RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Marc Maiffret]

HP iPAQ 910c Business Messenger is simply hands down the best Windows Mobile
6.1 phone on the market. It has every possible feature (3G, Bluetooth, GPS,
WiFi, regular keypad and touch screen) you can imagine wrapped into a very
nice clean device for $499 from the HP website.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/215348-215348-64929-314903-335
2590-3551665.html

Comes unlocked to use with any standard GSM chip.

I seriously get giddy every time I go to use it and I don't usually get that
excited about uhhh hardware.

-Marc Maiffret
www.inveniosecurity.com


> -Original Message-
> From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:37 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations
> 
> A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace
> their cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I
> can use as a phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile
> I'm not using it for email or internet access.  But I know the sales
> staff would need both.  We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6
> should work fine for us.
> 
> 
> 
> Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
> them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting,
> etc.) would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email
> capabilities were reliable.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Roger Wright
> 
> Network Administrator
> 
> Evatone, Inc.
> 
> 727.572.7076  x388
> 
> _
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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RE: MX record confirmation

[Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC]

Not to mention, might want to set the TTL packet to a really low value prior
to any change.  That will help things move a bit quicker.

-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MX record confirmation

Other way around. Lower values = higher priority

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2008 12:04 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: MX record confirmation
>
> We're going to be switching from a hosted email service to hosting email
> internally with Exchange on SBS.  Our MX record obviously points to the
> hosted service IP right now.  When Exchange is setup and running, I want
> email to come there instead.  However, I still want to leave the old MX
> record in there just incase theres problems with the new server, but at a
> lesser MX priority.  So, do I basically just have the ISP change the DNS
> host table and create a new MX record for Exchange server with a HIGHER
> priority number than the current MX record?
>
> example...
>
> If my current dns table shows:
> IN MX 10 mail.outsourced-email.com.
>
> I should have the ISP change it to:
> IN MX 20 mail.myinternalmail.com.
> IN MX 10 mail.outsourced-email.com.
>
> Is that correct?
> Thanks.


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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Tim Vander Kooi]

I could tell you…but then I’d have to kill you. ☺
Actually, I got it from XDA, not that I recommend that for anyone else to try. 
I hear rumors that it can be a great way to turn your phone into an expensive 
skipping stone for down at the ole watering hole.
TVK

From: Robert Cato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Smartphone Recommendations

TVK,

Where did you get WM6.1 for the Diamond? Which version?

Thanks,
Robert



From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations



I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it and 
after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I now get 
4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and playing games 
while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great device, I highly 
recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry could possibly be 
any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY simple to do.

TVK



From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations



I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond 
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung 
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the thumbboard 
style keyboard:



Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php



Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who 
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)



Cheers
Ken



From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations



A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.



Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them?  
All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.











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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Tim Vander Kooi]

I'm left-handed too, never had a problem with it. The one thing I don't get is 
why the Tilt slides open the opposite way that the 8125 and 8525 opened. 
Strange, and still hard to get used to.
TVK

From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

My only complaint about my tilt, and I guess this has been my complaint for any 
phone I've had, is that I'm left handed.  Every time I pull the damn thing out 
of my holster to answer the phone, I send the damn person to voicemail...

From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

The Wi-Fi is very good, and I use the BlueFire VPN client so that I can manage 
my servers from it over AT&T's network which works great. I've had mine for a 
little over 6 months and there's not a scratch on it. Holds up very well, but 
of course that has a lot to do with who is using it.
TVK

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

Looks pretty good.  Is the Wi-Fi good?  Will the device hold up to normal use 
for a couple years?



Roger Wright
Network Administrator
Evatone, Inc.
727.572.7076  x388
_


From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it and 
after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I now get 
4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and playing games 
while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great device, I highly 
recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry could possibly be 
any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY simple to do.
TVK

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond 
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung 
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the thumbboard 
style keyboard:

Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who 
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

Cheers
Ken

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them?  
All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.
















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Re: Smartphone Recommendations

[James Kerr]

Put it on the right side, you'll get used to it.
  - Original Message - 
  From: Jim Majorowicz 
  To: NT System Admin Issues 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 5:18 PM
  Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations


  My only complaint about my tilt, and I guess this has been my complaint for 
any phone I've had, is that I'm left handed.  Every time I pull the damn thing 
out of my holster to answer the phone, I send the damn person to voicemail.

   

  From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:05 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

   

  The Wi-Fi is very good, and I use the BlueFire VPN client so that I can 
manage my servers from it over AT&T's network which works great. I've had mine 
for a little over 6 months and there's not a scratch on it. Holds up very well, 
but of course that has a lot to do with who is using it.

  TVK

   

  From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:00 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

   

  Looks pretty good.  Is the Wi-Fi good?  Will the device hold up to normal use 
for a couple years?

   

 

   

  Roger Wright

  Network Administrator

  Evatone, Inc.

  727.572.7076  x388

  _

   

   

  From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:40 AM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

   

  I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it 
and after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I now 
get 4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and playing 
games while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great device, I 
highly recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry could 
possibly be any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY simple to do.

  TVK

   

  From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

   

  I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond 
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung 
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the thumbboard 
style keyboard:

   

  Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.

  http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

   

  Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who 
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

   

  Cheers
  Ken

   

  From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

   

  A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

   

  Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them? 
 All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.

   

  

  

  

 







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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Jim Majorowicz]

My only complaint about my tilt, and I guess this has been my complaint for
any phone I've had, is that I'm left handed.  Every time I pull the damn
thing out of my holster to answer the phone, I send the damn person to
voicemail.

 

From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

 

The Wi-Fi is very good, and I use the BlueFire VPN client so that I can
manage my servers from it over AT&T's network which works great. I've had
mine for a little over 6 months and there's not a scratch on it. Holds up
very well, but of course that has a lot to do with who is using it.

TVK

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

 

Looks pretty good.  Is the Wi-Fi good?  Will the device hold up to normal
use for a couple years?

 

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

_

 

 

From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

 

I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it
and after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I
now get 4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and
playing games while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great
device, I highly recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry
could possibly be any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY
simple to do.

TVK

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

 

I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the
thumbboard style keyboard:

 

Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.p
hp

 

Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

 

Cheers
Ken

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

 

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it
for email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.
We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

 

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.)
would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities
were reliable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: VMWare and Exchange

[Greg Mulholland]

Both!


From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 10:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange

Front end, back end?

-Original Message-
From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange

Two exchange boxes both virtualised. FC SAN. no issues.

Looking at a upgrading other sites as well in the same frame


From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 10:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange

I've worked with the VMWare engineer.  His statement was pretty much what I
expected - he stated that the capacity planner usually is pretty much dead
on for most people.  Those numbers indicated no issues that we didn't
expect.  We analyzed the numbers of the IOPs and determined that a Fiber
Channel environment would be better (as space wasn't really an issue for us)
and decided upon that instead of ISCSI.

I think the only issue that I can recall with MS clusters in a vmware
environment was that iSCSI was not supported.  That was one of the other
reasons we went with FC.

Still looking for stress testing our environment to get a more accurate
picture

-Original Message-
From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange

Multiple sites.  Largest site runs 4,000 mailboxes (users + resource)
active/active/passive cluster, Hitachi SAN

The SAN is shared across multiple resources through fiber switches.  A
load in one environment (SQL, FPS, etc) can have a significantly
negative effect elsewhere.  Not virtualized performance is barely
acceptable and our SQL clusters (databases in the hundreds of GB and
TB range) have to really watch disk IO as well.  Mailbox size not
really regulated by fiat.

That's why I have the caveats about your environment being key.
Checking your performance numbers in consideration with the VMware is
crucial.  Your size though should really get you a VMware engineer to
personally chat with.  We're being pushed in this direction as well
but we would be switching back ends.  Until I actually see what that
will be I will remain somewhat cynical.  :)

I remember some reading some issues with running Microsoft clusters in
virtualized environments but cannot find the references and it was a
year or two ago I researched it so it may have changed since then.

Steven

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Care to share the size of your environment?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:28 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange
>
> We have a test environment with Exchange clusters and it is very
> sensitive and stops occasionally and is small (100 test users).   I
> doubt our production environment would survive virtualization with the
> number of users we have.
>
> Search for 'VMware Dell Exchange white paper" and you will find the
> white paper with information on Exchange 2003.  VMware itself claims
> to be running all their Exchange servers in a VMware environment (big
> shock I know) and they are more then happy to provide access to
> reps/engineers to talk about it pretty much anytime.
>
> I myself am not comfortable with the concept of running an Exchange
> mailbox server on VMware due to disk i/o concerns in my environment
> but yours may be different.  Things I have heard about Exchange 2007
> will cause me to research that as a separate issue because the IO load
> is supposed to have been significantly reduced so the impact will
> probably be less.
>
> Any MS support concerns are a separate issue and for the most part can
> be dealt with if you are of sufficiently sized support contract.
>
> Virtualization depends on your environment.  There are to many test
> environments alone out there proving it will work, it depends on will
> it work in your environments supporting your users and their
> expectations.
>
> Steven Peck
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team
> EITC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Has anyone virtualized their whole Exchange environment?  Any issues?
>>
>> Has anyone had issue particularly with a backend box being virtualized?
>> What about if it is clustered with MS Clustering services.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rick Fogarty
>> Team EITC, Senior Systems Engineer
>> Planning & Systems Engineering Coordinator
>> US Army Special Operations Command
>> (910) 396-0501
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>
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Re: Smartphone Recommendations

[Robert Cato]

 TVK,

Where did you get WM6.1 for the Diamond? Which version?

Thanks,
Robert



>   *From:* Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 01, 2008 10:40 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Smartphone Recommendations
>
>
>
> I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it
> and after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I
> now get 4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and
> playing games while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great
> device, I highly recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry
> could possibly be any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY
> simple to do.
>
> TVK
>
>
>
> *From:* Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Smartphone Recommendations
>
>
>
> I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond
> (Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung
> Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the
> thumbboard style keyboard:
>
>
>
> Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.
>
>
> http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php
>
>
>
> Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r),
> who knows when you'll see these phone available :-)
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
>
>
> *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* OT: Smartphone Recommendations
>
>
>
> A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their
> cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a
> phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it
> for email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.
> We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.
>
>
>
> Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
> them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.)
> would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities
> were reliable.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Tim Vander Kooi]

The Wi-Fi is very good, and I use the BlueFire VPN client so that I can manage 
my servers from it over AT&T's network which works great. I've had mine for a 
little over 6 months and there's not a scratch on it. Holds up very well, but 
of course that has a lot to do with who is using it.
TVK

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

Looks pretty good.  Is the Wi-Fi good?  Will the device hold up to normal use 
for a couple years?



Roger Wright
Network Administrator
Evatone, Inc.
727.572.7076  x388
_


From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it and 
after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I now get 
4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and playing games 
while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great device, I highly 
recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry could possibly be 
any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY simple to do.
TVK

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond 
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung 
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the thumbboard 
style keyboard:

Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who 
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

Cheers
Ken

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them?  
All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.










