Palm Pre recommendation ?

2009-07-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Lo chaps. Can anyone recommend the palm pre as a phone to wait for (due out Sept here in the UK) ? I'm a big phone lover and currently use the Nokia E71 after selling my iPhone after about 2 months. Previous phones include the Nokia E51 (great phone), all the HTC range practically, etc. It's

RE: Palm Pre recommendation ?

2009-07-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
of folks have had issues with that. I know a big phone guy and his broke in less than a week. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Palm Pre recommendation ? Lo chaps. Can anyone recommend the palm

'Secure' mobile phones

2009-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
Is there such a thing as a secure mobile phone? I mean, one where the company who owns the phone can get access to things like call reports without going via the telco, where they can block calls to/from certain numbers or allow calls to/from certain numbers without the telco etc ? I know that

Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, Can anyone recommend a tool that we can use to check which process/user is hammering the drive of a terminal services machine? Ideally one that logs results over time so that we can correlate things at the end of the day and see when the speed issue occurred (by liaising with users)

RE: Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
: www.g2support.com Twitter: g2supporthttp://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsletter From: Oliver Marshall Sent: 21 August 2009 09:22 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Checking whats using the disk Hi chaps, Can anyone recommend a tool that we can use to check

RE: Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
? It will get you some of the info. Longer term, process monitor will let you see and record usage of memory and the registry and the file system. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry From: Oliver Marshall Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:27:01 +0100 To: NT System Admin

Dell SAS controllers

2009-08-28 Thread Oliver Marshall
Chaps, Should any Dell HD controller labelled as SAS be able to take SAS or SATA disks? Particularly we have a SAS 5/ir controller that has SATA disks in it and we want to replace them, one at a time, with SAS disks (one at a time so that the raid can resync each time). Anyone know if that

RE: Dell SAS controllers

2009-08-28 Thread Oliver Marshall
attached, not a mix. Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell SAS controllers Chaps, Should any Dell HD controller labelled as SAS be able to take SAS or SATA disks? Particularly we have

RE: Dell SAS controllers

2009-08-28 Thread Oliver Marshall
...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 28 August 2009 09:45 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers SATA and SAS use different command sets, which is why I don't think you can mix/match. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:33 PM To: NT

Accessing sharepoint via OWA

2009-09-01 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, Does anyone here use OWA to allow users to access sharepoint via the Documents section of OWA? If so, what URl are you entering for the sharepoint site ? I've set the Private Computer settings to allow access to sharepoint, and also added the sharepoint server internal and external

Win7, MSBSA and Visio add-in

2009-09-07 Thread Oliver Marshall
Anyone noticed that the Visio add-in for the MS Baseline security analyzer doesn't appear to work in Windows 7? Visio reports it as being loaded and enabled, but the MSBA menu doesnt appear and the scanning features don't work, as though it's just not enabled. Olly ~ Finally, powerful

Mail flow testing service

2009-09-19 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, Can anyone recommend a mail flow testing service that will send emails to a mailbox, test that they are recieved, say every 30 mins or so, and then alert if one fails? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Software raid and 2003

2010-01-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I'm losing my mind with a software raid based 2003 server. I want to replace the disks with larger ones. I've replaced the secondary, powered up, let it all sync and it's fine. When I replace the primary plex and boot I get a black screen and a flashing cursor. So I fire up the

Can you try this for me? Outlook 2003

2010-02-05 Thread Oliver Marshall
Can someone help me test something? Can you create an invite in your calendar in Outlook 2003, set a reminder for it, and then invite a colleague, does the colleague get a pop up reminder at the time you specify, or only you ? We have people here reporting that if they create an appointment,

Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

2010-02-16 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I'm having probs with a restore of an old win2k box to a vmware VM. The box is an old web server which is veryerrr..old. Its a P3, 256Mb, 20GB HD, Win2k box. The disks are nearly max'd out completely and there is no more space or the ability to add more (the ISP no longer

RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

2010-02-16 Thread Oliver Marshall
: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:46 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM Hi chaps, I'm having probs with a restore of an old win2k box to a vmware VM. The box is an old web server which is veryerrr..old. Its

RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

2010-02-16 Thread Oliver Marshall
2010 13:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM I'm confused here, the ISP won't give you enough space to P2V the old server. But they will give you enough space to set up a new server and do a restore? -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall

Blank values in perfmon graphs

2009-10-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, We have a network with a few terminal services and an SBS box. The TS users have been reporting that things are 'sticky' today, so we fired up the perfmon set that we have saved for this kind of thing expecting that someone has a rogue process munching the CPU cycles or something. However

RE: OpenSource CRM?

