RE: People that keep scanning my firewall
Block the whole country. http://www.blockacountry.com/ Mark From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 19:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: People that keep scanning my firewall Does anyone want to share a list of jerkoffs that keep scanning the outside interface of their firewalls? I want to just blast these IP's that keep filling up my Management reports. They are a bother and have no real value but I am required to get the board an unaltered report. Data Security is everyone's responsibility. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ** This email is sent for and on behalf of Inspop.com Limited ** Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registration no. 310635. Inspop.com Limited (also trading as Confused.com) is registered in England and Wales at 2nd Floor, Friary House, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AE (Reg. No. 03857130 ). Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the Information Security Officer by telephone on +44 (0) 29 2043 4200. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. This email has been swept for viruses before leaving our system. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. We may monitor the content of E-mails sent and received via our network for viruses or unauthorised use and for other lawful business purposes. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Messagelabs. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection
whilst I am no fan of SEP, I have been forced to use it. It extended our logoff times drastically until I went for the only Antivirus and Antispyware option which seems a lot better. I would still rather use something different though. I use the AppSense Application Manager component which blocks any executable from processing that is not on my whitelist, so i am not too concerned about having all the extra features such as firewall, network threat protection, application control and intrusion detection that Symantec tries to push on me. However I have to admit that for standard virus protection - which is all I want - it seems to be doing exactly what is required. Cheers, 2008/7/28 Michael Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can customise all the options to not do an initial scan and in our case not use the firewall components. There is a document for SBS networks which provides a light touch of management – that might be all you need to protect the clients and it will also give you a good idea of how to slim down the install package. Skip the basic v11 and go straight to the latest version – since that upgrade my internal server is now stable. The AD integration looks seems to work well (small network experience only though). Mike *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 28 July 2008 21:44 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection So I guess what I'm really asking here, now that I'm not trying to bash Symantec, is this: Are there enough improvements with the new version (mainly overhead, bloat, etc.) to recommend upgrading to it? My users' main complaint is that their computer takes so long to completely boot up in the morning, and this is because Symantec is doing a startup scan and takes a huge portion of CPU cycles, which bogs down the entire system. I personally would love to tell them not to upgrade, but wait until the contract ends, and dump Symantec like a hot potato. But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. Joe Heaton -- *From:* Michael Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 11:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I liked the product, it's just that at launch it was too heavy to run on anything but a dedicated box. As all our clients have SBS we just renewed and kept them on v.10. The new version is a lot lighter, but I'm still nervous about older servers and we are looking at a more blended defence. I'll probably keep renewing my clients for one more year and then see. Mike *From:* Michael Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 28 July 2008 19:11 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I have v11.. and the latest greatest rendition, MP2 MR1.. fantastic.. But for email servers, id use trend micro's scanmail. IMHO. *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 12:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Symantec Endpoint Protection Anyone using this that is happy with it? Also, is there anyone here that doesn't think Symantec is a big pile? I personally hate the product, and wish that I made the decisions around here, but I don't, so I have to come up with objective reviews of SEP, and whether or not we should upgrade from v.10 to the Symantec Mulit-tier protection system, with SEP, SAV Mobile and Mail Security. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1577 - Release Date: 7/28/2008 6:55 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Server Colidation via VMWare
I don't know about that. I would have thought that would only affect the machine AFTER it was done with the conversion, not the conversion. I ended up rebuilding the machine from scratch as a virtual machine which took a lot less time than the conversion process was taking. I was so disgusted with VMware at that point that I made them Virtual Server machines. In the long run that saved me a lot of time when we got our 2008 server with Hyper-V. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I recall reading once that conversion can mess with the whitespace in databases (or something like that...). I am curious, as I have a SQL migration coming up. I think I also recall reading that you shouldn't resize any drives that the SQL are on. And possibly doing a backup/restore of the DBs after migration. -- *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 7:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare During my attempts with SQL all SQL services were set to disabled and machine restarted. I also tried doing a cold boot but nothing seemed to help. Same thing with the IISv6 with FTP. I did not try removing all the IP's from these machines as I had enough issues getting everything working together in the first place. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good note. Anything that is running any services like that should be set to run in Windows Diagnostics Mode via MSCONFIG, or at least manually stop all non-default services. Or, use the Cold Boot CD option in VMware convertor. -- *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare It can't or didn't do all machines. I know I had a lot of issues trying to use it with SQL being on the machine. I also had issues with IISv6/FTP with multiple sites as well. Jon On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there is a P2V tool that VMWare has – it lets you make a P2V image w/out taking the target system offline – it loads a liitle app then takes a snapshot, it's very slick! IIRC it comes with ESX, but I might be mistaken. *Dave Lum* - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 *..*remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside*** - JFK*** *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, July 25, 2008 8:36 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Server Colidation via VMWare We want to take a closer look at server consolidation using VMWare's ESX products, especially in light of the recent announcement making the product available free. We have several servers on old hardware that would be nearly impossible to rebuild so we're thinking they're ideal candidates for VM's if there's an automated process to migrate P2V. Is such a tool available, and at low-cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection
Wait until you are in a domain and have to update the engine from the SAV server. Major PITA. Jon On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:06 AM, James Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whilst I am no fan of SEP, I have been forced to use it. It extended our logoff times drastically until I went for the only Antivirus and Antispyware option which seems a lot better. I would still rather use something different though. I use the AppSense Application Manager component which blocks any executable from processing that is not on my whitelist, so i am not too concerned about having all the extra features such as firewall, network threat protection, application control and intrusion detection that Symantec tries to push on me. However I have to admit that for standard virus protection - which is all I want - it seems to be doing exactly what is required. Cheers, 2008/7/28 Michael Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can customise all the options to not do an initial scan and in our case not use the firewall components. There is a document for SBS networks which provides a light touch of management – that might be all you need to protect the clients and it will also give you a good idea of how to slim down the install package. Skip the basic v11 and go straight to the latest version – since that upgrade my internal server is now stable. The AD integration looks seems to work well (small network experience only though). Mike *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 28 July 2008 21:44 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection So I guess what I'm really asking here, now that I'm not trying to bash Symantec, is this: Are there enough improvements with the new version (mainly overhead, bloat, etc.) to recommend upgrading to it? My users' main complaint is that their computer takes so long to completely boot up in the morning, and this is because Symantec is doing a startup scan and takes a huge portion of CPU cycles, which bogs down the entire system. I personally would love to tell them not to upgrade, but wait until the contract ends, and dump Symantec like a hot potato. But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. Joe Heaton -- *From:* Michael Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 11:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I liked the product, it's just that at launch it was too heavy to run on anything but a dedicated box. As all our clients have SBS we just renewed and kept them on v.10. The new version is a lot lighter, but I'm still nervous about older servers and we are looking at a more blended defence. I'll probably keep renewing my clients for one more year and then see. Mike *From:* Michael Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 28 July 2008 19:11 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I have v11.. and the latest greatest rendition, MP2 MR1.. fantastic.. But for email servers, id use trend micro's scanmail. IMHO. *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 12:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Symantec Endpoint Protection Anyone using this that is happy with it? Also, is there anyone here that doesn't think Symantec is a big pile? I personally hate the product, and wish that I made the decisions around here, but I don't, so I have to come up with objective reviews of SEP, and whether or not we should upgrade from v.10 to the Symantec Mulit-tier protection system, with SEP, SAV Mobile and Mail Security. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1577 - Release Date: 7/28/2008 6:55 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Server Colidation via VMWare
I guess I should have looked further in the responses as that might be a good way to do things. I wonder if it will work with Hyper-V as well? Jon On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about that. I would have thought that would only affect the machine AFTER it was done with the conversion, not the conversion. I ended up rebuilding the machine from scratch as a virtual machine which took a lot less time than the conversion process was taking. I was so disgusted with VMware at that point that I made them Virtual Server machines. In the long run that saved me a lot of time when we got our 2008 server with Hyper-V. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I think I recall reading once that conversion can mess with the whitespace in databases (or something like that...). I am curious, as I have a SQL migration coming up. I think I also recall reading that you shouldn't resize any drives that the SQL are on. And possibly doing a backup/restore of the DBs after migration. -- *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 7:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare During my attempts with SQL all SQL services were set to disabled and machine restarted. I also tried doing a cold boot but nothing seemed to help. Same thing with the IISv6 with FTP. I did not try removing all the IP's from these machines as I had enough issues getting everything working together in the first place. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Good note. Anything that is running any services like that should be set to run in Windows Diagnostics Mode via MSCONFIG, or at least manually stop all non-default services. Or, use the Cold Boot CD option in VMware convertor. -- *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare It can't or didn't do all machines. I know I had a lot of issues trying to use it with SQL being on the machine. I also had issues with IISv6/FTP with multiple sites as well. Jon On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there is a P2V tool that VMWare has – it lets you make a P2V image w/out taking the target system offline – it loads a liitle app then takes a snapshot, it's very slick! IIRC it comes with ESX, but I might be mistaken. *Dave Lum* - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 *..*remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside*** - JFK*** *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, July 25, 2008 8:36 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Server Colidation via VMWare We want to take a closer look at server consolidation using VMWare's ESX products, especially in light of the recent announcement making the product available free. We have several servers on old hardware that would be nearly impossible to rebuild so we're thinking they're ideal candidates for VM's if there's an automated process to migrate P2V. Is such a tool available, and at low-cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Server Colidation via VMWare
If you are going to Hyper-V, then check out SCVMM 2008 when it ships. That will do P2V conversion for Windows Server 2003 boxes. SCVMM 2007 can already do P2V (to Virtual Server 2005) for Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 boxes. Cheers Ken From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 7:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Colidation via VMWare I guess I should have looked further in the responses as that might be a good way to do things. I wonder if it will work with Hyper-V as well? Jon On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about that. I would have thought that would only affect the machine AFTER it was done with the conversion, not the conversion. I ended up rebuilding the machine from scratch as a virtual machine which took a lot less time than the conversion process was taking. I was so disgusted with VMware at that point that I made them Virtual Server machines. In the long run that saved me a lot of time when we got our 2008 server with Hyper-V. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I recall reading once that conversion can mess with the whitespace in databases (or something like that...). I am curious, as I have a SQL migration coming up. I think I also recall reading that you shouldn't resize any drives that the SQL are on. And possibly doing a backup/restore of the DBs after migration. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Colidation via VMWare During my attempts with SQL all SQL services were set to disabled and machine restarted. I also tried doing a cold boot but nothing seemed to help. Same thing with the IISv6 with FTP. I did not try removing all the IP's from these machines as I had enough issues getting everything working together in the first place. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good note. Anything that is running any services like that should be set to run in Windows Diagnostics Mode via MSCONFIG, or at least manually stop all non-default services. Or, use the Cold Boot CD option in VMware convertor. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Colidation via VMWare It can't or didn't do all machines. I know I had a lot of issues trying to use it with SQL being on the machine. I also had issues with IISv6/FTP with multiple sites as well. Jon On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there is a P2V tool that VMWare has - it lets you make a P2V image w/out taking the target system offline - it loads a liitle app then takes a snapshot, it's very slick! IIRC it comes with ESX, but I might be mistaken. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server Colidation via VMWare We want to take a closer look at server consolidation using VMWare's ESX products, especially in light of the recent announcement making the product available free. We have several servers on old hardware that would be nearly impossible to rebuild so we're thinking they're ideal candidates for VM's if there's an automated process to migrate P2V. Is such a tool available, and at low-cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Server Colidation via VMWare
