RE: CAL Licensing Question!

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 f

RE: Virtual PC

I think it works all the way back to Windows 2000. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [m

RE: SUSPECT: RE: MCSE question

Sorry, I've been on the road all day. I'll get something out in just a few minutes :-) (Not that I'm the only poster of Friday funnies...) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll

RE: Office 2003 and Windows 2008 TS

I've never tried it, but I can't imagine why they wouldn't. It's a licensing violation though. You may need to install Office before you turn on Terminal Services Application Mode though. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchang

RE: AD Book

airly abbreviated. Personally, I have them both in my quick-reach pile. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Joseph L. Casa

RE: Cracking into MS SQL2005

workstation environment, then the builtin\administrators group. Soif the defaults were used, this should work: http://www.mssqlcity.com/FAQ/Admin/forgot_sa_password.htm Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll

RE: vRD 2009

I really can't believe that you used the word "ilk". Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Free,

RE: vRD 2009

Yes-sir-ee-bob. You fry'em up with some blurbs, mixed in with a plethora or two. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message-

RE: vRD 2009

This one can simply not recollect any of that one using such a word within memory. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message-

RE: Remote Desktops organized

meow! Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:15

RE: Remote Desktops organized

I took your advice yesterday and installed Terminals. It works pretty well; but it's got some weirdnesses in how often it resizes windows... Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! htt

RE: today sees the 1234567890th second of Unix time

You forgot to mark this as a "Friday Funny"!!! -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: today sees the 1234567890th second of Unix time On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Tim Vander Ko

RE: OT: IT Budget

One of the offerings I sell to clients is that I can help them do what they already do - just do it better. It's always been a good way to get management attention, and these days, it's an even better way. I've found that many companies don't understand the Windows Server technologies that they alr

RE: Windows 2003 wont boot up help!!!

It is free FOR PERSONAL USE. Not for corporate use. From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2003 wont boot up help!!! Belarc Advisor will show you the product key for Windows (and any other pie

RE: McDonald's vs. Starbucks

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH :-) -Original Message- From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: McDonald's vs. Starbucks Broke? Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 -Original Message---

RE: McDonald's vs. Starbucks

Ain't that the truth? I've lived and visited all over this great country, tried all sorts of teas, and I just keep coming back to Lipton... Tetley will do in a pinch, but Lipton is the Real Tea. :-) -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, February

RE: W2K3 Windows Updates Taking Ages to install

What's on the box? From: Clayton Doige [mailto:clayton.do...@greenit.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: W2K3 Windows Updates Taking Ages to install Hi all, I am wondering if anyone has come across this. Click Install Updates and ShutDo

RE: W2K3 Windows Updates Taking Ages to install

Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: W2K3 Windows Updates Taking Ages to install cup of coffee, muffin ;-) SQL 2000 2009/2/18 Michael B. Smith What's on the box? From: Clayton Doige [mailto:clayton.do...@greenit.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, F

Win7 beta on IdeaPad

Anyone tried installing Windows 7 beta on a netbook? I CAN'T go back to XP. It just feels old and clunky to me. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Win7 beta on IdeaPad

y. Microsoft gave me a serial number for it, then apologized that the downloads are no longer available. At first glance, looks like Vista In a new dress. Mark -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:01 PM To: NT

RE: OS X connecting to domain fileshare

This exact problem can occur in the "Windows world" when you clone computers and do not run newsid (or similar) on them prior to joining them to a domain. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subjec

RE: Web Based File Server Proxy

What about webdav? Built into 2000/2003/2008. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web Based File Server Proxy Can anyone recommend some COTS web based file server proxy? I'm looking for solutions

RE: Incorporate, LLC, or ???

You can be an LLC and a sole-proprieter. Both my accountant and my lawyer advised me to become an LLC. While I do have a (usually) silent partner, the advantages of incorporating vs. the disadvantages made it clear that incorporating could wait until (if) we decided to bring on employees (as oppo

RE: Incorporate, LLC, or ???

There is no difference. HOWEVER - burden of proof on a sole proprietorship is higher (at least in VA) than on a LLC. If you get audited, you're better off. If the business gets sued for debt, you're better off. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009

RE: Redirect Outlook Recover Deleted Items

Not always true. If an item is hard deleted from a folder and the "DumpsterAlwaysOn" registry key is set (set by default in Outlook 2007 and above) you can recover items from the folder in which they were hard deleted, not from the Deleted Items folder. And to the original poster: PSTs do not s

RE: Unified Communications

You don't need additional servers for conferencing in R2; you can have a single-server installation - although with a thousand concurrent users you'd definitely be pushing hardware to the limit... -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2

RE: Unified Communications

This is more of a collaboration tool than a conferencing tool, but this combined with Live Messenger has gotten some good traction with me. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.07.utilityspotlight.aspx -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesd

RE: A simple yet...not so simple ??

The "\" character is a special character in LDAP query strings and must be escaped. The basic escape character in LDAP is, you guessed it, the "\" character. (There is another way to escape UTF-8 characters in LDAP, but we won't go there right now. For details, see:

RE: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft "SharedView"

Are you saying that encapsulated communications are bad? Or that unencrypted encapsulated communications are bad? -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Another scr

RE: AD & General audit tool

Most, if not all, of this is available free from MSFT. Active Directory Topology Mapper, Group Policy Management Console, icacls - these do everything you listed. From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AD

RE: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft "SharedView"

espin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft "SharedView" Decisions, decisions! :-) -- ME2 On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Are you saying that encapsula

RE: A simple yet...not so simple ??

You are close. dsquery * domainroot -filter "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(homeDirectory=\5c\5cmyserver))" -attr sAMAccountName homeDirectory > c:\temp\scripts\adinfo\hdprofile.txt Notice that I removed an extra slash you had in there. I tested this, it works. Note that you PR

RE: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft "SharedView"

ing. Plus, I had to come in a couple of hours early today, and I needed to complain about something. ;-) -- ME2 On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Well, encapsulated connections are here to stay. > > I agree that they should be encrypted. > > It&#x

RE: A simple yet...not so simple ??

homeDirectory=\5c\5cmydirectory path*))" -attr sAMAccountName givenName profilePath homeDirectory > c:\temp\scripts\adinfo\hd.csv tia On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM, MarvinC wrote: Abso-freakin-YES!! Thank you sir! On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Michael B. Smith wro

RE: A simple yet...not so simple ??

ectory=\5c\5cmyServer*)) " -csv sAMAccountName givenName homeDirectory > c:\temp\scripts\adinfo\hd.csv I've tried this with and without the commas. thanks On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM, KenM wrote: +1 on ADFIND. Use this instead of DSQUERY. It will make your life a lot easier.

RE: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft "SharedView"

Well, that would certainly prevent us from needing IPv6, wouldn't it? :-) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft "SharedView" On

data-center in the sky

I need to find a "data-center in the sky". That is, a company that has plenty of bandwidth and rents servers to their clients. In a "past life" I used Softlayer and was happy with them, but I'm interested in knowing what else is out there (primarily interested in the East Coast USA). Thanks

RE: Outlook only shows plain text

What is the backend Exchange version? What are the configuration items on Tools -> Options, Mail Format tab set to? Is he accessing the mailbox via MAPI or POP/IMAP? -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:00 AM T

RE: Backup

Typically speaking, AppAssure is not a pure-play backup solution. They are a server-image solution with easy rollback. I really like their product (ObDisclaimer: I've had some business dealings with them). They have a great plug-in that works with DPM for SQL/Exchange/etc. Kinda depends on

RE: data-center in the sky

sky I used Rackspace in a prior life and liked them a lot. They rented me the server, gave me TS access and the admin password and let me go at it. Great bandwidth, uptime, etc. I was always VERY pleased with the whole solution. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.

RE: Site to Site VPN... What works?

The thing about Cisco equipment - it takes whatever you throw at it, and just keeps working. You have a Cisco gigabit switch - even if every port is fully utilized, it can still switch at close to wire-speed. It has the buffers and backplane to handle it. That's just not true of a lot of network

RE: Head check - two domains, one subnet

And as long as they aren't SBS. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Head check - two domains, one subnet There should be no issue with having two different and non-trusting forests/domains on the same subn

RE: Reputable Web Hosting

Take a look at www.vpsland.com. They have some inexpensive vps packages. GoDaddy.com has some too. From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 1:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Reputable Web Hosting Hey everyone, I need to find a reputable web

RE: Reputable Web Hosting

table Web Hosting The SQL 2000 part may be difficult. The OP may need to upgrade. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 6:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Reputable Web Hosting Take a look at www.vpsland.com. They

RE: Bizarro-world - addendum

Yep, and that defines the problem. Either DNS or WINS is broken (or VPN or.long possible list - DNS or WINS is most likely) and replication is failing. From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 2:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarro-world

RE: OT - Reduction in hours, forced to use PTO

That bites. I'm sorry to hear that. Benefits are just that - benefits. IANAL. Unless you have a contract (individual or collective bargaining) that defines how benefits may be used, you are at the mercy of the company as to how they can be used. They are generally required to "pay you" for any

RE: Bizarro-world - addendum

NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarro-world - addendum Yep, and that defines the problem. Either DNS or WINS is

RE: Bizarro-world: fixed! (mostly)

Time comes from the PDCe. Which one holds that? From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarro-world: fixed! (mostly) The 12 minute time offset was the issue! Changed the time, forced replication.presto! Ho

RE: Hiding words in an outlook form

Sure. You can uncheck "Visible". From: Steven Calvanese [mailto:scalvan...@membersolutions.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hiding words in an outlook form Is there a way to add words into an outlook form that can not be seen or deleted by the

RE: Hiding words in an outlook form

to:scalvan...@membersolutions.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hiding words in an outlook form Would the word be picked up by a PacketSure Palisade box? We are trying to control the forwarding of confidential emails. _ From: Michae

RE: Changing Account Settings en Masse

$ou = "LDAP://cn=Users,dc=essential,dc=local" ## the domain above must match the script's execution domain $domain = (gc env:userdomain) $ADS_UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE = 0x40 $objDomain = New-Object System.D

RE: Changing Account Settings en Masse

mple adfind | admod would do nicely. -Anders On 3/4/09, Michael B. Smith wrote: $ou = "LDAP://cn=Users,dc=essential,dc=local" ## the domain above must match the script's execution domain

RE: Changing Account Settings en Masse

The VERY idea! :-P Use whatever works best for ya. That's what I do. J From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Changing Account Settings en Masse I don't know-that looks pretty simpl

RE: Password Policy Change

When the password comes up for renewal. The OS does not store the actual password, just the hash of the password. It cannot tell, based on that hash, how complex a password is (as far as I know – I’m not a PhD in cryptography). That’s the rational… From: chipsh...@comcast.net [mailto:chip

RE: Hiding words in an outlook form

f we could hide a keyword in a custom form then we could catch this with the box. This custom form would only need to be used once or twice a month. Thanks _ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:56 PM To: NT System Ad

RE: Is my Google bigger than yours? Lets check!

I was an early adopter as well...I think I got my invitation from you as a matter of fact. (It might've been Bob Free; too many years ago now!) But my free/normal gmail account says 7301 MB. And yes, I get that ticker... -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...

RE: Vipre impressions ?

A/V systems seem to come and go...that being said, I'm slowly installing Vipre at all my customers as their other licenses expire. But ssshI don't want Stu to get a big head or anything. I've been through times when McAfee was best, and Symantec, and ESET, and Sybari, and and and

RE: Password Policy Change

I think that's fine as long as you change the passwords on any higher-privilege accounts upon every employee termination, managerial change, or every two weeks and review the need-to-know of those passwords on a regular basis. I am one of a relatively small (but growing) contingent who believes

RE: Password Policy Change

olicy Change I was only thinking about the standard user base, but I think I agree. Elucidate your thoughts? *Every* employee termination, or only upon termination where the employee/manager had access to privileged accounts? I assume that you're thinking about rainbow tables and pass-the-has

RE: Password Policy Change

ables and pass-the-hash attacks. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:29, Michael B. Smith wrote: > I think that's fine as long as you change the passwords on any > higher-privilege accounts upon every employee termination, managerial change, > or every two weeks and review the need-to-know of th