2009-10-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
Sugar is the clear choice for opensource. Salesforce is superb and fairly reasonable. Autotask has just released a stunning value package for their GO! service at $29 per month per user. Connectwise is insanely expensive and flakey around the edge but it's very powerful. -- G2 Support

RE: License compliance tracking

2009-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
/newsletter From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 15:21 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: License compliance tracking We use the spreadsheet from hell here to track licenses, both MS non-MS products. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Oliver Marshall

RE: License compliance tracking

2009-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 15:26 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: License compliance tracking Doesn't SCCM do this? From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: License compliance tracking Hi

Whats thrashing my disks?

2009-10-26 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, Can anyone tell me how to go about finding out whats causing really high disk write queue lengths on our old SBS 2003 box ? It appears to grind to a halt and during which time perfmon shows that the write queue for the C drive goes sky high, easily reaching 200+ and it has gone over

RE: Whats thrashing my disks?

2009-10-26 Thread Oliver Marshall
-virus would be the first thing I looked at. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi chaps, Can anyone tell me how to go about finding out whats causing really high disk write queue lengths on our old SBS 2003 box

RE: Whats thrashing my disks?

2009-10-26 Thread Oliver Marshall
From: Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 October 2009 12:45 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whats thrashing my disks? Does it have enough memory. Low memory can cause disk thrashing as well. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh

Exchange email archiving

2009-11-04 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, We're after an email archiving solution for about 100 users which integrates with Exchange 2007 (Win 2k3) and Outlook 2007 so that users data is archived off of the Exchange server to some other (cheaper, larger) kind of storage but in a way that's as invisible as possible to the end

Software audit of OS X

2009-11-30 Thread Oliver Marshall
HI chaps Does anyone know of a tool we can run on macs to audit the software installed and also get any available serial and license numbers ? We have to do a software audit of all the machines but while we have tools in place for Windows, we have nothing that will do macs but we do have a

Software raid and booting from secondary plex

2009-12-10 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I have an old 2003 server machine here with software raid. It's time to upgrade the disks to larger ones so I intend to swap each disk, waiting between swaps for the data to resync (prob a day or so) and then use the new spare space to create a larger partition in which to move our

Web filtering software for Windows 2003

2008-08-04 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, Can anyone recommend a basic web filtering package to run on a windows server for a small company of around 15 users? The only requirements are that it can block via category and it can provide some level of reporting to an admin to show who's doing what and who's breaking what rules.

RE: Web filtering software for Windows 2003

2008-08-04 Thread Oliver Marshall
to AD and build rules for the groups. Good luck, Jason From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web filtering software for Windows 2003 Hi, Can anyone recommend a basic web filtering package to run

RE: Web filtering software for Windows 2003

2008-08-06 Thread Oliver Marshall
filtering software for Windows 2003 OpenDNS works great for this and is free. It lacks reporting by user but will give a report of which sites have been filtered. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL

[OT] SNMP, Watchguard and MRTG

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
Does anyone have any experience of monitoring the bandwidth usage of a watchguard unit via something like MRTG or similar ? I want to know the bandwidth usage at a few of our sites so that we can upgrade the lines. They are serviced office units which inevitable means that no one knows whats

RE: [OT] SNMP, Watchguard and MRTG

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
needed to do was get the SNMP Communities set up. We went very cryptic on community names for obvious reasons. We have the Fireware pro package installed so we have three ISP connections, a DMZ and a private interface on the box, and we monitor usage for all 5 ports. 2008/8/13 Oliver Marshall [EMAIL