I am still looking at SCE so it will be awhile before I can go there, if ever. I had a horrible time just getting a server in house that would do Virtualization correctly. I am now trying to get SCE as the price is just too good to pass up but I need to get some time to get up the demo I downloaded. Jon On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are going to Hyper-V, then check out SCVMM 2008 when it ships. That will do P2V conversion for Windows Server 2003 boxes. SCVMM 2007 can already do P2V (to Virtual Server 2005) for Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 boxes. Cheers Ken *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, 29 July 2008 7:12 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare I guess I should have looked further in the responses as that might be a good way to do things. I wonder if it will work with Hyper-V as well? Jon On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about that. I would have thought that would only affect the machine AFTER it was done with the conversion, not the conversion. I ended up rebuilding the machine from scratch as a virtual machine which took a lot less time than the conversion process was taking. I was so disgusted with VMware at that point that I made them Virtual Server machines. In the long run that saved me a lot of time when we got our 2008 server with Hyper-V. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I recall reading once that conversion can mess with the whitespace in databases (or something like that...). I am curious, as I have a SQL migration coming up. I think I also recall reading that you shouldn't resize any drives that the SQL are on. And possibly doing a backup/restore of the DBs after migration. -- *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 7:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare During my attempts with SQL all SQL services were set to disabled and machine restarted. I also tried doing a cold boot but nothing seemed to help. Same thing with the IISv6 with FTP. I did not try removing all the IP's from these machines as I had enough issues getting everything working together in the first place. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good note. Anything that is running any services like that should be set to run in Windows Diagnostics Mode via MSCONFIG, or at least manually stop all non-default services. Or, use the Cold Boot CD option in VMware convertor. -- *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare It can't or didn't do all machines. I know I had a lot of issues trying to use it with SQL being on the machine. I also had issues with IISv6/FTP with multiple sites as well. Jon On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there is a P2V tool that VMWare has – it lets you make a P2V image w/out taking the target system offline – it loads a liitle app then takes a snapshot, it's very slick! IIRC it comes with ESX, but I might be mistaken. *Dave Lum* - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 *..*remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside*** - JFK* *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, July 25, 2008 8:36 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Server Colidation via VMWare We want to take a closer look at server consolidation using VMWare's ESX products, especially in light of the recent announcement making the product available free. We have several servers on old hardware that would be nearly impossible to rebuild so we're thinking they're ideal candidates for VM's if there's an automated process to migrate P2V. Is such a tool available, and at low-cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: XP SP3
Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PMSubject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Remote Desktop of Death
OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
Can you clarify this? I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. Is this: a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and (trying to) open a session to a server -or- b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote desktop session somewhere else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop of Death OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
I am on my XP desktop, and I run mstsc.exe to open a session on a server. (In the most recent case, the server was a VM, so remote session is the only real possibility.) Again, I am logged into my XP desktop as my personal account, and I try to log into a remote server with a different, administrative account. My warning message is that the remote server already has my personal, non-admin account logged into a session on it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 07:39:51 AM: Can you clarify this? I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. Is this: a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and (trying to) open a session to a server -or- b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote desktop session somewhere else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop of Death OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: ESX/ESXi
the free version will not do HA, DRS, VMotion DRM, SVmotion (you can buy the license separately for those if you want), you still have to pay for Virtual Center if you want to manage multiple hosts together or you can use VIC for singles for free and VC foundation for up to 3 hosts cheap. The RCLI is missing many of the commands like a Kill command for example that come in handy. Since a lot of 3rd party tools won't work with ESXi environment as well as a ESX environment, things like monitoring won't work well. So for right now id use it but not in full production. Works excellent for things like DR and DMZ work. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi That just rocks. I'm definitely stoked. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt, If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console No, you can use VIC with ESXi. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi So, we have two servers running ESX Standard, and we use the VI client to manage those servers (along with some judicious use of ssh). If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console, which I use to manage my free installation of VMWare server for my desktop use? I'm looking at this page: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html and it looks like it's basically the same as the ESX Standard that we paid a fair amount for about a year ago. Now it's free. Wow. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The i is for integrated... Other than that, its the same old ESX... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, from what I've read, the difference between these two is that ESXi has a smaller footprint. Is this all I need to consolidate physical servers, or do I need the Infrastructure 3.0? Running around 20 physical servers atm, including 2 DCs, Exchange 2K3 box, file server, print server, web servers and application servers. Nothing too far out of the ordinary. This post is not asking about box requirements to do this, just if the ESXi is all I would need. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: blacklists
Everything is looking good this morning, as far as our email is concerned and so far still off the blacklists. In host watch of the Watchguard System Manager, I am getting numerous (hundreds/minute) outbound Filtered-SMTP denies from my DC (which is my mail gateway). I thought mail was just going thru there one-way (incoming). Mail in -WG Firewall - DC (Symantec Mail Security for SMTP) - Exchange Server - WG Firewall - Mail out. Could there just be a misconfiguration on my DC? Paul From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists They are proxy's. I have two defined. One called SMTP and it has the incoming set From: any, To: WG ip - DC (mail gateway). The outgoing tab is disabled. The other proxy is called Filtered-SMTP. It's Incoming is Disabled and the Outgoing is set From: Any, To: Any. I change this From: Exchange ip, To: Any. I've never been able to figure logging on the WG. I can never find the logs and for email, I can't find where to set the address?? The WG interface seems so simple, but it really makes me feel like an idiot at times. Hope this is good enough damage control for tonight. I'll be back in the am to check things and do more investigating. Thanks for all the suggestions. Paul From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Open Policy Manager on the Watchguard 700, you will have either a proxy or filter policy for SMTP. On the Outgoing tab, set From: to the IP address of your mail server and To: to all The default rule is all to all, which will allow traffic from port 25 to pass from any machine on your network. By setting From: to only your mail server IP, you will block any internal machines that may be attempting to send SMTP traffic on their own. You can also set the rule to log denied traffic which will quickly identify internal machines that are attempting to use port 25. Configuration is a little different on the newer Watchguard boxes, but should be pretty straight forward on the 700. If the problem persists, then you're back to a relay problem or compromised mail server. Dennis From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server They are one and the same. My DC is actually my Mail Gateway between the WG and Exchange. Block port 25 at the firewall for all but authorized systems (mail server). Any idea how to do this on a Watchguard 700? Thanks From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Sounds like you may have an infected client on your network that is sending outbound spam. Block port 25 at the firewall for all but authorized systems (mail server). Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server. That should get things cleared up enough so that you'll stay off the blacklists and give you some time to hunt for the guilty party. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: blacklists We've been finding ourself on some blacklists since last week and have basically shut us down. Specifically Spamhaus and Barracuda's. I'm not sure if I have an infected computer on my network sending spam or not. I've requested my ip removed from the blacklists several times, but after a day or two I'm back on. I've got a window to post this question before it happens again. Here's what I have. One Domain, two locations connected via PTP T1 (Adtrans). All Internet access is at one location where I have my Mail Server 2003 (Ninja) and a Watchguard Firewall. All clients (about 200) running Symantec AV. I don't have really the tools or knowledge to run any packet capture software (or anything else) to determine if I have an owned machine, but while I am working on that is there any way to close my firewall to outbound mail traffic while still letting my Exchange out? Do infected computers send email thru port 25 like Exchange? If so, can I block that port and change the port Exchange uses to send? If so, how? This may take me awhile, but I'd like to stay off the blacklists in the mean time. One thing I've done is installed Zone Alarm on my pc to see if I can catch any of my local computers scanning my network. After the install it asked if I wanted my Outlook to act as a Server. The info button showed that it should be ok to do, but I said no. My email seems to be working but I keep getting notifications that ZA is blocking internet
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
Connect by IP address until you get your DNS sorted out. S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop of Death I am on my XP desktop, and I run mstsc.exe to open a session on a server. (In the most recent case, the server was a VM, so remote session is the only real possibility.) Again, I am logged into my XP desktop as my personal account, and I try to log into a remote server with a different, administrative account. My warning message is that the remote server already has my personal, non-admin account logged into a session on it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 07:39:51 AM: Can you clarify this? I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. Is this: a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and (trying to) open a session to a server -or- b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote desktop session somewhere else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop of Death OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Remote Desktop of Death
Never ever heard of that happening. You normally only get that prompt to log people off when connecting to a console session via RDP that already has someone logged in. Are you sure you aren't working via a server (maybe Citrix) session originally and then trying to connect to the server again via RDP? As far as I can read it, that is the only way that could happen. 2008/7/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Remote Desktop of Death
You can always run tsadmin.exe before you connect via RDP, connect to the target server in this and see if you *do* have a session already open to the server. 2008/7/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am on my XP desktop, and I run mstsc.exe to open a session on a server. (In the most recent case, the server was a VM, so remote session is the only real possibility.) Again, I am logged into my XP desktop as my personal account, and I try to log into a remote server with a different, administrative account. My warning message is that the remote server already has my personal, non-admin account logged into a session on it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 07:39:51 AM: Can you clarify this? I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. Is this: a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and (trying to) open a session to a server -or- b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote desktop session somewhere else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop of Death OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
Sounds like there's a DNS issue where your machine and the destination server are pointing to the same location. Do you get the same results if you use the IP of the destination server? IPCONFIG /FlushDNS Ping the server and your machine and verify the results. Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop of Death I am on my XP desktop, and I run mstsc.exe to open a session on a server. (In the most recent case, the server was a VM, so remote session is the only real possibility.) Again, I am logged into my XP desktop as my personal account, and I try to log into a remote server with a different, administrative account. My warning message is that the remote server already has my personal, non-admin account logged into a session on it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 07:39:51 AM: Can you clarify this? I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. Is this: a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and (trying to) open a session to a server -or- b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote desktop session somewhere else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop of Death OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: blacklists
It sounds like either something is misconfigured, your DC is infected or you don't correctly understand how mail is supposed to flow in your network. Get on your DC and run netstat -no and looks for connection to port 25 on your firewall. Then look up the PID in task manager to see what process on the DC is sending the mail. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Everything is looking good this morning, as far as our email is concerned and so far still off the blacklists. In host watch of the Watchguard System Manager, I am getting numerous (hundreds/minute) outbound Filtered-SMTP denies from my DC (which is my mail gateway). I thought mail was just going thru there one-way (incoming). Mail in -WG Firewall - DC (Symantec Mail Security for SMTP) - Exchange Server - WG Firewall - Mail out. Could there just be a misconfiguration on my DC? Paul From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists They are proxy's. I have two defined. One called SMTP and it has the incoming set From: any, To: WG ip - DC (mail gateway). The outgoing tab is disabled. The other proxy is called Filtered-SMTP. It's Incoming is Disabled and the Outgoing is set From: Any, To: Any. I change this From: Exchange ip, To: Any. I've never been able to figure logging on the WG. I can never find the logs and for email, I can't find where to set the address?? The WG interface seems so simple, but it really makes me feel like an idiot at times. Hope this is good enough damage control for tonight. I'll be back in the am to check things and do more investigating. Thanks for all the suggestions. Paul From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Open Policy Manager on the Watchguard 700, you will have either a proxy or filter policy for SMTP. On the Outgoing tab, set From: to the IP address of your mail server and To: to all The default rule is all to all, which will allow traffic from port 25 to pass from any machine on your network. By setting From: to only your mail server IP, you will block any internal machines that may be attempting to send SMTP traffic on their own. You can also set the rule to log denied traffic which will quickly identify internal machines that are attempting to use port 25. Configuration is a little different on the newer Watchguard boxes, but should be pretty straight forward on the 700. If the problem persists, then you're back to a relay problem or compromised mail server. Dennis From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server They are one and the same. My DC is actually my Mail Gateway between the WG and Exchange. Block port 25 at the firewall for all but authorized systems (mail server). Any idea how to do this on a Watchguard 700? Thanks From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Sounds like you may have an infected client on your network that is sending outbound spam. Block port 25 at the firewall for all but authorized systems (mail server). Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server. That should get things cleared up enough so that you'll stay off the blacklists and give you some time to hunt for the guilty party. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: blacklists We've been finding ourself on some blacklists since last week and have basically shut us down. Specifically Spamhaus and Barracuda's. I'm not sure if I have an infected computer on my network sending spam or not. I've requested my ip removed from the blacklists several times, but after a day or two I'm back on. I've got a window to post this question before it happens again. Here's what I have. One Domain, two locations connected via PTP T1 (Adtrans). All Internet access is at one location where I have my Mail Server 2003 (Ninja) and a Watchguard Firewall. All clients (about 200) running Symantec AV. I don't have really the tools or knowledge to run any packet capture software (or anything else) to determine if I have an owned machine, but while I am working on that is there any way to close my firewall to outbound mail traffic while still letting my Exchange out? Do infected computers send email thru port 25 like Exchange? If so, can I block that port and change the
