Re: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-15 Thread Harry Singh
Is it recommended to kick off defrag's for VM's who are using shared storage ? On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:41 PM, David Lum wrote: > We use PerfectDisk here with uh...results. Inobtrusive, but no idea if it > helps or not. I mean the servers stay defragged but that's about all I know > :-) > > D

Re: Wtf! [Message clipped]

2009-12-03 Thread Harry Singh
I'm getting the same crap. It's extremely annoying. Gmail decides now to strip HTML bodies ? On 12/3/09, Steven Peck wrote: > I am using a web browser to read/send gmail. It will not go into my > outlook. > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:03 PM, David Lum wrote: >> I hope I am joking, but the possi

Re: OpenDNS

2009-11-20 Thread Harry Singh
I'm using forwarding to OpenDNS for quite sometime now with no complaints. Their usage graphs are pretty, FWIW. I believe the feature in win2k3 is called conditional forwarding, and that works like a charm for several intermediate windows DNS boxes. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David W. McS

Re: https and certs issues

2009-11-17 Thread Harry Singh
I have a similar requirement at one site. Everything is resolavble to company.com, inside and out. They use checkpoint Fw's. Rulebase additions from inside network to outside nat'd address pasthru the firewall just fine. I enter static DNS entries on the AD-INT zone and all works like a charm. I

Re: P2V a DC

2009-11-13 Thread Harry Singh
t; well and your dancing. > > > > Not had a problem doing it this way. > > > > *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 13 November 2009 15:10 > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: P2V a DC > > > > When P2V'ing a DC -- w

Re: P2V a DC

2009-11-13 Thread Harry Singh
When P2V'ing a DC -- what steps to do you take once the clone is up and running to prevent any authentication crashes or issues in general ? Obviously there has to be a computer name change, IP change. Newsid ? Anything in the AD that needs to be ran/re-ran to pick up the cloned DC's ? On Fri,

Re: This is a new one on me...

2009-11-12 Thread Harry Singh
Doesn't seem like an issue with the R710, but if it is, please let me know. I just ordered 2 of these bad boys for a vSphere install. On 11/12/09, Peter Schwarz wrote: > +1 > > This happened to me once so I reset the permissions on C:\ manually. This > got the box back up and running but ever sin

Re: HP to acquire 3com

2009-11-11 Thread Harry Singh
Whoa I guess this had to be their ultimate fate. I've been a rcom switch user for quite sometime.. On 11/11/09, Andrew Levicki wrote: > Wow! > > 2009/11/11 Webster > >> http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/09xa.html >> >> >> >> >> >> Webster >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ~ Finally, powe

Re: Exchange/OWA 2007

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
to provide *2* different OWA URLs. There are > a lot of reason, which I'd rather not blather on about. > > Which is why I am wondering, if I build a CAS/HUB server, and a seperate > Mailbox server, will I be able to achieve my goal? > > > > Original Message: > -

Re: Windows 2003 Firewall throwing me fits... any guru's

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
This is all guess work here, but -- have you checked the binding order of the teamed NIC ? Did you add the exemptions via netsh ? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Don Ely wrote: > Perzactly... if I were to hazard a guess it has something to do with the > teaming... Can you turn that off for a q

Re: Exchange/OWA 2007

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
The recommend migration scenario for OWA users then would be something like this: https://webmail03.mydomain.com https://webmail07.mydomain.com Going to be tackling an 03 migration pretty soon... On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > and moving to a new namespace in 2007

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
His font (at least how gmail is delivering it) lead me to believe it was S0, which is exactly why I found it to be pretty funny... Anyways, please proceed...=) On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM, David Lum wrote: > What does that have to do with VM’s? > > > > *From:* tony patton [mailto:tony.pa

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
S0? now that's an acronym worth remembering..lol. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, tony patton < tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com> wrote: > +1 > > The SO already complains at the fact I have 13 vm's and 2 physicals at > home. > > Regards > > Tony Patton > Desktop Operations Cavan > Ext 8078 > Di

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Singh
NParr -- Thanks. That config actually sounds pretty cost/energy efficient and fully compatible. Thanks again for sharing... On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:42 AM, N Parr wrote: > The drives aren't really as important as the controller. If you're > building an ESX or Vsphere box from a workstation a

Re: New firewall recommendations

2009-10-30 Thread Harry Singh
In my experience, Sonicwall's are absolutely terrible when going against any fortinet or Juniper FW's. I'd rather do a netgate box with either monowall or pfsense than choose a Sonicwall, IMO. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mike Sullivan wrote: > I also had the same experience back around th

Re: Anyone recommend good USB Stick duplicator on the cheap?

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Singh
+1 On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:26 PM, wrote: > Free - use your computer. > Cheap - use your computer, a USB hub or five, and a script or free > duplicator software. > > Also, check cyberguys.com. They usualy have these kind of things for a > reasonable price. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School Dis

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

2009-10-27 Thread Harry Singh
27;m pretty sure it would be in vein. Sure, send me your paypal address..unless of course you've found a "free" linux alternative to paypal. On 10/27/09, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Harry Singh wrote: >> It's outbound load balancing

Re: VLAN concepts and applications

2009-10-27 Thread Harry Singh
This is a great piece of information. Thank You Ben.. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > Someone was asking VLAN questions, so I decided to re-post this. > I've also updated it to reflect our successful VoIP deployment. > > PROTOCOL CONCEPTS > > We have regular "untagged" Eth

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

2009-10-27 Thread Harry Singh
t the OP is requesting. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Harry Singh wrote: > > www.elfiq.com > > Holy crap -- I just looked at the prices. You can do this with > Linux and a 7 year old PC for "free". Sure, they&

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

2009-10-27 Thread Harry Singh
I don't know much of anything about the products listed, but if you're open to suggestion i would HIGHLY recommend ELFIQ. www.elfiq.com The product plainly works as advertised -- it's support team is very knowledge and responsiveness and overall code design is very efficient. On Mon, Oct 26,

Re: Personal firewalls on XP inside LANs

2009-10-22 Thread Harry Singh
For those that have the windows FW engage once the network is out of network, how is that done ? Personally, we shut down the windows FW and rely on reduced perms, app whitelists and randomizing pwd's... But it would be nice to have the windows FW turn on for our road warriors when they are home,c

Re: The future is here

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Singh
80 Megs is fast, but VPN's are all about latency back to your HQ. I'd love to know how many hops you are traversing back over to HQ and what your RTT and packet loss look like...Nonteless, i'd be a torrent freak with 80 down..dam that's fast. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Leif Wahlberg wrote

Re: Network Monitoring tools

2009-09-02 Thread Harry Singh
Cacti technically, out of the box, won't allow you to see who is hogging up all your bandwidth down to the NIC, but NTOP can. Ntop is your friend. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > I would say go with one of the Cacti virtual boxes that are > pre-configured before you spend

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