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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Roger Wright]

Looks pretty good.  Is the Wi-Fi good?  Will the device hold up to
normal use for a couple years?

 

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

_

 

 

From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

 

I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on
it and after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T
loads, I now get 4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting,
camera, and playing games while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc.
Really a great device, I highly recommend it. And I would seriously
doubt that a Blackberry could possibly be any less work since managing
WM devices is EXTREMELY simple to do.

TVK

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

 

I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch
Diamond (Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900.
The Samsung Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and
want the thumbboard style keyboard:

 

Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-2
62.php

 

Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r),
who knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

 

Cheers
Ken

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

 

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace
their cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I
can use as a phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile
I'm not using it for email or internet access.  But I know the sales
staff would need both.  We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6
should work fine for us.

 

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting,
etc.) would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email
capabilities were reliable.

 

 

 

 

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RE: OT - Help! - Need user manual for Larscom Access T-45

[Rod Trent]

Did you try Retrevo yet?

 

http://www.retrevo.com/s/Larscom+Access+T-45?sub.x=31
 &sub.y=16 

 

From: Neil Standley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT - Help! - Need user manual for Larscom Access T-45

 

I'd be really grateful if anyone out there happens to have a user manual or
can help with command syntax for this box.  We bought 2 of them used so we
don't have it, we're trying to increase our bandwidth today and support on
the other side doesn't have anyone that knows the commands to do it.

 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

Neil

 

 

 

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OT - Help! - Need user manual for Larscom Access T-45

[Neil Standley]

I'd be really grateful if anyone out there happens to have a user manual
or can help with command syntax for this box.  We bought 2 of them used
so we don't have it, we're trying to increase our bandwidth today and
support on the other side doesn't have anyone that knows the commands to
do it.

 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

Neil

 


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RE: R: Server room temp

[Jacob]

When you land in Miami at 6am , look out the windows of the airport and
think it is raining when it is not. you know you are in for a treat when you
walk outside!

 

From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:24 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: R: Server room temp

 

Perhaps I should check my humidity in there. I am in Miami FL, one block
away from the ocean, you can cut the air with a knife some days. Currently
its 58% outside, not that bad.

 

James

- Original Message - 

From: Sherry Abercrombie   

To: NT System Admin Issues   

Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:10 PM

Subject: Re: R: Server room temp

 

If you are in an area that is subject to high humidity, it needs to have a
dehumidifier also.  That's what we have on our AC unit.  

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:39 AM, James Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

An AC is a dehumidifier ;-)

- Original Message - 

From: Sherry Abercrombie   

To: NT System Admin Issues   

Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:14 AM

Subject: Re: R: Server room temp

 

Or dehumidifiers

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Goldoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

That's why computer rooms should have 'environmental control', not just A/C
... They should be supplemented with humidifiers


-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: R: Server room temp

On 30 Jul 2008 at 19:14, HELP_PC  wrote:

> and humidity not below 25%

No can do here in the desert ... check out our relative-humidity numbers
over that past three days:

   National Weather Service - NWS Tucson
   http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=twc

&sid=KTUS&num=72

As I type this, the lowest RH is 13% and the max RH got all the way up to
57% at 5:53 AM one morning, but after about 10 AM it's typically in the
teens.

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
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RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Senter, John]

One more thing with this.  We are still running Exch 2003.  Unlike the
BES, a user can have multiple devices assigned to the users mailbox.
When you send a wipe command, if the device is on it will wipe.  The Web
Manger shows the wipe command was received and processed.  If you do not
"delete" or "remove wipe" for the user, anytime that user reconnects the
device it will start a sync and wipe it again.  The good thing about
that is if a device is stolen or lost and you send a wipe, it will stay
there until you remove it so if someone turns on the device 3 months
later and tries to connect it will get the wipe.

 

With Blackberry if you send a kill and the device is off it will not get
the command, then you assign a new device to the user that kill goes
away.  So if the device comes on 3 months later it will not wipe.

 

We have decided to hold off with iPhone, and anything using ActiveSync,
until we deploy Exchange 2007.  The reporting and management with Exch
2003 is awful so we want this in place.  Also the policies in Exch 2007
are more like BES and Good.

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

Thanks John.

 

From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

Our testing showed the wipe command went within a couple of minutes.
Once iPhone received the command it went blank and sat at the black
screen with the Apple.  I did this several times and it was less than 5
mins to get to that point.  The device is useless until the user plugs
it up to iTunes to reload the device.

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

Carlos, how long did it take the remote wipe to occur and finish? From
clicking the remote wipe button to it being wiped and done.

I have heard it can take a couple of hours which would be highly
unacceptable. But I would like to hear if others have noticed this as
well.

 

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:17 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

I have a 2G with the FW 2.0 installed and hooked up on exchange, I've
played quite a lot with it. Battery is poor is you have all the features
turned on. I've been able to do remote wipes and created an XML file
that setup's Exchange and VPN and enforces a PIN on the device.

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't
have the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System
Center Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the
device properly secured, then I suppose it's OK.

 

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on
24x7. Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason.
I don't know if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic
expectations.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone
seen any more reviews (besides Paul Robichaux
 's) of how it behaves in an Exchange
shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you allow it onto your
networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect of the
device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed
on it?

Thanks, 
Wayne

 

 

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Re: R: Server room temp

[James Kerr]

Perhaps I should check my humidity in there. I am in Miami FL, one block away 
from the ocean, you can cut the air with a knife some days. Currently its 58% 
outside, not that bad.

James
  - Original Message - 
  From: Sherry Abercrombie 
  To: NT System Admin Issues 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:10 PM
  Subject: Re: R: Server room temp


  If you are in an area that is subject to high humidity, it needs to have a 
dehumidifier also.  That's what we have on our AC unit.  


  On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:39 AM, James Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

An AC is a dehumidifier ;-)
  - Original Message - 
  From: Sherry Abercrombie 
  To: NT System Admin Issues 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:14 AM
  Subject: Re: R: Server room temp


  Or dehumidifiers


  On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Goldoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

That's why computer rooms should have 'environmental control', not just 
A/C
... They should be supplemented with humidifiers


-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: R: Server room temp

On 30 Jul 2008 at 19:14, HELP_PC  wrote:

> and humidity not below 25%

No can do here in the desert ... check out our relative-humidity numbers
over that past three days:

   National Weather Service - NWS Tucson
   http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=twc&sid=KTUS&num=72

As I type this, the lowest RH is 13% and the max RH got all the way up 
to
57% at 5:53 AM one morning, but after about 10 AM it's typically in the
teens.

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
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RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Martin Blackstone]

Thanks John.

 

From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

Our testing showed the wipe command went within a couple of minutes.  Once
iPhone received the command it went blank and sat at the black screen with
the Apple.  I did this several times and it was less than 5 mins to get to
that point.  The device is useless until the user plugs it up to iTunes to
reload the device.

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

Carlos, how long did it take the remote wipe to occur and finish? From
clicking the remote wipe button to it being wiped and done.

I have heard it can take a couple of hours which would be highly
unacceptable. But I would like to hear if others have noticed this as well.

 

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:17 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

I have a 2G with the FW 2.0 installed and hooked up on exchange, I've played
quite a lot with it. Battery is poor is you have all the features turned on.
I've been able to do remote wipes and created an XML file that setup's
Exchange and VPN and enforces a PIN on the device.

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't have
the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System Center
Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the device properly
secured, then I suppose it's OK.

 

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on 24x7.
Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason. I don't
know if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic expectations.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone seen
any more reviews (besides   Paul Robichaux's)
of how it behaves in an Exchange shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor,
would you allow it onto your networks? Has anyone looked at the
security/stability aspect of the device, now that the SDK is released and
3rd party apps can be installed on it?

Thanks, 
Wayne

 

 

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Re: R: Server room temp

[Sherry Abercrombie]

If you are in an area that is subject to high humidity, it needs to have a
dehumidifier also.  That's what we have on our AC unit.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:39 AM, James Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  An AC is a dehumidifier ;-)
>
> - Original Message -
> *From:* Sherry Abercrombie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues 
> *Sent:* Friday, August 01, 2008 10:14 AM
> *Subject:* Re: R: Server room temp
>
> Or dehumidifiers
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Goldoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> That's why computer rooms should have 'environmental control', not just
>> A/C
>> ... They should be supplemented with humidifiers
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:34 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: R: Server room temp
>>
>> On 30 Jul 2008 at 19:14, HELP_PC  wrote:
>>
>> > and humidity not below 25%
>>
>> No can do here in the desert ... check out our relative-humidity numbers
>> over that past three days:
>>
>>National Weather Service - NWS Tucson
>>http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=twc&sid=KTUS&num=72
>>
>> As I type this, the lowest RH is 13% and the max RH got all the way up to
>> 57% at 5:53 AM one morning, but after about 10 AM it's typically in the
>> teens.
>>
>> --
>> Angus Scott-Fleming
>> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
>> 1-520-290-5038
>> +---+
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
> Arthur C. Clarke
>
>
>


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RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Senter, John]

Our testing showed the wipe command went within a couple of minutes.
Once iPhone received the command it went blank and sat at the black
screen with the Apple.  I did this several times and it was less than 5
mins to get to that point.  The device is useless until the user plugs
it up to iTunes to reload the device.

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

Carlos, how long did it take the remote wipe to occur and finish? From
clicking the remote wipe button to it being wiped and done.

I have heard it can take a couple of hours which would be highly
unacceptable. But I would like to hear if others have noticed this as
well.

 

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:17 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

I have a 2G with the FW 2.0 installed and hooked up on exchange, I've
played quite a lot with it. Battery is poor is you have all the features
turned on. I've been able to do remote wipes and created an XML file
that setup's Exchange and VPN and enforces a PIN on the device.

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't
have the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System
Center Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the
device properly secured, then I suppose it's OK.

 

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on
24x7. Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason.
I don't know if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic
expectations.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone
seen any more reviews (besides Paul Robichaux
 's) of how it behaves in an Exchange
shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you allow it onto your
networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect of the
device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed
on it?