Mutliple Floor building
If you have a Multiple Floor building where is the preferred placement of the IS/Data Center? Case in point: 3 level building Ground Level and 2 floor above. We are being told we will be in the Ground Level but we kind of wanted the 2nd Floor. Any ideas? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Looking for ZD NetBench
Does anyone know where I can download the ZD Netbench utility from? Preferably version 7.0 or greater. Thanks! ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Mutliple Floor building
The Virginia Community College system says all data centers should be on the ground floor but I have never seen a justification for this rule and guess what. The college where I work has its' server room is on the second floor and we have no plans to relocate it. I'd say if you are anywhere flooding is a possibility, second floor would be better but OTOH, if tornadoes, hurricanes or earth quakes then maybe the ground floor would be best. I guess only you can weigh the factors for your situation and decide what would be best. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mutliple Floor building If you have a Multiple Floor building where is the preferred placement of the IS/Data Center? Case in point: 3 level building Ground Level and 2 floor above. We are being told we will be in the Ground Level but we kind of wanted the 2nd Floor. Any ideas? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Remote Desktop of Death
Again, it has happened to me only 4 times now. Yes, I am sure DNS is not messed up, and that nobody is logged onto the remote server, especially my personal account. Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org James Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 08:30:08 AM: Never ever heard of that happening. You normally only get that prompt to log people off when connecting to a console session via RDP that already has someone logged in. Are you sure you aren't working via a server (maybe Citrix) session originally and then trying to connect to the server again via RDP? As far as I can read it, that is the only way that could happen. 2008/7/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Mutliple Floor building
Above it by about 20 topographical feet. - Original Message - From: Martin Blackstone To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: RE: Mutliple Floor building Are you on a flood plain or anything? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mutliple Floor building If you have a Multiple Floor building where is the preferred placement of the IS/Data Center? Case in point: 3 level building Ground Level and 2 floor above. We are being told we will be in the Ground Level but we kind of wanted the 2nd Floor. Any ideas? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. __ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
I admit, it could be a DNS cache on my desktop going screwy. I'll check that next time... -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Roger Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 08:39:58 AM: Sounds like there's a DNS issue where your machine and the destination server are pointing to the same location. Do you get the same results if you use the IP of the destination server? IPCONFIG /FlushDNS Ping the server and your machine and verify the results. Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop of Death I am on my XP desktop, and I run mstsc.exe to open a session on a server. (In the most recent case, the server was a VM, so remote session is the only real possibility.) Again, I am logged into my XP desktop as my personal account, and I try to log into a remote server with a different, administrative account. My warning message is that the remote server already has my personal, non-admin account logged into a session on it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 07:39:51 AM: Can you clarify this? I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. Is this: a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and (trying to) open a session to a server -or- b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote desktop session somewhere else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop of Death OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
Something's confused somewhere. Have you verified your IP addresses? Can you RDP into the remote box by IP? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote Desktop of Death Again, it has happened to me only 4 times now. Yes, I am sure DNS is not messed up, and that nobody is logged onto the remote server, especially my personal account. Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org James Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 08:30:08 AM: Never ever heard of that happening. You normally only get that prompt to log people off when connecting to a console session via RDP that already has someone logged in. Are you sure you aren't working via a server (maybe Citrix) session originally and then trying to connect to the server again via RDP? As far as I can read it, that is the only way that could happen. 2008/7/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
Hove you done a DNSFlush on your workstation? John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote Desktop of Death Again, it has happened to me only 4 times now. Yes, I am sure DNS is not messed up, and that nobody is logged onto the remote server, especially my personal account. Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org James Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 08:30:08 AM: Never ever heard of that happening. You normally only get that prompt to log people off when connecting to a console session via RDP that already has someone logged in. Are you sure you aren't working via a server (maybe Citrix) session originally and then trying to connect to the server again via RDP? As far as I can read it, that is the only way that could happen. 2008/7/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Mutliple Floor building
Check with your building engineers and make sure the 2nd floor can handle the weight. They may have specific areas on the above ground floors where high weight can be handled better Just a thought. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mutliple Floor building If you have a Multiple Floor building where is the preferred placement of the IS/Data Center? Case in point: 3 level building Ground Level and 2 floor above. We are being told we will be in the Ground Level but we kind of wanted the 2nd Floor. Any ideas? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Mutliple Floor building
I would think a couple of factors to consider for 1st floor DC 1) Are there main water pipes near the area 2) Will you have a raised floor, just in case some water comes in 3) Is there a basement? If there is not a basement you need to see where the water mains come in as that can be a huge issue. Raised floor will help keep the equipment drier longer, power may go, but that is better than wet servers. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mutliple Floor building Above it by about 20 topographical feet. - Original Message - From: Martin Blackstone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: RE: Mutliple Floor building Are you on a flood plain or anything? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mutliple Floor building If you have a Multiple Floor building where is the preferred placement of the IS/Data Center? Case in point: 3 level building Ground Level and 2 floor above. We are being told we will be in the Ground Level but we kind of wanted the 2nd Floor. Any ideas? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. __ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: blacklists
It's the Symantec Mail Security for SMTP. Now what? From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists It sounds like either something is misconfigured, your DC is infected or you don't correctly understand how mail is supposed to flow in your network. Get on your DC and run netstat -no and looks for connection to port 25 on your firewall. Then look up the PID in task manager to see what process on the DC is sending the mail. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Everything is looking good this morning, as far as our email is concerned and so far still off the blacklists. In host watch of the Watchguard System Manager, I am getting numerous (hundreds/minute) outbound Filtered-SMTP denies from my DC (which is my mail gateway). I thought mail was just going thru there one-way (incoming). Mail in -WG Firewall - DC (Symantec Mail Security for SMTP) - Exchange Server - WG Firewall - Mail out. Could there just be a misconfiguration on my DC? Paul From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists They are proxy's. I have two defined. One called SMTP and it has the incoming set From: any, To: WG ip - DC (mail gateway). The outgoing tab is disabled. The other proxy is called Filtered-SMTP. It's Incoming is Disabled and the Outgoing is set From: Any, To: Any. I change this From: Exchange ip, To: Any. I've never been able to figure logging on the WG. I can never find the logs and for email, I can't find where to set the address?? The WG interface seems so simple, but it really makes me feel like an idiot at times. Hope this is good enough damage control for tonight. I'll be back in the am to check things and do more investigating. Thanks for all the suggestions. Paul From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Open Policy Manager on the Watchguard 700, you will have either a proxy or filter policy for SMTP. On the Outgoing tab, set From: to the IP address of your mail server and To: to all The default rule is all to all, which will allow traffic from port 25 to pass from any machine on your network. By setting From: to only your mail server IP, you will block any internal machines that may be attempting to send SMTP traffic on their own. You can also set the rule to log denied traffic which will quickly identify internal machines that are attempting to use port 25. Configuration is a little different on the newer Watchguard boxes, but should be pretty straight forward on the 700. If the problem persists, then you're back to a relay problem or compromised mail server. Dennis From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server They are one and the same. My DC is actually my Mail Gateway between the WG and Exchange. Block port 25 at the firewall for all but authorized systems (mail server). Any idea how to do this on a Watchguard 700? Thanks From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Sounds like you may have an infected client on your network that is sending outbound spam. Block port 25 at the firewall for all but authorized systems (mail server). Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server. That should get things cleared up enough so that you'll stay off the blacklists and give you some time to hunt for the guilty party. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: blacklists We've been finding ourself on some blacklists since last week and have basically shut us down. Specifically Spamhaus and Barracuda's. I'm not sure if I have an infected computer on my network sending spam or not. I've requested my ip removed from the blacklists several times, but after a day or two I'm back on. I've got a window to post this question before it happens again. Here's what I have. One Domain, two locations connected via PTP T1 (Adtrans). All Internet access is at one location where I have my Mail Server 2003 (Ninja) and a Watchguard Firewall. All clients (about 200) running Symantec AV. I don't have really the tools or knowledge to run any packet capture software (or anything else) to determine if I have an owned machine, but while I
RE: XP SP3
Nothing has changed since SP3 was originally shipped. Whatever issues you talk about are still present. The only issues surrounding RD are the fact that the /console switch was changed to /admin. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PMSubject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: blacklists
And those are connections from the DC to the firewall (and not the reverse)? Something is misconfigured or you misunderstand how mail is supposed to flow. Is all the mail flowing outbound that is supposed to be? ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists It's the Symantec Mail Security for SMTP. Now what? From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists It sounds like either something is misconfigured, your DC is infected or you don't correctly understand how mail is supposed to flow in your network. Get on your DC and run netstat -no and looks for connection to port 25 on your firewall. Then look up the PID in task manager to see what process on the DC is sending the mail. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Everything is looking good this morning, as far as our email is concerned and so far still off the blacklists. In host watch of the Watchguard System Manager, I am getting numerous (hundreds/minute) outbound Filtered-SMTP denies from my DC (which is my mail gateway). I thought mail was just going thru there one-way (incoming). Mail in -WG Firewall - DC (Symantec Mail Security for SMTP) - Exchange Server - WG Firewall - Mail out. Could there just be a misconfiguration on my DC? Paul From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists They are proxy's. I have two defined. One called SMTP and it has the incoming set From: any, To: WG ip - DC (mail gateway). The outgoing tab is disabled. The other proxy is called Filtered-SMTP. It's Incoming is Disabled and the Outgoing is set From: Any, To: Any. I change this From: Exchange ip, To: Any. I've never been able to figure logging on the WG. I can never find the logs and for email, I can't find where to set the address?? The WG interface seems so simple, but it really makes me feel like an idiot at times. Hope this is good enough damage control for tonight. I'll be back in the am to check things and do more investigating. Thanks for all the suggestions. Paul From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Open Policy Manager on the Watchguard 700, you will have either a proxy or filter policy for SMTP. On the Outgoing tab, set From: to the IP address of your mail server and To: to all The default rule is all to all, which will allow traffic from port 25 to pass from any machine on your network. By setting From: to only your mail server IP, you will block any internal machines that may be attempting to send SMTP traffic on their own. You can also set the rule to log denied traffic which will quickly identify internal machines that are attempting to use port 25. Configuration is a little different on the newer Watchguard boxes, but should be pretty straight forward on the 700. If the problem persists, then you're back to a relay problem or compromised mail server. Dennis From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server They are one and the same. My DC is actually my Mail Gateway between the WG and Exchange. Block port 25 at the firewall for all but authorized systems (mail server). Any idea how to do this on a Watchguard 700? Thanks From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Sounds like you may have an infected client on your network that is sending outbound spam. Block port 25 at the firewall for all but authorized systems (mail server). Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server. That should get things cleared up enough so that you'll stay off the blacklists and give you some time to hunt for the guilty party. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: blacklists We've been finding ourself on some blacklists since last week and have basically shut us down. Specifically Spamhaus and Barracuda's. I'm not sure if I have an infected computer on my network sending spam or not. I've requested my ip removed from the blacklists several times, but after a day or two I'm back on. I've got a window to post this question before it happens again. Here's what I have.