RE: [OT] SNMP, Watchguard and MRTG

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/13/2008 03:58 AM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com cc Subject [OT] SNMP, Watchguard and MRTG Does anyone

[OT] SPS to MOSS upgrade stopped

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I'm trying to upgrade from Sharepoint Services 3 to Microsoft Office SHarepoint Server 2007. I have a problem when running the Sharepoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard in the Office Server program group. It runs through fine, but displays a failed status at the

RE: [OT] SPS to MOSS upgrade stopped

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
throwIfInvalid) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedAccessRule.Validate() I would bet that at least one isn't. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13

RE: OpenDNS

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
Well, we get email probs if the recipient domain is on the opendns list of things to block. Its blocks at the DNS level so will happily block MX as well as A records. Updates have never taken more than about 1 hour for us though. From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 August

RE: [OT] SPS to MOSS upgrade stopped

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
-and-wss-3-0.aspx http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/26fc12a 1-2184-4299-8b0c-2be0dc1cd81e/ -Bonnie From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] SPS to MOSS upgrade stopped

RE: [OT] SPS to MOSS upgrade stopped

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
think s/he meant to say that the service account (one that runs the SSP) was logged on when running the command to fix it? From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] SPS to MOSS upgrade stopped

[OT] Friday moan

2008-08-15 Thread Oliver Marshall
Just wanted to vent. Three server failures (one so bad MS PSS described it as 'beyond the scope of normal support'). Routing issues affecting almost all clients meaning that email wasn't getting through, limited web access etc. Short staffed. Very angry. Thanks. Olly ~ Finally, powerful

Sharepoint / MOSS woes

2008-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
Can I start by just saying AGHHH! Thanks We decided to upgrade our WSS 3 box to MOSS2007 on Thursday. We went through all the docs before hand, got a copy of the backups (we run full backups nightly using STSADM and also get backup of the AAM and the

RE: Citrix and VMWare pricing going up 1st September for non-US customers

2008-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
Price hikes for non-US peeps. What a surprise :S Europe, the cash point of the world. From: Steve Burkett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 August 2008 12:33 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Citrix and VMWare pricing going up 1st September for non-US customers Just a general

Freelance MOSS/WSS consultant needed in Southern UK

2008-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, Well, after 5 days, we’ve realised the MS chap assigned to us is an idiot. I think we are going to need to bring in some outside help just to undo the configuration changes which have been given to us over the last few days. What we will probably be needing is for someone to

RE: So, Why Do We Do It?

2008-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
I'm not sure what it's like on the other side of the great divide (I imagine that you all have big cars and all back gardens are acres in size) but I'm very surprised that so many people responded saying that they enjoyed their position, or did it for positive reasons. I was expecting to see a lot

RE: P2V and Partitions

2008-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
Roger, I'm no expert, but I love VMs. From my experience they import at the disk level. Some let you play with the partition sizes etc if you want to be brave, but most don't make it easy, and yes, for the most part, VM's require everything that their physical counterparts require.

RE: So, Why Do We Do It?

2008-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
particularly old. 2008/8/18 Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure what it's like on the other side of the great divide (I imagine that you all have big cars and all back gardens are acres in size) but I'm very surprised that so many people responded saying that they enjoyed

RE: Sharepoint / MOSS woes

2008-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
http://theessentialexchange.com/ From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sharepoint / MOSS woes Can I start by just saying AGHHH! Thanks We decided to upgrade our WSS 3

RE: So, Why Do We Do It?

2008-08-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hoodies relate to hooded sweatshirts. Those that wear them are called Hoodies. The general stereo-type is that someone wearing a hoodie will knife you as soon as look at you. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 August 2008 18:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?

2008-08-23 Thread Oliver Marshall
Can anyone out there recommend a Sonicwall Pro 2040 ? I'm looking for a firewall to slap in a co-lo rack thats 1U, rack mountable, will be able to support the full 100mb line and also be easy and reliable. Normally I'm a Watchguard fan but their 1U entry level unit (X Core) is too much for

RE: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?

2008-08-23 Thread Oliver Marshall
, but as the other poster said, VPN functionality with other systems can be funky. I've used Sonicwall's in the past and found them to be a breeze to manage. BUT, after my last support experience I vowed never to do business with them again and went with an ASA at my last company. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto

Changing disk IO drivers with BartPE or similar

2008-08-27 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, Bit of an off the wall question. I have a bartpe disk running our disk imaging software, and I have an image of a machine. The machine has died, and a new one has been shipped, however its not the same spec and the machine blue screens when you load it off the image due to disk IO

Sharepoint/IIS default domain in authentication

2008-08-27 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps again. Can anyone think why I would be hitting so many problems when trying to get a sharepoint site to use the default domain when users authenticate? At the moment they have to enter domain\user, which while not a chore, appears to be more than most users can bare. Normally I'd just

RE: Sharepoint/IIS default domain in authentication

2008-08-27 Thread Oliver Marshall
. I'll email you a chapter from my IIS 7.0 book offlist that covers how this all works under the covers. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2008 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sharepoint/IIS default

RE: Sharepoint/IIS default domain in authentication

2008-08-27 Thread Oliver Marshall
by the client. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2008 6:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint/IIS default domain in authentication Thanks Ken. I keep forgetting about 2008 :) So I should say this is IIS6

RE: Sharepoint/IIS default domain in authentication

2008-08-27 Thread Oliver Marshall
Ahhh, it was having Windows Authentication enabled for the Sharepoint IIS site. Disabling that made the default domain work, but now requires that the internal users have to log on explicitly. H'a'zor. Olly -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27

AD/Exch2003 Script help

2008-08-28 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I have a script which I have been using to easily add contacts and have them added to a group on the sbs box here. However, I've just realised that contacts added to the server using this script never show up in Outlooks Address Book. Closer hunting showed that they don't show up

RE: AD/Exch2003 Script help

2008-08-28 Thread Oliver Marshall
they are created (like you would with Exchange tools)? I'm not really a vb person, but I don't see any reference to that... -Bonnie From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AD/Exch2003 Script help Hi chaps

RE: Dell PE 4600 ampage

2008-08-31 Thread Oliver Marshall
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how I can find out the ampage for a Dell PE 4600 ? We have an old one at a data centre which is being moved to a new site. The new site want accurate estimates of it's ampage, which Dell don't seem to have

DNS records not updating when DHCP IP is assigned

2008-09-11 Thread Oliver Marshall
I have a problem. I think. I may be going mad. I've got a windows 2003 64 bit server. Its the sole server on the network. It's acting as the DHCP server for the network as well as internal DNS. The problem is that when the DHCP hands out a new IP to a client machine it doesn't always record it

DNS records not updating when DHCP IP is assigned

2008-09-11 Thread Oliver Marshall
I have a problem. I think. I may be going mad. I've got a windows 2003 64 bit server. Its the sole server on the network. It's acting as the DHCP server for the network as well as internal DNS. The problem is that when the DHCP hands out a new IP to a client machine it doesn't always record it

[OT] Hello ?

2008-09-11 Thread Oliver Marshall
Is the list working? I've nothing for around 24 hours from Tuesday night to Wednesday early afternoon and nothing today, and several posts I've made haven't appeared at all. Helo ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Dell account and DIY replacements

2008-09-12 Thread Oliver Marshall
What size of Dell account do you have to have to be able to arrange your own replacement parts? We've just spent the best part of a day dealing with Dell 'reseller' tech support about a duff laptop that just won't power on. Rather than just replacing it they've tried to get us to do everything,

RE: Dell account and DIY replacements

2008-09-12 Thread Oliver Marshall
12 mos. THey sent some big-whigs to our office and we asked specifially for this (no calling India for a bad mouse, etc). -Devin On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What size of Dell account do you have to have to be able to arrange your own

DHCP fail-over

2008-09-15 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm

RE: DHCP fail-over

2008-09-15 Thread Oliver Marshall
: 15 September 2008 12:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, I'm looking

RE: DHCP fail-over

2008-09-15 Thread Oliver Marshall
/netmask definition, and add the appropriate exclusions. It's easier to automate using netsh.exe as well (if you are going to be typing things in at a command line) Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 September 2008 10:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware

2008-09-15 Thread Oliver Marshall
If you get an answer to this I'd love to know. We can get around it by installing the drivers for a standard IO card (say an adaptec scsi/sas and an adaptec sata raid controller) before doing the DR images. However, that assumes that we a) have the replacement raid card handy come the

NDRs from the list

2008-09-16 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, Can you uber-gods of the list remove the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] as its generating NDRs on posting. At least it is for me. Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware

2008-09-16 Thread Oliver Marshall
SATA chipset. I can use (and have used!) the exact same image on Dell, HP and Lenovo desktops and only have to worry about the audio drivers. Oliver Marshall wrote: If you get an answer to this I'd love to know. We can get around it by installing the drivers for a standard IO card (say

NTUSER.DAT in use but no user logged on

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, I've got a problem for one user on one TS box in our little farm here. Each morning for the last few morning she logs on and gets told that she's being logged on with a blank profile as her cannot be found. Looking at it, her profile is there, as normal. However, any attempts to rename or

Tagging PDF files in Vista

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi gang. Is there any 3rd party app I can use to allow me to easily tag PDF files in Vista in a similar way to that which I can use to tag DOC and other Office file types? The tagging of DOCs, XLSs etc is so easy and very handy here, and I'd love to do something like that with PDFs. I know I

[OT] Secure paper disposal

2008-09-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I know this isn't Windows orientated, but I thought some of you might have some experience of this and it does relate to data, kinda, albeit not electronic perhaps. When a company such as Iron Mountain etc dispose of the documents collected via a 'secure collection' service, what

User profile not unloading on TS box

2008-09-23 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, We have a user on a 2003 TS box who has a problem logging on each morning. They get the standard warning about the profile not loading and get presented with a temp profile. What appears to be happening is that their NTUSER.DAT file is in use, and so the system cant instate their roaming

Windows based secure disk eraser

2008-09-23 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi gang, Does anyone have any recommendations of a secure disk erasing package for Windows? We currently use DBAN for erasing disks, which is fine where the disks are in the workstations or servers (we use it to wipe machines before giving them to charities etc) however, when we just have a hard

RE: Windows based secure disk eraser

2008-09-23 Thread Oliver Marshall
eraser On 23 Sep 2008 at 10:59, Oliver Marshall wrote: Hi gang, Does anyone have any recommendations of a secure disk erasing package for Windows? We currently use DBAN for erasing disks, which is fine where the disks are in the workstations or servers (we use it to wipe machines before giving

Dell 3115CN paper size question

2008-09-24 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I've checked on the Dell forums about this but can't find much, and before I play Dell-Roulette I thought I would ask on the list to see if anyone else has come up against this. We run a number of Dell 3115CN workgroup printers, and I have to say I love them. However we have an

RE: GroundWorks - anyone use it?

2008-09-24 Thread Oliver Marshall
Zabbix is what you want. It's much better than either nagios (which is too hard) or GW (which isn't enough of an improvement over nagios). Olly From: Pete Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 September 2008 14:39 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GroundWorks - anyone use it?

Website security checking service

2008-09-25 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, Can anyone recommend a website checking service that will check websites on a regular basis for security issues and report back ? One of our clients suffered an SQL injection attack this week, and on their new rebuilt server they are keen to get some element of reporting as to when

RE: Website security checking service

2008-09-25 Thread Oliver Marshall
security checking service SQL Injection is an application layer issue. Nothing with configuring your server is going to stop that (other than possibly filtering out a few common attacks). The devs need to write better code. Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Windows disk encryption?

2008-09-25 Thread Oliver Marshall
We use TrueCrypt which is open source and seems very good. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2008 14:42 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows disk encryption? Anyone use this? Experiences, comments? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION

RE: Website security checking service

2008-09-25 Thread Oliver Marshall
but a WAF will *help* protect you proactively.  - Andy O. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Website security checking service Hi chaps, Can anyone recommend

RE: Windows disk encryption?

2008-09-25 Thread Oliver Marshall
). On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use TrueCrypt which is open source and seems very good. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Standard Ports

2008-10-02 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, We are looking at setting up a DMZ based wifi AP at a remote site where they have lots of freelancers coming and going. This would be used for the freelancers and would stop them accessing internal resources while allowing them external access. There would be another wifi AP for the

DHCP failover and reservations

2008-10-09 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, When you are setting up a secondary DHCP server for a failover setup, is there a way to import the reservations from the existing DHCP server or do they have to be entered manually? We have a lot of DHCP reservations and it's inevitable that some will be entered incorrectly. Olly

RE: Hyper-V license question

2008-10-10 Thread Oliver Marshall
. Jon On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or is it that each additional *windows* based VM requires an additional license (which is fairy-nuff) and any NON-windows VMs don't require a separate MS license? I guess what I'm trying to work out is whether

RE: Hyper-V license question

2008-10-10 Thread Oliver Marshall
the OS *IN* the VM that requires an additional license. Olly -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2008 13:16 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V license question Hi chaps, I'm looking at porting some of our VMWare VMs to HyperV instead

Hyper-V license question

2008-10-10 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I'm looking at porting some of our VMWare VMs to HyperV instead. We have a new server running 2008 Standard. The MS licensing page for HyperV says that I can run one VM server on the Standard edition and that additional licenses are required for each VM. Does that mean an additional

Two XPS questions

2008-10-17 Thread Oliver Marshall
Chaps, Has anyone come across a tool that will mass convert PDF files to XPS format? Ideally one that has a command line or some form of scheduler so that we can schedule a convert of all the PDF files created during the day in a given folder. Secondly, does anyone know of a

Stopping users emailing out internal docs

2008-10-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, We've had a case this week of a client who found out a user, who is in the process of being let go, had emailed out to their personal gmail account a copy of all the internal documents, logos, process diagrams, etc. The user is now undergoing disciplinary action and facing possible

RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs

2008-10-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
and effectively make it unforwardable, it was pretty slick...now if I could only remember what product it was... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11

RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs

2008-10-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
and can be beat it should get you to be able to say you tried really hard to the lawyers. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Remember remember

RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
emailing out internal docs Good job guys, Information Rights Management, that's it... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx Dave From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping

RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
out internal docs Good job guys, Information Rights Management, that's it... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx Dave From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] om] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

SBS 2008 yet ?

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
I'm bored. When will SBS2008 hit the action packs ? Olly -- G2 Support Online Backups Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.g2support.com http://www.g2support.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: SBS 2008 yet ?

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
seemed a little excessive, I need to virtualize my ram J From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 09:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2008 yet ? I'm bored. When will SBS2008 hit the action packs ? Olly -- G2 Support Online Backups

Quick, exporting Exchange log search results

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Chaps Is there any tool I can quickly use to export the results from an exchange log file search? I got the results in the awful Exchange Tracking Center in 2003, and I want to export the results to send over to a solicitor. Any quick suggestions? Olly -- G2 Support Network

RE: Quick, exporting Exchange log search results

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/more-ex change-message-tracking.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Oliver Marshall [mailto

RE: Paperless Office / Mass Scanning projects - rule of thumb for storage?

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Well, we have a client who recently (about a year ago) went down the same route, only they shunned Sharepoint as the database may have grown too large and the backup for flat files was easier for them. They scan legal related documents, and they are required to scan everything and keep it for

Dell 3115CN lunacy

2008-10-23 Thread Oliver Marshall
We've had a chap here dealing with Dell about a problem with their driver. Basically, there if you print a document for whatever reason to the wrong tray, your only option is to cancel the job, and do it again. There isn't a way to hit a button on the front of the printer, as there is with HP

RE: Dell 3115CN lunacy

2008-10-23 Thread Oliver Marshall
this would definitely be a problem. René From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell 3115CN lunacy We've had a chap here dealing with Dell about a problem with their driver. Basically, there if you

Recreating Exchange 2003 Virtual Dirs in IIS5

2008-10-23 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, I have a problem with an exchange 2003 server running on Windows 2000. Basically OMA has stopped working with the user seeing The specified module could not be found. In a browser, and their device not syncing. On the server, if we are lucky, we see ; Event Type:Warning Event

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