RE: SCOM 2007 install issue

tself, that it requires additional privileges. There are some folks who have tried to cut that back and assign granular permissions, but it tends to reduce the efficacy of the MP. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/mi

RE: SCOM 2007 install issue

stallation will the need to create tables etc, so dbo is probably the easiest way. Cheers Ken From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 1:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SCOM 2007 install issue Yes. You need sa, unf

RE: Offline patching Vista / Microsoft Update Catalog searching

http://microsoft.com/mbsa Is probably what you want. You'll have to go through a 2-or-3 step process, since you don't/can't have net access, but it can provide you what you need. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:04 PM To: N

RE: SCOM 2007 install issue

Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 _ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SCOM

RE: SCOM 2007 install issue

ll work with just datareader permissions across all the databases to be monitored (plus tempdb and master) Cheers Ken From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 6:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SCOM 2007 install issue Re

RE: Locating and listing event IDs

Logparser and "select unique". Or something of the same nature. I aggregate my logs, but I do so differently.looking at a single instance doesn't necessary tell you of the severity of a situation. From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 9:45 AM To: NT System

RE: File server question

Every situation is different. Every I/O causes an interrupt. Each interrupt causes some amount of CPU resource to be dedicated to processing the interrupt. Depending on how smart an I/O card is, that CPU resource can be tiny or it can be noticeable. The more I/O's you do, the more time you spend i

RE: Locating and listing event IDs

of servers that are experiencing high CPU issues and I need to know what event ID's were common on those servers. This gives me something I can compare side by side and keeps me from having to scan through each server's log. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

RE: Using System Center for Management of about 700 Windows File Servers Your thoughts?

I don’t think I really agree that is a reasonable comparison. When you look at Enterprise Directory Services applications on a Windows platform, how many choices do you have? Two? Maybe three? When you look at Enterprise Management applications on a Windows platform, how many choices do you

RE: Using System Center for Management of about 700 Windows File Servers Your thoughts?

Actually, SCVMM can (theoretically) manage ESX. But I’ve never personally done it. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Using System Center for Management of about 700 Windows File Servers Your thoughts?

RE: Seeing Only one Exchange 2003 when creating mailbox for new user

I know of only two ways to do this: 1] use a custom provisioning tool, or 2] follow 883381. -Original Message- From: Jay Kulsh [mailto:a...@kulsh.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Seeing Only one Exchange 2003 when creating mailbox for new use

RE: Using System Center for Management of about 700 Windows File Servers Your thoughts?

What Brian said. SCOM + SCCM can do this, at a cost of perhaps two to three servers (depending on the size of your data warehouse); which is pretty small for management of that number of servers. I will say this: any enterprise management tool that says “install me and forget me” is lying t

RE: Best way to print all AD Users (SOX req)

dsquery * domainroot -filter "(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person))" -attr name samaccountname From: Marty Nelson [mailto:mnel...@transdyn.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Best way to print all AD Users (SOX req) Happy Monday all. Qui

RE: Multihome 2003 server

How do you intend to handle routing? From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 5:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Multihome 2003 server Our 2003 server is used for file, SQL, and Terminal services. We would like to see if mu

RE: Offline patching Vista / Microsoft Update Catalog searching

Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Offline patching Vista / Microsoft Update Catalog searching On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > http://microsoft.com/mbsa > > Is probably what you want

RE: NOD32 FP

My initial thought was "what the heck is it going to do about an infected dllhost"? :-P (Note: I don't use ESET, so it was a purely philosophic question on my part.) -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:49 AM To:

RE: NOD32 FP

Is someone using PMail? -Original Message- From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:kels...@sctax.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NOD32 FP SSBoYXZlIGhhZCBubyByZXNwb25zZSBmcm9tIHRoZW0gb3ZlciB0aGUgbGFzdCBmZXcgbW9udGhz IGZvciBhbnkgaXNzdWUNCkkgcmVxdWVzdGV

RE: Unlock accounts

You ARE going to be in Vegas in two weeks, at TEC'09 right? -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Unlock accounts +1 to the nth. joe is an awesome guy, most helpful and incredible to hang