RE: Mutliple Floor building
where does the building sit in regards to the local flood plane ? _ From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mutliple Floor building If you have a Multiple Floor building where is the preferred placement of the IS/Data Center? Case in point: 3 level building Ground Level and 2 floor above. We are being told we will be in the Ground Level but we kind of wanted the 2nd Floor. Any ideas? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1579 - Release Date: 7/29/2008 6:43 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: XP SP3
No, it also kills the ActiveX RDP client. Can't RDP through my Cisco ASA box from a SP3 machine. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 Nothing has changed since SP3 was originally shipped. Whatever issues you talk about are still present. The only issues surrounding RD are the fact that the /console switch was changed to /admin. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PM Subject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Mutliple Floor building
in that case you should be secure from flooding on ground floor, how is physical security. Ideally you'd want the room at the interior (not using exterior windows as a wall). What would located above the room on any upper floors ? Any water supply or draining piping directly above the room that could cause issues from leaks ? Most data centers I've seen, biggest issue on upper floors is floor weight loading from UPS batteries. And I'd recommend that telecom room (demarcs, PBX, etc) have a separate room to help maintain physical security (many horror stories here). just my two cents _ From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mutliple Floor building about 20 feet above - Original Message - From: Erik Goldoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:18 AM Subject: RE: Mutliple Floor building where does the building sit in regards to the local flood plane ? _ From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mutliple Floor building If you have a Multiple Floor building where is the preferred placement of the IS/Data Center? Case in point: 3 level building Ground Level and 2 floor above. We are being told we will be in the Ground Level but we kind of wanted the 2nd Floor. Any ideas? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1579 - Release Date: 7/29/2008 6:43 AM __ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1579 - Release Date: 7/29/2008 6:43 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Remote Desktop of Death
It being a rare problem, things all work correctly once I've logged back into my desktop -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Roger Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 09:19:38 AM: Something's confused somewhere. Have you verified your IP addresses? Can you RDP into the remote box by IP? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote Desktop of Death Again, it has happened to me only 4 times now. Yes, I am sure DNS is not messed up, and that nobody is logged onto the remote server, especially my personal account. Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org James Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 08:30:08 AM: Never ever heard of that happening. You normally only get that prompt to log people off when connecting to a console session via RDP that already has someone logged in. Are you sure you aren't working via a server (maybe Citrix) session originally and then trying to connect to the server again via RDP? As far as I can read it, that is the only way that could happen. 2008/7/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: XP SP3
I have had some issues where SP3 kills the RWW client on the workstation and users can no longer access RWW on SBS. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 No, it also kills the ActiveX RDP client. Can't RDP through my Cisco ASA box from a SP3 machine. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 Nothing has changed since SP3 was originally shipped. Whatever issues you talk about are still present. The only issues surrounding RD are the fact that the /console switch was changed to /admin. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PM Subject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: ESX/ESXi
Nice to know the limitations. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the free version will not do HA, DRS, VMotion DRM, SVmotion (you can buy the license separately for those if you want), you still have to pay for Virtual Center if you want to manage multiple hosts together or you can use VIC for singles for free and VC foundation for up to 3 hosts cheap. The RCLI is missing many of the commands like a Kill command for example that come in handy. Since a lot of 3rd party tools won't work with ESXi environment as well as a ESX environment, things like monitoring won't work well. So for right now id use it but not in full production. Works excellent for things like DR and DMZ work. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi That just rocks. I'm definitely stoked. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt, If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console No, you can use VIC with ESXi. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi So, we have two servers running ESX Standard, and we use the VI client to manage those servers (along with some judicious use of ssh). If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console, which I use to manage my free installation of VMWare server for my desktop use? I'm looking at this page: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html and it looks like it's basically the same as the ESX Standard that we paid a fair amount for about a year ago. Now it's free. Wow. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The i is for integrated... Other than that, its the same old ESX... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, from what I've read, the difference between these two is that ESXi has a smaller footprint. Is this all I need to consolidate physical servers, or do I need the Infrastructure 3.0? Running around 20 physical servers atm, including 2 DCs, Exchange 2K3 box, file server, print server, web servers and application servers. Nothing too far out of the ordinary. This post is not asking about box requirements to do this, just if the ESXi is all I would need. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
R: XP SP3
Just remove the corrupted file (From IE panel) .It will be recreated GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 29 luglio 2008 17.44 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: XP SP3 I have had some issues where SP3 kills the RWW client on the workstation and users can no longer access RWW on SBS. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 No, it also kills the ActiveX RDP client. Can't RDP through my Cisco ASA box from a SP3 machine. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 Nothing has changed since SP3 was originally shipped. Whatever issues you talk about are still present. The only issues surrounding RD are the fact that the /console switch was changed to /admin. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PM Subject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: XP SP3
Yeah.. that is the published fix, but does not resolve the issues I have seen. At two of my clients I have had to reload the PC and block SP3. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: XP SP3 Just remove the corrupted file (From IE panel) .It will be recreated GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 29 luglio 2008 17.44 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: XP SP3 I have had some issues where SP3 kills the RWW client on the workstation and users can no longer access RWW on SBS. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 No, it also kills the ActiveX RDP client. Can't RDP through my Cisco ASA box from a SP3 machine. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 Nothing has changed since SP3 was originally shipped. Whatever issues you talk about are still present. The only issues surrounding RD are the fact that the /console switch was changed to /admin. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PM Subject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
R: XP SP3
This solve the issue of RWW if you are adviced that you need active-x control but you are not prompted to install it GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 29 luglio 2008 18.01 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: XP SP3 Yeah.. that is the published fix, but does not resolve the issues I have seen. At two of my clients I have had to reload the PC and block SP3. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: XP SP3 Just remove the corrupted file (From IE panel) .It will be recreated GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 29 luglio 2008 17.44 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: XP SP3 I have had some issues where SP3 kills the RWW client on the workstation and users can no longer access RWW on SBS. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 No, it also kills the ActiveX RDP client. Can't RDP through my Cisco ASA box from a SP3 machine. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 Nothing has changed since SP3 was originally shipped. Whatever issues you talk about are still present. The only issues surrounding RD are the fact that the /console switch was changed to /admin. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PM Subject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Win98 and AD
I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: XP SP3
What corrupted file (From IE panel)? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/29/2008 11:00 AMSubject RE: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Yeah.. that is the published fix, but does not resolve the issues I have seen. At two of my clients I have had to reload the PC and block SP3. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: XP SP3 Just remove the corrupted file (From IE panel) .It will be recreated GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 29 luglio 2008 17.44 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: XP SP3 I have had some issues where SP3 kills the RWW client on the workstation and users can no longer access RWW on SBS. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 No, it also kills the ActiveX RDP client. Can't RDP through my Cisco ASA box from a SP3 machine. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 Nothing has changed since SP3 was originally shipped. Whatever issues you talk about are still present. The only issues surrounding RD are the fact that the /console switch was changed to /admin. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PM Subject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~
R: XP SP3
The active x for rdp GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 29 luglio 2008 18.13 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: XP SP3 What corrupted file (From IE panel)? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/29/2008 11:00 AMSubject RE: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Yeah.. that is the published fix, but does not resolve the issues I have seen. At two of my clients I have had to reload the PC and block SP3. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: XP SP3 Just remove the corrupted file (From IE panel) .It will be recreated GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 29 luglio 2008 17.44 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: XP SP3 I have had some issues where SP3 kills the RWW client on the workstation and users can no longer access RWW on SBS. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 No, it also kills the ActiveX RDP client. Can't RDP through my Cisco ASA box from a SP3 machine. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 Nothing has changed since SP3 was originally shipped. Whatever issues you talk about are still present. The only issues surrounding RD are the fact that the /console switch was changed to /admin. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 Are the issues with Remote Desktop resolved? . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/28/2008 05:00 PM Subject Re: XP SP3 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Don't know of any Joe Heaton wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~
Re: XP SP3
I've been running it fine here on campus, but my collegues tell me there are documented problems with AutoCad 2009 and SP3. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Organization and good planning are just crutches for people that can't handle stress and caffeine. - unknown ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: ESX/ESXi
Keep in mind there is a very unobtrusive way to get ssh access without hacking at the console. You need not install anything, or tweak anything in a fashion that may disrupt reliability. I couldn't use the thing w/o ssh... jlc -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi Nice to know the limitations. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the free version will not do HA, DRS, VMotion DRM, SVmotion (you can buy the license separately for those if you want), you still have to pay for Virtual Center if you want to manage multiple hosts together or you can use VIC for singles for free and VC foundation for up to 3 hosts cheap. The RCLI is missing many of the commands like a Kill command for example that come in handy. Since a lot of 3rd party tools won't work with ESXi environment as well as a ESX environment, things like monitoring won't work well. So for right now id use it but not in full production. Works excellent for things like DR and DMZ work. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi That just rocks. I'm definitely stoked. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt, If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console No, you can use VIC with ESXi. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi So, we have two servers running ESX Standard, and we use the VI client to manage those servers (along with some judicious use of ssh). If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console, which I use to manage my free installation of VMWare server for my desktop use? I'm looking at this page: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html and it looks like it's basically the same as the ESX Standard that we paid a fair amount for about a year ago. Now it's free. Wow. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The i is for integrated... Other than that, its the same old ESX... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, from what I've read, the difference between these two is that ESXi has a smaller footprint. Is this all I need to consolidate physical servers, or do I need the Infrastructure 3.0? Running around 20 physical servers atm, including 2 DCs, Exchange 2K3 box, file server, print server, web servers and application servers. Nothing too far out of the ordinary. This post is not asking about box requirements to do this, just if the ESXi is all I would need. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Win98 and AD
Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/windows-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Win98 and AD
yep, but that question doesn't help with my issue . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tialExchange.com NT System Admin Issues No Phone Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available com cc 07/29/2008 11:29 Subject AMRE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/windows-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Disconnected on a schedule???
After extended discussions with Dell, I'm really starting to wonder if this is a hardware issue at all. If you're familiar with Dell's DSET utility you'll know that it is able to capture logs from many areas of both hardware and software related items. They have gone over the log files several times and seen periods where the log files do not capture any information during the outage but in no place does any log file capture a problem. While logged into the console of the problematic server Windows Explorer seems to go into a Non Responding period of approximately four minutes. The task manager, running prior to the outage is 'frozen' during the outage so no new tasks nor updates on existing tasks is visible. Running Performance Monitor on the server during the outage freezes while the outage is happening, so it is not possible to see anything on screen while the problem happens. I was able to capture a log file of the Performance Monitor and send it to Dell for analysis, but they could not see any problems and have asked for another Performance Monitor capture. What else could cause Windows Explorer to lock up 'every so often.' It is usually Approximately 1 AM, 7 AM, 1 PM and 7 PM, or up to 40 minutes after each of those time frames. Twice now I have seen explorer windows lock up on ONE VOLUME only, and twice I've seen Windows Explorer lock up entirely, on both volumes. This server is relatively new, was purchased as a file server, no other roles are active, nothing unnecessary was installed, not Web server, nothing. The only ports open to the file server via an external hardware firewall are those ports required for File/Print sharing. (139/TCP, 445/TCP, 137/UDP and 138/UDP.) -Original Message- From: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disconnected on a schedule??? Weird. I had a similar problem a month ago on a 2950. The PERC went unresponsive. When I finally got the server back I had lost all my data. That was not a fun day. I was current with patches (Netware) and firmware/bios updates. Stephen Wimberly [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/24/2008 12:06 PM Here is a twist! Today I was connected to the console of the file server at the very moment the problem occurred. The problem seems to be the drive array, as the System volume responded just fine during the outage, but the internal RAID 5 drive array went to a non-responding state for FOUR MINUTES! I have opened a ticket with Dell, as it's a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server which is fully under warranty. The tech that answered did not see anything wrong in the DSET report, and has escalated the issue to a supervisor. So I think our Network guys are right, it's not a network issue, it's inside the box. This is a fairly new server, which runs as a file server only, no other roles are installed, so it 'should' be fairly easy to diagnose. At the time of the problem, all windows explorer windows showing anything on the RAID5 array go dormant with Not Responding at the top. Any windows explorer window displaying something on the system volume responds as normal, where I am able to open and close files, modify and save modified files, etc. The taskbar also goes dormant where it does not respond to any clicking. When the server returned to normal it very quickly processed all the clicks I had done to switch windows, just flashing on the screen rather quickly as though it had been storing my mouse clicks. The event logs don't record anything during nor after the problem. The next entries in the App, Security, system logs are well after it started to respond and have nothing to do with 'anything'. So now I await a return call from Dell. Thought I'd provide a follow up since several of you have sent me messages on what to look for! Thanks again! -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disconnected on a schedule??? Have the network guys look at the flow-control settings on your switches. If flow-control is on (as it should be in most cases), ports may be getting overwhelmed with traffic, resulting in pause frames. Flow-control pausing a connection will not result in tcp retransmits. Also, some switches may run out of buffer for the paused frames, although that condition would cause you to start seeing tcp retransmits. Some switches allow broadcast and unicast throttling. If they're turned on, they may be shutting down connections until the traffic goes below the thresholds again. An obvious thing is the speed/duplex settings. If there's a mismatch, the resulting degradation may only become noticeable under heavy traffic loads. Can you identify the source and destination for the SMB traffic? If so, you could try to find what's causing it. -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22,