Thanks, 
Wayne

 

 

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Re: Vmware ESXi question

[Jonathan Link]

I like Maui wowie VM's.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Martin Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>  I think this guy said it pretty well when he called it a "gateway drug"
>
> http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/07/25/my-take-on-free-esxi/
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:47 PM
>
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Vmware ESXi question
>
>
>
> OK i think i see what's going on here.
>
>
>
> ESXi in both flavour (installable or embedded is indeed free) the issue we
> had was to be able to manage it with Virtual Center which is our choice
> requires a Virtual Center Agent. ESXi doesnt not come licensed with a VC
> Agent. Hence you still need to buy either Foundation $995, Standard $2995,
> Enterprise $5750 software. We were being quoted for the Standard license on
> top which is where the extra 3k came from on the quote. The standard license
> is what we have been buying of later, so i guess he figured that would be ok
> this time.
>
>
>
> So i think it is going to be at least a foundation license for this one
> just so we can use it with Virtual Center.
>
>
>
> You know i have to hand it to these Vmware guys. Every feature from the
> ground up requires a different license and additional software to work with
> the other. The prime example being you can buy an Enterprise license but to
> drive any of it you need to cough up for Virtual Center! :)
>
>
>
> ahh well.
>
>
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Friday, 1 August 2008 1:48 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Vmware ESXi question
>
> So the installable version is free, but the embedded isn't? i am getting
> this right ?
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Friday, 1 August 2008 12:52 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Vmware ESXi question
>
> No. You did. J
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:37 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Vmware ESXi question
>
>
>
> The installable version is free right now.  OP is asking about the embedded
> version.   Are you suggesting that Dell, HP, IBM, etc. will stop charging
> for the embedded version?
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:14 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Vmware ESXi question
>
>
>
> ESXi will be free in a few weeks so anything more than $0 is too much.
>
>
>
> *From:* Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:07 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Vmware ESXi question
>
>
>
> Sorry no
>
>
>
> server is 11k and esxi is 3k on its own if we go the embedded option.
>
>
>
> I am not willing to pay 3k when i can download it for fre!!
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Friday, 1 August 2008 11:22 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Vmware ESXi question
>
> Wow, 3k for the server **and** esxi I hope? Who cares about it being
> embedded? My esxi runs on two small 36 gig sas mirrored drives, and the rest
> of the space holds iso's J
>
> jlc
>
>
>
> *From:* Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:57 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Vmware ESXi question
>
>
>
> Hi all
>
>
>
> Got a quick question for the ESX folk among us. We are looking at adding
> some more no -prod vm hosts and i am in the process of quoting for Dell
> 2950's  and have been to-ing and fro-ing about ESXi installable or embedded.
>
>
>
>
> Our Dell rep is quoting us 3k AUS for the ESXi embedded portion. Does that
> sound right, did they only make the installable version free? It seems to me
> like he hasn't caught with the news!!
>
>
>
> I would like to go for the embedded version however i am not convinced it
> is worth it for 3k a pop!! anyone have anymore info or able to do a quick
> check with their Dell or HP rep?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Uninstall Symantec AV

[Micheal Espinola Jr]

np.  I cant wait to use it to wipe all the installs at my work.  I'm
counting the days until the contract expires...

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2008 at 14:34, Phil Brutsche  wrote:
>
>> In my experience there is no such thing as a clean uninstall for
>> Symantec AV.
>>
>> ME2 has a CleanWipe utility in his wiki that works the first time every
>> time:
>
> Thanks, ME2.  Looks like Symantec doesn't want to share that tool with "just
> anybody":
>
> --- Included Stuff Follows ---
> Endpoint Removal Tool - Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.x - STN Peer-to-Peer
> Discussion Forums
>
>"...The standard way to get CleanWipe is to raise a call with support.
>All support engineers should know about it (if they search our internal KB
>they will find it).  I cannot see us posting CleanWipe to the public site
>any time soon due its sheer effectiveness at removing our product.  If
>people need a copy, then please log a call (you can do this online using
>mysupport.symantec.com) - if you haven't had a reply after 24 hours please
>post your case reference here and one of us will follow up.
>
>Please note that we would only recommend using CleanWipe as the final
>solution for removal of our product, the proper uninstallation routines
>should always be tried first.
>
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>Senior Technical Product Manager, Endpoint Security
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RE: Disgruntled Sysadmin

[Nikki Peterson - OETX]

And then of course there was the password thing...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/sf_rogue_sysadmin_password_mess/

I have to sympathize with Mr. Childs. To be held responsible for the
Systems like we are, and then to give inexperienced folks elevated access
To the system. Kinda unnerving in a finger pointing management style that
Will cause heads to roll.

Just my 2¢

Nikki

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

Interesting story. Looks like Mr. Childs may have been out of line,
but he probably had reason to be paranoid, too.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2008 at 13:39, Kurt Buff  wrote:
>
>> ROFL!
>>
>> The world will be destroyed by the clueless...
>
> or the networks will ... Infoworld has a long detailed story about what's
> really happening in this case.  Looks to me like he's being railroaded and
> pilloried in the press.  His bail is set to $5 million, while bail in a first-
> degree murder case is usually $1 million.  Much of what he's accused of doing
> is just normal best-practice network management, misinterpreted by the 
> clueless
> and the press.
>
> Sorting out fact from fiction in the Terry Childs case
>  | InfoWorld | News | July 30, 2008 | By Paul Venezia
> http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/3
> 0/31NF-terry-childs-fact-fiction_1.html
> or here if the above wraps unusably: http://preview.tinyurl.com/5r96wb or
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/30/31NF-terry-childs-fact-fiction_1.html
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Re: Dell NVidia GPU problem

[Devin Meade]

Our Dell D630 and M4300 laptops all had to have the BIOS updated, new NVIDIA
drivers and the TMM Task disabled to stop dual monitor woes.  They have
docking stations with dual flat panel monitors.  They run Vista Business
with SP1.

The sequence was:
- Power up on the docking station (and use the 2 monitors it all day)
- Shutdown
- Undock
- Power up (using the LT on the built in display)
- Shutdown
- Dock
- Power up - the primary monitor would swap and it would be at a lower
resolution.

If you left it on the docking station, then it would not "loose the display
settings", ie shutdown / power up without undocking.

The above three actions fixed this.  One D630 had to have new broadcom
drivers or it would connect approx every other boot.  The Dell notice did
not mention the M4300, this is FYI for the group.  Also, there was a reg
hack that keeps showing up in newsgroup postings - I saw no change by
manipulating it (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\TMM\UseIViewHelper – default is
1).  I did notice some extra reg keys after the NVIDIA update in this part
of the registry.  I think the TMM task in Vista is severely stupid as about
2 sec AFTER logon, the display would change - just like a scheduled task at
logon (which is how its scheduled).  Disable this and life is good.

hth -Devin


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Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

[Kurt Buff]

Interesting story. Looks like Mr. Childs may have been out of line,
but he probably had reason to be paranoid, too.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2008 at 13:39, Kurt Buff  wrote:
>
>> ROFL!
>>
>> The world will be destroyed by the clueless...
>
> or the networks will ... Infoworld has a long detailed story about what's
> really happening in this case.  Looks to me like he's being railroaded and
> pilloried in the press.  His bail is set to $5 million, while bail in a first-
> degree murder case is usually $1 million.  Much of what he's accused of doing
> is just normal best-practice network management, misinterpreted by the 
> clueless
> and the press.
>
> Sorting out fact from fiction in the Terry Childs case
>  | InfoWorld | News | July 30, 2008 | By Paul Venezia
> http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/3
> 0/31NF-terry-childs-fact-fiction_1.html
> or here if the above wraps unusably: http://preview.tinyurl.com/5r96wb or
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/30/31NF-terry-childs-fact-fiction_1.html
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RE: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

[Joseph L. Casale]

Just keep in mind xen express (commercial variant) will install on damn near 
any hardware and you actually can roll your own drivers.

ESXi needs specific hardware for storage and nics, so white box is almost out 
of the question.

jlc

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

Depends on what you want to do.

VMware - more mature tons of 3rd party tools, Free versions available

HyperV - Mostly a baby right now, while it can do some good stuff it's still to 
early to tell

ZEN - been out for awhile, fairly decent

Virtual Iron - good competitor to VMware but requires 64 bit systems to run.

Best in my opinion for right now would be to get a cooy of ESXi which is now 
free and work with it , this will give you a solid platform to begin with and 
it's upgradeable as you grow if you want to go the VMware route

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

Ok, so I'm a bit behind I have not played with any virtualization so far!
My question is where do I start?
I would like to set up a Lab Server and start playing.

My BES, WUS and Webtrends are on a "White Box" and Is running out of disk 
space, I would like to move them to virtual servers on a proper ProLiant box.

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Re: Uninstall Symantec AV

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 31 Jul 2008 at 14:34, Phil Brutsche  wrote:

> In my experience there is no such thing as a clean uninstall for
> Symantec AV.
> 
> ME2 has a CleanWipe utility in his wiki that works the first time every
> time:

Thanks, ME2.  Looks like Symantec doesn't want to share that tool with "just 
anybody":

--- Included Stuff Follows ---
Endpoint Removal Tool - Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.x - STN Peer-to-Peer 
Discussion Forums

"...The standard way to get CleanWipe is to raise a call with support.  
All support engineers should know about it (if they search our internal KB 
they will find it).  I cannot see us posting CleanWipe to the public site 
any time soon due its sheer effectiveness at removing our product.  If 
people need a copy, then please log a call (you can do this online using 
mysupport.symantec.com) - if you haven't had a reply after 24 hours please 
post your case reference here and one of us will follow up.
 
Please note that we would only recommend using CleanWipe as the final 
solution for removal of our product, the proper uninstallation routines 
should always be tried first.
 
__
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Senior Technical Product Manager, Endpoint Security
- Included Stuff Ends -
https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=endpoint_protection11
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RE: WAY OT: WMP and youtube

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 26 Jul 2008 at 14:00, Joseph L. Casale  wrote:

> Yeah, I have seen that, but I guess Real Mangler can actually pull the 
> youtube video 
> down?

I use the UnPlug extension to Firefox to download Flash movies, should work 
fine with Youtube. 
UnPlug :: Firefox Add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2254
You may have to tinker with it a bit to download what you want.

The open-source VLC player from http://www.videolan.org/ will play Youtube's 
videos just fine.


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Re: What OS on network

[Tigran K]

SpiceWorks didn't cut it, good interface but couldn't get the info.
Nmap identified linux box and even FreeBSD on VMware.

--Tigran

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RE: Semi-OT: Question about Media Converters

[John Hornbuckle]

Generally for a connection like this, I'll force 1000/full to ensure no
mismatches.



-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Question about Media Converters

Generally no.

You'll have performance problems if the media converter doesn't auto
negotiate ethernet speed and duplex properly.

Sometimes what some people do in that situation is use a switch with
more than 4 GBIC slots - you can get a 24-port GBIC blade for Catalyst
6000 switches, for example. I'm not saying you should replace your
switch infrastructure with such a massive and expensive beast, but you
could do something similar.

John Hornbuckle wrote:
> I've got a core switch that my sites connect back to. That switch has
24
> copper 10/100/100 ports 4 slots for mini GBICs that I can plug fiber
> into. However, I have more than 4 sites. If I connect a site's fiber
> connection to a media converter and then connect that media converter
to
> a copper port on the switch, is performance worse than if the site's
> fiber plugged into a mini GBIC?

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RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Barsodi.John]

If you're a security conscious IT department/company you wouldn't put an
iPhone into your environment.  Think about the ability to Jailbreak an
iPhone and what that means at an underlying security level of your data
that resides on that phone.  No thanks.

