OT: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
I haven't seen any emails from this list since Sunday @ 6:30pm EST, which is very unusual Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/

Re: OT: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Jonathan Link
Reading you five by five. You should get this message twice. If you get it only once, lyris has sc'ed you and you should contact Sunbelt. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: I haven’t seen any emails from this list since Sunday @ 6:30pm EST,

Re: OT: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread William Robbins
I see yours. :) - WJR On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:07, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.comwrote: I haven’t seen any emails from this list since Sunday @ 6:30pm EST, which is very unusual…. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates,

RE: OT: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
10-4, thanks! Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com]

RE: OT: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Got both, thanks! Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Jonathan Link

RE: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Ziots, Edward
Its running, I got some Lyrsis rejected messages over the weekend. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Monday,

Network migration advice

2010-11-15 Thread Eric Brouwer
Greetings, I just started work for a company with two local domains. The second domain was acquired in a merger. Here's where it gets weird. The same guy setup both original domains/networks so the servers have the same names. All the servers ar old, and running Server 2003. Each domain also

Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread David Lum
How do you guys handle matching users to machines? We currently have a PC naming standard of firstinitiallastname-model but this obviously doesn't scale. One possibility is putting the user name in the description field in AD (I do this for %sidejob%), but I was wondering if there was a better

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Ames Matthew B
We do: letter1letter2-username Where: letter1 = domain the machine sits in letter2 = d for desktop, l for laptop username = my logon name. Each machine is assigned to a member of staff and when they leave the machine is rebuild before assigning to someone else. If I had multiple machines,

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Don Guyer
We put them in the description field in AD, as you mentioned. If we are troubleshooting general use computers where we need to know who's logged into a particular machine, I use Hyena. For names, we use geographical_location-position-number (Phila-IT-01, etc, etc). Don Guyer Systems

Re: Network migration advice

2010-11-15 Thread Jeff Brown
Might make a HUGE difference if one of the domains has small number of users? On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Eric Brouwer ithelp.e...@gmail.comwrote: Greetings, I just started work for a company with two local domains. The second domain was acquired in a merger. Here's where it gets

Re: RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Tony Patton
In new %dayjob% the convention is personnelnumbertype where type is lt or dt. Previous job was siteOS-assettagno so it was like cnxp-0, all logins were recorded to user and machine text files so either could be looked up. T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 15 Nov 2010 16:59, Ames Matthew B

Re: Network migration advice

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
How much do you trust either of the existing domains? In the short-term, upgrading one of the existing will be faster. If you are concerned about configurations, however, started from scratch would be better long-term. Either of your two approaches could be made to work, depending on your

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Put them in the description or keep that information in a spreadsheet or inventory database somewhere. I try to using computer naming conventions that have as little to do with usernames as possible. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business

Re: Network migration advice

2010-11-15 Thread Eric Brouwer
While both domains are relatively small (less than 100 users in the larger), the smaller domain has roughly 15 users. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jeff Brown 2jbr...@gmail.com wrote: Might make a HUGE difference if one of the domains has small number of users? On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Malcolm Reitz
We use an asset management and tracking tool to show the assignment of PCs to users. The PC names don't have any relationship to the user. Putting user information in the PC names doesn't scale well, as you note. -Malcolm From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday,

Disabling a large number of computer accounts at once - ADMOD?

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Leone
I have a CSV file of computer accounts that I need to set to DISABLED in AD, and move to a Disabled OU. My thinking is that I should probably be able to do that with ADFIND and ADMOD. But I have 2 questions: 1. The example has: adfind -default -f (samaccounttype=805306368)(name=joe)

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Erik Goldoff
Besides the actual workstation name, I used to run a Kixtart script ( use your favorite scripting tho’ ) and appended/piped information on login to a CSV file, including logged in username and workstation name. That way I always had a fairly current cross reference regardless of what moves (

RE: Disabling a large number of computer accounts at once - ADMOD?

2010-11-15 Thread Brian Desmond
You have to pass userAccountControl over because uacSet:2 is actually doing an OR - (userAccountrControl OR 2) = userAccountControl. I imagine you should be able to do the move in the same operation. Does your CSV have a list of DNs? I believe you would actually want to use the CSV input mode

Re: Disabling a large number of computer accounts at once - ADMOD?

