RE: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
Fessing up is certainly the fallback plan if I can't make something work - I'd have no problem buying an additional add-in card on my dime if I could make this work somehow. I don't mind the egg on my face (it happens), I think I'm more bummed that this shiny new hardware can't be used :) On

RE: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
R5 sucks for that use case imho. Almost all (I say almost s I presume there are some that don't, but I haven't had any) SAS cards support SATA drives. Backup the data and remove the existing sata card, then use the sas card for all of it, pending it has internal connectors? Model number of

Re: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
In many cases, changing the card will have an impact on the array, so care must be taken to backup all the data (preferably as an image) to another location before proceeding. I'd check with Dell first and validate the plan of action. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the

Re: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:27 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I figured I’d create a RAID5 volume and point SQL over to this new drive array and performance should be much improved ... You generally don't want database log files on a RAID5 array. Additionally, most cheaper RAID cards

RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via GPO?

2011-10-13 Thread Ziots, Edward
I will take a look at it today, going to test out my GPO's before putting them on the production system. Kinda why I tell folks not to use local accounts, but sometimes stuff sneaks through and its typically vendor related. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security

Seeking modular equipment for temporary training location

2011-10-13 Thread Tom Miller
Hi Folks, We have a new medical system coming on-line in less than a year. One of my tasks is to find training space and configure it. There is plenty of commercial real estate available, so finding an office space isn't the issue. I'm looking for something that I can build modular walls

RE: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
Thanks for the replies. I will likely just punt and return the hardware (heck maybe I'll buy it from them, I could likely find a use for it at home in my lab) vs. the risk of flipping things around, the LAST thing I want is to kill something that works! This hardware was pretty inexpensive at

RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via GPO?

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
I do exactly this, it's awesome. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via GPO? I will take a look at it today, going to test

Re: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread Bill Humphries
If this is full blown sql, i'd avoid putting the sql app on the SBS server and have an app server and a SBS server. Bill David Lum wrote: Thanks for the replies. I will likely just punt and return the hardware (heck maybe I'll buy it from them, I could likely find a use for it at home in my

Re: Staff training

2011-10-13 Thread James Kerr
I like the Train Signal discs. James On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Ralph Smith m...@gatewayindustries.orgwrote: ** Thanks, i'll check those two resources as well. I appreciate all the comments. -- Another option is to check the local community

Re: RIM Outages NYC?

2011-10-13 Thread justino garcia
Did anyone catch the 10 am confference call. According the CEO, for any current delays, pull the battery. Is every back to normal? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:59 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: But it’s a great way to point a finger and not have anyone actually held responsible.

IPAD+ IOS 5.0, Any one roll it out yet in the enterprise

2011-10-13 Thread justino garcia
Any roll of of IOS 5.0 for ipads? Any gotchas? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or

Re: OT - Blackberry Outage

2011-10-13 Thread justino garcia
Did anyone catch the 10 am confference call. According the CEO, for any current delays, pull the battery. Is every back to normal? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ben Serebin b...@reefsolutions.com wrote: Hello All, Snip from RIM website below. Summary: failure of testing

RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

2011-10-13 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Yes, a rather odd summary... there are issues with this review. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A more generalized comparison of AV products More about system load than efficacy,

Re: RIM Outages NYC?

2011-10-13 Thread kz20fl
Here in the UK we finally have some email service, thankfully Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:34:46 To: NT System Admin

Re: RIM Outages NYC?

2011-10-13 Thread justino garcia
to fix delay issues, RIM CEO says pull battery. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: **Here in the UK we finally have some email service, thankfully Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment --

RE: OT - Blackberry Outage

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Fronk
That is Blackberry rule #1 - When in doubt, pull it out. Might apply to other situations as well. BF From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Blackberry Outage Did anyone catch the 10 am

RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
How would a clean config be slower than with an AV product installed? (boot, etc). -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:alex.eckelbe...@gfi.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

RE: Staff training

2011-10-13 Thread Ralph Smith
Good to know, thanks. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Staff training I like the Train Signal discs. James On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Ralph Smith m...@gatewayindustries.org wrote:

Re: IPAD+ IOS 5.0, Any one roll it out yet in the enterprise

2011-10-13 Thread S Powell
depending on how much is on your iDevice, it can take a VERY long time. 32gb iphone 3gs took 1.5 hours to finish. Otherwise no issues yet, iPhone and iPad seem fine, - Who'd you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:38, justino garcia

Re: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:40 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: This hardware was pretty inexpensive at just under $600, the quote I gave them earlier this year for a new server was $7500 soup to nuts (new server, SBS 2011, etc). IIRC the SBS software was almost as much as the physical

Re: OT - Blackberry Outage

2011-10-13 Thread RichardMcClary
He probably figured that, after nearly three years of Obama, we'd be used to it Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote on 10/13/2011 10:31:39 AM: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com 10/13/2011 10:32 AM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT

RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

2011-10-13 Thread Carl Houseman
Talk about issues... they were smart enough to think, let's use a slow disk to exacerbate the effect of addl. I/O - so how did they avoid thinking about doing the same for the other two performance resources, CPU and RAM? Yeah, it's Tomshardware, where they can't find anything with less than

Re: OT - Blackberry Outage

2011-10-13 Thread William Robbins
That may be the worst video I've seen in a while...well since the Netflix apology. - WJR On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:31, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: RIM's posted a talking head video of founder Mike Lazaridis on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ1esvGae_s I'd be more

Re: OT - Blackberry Outage

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
RIM's posted a talking head video of founder Mike Lazaridis on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ1esvGae_s I'd be more moved to accept his apology if he wasn't so obviously reading from a teleprompter with a carefully prepared script. The guy shows almost no emotion. -- Ben ~

RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via GPO?

2011-10-13 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yeah, Only way to keep the folks honest to tell you the truth. Jeremy Moskowitz GPO book is helping out a lot. ( Good refresher) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: David

Re: OT - Blackberry Outage

2011-10-13 Thread Erik Goldoff
But did he say put it back in ??? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Did anyone catch the 10 am confference call. According the CEO, for any current delays, pull the battery. Is every back to normal? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ben

RE: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
You said a PE 840, right? You can prolly upgrade to a new server for well under $2K, not including labor, if you keep the same software. True, but as they're on SBS 2003 I don't really want to move them to new hardware with an old OS. If it was 2008 R2-level then yeah, but I think it makes

RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via GPO?

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
+1 on the book. Own it. Love it. Do you get his e-mails too? He's a funny guy... Dave From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via

RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via GPO?

2011-10-13 Thread Ziots, Edward
Didn't sign up for the emails yet ( I should since we are standardizing on GPO's to lock down the show here). I am pretty sure its GP Answers.com. Yeah I heard he is a hoot, but nobody beats Miansi... J Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan

RE: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread Sam Cayze
Never had an issue returning anything to Dell, for what it's worth. -Sam From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What would YOU do? Background: A %nightjob% client (17 employees) of mine has a

RE: IPAD+ IOS 5.0, Any one roll it out yet in the enterprise

2011-10-13 Thread Terry Dickson
Did you see Jon Harris's post yesterday including this link? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220782/iOS_5_upgrade_error_reports_flood_Apple_s_support_forum -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:38 AM To: NT

RE: What would YOU do?

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Fronk
True. Often they will offer a discount for you to keep it. (At least this has happened to me on a number of occasions. I did take them up on it once) BF From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What would YOU

Re: IPAD+ IOS 5.0, Any one roll it out yet in the enterprise

2011-10-13 Thread S Powell
Yes, seems that the sheer volume of people updating, hurt them, as well as people updating jailbroken phones. i'm not really seeing anything else that is giving me pause. but I'm not going to update the iPhones that people here at work use until tomorrow. My personal updates went without issue,

RE: Missing disk space

2011-10-13 Thread John Cook
What version of Windows are we talking? Physical or virtual? Possibly pagefile space depending on how much RAM is in the machine. IIRC 2008R2 creates a pagefile equal to the physical RAM by default. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place

Re: Missing disk space

2011-10-13 Thread kz20fl
If you are configured for full memory dumps, 2008 R2 creates a file to reserve space for the crash dump. I would expect that to show in a Treesize report to be fair though. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: John

