Semi-OT: Wiki Advice From List
Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I am looking for some advice from the list regarding posts on a wiki. Apparently someone is not very happy with me (not sure why, don't even know who) and has engaged in some character-assassination of me on a public wiki. I don't really want to post the link here publicly, as I don't want to improve the Google PageRank or anything like that, but I can send the link privately. Safe to say the stuff posted is pretty hurtful to me, and my fiance who is also mentioned. I can take it, but I would really like the content about her removed. What I am wondering is if I should just ignore this (hard to, but I can try), or if there is anything I can do. Attempts I have made to remove the content have been marked as vandalism and the pages have been restored. Anyone have advice? Thanks... Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Semi-OT: Wiki Advice From List
I'd email the site admin and discuss it with them. Depending on how damaging it is, you may have a suit. The 1st Amendment only protects the freedom of speech to such an extent. Once it crosses the line into damaging, it ends there. If you want, send the link to me off-list and I'll give you my opinion on rather or not you should consult a lawyer. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 07:54 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Semi-OT: Wiki Advice From List Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I am looking for some advice from the list regarding posts on a wiki. Apparently someone is not very happy with me (not sure why, don't even know who) and has engaged in some character-assassination of me on a public wiki. I don't really want to post the link here publicly, as I don't want to improve the Google PageRank or anything like that, but I can send the link privately. Safe to say the stuff posted is pretty hurtful to me, and my fiance who is also mentioned. I can take it, but I would really like the content about her removed. What I am wondering is if I should just ignore this (hard to, but I can try), or if there is anything I can do. Attempts I have made to remove the content have been marked as vandalism and the pages have been restored. Anyone have advice? Thanks... Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Semi-OT: Wiki Advice From List
I emailed you offline Jeff, hit me back and well discuss, you might have some legal options to find out who is doing this, and get it cease and desist. There are legal precedents for cyber bullying, that have come down, and some pretty tough fines and sentences ( including jail time) that have been assessed. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Semi-OT: Wiki Advice From List ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation
Yeah the console is a little tough, at first I was very confused and didn't think I was going to get it, once I figured out the power of the XML config files and the filtering to create groups and apply configs to them I was very pleased, plus the speed is outstanding on the console, With SEP 11 I would click on an option and wait 30-60 secs for a response. We also had a pretty good reseller and their team was top notch in answering questions and helping us with the config. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation Once I figured it out, I love the Admin console of ESET 3.0. Very powerful. Never read the manual either. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation Carlos, I'm interested in your comment on the ESET admin interface. I've been testing various AV solutions over the past several weeks, including Trend, Sophos, Vipre and NOD32, and I currently have CA. The only one that had me completely baffled was the NOD32 console - nothing seemed to be straight forward or intuitive. For example, I created groups, but then couldn't do anything with them - no right click options, no properties or settings. Is it just me - does everyone else who uses or has tried ESET find the console easy to use? Maybe I need to install it again and take a fresh look. Ralph From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation We switched from Symantec 10.5 and 11.0 to ESET NOD32, and couldn't be happier, Users complain less, the admin panel is very simple and the server + client programs aren't resource hogs From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Corporate antivirus recommendation Hi folks, I know this is not an unusual request, but just thought I might get some updated opinions from people. I'm thinking of re-evaluating our allegiance to Trend Micro for desktop antivirus. Not that they've done anything wrong, just think it's time to take a look around and see if newer or better things are out there. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. I've heard good things about Kaspersky. Anyone have thoughts about going in that direction? And yes, Stu, I know you will recommend Vipre... g. Just looking for some unbiased user opinions. Feel free to email me off-list if more comfortable. Thanks, Evan _ 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. _ Confidentiality Notice: ** This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and destroy all copies of the original message. _ 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.