 

/waits for the iPhone fanbois to revolt

 

- John Barsodi

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't
have the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System
Center Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the
device properly secured, then I suppose it's OK.

 

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on
24x7. Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason.
I don't know if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic
expectations.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone
seen any more reviews (besides Paul Robichaux
 's) of how it behaves in an Exchange
shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you allow it onto your
networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect of the
device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed
on it?

Thanks, 
Wayne

 

 

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RE: Mutliple Floor building

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 1 Aug 2008 at 9:19, Erik Goldoff  wrote:

> Good point, but is the 31.2 feet total depth, what is the normal high ?  If
> 20 feet normally, then that's only an 11.2 foot flood level (I don't mean
> *only* as that trivializes for anyone that suffered the flood)

After some serious research, I found that flood stage is about 12 feet, so 31.2 
feet is over 19 feet above flood stage. If you're curious, start here:

USGS - Iowa WSC - Iowa Flood Information
http://ia.water.usgs.gov/flood/flood.html

Flooding reached the second floor in some buildings so even putting your data 
center on the 2nd floor might not be enough if your building is on a flood 
plain:

Iowa flood of 2008 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_flood_of_2008#Cedar_Rapids

About 1,300 blocks, to include most of downtown, were inundated with 
3,900 homes being affected. Mays Island, which has Cedar Rapids City 
Hall, the Linn County Courthouse, the county jail as well as the 
United States Courthouse was flooded up to the second floor level.  


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RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

It took about 1.5 hours, from the tests I've done that seems to be the
lowest highest has been 4 hours from remote wipe command to the Iphone
being wiped. I've said this before and it echoes the sentiment of other
folks while it's a great tool by far one of the best PDA / Phone /
Gadget combo I've had (and I had quite a few of them) It's still not
mature enough for the enterprise if compared to BB or WM6 devices.
Although fine for admins depending on your use.

 

But overall I think apple will be the one to watch in the coming months
as new FW comes out

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

Carlos, how long did it take the remote wipe to occur and finish? From
clicking the remote wipe button to it being wiped and done.

I have heard it can take a couple of hours which would be highly
unacceptable. But I would like to hear if others have noticed this as
well.

 

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:17 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

I have a 2G with the FW 2.0 installed and hooked up on exchange, I've
played quite a lot with it. Battery is poor is you have all the features
turned on. I've been able to do remote wipes and created an XML file
that setup's Exchange and VPN and enforces a PIN on the device.

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't
have the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System
Center Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the
device properly secured, then I suppose it's OK.

 

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on
24x7. Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason.
I don't know if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic
expectations.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone
seen any more reviews (besides Paul Robichaux
 's) of how it behaves in an Exchange
shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you allow it onto your
networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect of the
device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed
on it?

Thanks, 
Wayne

 

 

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R: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[HELP_PC]

unrealistic I think .It is a problem for all WM devices as well on 24x7
 
GuidoElia
HELPPC
 

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Da: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Inviato: venerdì 1 agosto 2008 16.02
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you



It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't have 
the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System Center 
Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the device properly 
secured, then I suppose it's OK.

 

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on 24x7. 
Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason. I don't know 
if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic expectations.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone seen any 
more reviews (besides   Paul Robichaux's) of how 
it behaves in an Exchange shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you 
allow it onto your networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect 
of the device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed 
on it?

Thanks, 
Wayne










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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Barsodi.John]

Service providers differ in every region.  Since you've mentioned the
former AT&T company who was once AT&T, Cingular...  I will stick with
devices there.  I would hold off with picking up anything WinMo related
right now.  Too many new devices are coming out, specifically the HTC
Touch Diamond Pro(Raphael) and the Sony Xperia X1.  Those are the WinMo
phones to look at.  The Samsung i788 will be out too and I've read mixed
reviews on this one as well.  

 

If you have the capacity/resources, I'd recommend looking at a
blackberry solution.

 

AT&T's 2008 Roadmap:
http://www.geardiary.com/2008/07/01/att-roadmap-for-2008-blackjack-3-wi-
fi-blackberry-curve/

 

 

- John Barsodi

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

 

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace
their cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I
can use as a phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile
I'm not using it for email or internet access.  But I know the sales
staff would need both.  We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6
should work fine for us.

 

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting,
etc.) would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email
capabilities were reliable.

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

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RE: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

[Stefan Jafs]

Thanks, since I'm 100% Microsoft Shop, I guess I should just get the
2008 Enterprise Server x64 license ( I only have Standard 2008 right
now) and start playing with Hyper-V.

 

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From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 09:47
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

 

First you need to think about your long term plans. Whilst having just
one or two VMs isn't a problem on either platform, down the track you're
going to be committing to management tools, backup tools and knowledge
gained. Do you want to be a VMWare shop? Or a Microsoft shop? If you
have platforms other than Windows, then VMWare is probably the way to
go. If you are a Microsoft shop, then Hyper-V is probably going to cost
you less.

 

Whether you want to go ESX or Hyper-V, you're going to need a machine
that has a 64bit CPU, and has either Intel-VT or AMD-V (which is pretty
much anything in the past couple of years).

 

For Hyper-V, you need to have a Windows Server 2008 x64 license. If you
don't have something already, then Enterprise edition is probably your
best purchase to start off with - that gives you licenses to run 4 VMs
on top of the base OS.

 

Start to think about how you're going to manage critical services -
you'll need an overall monitoring tool/management tool (SCVMM versus
VI3) + some kind of back up strategy. Do you have a SAN that provides
snapshot functionality? Do you want to use Windows VSS writer? Do you
want to use VMWare's backup tool? Do you want to use Microsoft DPM?

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

 

Ok, so I'm a bit behind I have not played with any virtualization so
far!

My question is where do I start?

I would like to set up a Lab Server and start playing.

 

My BES, WUS and Webtrends are on a "White Box" and Is running out of
disk space, I would like to move them to virtual servers on a proper
ProLiant box.

 

 



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Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 25 Jul 2008 at 13:39, Kurt Buff  wrote:

> ROFL!
> 
> The world will be destroyed by the clueless...

or the networks will ... Infoworld has a long detailed story about what's 
really happening in this case.  Looks to me like he's being railroaded and 
pilloried in the press.  His bail is set to $5 million, while bail in a first-
degree murder case is usually $1 million.  Much of what he's accused of doing 
is just normal best-practice network management, misinterpreted by the clueless 
and the press.

Sorting out fact from fiction in the Terry Childs case 
  | InfoWorld | News | July 30, 2008 | By Paul Venezia  
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Re: Semi-OT: Question about Media Converters

[Phil Brutsche]

Generally no.

You'll have performance problems if the media converter doesn't auto
negotiate ethernet speed and duplex properly.

Sometimes what some people do in that situation is use a switch with
more than 4 GBIC slots - you can get a 24-port GBIC blade for Catalyst
6000 switches, for example. I'm not saying you should replace your
switch infrastructure with such a massive and expensive beast, but you
could do something similar.

John Hornbuckle wrote:
> I've got a core switch that my sites connect back to. That switch has 24
> copper 10/100/100 ports 4 slots for mini GBICs that I can plug fiber
> into. However, I have more than 4 sites. If I connect a site's fiber
> connection to a media converter and then connect that media converter to
> a copper port on the switch, is performance worse than if the site's
> fiber plugged into a mini GBIC?

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RE: Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

[John Hornbuckle]

I have 2 virtual NICs on the machine. The NIC that has the IP address of
the DNS server is configured to not register with DNS. Also, no
protocols other than TCP/IP are bound to that NIC.

 

 

 

 

 

From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

 

John, if you are using multiple IP's assigned to one NIC on a virtual
machine and the virtual machine is 2008 expect problems with 2003 DNS.
I have several web sites and multilple FTP as well as one SMTP server on
one virtual 2008 server and if I have the register with the DNS is
checked ALL of the IP's check in as the same machine, as well as their
web/ftp/smtp/printer.  Messes up remote access as well.  I think that
might have been the issue yesterday with the "firewall" blocking the FTP
sites.  I am still trouble shooting this but I do know that if you
change it back to register in DNS it wipes the static entry and resets
everything wrong again.

 

Jon

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:57 PM, John Hornbuckle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Will do. I've also posted on a couple of TechNet forums. So far everyone
is stumped, but I have to make this work, so I'll keep plugging away.

 

I'm doing the same as you, decommissioning several end-of-life 2003
servers. I only have one 2008 server, though, and am running Hyper-V to
have multiple VMs taking on the roles of the old servers. Consolidating
is a pain, but will be worth it in the end. I've moved several functions
off of older 2003 servers, but I still haven't been able to shut one
down completely yet because there are still a few lingering tasks.

 

 

 

 

From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:54 PM 


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

 

At the moment then I am out of ideas.  I am having fun moving and
decommissioning a 2003 web/ftp/print server and bringing up a
replacement 2008 one in it's place.  Trouble shooting has to wait until
I have enough done to justify the time since not of these "problems"
affect anyone but "me" at the moment.  I only have 2 more stubborn
printers to get installed on the server and then go and touch all the
clients and make sure they are getting the new printers.  XP machines
seem to be having the most issues with the new print server.  Web and
ftp are done and golden.  If you find something before I do please post
back to the list.

 

Jon

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:43 PM, John Hornbuckle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yeah, I forgot to mention that I had tried that. I shut down the
firewall service completely, but these errors continued to be logged.
Also, I have IPv6 disabled on the server.

 

Crazy.

 

 

 

 

From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

 

John try shutting down the firewall and see if they go away.  If so then
you may have the same issue I had this morning with IIS v7.  It appears
that there is something in the internal firewall that does not like
certain features, and no I have not had time to trouble shoot this yet.
It might also be that you have the machine using IP v6 and IP v4.  I had
to shutdown IP v6 on my DNS/DS because I did not have a fixed IP v6
address for the machine.  Another trouble shooting thing for me to do.

 

Jon

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:33 PM, John Hornbuckle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have a separate DNS server here for external queries. That server
isn't AD-integrated, and only contains a handful of records for hosts
that need to be reached from the outside world. This task has been
handled by a Server 2003 server.

I've shut down DNS on that server and moved its IP address to a new
Server 2008 server. But for some reason, the Server 2008 machine is
blocking all DNS queries from any other machine (on our network or off).
Windows Firewall is configured to allow inbound and outbound TCP/UDP
traffic on port 53, so that doesn't seem to be the issue. But I get a
ton of these in the Security Log:

=
The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a connection.

Application Information:
 Process ID:  1404
 Application Name: \device\harddiskvolume1\windows\system32\dns.exe

Network Information:
 Direction:  Inbound
 Source Address:  150.176.37.178  
 Source Port:  53
 Destination Address: 150.176.37.163  
 Destination Port:  58058
 Protocol:  17

Filter Information:
 Filter Run-Time ID: 0
 Layer Name:  Receive/Accept
 Layer Run-Time ID: 44
=

The 150.176.37.178   machine is the DNS server,
and the 150.176.37.163  
machine is I'm trying to do a query from using nslookup. But I've also
got lots of entries like these from other hosts trying to query the
server.