RE: sysprep question

You’ll still get duplicate SID errors. Actually, I think for workstations, they show up as warnings. Granted, since SPNs on a workstation are few and far between, that isn’t as important… From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:53 AM To: NT System

RE: WS 2008/Exchange 2007 Deployment

How many mailboxes and how large are your information stores currently? There is really no problem with doing this. You just need to plan properly. Microsoft has great planning and deployment document for Exchange 2007. http://microsoft.com/exchange is the place to start. -Original Message--

RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws

Careful! I recently learned that using that is a license violation. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws To get the MSIs you can also run the Adobe Update

RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws

Thank you for clarifying the process. I had it in my notes _SOMEWHERE_ but couldn't quickly locate it. From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws >Careful! > >I recently learn

RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws

Mike? Who is Mike? I don't know anyone named Mike around here. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws Total different process and files that Mike and I are talking about. I t

RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws

http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10082 Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Subject: RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws Thank you for clarifying the process. I had it in my notes _SOMEWHERE_ but couldn't quickly locate it. From: And

RE: sysprep question

No. newsid from sysinternals does exactly what you want/need. I have confidence in newsid, because I know what it does and how it works. Ghostwalker may do the same or it may not. I don't know. -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March

RE: sysprep question

Tttttt (Sorry, I've had one or two.) A new SID is created every time you install Windows onto a computer. GUID != SID. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sysprep

RE: sysprep question

ile/Brian -Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sysprep question No. newsid from sysinternals does exactly what you want/need. I have confidence in newsid, becaus

RE: Staying on top of alerts - your top 3

Hey! Shook resembles that remark! From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Staying on top of alerts - your top 3 The Full-Disclosure list is handy for breaking vulnerabilities, if you can handle all the

RE: Staying on top of alerts - your top 3

- From: Michael B. Smith <mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:16 AM Subject: RE: Staying on top of alerts - your top 3 Hey! Shook resembles that remark! From:

RE: Extract Email Addresses from AD

If he needs all email addresses for the users, replace "mail" with "proxyAddresses". From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Extract Email Addresses from AD How about below? dsquery * -filt

RE: Curiosity: Microsoft DirectAccess

I've never configured it when IPv6 tunneling wasn't available (read: I've only done this in my lab), but the documentation says that if 6to4 or Teredo is blocked, then DirectAccess falls back to SSL VPN: "If a firewall or proxy server prevents the client computer using 6to4 or Teredo from connectin

RE: Scrip Help please?

In fact, call me lazy, but I just short-cut this process, this way: Net use x: /del 2>nul >nul Net use x: \\server\share From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scrip Help please? What is done with

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

I do not know the answer to this, but based on what I've read about the infection vector, as long as you don't run as admin I suspect you'll be ok. At least on Vista and above. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:52 A

RE: Network path not found, error 53

What the heck is going on with lyris this week? This pretty much HAS to be DNS or WINS. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network path not found, error 53 Got a weird one ... very small business, one

RE: Network path not found, error 53

m: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network path not found, error 53 didn't have WINS, I added it, no joy Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Micha

RE: Network path not found, error 53

resolves to full fqdn Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network path not found, error 53 So? Wh

RE: Network path not found, error 53

pe, already disabled all firewalls Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network path not found, error 53

RE: Win2K8 DC's not playing nice in Win2K3 domain

Well, this really sounds like a DNS island issue; although I thought that that had been fixed. I'd recommend you point all the DCs to have a primary DNS server of DC01 and have themselves as a secondary (use 127.0.0.1 as opposed to a fixed IP address). See where that goes. Is WINS part

RE: SAML Tokens

Any version that has WCF installed. Sample clients, servers and federation scenarios are part of the .NET 3.5 SDK. Or, you can use ILM. From: Jason Gauthier [mailto:jgauth...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAML Tokens All, Any t

RE: Angus Scott-Fleming

Contact the developer. He made a special build/fix for someone on the activedir mailing list that was having a similar issue to fix the problem. I'm pretty sure that it had something to do with footers; you can probably get the details by searching that lists archives. -Original Message- F

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