Short list from DeKalb: 3 worms all mutate and cause hell after installing Viper (from Faronics) on servers and workstations. Viper can't detect it, work over a week with them and they still haven't provided a workable fix, so we install Sophos' enterprise and that does a decent job of calming things down. I think the real problem is that we purchased Viper from Faronics and we have to deal with Faronics tech support (not 24hr support, and on west coast time). While worms running everywhere, Cyphonix box goes down (corrupt kernel). 2 days and hours of support time later, they get replacement filter on line last Friday night. I'm sure that helped with the virus! Yesterday while working with dell to create a lund (due to ghosted lunds in vmware), they some how manage to delete one of our lunds. They are still trying to prove it is our fault, but within their argument that it was our fault their time line clearly shows it happened while they were controlling the navisphere interface. Most of the servers lost were non-essential, but one of them was our new sophos server. so now i'm in here rebuilding that so we can deploy av first thing Monday morning. Also we've never opened our libraries until the second week of school. Found out Thursday night they are supposed to be open day 1 (Monday). So I'm running all the SIF calls to populate my Destiny server with current student info. Once that is done, I'll do the same for the student shares and email. Did I mention I need to build the student server (vm) as well.
Good thing I have a wedding to go to, else I'd probably stay here all weekend. Brian Tobin DeKalb Community Unit School District 428 901 s 4th st DeKalb, IL 60115 brian.to...@dist428.org ilfastpi...@gmail.com W815.754.2284 M302.468.6246 ________________________________________ From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Dave Biby [db...@cpher99.org] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:01 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Had your "oh s%&@" moment yet? Isn't it amazing so much seems to go wrong just as school starts, especially with equipment that's been chugging along for years? At our HS, a teacher workstation (worked in July), 8 ports on a backbone switch (why not the whole thing...), some ports on a couple 8 port switches in classrooms and a handful of things I learned of just as I was leaving on Friday all appear to have suddenly failed... I wonder if it's Murphy's law or maybe that strange thunderstorm just before school started... It's undoubtedly going to be an interesting year. Dave Biby Christopher Unit #99 On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:09 PM, <rkas...@valmeyerk12.org<mailto:rkas...@valmeyerk12.org>> wrote: I've had a string of rooms that started dropping network access intermittently. I sat and watched one room go up and down by watching the lights on the workgroup switch in the room. I thought, great, loose wire in the rj45 jack, but it hadn't gone down since. Today, the two rooms next door both lost access completely. Wires checked out OK, but no signal to the switch. Started working uphill toward the cisco switch. It turned out to be a bank of ports on my 48-port switch. Quoting Eric Barringer <ebarrin...@blueridge18.org<mailto:ebarrin...@blueridge18.org>>: I had mine! A teacher mentions that she can't print to a network printer. An investigation indicates an unavailable printer. I remote in to the server and find the print spooler stopped. And it won't restart. It starts up, then crashes immediately. Which means vast stretches of printers are not functional. I pulled a bunch of print spool registry keys out of the registry and started putting them back in one at a time. The culprit turned out to be a little Brother laser printer brought in by one of the high school teachers. This printer had been running without problem for most of last year, so I'm not sure what would have caused it to spaz out right now. Possibly from an update, I ran a bunch of updates over the summer and he has not used that printer since then. -Eric -- Eric Barringer Technology Coordinator Blue Ridge CUSD #18 | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