Re: Missing disk space

2011-10-13 Thread Steve Ens
Shadow copies? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi chaps I have a server drive that’s out of space. It's not the system drive just a drive used for file storage. Treesize Free is showing 245GB in use but it has 303GB available and the

Re: Missing disk space

2011-10-13 Thread Stefan Jafs
Do you have Shadow Copies enabled? Stefan On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi chaps I have a server drive that’s out of space. It's not the system drive just a drive used for file storage. Treesize Free is showing 245GB in use but it

I detect no bias in this article

2011-10-13 Thread Kurt Buff
That's a bit of irony, for those who read the article... http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcleland/2011/10/12/jobs-apple-standard-vs-pages-google-standard/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To

RE: Missing disk space

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
+1 I had a server out of space until I discovered the shadow copy stuff... Dave From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Missing disk space Shadow copies? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Oliver Marshall

word shadow copy recovery *.tmp

2011-10-13 Thread justino garcia
User delted a word document. all I was able to recover is .tmp from his local PC. I can't not seem to pen .tmp word (shadow copy) in word? Any ideas. thanks -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Issue with Group Policy Audit Policy

2011-10-13 Thread Christopher Bodnar
W2K3 FFL An auditor brought this to our attention: So far I've seen this on every system I've connected to. Per the info on the Precedence tab, I've looked in the Winlogon.log file but don't see anything that would indicate what is causing this. Domain controllers seem to be fine. I've

Re: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread kz20fl
I remember the big mac virus recently was socially engineered - but that's definitely the mac's biggest vulnerability. Given that mac users generally believe they are invulnerable, its an arguably bigger vector than the same one on a Windows system. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless

RE: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
Well, we're getting a Mac invasion here and there is zero apparent concern for managing these things or worrying about vulnerabilities. To get to AD resources they're standing up Win7 VM's but doing as much work as possible on the native MacOS. They can get to the Internet, file shares,

Re: Issue with Group Policy Audit Policy

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: W2K3 FFL What server OS version and service pack? What client OS version and service pack? So far I've seen this on every system I've connected to. Have you checked the system to see what it's

Re: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread kz20fl
Give them the citrix receiver. Or vmware's appblast. Then you can deliver your corporate apps securely and without worrying about the macs. Of course, there's a certain expenditure involved in setting the infrastructure to provide these things. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device,

Re: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread Steven Peck
The most recent big one was the Mac Defender. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Defender Apple's initial response was 'head inthe ground'. Due to outrage they did eventually provide a fix. QUOTE According to Sophos, by May 24, there had been sixty thousand calls to AppleCare

Re: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread S Powell
I know that many people on this list use GPO to whitelist apps in windows, you can do the same on a mac with parental controls. We have a few, laptops and iMacs; and while they are only used by admins, we have had normal users using them in the past. we have used Sophos and ClamXAV, but for the

Re: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread kz20fl
Whitelist is a very blunt tool. If software is replaced, upgraded or patched things soon get messy and involve a lot of administrative overhead. It is also not very flexible. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: S

Wireless / Wired bridging

2011-10-13 Thread Juned Shaikh
Hi, Security folks are hounding on this and any help will be highly appreciated. Setup Cisco wireless network - Highly secure configuration. No issues there. When a laptop are docked, the Win7 workstations gets IPs from both the network ; Wired and wireless. - Route print command clear

RE: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Here is a link to a 50 minute speech by Carlos Perez at DerbyCon a few weeks ago. He is the lead vulnerability researcher for Tenable Networks. About a third of the way into it he goes into detail about Lion vulnerabilities. Short version, he say's 'Lion, the new Vista. Thank you Apple!' quite

RE: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Watch that video I sent you in my previous message. If they are hitting file shares with native MAC their passwords are sitting there on the hard drive for everyone to see and get. In Lion, the latest version. Prior versions are ok. From: David Lum

Re: Macs and vunerabilities

2011-10-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You can dig into these: http://secunia.com/advisories/product/96/?task=advisories_2011 * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:45 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Does anyone have a link to an

Re: Wireless / Wired bridging

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha...@gmail.com wrote: When a laptop are docked, the Win7 workstations gets IPs from both the network ; Wired and wireless. Is the security concern right? Without knowing what's driving the concern -- what the configuration of your network(s)