RE: blacklists
Yes, all the mail seems to be flowing out just fine. I'm getting rely denied ndr's for a few domains and I seem to be listed with Barracuda still, but no other issues I'm aware of. I'm showing connections using port 25 on both local address and foreign address. The entries which are on local address most of the state values are Time-wait with a pid of 0. The occasional pid of smssmtp. All the foreign addresses showing pid of smssmtp. I must not understand how mail is supposed to flow. I assumed that the mail flowed into and out of the Mail Gateway (my DC), and maybe it did (and still trying), but my Exchange Server seems to be sending it fine since that is the only ip allowed out in my firewall (for smtp traffic). When I installed Ninja on my Exchange Box I uninstalled Symantec for Exchange (or whatever it's called). My plan was to also take Symantec Mail Security for SMTP off the DC, but decide that it was an extra layer of Security that wasn't hurting anything. I can't remember if we did anything to change the flow of outgoing email at that time or not. Paul From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists And those are connections from the DC to the firewall (and not the reverse)? Something is misconfigured or you misunderstand how mail is supposed to flow. Is all the mail flowing outbound that is supposed to be? ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists It's the Symantec Mail Security for SMTP. Now what? From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists It sounds like either something is misconfigured, your DC is infected or you don't correctly understand how mail is supposed to flow in your network. Get on your DC and run netstat -no and looks for connection to port 25 on your firewall. Then look up the PID in task manager to see what process on the DC is sending the mail. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Everything is looking good this morning, as far as our email is concerned and so far still off the blacklists. In host watch of the Watchguard System Manager, I am getting numerous (hundreds/minute) outbound Filtered-SMTP denies from my DC (which is my mail gateway). I thought mail was just going thru there one-way (incoming). Mail in -WG Firewall - DC (Symantec Mail Security for SMTP) - Exchange Server - WG Firewall - Mail out. Could there just be a misconfiguration on my DC? Paul From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists They are proxy's. I have two defined. One called SMTP and it has the incoming set From: any, To: WG ip - DC (mail gateway). The outgoing tab is disabled. The other proxy is called Filtered-SMTP. It's Incoming is Disabled and the Outgoing is set From: Any, To: Any. I change this From: Exchange ip, To: Any. I've never been able to figure logging on the WG. I can never find the logs and for email, I can't find where to set the address?? The WG interface seems so simple, but it really makes me feel like an idiot at times. Hope this is good enough damage control for tonight. I'll be back in the am to check things and do more investigating. Thanks for all the suggestions. Paul From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Open Policy Manager on the Watchguard 700, you will have either a proxy or filter policy for SMTP. On the Outgoing tab, set From: to the IP address of your mail server and To: to all The default rule is all to all, which will allow traffic from port 25 to pass from any machine on your network. By setting From: to only your mail server IP, you will block any internal machines that may be attempting to send SMTP traffic on their own. You can also set the rule to log denied traffic which will quickly identify internal machines that are attempting to use port 25. Configuration is a little different on the newer Watchguard boxes, but should be pretty straight forward on the 700. If the problem persists, then you're back to a relay problem or compromised mail server. Dennis From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Set the mail server so that it only accepts mail from your exchange server They are one and the same. My DC is actually my Mail Gateway
RE: Win98 and AD
But the link he included does. TVK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD yep, but that question doesn't help with my issue . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tialExchange.com NT System Admin Issues No Phone Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available com cc 07/29/2008 11:29 Subject AMRE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/windows-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: XP SP3
Thanks for that information. I was about to roll this out. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP SP3 I've been running it fine here on campus, but my collegues tell me there are documented problems with AutoCad 2009 and SP3. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Organization and good planning are just crutches for people that can't handle stress and caffeine. - unknown The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall not be reproduced, copied, or used (partially or wholly) in any manner without prior, express written authorization of Nucomm, Inc. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: XP SP3
I've noticed that if you do an install from the command line using the switch not to backup files, Automatic Updates fails. Using the Windows Update website doesn't work either. The updates get downloaded but not installed. I resolved it by re-registering the dll's for AU. No reboot required. -- Mike Gill From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: XP SP3 Any reason NOT to install this at this point? Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: ESX/ESXi
I agree that ssh is invaluable. I assume that it involves editing /etc/sshd_config, then enabling sshd via 'service start sshd'? On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind there is a very unobtrusive way to get ssh access without hacking at the console. You need not install anything, or tweak anything in a fashion that may disrupt reliability. I couldn't use the thing w/o ssh... jlc -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi Nice to know the limitations. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the free version will not do HA, DRS, VMotion DRM, SVmotion (you can buy the license separately for those if you want), you still have to pay for Virtual Center if you want to manage multiple hosts together or you can use VIC for singles for free and VC foundation for up to 3 hosts cheap. The RCLI is missing many of the commands like a Kill command for example that come in handy. Since a lot of 3rd party tools won't work with ESXi environment as well as a ESX environment, things like monitoring won't work well. So for right now id use it but not in full production. Works excellent for things like DR and DMZ work. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi That just rocks. I'm definitely stoked. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt, If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console No, you can use VIC with ESXi. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi So, we have two servers running ESX Standard, and we use the VI client to manage those servers (along with some judicious use of ssh). If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console, which I use to manage my free installation of VMWare server for my desktop use? I'm looking at this page: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html and it looks like it's basically the same as the ESX Standard that we paid a fair amount for about a year ago. Now it's free. Wow. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The i is for integrated... Other than that, its the same old ESX... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, from what I've read, the difference between these two is that ESXi has a smaller footprint. Is this all I need to consolidate physical servers, or do I need the Infrastructure 3.0? Running around 20 physical servers atm, including 2 DCs, Exchange 2K3 box, file server, print server, web servers and application servers. Nothing too far out of the ordinary. This post is not asking about box requirements to do this, just if the ESXi is all I would need. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~
Re: ESX/ESXi
Errr... That should be /etc/ssh/sshd_config. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind there is a very unobtrusive way to get ssh access without hacking at the console. You need not install anything, or tweak anything in a fashion that may disrupt reliability. I couldn't use the thing w/o ssh... jlc -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi Nice to know the limitations. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the free version will not do HA, DRS, VMotion DRM, SVmotion (you can buy the license separately for those if you want), you still have to pay for Virtual Center if you want to manage multiple hosts together or you can use VIC for singles for free and VC foundation for up to 3 hosts cheap. The RCLI is missing many of the commands like a Kill command for example that come in handy. Since a lot of 3rd party tools won't work with ESXi environment as well as a ESX environment, things like monitoring won't work well. So for right now id use it but not in full production. Works excellent for things like DR and DMZ work. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi That just rocks. I'm definitely stoked. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt, If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console No, you can use VIC with ESXi. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi So, we have two servers running ESX Standard, and we use the VI client to manage those servers (along with some judicious use of ssh). If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console, which I use to manage my free installation of VMWare server for my desktop use? I'm looking at this page: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html and it looks like it's basically the same as the ESX Standard that we paid a fair amount for about a year ago. Now it's free. Wow. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The i is for integrated... Other than that, its the same old ESX... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, from what I've read, the difference between these two is that ESXi has a smaller footprint. Is this all I need to consolidate physical servers, or do I need the Infrastructure 3.0? Running around 20 physical servers atm, including 2 DCs, Exchange 2K3 box, file server, print server, web servers and application servers. Nothing too far out of the ordinary. This post is not asking about box requirements to do this, just if the ESXi is all I would need. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Win98 and AD
Duh, Blonde moment. and yes I am blonde. But that's not the issue. Some accounts can login, others can't . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/29/2008 11:47 AMSubject RE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com But the link he included does. TVK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD yep, but that question doesn't help with my issue . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tialExchange.com NT System Admin Issues No Phone Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available com cc 07/29/2008 11:29 Subject AMRE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/windows-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: WAY OT: WMP and youtube
Or use Internet Video Converter 1.53 to convert to just about any format. -- Mike Gill From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: WAY OT: WMP and youtube Download Youtube videos (works on similar sites) http://tinyurl.com/6bkarx Tool to convert to DVD format:http://www.dvdflick.net/index.php Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WAY OT: WMP and youtube I have these two guys (whom I want to help) that use realplayer on Vista to download and play youtube vids. That app sucks, and always has issues. How can I provide them with a setup to use wmp or another competent media player to rip and replay these vids? Thanks for any hints! jlc ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Win98 and AD
Same place in the DC's GPO as the other settings that article mentioned. LAN Manager Hash storage prevented perhaps? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299656 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD Duh, Blonde moment. and yes I am blonde. But that's not the issue. Some accounts can login, others can't . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] software. com cc 07/29/2008 11:47 AM Subject RE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com But the link he included does. TVK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD yep, but that question doesn't help with my issue . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tialExchange.com NT System Admin Issues No Phone Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] software. Available com cc 07/29/2008 11:29 Subject AMRE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/window s-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Win98 and AD
I should add, if you decide to make this change let it replicate to the DC's or gpupdate them. Then reset the password on the accounts. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD Same place in the DC's GPO as the other settings that article mentioned. LAN Manager Hash storage prevented perhaps? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299656 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD Duh, Blonde moment. and yes I am blonde. But that's not the issue. Some accounts can login, others can't . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] software. com cc 07/29/2008 11:47 AM Subject RE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com But the link he included does. TVK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD yep, but that question doesn't help with my issue . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tialExchange.com NT System Admin Issues No Phone Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] software. Available com cc 07/29/2008 11:29 Subject AMRE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/window s-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Win98 and AD
No offense intended by the question... the name just made me smile. As did telling us you are blonde. :-) Are you running the most-recent version of the DSclient? (Which I think has a 2002 or 2003 date.) One of the problems with the version on the Windows 2000 CD was that only users in the default Users container would be able to access resources, which sounds like your issue. I'd still go with changing the domain policies - or getting that computer replaced! Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD Duh, Blonde moment. and yes I am blonde. But that's not the issue. Some accounts can login, others can't . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/29/2008 11:47 AMSubject RE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com But the link he included does. TVK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD yep, but that question doesn't help with my issue . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tialExchange.com NT System Admin Issues No Phone Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available com cc 07/29/2008 11:29 Subject AMRE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/windows-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next
Re: XP SP3
My biggest issue was all the users calling and opening tickets because they now get a warning screen when connecting to terminal servers. All they have to do is check the box that says don't ask me again but alas it was too much. - Original Message - From: Vicky Spelshaus To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:23 PM Subject: Re: XP SP3 I've been running it fine here on campus, but my collegues tell me there are documented problems with AutoCad 2009 and SP3. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason NOT to install this at this point? Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Organization and good planning are just crutches for people that can't handle stress and caffeine. - unknown ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: ESX/ESXi
xinetd service actually in this busybox distro :) From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi Errr... That should be /etc/ssh/sshd_config. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind there is a very unobtrusive way to get ssh access without hacking at the console. You need not install anything, or tweak anything in a fashion that may disrupt reliability. I couldn't use the thing w/o ssh... jlc -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi Nice to know the limitations. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the free version will not do HA, DRS, VMotion DRM, SVmotion (you can buy the license separately for those if you want), you still have to pay for Virtual Center if you want to manage multiple hosts together or you can use VIC for singles for free and VC foundation for up to 3 hosts cheap. The RCLI is missing many of the commands like a Kill command for example that come in handy. Since a lot of 3rd party tools won't work with ESXi environment as well as a ESX environment, things like monitoring won't work well. So for right now id use it but not in full production. Works excellent for things like DR and DMZ work. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi That just rocks. I'm definitely stoked. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt, If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console No, you can use VIC with ESXi. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi So, we have two servers running ESX Standard, and we use the VI client to manage those servers (along with some judicious use of ssh). If I fire up a machine running the free ESXi, will the VI client allow me to manage it, or will I need the VMWare Server Console, which I use to manage my free installation of VMWare server for my desktop use? I'm looking at this page: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html and it looks like it's basically the same as the ESX Standard that we paid a fair amount for about a year ago. Now it's free. Wow. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The i is for integrated... Other than that, its the same old ESX... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, from what I've read, the difference between these two is that ESXi has a smaller footprint. Is this all I need to consolidate physical servers, or do I need the Infrastructure 3.0? Running around 20 physical servers atm, including 2 DCs, Exchange 2K3 box, file server, print server, web servers and application servers. Nothing too far out of the ordinary. This post is not asking about box requirements to do this, just if the ESXi is all I would need. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~
