RE: [NTSysADM] the Diagnostics Tracking Service: what and why?

2015-05-18 Thread James Button
Firstly note the warning about the fix and prior versions. see http://kbupdate.info/windows-7-2015-05.php And select the entry for Q3022345 ( near the middle of the list ) Then search Google with a key of what is microsoft Diagnostics Tracking Service And you can get to

[mssms] SCCM 2012 Licensing

2015-05-18 Thread Bhasker Chittanoori
We are planning to implement SCCM 2012, my manager asked me how much does it cost for 700users total? any clue?Bhasker, Chittanoori SFO CA

RE: [mssms] SCCM 2012 Licensing

2015-05-18 Thread Marable, Mike
Your best bet might be to contact Microsoft about pricing. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/system-center-2012-r2/purchasing.aspx From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Bhasker Chittanoori Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 10:18

[mssms] Compliance Settings and PCI Security Standards

2015-05-18 Thread Anand Upadhyay - Information Technology
Hi, Has anyone used Compliance Settings in SCCM 2012 R2 to become PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant? Found few post from google search but not much help. No configuration pack available either. Has anyone ever tried to build one from scratch? Anand

Re: [FEP] CryptoLocker Type Malware SCEP

2015-05-18 Thread Justin VanDyke-Restifo
Had it on 1 of my machines. SCEP did stop it On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Dewell, Matthew matthew.dew...@allegiancehealth.org wrote: Has anyone had clients infected with Cryptolocker type variants fairly recently? We’ve had a couple clients hit within the last several weeks. Everything

[FEP] RE: CryptoLocker Type Malware SCEP

2015-05-18 Thread Dewell, Matthew
Thanks for the feedback, John. I was thinking along those lines myself. -- Matt Dewell From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of John Aubrey Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 12:43 PM To: f...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [FEP] RE: CryptoLocker Type

[NTSysADM] the Diagnostics Tracking Service: what and why?

2015-05-18 Thread Patrick Bervoets
Q3022345 installs the Diagnostics Tracking Service. While I find a lot of paranoia on the web I'm still unsure what this tracking does and why I should(would) install it. Can anyone shed any light on this update? Thanks Patrick Bervoets PSC Elsene vzw

[NTSysADM] dcdiag errors; DNS; missing glue A records, but only on Win2012 DCs

2015-05-18 Thread Michael Leone
Here's a weird one. I have a parent-child domain structure. Parent has 3 DCs (all Win 2008 R2); child has 6 DCs (all Win2008 R2). Now we are updating the AD to Win2012 R2. Last week I added 3 Win2012 R2 DCs to the parent domain; went fine. No replication errors; no dcdiag errors. So now I have 3

RE: [mssms] SCCM 2012 Licensing

2015-05-18 Thread Kent, Mark
Or check to see what CALs you have, you might already own it. Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 12:28

[mssms] Built in report not working

2015-05-18 Thread Krueger, Jeff
Has anyone come across this scenario where a built in report has just stopped working? The report for Computers with specific software registered in Add Remove Programs has stopped working for us, and is generating the following error: The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check

Re: [msmom] Web Application Availability Monitoring issues

2015-05-18 Thread Radu Bogdan
Hello, I finally manage to solve my problem. To be honest, it was kinda strange, it seems that I also had another issue, somehow related to my initial problem. When trying to discover new severs, Discovery Wizard was running like forever so I found this solution:

[NTSysADM] Re: dcdiag errors; DNS; missing glue A records, but only on Win2012 DCs - RESOLVED

2015-05-18 Thread Michael Leone
Found it! In the parent DNS, go to the zone for the child domain. Right click, properties. On the Name Servers tab that comes up, one of the servers had an asterisk (*) next to its name, indicating that the IP was resolved via DNS, and *not* entered statically here. To fix:

[sharepoint] Audience Setting

2015-05-18 Thread Zakaria Muhammad
HI, I need help from SharePoint experts, I am using SharePoint Foundation 2010 in which Navigation Targeted Audience option is not available. Due to this I cannot have Navigation link with different URL based on SharePoint groups. I need to Publish One Navigation Link, when user Click

RE: [mssms] SCCM 2012 Licensing

2015-05-18 Thread Marcum, John
For 700 you may have to go to a reseller like CDW or SHI. From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:30 AM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM 2012 Licensing Your best bet might be to

[mssms] UDA question

2015-05-18 Thread Beardsley, James
G'afternoon everyone. If an administrator goes into Edit Primary Users on a device and manually removes a user association, do the usage statistics get reset? For example, if I have my UDA threshold set to 2400 minutes over 14 days in my client settings, if the same user I removed met that

RE: [mssms] SCCM 2012 Licensing

2015-05-18 Thread John Aubrey
We buy System Center Datacenter CAL’s for our Hyper-V hosts, and standard CAL’s for physical servers. We then get the Client CAL that gives you ConfigMgr client and Endpoint protection. There is a system center CAL for clients that gives you everything (VMM, SCCM, SCOM, SCHOR, DPM, SCSM).