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Leone
On 11/15/2010 12:26 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: You have to pass userAccountControl over because uacSet:2 is actually doing an OR - (userAccountrControl OR 2) = userAccountControl. I imagine you should be able to do the move in the same operation. Actually, it didn't seem to work (perhaps I

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Leone
On 11/15/2010 12:19 PM, Malcolm Reitz wrote: We use an asset management and tracking tool to show the assignment of PCs to users. The PC names don’t have any relationship to the user. Putting user information in the PC names doesn’t scale well, as you note. Especially if users share PCs, as

RE: Network migration advice

2010-11-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
I would lean toward starting from scratch, or upgrading the larger domain and then removing users and computers from the smaller domain and adding them to the larger. It would be a piece of cake to export user accounts from both domains, double check the list against HR, and then import into

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Don Kuhlman
We don't relate user names to machine names, but keep a spreadsheet or inventory list to say who has what equipment. We have used some different naming standards over time. An example is: 1st char = C (computer), L (Laptop), S (Server), P (Printer) 2nd/3rd char = geographical (either state or

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Paul Hutchings
I have our logon script set to automatically populate the machine description in ADUC to the username, department, and date and time of the logon, so we always have a pretty good idea who should know where a machine is. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread David Lum
Interesting, I hadn't considered this trick. I'm guessing you have no machines that are shared? Dave -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Workstation names and who it

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Paul Hutchings
We have lots that are shared, that's one of the main drivers for doing it that way, it doesn't matter who logs on, if you know you need machine XYZ but that's all you know, you can just look in ADUC and see who is/was on it, not have to consult a spreadsheet/database and still only know who you

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Don Kuhlman
Gotta ask if the code is available for looking at? Sounds cool.   -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to I have our logon script

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
You'll also need to grant the Write Description permission on computer objects to the users. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Leone
On 11/15/2010 12:57 PM, Don Kuhlman wrote: We don't relate user names to machine names, but keep a spreadsheet or inventory list to say who has what equipment. We have used some different naming standards over time. An example is: 1st char = C (computer), L (Laptop), S (Server), P

RE: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Carl Houseman
http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/login/ can always tell you about recent messages received and forwarded to the list. Carl From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Is this list still

Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread Brumbaugh, Luke
Anyone using backup exec 2010 r2 with VMWare agent? Are you backing up esxi versions? If so what are your feelings? Luke L. Brumbaugh Network Engineer Butler Animal Health Supply Ph:(614) 659-1736 ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE -

Re: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Jonathan Link
Well, that's no fun. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/login/ can always tell you about recent messages received and forwarded to the list. Carl *From:* Raper, Jonathan - Eagle

Re: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread Damien Solodow
Yep. ESX and ESXi 4.1 and it just works. -- Sent using BlackBerry From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerschein.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 02:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Backup exec 2010 r2

Re: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread William Robbins
And besides you miss out on all the social interaction...who wants to just talk to a machine? ;) - WJR On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 13:40, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Well, that's no fun. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.comwrote:

OT: Shoretel

2010-11-15 Thread RS
Any Shoretel users out there I can bounce some questions off of? Off list, of course. Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

show arp table on netgear GS716T?

2010-11-15 Thread jesse-rink
I'm not very familiar with these Netgear switches. Is there a way to view the arp table? I can't find it in the web interface.. Not even sure if there's a command line interface on this device? I need to locate where a machine is with a given IP address.. any tips on this netgear gs716t box?

RE: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone here able to speak about something called VEEAM? Got a consultant who wants to get it for us to use to manage a couple virtualized servers. They said we'd need the paid-for version of VMWARE. :-( From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010

RE: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
[jumps up and down, shouting out like a young child] Pick me! Pick me! Me! Me! Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/

Re: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread Cameron
I've played with VEEAM fairly recently for my ESXi box. Seemed to work ok and the speed on this version was not bad at all. I remember trying it before and the version then had REALLY bad performance. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:16 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Anyone here

RE: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
They have products to enhance management and backup virtual guests, but you don’t NEED them in order to run VM's -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 4:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup exec 2010

Hijack - Veeam - was RE: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Veeam is good for monitoring and mapping your vmware environment. It (Veeam reporter, at least) is licensed per processor (not per core) if you're over 6 procs. Its good stuff, but it is also quite expensive. If you need to be able to monitor server sprawl (if that is a problem for you) then I

Re: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread Harry Singh
I'm torn between getting the licenses necessary to augment my current BE 2010 setup, VEAM or vRanger for backing up my VM's. curious to see if anyone has any experiences with any of these platforms. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: I've played with VEEAM

Re: Hijack - Veeam - was RE: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread Cameron
Just for a benchmark. I haven't used it for anything more then backing up some VM's, but get about 50mb/s going across the local lan gb backbone. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Veeam is good for monitoring and mapping your vmware

RE: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
No, I think the idea was that it would keep two boxes synchronous, so that if the VM failed on one, I could bring the same, exact VM up on another machine easily. -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010

RE: Backup exec 2010 r2

2010-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
The plan was to have VEEAM running to keep two physical machines in sync running the same VMs on both (or at least having a hot backup of the other server on another physical machine) and to use something like Backup Exec to back up the VMs. From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: Is this list still running?

