RE: Vista SP1 Bug Already?

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yeah, that appears within 2 seconds now. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Za Vue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista SP1 Bug Already? I hope to solve my

RE: Vista SP1 Bug Already?

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
For me - it made a major difference. I'm very glad I was on the beta. Other people report little or no impact. I'm one of the weird ones though J I like Vista anyway. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher J. Bosak

RE: Wiki for Windows

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I implemented this last year - it worked well and we liked it except for the lack of security (that is, there was no tie-in to Windows groups) and the like of a WYSIWYG editor. This is what we used before we went to WSS 3.0. Perhaps they've corrected those issues. Regards, Michael B

RE: Wiki for Windows

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
There are TOCs and auto-linking. It supports SharePoint templates. And category-wise, it supports group-based security. Perhaps it isn't a wiki for purists - but it does a lot. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben

RE: Vista SP1 Bug Already?

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I didn't run into any compatibility updates and it recognized a piece of hardware that it never had before (a video capture card). Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Butts, Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday

RE: 175 servers

2008-02-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
Bah. It's just about automation. I don't believe in repeating things time after time after time after.well, you get the idea. SCE does everything I ever wrote, and does it better. And it's cheaper than I am, too. J Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

OT: From another list I read: Trend Issue

2008-02-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
Just a quick FYI Trend sent out a bad DAT version 4.995 around 10AM EST today (2/12/08). If you are running Trend and have an issue you need to roll back to 4.993. Problems experienced include extremely high disk I/O load and network problems. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP

RE: fax/copy/scan/print?

2008-02-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm using, in my home office, a Lexmark 5470, for which I paid $75 on sale at Christmas. But I only use it for scanning and faxing - I'm very low usage on paper. I've not needed tech support, I would expect, to use Ben's word, for it to be non-existent. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange

RE: 175 servers

2008-02-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
About one and a half full-timers. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 175 servers Here's an open-ended question

RE: Patch Tuesday woes?

2008-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
If, after the first time you've installed it, go back to Windows Update and tell it to check for updates again, it'll stop. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Paul Lemonidis (NTL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Free server for ETRN

2008-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://swinc.com/resources/free.asp dequeue.exe? If that isn't what you want, please be a little more descriptive. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008

RE: SAS 5/iR and SAS disks

2008-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
How good are your backups and how good are you at restoring them? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: MIgrating from software to hardware raid

2008-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
Actually, assuming you dot your I's and cross your T's, that sounds like it should work. Having the drivers loaded on the image you create is important. What does answers on a postcard mean? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message

RE: Patch Tuesday woes?

2008-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
Hmmm. I did throw a reboot in there too. Sorry that I forgot to mention it. I did the reboot and then the rescan. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008

RE: SAS 5/iR and SAS disks

2008-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
I can't keep up with all the threads you've got going right now - but as long as your drivers are cool, the image should be cool, and you should be cool. Where cool means good on this side of the pond. ;-) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com

RE: Patch Tuesday woes?

2008-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
Speaking of same: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blogs/mowgreen/index.php?showentry=1240 Apparently it's only an issue with x64. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Shadow Copy Management

2009-05-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
You didn't say what server OS version - but the diskshadow tool in Server 2008 can help you with this. From: Steph Balog [validemai...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Shadow Copy Management Is there any

RE: LDAP Authentication

2009-05-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
that depends to a certain degree how you are going to do it. for example, using OpenDSObject() would just fail if the passed username and password aren't proper. but a strict answer to your question is read i believe. From: Kennedy, Jim

RE: Disabling NETBIOS

2009-05-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
That article should be taken out and SHOT. Microsoft doesn't change it because it's easier for PSS to say install WINS than it is to explain how to properly configure short name resolution. This is the key paragraph - throw the rest of it away: Exchange 2003 uses Windows name resolution APIs

RE: Disabling NETBIOS

2009-05-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disabling NETBIOS On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@owa.smithcons.com wrote: That article should be taken out and SHOT. Microsoft doesn't

RE: BITS question

2009-05-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
Absolutely. JUst FYI, if you ask me 'how', I'll point you at technet/msdn. :-) From: Sam Cayze [sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS question Curious, can other Apps use BITS?