I'm stumped as to why this traffic is being blocked. Any ideas?


John Hornbuckle
M

Semi-OT: Question about Media Converters

[John Hornbuckle]

Does the use of a media converter negatively impact network performance?

I've got a core switch that my sites connect back to. That switch has 24
copper 10/100/100 ports 4 slots for mini GBICs that I can plug fiber
into. However, I have more than 4 sites. If I connect a site's fiber
connection to a media converter and then connect that media converter to
a copper port on the switch, is performance worse than if the site's
fiber plugged into a mini GBIC?




John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us


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RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Martin Blackstone]

Carlos, how long did it take the remote wipe to occur and finish? From
clicking the remote wipe button to it being wiped and done.

I have heard it can take a couple of hours which would be highly
unacceptable. But I would like to hear if others have noticed this as well.

 

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:17 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

I have a 2G with the FW 2.0 installed and hooked up on exchange, I've played
quite a lot with it. Battery is poor is you have all the features turned on.
I've been able to do remote wipes and created an XML file that setup's
Exchange and VPN and enforces a PIN on the device.

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't have
the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System Center
Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the device properly
secured, then I suppose it's OK.

 

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on 24x7.
Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason. I don't
know if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic expectations.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone seen
any more reviews (besides   Paul Robichaux's)
of how it behaves in an Exchange shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor,
would you allow it onto your networks? Has anyone looked at the
security/stability aspect of the device, now that the SDK is released and
3rd party apps can be installed on it?

Thanks, 
Wayne

 

 

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RE: blocking spam text msgs on BB (Suncom\Tmobile)

[David Mazzaccaro]

You can block SENDING txt messages from the BB, but in order to block
RECEIVING them, you'll have to contact  your wireless provider.
They should be able to block incoming txt messages.
 



From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: blocking spam text msgs on BB (Suncom\Tmobile)



One of my dev types got a call from a number he didn't recognize, called
it back got a recording of "Don't Worry be Happy" and is now getting
text spam.  I do have BES in-house and I now have that freakin' tune in
my head. 

 

TIA, 

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OT: Scott Angus

[Klint Price - ArizonaITPro]

Sorry for the OT:

I tried e-mailing you directly, and the message bounced.  Are you 
requiring SPF?  Do you have a hotmail account?

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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Tim Vander Kooi]

I agree that the Diamond Pro is a better phone, if you can wait. I saw a number 
of them at TechEd and really liked them. But with the Diamond OS on my Tilt the 
only thing I am missing is the gyro "flip" abilities. The problem with mobile 
phones though is that the next great phone that's better than today's phone is 
always just around the corner. I'm guessing that by the time they get the 
Diamond Pro to the US there will another "next great phone" announced that will 
have us all saying "If you can wait don't buy a Diamond Pro, wait for the XYZ, 
it is better and lighter".
TVK

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

AT&T Tilt = HTC TyTN II

If you want the slide-out keyboard WM phone - wait for the HTC Touch Diamond 
Pro. Smaller, lighter, and more features than the TyTN II

If you go to www.phonearena.com - they have a 
comparison tool that shows you the relative sizes of phones. 
www.gsmarena.com has something similar, but not quite 
as sophisticed.

Cheers
Ken

From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2008 12:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it and 
after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I now get 
4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and playing games 
while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great device, I highly 
recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry could possibly be 
any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY simple to do.
TVK

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond 
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung 
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the thumbboard 
style keyboard:

Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who 
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

Cheers
Ken

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them?  
All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.










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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Ken Schaefer]

AT&T Tilt = HTC TyTN II

If you want the slide-out keyboard WM phone - wait for the HTC Touch Diamond 
Pro. Smaller, lighter, and more features than the TyTN II

If you go to www.phonearena.com - they have a 
comparison tool that shows you the relative sizes of phones. 
www.gsmarena.com has something similar, but not quite 
as sophisticed.

Cheers
Ken

From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2008 12:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it and 
after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I now get 
4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and playing games 
while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great device, I highly 
recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry could possibly be 
any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY simple to do.
TVK

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond 
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung 
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the thumbboard 
style keyboard:

Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who 
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

Cheers
Ken

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them?  
All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.







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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Tim Vander Kooi]

I have the AT&T Tilt and LOVE it. I am running WM6.1 for the Diamond on it and 
after upgrading the radio from the "craptastic" one that AT&T loads, I now get 
4-5 days per charge and I use it for Email, Texting, camera, and playing games 
while waiting to be seated at restaurants etc. Really a great device, I highly 
recommend it. And I would seriously doubt that a Blackberry could possibly be 
any less work since managing WM devices is EXTREMELY simple to do.
TVK

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond 
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung 
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the thumbboard 
style keyboard:

Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who 
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

Cheers
Ken

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them?  
All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.




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Re: R: Server room temp

[James Kerr]

An AC is a dehumidifier ;-)
  - Original Message - 
  From: Sherry Abercrombie 
  To: NT System Admin Issues 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:14 AM
  Subject: Re: R: Server room temp


  Or dehumidifiers


  On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Goldoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

That's why computer rooms should have 'environmental control', not just A/C
... They should be supplemented with humidifiers


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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: R: Server room temp

On 30 Jul 2008 at 19:14, HELP_PC  wrote:

> and humidity not below 25%

No can do here in the desert ... check out our relative-humidity numbers
over that past three days:

   National Weather Service - NWS Tucson
   http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=twc&sid=KTUS&num=72

As I type this, the lowest RH is 13% and the max RH got all the way up to
57% at 5:53 AM one morning, but after about 10 AM it's typically in the
teens.

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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Joe Heaton]

Using the Treo 700wx here.  Haven't had any issues with it.  Internet
access, Activesync for e-mail, etc.

 

Joe Heaton



From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

 

Except for battery life, which seems to be a problem with them all, I
like the Motorola Q9's we are using.

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

 

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace
their cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I
can use as a phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile
I'm not using it for email or internet access.  But I know the sales
staff would need both.  We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6
should work fine for us.

 

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting,
etc.) would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email
capabilities were reliable.

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

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blocking spam text msgs on BB (Suncom\Tmobile)

[Andy Shook]

One of my dev types got a call from a number he didn't recognize, called
it back got a recording of "Don't Worry be Happy" and is now getting
text spam.  I do have BES in-house and I now have that freakin' tune in
my head. 

 

TIA, 

Shook 


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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Jason Morris]

There're a couple...some require BES.

http://www.rovemobile.com/products/remoteaccess/mdt/overview/

 

 

From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Smartphone Recommendations

 

Anyway to do remote desktop on  BB?

- Original Message - 

From: Bob Fronk   

To: NT System Admin Issues
  

Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:22 AM

Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations

 

Blackberry.  (I prefer the 8310, but soon will have a Bold).

 

I support about 80 BB and BES.  Used to have a mix of Windows
and Palm devices, but they were too much trouble.  Have had great
success with Blackberry.

 

Bob Fronk

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

 

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to
replace their cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a
phone I can use as a phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows
Mobile I'm not using it for email or internet access.  But I know the
sales staff would need both.  We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so
WM5/6 should work fine for us.

 

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could
pass on to them?  All the other cool features (camera/media
player/games/texting, etc.) would only be of considered if the phone and
internet/email capabilities were reliable.

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

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Re: Smartphone Recommendations

[James Kerr]

Anyway to do remote desktop on  BB?
  - Original Message - 
  From: Bob Fronk 
  To: NT System Admin Issues 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:22 AM
  Subject: RE: Smartphone Recommendations


  Blackberry.  (I prefer the 8310, but soon will have a Bold).

   

  I support about 80 BB and BES.  Used to have a mix of Windows and Palm 
devices, but they were too much trouble.  Have had great success with 
Blackberry.

   

  Bob Fronk

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   

  From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:37 AM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

   

  A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

   

  Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them? 
 All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.

 

   

  Roger Wright

  Network Administrator

  Evatone, Inc.

  727.572.7076  x388

  _

   

   

   

 







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RE: R: Server room temp

[Erik Goldoff]

Yes, just not in the desert  

  _  

From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:15 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: R: Server room temp


Or dehumidifiers


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Goldoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


That's why computer rooms should have 'environmental control', not just A/C
... They should be supplemented with humidifiers


-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: R: Server room temp

On 30 Jul 2008 at 19:14, HELP_PC  wrote:

> and humidity not below 25%

No can do here in the desert ... check out our relative-humidity numbers
over that past three days:

   National Weather Service - NWS Tucson
   http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=twc

&sid=KTUS&num=72

As I type this, the lowest RH is 13% and the max RH got all the way up to
57% at 5:53 AM one morning, but after about 10 AM it's typically in the
teens.

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
+---+




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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Bob Fronk]

Blackberry.  (I prefer the 8310, but soon will have a Bold).

 

I support about 80 BB and BES.  Used to have a mix of Windows and Palm
devices, but they were too much trouble.  Have had great success with
Blackberry.

 

Bob Fronk

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

 

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace
their cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I
can use as a phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile
I'm not using it for email or internet access.  But I know the sales
staff would need both.  We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6
should work fine for us.

 

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting,
etc.) would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email
capabilities were reliable.

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

_

 

 

 

 

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RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I have a 2G with the FW 2.0 installed and hooked up on exchange, I've
played quite a lot with it. Battery is poor is you have all the features
turned on. I've been able to do remote wipes and created an XML file
that setup's Exchange and VPN and enforces a PIN on the device.

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't
have the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System
Center Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the
device properly secured, then I suppose it's OK.

 

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on
24x7. Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason.
I don't know if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic
expectations.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

 

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone
seen any more reviews (besides Paul Robichaux
 's) of how it behaves in an Exchange
shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you allow it onto your
networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect of the
device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed
on it?

Thanks, 
Wayne

 

 

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Re: R: Server room temp

[Sherry Abercrombie]

Or dehumidifiers

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Goldoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> That's why computer rooms should have 'environmental control', not just A/C
> ... They should be supplemented with humidifiers
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:34 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: R: Server room temp
>
> On 30 Jul 2008 at 19:14, HELP_PC  wrote:
>
> > and humidity not below 25%
>
> No can do here in the desert ... check out our relative-humidity numbers
> over that past three days:
>
>National Weather Service - NWS Tucson
>http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=twc&sid=KTUS&num=72
>
> As I type this, the lowest RH is 13% and the max RH got all the way up to
> 57% at 5:53 AM one morning, but after about 10 AM it's typically in the
> teens.
>
> --
> Angus Scott-Fleming
> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
> 1-520-290-5038
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>
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RE: MX record confirmation

[Ken Schaefer]

Other way around. Lower values = higher priority

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2008 12:04 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: MX record confirmation
>
> We're going to be switching from a hosted email service to hosting email
> internally with Exchange on SBS.  Our MX record obviously points to the
> hosted service IP right now.  When Exchange is setup and running, I want
> email to come there instead.  However, I still want to leave the old MX
> record in there just incase theres problems with the new server, but at a
> lesser MX priority.  So, do I basically just have the ISP change the DNS
> host table and create a new MX record for Exchange server with a HIGHER
> priority number than the current MX record?
>
> example...
>
> If my current dns table shows:
> IN MX 10 mail.outsourced-email.com.
>
> I should have the ISP change it to:
> IN MX 20 mail.myinternalmail.com.
> IN MX 10 mail.outsourced-email.com.
>
> Is that correct?
> Thanks.


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MX record confirmation

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

We're going to be switching from a hosted email service to hosting email
internally with Exchange on SBS.  Our MX record obviously points to the
hosted service IP right now.  When Exchange is setup and running, I want
email to come there instead.  However, I still want to leave the old MX
record in there just incase theres problems with the new server, but at a
lesser MX priority.  So, do I basically just have the ISP change the DNS
host table and create a new MX record for Exchange server with a HIGHER
priority number than the current MX record?

example... 

If my current dns table shows:
IN MX 10 mail.outsourced-email.com.

I should have the ISP change it to:
IN MX 20 mail.myinternalmail.com.
IN MX 10 mail.outsourced-email.com.

Is that correct?
Thanks.


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RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Ken Schaefer]

It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't have 
the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System Center 
Mobile Device Manager).  If you trust your users to keep the device properly 
secured, then I suppose it's OK.

Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on 24x7. 
Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason. I don't know 
if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic expectations.

Cheers
Ken

From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you


So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone seen any 
more reviews (besides Paul Robichaux's) of how 
it behaves in an Exchange shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you 
allow it onto your networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect 
of the device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed 
on it?

Thanks,
Wayne

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iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you

[Eisenberg, Wayne]

So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone seen any 
more reviews (besides Paul Robichaux  's) of how 
it behaves in an Exchange shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you 
allow it onto your networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect 
of the device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed 
on it?

Thanks,
Wayne
 

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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Ken Schaefer]

I think the two leading WM phones at the moment are the HTC Touch Diamond 
(Diamond Pro coming soon with a keyboard) and the Samsung i900. The Samsung 
Blackjack II is also good if you don't need the latest, and want the thumbboard 
style keyboard:

Here's a length HTC Diamond vs. I900 review.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

Of course, with mobile telephony being so backward in the US (g, d & r), who 
knows when you'll see these phone available :-)

Cheers
Ken

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace their 
cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I can use as a 
phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile I'm not using it for 
email or internet access.  But I know the sales staff would need both.  We're 
running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6 should work fine for us.

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to them?  
All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting, etc.) would 
only be of considered if the phone and internet/email capabilities were 
reliable.

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RE: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

[Ken Schaefer]

First you need to think about your long term plans. Whilst having just one or 
two VMs isn't a problem on either platform, down the track you're going to be 
committing to management tools, backup tools and knowledge gained. Do you want 
to be a VMWare shop? Or a Microsoft shop? If you have platforms other than 
Windows, then VMWare is probably the way to go. If you are a Microsoft shop, 
then Hyper-V is probably going to cost you less.

Whether you want to go ESX or Hyper-V, you're going to need a machine that has 
a 64bit CPU, and has either Intel-VT or AMD-V (which is pretty much anything in 
the past couple of years).

For Hyper-V, you need to have a Windows Server 2008 x64 license. If you don't 
have something already, then Enterprise edition is probably your best purchase 
to start off with - that gives you licenses to run 4 VMs on top of the base OS.

Start to think about how you're going to manage critical services - you'll need 
an overall monitoring tool/management tool (SCVMM versus VI3) + some kind of 
back up strategy. Do you have a SAN that provides snapshot functionality? Do 
you want to use Windows VSS writer? Do you want to use VMWare's backup tool? Do 
you want to use Microsoft DPM?

Cheers
Ken

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

Ok, so I'm a bit behind I have not played with any virtualization so far!
My question is where do I start?
I would like to set up a Lab Server and start playing.

My BES, WUS and Webtrends are on a "White Box" and Is running out of disk 
space, I would like to move them to virtual servers on a proper ProLiant box.

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RE: Remote Desktop Issue

[Ziots, Edward]

Is port 3389 listening and open I know it's a silly question but from
where you are trying to connect run this command. 

 

Nmap -sS -P0 -p 3389 IP_ADDRESS_OF_SERVER

 

If you get filtered or closed then there is an access list or firewall
blocking your communications, if its open you should be able to connect.


 

Next get a copy of wireshark 1.01 on your pc, setup a display filter. (
Your IP (Any port) to Server IP port 3389) and sniff the traffic on the
connection and send the pcap file if possible. 

 

Sincerely,

EZ

 

Edward E. Ziots

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA

Phone: 401-639-3505



From: Jonathan Gruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote Desktop Issue

 

Turned the firewall off and still can not connect.

 

Jonathan Gruber

Network Administrator

J.B. Long Inc.

610-944-8840  x.213

484-637-1978  direct

 

From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remote Desktop Issue

 

Check the new firewall rules in Windows 2008...they might give you a
clue...

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

New 2008 server. Using hyper-v. Server has 4 Nics. Installed 2008 and
Hyper-v with a single Nic hooked up to the network. Others are installed
but no IP info and not physically connected. Hyper-V has one Nic setup
and is running one VM using that Nic. I can remote to the host and the
VM no trouble. Set IP info for another Nic and connect it, now I can't
remote to the host. I can still remote to the VM but get a "This
computer can't connect to the remote computer" error. Any ideas? I tried
setting the RDP-Tcp connector to the first Nic but still no luck.

 

Jonathan Gruber

Network Administrator

J.B. Long Inc.

610-944-8840  x.213

484-637-1978  direct

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Folders moveing themselves

[Ziots, Edward]

Sorry forgot to mention that nice catch Ken :-) 

 

Z

 

Edward E. Ziots

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA

Phone: 401-639-3505



From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Folders moveing themselves

 

Be careful about pushing event log sizes too high. There is a 1GB shared
memory heap that is used for both event logs (assuming Win2k3 and x86),
and other services that want to use it. If you have something that wants
to use that same shared heap, and you run out of it, you'll miss events.
50MB or 100MB is usually fine. Use a tool like logparser, eventcmb or
your operations management tool (ops Manager or whatever) to groom
events from the event logs to a central repository

 

Cheers

Ken

 

 

From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Folders moveing themselves

 

Well there is a little more to it. 

 

1)   I would limit the scope of your auditing for right now to the OU
that contains the server (s) in question. I think it was mentioned
before why putting your servers in your own OU for management and
lockdown is a good idea. 

 

2)   You can enable the auditing and then push down to your servers
accordingly, you don't need to do it at the domain level if you have the
structure in (1) above. 

 

3)   After this you must configure success and failure auditing as I
described before on the folders/files I talked of, and you need to be
selective on whom you are targeting for the audit so as not to run your
audit logs full. ( I would recommend in the GPO in (2) above pushing
your audit log size to 50MB or higher so you capture the events. 

 

4)   Lastly you need to add a test user to the group to be audited in
question and then try out moving folders and then parsing the logs
accordingly, to make sure the event fires off when you move/delete a
folder. 

 

If you run into issues, contact me off list, I will give you a hand.

 

Sincerely,

EZ

 

Edward E. Ziots

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA

Phone: 401-639-3505



From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Folders moveing themselves

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Smartphone Recommendations

[Steve Kelsay]

Except for battery life, which seems to be a problem with them all, I
like the Motorola Q9's we are using.

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Smartphone Recommendations

 

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace
their cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I
can use as a phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile
I'm not using it for email or internet access.  But I know the sales
staff would need both.  We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6
should work fine for us.

 

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting,
etc.) would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email
capabilities were reliable.

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

_

 

 

 

 

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OT: Smartphone Recommendations

[Roger Wright]

A couple of or sales people are asking for recommendations to replace
their cell phones.  I'm dated enough that all I look for is a phone I
can use as a phone, and although my Cingular 3125 runs Windows Mobile
I'm not using it for email or internet access.  But I know the sales
staff would need both.  We're running Exchange 2003 with OWA so WM5/6
should work fine for us.

 

Any recommendations for a solid phone and/or service I could pass on to
them?  All the other cool features (camera/media player/games/texting,
etc.) would only be of considered if the phone and internet/email
capabilities were reliable.

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

_

 

 


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RE: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Depends on what you want to do.

 

VMware - more mature tons of 3rd party tools, Free versions available

 

HyperV - Mostly a baby right now, while it can do some good stuff it's
still to early to tell 

 

ZEN - been out for awhile, fairly decent

 

Virtual Iron - good competitor to VMware but requires 64 bit systems to
run.

 

Best in my opinion for right now would be to get a cooy of ESXi which is
now free and work with it , this will give you a solid platform to begin
with and it's upgradeable as you grow if you want to go the VMware route

 

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

 

Ok, so I'm a bit behind I have not played with any virtualization so
far!

My question is where do I start?

I would like to set up a Lab Server and start playing.

 

My BES, WUS and Webtrends are on a "White Box" and Is running out of
disk space, I would like to move them to virtual servers on a proper
ProLiant box.

 

__
Stefan Jafs

 

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have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the
company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise
from the use of this email or attachments.

 

 

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VMWare, Hyper-V ... Where do I start

[Stefan Jafs]

Ok, so I'm a bit behind I have not played with any virtualization so
far!

My question is where do I start?

I would like to set up a Lab Server and start playing.

 

My BES, WUS and Webtrends are on a "White Box" and Is running out of
disk space, I would like to move them to virtual servers on a proper
ProLiant box.

 

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RE: Folders moveing themselves

[Ken Schaefer]

Be careful about pushing event log sizes too high. There is a 1GB shared memory 
heap that is used for both event logs (assuming Win2k3 and x86), and other 
services that want to use it. If you have something that wants to use that same 
shared heap, and you run out of it, you'll miss events. 50MB or 100MB is 
usually fine. Use a tool like logparser, eventcmb or your operations management 
tool (ops Manager or whatever) to groom events from the event logs to a central 
repository

Cheers
Ken


From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Folders moveing themselves

Well there is a little more to it.

1)  I would limit the scope of your auditing for right now to the OU that 
contains the server (s) in question. I think it was mentioned before why 
putting your servers in your own OU for management and lockdown is a good idea.

2)  You can enable the auditing and then push down to your servers accordingly, 
you don't need to do it at the domain level if you have the structure in (1) 
above.

3)  After this you must configure success and failure auditing as I described 
before on the folders/files I talked of, and you need to be selective on whom 
you are targeting for the audit so as not to run your audit logs full. ( I 
would recommend in the GPO in (2) above pushing your audit log size to 50MB or 
higher so you capture the events.

4)  Lastly you need to add a test user to the group to be audited in question 
and then try out moving folders and then parsing the logs accordingly, to make 
sure the event fires off when you move/delete a folder.

If you run into issues, contact me off list, I will give you a hand.

Sincerely,
EZ

Edward E. Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA
Phone: 401-639-3505

From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Folders moveing themselves






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RE: Remote Desktop Issue

[Jonathan Gruber]

Turned the firewall off and still can not connect.

 

Jonathan Gruber

Network Administrator

J.B. Long Inc.

610-944-8840  x.213

484-637-1978  direct

 

From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remote Desktop Issue

 

Check the new firewall rules in Windows 2008...they might give you a
clue...

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

New 2008 server. Using hyper-v. Server has 4 Nics. Installed 2008 and
Hyper-v with a single Nic hooked up to the network. Others are installed
but no IP info and not physically connected. Hyper-V has one Nic setup
and is running one VM using that Nic. I can remote to the host and the
VM no trouble. Set IP info for another Nic and connect it, now I can't
remote to the host. I can still remote to the VM but get a "This
computer can't connect to the remote computer" error. Any ideas? I tried
setting the RDP-Tcp connector to the first Nic but still no luck.

 

Jonathan Gruber

Network Administrator

J.B. Long Inc.

610-944-8840  x.213

484-637-1978  direct

 

 

 


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RE: What OS on network

[Ziots, Edward]

Nmap (Free)
Z

Edward E. Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA
Phone: 401-639-3505
-Original Message-
From: Tigran K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: What OS on network

Would you please recommend a scanning tool to find out operating
system of computers on my internal network.

Thanks
--Tigran

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RE: R: Server room temp

[Erik Goldoff]

That's why computer rooms should have 'environmental control', not just A/C
... They should be supplemented with humidifiers 

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: R: Server room temp

On 30 Jul 2008 at 19:14, HELP_PC  wrote:

> and humidity not below 25%

No can do here in the desert ... check out our relative-humidity numbers
over that past three days:

National Weather Service - NWS Tucson
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=twc&sid=KTUS&num=72

As I type this, the lowest RH is 13% and the max RH got all the way up to
57% at 5:53 AM one morning, but after about 10 AM it's typically in the
teens.

--
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GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
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RE: Folders moveing themselves

[Ziots, Edward]

Well there is a little more to it. 

 

1)   I would limit the scope of your auditing for right now to the
OU that contains the server (s) in question. I think it was mentioned
before why putting your servers in your own OU for management and
lockdown is a good idea. 

 

2)   You can enable the auditing and then push down to your servers
accordingly, you don't need to do it at the domain level if you have the
structure in (1) above. 

 

3)   After this you must configure success and failure auditing as I
described before on the folders/files I talked of, and you need to be
selective on whom you are targeting for the audit so as not to run your
audit logs full. ( I would recommend in the GPO in (2) above pushing
your audit log size to 50MB or higher so you capture the events. 

 

4)   Lastly you need to add a test user to the group to be audited
in question and then try out moving folders and then parsing the logs
accordingly, to make sure the event fires off when you move/delete a
folder. 

 

If you run into issues, contact me off list, I will give you a hand.

 

Sincerely,

EZ

 

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Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA

Phone: 401-639-3505



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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Folders moveing themselves

 

 


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RE: Mutliple Floor building

[Erik Goldoff]

Good point, but is the 31.2 feet total depth, what is the normal high ?  If
20 feet normally, then that's only an 11.2 foot flood level (I don't mean
*only* as that trivializes for anyone that suffered the flood)

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mutliple Floor building

On 29 Jul 2008 at 11:35, Erik Goldoff  wrote:

> in that case you should be secure from flooding on ground floor,

Not necessarily, I wouldn't consider 20 feet to be safe enough if you're
close to a major river.  Look at recent flood events like the one in Cedar
Rapids:

Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"... The Cedar River reached a record high of 31.2 feet on June 14th, 
2008."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Rapids,_Iowa

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RE: vmware esxi and sbs

[Ken Schaefer]

You could do similar with Virtual Server or VMWare Server. It can certainly 
make backups easier.

Cheers
Ken

From: Jonathan Kadoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: vmware esxi and sbs

Good morning everyone, I was thinking last night with all the talk about the 
free version of esxi if that might be a good fit for sbs customers.  I am sure 
that many who are consultants are running into the issue of old server hardware 
that needs to be upgraded.  I have a few clients running sbs that needs to be 
upgraded to new equipment.  I was wondering if using esxi on a new server and 
converting their old server to a vmware image would make the transition a whole 
lot easier.  Has anyone done this for a small business?  Comments?

thanks

Jonathan

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RE: Vmware ESXi question

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Check these two links for some pricing info on VMware products and what
the versions do. I think they're getting to be as complex as MS
licensing wise. It really all depends on your environment and what
you're running.

 

You can have a mix of licenses for different items, for us we run Full
VC and ESX Enterprise on all the productions machines, we want all the
listed features, for our DMZ servers we got standard since each one is
an island so they don't need HA, DRS or VMotion. For our DR servers we
use ESXi with VC agents added in so we can manage them. We where buying
all Enterprise and wasting a lot of money now with some planning we are
saving bucks.

 

http://storagemojo.com/storagemojos-pricing-guide/vmware-price-list/

 

http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/buy.html

 

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

I think this guy said it pretty well when he called it a "gateway drug"

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/07/25/my-take-on-free-esxi/

 

 

From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

OK i think i see what's going on here.

 

ESXi in both flavour (installable or embedded is indeed free) the issue
we had was to be able to manage it with Virtual Center which is our
choice requires a Virtual Center Agent. ESXi doesnt not come licensed
with a VC Agent. Hence you still need to buy either Foundation $995,
Standard $2995, Enterprise $5750 software. We were being quoted for the
Standard license on top which is where the extra 3k came from on the
quote. The standard license is what we have been buying of later, so i
guess he figured that would be ok this time.

 

So i think it is going to be at least a foundation license for this one
just so we can use it with Virtual Center.

 

You know i have to hand it to these Vmware guys. Every feature from the
ground up requires a different license and additional software to work
with the other. The prime example being you can buy an Enterprise
license but to drive any of it you need to cough up for Virtual Center!
:)

 

ahh well. 

 

Greg

 

 



From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 1:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

So the installable version is free, but the embedded isn't? i am getting
this right ?

 



From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 12:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

No. You did. J

 

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

The installable version is free right now.  OP is asking about the
embedded version.   Are you suggesting that Dell, HP, IBM, etc. will
stop charging for the embedded version?

 

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

ESXi will be free in a few weeks so anything more than $0 is too much.

 

From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

Sorry no

 

server is 11k and esxi is 3k on its own if we go the embedded option.

 

I am not willing to pay 3k when i can download it for fre!!

 



From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

Wow, 3k for the server *and* esxi I hope? Who cares about it being
embedded? My esxi runs on two small 36 gig sas mirrored drives, and the
rest of the space holds iso's J

jlc

 

From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Vmware ESXi question

 

Hi all

 

Got a quick question for the ESX folk among us. We are looking at adding
some more no -prod vm hosts and i am in the process of quoting for Dell
2950's  and have been to-ing and fro-ing about ESXi installable or
embedded. 

 

Our Dell rep is quoting us 3k AUS for the ESXi embedded portion. Does
that sound right, did they only make the installable version free? It
seems to me like he hasn't caught with the news!!

 

I would like to go for the embedded version however i am not convinced
it is worth it for 3k a pop!! anyone have anymore info or able to do a
quick check with their Dell or HP rep?

 

Cheers

 

Greg

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

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OT: vmware esxi and sbs

[Jonathan Kadoo]

Good morning everyone, I was thinking last night with all the talk about the
free version of esxi if that might be a good fit for sbs customers.  I am
sure that many who are consultants are running into the issue of old server
hardware that needs to be upgraded.  I have a few clients running sbs that
needs to be upgraded to new equipment.  I was wondering if using esxi on a
new server and converting their old server to a vmware image would make the
transition a whole lot easier.  Has anyone done this for a small business?
Comments?

thanks

Jonathan

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RE: What OS on network

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Lansweeper aint bad either

 

From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 5:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: What OS on network

 

EZ Audit works great for Windows systems!

 

Gavin.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Tigran K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

No Novell here just FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux.

--Tigran


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Andy Ognenoff
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> SpiceWorks is great...my only complaint is that it doesn't play nice
with
> the Novell client (I know, I know...we need to drop Novell.)
>
>  - Andy O.
>
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>>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:54 PM
>>To: NT System Admin Issues
>>Subject: Re: What OS on network
>>
>>Thank you SpiceWorks looks good.
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RE: Exchange on VM using NetApp storage

[Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC]

We haven't tested that yet, but it's supposed to work well.  

-Original Message-
From: Sauvigne, Craig M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange on VM using NetApp storage

For those using a NetApp SAN (FCP or iSCSI) for shared storage, are you able
to use Snap Manager for Exchange with Exchange in a VM? We are looking at
possibly virtualizing Exchange when we migrate to 2007 in the next few
months. Our current Exchange 2003 setup is not virtualized or on the SAN
yet.
 
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RE: VMWare and Exchange

[Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC]

Yes.

-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange

What speed fiber? 4gb?



On 7/31/08, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've worked with the VMWare engineer.  His statement was pretty much what
I
> expected - he stated that the capacity planner usually is pretty much dead
> on for most people.  Those numbers indicated no issues that we didn't
> expect.  We analyzed the numbers of the IOPs and determined that a Fiber
> Channel environment would be better (as space wasn't really an issue for
us)
> and decided upon that instead of ISCSI.
>
> I think the only issue that I can recall with MS clusters in a vmware
> environment was that iSCSI was not supported.  That was one of the other
> reasons we went with FC.
>
> Still looking for stress testing our environment to get a more accurate
> picture
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:13 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange
>
> Multiple sites.  Largest site runs 4,000 mailboxes (users + resource)
> active/active/passive cluster, Hitachi SAN
>
> The SAN is shared across multiple resources through fiber switches.  A
> load in one environment (SQL, FPS, etc) can have a significantly
> negative effect elsewhere.  Not virtualized performance is barely
> acceptable and our SQL clusters (databases in the hundreds of GB and
> TB range) have to really watch disk IO as well.  Mailbox size not
> really regulated by fiat.
>
> That's why I have the caveats about your environment being key.
> Checking your performance numbers in consideration with the VMware is
> crucial.  Your size though should really get you a VMware engineer to
> personally chat with.  We're being pushed in this direction as well
> but we would be switching back ends.  Until I actually see what that
> will be I will remain somewhat cynical.  :)
>
> I remember some reading some issues with running Microsoft clusters in
> virtualized environments but cannot find the references and it was a
> year or two ago I researched it so it may have changed since then.
>
> Steven
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Care to share the size of your environment?
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:28 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange
>>
>> We have a test environment with Exchange clusters and it is very
>> sensitive and stops occasionally and is small (100 test users).   I
>> doubt our production environment would survive virtualization with the
>> number of users we have.
>>
>> Search for 'VMware Dell Exchange white paper" and you will find the
>> white paper with information on Exchange 2003.  VMware itself claims
>> to be running all their Exchange servers in a VMware environment (big
>> shock I know) and they are more then happy to provide access to
>> reps/engineers to talk about it pretty much anytime.
>>
>> I myself am not comfortable with the concept of running an Exchange
>> mailbox server on VMware due to disk i/o concerns in my environment
>> but yours may be different.  Things I have heard about Exchange 2007
>> will cause me to research that as a separate issue because the IO load
>> is supposed to have been significantly reduced so the impact will
>> probably be less.
>>
>> Any MS support concerns are a separate issue and for the most part can
>> be dealt with if you are of sufficiently sized support contract.
>>
>> Virtualization depends on your environment.  There are to many test
>> environments alone out there proving it will work, it depends on will
>> it work in your environments supporting your users and their
>> expectations.
>>
>> Steven Peck
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team
>> EITC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Has anyone virtualized their whole Exchange environment?  Any issues?
>>>
>>> Has anyone had issue particularly with a backend box being virtualized?
>>> What about if it is clustered with MS Clustering services.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rick Fogarty
>>> Team EITC, Senior Systems Engineer
>>> Planning & Systems Engineering Coordinator
>>> US Army Special Operations Command
>>> (910) 396-0501
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>
>>>
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RE: VMWare and Exchange

[Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC]

Front end, back end?