RE: Semi-OT: Wiki Advice From List
Yep if there is slander, or personally defamnation ( which it looks like there is, from what you have said) then Free Speech 1St Amendment isn't applicable, they had the right free speech, but ultimately there words, or postings can be used against them in a court of law, to include lawful search and seizure of said electronic device that was used to send such information (computer, PDA, etc etc) and probably through a forensic analysis there will be enough information to win the case and get the legal damages you might be entitled, but against consulting with a lawyer that specializes in this area of expertise is going to be you best bet. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: Wiki Advice From List I'd email the site admin and discuss it with them. Depending on how damaging it is, you may have a suit. The 1st Amendment only protects the freedom of speech to such an extent. Once it crosses the line into damaging, it ends there. If you want, send the link to me off-list and I'll give you my opinion on rather or not you should consult a lawyer. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 07:54 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Semi-OT: Wiki Advice From List Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I am looking for some advice from the list regarding posts on a wiki. Apparently someone is not very happy with me (not sure why, don't even know who) and has engaged in some character-assassination of me on a public wiki. I don't really want to post the link here publicly, as I don't want to improve the Google PageRank or anything like that, but I can send the link privately. Safe to say the stuff posted is pretty hurtful to me, and my fiance who is also mentioned. I can take it, but I would really like the content about her removed. What I am wondering is if I should just ignore this (hard to, but I can try), or if there is anything I can do. Attempts I have made to remove the content have been marked as vandalism and the pages have been restored. Anyone have advice? Thanks... Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation
I'm a little baffled by this test. We're trying to figure out the methodology ourselves. Note that the top rankings include Ikaraus, BitDefender and WebWasher. They have good engines but these three have a very high rate of false positives. NOD32 has outstanding detection, but in this test they got a horribly low score. Sorry, that's a red-flag for me. I work with malware on a constant basis and I know NOD32 intimately. It's a very solid engine. So, this may mean that the test doesn't take into account engines that use emulation (like NOD32 and VIPRE). There are different methods of detecting viruses. The most basic is a string search. However, a string search has its limitations. A more powerful system is an emulator. An emulation-based engine sandboxes a binary and runs it in an emulator, observing its behavior. So, if the malware has been malformed (e.g. cannot be executed), then it can't be emulated, and it won't be detected. But an engine that uses a simple string search will find it. Also, these tests may use another AV engine as a benchmark. For example, if it gets one detection on VirusTotal, then it's considered a virus. This is, of course, complete nonsene but I've seen this idiocy happen with one reputable AV test outfit -- if one or two engines detects a sample as a virus, then it must be a virus. This is ridiculously flawed, but it does happen. There are also other issues at play, such as behavior detection. A product may not pick up a virus on a scan, but will pick it up when it tries to execute. The best test, IMHO, is the Andreas Marx AV-Test.org test, and the VirusBulletin tests. These are the most rigorous, and vetted tests. Also, each file included in the zoo has a reason to be there -- it's not there just because another engine detected it. At any rate, we're adding literally thousands of more definitions daily, and we're not standing still, regardless of who is testing a given product. Alex Alex Eckelberry, CEO Sunbelt Software, Inc. 33 N. Garden Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33755 727.562.0101 x220 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sunbeltsoftware.com http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/ www.sunbeltblog.com http://www.sunbeltblog.com/ From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation That's a pretty disturbing list. I don't see any details on their methodology - does anyone know how accurate this test is? I am real close to switching to VIPRE, but this gives me a little pause. I wonder if there is an opportunity to find out the details - what version product they are testing, definition levels at the time of testing, the applications settings used (e.g. did they have Active Protection enabled on VIPRE, if it was VIPRE). From: Michael D Faulkner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 5:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation We use NOD32 on our servers. Was a bit disappointed with this recent ranking report. http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/ From: Jonathan Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation I recommend ESET NOD, above all others. My team actually ran trials and performed research on Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, ESET, Kaspersky, and very recently Vipre. We have been running NOD in our 3-hospital environment for over 2 years with resounding success - this is not a paid advertisement ;) _ Jonathan Merrill MCP, CCA, NET+ Information Technology www.gomerrill.com http://www.gomerrill.com/ _ Subject: Corporate antivirus recommendation Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:51:15 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Hi folks, I know this is not an unusual request, but just thought I might get some updated opinions from people. I'm thinking of re-evaluating our allegiance to Trend Micro for desktop antivirus. Not that they've done anything wrong, just think it's time to take a look around and see if newer or better things are out there. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. I've heard good things about Kaspersky. Anyone have thoughts about going in that direction? And yes, Stu, I know you will recommend Vipre... g. Just looking for some unbiased user opinions. Feel free to email me off-list if more comfortable. Thanks, Evan
RE: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?