Automating Account Creation
Hello All My team on daily basics suffers tasks of creating AD accounts for 2 OU's for 10-15 users which are thin clients. Every user for these OU's has the same settings with exception of their username which is their first letter of their name and 4 letters of their last. I was wondering if anyone has a script that can automate this whole process for me. I am running windows 2003 native domain. Dr Dennis Rogov Senior Network Analyst THE Peer GROUP an informed medical communications company 379 thornall street, 12th floor | edison, nj 08837 usa Direct: 732-205-8376 | fax: 732.321.0636 |Cell:732.861.2277 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.peergroupinc.com http://www.peergroupinc.com [This e-mail and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error please immediately notify me at (732) 205-8376 and permanently delete the original copy and any copy of any e-mail, and any printout thereof. ] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Automating Account Creation
Check out Active Directory Cookbook, Second Edition. The 3rd edition will be out in a few months, but that particular recipe already exists in the 2nd edition. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Dennis Rogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Automating Account Creation Hello All My team on daily basics suffers tasks of creating AD accounts for 2 OU's for 10-15 users which are thin clients. Every user for these OU's has the same settings with exception of their username which is their first letter of their name and 4 letters of their last. I was wondering if anyone has a script that can automate this whole process for me. I am running windows 2003 native domain. Dr Dennis Rogov Senior Network Analyst THE Peer GROUP an informed medical communications company 379 thornall street, 12th floor | edison, nj 08837 usa Direct: 732-205-8376 | fax: 732.321.0636 |Cell:732.861.2277 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.peergroupinc.com [This e-mail and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error please immediately notify me at (732) 205-8376 and permanently delete the original copy and any copy of any e-mail, and any printout thereof. ] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
URGENT: Unable to view quorum or data drives on attached SAN
I've got a JetStor416iS that's attached to an HP c700 blade chassis filled with BL465 G1 blades. I've set up MS Clustering on the two blades and can view them in Cluster Administrator. I've also set up my groups including an MSDTC resource. Here are my problems: 1. I can't see any of the shared drives, including the quorum from my 2nd server and when simulating a failover by taking the first server offline the Cluster services stops. It doesn't fail over to the 2nd server and insteads returns the following errors: The Cluster Service on node 'server1' cannot be started. The network ath was not found. Error ID: -2147024843 (80070035) An error occurred attempting to open the cluster at 'server-cluster'. The network path was not found. Error ID: -2147024843 (80070035) I am setting this up to build a SQL cluster and the crazy is that I had all of this working before having to rebuild and attached to a different storage solution. Any feedback or direction on resolving this is greatly appreciated. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
Well, seems that our support with Symantec isn't up until December, so I don't think I'm going to be able to push anything else until around then. We don't have any money until the stupid legislature passes the budget anyway. The Governator is even reducing all state workers' salaries to Federal minimum wage until the budget is passed, effective August 1. That means that I'll be making a whopping $6.55/hour. Isn't that lovely? Joe Heaton From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Hey, and don't forget Sunbelt's Ninja for the exchange server. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Email-Security/ While we are talking, VIPRE Enterprise on the desktop will prevent those insanely long boot times as well. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ Simon, ask for a quote. Will make you an offer you cannot refuse. Warm regards, Stu From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. You like having a single point of failure for your AV software? I am the complete opposite to you. I hate having the same brand on Exchange and the desktops and will avoid it where possible. In your current scenario you have one defence system - as both the desktop and Exchange AV will be working on the same set of definition files. It gets past one it will get past the other and your machines will be infected. I will leave the Symantec bashing out of it, but will say that I see more infected systems that are protected by Symantec than any others. What you should be looking for is to have something different on the Exchange server to provide dual levels of protection. Something like GFI Mail Security, Microsoft Forefront or the list host's product. Something using multiple definition files that are not the same as what you are using now. The idea being that if one doesn't catch, the other will. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 21:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection So I guess what I'm really asking here, now that I'm not trying to bash Symantec, is this: Are there enough improvements with the new version (mainly overhead, bloat, etc.) to recommend upgrading to it? My users' main complaint is that their computer takes so long to completely boot up in the morning, and this is because Symantec is doing a startup scan and takes a huge portion of CPU cycles, which bogs down the entire system. I personally would love to tell them not to upgrade, but wait until the contract ends, and dump Symantec like a hot potato. But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. Joe Heaton From: Michael Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I liked the product, it's just that at launch it was too heavy to run on anything but a dedicated box. As all our clients have SBS we just renewed and kept them on v.10. The new version is a lot lighter, but I'm still nervous about older servers and we are looking at a more blended defence. I'll probably keep renewing my clients for one more year and then see. Mike From: Michael Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 19:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I have v11.. and the latest greatest rendition, MP2 MR1.. fantastic.. But for email servers, id use trend micro's scanmail. IMHO. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Symantec Endpoint Protection Anyone using this that is happy with it? Also, is there anyone here that doesn't think Symantec is a big pile? I personally hate the product, and wish that I made the decisions around here, but I don't, so I have to come up with objective reviews of SEP, and whether or not we should upgrade from v.10 to the Symantec Mulit-tier protection system, with SEP, SAV Mobile and Mail Security. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento,
RE: blacklists
I'm going to move this over to the Exchange forum. Thanks for all the help. Paul From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Yes, all the mail seems to be flowing out just fine. I'm getting rely denied ndr's for a few domains and I seem to be listed with Barracuda still, but no other issues I'm aware of. I'm showing connections using port 25 on both local address and foreign address. The entries which are on local address most of the state values are Time-wait with a pid of 0. The occasional pid of smssmtp. All the foreign addresses showing pid of smssmtp. I must not understand how mail is supposed to flow. I assumed that the mail flowed into and out of the Mail Gateway (my DC), and maybe it did (and still trying), but my Exchange Server seems to be sending it fine since that is the only ip allowed out in my firewall (for smtp traffic). When I installed Ninja on my Exchange Box I uninstalled Symantec for Exchange (or whatever it's called). My plan was to also take Symantec Mail Security for SMTP off the DC, but decide that it was an extra layer of Security that wasn't hurting anything. I can't remember if we did anything to change the flow of outgoing email at that time or not. Paul From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists And those are connections from the DC to the firewall (and not the reverse)? Something is misconfigured or you misunderstand how mail is supposed to flow. Is all the mail flowing outbound that is supposed to be? ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists It's the Symantec Mail Security for SMTP. Now what? From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists It sounds like either something is misconfigured, your DC is infected or you don't correctly understand how mail is supposed to flow in your network. Get on your DC and run netstat -no and looks for connection to port 25 on your firewall. Then look up the PID in task manager to see what process on the DC is sending the mail. ...Tim From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Everything is looking good this morning, as far as our email is concerned and so far still off the blacklists. In host watch of the Watchguard System Manager, I am getting numerous (hundreds/minute) outbound Filtered-SMTP denies from my DC (which is my mail gateway). I thought mail was just going thru there one-way (incoming). Mail in -WG Firewall - DC (Symantec Mail Security for SMTP) - Exchange Server - WG Firewall - Mail out. Could there just be a misconfiguration on my DC? Paul From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists They are proxy's. I have two defined. One called SMTP and it has the incoming set From: any, To: WG ip - DC (mail gateway). The outgoing tab is disabled. The other proxy is called Filtered-SMTP. It's Incoming is Disabled and the Outgoing is set From: Any, To: Any. I change this From: Exchange ip, To: Any. I've never been able to figure logging on the WG. I can never find the logs and for email, I can't find where to set the address?? The WG interface seems so simple, but it really makes me feel like an idiot at times. Hope this is good enough damage control for tonight. I'll be back in the am to check things and do more investigating. Thanks for all the suggestions. Paul From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: blacklists Open Policy Manager on the Watchguard 700, you will have either a proxy or filter policy for SMTP. On the Outgoing tab, set From: to the IP address of your mail server and To: to all The default rule is all to all, which will allow traffic from port 25 to pass from any machine on your network. By setting From: to only your mail server IP, you will block any internal machines that may be attempting to send SMTP traffic on their own. You can also set the rule to log denied traffic which will quickly identify internal machines that are attempting to use port 25. Configuration is a little different on the newer Watchguard boxes, but should be pretty straight forward on the 700. If the problem persists, then you're back to a relay problem or compromised mail server. Dennis From: Paul
RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
How the hell can you live in CA at 6.55 a hr? SO he wants to put all the Govt workers in card-board boxes because earning that much an hr you be better off working at MCdonalds Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Well, seems that our support with Symantec isn't up until December, so I don't think I'm going to be able to push anything else until around then. We don't have any money until the stupid legislature passes the budget anyway. The Governator is even reducing all state workers' salaries to Federal minimum wage until the budget is passed, effective August 1. That means that I'll be making a whopping $6.55/hour. Isn't that lovely? Joe Heaton From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Hey, and don't forget Sunbelt's Ninja for the exchange server. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Email-Security/ While we are talking, VIPRE Enterprise on the desktop will prevent those insanely long boot times as well. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ Simon, ask for a quote. Will make you an offer you cannot refuse. Warm regards, Stu From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. You like having a single point of failure for your AV software? I am the complete opposite to you. I hate having the same brand on Exchange and the desktops and will avoid it where possible. In your current scenario you have one defence system - as both the desktop and Exchange AV will be working on the same set of definition files. It gets past one it will get past the other and your machines will be infected. I will leave the Symantec bashing out of it, but will say that I see more infected systems that are protected by Symantec than any others. What you should be looking for is to have something different on the Exchange server to provide dual levels of protection. Something like GFI Mail Security, Microsoft Forefront or the list host's product. Something using multiple definition files that are not the same as what you are using now. The idea being that if one doesn't catch, the other will. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 21:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection So I guess what I'm really asking here, now that I'm not trying to bash Symantec, is this: Are there enough improvements with the new version (mainly overhead, bloat, etc.) to recommend upgrading to it? My users' main complaint is that their computer takes so long to completely boot up in the morning, and this is because Symantec is doing a startup scan and takes a huge portion of CPU cycles, which bogs down the entire system. I personally would love to tell them not to upgrade, but wait until the contract ends, and dump Symantec like a hot potato. But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. Joe Heaton From: Michael Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I liked the product, it's just that at launch it was too heavy to run on anything but a dedicated box. As all our clients have SBS we just renewed and kept them on v.10. The new version is a lot lighter, but I'm still nervous about older servers and we are looking at a more blended defence. I'll probably keep renewing my clients for one more year and then see. Mike From: Michael Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 19:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I have v11.. and the latest greatest rendition, MP2 MR1.. fantastic.. But for email servers, id use trend micro's scanmail. IMHO. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Symantec Endpoint
RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
Exactly. It's all a political ploy, but our unions are massively up in arms at the moment. He was supposed to sign the Executive Order this morning, but has delayed that until Thursday. Once he signs it, pretty much every union in the state will file injunctions against it in court. The State Controller has also come out publicly disagreeing with Arnie about how much cash the state has (which is supposedly the reason behind this. Arnie thinks the state will run out of cash around mid-September, and the Controller says we're good through the end of September), and the Controller has already stated that he will ignore the order and pay us anyway. It's just a scare tactic, to get the public angry so that we get on the legislature to pass the darn budget. It's only a month and a half late as it is... Joe Heaton From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection How the hell can you live in CA at 6.55 a hr? SO he wants to put all the Govt workers in card-board boxes because earning that much an hr you be better off working at MCdonalds Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Well, seems that our support with Symantec isn't up until December, so I don't think I'm going to be able to push anything else until around then. We don't have any money until the stupid legislature passes the budget anyway. The Governator is even reducing all state workers' salaries to Federal minimum wage until the budget is passed, effective August 1. That means that I'll be making a whopping $6.55/hour. Isn't that lovely? Joe Heaton From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Hey, and don't forget Sunbelt's Ninja for the exchange server. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Email-Security/ While we are talking, VIPRE Enterprise on the desktop will prevent those insanely long boot times as well. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ Simon, ask for a quote. Will make you an offer you cannot refuse. Warm regards, Stu From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. You like having a single point of failure for your AV software? I am the complete opposite to you. I hate having the same brand on Exchange and the desktops and will avoid it where possible. In your current scenario you have one defence system - as both the desktop and Exchange AV will be working on the same set of definition files. It gets past one it will get past the other and your machines will be infected. I will leave the Symantec bashing out of it, but will say that I see more infected systems that are protected by Symantec than any others. What you should be looking for is to have something different on the Exchange server to provide dual levels of protection. Something like GFI Mail Security, Microsoft Forefront or the list host's product. Something using multiple definition files that are not the same as what you are using now. The idea being that if one doesn't catch, the other will. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 21:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection So I guess what I'm really asking here, now that I'm not trying to bash Symantec, is this: Are there enough improvements with the new version (mainly overhead, bloat, etc.) to recommend upgrading to it? My users' main complaint is that their computer takes so long to completely boot up in the morning, and this is because Symantec is doing a startup scan and takes a huge portion of CPU cycles, which bogs down the entire system. I personally would love to tell them not to upgrade, but wait until the contract ends, and dump Symantec like a hot potato. But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like