RE: [NTSysADM] External monitoring?

2015-05-18 Thread Kennedy, Jim
You either monitor from inside out….or outside in. If it is inside out you want to do, then a cable modem makes sense. It’s cheap, you use it to send sms’s and you got a second line if your primary goes down. Not saying it could replace your primary but it will provide some functionality for

Re: [NTSysADM] External monitoring?

2015-05-18 Thread Erik Goldoff
yeah, I would have recommended a POTS line (Plain Old Telephone Service) phone line for modem, but they are barely less expensive than a small dsl/cable, and at much more limited speeds On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:58 PM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: A modem can send sms , although a

[mssms] RE: Built in report not working

2015-05-18 Thread Garth Jones
It is caused by high ASCII (or very low ASCII) characters within your ARP. They trick is to find out which client is send up the data and fix. I would start my looking for all clients that are NOT running SP1 version of the client. From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] External monitoring?

2015-05-18 Thread Bourque Daniel
One passive solution is to send an e-mail every 2 hours to an external Echo service (ex: e...@tu-berlin.demailto:e...@tu-berlin.de) using Blat and the Windows Scheduler. First thing is that it will continuously check the whole pathway for your internal and external e-mail solution and if the

RE: [NTSysADM] External monitoring?

2015-05-18 Thread Stephen Gestwicki
I am using PRTGhttps://www.paessler.com/prtg (which is now free for 100 sensors) on an external web server that will send email or IM alerts if my main site goes down. It is also installed internally to monitor a bunch of other servers, services, printers, and other things. - Stephen From:

RE: [NTSysADM] External monitoring?

2015-05-18 Thread Beckers, Shawn (IT Services)
We use a service called Mailive! from Knowledge Front for external availability monitoring of our mail servers. I believe they also do some things with web server availability monitoring as well. https://www.knowledgefront.com/ On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:19

RE: [NTSysADM] External monitoring?

2015-05-18 Thread Melvin Backus
If you have an external office (or even your home PC) you could setup one of the free monitoring solutions (in fact there may be some out there that are SaaS) to monitor some critical internal piece. Spiceworks has a free solution but I haven’t had a chance to set it up yet to check it out.

RE: [mssms] SCCM 2012 Licensing

2015-05-18 Thread Gerry Hampson
As Mark says there is no cost for deploying Site Systems – you can have as many as you want. However when you install a client on a desktop you will need a Client Management License. When you install the client on a server you will need a Server Management License. You can read about this here

[NTSysADM] 2008 R2 RD Gateway issue

2015-05-18 Thread Neil Standley
A client is reporting that they are being disconnected from remote desktop sessions after a varying amount of time, 5~120 minutes. They believe this started just a few weeks ago and up until then it was working fine. I've been researching this for the better part of today without getting

RE: [mssms] Switch to UEFI during OSD

2015-05-18 Thread Jason Sandys
Correct. There have discussions on this by Tim Mintner, Keith Garner, and Michael Niehaus and the conclusion is that this is not possible in an unattended manner or with a single TS. J From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Roland Janus Sent:

Re: [mssms] Switch to UEFI during OSD

2015-05-18 Thread Niall Brady
i've thought about it and perhaps you could build some type of script to run before the prestart even, which checks for UEFI and if not, set's the bios to UEFI (lenovo and others have scripts for that), then reboots to the correct mode before allowing you to select a UEFI mode task sequence you'd

RE: [mssms] Switch to UEFI during OSD

2015-05-18 Thread Michael Niehaus
Overall, it’s a painful thing to do – most people who ask want to do this as part of an OS refresh, preserving user data and settings at the same time without moving data off of the system. We don’t recommend even trying – just keep the system running legacy BIOS emulation until it’s replaced

[mssms] Citrix Connector / ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1/ 2012 SP2

2015-05-18 Thread LEROY Mathieu
Hi, ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU4 + Citrix Connector 7.5 here Does anyone got information about Citrix Connector 7.5 supportability for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 and 2012 SP2 ? I'd like my customer to move to SP1 quickly because they're not in production yet. Cordialement, Mathieu Leroy Consultant T :

[mssms] Switch to UEFI during OSD

2015-05-18 Thread Roland Janus
Anyone tried that? Switching the BIOS to UEFI with a command line isn't the problem, but doing this as part of OSD might be. Refresh using hardlinks can't work, but anyone tried switching to UEFI during OSD for baremetal? (That of course would lead to a mix of legacy and UEFI installations)

Re: [NTSysADM] the Diagnostics Tracking Service: what and why?

2015-05-18 Thread Susan Bradley
I tilt at Windmills. (TM) On 5/18/2015 5:55 PM, Jon Harris wrote: You really are a dreamer aren't you? Good thing you are on this list otherwise I am sure some of us (like me) would not have seen that until it bit us real bad. Thank you! Jon Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 08:12:57 -0700