RE: BITS question

2009-05-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
there?!?! IMO they should be using it. :) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS question Absolutely. JUst FYI, if you ask me 'how', I'll point you at technet

RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS

2009-05-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yes, and they take a damn long time to transfer too. Best practice for pagefile size on 64-bit Exchange Servers is RAM + 15 MB. And page file space is only loosely correlated to paging out. I've got a great presentation on this topic that was made in a closed forum by Mark Russinovich (of

RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS

2009-05-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
at 4:57 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@owa.smithcons.commailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com wrote: Yes, and they take a damn long time to transfer too. Best practice for pagefile size on 64-bit Exchange Servers is RAM + 15 MB. And page file space is only loosely correlated to paging out. I've got

RE: Steve Riley - good bye and good luck

2009-05-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
I find that truly unexpected and shocking. If I were to guess - he was ready to move on. From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Steve Riley - good bye and good luck

RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS

2009-05-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
release number (i.e 7.0), and is still within the 6.x cycle. -- ME2 On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@owa.smithcons.commailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com wrote: what you commonly see in the non-public presentations is why something is the way it is and some discussions about

RE: Email rejecting

2009-05-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
It's a wrapping issue. Lyris doesn't know how to properly expand an OWA RTF'ed MIME reply. But guess what - I'm using OWA 2010 and it works fine because they went to straight HTML email... :-) From: Tim Vander Kooi [tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Thursday,

RE: Email rejecting

2009-05-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
but you are neither blond nor a bimbo! :-) From: Free, Bob [r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email rejecting I'll venture :-) Winmail.dat attached by OWA that Lyris doesn't like Bring it on MBS

RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS

2009-05-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS Yes, and they take a damn long time to transfer too. Best practice for pagefile size

RE: Dumping users and groups from AD into csv

2009-05-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
why powershell? adfind -default -f ((objectcategory=user)(objectclass=person)) samaccountname memberof -csv -nodn (and believe me, if I thought that PowerShell was the best tool for the job, I would tell you.) adfind is available at http://www.joeware.nethttp://www.joeware.net/

RE: AD groups search to find out where group is all applied in domain

2009-05-13 Thread Michael B. Smith
It could be written...but it would be expensive in terms of processing resources. From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AD groups search to find out where group is all applied in

RE: AD groups search to find out where group is all applied in domain

2009-05-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
One of my clients has something called Varonis that tracks security changes to file systems. They like it because it allows them (among the security changes) to see when a user has, for example, picked up a folder and moved it under another folder. I do AD and Exchange for them, I'm not

RE: Shadow Copy Management

2009-05-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
Using vssadmin list shadows or diskshadow list shadows all provides you output that can be easily parsed via PowerShell to get you the creation dates. Then, you can use either of those two utilities to delete the shadow copies. From: Steph Balog

RE: OT:70-640 Test

2009-05-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
Not when I took it. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT:70-640 Test Was most of this test, Certificate services and Federation? That’s most of the questions in

RE: OT:70-640 Test

2009-05-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
on the test's objective domain. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Monitoring Exchange w/OpsMgr now available http://snurl.com/45ppf From: Brumbaugh, Luke [luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent

RE: OT-RE: Account Unknown profiles

2009-05-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
mgmt = dip $sh1T$ sr. mgmt = dip $sh1T$ + dumb $sh1T$ (having been sr. mgmt twice in my career, I'm qualified to say that.) From: Andy Shook [andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT-RE:

RE: 17,5 mill Hard Drive

2009-05-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
There is always a PEAPing Tim VK around here... From: Micheal Espinola Jr [michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 17,5 mill Hard Drive Two PEAPing Tom's in my Windows... -- ME2 On Wed, May 27,

RE: Amusing

2009-05-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
1 / 5.6 = 17%; pretty average for a SIS factor. Compression of content will more than make up for it. Wherever possible, E14 will compress content prior to storing it into the mailbox database. The cost of doing this is far less than the cost of the extra I/O. As Brian notes - JBOD containing

RE: Amusing

2009-05-31 Thread Michael B. Smith
The general plan here is to improve performance when you have large mailboxes. Most, but not all (granted) folks would say that it's OK to use more disk space if that effectively removes a key performance blocker. SIS was designed and implemented when Exchange supported a SINGLE database and

RE: Amusing

2009-06-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
regression testing, and which bean counters wanted culled? I'm shocked... :-) Cheers Ken From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, 1 June 2009 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Amusing The general plan here

RE: Dos Nested FOR Loops

2009-06-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
You said it yourself: use CALL. CALL /? for more information. From: Joseph L. Casale [jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dos Nested FOR Loops Hey guys, how comes this doesn't execute the

RE: OT: Google Aps

2009-06-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
Google sells HARD toward select medium-sized businesses. They go in and talk about backups and infrastructure and expensive administrators and how, with a Google solution, you don't have to have any of those. That speaks to management where in counts - in the PL statement. That's why I said

RE: Create Rule to notify when a daily email doesn't show in my inbox/folder

2009-06-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
That's pretty good. You can (i.e., the royal you, the OP) do what you want with OpsMgr. If an e-mail didn't get sent - generate an alert. It's pretty easy. But if you don't have OpsMgr - well, forget my idea. :-P From: Jacob [ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent:

RE: server monitoring

2009-06-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
Someone else mentioned it, but I'm using (more and more, but not exclusively) Polymon. It's pretty darned good. Especially for free! From: Erik Goldoff [egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: server

RE: Semi-OT: PowerShell

2009-06-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
I wrote a five-part series on my blog on using PowerShell for accessing different database platforms. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/07/multi-platform-database-access-with-powershell.aspx Using those routines, it should be trivial to adapt to PostgresSQL.

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
As I did then, I still will now - respectfully disagree. There are use cases that newsid addresses which sysprep does not. In the best of all possible worlds, sysprep is the right answer.But I often don't live in the best of all possible worlds. From:

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
There is a machine SID which is unique to a machine, that is generated during installation. That never changes. There is also a domain SID that is generated when a machine joins a domain (for the computer account). From: John Hornbuckle

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
No, it shouldn't. The generalize process should generate a unique SID for every non-cloned installation. From: Joe Heaton [jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Could be...that would do it?

RE: NewSID

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Is there a problem with having duplicate machine SIDs, so long as the domain SIDs are unique? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Friday

RE: My OS is better than your OS

2009-06-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
Why do you think Win7 is any different? It has the same security model as Vista. It has the same driver model as Vista. Vista RTM had challenges. Modern Vista really doesn't. Win7 may be marginally faster than Vista (I see a slightly snappier GUI - but I don't see any compute intensive tasks

RE: Google Mail

2009-06-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Not true. The entire SMTP session is available to administrators with Exchange. GMail doesn't make that information available to ANYone. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re:

RE: Diskshadow Script

2009-06-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
I would do the test in a script that executes immediately before your diskshadow execution. Use VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWS to look at the existing shadows. With PowerShell, parsing the messy output is a snap. Again using VSSADMIN, delete the bad shadowcopies. Alternately, you could run something

RE: Recording webinars - what do you use?

2009-06-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Camtasia - which isn't free but does like a gazillion things. (Note: there is a CamStudio which is free, but has much less feature content) I also use Debut Video Capture Software of which there is a free version. From: Eric Wittersheim

RE: EDB to PST conversion Tools

2009-06-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
So do Quest, Lucid8, and AppAssure. (Note: I've reviewed software from all of these companies for compensation, in the past.) And shockingly, it only takes a few thousand lines of MAPI code to do it for yourself. :-) (For a mount-able database. Being able to do it with a database that will

RE: EDB to PST conversion Tools

2009-06-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
I did get it taken care of, didn't I? Haven't you looked at the change in behavior as of about UR6/7 to sp1? Or am I mis-remembering the specific issue we discussed? From: Joseph L. Casale [jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:26 PM

RE: EDB to PST conversion Tools

2009-06-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
It WILL work with Exchange 2007, given the caveat of ANSI PSTs vs Unicode PSTs. However, it is not supported. And don't get me started on thatI can write 500 or so lines of C++ MAPI that will do the same thing as ExMerge (well, just for the export piece) and that IS supported, but ExMerge

RE: Google Mail

2009-06-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
hey - they need SOME reason to get you to upgrade. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Mail On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote:

RE: Licensing question

2009-06-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Unless it's SQL Express. But there is now a SQL Server Web Edition that is approximately equivalent to SQL Server Workgroup. From: Joe Heaton [jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Licensing

RE: Filter Vista security log to show only audit failures?

2009-06-25 Thread Michael B. Smith
Eh, the main changes in Vista (and Server 2008, and Win7 and Server 2008 R2, etc. etc.) were to provide the programmer with more control and fewer limitations. For example, you no longer have an effective 300 MB limit on the size of event logs, as you did pre-Vista. For example, you can have

RE: Filter Vista security log to show only audit failures?

2009-06-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've deployed 3 commercial solutions in this space: Quest, NetWrix, and NetPro (purchased by Quest last year). I'm pretty sure the NetWrix and NetPro solutions didnt' REQUIRE a domain, but I can't currently access them to verify. I could develop something for you in a few days probably,

RE: OT: Meanwhile, in the real world...

2009-06-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
With the current administration? I doubt it. (Darn it, I broke my general rule to stay out of political discussions.) From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Meanwhile, in the

RE: Bleep'n window server 2008 terminal server

2009-06-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
Interesting. I've got literally thousands of HP printers running the UPD (v5). From: Phil Brutsche [p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 6:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bleep'n window server 2008 terminal server Tried it.

RE: Confused a bit re: sbs.

2009-06-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
SBS assumes - for good reason - that you've followed their procedures and their wizards and their setup lists for configuring your server. IF you do that, you won't get that message. You can also go through the console and specify that you've already done that to suppress the message.

RE: GPO's and remote servers

2009-06-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
boys boys boys... relativistic time is still only a hypothesis. while it apparently describes certain events that occur in the universe, until a human object is accelerated to relativistic speeds, decelerates, and then returns to earth (with or without an additional relativistic interval

RE: Exchange stuff

2009-07-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
The Sunbelt Exchange list is the highest volume list around. There are also several Yahoo Lists that have volume and good folks. MSExchange.org also runs an Exchange list. Outside of those, you have the Microsoft forums. Now, most of the issues you report are SBS issues. And yep, they can be

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
RDP in Vista (and above) and Server 2008 (and above) provide the capability of TLS-encrypting the RDP sessions - built in. The updated RDP client is available for XP/2003 via Microsoft Update. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
And you've now re-invented Remote Web Workplace, available in SBS 2003 and EBS/SBS 2008... From: mikeMitchell [its.m...@analogy.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Services question I set up a TS

RE: Network Monitor

2009-07-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
NTOP and WireShark are good choices...but don't forget Microsoft's Network Monitor 3.3. I think it has the best protocol analyzer's available. And it's free. From: Cameron Cooper [ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: troubleshooting website performance

2009-07-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
I would start with web analytics software so you can determine which transactions are specifically at issue, concurrent with that - what does perfmon have to say? From: Andy Shook [andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
ah, i misunderstood. that capability is there - it's part of network access control; but i've never deployed it and i know next to nothing about it, i'm afraid. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:28 PM To: NT System

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
Shookie-pooh. From: Webster [carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Services question -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Subject

RE: Import-mailbox duplicate behaviour

2009-07-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
My advice to you (and all other readers) - don't depend on default behavior. Specify all available parameters. From: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Import-mailbox duplicate

RE: Gmail

2009-07-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
Oh? And what fully-featured Email/PIM do you find to be more stable than Outlook? From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail So has Outlook…. From: Sherry Abercrombie

RE: Gmail

2009-07-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
admin for many years, many versions. (Exchange admin as well but I can't say Exchange didn't go down, but I hear 2010 is real good.) Michael B. Smith mich...@owa.smithcons.com 7/7/2009 7:35 PM Oh? And what fully-featured Email/PIM do you find to be more stable than Outlook

RE: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.

2009-07-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
A power user is an admin who hasn't bothered to make themselves an admin - yet. From: Stephen Wimberly [riverside...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install. Actually to install FireFox,

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

2009-07-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
Most of my customers are SMBs. I've walked away from a LOT of business over the years, primarily for the reason you mentioned. I won't work for a company that refuses to take even the most basic steps to take care of themselves. They can find someone that charges half my rate and spends three

RE: CAL Licensing Question!

2009-07-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
IANAL/B/S (lawyer/barrister/soliciter) - and as far as I know, no one else here is either. I can make some guesses on how I would pursue this, but there is more information required than you state in your email. http://microsoft.com/licensing - you'll find telephone numbers for your locality,

RE: CAL Licensing Question!

2009-07-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
That is PRECISELY why I recommended he called Microsoft Licensing and document the call. As long as Microsoft has given you a documentable answer, you are freed from penalties. That doesn't mean if they change their mind you don't have to true up, but you've given a reasonable effort to find

RE: Recording RDP Sessions

2009-07-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've used ObserveIT and was happy with it. Obligatory Disclaimer: Because I'm an Exchange MVP I received a free license to ObserveIT. From: James Hill [james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 7:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Installing Outlook 2007 on a server?

2009-07-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
As of Exchange 2007 and above, installing Outlook on an Exchange server _IS_ supported and in some scenarios is actually required. I can't think of any reason why you should not install Outlook on a DC, other than a DC should be pristine. From: Ben Scott

RE: Apple vs Microsoft?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
My experience with XServers is several years out of date, but the last time I got involved in a project using them, the directory was buggy, prone to crashing, and had to be manually resynchronized with AD at least once a day (or whenever new users were added, new computers were added, or

RE: TS eval terminates early

2009-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
By default, the first one that you install in a domain is the license server. You should be able to point the second one to itself as a license server. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=specify+terminal+services+license+server :-) (Couldn't resist.) From: Eldridge, Dave

RE: Installing Outlook 2007 on a server?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
That is correct. Using OWA is, in fact, the easiest way to tell which rules are server-side and which are client-side. From: Evan Brastow [ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: DHCP Failover

2009-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
It's been possible to install DHCP into a Windows Failover Cluster for years. Windows 2008 R2, due Real Soon Now, also provides multiple-server replication and failover. From: Eric E Eskam [ees...@usgs.gov] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System

RE: Exchange 07

2009-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Did you install RU8? There were changes in the backpressure algorithm. Also, ensure that the disks where all the roles are sitting have AT LEAST 10 GB free. If you made an install where you have a small C and didn't go through the process of relocating mail.que and the log files, well, that

RE: Scriptable SFTP client for Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
didn't windows 2008/iis 7 add native support for sftp? (goes away and googles) Oh. It's FTPS not SFTP. Never mind... From: Don Kuhlman [drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Scriptable SFTP

RE: Scriptable SFTP client for Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scriptable SFTP client for Windows didn't windows 2008/iis 7 add native support for sftp? (goes away and googles) Oh. It's FTPS not SFTP. Never mind

RE: Exchange 07

2009-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
so, disallow NDRs on the receive connector. From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 07 I have massive amounts of garbage, the queues are filled with undeliverables

RE: Internal Site link using SBS 2008

2009-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
SharePoint, like Exchange 2007 and above, care very very little about what is present in the bindings for the website. Instead, they execute an extension that links into IIS based on their internal configuration to decide whether a particular URL applies to them or not. SharePoint Admin

RE: What does it take to get off this mailing list?

2009-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
troll. From: Boris Elieff [beli...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What does it take to get off this mailing list? I've been blocking this for years. I would like this email address permanently removed.

RE: Security by obscurity?

2009-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
you can manipulate these to whereever/whatever you want. they must be valid, insofar as DNS is concerned - but exchange doesn't care. From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: [HUMOR] xkcd: Estimation

2009-07-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
Oh pshaw. It's been fine since Vista sp1. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [HUMOR] xkcd: Estimation I suspect today's xkcd comic, titled Estimation, may resonate with some

RE: Google Apps Outlook sync plugin

2009-07-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
That particular bug has been fixed. It works just fine for email, just as the Outlook Connector does for Hotmail/Livemail/etc. But it doesn't provide any collaborative functionality, as far as I can see. From: Richard Stovall

RE: List Statistics -

2009-07-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
I was head of IT for a telecom company until sometime in 1999. I can assure you - if we did NOT have those sky may fall teams to update thousands upon thousands of lines of COBOL code - the sky would've fallen, at least for that company. We found many issues that required addressing. I doubt

RE: Google Apps Outlook sync plugin

2009-07-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
notified me an update was available. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Apps Outlook sync plugin That particular bug has been fixed. It works just fine

RE: List Statistics -

2009-07-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
retarded suit? H... On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@owa.smithcons.commailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com wrote: I was head of IT for a telecom company until sometime in 1999. I can assure you - if we did NOT have those sky may fall teams to update thousands upon

RE: 2 Domains on same subnet?

2010-03-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
As long as they aren't SBS. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 2 Domains on same subnet? I have a network where I'm doing

RE: propogating permissions to subfolders

2010-03-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Xcacls will do it (although depending on what OS you are running you might want to download the update from Microsoft downloads). However, icacls has an easier syntax (which is less powerful but should meet your needs in this case). Take a look at it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant

RE: SSL Certs... who do you use?

2010-03-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yes, this is true. At least as of today - their UCC certificates are LESS than the published price on GoDaddy.com itself. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent

RE: CMD line way to change CD Rom drive letter

2010-03-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
Diskpart.exe Select volume 1 Assign letter=Z Quit Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin

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