RE: URGENT: Unable to view quorum or data drives on attached SAN
The code is a network path can't be found. Are you sure you zoned your disk to both servers? It looks like an issue with the transference of the disk itself to the 2nd cluster. ( Did you setup the cluster accordingly) Power down 2nd server, power up first server and disk build first node, bring up second node and then add that node to the cluster?) The use the default cluster group and disk groups for your LUN and similate failover accordingly? What you could do is evict the 2nd node, and rejoin it, and just have regular disk groups and fail them over to each node ( NO SQL no MSDTC) and verify that the groups and there associated disk fail to the nodes accordingly. Did you receive any errors from the cluster setup gui when adding the 2nd node to the cluster? Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: URGENT: Unable to view quorum or data drives on attached SAN ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
I see your point, Arnie is a weird one anyways :-) Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Exactly. It's all a political ploy, but our unions are massively up in arms at the moment. He was supposed to sign the Executive Order this morning, but has delayed that until Thursday. Once he signs it, pretty much every union in the state will file injunctions against it in court. The State Controller has also come out publicly disagreeing with Arnie about how much cash the state has (which is supposedly the reason behind this. Arnie thinks the state will run out of cash around mid-September, and the Controller says we're good through the end of September), and the Controller has already stated that he will ignore the order and pay us anyway. It's just a scare tactic, to get the public angry so that we get on the legislature to pass the darn budget. It's only a month and a half late as it is... Joe Heaton From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection How the hell can you live in CA at 6.55 a hr? SO he wants to put all the Govt workers in card-board boxes because earning that much an hr you be better off working at MCdonalds Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Well, seems that our support with Symantec isn't up until December, so I don't think I'm going to be able to push anything else until around then. We don't have any money until the stupid legislature passes the budget anyway. The Governator is even reducing all state workers' salaries to Federal minimum wage until the budget is passed, effective August 1. That means that I'll be making a whopping $6.55/hour. Isn't that lovely? Joe Heaton From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Hey, and don't forget Sunbelt's Ninja for the exchange server. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Email-Security/ While we are talking, VIPRE Enterprise on the desktop will prevent those insanely long boot times as well. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ Simon, ask for a quote. Will make you an offer you cannot refuse. Warm regards, Stu From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. You like having a single point of failure for your AV software? I am the complete opposite to you. I hate having the same brand on Exchange and the desktops and will avoid it where possible. In your current scenario you have one defence system - as both the desktop and Exchange AV will be working on the same set of definition files. It gets past one it will get past the other and your machines will be infected. I will leave the Symantec bashing out of it, but will say that I see more infected systems that are protected by Symantec than any others. What you should be looking for is to have something different on the Exchange server to provide dual levels of protection. Something like GFI Mail Security, Microsoft Forefront or the list host's product. Something using multiple definition files that are not the same as what you are using now. The idea being that if one doesn't catch, the other will. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 21:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection So I guess what I'm really asking here, now that I'm not trying to bash Symantec, is this: Are there enough improvements with the new version (mainly overhead, bloat, etc.) to recommend upgrading to it? My users' main complaint is that their computer takes so long to completely
RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
Just had a union workplace meeting today at lunch, with our union's bargaining team. One of them said that on the way back to the office yesterday after a rally at the capitol, she passed a homeless guy on the street. He stopped her, asking if she was a state worker. She says yes, and he says I feel sorry for you...you guys'll never make it on $6.55/hour. I make more than that begging on the street. Really makes you think... I'm not too worried right now, but let's see what's going on in a couple of weeks. Once the budget is passed, we're supposed to get the rest of our pay, retroactively, so in reality we're not really losing anything, except possible credit ratings, getting behind on car payments/mortgage, etc. The credit unions in the area have also come out saying that if this does happen, they will issue low-to-no interest loans, making up the difference in our paychecks, which could save a lot of people. Joe Heaton From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I see your point, Arnie is a weird one anyways :-) Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Exactly. It's all a political ploy, but our unions are massively up in arms at the moment. He was supposed to sign the Executive Order this morning, but has delayed that until Thursday. Once he signs it, pretty much every union in the state will file injunctions against it in court. The State Controller has also come out publicly disagreeing with Arnie about how much cash the state has (which is supposedly the reason behind this. Arnie thinks the state will run out of cash around mid-September, and the Controller says we're good through the end of September), and the Controller has already stated that he will ignore the order and pay us anyway. It's just a scare tactic, to get the public angry so that we get on the legislature to pass the darn budget. It's only a month and a half late as it is... Joe Heaton From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection How the hell can you live in CA at 6.55 a hr? SO he wants to put all the Govt workers in card-board boxes because earning that much an hr you be better off working at MCdonalds Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Well, seems that our support with Symantec isn't up until December, so I don't think I'm going to be able to push anything else until around then. We don't have any money until the stupid legislature passes the budget anyway. The Governator is even reducing all state workers' salaries to Federal minimum wage until the budget is passed, effective August 1. That means that I'll be making a whopping $6.55/hour. Isn't that lovely? Joe Heaton From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Hey, and don't forget Sunbelt's Ninja for the exchange server. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Email-Security/ While we are talking, VIPRE Enterprise on the desktop will prevent those insanely long boot times as well. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ Simon, ask for a quote. Will make you an offer you cannot refuse. Warm regards, Stu From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. You like having a single point of failure for your AV software? I am the complete opposite to you. I hate having the same brand on Exchange and the desktops and will avoid it where possible. In your current scenario you have one defence system - as both the desktop and Exchange AV will be working on the same set of definition files. It gets past one it will get past the other and your machines will be infected. I will leave the Symantec bashing out of it, but will say that I see more infected systems that are protected by Symantec than any others. What you should be looking for is to
Re: URGENT: Unable to view quorum or data drives on attached SAN
I realized that I did forget to configure the Initiator settings on the second server and I did get an error during the install of the 2nd node at checking cluster feasibility. I've already evicted that 2nd node and from the looks of it will need to start over. Is there a documented process for removing the cluster instance and starting over? I see the old cluster names when creating a new one wantd to try to delete it. Thanks On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code is a network path can't be found. Are you sure you zoned your disk to both servers? It looks like an issue with the transference of the disk itself to the 2nd cluster. ( Did you setup the cluster accordingly) Power down 2nd server, power up first server and disk build first node, bring up second node and then add that node to the cluster?) The use the default cluster group and disk groups for your LUN and similate failover accordingly? What you could do is evict the 2nd node, and rejoin it, and just have regular disk groups and fail them over to each node ( NO SQL no MSDTC) and verify that the groups and there associated disk fail to the nodes accordingly. Did you receive any errors from the cluster setup gui when adding the 2ndnode to the cluster? Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -- *From:* MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:13 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* URGENT: Unable to view quorum or data drives on attached SAN ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
Just got into the govt job last October. I'm at an age now where job hopping is not a very good option. I've got just over 20 years to retirement age, and if I stay in govt, I'll get a retirement check for the rest of my life, of more than half of whatever salary I'm getting at the point of retirement. That may not sound like much, but to me, at my age, it's really something to keep in mind. Joe Heaton From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Wows that is a seriously wacked situation, I wish you the best of luck with that. And maybe its time to head to a new vertical, because it looks like Govt Jobs arent where its at out there. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Just had a union workplace meeting today at lunch, with our union's bargaining team. One of them said that on the way back to the office yesterday after a rally at the capitol, she passed a homeless guy on the street. He stopped her, asking if she was a state worker. She says yes, and he says I feel sorry for you...you guys'll never make it on $6.55/hour. I make more than that begging on the street. Really makes you think... I'm not too worried right now, but let's see what's going on in a couple of weeks. Once the budget is passed, we're supposed to get the rest of our pay, retroactively, so in reality we're not really losing anything, except possible credit ratings, getting behind on car payments/mortgage, etc. The credit unions in the area have also come out saying that if this does happen, they will issue low-to-no interest loans, making up the difference in our paychecks, which could save a lot of people. Joe Heaton From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I see your point, Arnie is a weird one anyways :-) Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Exactly. It's all a political ploy, but our unions are massively up in arms at the moment. He was supposed to sign the Executive Order this morning, but has delayed that until Thursday. Once he signs it, pretty much every union in the state will file injunctions against it in court. The State Controller has also come out publicly disagreeing with Arnie about how much cash the state has (which is supposedly the reason behind this. Arnie thinks the state will run out of cash around mid-September, and the Controller says we're good through the end of September), and the Controller has already stated that he will ignore the order and pay us anyway. It's just a scare tactic, to get the public angry so that we get on the legislature to pass the darn budget. It's only a month and a half late as it is... Joe Heaton From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection How the hell can you live in CA at 6.55 a hr? SO he wants to put all the Govt workers in card-board boxes because earning that much an hr you be better off working at MCdonalds Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Well, seems that our support with Symantec isn't up until December, so I don't think I'm going to be able to push anything else until around then. We don't have any money until the stupid legislature passes the budget anyway. The Governator is even reducing all state workers' salaries to Federal minimum wage until the budget is passed, effective August 1. That means that I'll be making a whopping $6.55/hour. Isn't that lovely? Joe Heaton From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Hey, and don't forget Sunbelt's Ninja for the exchange server. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Email-Security/ While we are talking, VIPRE Enterprise on the desktop will prevent
RE: Win98 and AD
One of my clients had a security audit by Lockheedthe biggest blemish on the report was a Win98 machine on the LAN. Just sayin' Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD No offense intended by the question... the name just made me smile. As did telling us you are blonde. :-) Are you running the most-recent version of the DSclient? (Which I think has a 2002 or 2003 date.) One of the problems with the version on the Windows 2000 CD was that only users in the default Users container would be able to access resources, which sounds like your issue. I'd still go with changing the domain policies - or getting that computer replaced! Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD Duh, Blonde moment. and yes I am blonde. But that's not the issue. Some accounts can login, others can't . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/29/2008 11:47 AMSubject RE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com But the link he included does. TVK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD yep, but that question doesn't help with my issue . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tialExchange.com NT System Admin Issues No Phone Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available com cc 07/29/2008 11:29 Subject AMRE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/windows-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with
RE: Win98 and AD
Lance that boil! -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD One of my clients had a security audit by Lockheedthe biggest blemish on the report was a Win98 machine on the LAN. Just sayin' Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD No offense intended by the question... the name just made me smile. As did telling us you are blonde. :-) Are you running the most-recent version of the DSclient? (Which I think has a 2002 or 2003 date.) One of the problems with the version on the Windows 2000 CD was that only users in the default Users container would be able to access resources, which sounds like your issue. I'd still go with changing the domain policies - or getting that computer replaced! Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD Duh, Blonde moment. and yes I am blonde. But that's not the issue. Some accounts can login, others can't . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com To No Phone Info NT System Admin Issues Available [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc 07/29/2008 11:47 AMSubject RE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com But the link he included does. TVK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win98 and AD yep, but that question doesn't help with my issue . . Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the Cherry Tree? George still had the ax. . Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tialExchange.com NT System Admin Issues No Phone Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available com cc 07/29/2008 11:29 Subject AMRE: Win98 and AD Please respond to NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sunbelt-software .com Bambi? Really? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/windows-9x -workstations-in-a-windows-2003-domain.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win98 and AD I have 1 Win98 system that I have installed the DSClient and setup the AD network settings on. Here is what WON'T work I create a new account in any container. I get the error of Microsoft Network The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied. I can login with these accounts on an XP system no problem. I CAN login to this system with some accounts that already existed under users.container. container... but not all accounts Has anyone else run into this issue and know what's going on? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade
RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
