RE: certifications

ITIL, TOGAF, CISSP are all examples of very broad certifications - they do exist Cheers Ken From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 5:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: certifications Certs are good for people who do 1 small job. For those people, you c

RE: Deploy MSI via SMS

Depends on which software it is, but there should be options (command line) to suppress those notifications. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Deploy MSI via SMS Should be easy right? When I run the MSI

RE: Deploy MSI via SMS

Try this instead of Orca. http://www.instedit.com/ -- Mike From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Deploy MSI via SMS Should be easy right? When I run the MSI directly, is asks for two questions: Acce

Re: certifications

Ah... I'm just waiting for more info. The first week or so is always filled with poor communication, backlash, backpeddling, and then something resembling a resolution. Wake me up when we get to that last bit. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology fo

Re: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

I just did this with Untangle.  Untangle is a linux distro that does web filtering, spam filtering, antivirus, and also has OpenVPN ssl vpn built in.    http://www.untangle.com It's been up for about 3 months and no problems so far. Mike Wiebke Rapid Fire Solutions ___

RE: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

Is Hamachi still around? Applicable? Painstaking typed on my mobile phone. Please excuse any misspellings and brevity. On Apr 11, 2012 4:42 PM, "Michael B. Smith" wrote: > I just did this just two weeks ago for a client using two 2008 R2 RRAS > boxes. Took like 30 minutes, so that part hasn’t

RE: Powershell verbose pref

It was the moment I tried without it:) Ugh, overlooked the obvious, I was convinced it had to be more difficult! Thanks a ton for all the help on this Michael! jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:18 PM To: NT System

RE: Powershell verbose pref

And in case it isn't clear, specifically what you will do is this: $foo | ft -auto | out-string | write-verbose From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Powershell verbose pref Use the pi

Re: certifications

+1 If the certifications were more generic (i.e. Windows, Messaging, Security, etc...) then I would agree they should be periodically updated. But they aren't. They are specific to a version of a product (i.e. Windows Server 2003, SCCM 2007, etc). Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I

RE: Powershell verbose pref

Use the pipeline, Luke. $foo | Write-Verbose That "unrolls" the object. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Powershell verbose pref Yeah, problem is, the return that gets shoved

RE: certifications

If I'm certified on Exchange 2010 - I should be certified on Exchange 2010. That doesn't mean I'm certified on "this version, every previous version, and every future version" of Exchange. IMHO. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:14

Re: certifications

I disagree. If you're a MCSE on 2008 and it's still in use why should some lapse in time change that? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 04:14 PM To: NT System Admin Iss

RE: certifications

+1 And Michael's comment that they are no longer permanent is a replay of the crap they tried to play when 2003 came out. It upset a lot of people and they backed off. I realize an MCSE in NT 4 for example does not roll up to 2008 R2, but dang it that person still earned an MCSE in NT 4. That p

RE: certifications

I tend to agree with Michael's thoughts and irritation with this one. I rather do the CPEs over 3 yrs and stay certified, than retake and plow through everything new like every 2-3 yrs. Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan

Re: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

+1 Or, if you have a couple of spare machines, pfsense with openvpn: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/OpenVPN_Site_To_Site Boot from a CD on each end, configure a couple of things, and you're good to go. Kurt On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:44, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Cheap? How about 50 bucks? >

RE: certifications

Certs shouldn't be permanent. John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: certifications MCSE name collision

RE: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

I just did this just two weeks ago for a client using two 2008 R2 RRAS boxes. Took like 30 minutes, so that part hasn't changed. But then I did have to write a script to update routing on all the servers. I wrote a blog post about that. :) http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2

RE: certifications

Glad I got off the Microsoft Certification routine years ago... Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

RE: certifications

Humm I thought the cloud was a marketing term J Cloud Certifications... ohh brother... I agree that the cloud does cause a shift in "focus" but reinventing the base certs for the cloud? Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization e

RE: certifications

MCSE name collision. Certs are no longer permanent. Where are MCM and MCA in those lists? The list goes on... From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 2:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: certifications Why, Michael? ASB http://XeeMe.com/Andr

RE: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

I tried to turn up two 2008 R2 RRAS boxes and failed. Couldn't get the routing right. It was most frustrating, I remember doing exactly this not more than 4 years ago in about 30 minutes with a pair of 2003 boxes. From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 201

RE: Deploy MSI via SMS

GPO installations often pass the minimal required params to automate any setup for the obvious reason. Load it in on a test GPO, and see what happens, often you need not do anything to get default behavior. jlc From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday

RE: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

Cheap? How about 50 bucks? I have done this with home routers reflashed with OpenWRT running openvpn and if you can imagine, some have had literally year long uptimes... jlc From: Kennedy, Jim [kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:26 PM