2010-11-15 Thread Steven Peck
I see where the problem is. Jonathan is 'jumping' not running. In order for this list to function, someone must be 'running'. Steven On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: *[jumps up and down, shouting out like a young child*] Pick me! Pick me!

RE: show arp table on netgear GS716T?

2010-11-15 Thread Carl Houseman
According to the index in the FM that you could RT, there is a CLI presented when you telnet to the device, and there's a CLI command show mac-address-table. Unfortunately, the manual fails to describe any of the CLI commands that are referenced in the index... the pages referenced do not

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: I have our logon script set to automatically populate the machine description in ADUC to the username, department, and date and time of the logon, so we always have a pretty good idea who should know where a machine is.

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: We don't relate user names to machine names, but keep a spreadsheet or inventory list to say who has what equipment. We've got an ad-hoc MS Access database which keeps track of which user a computer is assigned to.

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
You must have lots of duplicate name issues. -- ME2 On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Ames Matthew B mba...@qinetiq.com wrote: We do: letter1letter2-username Where: letter1 = domain the machine sits in letter2 = d for desktop, l for laptop username = my logon name. Each machine is

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/15/2010 08:21 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: I have our logon script set to automatically populate the machine description in ADUC to the username, department, and date and

RE: show arp table on netgear GS716T?

2010-11-15 Thread Jesse Rink
Hmm odd.. I could not telnet into the box at all. Oh well. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: show arp table on netgear GS716T? According to the index in the FM that you

Re: Terminal Server or VPN?

2010-11-15 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 10 Nov 2010 at 15:22, Joseph Heaton wrote: Bad weather event? wow, the rivers would have to be really over the banks for that to happen here in Sacramento. No snow, no tornados, man we don't get any of that fun stuff. Earthquake upgrades force temporary move for Sacramento's St.

Re: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-15 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 10 Nov 2010 at 11:27, Ben Scott wrote: PDFCreator is the one we've been using. Works great for us. Lots of customization options if you want them, but the defaults are good, too. I guess some releases offer to install a browser toolbar, but you can exclude that. Yep. I have a

Re: Personal USB drives

2010-11-15 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 9 Nov 2010 at 12:50, Jon Harris wrote: Which one(s) the small pocket one or the larger one? I have used the larger one but would really prefer not to go that route. Small. And get one which only requires ONE USB port. The bigger ones have power supply issues. -- Angus Scott-Fleming

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
Why? Cheers Ken From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to You must have lots of duplicate name issues. -- ME2 On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Ames

RE: Loooooong ping times

2010-11-15 Thread Jesse Rink
I'd recommend this as well.I've had issues at various clients where they could only download at a fraction of their available internet speed available and it always turns out they have multiple port mismatch errors (duplexing and speed) between the internet handoff, firewall, and potential

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Ray
We're government agency so everything has an asset tag. Our naming convention is pretty much 3 letters (site) with the asset tag number. We have a login script that writes login info to a centralized location in the rare case we actually want to associate a name to a machine. -Original

RE: Cisco's Unified Computing System

2010-11-15 Thread Ryan Finnesey
I hope to leverage what we spend on networking hardware to bring down the cost of cisco servers. Everyone I talk with as been very happy with them. Cheers Ryan From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 2:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

2010-11-15 Thread Ryan Finnesey
I have always loved Hyena From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues. Subject: RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to We put them in the description field in AD, as you mentioned. If we are troubleshooting

RE: show arp table on netgear GS716T?

2010-11-15 Thread Carl Houseman
There are 3 different versions of the GS716T. The v1 manual mentions telnet, the v2/v3 manual does not. Most likely they forgot to remove some references to telnet and CLI commands in the v1 manual. The v2/v3 manual does talk about searching the MAC address table through the web GUI. Carl

Add/Remove programs showing blank on Windows 2003 SP2 Server

2010-11-15 Thread Haritwal, Dhiraj
Hello Everybody, I am unable to see programs list under Add/Remove programs in one of our Windows 2003 SP2 server. I have tried to run regsvr32 appwiz.cpl also, not no difference. There was a Fixit for this on MS Site, tried that also but still no solution. Tried to run sfc /scannow /