Trend OfficeScan automatically removed the McAfee client when I upgraded a few years back, it was slick! Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection Oh give me a tool to remove Symantec 9 and 10 and I will have a PO tomorrow. Ok, well maybe end of the week.. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection Like what? A tool to help uninstall McAfee? That would be nice... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Stu Sjouwerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, and don't forget Sunbelt's Ninja for the exchange server. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Email-Security/ While we are talking, VIPRE Enterprise on the desktop will prevent those insanely long boot times as well. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ Simon, ask for a quote. Will make you an offer you cannot refuse. Warm regards, Stu From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. You like having a single point of failure for your AV software? I am the complete opposite to you. I hate having the same brand on Exchange and the desktops and will avoid it where possible. In your current scenario you have one defence system - as both the desktop and Exchange AV will be working on the same set of definition files. It gets past one it will get past the other and your machines will be infected. I will leave the Symantec bashing out of it, but will say that I see more infected systems that are protected by Symantec than any others. What you should be looking for is to have something different on the Exchange server to provide dual levels of protection. Something like GFI Mail Security, Microsoft Forefront or the list host's product. Something using multiple definition files that are not the same as what you are using now. The idea being that if one doesn't catch, the other will. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 21:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection So I guess what I'm really asking here, now that I'm not trying to bash Symantec, is this: Are there enough improvements with the new version (mainly overhead, bloat, etc.) to recommend upgrading to it? My users' main complaint is that their computer takes so long to completely boot up in the morning, and this is because Symantec is doing a startup scan and takes a huge portion of CPU cycles, which bogs down the entire system. I personally would love to tell them not to upgrade, but wait until the contract ends, and dump Symantec like a hot potato. But I do like that we have the one brand for both desktop AV and Exchange AV, and would like to keep it that way. Joe Heaton From: Michael Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I liked the product, it's just that at launch it was too heavy to run on anything but a dedicated box. As all our clients have SBS we just renewed and kept them on v.10. The new version is a lot lighter, but I'm still nervous about older servers and we are looking at a more blended defence. I'll probably keep renewing my clients for one more year and then see. Mike From: Michael Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 19:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection I have v11.. and the latest greatest rendition, MP2 MR1.. fantastic.. But for email servers, id use trend micro's scanmail. IMHO. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Symantec Endpoint Protection Anyone using this that is happy with it? Also, is there anyone here that doesn't think Symantec is a big pile? I personally hate the product, and wish that I made the decisions around here, but I don't, so I have to come up
Re: OT: California Budget stuff
Joe Heaton wrote: Sorry guys, I seem to have gotten wy off topic, but this issue is really steaming me at the moment, but I have made it OT, so it won’t lure anyone into a legitimate discussion by mistake. My apologies to anyone I’ve upset. One other note that makes this whole Executive Order a joke, is that he obviously hasn’t thought out all the ramifications. Not only is he reducing salary to Federal minimum wage, he’s also laying off and terminating over 22,000 temporary employees, including retired annuitants (retired, but still working), seasonal employees, such as Park workers (including security personnel), and other non-full time employees, some of which help the Unemployment Office with all their paperwork. What kind of added burden/stress/workload is this going to give the already way overworked Unemployment Office? I wish I could just move out of state, and say good riddance! Joe Heaton /Sarcasm on/ It's a brilliant way to protect our leaders from harm. If our leaders can't come up with a budget, punish them by f*king the workers. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!! /Sarcasm off/ Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: People that keep scanning my firewall
I would be careful blocking a whole country. A few years ago I went to a networking user group meeting hosted at a campus in Phoenix. They were having all sorts of problems at the time with their network because their ISP assigned a network block that showed the ip range being assigned to some small country in eastern europe, and they were blocked from all sorts of places. Klint Kelsay, Mark wrote: Block the whole country. http://www.blockacountry.com/ Mark *From:* David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 28 July 2008 19:11 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* People that keep scanning my firewall Does anyone want to share a list of jerkoffs that keep scanning the outside interface of their firewalls? I want to just blast these IP's that keep filling up my Management reports. They are a bother and have no real value but I am required to get the board an unaltered report. Data Security is everyone's responsibility. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ** This email is sent for and on behalf of Inspop.com Limited ** Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registration no. 310635. Inspop.com Limited (also trading as Confused.com) is registered in England and Wales at 2nd Floor, Friary House, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AE (Reg. No. 03857130 ). Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the Information Security Officer by telephone on +44 (0) 29 2043 4200. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. This email has been swept for viruses before leaving our system. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. We may monitor the content of E-mails sent and received via our network for viruses or unauthorised use and for other lawful business purposes. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Messagelabs. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Server Colidation via VMWare
I maintain about 200 servers in an ESX development environment. When I did the P2V, I dropped the databases to a network share, and re-attached them after the conversion. Klint Jon Harris wrote: I don't know about that. I would have thought that would only affect the machine AFTER it was done with the conversion, not the conversion. I ended up rebuilding the machine from scratch as a virtual machine which took a lot less time than the conversion process was taking. I was so disgusted with VMware at that point that I made them Virtual Server machines. In the long run that saved me a lot of time when we got our 2008 server with Hyper-V. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I recall reading once that conversion can mess with the whitespace in databases (or something like that...). I am curious, as I have a SQL migration coming up. I think I also recall reading that you shouldn't resize any drives that the SQL are on. And possibly doing a backup/restore of the DBs after migration. *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 7:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare During my attempts with SQL all SQL services were set to disabled and machine restarted. I also tried doing a cold boot but nothing seemed to help. Same thing with the IISv6 with FTP. I did not try removing all the IP's from these machines as I had enough issues getting everything working together in the first place. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good note. Anything that is running any services like that should be set to run in Windows Diagnostics Mode via MSCONFIG, or at least manually stop all non-default services. Or, use the Cold Boot CD option in VMware convertor. *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Server Colidation via VMWare It can't or didn't do all machines. I know I had a lot of issues trying to use it with SQL being on the machine. I also had issues with IISv6/FTP with multiple sites as well. Jon On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there is a P2V tool that VMWare has – it lets you make a P2V image w/out taking the target system offline – it loads a liitle app then takes a snapshot, it's very slick! IIRC it comes with ESX, but I might be mistaken. */Dave Lum/* - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 /../remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside/// - JFK/// *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *Sent:* Friday, July 25, 2008 8:36 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Server Colidation via VMWare We want to take a closer look at server consolidation using VMWare's ESX products, especially in light of the recent announcement making the product available free. We have several servers on old hardware that would be nearly impossible to rebuild so we're thinking they're ideal candidates for VM's if there's an automated process to migrate P2V. Is such a tool available, and at low-cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Remote Desktop of Death
Are you running any loopbacks for vpn or SSH? Klint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am on my XP desktop, and I run mstsc.exe to open a session on a server. (In the most recent case, the server was a VM, so remote session is the only real possibility.) Again, I am logged into my XP desktop as my personal account, and I try to log into a remote server with a different, administrative account. My warning message is that the remote server already has my personal, non-admin account logged into a session on it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2008 07:39:51 AM: Can you clarify this? I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. Is this: a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and (trying to) open a session to a server -or- b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote desktop session somewhere else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop of Death OK, why does this happen on occasion? All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all XP Pro, SP2... I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to log in as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on my desktop system). I am told that I (that is, the account on my local desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him off? When I hit the Yes button, I watch in horror as all my currently running desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop session. This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a precious 5 minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to recognize the signs of This will hose you!, is there a good way to back out and get a functional term session? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Mutliple Floor building
Are you in a flood zone? If the city drainage is clogged, is your building on a higher elevation? My personal opinion is to go on the second or third floor which would seem to work everywhere but New Orleans. Klint David W. McSpadden wrote: If you have a Multiple Floor building where is the preferred placement of the IS/Data Center? Case in point: 3 level building Ground Level and 2 floor above. We are being told we will be in the Ground Level but we kind of wanted the 2nd Floor. Any ideas? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: OT: California Budget stuff
This thread could be dangerous. Well if Cali didn't have so many entitlement programs and didn't tax corporations into moving operations to other states then perhaps they wouldn't have had this budget crisis. I guess they could always jack up taxes some more. I dont know man, I live in FL, we have our own budget issues. - Original Message - From: James Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:29 PM Subject: Re: OT: California Budget stuff Joe Heaton wrote: Sorry guys, I seem to have gotten wy off topic, but this issue is really steaming me at the moment, but I have made it OT, so it won’t lure anyone into a legitimate discussion by mistake. My apologies to anyone I’ve upset. One other note that makes this whole Executive Order a joke, is that he obviously hasn’t thought out all the ramifications. Not only is he reducing salary to Federal minimum wage, he’s also laying off and terminating over 22,000 temporary employees, including retired annuitants (retired, but still working), seasonal employees, such as Park workers (including security personnel), and other non-full time employees, some of which help the Unemployment Office with all their paperwork. What kind of added burden/stress/workload is this going to give the already way overworked Unemployment Office? I wish I could just move out of state, and say good riddance! Joe Heaton /Sarcasm on/ It's a brilliant way to protect our leaders from harm. If our leaders can't come up with a budget, punish them by f*king the workers. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!! /Sarcasm off/ Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Automating Account Creation
Are you currently creating users by right-clicking on an existing user, and selecting copy, or are you looking for a full blown scripted app? Klint Dennis Rogov wrote: Hello All My team on daily basics suffers tasks of creating AD accounts for 2 OU's for 10-15 users which are thin clients. Every user for these OU's has the same settings with exception of their username which is their first letter of their name and 4 letters of their last. I was wondering if anyone has a script that can automate this whole process for me. I am running windows 2003 native domain. Dr Dennis Rogov Senior Network Analyst THE *P**eer* GROUP *an informed medical communications company* 379 thornall street, 12th floor | edison, nj 08837 usa Direct: 732-205-8376 | fax: 732.321.0636 |Cell:732.861.2277 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.peergroupinc.com http://www.peergroupinc.com [This e-mail and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error please immediately notify me at (732) 205-8376 and permanently delete the original copy and any copy of any e-mail, and any printout thereof. ] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: OT: California Budget stuff
Yea damn those battered women looking for help and let's not forget the children of the poor getting free lunches at school! Freeloaders all of them! They are taking food from the mouths of corporate executives! They should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and deal with their problems! There that should kill this thread. -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: California Budget stuff This thread could be dangerous. Well if Cali didn't have so many entitlement programs and didn't tax corporations into moving operations to other states then perhaps they wouldn't have had this budget crisis. I guess they could always jack up taxes some more. I dont know man, I live in FL, we have our own budget issues. - Original Message - From: James Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:29 PM Subject: Re: OT: California Budget stuff Joe Heaton wrote: Sorry guys, I seem to have gotten wy off topic, but this issue is really steaming me at the moment, but I have made it OT, so it won't lure anyone into a legitimate discussion by mistake. My apologies to anyone I've upset. One other note that makes this whole Executive Order a joke, is that he obviously hasn't thought out all the ramifications. Not only is he reducing salary to Federal minimum wage, he's also laying off and terminating over 22,000 temporary employees, including retired annuitants (retired, but still working), seasonal employees, such as Park workers (including security personnel), and other non-full time employees, some of which help the Unemployment Office with all their paperwork. What kind of added burden/stress/workload is this going to give the already way overworked Unemployment Office? I wish I could just move out of state, and say good riddance! Joe Heaton /Sarcasm on/ It's a brilliant way to protect our leaders from harm. If our leaders can't come up with a budget, punish them by f*king the workers. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!! /Sarcasm off/ Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
OT: Anyone in Phoenix looking for a Sr. Sysadmin Position?
If so, please ping me offline. Thanks, Klint ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Outlook oddity: mysterious resolution changes
Greetings all, I have an Outlook 2002 problem that has left me scratching my head: Whenever Outlook is launched, it changes the screen resolution to 640x480. Upon exit, the resolution is restored. If the resolution is reset while Outlook is running, opening an attachment (PDF, XLS, etc.) also drops the resolution to 640x480. When attachment-associated application exits, the resolution is restored. If Acrobat Reader or Excel is launched from Explorer, be it directly or to open a file, the resolution change does not occur. i.e.: Any time Outlook creates a new window, the resolution is set to 640x480. Whenever said window is closed, the resolution goes back to what it was previously. No other application exhibits this behavior. I've disabled all Outlook plugins, checked for malicious ActiveX controls and BHOs... nothing. Any ideas? It seems like it should be simple enough, but thus far my theories and Google-fu have turned up bubkes. As always, TIA! Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Outlook oddity: mysterious resolution changes
Oh my gosh, I saw this like years and years ago. But I don't remember the specifics. Does it happen if you: a) sign in as another user on that PC, b) create a new email profile for the original user? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Edward B. DREGER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook oddity: mysterious resolution changes Greetings all, I have an Outlook 2002 problem that has left me scratching my head: Whenever Outlook is launched, it changes the screen resolution to 640x480. Upon exit, the resolution is restored. If the resolution is reset while Outlook is running, opening an attachment (PDF, XLS, etc.) also drops the resolution to 640x480. When attachment-associated application exits, the resolution is restored. If Acrobat Reader or Excel is launched from Explorer, be it directly or to open a file, the resolution change does not occur. i.e.: Any time Outlook creates a new window, the resolution is set to 640x480. Whenever said window is closed, the resolution goes back to what it was previously. No other application exhibits this behavior. I've disabled all Outlook plugins, checked for malicious ActiveX controls and BHOs... nothing. Any ideas? It seems like it should be simple enough, but thus far my theories and Google-fu have turned up bubkes. As always, TIA! Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
SSL Cert and WS_FTP
Sorry for the seemingly basic question. I've never had to renew a cert on ws_ftp. I know how to renew an SSL cert on an IIS website, but I can't figure out how to do it with WS_FTP. I see how to create a new one, export one, and import one. What am I missing? Windows 2003 WS_FTP 5.x commodo cert Don. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Outlook oddity: mysterious resolution changes
Are you running it in compatibility mode? Klint Edward B. DREGER wrote: Greetings all, I have an Outlook 2002 problem that has left me scratching my head: Whenever Outlook is launched, it changes the screen resolution to 640x480. Upon exit, the resolution is restored. If the resolution is reset while Outlook is running, opening an attachment (PDF, XLS, etc.) also drops the resolution to 640x480. When attachment-associated application exits, the resolution is restored. If Acrobat Reader or Excel is launched from Explorer, be it directly or to open a file, the resolution change does not occur. i.e.: Any time Outlook creates a new window, the resolution is set to 640x480. Whenever said window is closed, the resolution goes back to what it was previously. No other application exhibits this behavior. I've disabled all Outlook plugins, checked for malicious ActiveX controls and BHOs... nothing. Any ideas? It seems like it should be simple enough, but thus far my theories and Google-fu have turned up bubkes. As always, TIA! Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