RE: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

Two Linux boxes with something like Freesco? I don't know if Freesco can do this, but I'm sure there is something that will make a point to point vpn. Mark From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish

Re: certifications

Great, going back to the MCSE! No need to confuse test takers now with the MCTS / MCITP. Sarcasm implied. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone Christopher Bodnar wrote: Anyone else see this yet? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2012/04-11CloudCertifications.aspx Christopher Bodna

RE: Deploy MSI via SMS

Most probably Orca and the properties tab and create the transform. When you deploy the MSI be sure to check 'advanced' as soon as you create the GPO so you can then add in the transform. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

Re: A moment of silence for the passing of another giant

didn't know about the 4mhz boost, but I did have a 256K RAM expander for running GEOS :) On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > I bought the “Schnedler Systems” 4Mhz turbo accelerator for mine ( > http://vintagetech.netii.net/DRIVERS/TURBO-MASTER-CPU.jpg) and the > Berkely S

RE: Powershell verbose pref

Yeah, problem is, the return that gets shoved into a variable appears to be an array of System.Object? If I simply `$foo|ft -auto` I get a nice table, but I can't execute `Write-Verbose $foo` as a result of the System.Object type of its elements. When I loop through element of the return, I am ex

RE: certifications

My guess would be having to redo all your certs, maybe. Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:57 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: certifications Why, Michael? ASB http://XeeMe.com

RE: A moment of silence for the passing of another giant

I bought the "Schnedler Systems" 4Mhz turbo accelerator for mine (http://vintagetech.netii.net/DRIVERS/TURBO-MASTER-CPU.jpg) and the Berkely Softworks 512K RAM expansion unit to run GEOS. Was big pimpin' for the 8bit days. -sc From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Powershell verbose pref

Have you taken a look at Write-Verbose ??? From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 2:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell verbose pref I have a script where I simply piped a hash into a ft -auto to print it. Now I am trying to only

RE: certifications

Yeah. I've asked for more information. Upon initial reading, it irritates me. A lot. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: certifications Anyone else see this yet? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/

certifications

Anyone else see this yet? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2012/04-11CloudCertifications.aspx Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 chris

RE: Looking to grab this info at login

Right, and those folks do not concern me as they are out of scope for what I've been asked to do. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 3:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Looking to grab this info at login I don't work for a school using your pr

RE: Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

+1 As well as know how much more secure (or unstable) it makes the machine than controlling that local group membership via GPO. Could be some hack (deemed "our computer guru" by the non-tech savvy company) displayed some hacking skills that he showed them really locked a machine down, without

Re: ESXi and External USB HDD

Currently (last time I checked) there was only 1 USB HD on their HCL. Absurd, I just went through this about a month ago. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Is

ESXi and External USB HDD

I think I already know the answer to this but I wanted to just verify. Is there a way I can connect an external usb HD to a ESXi 5.0 host and use that to backup the vmdk files? My Google searches show the answer as no, but just want to confirm. Thanks, Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoin

Re: Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

I got the tar and feathers, someone get the rest of the mob! :D Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Webster wrote: > I agree, I would like to know where this Best Practice comes from. I > have never heard of it. > > Thanks > > >Carl Webster > > Consultant

Re: Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

I agree, I would like to know where this Best Practice comes from. I have never heard of it. Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com From: Michael Smith mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> Subject: RE: Changing pe

Re: [dkim-failure] Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

Aha, that's cool to know. I suppose that would be more elegant (and safer) than the binary Registry hack I have just dumped into Group Policy :-) On 11 April 2012 15:26, Free, Bob wrote: > Under the covers It is actually a user right assignment, granted by > default to Administrators and Remo

Re: Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

No, not the signature again! It can only end in people leaving the list! On 11 April 2012 15:08, Patrick Salmon wrote: > Easy to see how you missed it, Michael. Look closely and you'll see that > it's tucked away in James' most gigantically oversized tagline on the > planet, cunningly crafted to

Re: Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

So would I. Some company in London did a "Citrix Health Check" for this client and came up with quite a few "best practices" that I've never heard of. They're coming back in soon (just to run an AppDNA report - something I could do in my sleep), so I might ask them. On 11 April 2012 15:00, Michael

Re: Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

Easy to see how you missed it, Michael. Look closely and you'll see that it's tucked away in James' most gigantically oversized tagline on the planet, cunningly crafted to force carriers to upgrade their circuits and encourage users on slow connections to go and brew a pot of coffee. ;-) On Wed, A

Re: Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

Answer my own question again. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-TCP It's the Security value that holds the info On 11 April 2012 14:51, James Rankin wrote: > I have a client with a requirement to remove the Remote Desktop Users > group from the security

RE: Changing permissions on RDP connector via Registry

I don't have an answer to your question - but I'd love to know where this "best practice" is documented, in any of Microsoft's documentation, NIST documentation, ITIL, or where? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues S