RE: Windows Login delay when wireless card is enabled
Can you disable the wireless card in the docked profile? This will stop the logon process using the wireless card at all during logon in the office. Mark -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 August 2008 01:26 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Login delay when wireless card is enabled The LAN card showed below the wireless in the order, but changing it and rebooting didn't seem to solve the problem. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Login delay when wireless card is enabled This is a wild speculation. If you open up the Network Connections and hit Advanced Advanced Settings, you will note that the wireless connection is higher then the wired. Try swapping those around and seeing if that speeds things up. Even with the wireless off (but not removed) it may still be trying and network time out is what? 180 seconds by default I think. Could be wrong, busy day. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Dell Latitude D520 with WinXP Pro that has the Dell 1490 Dual Band wireless card in it. This user docks the laptop while here which has a wired connection. After entering the username and password (Win2K3 domain), the machine takes consistently just over two minutes to get to a useable desktop. All that is visible is the mouse cursor. The wireless connection is set to manual for what we have here and is not connected while docked. If I use the keyboard to turn off the wireless radio then reboot, nothing changes. If I disable the wireless card in the BIOS, or remove it all together, then the login is immediate and as expected. The laptop has the current system BIOS and drivers installed for the WiFi card. I haven't tried swapping cards yet as I don't have one readily available. Googling gets me too many unrelated problems. Any tips? -- Mike Gill ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ** This email is sent for and on behalf of Inspop.com Limited ** Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registration no. 310635. Inspop.com Limited (also trading as Confused.com) is registered in England and Wales at 2nd Floor, Friary House, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AE (Reg. No. 03857130 ). Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the Information Security Officer by telephone on +44 (0) 29 2043 4200. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. This email has been swept for viruses before leaving our system. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. We may monitor the content of E-mails sent and received via our network for viruses or unauthorised use and for other lawful business purposes. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Messagelabs. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Evaluating AV
Plus knowing that the folks at Sunbelt stand close behind any product they sell makes me lean toward Vipre. I know at the moment I have still not moved from the 1.0 NOD32 console to the 2.0 console because the documentation is so horrible. I am still not confortable with it. I know it works but they recently had a bad defination get through that caused all kinds of issues in my network. No one is perfect and that was their first one in many years to be honest. I know when it is time for renewal if I don't see a lot of issues on their forum I will be moving over if the price is right. I know from my use of CounterSpy that the interface is easy and just works which is all I need. Jon On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Take ownership via commandline
Try subinacl.exe instead with the /SETOWNER switch Alternatively I believe fileacl may work 2008/8/6 Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was using xcacls.exe in my script, but noticed I couldn't take ownership of the actual folder with it. I am trying to adapt my script to xcacls.vbs, it works on my XPsp3 wkst, but on my 2003sp2 DC I get an error where it cant set the owner with the same syntax? cscript XCACLS.vbs C:\Test /F /T /P Domain Admins:F Dom\JCasale:F /O Dom\JCasale Why would the ownership part not work on the DC? Thanks! jlc ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Access token update
Is there any way to update a Windows user's access token without logging off? I have some really ancient export function that seems to require administrator rights to run successfully, but my users will receive a different desktop (i.e. without any of their applications) if they have to log out and back in when they are given elevated rights. My research seems to indicate that the answer to this is a resounding no, but I am hoping someone knows something I don't :-) TIA, JRR ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Access token update
Runas? Cheers Ken From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2008 8:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Access token update Is there any way to update a Windows user's access token without logging off? I have some really ancient export function that seems to require administrator rights to run successfully, but my users will receive a different desktop (i.e. without any of their applications) if they have to log out and back in when they are given elevated rights. My research seems to indicate that the answer to this is a resounding no, but I am hoping someone knows something I don't :-) TIA, JRR ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Anywhere USB
http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp Anyone using this (or something similar) to support security dongles so they can run the corresponding licensing software on a VM? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
OT: Recommended for Laptop Users
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SCE list anywhere
Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Windows Login delay when wireless card is enabled
We ran into the same problem with our new ThinkPads. Making the wireless connection not available at logon fixed the issue for us. On the ThinkPad, its an option in Access Connections but I have to think that Dell has a similar tool. - Andy O. From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Login delay when wireless card is enabled I have a Dell Latitude D520 with WinXP Pro that has the Dell 1490 Dual Band wireless card in it. This user docks the laptop while here which has a wired connection. After entering the username and password (Win2K3 domain), the machine takes consistently just over two minutes to get to a useable desktop. All that is visible is the mouse cursor. The wireless connection is set to manual for what we have here and is not connected while docked. If I use the keyboard to turn off the wireless radio then reboot, nothing changes. If I disable the wireless card in the BIOS, or remove it all together, then the login is immediate and as expected. The laptop has the current system BIOS and drivers installed for the WiFi card. I havent tried swapping cards yet as I dont have one readily available. Googling gets me too many unrelated problems. Any tips? -- Mike Gill ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Access token update
Thought about that, but they would have to have access to the admin password, which makes it kind of a non-starter Having said that, if a user is already a member of a group, if they are logged in, and you add their existing group to local Administrators, will they pick up admin rights without logging off? 2008/8/7 Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Runas? Cheers Ken *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, 7 August 2008 8:58 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Access token update Is there any way to update a Windows user's access token without logging off? I have some really ancient export function that seems to require administrator rights to run successfully, but my users will receive a different desktop (i.e. without any of their applications) if they have to log out and back in when they are given elevated rights. My research seems to indicate that the answer to this is a resounding no, but I am hoping someone knows something I don't :-) TIA, JRR ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Any ESX guru's out there
Hey Gang, I am trying to figure out why one of my ESX hosts has a HA Agent error on it, and I have tried to Reconfigure for HA still no luck. I have restarted Service Mgmt and vpxa services no no dice. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: SCE list anywhere
TVK and Rod are your men.and they both read this list. But myitforum.com hosts MOM/OpsMgr and SMS/SCCM lists, they may host an SCE list too, I dunno. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SCE list anywhere Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
I doubt there is one on www.myitforum.com On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Any ESX guru's out there
What's the error? Version of ESX and VC? From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any ESX guru's out there Hey Gang, I am trying to figure out why one of my ESX hosts has a HA Agent error on it, and I have tried to Reconfigure for HA still no luck. I have restarted Service Mgmt and vpxa services no no dice. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Any ESX guru's out there
What's the error? We had errors on our 64-bit hosts in HA and apparently there was some sort of 64-bit switch in the BIOS that needed setting to sort it out (sorry to be vague, but a consultant came in and fixed it when I was away, and my boss can't remember what it was) 2008/8/7 Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Gang, I am trying to figure out why one of my ESX hosts has a HA Agent error on it, and I have tried to Reconfigure for HA still no luck. I have restarted Service Mgmt and vpxa services no no dice. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Access token update
I don't think so. I believe that local groups are evaluated at login. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Access token update Thought about that, but they would have to have access to the admin password, which makes it kind of a non-starter Having said that, if a user is already a member of a group, if they are logged in, and you add their existing group to local Administrators, will they pick up admin rights without logging off? 2008/8/7 Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Runas? Cheers Ken From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2008 8:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Access token update Is there any way to update a Windows user's access token without logging off? I have some really ancient export function that seems to require administrator rights to run successfully, but my users will receive a different desktop (i.e. without any of their applications) if they have to log out and back in when they are given elevated rights. My research seems to indicate that the answer to this is a resounding no, but I am hoping someone knows something I don't :-) TIA, JRR The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall not be reproduced, copied, or used (partially or wholly) in any manner without prior, express written authorization of Nucomm, Inc. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Any ESX guru's out there
Latest VC 2.5x and 3.5i, Getting HA Agent on (ESX HOST NAME) in Cluster (NAMEOFCLUSTER) in SITE(NAME OF SITE) has an error. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any ESX guru's out there What's the error? Version of ESX and VC? From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any ESX guru's out there Hey Gang, I am trying to figure out why one of my ESX hosts has a HA Agent error on it, and I have tried to Reconfigure for HA still no luck. I have restarted Service Mgmt and vpxa services no no dice. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Any ESX guru's out there
The switch you are referring to in the BIOS is to enable Intel Virtualization Technology (IVT). James, if you can post the error, I may be able to help you out. Klint James Rankin wrote: What's the error? We had errors on our 64-bit hosts in HA and apparently there was some sort of 64-bit switch in the BIOS that needed setting to sort it out (sorry to be vague, but a consultant came in and fixed it when I was away, and my boss can't remember what it was) 2008/8/7 Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Gang, I am trying to figure out why one of my ESX hosts has a HA Agent error on it, and I have tried to Reconfigure for HA still no luck. I have restarted Service Mgmt and vpxa services no no dice. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Any ESX guru's out there
Does VMotion and DRS work? What's your switch configuration like? Mike Original Message: - From: Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:20:29 -0400 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Any ESX guru's out there Latest VC 2.5x and 3.5i, Getting HA Agent on (ESX HOST NAME) in Cluster (NAMEOFCLUSTER) in SITE(NAME OF SITE) has an error. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any ESX guru's out there What's the error? Version of ESX and VC? From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any ESX guru's out there Hey Gang, I am trying to figure out why one of my ESX hosts has a HA Agent error on it, and I have tried to Reconfigure for HA still no luck. I have restarted Service Mgmt and vpxa services no no dice. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ mail2web LIVE Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Best practice suggestion
Scenario: We have Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, with 2 published apps at the moment. We also have an old Citrix server, running 1.8 Metaframe, which is acting as a remote desktop for our Executive Director. We have received a shipment of 7 new laptops. Two separate situations to consider: 1) One of the laptops is going to the Executive Director (Our head muckety-muck). He currently is using Citrix Program Neighborhood to access a published desktop on our old Citrix server (1.8 Metaframe). My thoughts on his situation are to setup a mobile VPN for him, and just have him VPN in, and voila, it's like he's sitting at his desk. 2) Another laptop is going to a person who says they need to be able to access the published apps while on the road. I have tested Web Interface, internally, which seems ok, but we don't have an SSL cert for it. Should I make a redirection within IIS, setting it up so that outside users would hit it as a sub-page of our public site (i.e. https://www.etp.ca.gov/citrix https://www.etp.ca.gov/citrix )? Or should I go with a VPN there also, and have them connect as they do normally, through a shortcut on the desktop? We don't have Secure Gateway, and I don't think we're going to purchase it for a handful of people, so that is not an option. The VPN would be using my Watchguard x750 firewall's built-in mobile client VPN feature. Any suggestions/tips/advice is appreciated, as I need to come up with a good, secure, viable solution soon. Thanks, Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Evaluating AV
From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Best practice suggestion
Here's what we do: - offer users the web interface. We have many staff in residential locations with broadband connections. This works for them and they are happy they can finally get to their files on the file servers. I like this option as I can set the web interface to time out. and/or - not sure if PS 4.0 has it, but 4.5 has it and it works great: the Program Agent. Can be used internally or externally. For internal users we have the agent auto-logon. For external users, we have them use the Citrix Access Gateway VPN client then login. You could probably use whatever VPN client you have though and then have users login to the agent. We don't present a desktop or any users. We make no promises about desktop or appearance - just that the application will be available. Tom Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/7/2008 11:29 AM Scenario: We have Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, with 2 published apps at the moment. We also have an old Citrix server, running 1.8 Metaframe, which is acting as a remote desktop for our Executive Director. We have received a shipment of 7 new laptops. Two separate situations to consider: 1) One of the laptops is going to the Executive Director (Our head muckety-muck). He currently is using Citrix Program Neighborhood to access a published desktop on our old Citrix server (1.8 Metaframe). My thoughts on his situation are to setup a mobile VPN for him, and just have him VPN in, and voila, it’s like he’s sitting at his desk. 2) Another laptop is going to a person who says they need to be able to access the published apps while on the road. I have tested Web Interface, internally, which seems ok, but we don’t have an SSL cert for it. Should I make a redirection within IIS, setting it up so that outside users would hit it as a sub-page of our public site (i.e. https://www.etp.ca.gov/citrix ( https://www.etp.ca.gov/citrix ))? Or should I go with a VPN there also, and have them connect as they do normally, through a shortcut on the desktop? We don’t have Secure Gateway, and I don’t think we’re going to purchase it for a handful of people, so that is not an option. The VPN would be using my Watchguard x750 firewall’s built-in mobile client VPN feature. Any suggestions/tips/advice is appreciated, as I need to come up with a good, secure, viable solution soon. Thanks, Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Any ESX guru's out there
We neded up having to evict the ESX server and then re-add it, and then Disable and Re-enable HA on the Cluster, and it worked. Some seriously weird stuff Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any ESX guru's out there Vmotion works, DRS works. Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any ESX guru's out there Does VMotion and DRS work? What's your switch configuration like? Mike Original Message: - From: Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:20:29 -0400 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Any ESX guru's out there Latest VC 2.5x and 3.5i, Getting HA Agent on (ESX HOST NAME) in Cluster (NAMEOFCLUSTER) in SITE(NAME OF SITE) has an error. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any ESX guru's out there What's the error? Version of ESX and VC? From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any ESX guru's out there Hey Gang, I am trying to figure out why one of my ESX hosts has a HA Agent error on it, and I have tried to Reconfigure for HA still no luck. I have restarted Service Mgmt and vpxa services no no dice. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ mail2web LIVE - Free email based on Microsoft(r) Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Evaluating AV
Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Evaluating AV
Unlike Symantec Corporate. I have all settings set to low resource utilization yet the real-time virus scan is almost always number one in resource utilization. So I'm looking into VIPRE. Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/7/2008 11:42 AM From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ( http://www.aspca.org/ ) Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt ( http://www.sunbelt/ )-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt ( http://www.sunbelt/ )-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Home Directories and VPN
I have users that map network drives based on security group. Users Home drive is set by ADUC and set to the H: drive. Here is my problem. During the workday at the office the user has all their mapped drives and their home drive. Everything works properly. At the end of the day the user shuts down the laptop and goes home. Later that evening the user powers up the laptop and logs in (Using the cached credentials) When you click on My computer the mapped drive show (ovbiousaly they are offline) but not the Home Folder. The user then connect to the VPN back to the office. The user now can access all his mapped network drives. The home folder is not showing up in My computer and the user can not access it. How can I get the home folder to stay mapped after a reboot so that users can access it outside the office on a VPN? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Access token update
You appear to be right, just tried it and no joy. This is a real pain in the backside for me and is going to be one of those ways that end-users end up with administrative rights - in this case, not on their local machines, but on a terminal server. Unfortunately I can't see any way around it other than writing some sort of custom admin wrapper that lets a program execute like RunAs but without allowing any access to the password. If anyone else has any ideas or tips I'd be glad to hear them :-) 2008/8/7 Krishna Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think so. I believe that local groups are evaluated at login. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. -- *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:44 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Access token update Thought about that, but they would have to have access to the admin password, which makes it kind of a non-starter Having said that, if a user is already a member of a group, if they are logged in, and you add their existing group to local Administrators, will they pick up admin rights without logging off? 2008/8/7 Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Runas? Cheers Ken *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, 7 August 2008 8:58 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Access token update Is there any way to update a Windows user's access token without logging off? I have some really ancient export function that seems to require administrator rights to run successfully, but my users will receive a different desktop (i.e. without any of their applications) if they have to log out and back in when they are given elevated rights. My research seems to indicate that the answer to this is a resounding no, but I am hoping someone knows something I don't :-) TIA, JRR The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall not be reproduced, copied, or used (partially or wholly) in any manner without prior, express written authorization of Nucomm, Inc. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Best practice suggestion
We do have the PnAgent available, and that's what I've recently moved my internal users over to, for their apps. With the web interface, you use an SSL cert for security, correct? What exactly are you publishing for those users? You mention that they are able to access their files through web interface, do you mean like accessing their My Documents, or network shares, or? I like the VPN because that pretty much eliminates the need to publish a desktop, as they would have access through the VPN tunnel to normal network stuff, as if they were sitting at their desk. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Best practice suggestion Here's what we do: - offer users the web interface. We have many staff in residential locations with broadband connections. This works for them and they are happy they can finally get to their files on the file servers. I like this option as I can set the web interface to time out. and/or - not sure if PS 4.0 has it, but 4.5 has it and it works great: the Program Agent. Can be used internally or externally. For internal users we have the agent auto-logon. For external users, we have them use the Citrix Access Gateway VPN client then login. You could probably use whatever VPN client you have though and then have users login to the agent. We don't present a desktop or any users. We make no promises about desktop or appearance - just that the application will be available. Tom Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/7/2008 11:29 AM Scenario: We have Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, with 2 published apps at the moment. We also have an old Citrix server, running 1.8 Metaframe, which is acting as a remote desktop for our Executive Director. We have received a shipment of 7 new laptops. Two separate situations to consider: 1) One of the laptops is going to the Executive Director (Our head muckety-muck). He currently is using Citrix Program Neighborhood to access a published desktop on our old Citrix server (1.8 Metaframe). My thoughts on his situation are to setup a mobile VPN for him, and just have him VPN in, and voila, it's like he's sitting at his desk. 2) Another laptop is going to a person who says they need to be able to access the published apps while on the road. I have tested Web Interface, internally, which seems ok, but we don't have an SSL cert for it. Should I make a redirection within IIS, setting it up so that outside users would hit it as a sub-page of our public site (i.e. https://www.etp.ca.gov/citrix ( https://www.etp.ca.gov/citrix ))? Or should I go with a VPN there also, and have them connect as they do normally, through a shortcut on the desktop? We don't have Secure Gateway, and I don't think we're going to purchase it for a handful of people, so that is not an option. The VPN would be using my Watchguard x750 firewall's built-in mobile client VPN feature. Any suggestions/tips/advice is appreciated, as I need to come up with a good, secure, viable solution soon. Thanks, Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Home Directories and VPN
What VPN/client are you using? Some allow you to process domain logon scripts after connection, which it sounds like would remap your home directory. - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Directories and VPN I have users that map network drives based on security group. Users Home drive is set by ADUC and set to the H: drive. Here is my problem. During the workday at the office the user has all their mapped drives and their home drive. Everything works properly. At the end of the day the user shuts down the laptop and goes home. Later that evening the user powers up the laptop and logs in (Using the cached credentials) When you click on My computer the mapped drive show (ovbiousaly they are offline) but not the Home Folder. The user then connect to the VPN back to the office. The user now can access all his mapped network drives. The home folder is not showing up in My computer and the user can not access it. How can I get the home folder to stay mapped after a reboot so that users can access it outside the office on a VPN? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Take ownership via commandline
Nice, so if I want the owner of the dir, *and* its contents I have to run it twice? SubInAcl /subdirectories \\Server\C$\Data\Amok /setowner=Domain\JCasale SubInAcl /subdirectories \\Server\C$\Data\Amok\* /setowner= Domain\JCasale there's got to be a way around that? Thanks! jlc From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Take ownership via commandline Try subinacl.exe instead with the /SETOWNER switch Alternatively I believe fileacl may work 2008/8/6 Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was using xcacls.exe in my script, but noticed I couldn't take ownership of the actual folder with it. I am trying to adapt my script to xcacls.vbs, it works on my XPsp3 wkst, but on my 2003sp2 DC I get an error where it cant set the owner with the same syntax? cscript XCACLS.vbs C:\Test /F /T /P Domain Admins:F Dom\JCasale:F /O Dom\JCasale Why would the ownership part not work on the DC? Thanks! jlc ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Home Directories and VPN
I don’t know what kind of VPN you have, but the Cisco dialer allows you to logon before Windows logon, so you establish VPN connectivity first, then when you put in your Windows credentials you are logged onto the domain correctly will all rights and access afforded to a local user. You probably want to do something similar. -Original Message- From: Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Directories and VPN I have users that map network drives based on security group. Users Home drive is set by ADUC and set to the H: drive. Here is my problem. During the workday at the office the user has all their mapped drives and their home drive. Everything works properly. At the end of the day the user shuts down the laptop and goes home. Later that evening the user powers up the laptop and logs in (Using the cached credentials) When you click on My computer the mapped drive show (ovbiousaly they are offline) but not the Home Folder. The user then connect to the VPN back to the office. The user now can access all his mapped network drives. The home folder is not showing up in My computer and the user can not access it. How can I get the home folder to stay mapped after a reboot so that users can access it outside the office on a VPN? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
I looked and did not see one but then it was 5 am today I was looking. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt there is one on www.myitforum.com On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Access token update
This might work for you: http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/index.htm - Andy O. From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Access token update ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Access token update
Is the export function part of another program or is it standalone? I have some luck in creating a service (that interacts with the desktop) for programs that need to run under administrator level access. I used this for my technicians who needed Agilent IO Libraries which connects to Agilent test instrumentation. If needed, you could have a script on the desktop that starts and stops the service so they can open and close the app when they want. Look for KB137890 for directions. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Access token update You appear to be right, just tried it and no joy. This is a real pain in the backside for me and is going to be one of those ways that end-users end up with administrative rights - in this case, not on their local machines, but on a terminal server. Unfortunately I can't see any way around it other than writing some sort of custom admin wrapper that lets a program execute like RunAs but without allowing any access to the password. If anyone else has any ideas or tips I'd be glad to hear them :-) 2008/8/7 Krishna Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think so. I believe that local groups are evaluated at login. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Access token update Thought about that, but they would have to have access to the admin password, which makes it kind of a non-starter Having said that, if a user is already a member of a group, if they are logged in, and you add their existing group to local Administrators, will they pick up admin rights without logging off? 2008/8/7 Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Runas? Cheers Ken From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2008 8:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Access token update Is there any way to update a Windows user's access token without logging off? I have some really ancient export function that seems to require administrator rights to run successfully, but my users will receive a different desktop (i.e. without any of their applications) if they have to log out and back in when they are given elevated rights. My research seems to indicate that the answer to this is a resounding no, but I am hoping someone knows something I don't :-) TIA, JRR The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall not be reproduced, copied, or used (partially or wholly) in any manner without prior, express written authorization of Nucomm, Inc. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
Yes I know they are the experts on this but I was hoping to find a forum like this one. You usually get a lot more information than you can use but you never know when knowing something you don't think you needed would be helpful. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TVK and Rod are your men…and they both read this list. But myitforum.comhosts MOM/OpsMgr and SMS/SCCM lists, they may host an SCE list too, I dunno. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:04 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* SCE list anywhere Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Access token update
Maybe one of these? http://www.commandline.co.uk/sanur/ Have you tried running filemon/regmon to see if it really needs admin access? -Bonnie From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Access token update You appear to be right, just tried it and no joy. This is a real pain in the backside for me and is going to be one of those ways that end-users end up with administrative rights - in this case, not on their local machines, but on a terminal server. Unfortunately I can't see any way around it other than writing some sort of custom admin wrapper that lets a program execute like RunAs but without allowing any access to the password. If anyone else has any ideas or tips I'd be glad to hear them :-) 2008/8/7 Krishna Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think so. I believe that local groups are evaluated at login. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Access token update Thought about that, but they would have to have access to the admin password, which makes it kind of a non-starter Having said that, if a user is already a member of a group, if they are logged in, and you add their existing group to local Administrators, will they pick up admin rights without logging off? 2008/8/7 Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Runas? Cheers Ken From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2008 8:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Access token update Is there any way to update a Windows user's access token without logging off? I have some really ancient export function that seems to require administrator rights to run successfully, but my users will receive a different desktop (i.e. without any of their applications) if they have to log out and back in when they are given elevated rights. My research seems to indicate that the answer to this is a resounding no, but I am hoping someone knows something I don't :-) TIA, JRR The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall not be reproduced, copied, or used (partially or wholly) in any manner without prior, express written authorization of Nucomm, Inc. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Evaluating AV
Startup scans are murder with any product. Just plain mean to your workers. I always try to stay away from them... -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Home Directories and VPN
When the users goes to login have them check the box to use dialup networking to log in. This will bring up the VPN dialog box (if you are using MS VPN, not sure about others). When he/she logs on the home directory should be there. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have users that map network drives based on security group. Users Home drive is set by ADUC and set to the H: drive. Here is my problem. During the workday at the office the user has all their mapped drives and their home drive. Everything works properly. At the end of the day the user shuts down the laptop and goes home. Later that evening the user powers up the laptop and logs in (Using the cached credentials) When you click on My computer the mapped drive show (ovbiousaly they are offline) but not the Home Folder. The user then connect to the VPN back to the office. The user now can access all his mapped network drives. The home folder is not showing up in My computer and the user can not access it. How can I get the home folder to stay mapped after a reboot so that users can access it outside the office on a VPN? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change
Thanks--I'll be saving this one! -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Bonnie, This worked... Set ObjOU = GetObject (LDAP://OU=Domain Users,OU=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=local) objOU.filter = array(user) For Each ObjUser In ObjOU ObjUser.Put profilePath , \\Server\HiddenShare$\ ObjUser.sAMAccountName ObjUser.SetInfo Next jlc -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Yeah, I had actually tried that but didn't mention it--tried a couple of combinations, but couldn't make it work unless the $username$ was in front of the other $ symbol. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Perhaps the $ can be escaped with a '\' in front of it, as in '\$'? On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Miller Bonnie L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah... okay, so I see now, and it looks like dsmod might have trouble with the $ on the end of the hidden share. If you take that out, it works--others have reported this problem as well. I noticed if you put a $ anywhere before $username$, it just doesn't resolve, almost as if $username$ is the only thing the command expects when it sees the $ symbol. If you put $username$ first, the name resolves successfully. http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=4689 http://forums.techarena.in/active-directory/548004.htm Since you're changing them all anyway, could you load up ABE and make a non-hidden sharename? -Bonnie From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Not according to the docs, plus that would cause the shell to sub in possibly my username... jlc From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Shouldn't that be %username% ? -Bonnie From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Hrm, so in reading, $username$ is supposedly expanded (Though I was skeptical) and it didn't? I ran: dsquery user -name Ros* OU=Domain Users,OU=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=local | dsmod user -profile \\xxx\Profiles$\$username$ And the path was written as it was typed? Anyone know how to make this wildcard expand? Thanks! jlc From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change You have it right, there were both apples and oranges in the discussion, and DSMOD USER applies to the apples but not the oranges. You figured out the oranges on your own (GPO for redirected folders). ADModify also applies to the apples problem, gives a nice GUI to mass modify almost anything in AD user accounts. Carl From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Redirected folders can be done via gpo, but I didn't know roaming profiles could be? That's what I am changing, the associated paths for the profile which that tool does. Thanks guys! jlc From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change 'dsmod user' changes AD attributes for a user account. OP seems to want to change items in a roaming profile that is presently resident in a server share. Presumably he wants to make changes to the profile's user registry or other content in the stored profile, such that those changes will take effect the next time the user logs in. I think you're looking at login script or a GPO for those things are are GPO'able. The next question is, what kind of changes are you trying to make? Have you checked to see if they're already controllable by an existing GPO? Carl From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change You can definitely do that with dsmod. Run 'dsmod user /? |more' for more info From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Thanks for all the quick responses! Sorry, I meant the
Re: SCE list anywhere
http://www.myitforum.com/forums/System_Center_Products/forumid_91/tt.htm H On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked and did not see one but then it was 5 am today I was looking. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt there is one on www.myitforum.com On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Evaluating AV
Boot scans are *mostly* a waste of time as modern malware in the form of rootkit-enabled threats will hide from several Windows API functions, rendering signature-searching scans useless. So, unless your A/V has its own fast disk reading routines, you have a problem. It also gets worse: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145703/hackers_find_a_new_place_to_hide_rootkits.html In case of wrapping: http://tinyurl.com/4vfsce I still recommend NOD32 products for pre-infection detection and protection. On the 07/08/2008 17:45, Joe Heaton wrote the following: Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Run .BAT on machine startup
I need to run a batch file on machine startup w/out having someone log into the boxhow do I accomplish this? W2K3 server.. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: SCE list anywhere
We can put one together pretty quickly if you need it. How many folks are we talking that would find value in a SCE list? From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere I looked and did not see one but then it was 5 am today I was looking. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt there is one on www.myitforum.com http://www.myitforum.com/ On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Run .BAT on machine startup
Are you using AD? If so you can use startup scripts based on the computer. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:14 AM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to run a batch file on machine startup w/out having someone log into the box….how do I accomplish this? W2K3 server.. *Dave Lum* - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 *..*remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside*** - JFK*** ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Take ownership via commandline
If there is, let me know. I run it twice. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice, so if I want the owner of the dir, *and* its contents I have to run it twice? SubInAcl /subdirectories \\Server\C$\Data\Amok /setowner=Domain\JCasale SubInAcl /subdirectories \\Server\C$\Data\Amok\* /setowner= Domain\JCasale there's got to be a way around that? Thanks! jlc From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Take ownership via commandline Try subinacl.exe instead with the /SETOWNER switch Alternatively I believe fileacl may work 2008/8/6 Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was using xcacls.exe in my script, but noticed I couldn't take ownership of the actual folder with it. I am trying to adapt my script to xcacls.vbs, it works on my XPsp3 wkst, but on my 2003sp2 DC I get an error where it cant set the owner with the same syntax? cscript XCACLS.vbs C:\Test /F /T /P Domain Admins:F Dom\JCasale:F /O Dom\JCasale Why would the ownership part not work on the DC? Thanks! jlc -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Evaluating AV
I always wonder about start up scans...if the pc doesn't have a virus when it is shut down, then why enable start up scans. Waste of time if you ask me S -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Run .BAT on machine startup
Group Policy Startup script, anybody? From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Run .BAT on machine startup I need to run a batch file on machine startup w/out having someone log into the boxhow do I accomplish this? W2K3 server.. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Evaluating AV
exactly, that what real-time protection is for. Let users workers actually get some work done. -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV I always wonder about start up scans...if the pc doesn't have a virus when it is shut down, then why enable start up scans. Waste of time if you ask me S -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Run .BAT on machine startup
Sure. I do it for both Computer and User scripts. What is your question exactly? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Christopher Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Group Policy Startup script, anybody? From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Run .BAT on machine startup I need to run a batch file on machine startup w/out having someone log into the box….how do I accomplish this? W2K3 server.. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Run .BAT on machine startup
Sorry, more of a rhetorical, stating-the-obvious kind of thing. And to the OP, you don't need AD to do them, you can set it up in a local policy even. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Run .BAT on machine startup Sure. I do it for both Computer and User scripts. What is your question exactly? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Christopher Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Group Policy Startup script, anybody? From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Run .BAT on machine startup I need to run a batch file on machine startup w/out having someone log into the boxhow do I accomplish this? W2K3 server.. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: SCE list anywhere
Thanks for the emails offline. The list is now active: http://www.myitforum.com/lists/#System_Center_Essentials_(SCE) -Original Message- From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
That one I had seen yesterday, and forgot about, only has 3 posts to it. I did find a couple of videos that I thought were useful as wll on that one. I was acutally hoping for something as active is this list. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.myitforum.com/forums/System_Center_Products/forumid_91/tt.htm H On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked and did not see one but then it was 5 am today I was looking. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt there is one on www.myitforum.com On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Evaluating AV
Some things don't take effect until the machine is restarted...so why not a virus? I have some systems configured to run a full scan - every file type, everywhere, incl. recycle bin and .zip files many levels deep - upon startup. However, these same systems power themselves up at 5:00am and the users don't get in until 8:00am or later. By then the system has completely scanned itself and applied any Windows Updates and rebooted. Does it do any good? Dunno, but I feel better knowing every nook and cranny has been searched... Maintenance off-hours is a beautiful thing! -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV I always wonder about start up scans...if the pc doesn't have a virus when it is shut down, then why enable start up scans. Waste of time if you ask me S -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Run .BAT on machine startup - solved
I only need it for one server out of 200+ and I knew about the GPO option. What's funny is first I found this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243486 The I found the DOH! answer: Use the task scheduler and select Run when my computer starts. Works perfect, and I feel so dumb... Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK -Original Message- From: Christopher Boggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Run .BAT on machine startup Sorry, more of a rhetorical, stating-the-obvious kind of thing. And to the OP, you don't need AD to do them, you can set it up in a local policy even. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Run .BAT on machine startup Sure. I do it for both Computer and User scripts. What is your question exactly? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Christopher Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Group Policy Startup script, anybody? From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Run .BAT on machine startup I need to run a batch file on machine startup w/out having someone log into the boxhow do I accomplish this? W2K3 server.. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
Thanks Rod Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Rod Trent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the emails offline. The list is now active: http://www.myitforum.com/lists/#System_Center_Essentials_(SCE) -Original Message- From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
This was a huge help for me: http://blogs.technet.com/edwalt/archive/2007/09/20/2003094.aspx On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Anywhere USB
We have one we evaluated, but it did not work very well for what we needed it to do. They said they would have a product that would work for us in about a year though. We wanted to be able to switch from machine to machine for test and production, but the darned thing will only support one virtual machine at a time, though you can switch the machines by software, it still had to be switched manually. One dongle, one virtual machine. We needed to have a multiple license dongle plug into a single port and support multiple machines. From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anywhere USB Hmm nope Serial and USB From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anywhere USB Thanks, have you seen anything similar that does Parallel? Still have some of those in use for licensing also. From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anywhere USB I don't use the USB product but I have the Serial over IP one and it rocks, Over the past month We've virtualized a bunch of servers and modems with this and it worked pretty well, It's based on the same real port tech as the USB one so I'd be pretty confident with it. We tried a couple of other companies and their products weren't great. We also have 2 Serial auth tokens connected to it and it works well. Across VLAN'S and thru ACL lists From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anywhere USB http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp Anyone using this (or something similar) to support security dongles so they can run the corresponding licensing software on a VM? _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
I think I just found my problem as well... Vista File and Print Sharing is turned off by default. I keep most of the systems this way. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was a huge help for me: http://blogs.technet.com/edwalt/archive/2007/09/20/2003094.aspx On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Anywhere USB
Yes they made sure I understood that when I talked with them earlier. Which is fine for me I have 3-5 dongles I could consolidate to a single guest os for licensing. More than that and you start running in to conflicts if different dongles need different versions of the same Rainbow app or something. They do have a Ethernet attached serial unit that also has one parallel port. From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anywhere USB We have one we evaluated, but it did not work very well for what we needed it to do. They said they would have a product that would work for us in about a year though. We wanted to be able to switch from machine to machine for test and production, but the darned thing will only support one virtual machine at a time, though you can switch the machines by software, it still had to be switched manually. One dongle, one virtual machine. We needed to have a multiple license dongle plug into a single port and support multiple machines. From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anywhere USB Hmm nope Serial and USB From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anywhere USB Thanks, have you seen anything similar that does Parallel? Still have some of those in use for licensing also. From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anywhere USB I don't use the USB product but I have the Serial over IP one and it rocks, Over the past month We've virtualized a bunch of servers and modems with this and it worked pretty well, It's based on the same real port tech as the USB one so I'd be pretty confident with it. We tried a couple of other companies and their products weren't great. We also have 2 Serial auth tokens connected to it and it works well. Across VLAN'S and thru ACL lists From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anywhere USB http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp Anyone using this (or something similar) to support security dongles so they can run the corresponding licensing software on a VM? _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: SCE list anywhere
Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
I should add that none of the XP clients have even checked in for Health Status yet and this is after 4 days. The Vista clients all checked in within 2 days, even with File Sharing turned off. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
Glad I could help! Have you run gpupdate on the clients? I have the Windows Firewall on all the clients with the port exceptions pushed out via GPO. It was driving me crazy, but it's smooth as silk now. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: SCE list anywhere
Make sure you run gpupdate /force on the clients or it will take who knows how long before they get their policy updated to point to the SCE box. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
Yes I have done that 2 times as well as the restarts. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Make sure you run gpupdate /force on the clients or it will take who knows how long before they get their policy updated to point to the SCE box. *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: SCE list anywhere Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: SCE list anywhere
Those port exceptions should be a part of your SCE GPOs, but you have to make sure that A) Your clients have permissions to access those GPOs, B) There aren't other GPOs overriding the settings of the 2 SCE GPOs. Option B is a very common cause of issues with SCE, option A not so much, but still good to be aware of. PS - A SCE book is in the works. -Original Message- From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere Glad I could help! Have you run gpupdate on the clients? I have the Windows Firewall on all the clients with the port exceptions pushed out via GPO. It was driving me crazy, but it's smooth as silk now. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: SCE list anywhere
Also, be aware that SCE only does a sync on a regular schedule (12 hours by default I believe, although it can be altered via XML) between the WSUS DB and the SCE DB. If you just turned off your old WSUS GPOs today, it could very possibly be tonight or tomorrow morning before you see the full results of that change. Tim From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere Yes I have done that 2 times as well as the restarts. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure you run gpupdate /force on the clients or it will take who knows how long before they get their policy updated to point to the SCE box. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
Awesome! Let us know when it's finished, I would *love* a copy! On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those port exceptions should be a part of your SCE GPOs, but you have to make sure that A) Your clients have permissions to access those GPOs, B) There aren't other GPOs overriding the settings of the 2 SCE GPOs. Option B is a very common cause of issues with SCE, option A not so much, but still good to be aware of. PS - A SCE book is in the works. -Original Message- From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere Glad I could help! Have you run gpupdate on the clients? I have the Windows Firewall on all the clients with the port exceptions pushed out via GPO. It was driving me crazy, but it's smooth as silk now. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
I know I would have bought one before doing this demo if there had been one. With a small window to work on this and do my regular tasks it would have been a big help. If this shows it's value and I can get the purchase pushed through I will still purchase the book. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome! Let us know when it's finished, I would *love* a copy! On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those port exceptions should be a part of your SCE GPOs, but you have to make sure that A) Your clients have permissions to access those GPOs, B) There aren't other GPOs overriding the settings of the 2 SCE GPOs. Option B is a very common cause of issues with SCE, option A not so much, but still good to be aware of. PS - A SCE book is in the works. -Original Message- From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere Glad I could help! Have you run gpupdate on the clients? I have the Windows Firewall on all the clients with the port exceptions pushed out via GPO. It was driving me crazy, but it's smooth as silk now. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Evaluating AV
What do you use to remotely and automatically start up your client machines? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Some things don't take effect until the machine is restarted...so why not a virus? I have some systems configured to run a full scan - every file type, everywhere, incl. recycle bin and .zip files many levels deep - upon startup. However, these same systems power themselves up at 5:00am and the users don't get in until 8:00am or later. By then the system has completely scanned itself and applied any Windows Updates and rebooted. Does it do any good? Dunno, but I feel better knowing every nook and cranny has been searched... Maintenance off-hours is a beautiful thing! -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV I always wonder about start up scans...if the pc doesn't have a virus when it is shut down, then why enable start up scans. Waste of time if you ask me S -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Run .BAT on machine startup
Policies Under machine - startup From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Run .BAT on machine startup I need to run a batch file on machine startup w/out having someone log into the boxhow do I accomplish this? W2K3 server.. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ** ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Home Directories and VPN
The other suggestions about starting the VPN before login are good. Sometimes that's not always practical, though. So what I've done is to provide a copy of the login script, or at least the drive mapping part, as a .bat file on the desktop. If they're working offline and realize they need to connect, they can make the connection, run the batch file, and have their drives mapped. ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message- From: Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Directories and VPN I have users that map network drives based on security group. Users Home drive is set by ADUC and set to the H: drive. Here is my problem. During the workday at the office the user has all their mapped drives and their home drive. Everything works properly. At the end of the day the user shuts down the laptop and goes home. Later that evening the user powers up the laptop and logs in (Using the cached credentials) When you click on My computer the mapped drive show (ovbiousaly they are offline) but not the Home Folder. The user then connect to the VPN back to the office. The user now can access all his mapped network drives. The home folder is not showing up in My computer and the user can not access it. How can I get the home folder to stay mapped after a reboot so that users can access it outside the office on a VPN? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: SCE list anywhere
Well a restart of the server and I have one machine and only one machine reporting most if what I need to get this purchased. I will look tomorrow and see if everything I need is there. Thank you all for your assistance. FYI I ended up moving the system from the OU it was in back to the Computers OU removing most if not all of the GPO's for the office. Restarted the machine and then restarted the SCE server. Now if it will collect the data from the Dell OpenManage MP then I have enough ammo to take to get this thing purchased. Thanks again Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I would have bought one before doing this demo if there had been one. With a small window to work on this and do my regular tasks it would have been a big help. If this shows it's value and I can get the purchase pushed through I will still purchase the book. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome! Let us know when it's finished, I would *love* a copy! On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those port exceptions should be a part of your SCE GPOs, but you have to make sure that A) Your clients have permissions to access those GPOs, B) There aren't other GPOs overriding the settings of the 2 SCE GPOs. Option B is a very common cause of issues with SCE, option A not so much, but still good to be aware of. PS - A SCE book is in the works. -Original Message- From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere Glad I could help! Have you run gpupdate on the clients? I have the Windows Firewall on all the clients with the port exceptions pushed out via GPO. It was driving me crazy, but it's smooth as silk now. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next
Re: SCE list anywhere
Awesome. Good luck! On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well a restart of the server and I have one machine and only one machine reporting most if what I need to get this purchased. I will look tomorrow and see if everything I need is there. Thank you all for your assistance. FYI I ended up moving the system from the OU it was in back to the Computers OU removing most if not all of the GPO's for the office. Restarted the machine and then restarted the SCE server. Now if it will collect the data from the Dell OpenManage MP then I have enough ammo to take to get this thing purchased. Thanks again Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I would have bought one before doing this demo if there had been one. With a small window to work on this and do my regular tasks it would have been a big help. If this shows it's value and I can get the purchase pushed through I will still purchase the book. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome! Let us know when it's finished, I would *love* a copy! On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those port exceptions should be a part of your SCE GPOs, but you have to make sure that A) Your clients have permissions to access those GPOs, B) There aren't other GPOs overriding the settings of the 2 SCE GPOs. Option B is a very common cause of issues with SCE, option A not so much, but still good to be aware of. PS - A SCE book is in the works. -Original Message- From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere Glad I could help! Have you run gpupdate on the clients? I have the Windows Firewall on all the clients with the port exceptions pushed out via GPO. It was driving me crazy, but it's smooth as silk now. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I killed the GPO's that regulate that this morning. The servers seemed to respond to it but not the clients. I really did not want to have this SCE server handing out updates to clients as they are patched correctly now. I also just turned on File Sharing on one client and rebooted 2x and I can still only get health monitoring data. I am still also getting the Not Yet Contacted under Computers. Things are better but it is a bit frustrating setting up the demo to prove it will do the job. I wished there was just one place that would tell you, in the correct order what to do to get it running. I have seen something like 5 differnet places bits and pieces of information. I got a lot further with the jewal Candee gave me. Most of the Warnings disappeared when I turned on File Sharing. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the clients pointed to your SCE server for updates? We usually hear about this when someone installs SCE into an environment where there are GPOs pointing the clients to a different WSUS box. You have to remove those GPOs before you will get true monitoring out of SCE. TVK From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SCE list anywhere All firewalls are disabled by GPO for domain members. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a firewall on the server? I can dig up the port list for you if you need it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No firewalls, I killed them before I started the testing. The Vista and 2003 server clients seemed to install as I can get health infomation but all of them say Not Yet Contacted. Jon On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Candee Vaglica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SCE, maybe I can help. Have you installed the clients? Are you using a firewall between the server and clients? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good System Center Essentials list anywhere? I am demoing the product and can't get the server to talk to the clients and without some idea as to what I need to do to get them to talk. Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation
RAID rebuild during power outage?
I have a server w/ a failed HD in a RAID 5. I was planning on swapping out the HD w/ a replacement tonight. This is a large array (1TB) and given the chance of power outage during the rebuild, is this not a good idea? Our UPS systems will keep the server running for no more than 1 hour; after which time I would shut the server down. What happens if the RAID starts to rebuild, but then I have to power off the server before it completes? Will the RAID continue to rebuild when I power the server back up again? Thanks ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Evaluating AV
Damn you and your desktops ;) -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Some things don't take effect until the machine is restarted...so why not a virus? I have some systems configured to run a full scan - every file type, everywhere, incl. recycle bin and .zip files many levels deep - upon startup. However, these same systems power themselves up at 5:00am and the users don't get in until 8:00am or later. By then the system has completely scanned itself and applied any Windows Updates and rebooted. Does it do any good? Dunno, but I feel better knowing every nook and cranny has been searched... Maintenance off-hours is a beautiful thing! -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV I always wonder about start up scans...if the pc doesn't have a virus when it is shut down, then why enable start up scans. Waste of time if you ask me S -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: RAID rebuild during power outage?
I think that would potentially be a Very Bad Thing. Any time you have a power outage, you risk filesystem corruption. Tack on that the array is already degraded, and you¹re just setting yourself up for a load of pain, IMO. On 8/7/08 12:08 PM, David Mazzaccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server w/ a failed HD in a RAID 5. I was planning on swapping out the HD w/ a replacement tonight. This is a large array (1TB) and given the chance of power outage during the rebuild, is this not a good idea? Our UPS systems will keep the server running for no more than 1 hour; after which time I would shut the server down. What happens if the RAID starts to rebuild, but then I have to power off the server before it completes? Will the RAID continue to rebuild when I power the server back up again? Thanks ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Script to Push and Install WSUS Updates Forcefully
Has anyone had any experience with Rob Dunn's script mentioned above found at * *http://tinyurl.com/5p6cbb Thanks, Klint ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Evaluating AV
Shook likes searching nooks and crannys:) -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Some things don't take effect until the machine is restarted...so why not a virus? I have some systems configured to run a full scan - every file type, everywhere, incl. recycle bin and .zip files many levels deep - upon startup. However, these same systems power themselves up at 5:00am and the users don't get in until 8:00am or later. By then the system has completely scanned itself and applied any Windows Updates and rebooted. Does it do any good? Dunno, but I feel better knowing every nook and cranny has been searched... Maintenance off-hours is a beautiful thing! -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV I always wonder about start up scans...if the pc doesn't have a virus when it is shut down, then why enable start up scans. Waste of time if you ask me S -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Evaluating AV Unlike Symantec v.10. Every morning when the startup scan kicks off, my users machines bog down tremendously, for 30-45 minutes, until that darn scan is completed. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Evaluating AV From my observations as a NOD32 user: Like many modern applications, NOD32 will use all available resources if/when it needs to - without interfering with other applications. The system does not get pegged or become unresponsive. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Sunbelt ests are accurate, NOD32 takes clowe to 100% CPU during scans - worthless in a 7*24 site! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2008 03:56:19 PM: What are people recommending as their favorite AV now days? 6 months ago NOD32 seemed to be all the rage, now you don't hear much about them. Did version 3 make their stock go down? Our AV is coming up for renewal so I'm also going to be testing out a few different vendors. VIPRE along with NOD32 and Kaspersky will be on my list. Matt On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am evaluating some AV products but really don't have much other than loading the admin console, pushing the client and looking at options. Does anyone have ideas for me to do some semi-useful back- o-back comparisons? Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1597 - Release Date: 8/7/2008 5:54 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Open File Lister
Is there a tool that will list all the files that are loaded during bootup and after. The tool would have to be a TSR of some sort to capture all of the load/run activity. It would be useful for determining which files on a computer are not/are being used. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: RAID rebuild during power outage?
Have you had a string of good luck you are looking to counter? I have a dim memory of RAID manuals saying, no lose power is very bad, but I could be remembering wrong. In general, I replace failed drives immediately (or as soon as the replacement drive arrives). Potential power outage... I think I would wait. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Salvador Manzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that would potentially be a Very Bad Thing. Any time you have a power outage, you risk filesystem corruption. Tack on that the array is already degraded, and you're just setting yourself up for a load of pain, IMO. On 8/7/08 12:08 PM, David Mazzaccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server w/ a failed HD in a RAID 5. I was planning on swapping out the HD w/ a replacement tonight. This is a large array (1TB) and given the chance of power outage during the rebuild, is this not a good idea? Our UPS systems will keep the server running for no more than 1 hour; after which time I would shut the server down. What happens if the RAID starts to rebuild, but then I have to power off the server before it completes? Will the RAID continue to rebuild when I power the server back up again? Thanks ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: RAID rebuild during power outage?
The Raid will start to rebuild from the beginning. Not were it was stopped. Todd Lemmiksoo From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RAID rebuild during power outage? I think that would potentially be a Very Bad Thing. Any time you have a power outage, you risk filesystem corruption. Tack on that the array is already degraded, and you're just setting yourself up for a load of pain, IMO. On 8/7/08 12:08 PM, David Mazzaccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server w/ a failed HD in a RAID 5. I was planning on swapping out the HD w/ a replacement tonight. This is a large array (1TB) and given the chance of power outage during the rebuild, is this not a good idea? Our UPS systems will keep the server running for no more than 1 hour; after which time I would shut the server down. What happens if the RAID starts to rebuild, but then I have to power off the server before it completes? Will the RAID continue to rebuild when I power the server back up again? Thanks ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: RAID rebuild during power outage?
thanks From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAID rebuild during power outage? The Raid will start to rebuild from the beginning. Not were it was stopped. Todd Lemmiksoo From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RAID rebuild during power outage? I think that would potentially be a Very Bad Thing. Any time you have a power outage, you risk filesystem corruption. Tack on that the array is already degraded, and you're just setting yourself up for a load of pain, IMO. On 8/7/08 12:08 PM, David Mazzaccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server w/ a failed HD in a RAID 5. I was planning on swapping out the HD w/ a replacement tonight. This is a large array (1TB) and given the chance of power outage during the rebuild, is this not a good idea? Our UPS systems will keep the server running for no more than 1 hour; after which time I would shut the server down. What happens if the RAID starts to rebuild, but then I have to power off the server before it completes? Will the RAID continue to rebuild when I power the server back up again? Thanks ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
OT: Vista Dual Display Problem
I've got a Vista machine that has two displays--a monitor plus a projector. I have no problem getting Vista to extend the desktop across both displays. However, that's not what I want; I want a mirrored setup. Can't get that to work, though. When I uncheck the option to extend the display to the projector, it disables that display altogether and stops sending a signal to the projector. It's either extended, or off altogether. Anyone ever see that? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Vista Dual Display Problem
Nvidia chipset? What kind of video card? What kind of machine? You should be able to set a mirror in the video card software. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Vista Dual Display Problem I've got a Vista machine that has two displays--a monitor plus a projector. I have no problem getting Vista to extend the desktop across both displays. However, that's not what I want; I want a mirrored setup. Can't get that to work, though. When I uncheck the option to extend the display to the projector, it disables that display altogether and stops sending a signal to the projector. It's either extended, or off altogether. Anyone ever see that? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Backup Up ActiveX
This is kind of a long shot but, does anyone know of a way to back up Active X controls that have been installed on a system? Basically I'd like to be able to install these on another machine without having to visit each site that installed them originally. - Andy O. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Backup Up ActiveX
Wow, did I mangle that subject line...should be Backing Up ActiveX. - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup Up ActiveX This is kind of a long shot but, does anyone know of a way to back up Active X controls that have been installed on a system? Basically I'd like to be able to install these on another machine without having to visit each site that installed them originally. - Andy O. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Vista Dual Display Problem
Within the display properties have you checked the advanced tab which should load the chipset software? Klint Bob Fronk wrote: Nvidia chipset? What kind of video card? What kind of machine? You should be able to set a mirror in the video card software. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Vista Dual Display Problem I've got a Vista machine that has two displays--a monitor plus a projector. I have no problem getting Vista to extend the desktop across both displays. However, that's not what I want; I want a mirrored setup. Can't get that to work, though. When I uncheck the option to extend the display to the projector, it disables that display altogether and stops sending a signal to the projector. It's either extended, or off altogether. Anyone ever see that? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Backup Up ActiveX
This could depend on a number of issues. Are they simple .ocx or .dll files, or are they tied to specific registry keys for licensing purposes. Are they machine ActiveX or Broswer ActiveX objects? If it is a simple, stand alone file, then yes, you could back up the file, and restore it to another machine, but you would need to re-register it when installed on the new machine. I had a customer with some Infragistics software, and it was near impossible to backup the software from one machine, and restore it to another, without the original installation key and media. Klint Andy Ognenoff wrote: This is kind of a long shot but, does anyone know of a way to back up Active X controls that have been installed on a system? Basically I'd like to be able to install these on another machine without having to visit each site that installed them originally. - Andy O. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Backup Up ActiveX
That's funny, I actually read it as it was meant to be without notincg... Check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154850 My guess is that if you actually do a dir via the shell in their, you see all the files, then just copy and regsvr32 it into new pc maybe? Test on co-workers PC first of course :) jlc -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Up ActiveX Wow, did I mangle that subject line...should be Backing Up ActiveX. - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup Up ActiveX This is kind of a long shot but, does anyone know of a way to back up Active X controls that have been installed on a system? Basically I'd like to be able to install these on another machine without having to visit each site that installed them originally. - Andy O. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Modify ISO
I'd like to add some files to a WinPE .iso. I thought an easy way to do that might be to mount the .iso as a drive and copy files to it. Can .isos be mounted in write mode? If so, what software can I use for this? Is there some other approach that will work? Thanks for your help. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Modify ISO
Yea, you can edit the iso (ISOEdit, WinISO for example), but that won't get you anywhere w/ Pe 2.0 :) You don't see the part of the ISO you will be editing once booted. Read the Vista WDS Deployment Guide, if you cant find what you need ping back and tomorrow when I am at the dungeon I will find what you need. jlc -Original Message- From: Jim Dandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Modify ISO I'd like to add some files to a WinPE .iso. I thought an easy way to do that might be to mount the .iso as a drive and copy files to it. Can .isos be mounted in write mode? If so, what software can I use for this? Is there some other approach that will work? Thanks for your help. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Modify ISO
I won't be deploying anything. I just want to create a bootable CD with my command line antivirus scanning tool on it. Do I still need to use WDS? -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify ISO Yea, you can edit the iso (ISOEdit, WinISO for example), but that won't get you anywhere w/ Pe 2.0 :) You don't see the part of the ISO you will be editing once booted. Read the Vista WDS Deployment Guide, if you cant find what you need ping back and tomorrow when I am at the dungeon I will find what you need. jlc -Original Message- From: Jim Dandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Modify ISO I'd like to add some files to a WinPE .iso. I thought an easy way to do that might be to mount the .iso as a drive and copy files to it. Can .isos be mounted in write mode? If so, what software can I use for this? Is there some other approach that will work? Thanks for your help. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Modify ISO
Ok, I wasn't clear. The WDS Deployment kit has the tools to create an iso. 1. Create a mount directory 2. Mount the wim (rw) you will use (read deployment guide) 3. Add in stuff you want 4. unmount and commit wim 5. build new iso 6. Boot and enjoy Why do all this silly work? The iso you *would* edit isn't what you see when you boot that cd. Because of the bootloader on it, you mount the wim file in it, which looks like a windows install... You can't see the iso as you expect from inside the session. You don't use WDS for anything, other then its toolkit. Cool? jlc -Original Message- From: Jim Dandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify ISO I won't be deploying anything. I just want to create a bootable CD with my command line antivirus scanning tool on it. Do I still need to use WDS? -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify ISO Yea, you can edit the iso (ISOEdit, WinISO for example), but that won't get you anywhere w/ Pe 2.0 :) You don't see the part of the ISO you will be editing once booted. Read the Vista WDS Deployment Guide, if you cant find what you need ping back and tomorrow when I am at the dungeon I will find what you need. jlc -Original Message- From: Jim Dandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Modify ISO I'd like to add some files to a WinPE .iso. I thought an easy way to do that might be to mount the .iso as a drive and copy files to it. Can .isos be mounted in write mode? If so, what software can I use for this? Is there some other approach that will work? Thanks for your help. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
OT: Personal laptop - home backup?
Hello everyone, What do you use if you have the following scenario? There is only a single dell laptop which is always connected with wireless at home. So we want to take backups. What device do you use for this? I tested apple time capsule and their airport extreme with an external usb disk attached. Biggest issue is to keep it compatible between mc and windows it only supports FAT32 Any better solutions? Gotta be something supports NTFS. Wireless has to be in N mode to get a decent speed. Basically one full backup on weekends and incremental hourly. Basically I am trying to do what apple does with time machine and time capsule under vista Thank you ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Personal laptop - home backup?
-Original Message- From: Ara Avvali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Personal laptop - home backup? snip Basically I am trying to do what apple does with time machine and time capsule under vista Windows Home Server Cheers Ken -- M.BT (UNSW), B.Com Microsoft MVP - Windows Server (IIS) MCITP (EA, SA), MCTS (SQL Server, ISA), MCSE + Security, MCDBA http://adopenstatic.com/blog ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