-Original Message-
From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange

Two exchange boxes both virtualised. FC SAN. no issues.

Looking at a upgrading other sites as well in the same frame


From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 10:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange

I've worked with the VMWare engineer.  His statement was pretty much what I
expected - he stated that the capacity planner usually is pretty much dead
on for most people.  Those numbers indicated no issues that we didn't
expect.  We analyzed the numbers of the IOPs and determined that a Fiber
Channel environment would be better (as space wasn't really an issue for us)
and decided upon that instead of ISCSI.

I think the only issue that I can recall with MS clusters in a vmware
environment was that iSCSI was not supported.  That was one of the other
reasons we went with FC.

Still looking for stress testing our environment to get a more accurate
picture

-Original Message-
From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange

Multiple sites.  Largest site runs 4,000 mailboxes (users + resource)
active/active/passive cluster, Hitachi SAN

The SAN is shared across multiple resources through fiber switches.  A
load in one environment (SQL, FPS, etc) can have a significantly
negative effect elsewhere.  Not virtualized performance is barely
acceptable and our SQL clusters (databases in the hundreds of GB and
TB range) have to really watch disk IO as well.  Mailbox size not
really regulated by fiat.

That's why I have the caveats about your environment being key.
Checking your performance numbers in consideration with the VMware is
crucial.  Your size though should really get you a VMware engineer to
personally chat with.  We're being pushed in this direction as well
but we would be switching back ends.  Until I actually see what that
will be I will remain somewhat cynical.  :)

I remember some reading some issues with running Microsoft clusters in
virtualized environments but cannot find the references and it was a
year or two ago I researched it so it may have changed since then.

Steven

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Care to share the size of your environment?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:28 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange
>
> We have a test environment with Exchange clusters and it is very
> sensitive and stops occasionally and is small (100 test users).   I
> doubt our production environment would survive virtualization with the
> number of users we have.
>
> Search for 'VMware Dell Exchange white paper" and you will find the
> white paper with information on Exchange 2003.  VMware itself claims
> to be running all their Exchange servers in a VMware environment (big
> shock I know) and they are more then happy to provide access to
> reps/engineers to talk about it pretty much anytime.
>
> I myself am not comfortable with the concept of running an Exchange
> mailbox server on VMware due to disk i/o concerns in my environment
> but yours may be different.  Things I have heard about Exchange 2007
> will cause me to research that as a separate issue because the IO load
> is supposed to have been significantly reduced so the impact will
> probably be less.
>
> Any MS support concerns are a separate issue and for the most part can
> be dealt with if you are of sufficiently sized support contract.
>
> Virtualization depends on your environment.  There are to many test
> environments alone out there proving it will work, it depends on will
> it work in your environments supporting your users and their
> expectations.
>
> Steven Peck
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team
> EITC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Has anyone virtualized their whole Exchange environment?  Any issues?
>>
>> Has anyone had issue particularly with a backend box being virtualized?
>> What about if it is clustered with MS Clustering services.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rick Fogarty
>> Team EITC, Senior Systems Engineer
>> Planning & Systems Engineering Coordinator
>> US Army Special Operations Command
>> (910) 396-0501
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
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RE: Vmware ESXi question

[Martin Blackstone]

I think this guy said it pretty well when he called it a "gateway drug"

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/07/25/my-take-on-free-esxi/

 

 

From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

OK i think i see what's going on here.

 

ESXi in both flavour (installable or embedded is indeed free) the issue we
had was to be able to manage it with Virtual Center which is our choice
requires a Virtual Center Agent. ESXi doesnt not come licensed with a VC
Agent. Hence you still need to buy either Foundation $995, Standard $2995,
Enterprise $5750 software. We were being quoted for the Standard license on
top which is where the extra 3k came from on the quote. The standard license
is what we have been buying of later, so i guess he figured that would be ok
this time.

 

So i think it is going to be at least a foundation license for this one just
so we can use it with Virtual Center.

 

You know i have to hand it to these Vmware guys. Every feature from the
ground up requires a different license and additional software to work with
the other. The prime example being you can buy an Enterprise license but to
drive any of it you need to cough up for Virtual Center! :)

 

ahh well. 

 

Greg

 

 

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From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 1:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

So the installable version is free, but the embedded isn't? i am getting
this right ?

 

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From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 12:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

No. You did. J

 

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

The installable version is free right now.  OP is asking about the embedded
version.   Are you suggesting that Dell, HP, IBM, etc. will stop charging
for the embedded version?

 

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

ESXi will be free in a few weeks so anything more than $0 is too much.

 

From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

 

Sorry no

 

server is 11k and esxi is 3k on its own if we go the embedded option.

 

I am not willing to pay 3k when i can download it for fre!!

 

  _  

From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question

Wow, 3k for the server *and* esxi I hope? Who cares about it being embedded?
My esxi runs on two small 36 gig sas mirrored drives, and the rest of the
space holds iso's J

jlc

 

From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Vmware ESXi question

 

Hi all

 

Got a quick question for the ESX folk among us. We are looking at adding
some more no -prod vm hosts and i am in the process of quoting for Dell
2950's  and have been to-ing and fro-ing about ESXi installable or embedded.


 

Our Dell rep is quoting us 3k AUS for the ESXi embedded portion. Does that
sound right, did they only make the installable version free? It seems to me
like he hasn't caught with the news!!

 

I would like to go for the embedded version however i am not convinced it is
worth it for 3k a pop!! anyone have anymore info or able to do a quick check
with their Dell or HP rep?

 

Cheers

 

Greg

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 

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RE: Exchange on VM using NetApp storage

[Sauvigne, Craig M]

Thanks for the info. I have heard great things about SMVI and am really
looking forward to it. 

Craig

-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange on VM using NetApp storage

Absolutely. It rocks.
I use it in production. I did a demo recently where I deleted a 70 GB
store
(in a lab) and restored it in minutes. That's restore, mount, and live.
It
uses the MS VSS provider so you are assured it's a good backup. After
each
snapshot SME runs eseutil against the snapshot store to ensure the
database
is consistent.

Additionally you have SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure  coming out
in
a month or two which provides the same kind of recoverability for VM's.

-Original Message-
From: Sauvigne, Craig M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange on VM using NetApp storage

For those using a NetApp SAN (FCP or iSCSI) for shared storage, are you
able
to use Snap Manager for Exchange with Exchange in a VM? We are looking
at
possibly virtualizing Exchange when we migrate to 2007 in the next few
months. Our current Exchange 2003 setup is not virtualized or on the SAN
yet.
 
Craig

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Re: What OS on network

[Gavin Wilby]

EZ Audit works great for Windows systems!

Gavin.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Tigran K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> No Novell here just FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux.
>
> --Tigran
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Andy Ognenoff
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> > SpiceWorks is great...my only complaint is that it doesn't play nice with
> > the Novell client (I know, I know...we need to drop Novell.)
> >
> >  - Andy O.
> >
> >>-Original Message-
> >>From: Tigran K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:54 PM
> >>To: NT System Admin Issues
> >>Subject: Re: What OS on network
> >>
> >>Thank you SpiceWorks looks good.
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Re: Folders moveing themselves

[Gavin Wilby]

Hi Edward,

Thanks for that - appreciated. I think thats enough to get me started on it
- if not Ill drop you a line.

Turning auditing on is simply activating the GP at Computer Conf/ Windows
Settings/ Security/ Local Polies/ audit policy/ audit object access, and
then applying at the domain level? And then setting the audit as described
below at the folder level and allowing it to drill down?

Gavin.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  If you have auditing turned on for the server ( it's a standard default
> here) then you setup the auditing for the folders, and files for the
> Group/groups that have access to the folders, for the following.
>
>
>
> Failure ( All) (Everyone) ( Means there is a problem with permissions or
> someone that should have access is doing something and failing)
>
> Success: (Groups that have access) (Delete Subfolders and Files, Delete
> Files) this way you skinny down what is being auditied, then as a test user
> in those groups move a test folder and verify that the auditing catches the
> move and makes a audit entry for success, then you can just parse out that
> event id accordingly and see if anyone that should have access to the
> directory is making the moves.
>
>
>
> If you need some help with this on the structure or what to look for, talk
> with me offline.
>
>
>
> Z
>
>
>
> Edward E. Ziots
>
> Network Engineer
>
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>
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>
> Phone: 401-639-3505
>  --
>
> *From:* Gavin Wilby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:08 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Folders moveing themselves
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RE: Crystal Reports Server XI R2

[Robert Jackson]

Krishna,

Many thanks for the reply. It doesn't matter what authentication method
I
choose to get logged in, the simple fact is that it will not
authenticate.

Is there a default user I should use for this purpose? I've used both
the local
and domain admins Administrator account with no success.



Regards,
Rab.
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-Original Message-
From: Krishna Reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday July 2008 17:51
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Crystal Reports Server XI R2

Rob,

You need to login in the first time under the Crystal Enterprise
security.  Then you need to go to the authentication link in the Crystal
Management Console and enable and configure the AD plugin. 


Thanks,

 

Krishna Reddy
IT Manager
Nucomm, Inc.


-Original Message-
From: Robert Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Crystal Reports Server XI R2

Anyone out there using Crystal Reports Server XI R2? Just installed it
on a
W2K3 R2 member server in an AD environment.

Installation was straightforward and error free. However when I try to
login (selecting the WindowsAD method) I get the following error:

"The secWinAD security plugin is not available"


Can anyone help?


Regards,
Rab.
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