - Sean On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: We use MessageLabs here -- *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Friday,

RE: Outbound Email Checking

2010-10-01 Thread Malcolm Reitz
Are you running it your Proofpoint server(s) in a VM or on an appliance? We're in the process of moving ours to a virtual environment and have had to make some adaptations to the recommended VM configuration to address performance issues. -Malcolm From: Sean Martin

Re: Outbound Email Checking

2010-10-01 Thread Sean Martin
We've got 4 appliances. - Sean On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Malcolm Reitz malcolm.re...@live.comwrote: Are you running it your Proofpoint server(s) in a VM or on an appliance? We’re in the process of moving ours to a virtual environment and have had to make some adaptations to the

RE: Tower Climbing

2010-10-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Ya. Too bad the camcorder wasn't able to catch more if it, but how tragic... -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 5:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tower Climbing On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Steven M.

RE: Online backup downselect

2010-10-01 Thread Sam Cayze
I have used Mozy Pro/Business for a few years. Love it. EMC owns it. Versioning, great reporting, email alerts, great management portal with robust policy management, quotas, encryption, throttling, etc. They even support VSS, SQL, and Exchange. Their new software enables a local copy to be

Re: Online backup downselect

2010-10-01 Thread Steven Peck
I've used the Microsoft's Mesh for my wife's system. It works great and has saved her from several issues. I currently have a Windows Home Server that does the image based backups every night. I am considering getting an online backup solution for just that box. Local copies then if I lose that

RE: Why did Inbound and Outbound replication get disabled?

2010-10-01 Thread Brian Desmond
This was my thought as well. I'd agree with others that it's not worth the risk using these cloning apps with DCs. The work to do the dcpromo down/up is trivial. If replication traffic is an issue cook off IFM media from the current DC and them promote from media on the new box. Thanks, Brian

RE: Restricting groups in Active Directory

2010-10-01 Thread Brian Desmond
Offhand I don't remember, but, if you go in GPMC and open up the Default Domain DC policies, you can browse down to computer\windows settings\security settings\user rights assignment and do browse through there assuming you haven't twiddled with the defaults. Thanks, Brian Desmond

RE: Online backup downselect

2010-10-01 Thread Level Five - List
If the data isn't too large you can use MS Mesh, I share it with my team here for all our clients docs/proposals/quotes, then I have one for my qbooks data that syncs between home, office, laptop so I always have my latest qbook data. Seems to work well. A friend of mine uses Skydrive and one of