I use a 2040 with the Enhanced OS. It has been rock solid and I have better luck with support, but I have only called twice and both with system down issues (over 3 years use and one call was my fault). Their response was good on those issues. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: Andrew Laya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ? I use them too. I have only had to use support through Sonicwall once, and hope never to repeat it. I have, however, had excellent support from the reseller we use. Dreaming Tree, at www.firewalls.com are stellar. hth, Andrew. On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only use Sonicwall, 2040, 3060, TZ190's...support isn't great, but you rarely need it. Knock on wood. On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone out there recommend a Sonicwall Pro 2040 ? I'm looking for a firewall to slap in a co-lo rack thats 1U, rack mountable, will be able to support the full 100mb line and also be easy and reliable. Normally I'm a Watchguard fan but their 1U entry level unit (X Core) is too much for this budget at the mo. Olly 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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?
I use the 2040 enhanced. It's been fine since i have been running it. No major problems. Have had mixed results with support. Regards, David - Original Message From: Krishna Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:43:30 AM Subject: RE: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ? I use a 2040 with the Enhanced OS. It has been rock solid and I have better luck with support, but I have only called twice and both with system down issues (over 3 years use and one call was my fault). Their response was good on those issues. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: Andrew Laya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ? I use them too. I have only had to use support through Sonicwall once, and hope never to repeat it. I have, however, had excellent support from the reseller we use. Dreaming Tree, at www.firewalls.com are stellar. hth, Andrew. On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only use Sonicwall, 2040, 3060, TZ190's...support isn't great, but you rarely need it. Knock on wood. On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone out there recommend a Sonicwall Pro 2040 ? I'm looking for a firewall to slap in a co-lo rack thats 1U, rack mountable, will be able to support the full 100mb line and also be easy and reliable. Normally I'm a Watchguard fan but their 1U entry level unit (X Core) is too much for this budget at the mo. Olly 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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?
We have a bunch of Sonicwalls out there and are happy with them. We have mostly 2040s at sites. We have one 4060. The standard OS is super easy to manage. The enhanced OS takes a little time to get. Bill Krishna Reddy wrote: I use a 2040 with the Enhanced OS. It has been rock solid and I have better luck with support, but I have only called twice and both with system down issues (over 3 years use and one call was my fault). Their response was good on those issues. Thanks, Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. *From:* Andrew Laya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:22 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ? I use them too. I have only had to use support through Sonicwall once, and hope never to repeat it. I have, however, had excellent support from the reseller we use. Dreaming Tree, at www.firewalls.com http://www.firewalls.com are stellar. hth, Andrew. On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only use Sonicwall, 2040, 3060, TZ190's...support isn't great, but you rarely need it. Knock on wood. On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone out there recommend a Sonicwall Pro 2040 ? I'm looking for a firewall to slap in a co-lo rack thats 1U, rack mountable, will be able to support the full 100mb line and also be easy and reliable. Normally I'm a Watchguard fan but their 1U entry level unit (X Core) is too much for this budget at the mo. Olly 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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
MS CA's and iPhones
CO got a new toy, blah blah... You know the story :) So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
Ive used this method in the past https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_c ab_file.aspx From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS CA's and iPhones CO got a new toy, blah blah. You know the story J So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse? Never used one but I just forced him to return it to the office so I could the Ent Config Util... jlc From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ive used this method in the past https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_cab_file.aspx From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS CA's and iPhones CO got a new toy, blah blah... You know the story :) So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation
I will add one little thing: The samples used in this test where collected over many many months. Some go back to earlier December last year. If they scanned these samples when they were collected, we'd certainly show terrible results, since they would have likely been using an earlier beta of our engine. From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation I'm a little baffled by this test. We're trying to figure out the methodology ourselves. Note that the top rankings include Ikaraus, BitDefender and WebWasher. They have good engines but these three have a very high rate of false positives. NOD32 has outstanding detection, but in this test they got a horribly low score. Sorry, that's a red-flag for me. I work with malware on a constant basis and I know NOD32 intimately. It's a very solid engine. So, this may mean that the test doesn't take into account engines that use emulation (like NOD32 and VIPRE). There are different methods of detecting viruses. The most basic is a string search. However, a string search has its limitations. A more powerful system is an emulator. An emulation-based engine sandboxes a binary and runs it in an emulator, observing its behavior. So, if the malware has been malformed (e.g. cannot be executed), then it can't be emulated, and it won't be detected. But an engine that uses a simple string search will find it. Also, these tests may use another AV engine as a benchmark. For example, if it gets one detection on VirusTotal, then it's considered a virus. This is, of course, complete nonsene but I've seen this idiocy happen with one reputable AV test outfit -- if one or two engines detects a sample as a virus, then it must be a virus. This is ridiculously flawed, but it does happen. There are also other issues at play, such as behavior detection. A product may not pick up a virus on a scan, but will pick it up when it tries to execute. The best test, IMHO, is the Andreas Marx AV-Test.org test, and the VirusBulletin tests. These are the most rigorous, and vetted tests. Also, each file included in the zoo has a reason to be there -- it's not there just because another engine detected it. At any rate, we're adding literally thousands of more definitions daily, and we're not standing still, regardless of who is testing a given product. Alex Alex Eckelberry, CEO Sunbelt Software, Inc. 33 N. Garden Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33755 727.562.0101 x220 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sunbeltsoftware.com http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/ www.sunbeltblog.com http://www.sunbeltblog.com/ From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation That's a pretty disturbing list. I don't see any details on their methodology - does anyone know how accurate this test is? I am real close to switching to VIPRE, but this gives me a little pause. I wonder if there is an opportunity to find out the details - what version product they are testing, definition levels at the time of testing, the applications settings used (e.g. did they have Active Protection enabled on VIPRE, if it was VIPRE). From: Michael D Faulkner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 5:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation We use NOD32 on our servers. Was a bit disappointed with this recent ranking report. http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/ From: Jonathan Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation I recommend ESET NOD, above all others. My team actually ran trials and performed research on Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, ESET, Kaspersky, and very recently Vipre. We have been running NOD in our 3-hospital environment for over 2 years with resounding success - this is not a paid advertisement ;) _ Jonathan Merrill MCP, CCA, NET+ Information Technology www.gomerrill.com http://www.gomerrill.com/ _ Subject: Corporate antivirus recommendation Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:51:15 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Hi folks, I know this is not an unusual request, but just thought I might get some updated opinions from people. I'm thinking of re-evaluating our allegiance to Trend Micro for desktop antivirus. Not that they've done anything wrong, just think it's time to take a look around and see if newer or better things are out there. My top three requirements would be: 1)
Re: MS CA's and iPhones
It is better to get a fully trusted cert. Our iPhones work well with our Go Daddy Cert on the Exchange Server Cheers GRaeme On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse? Never used one but I just forced him to return it to the office so I could the Ent Config Util… jlc *From:* Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2008 9:52 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ive used this method in the past https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_cab_file.aspx *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* MS CA's and iPhones CO got a new toy, blah blah… You know the story J So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc -- Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
Install ActiveSync http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-synch.m spx Then you can cable up! From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse? Never used one but I just forced him to return it to the office so I could the Ent Config Util. jlc From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ive used this method in the past https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_c ab_file.aspx From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS CA's and iPhones CO got a new toy, blah blah. You know the story J So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
What's weird here, is that I have a cert created from my Active Directory CA, so obviously not a trusted cert. The iPhone worked with it great, with no special config or cert import. And I checked, it's using SSL. Does the iPhone trust all certs by default? Sam From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS CA's and iPhones It is better to get a fully trusted cert. Our iPhones work well with our Go Daddy Cert on the Exchange Server Cheers GRaeme On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse? Never used one but I just forced him to return it to the office so I could the Ent Config Util... jlc From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ive used this method in the past https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_ce rt_cab_file.aspx From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS CA's and iPhones CO got a new toy, blah blah... You know the story J So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc -- Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
U, I believe activesync desktop wont work with an iphone, I think you have to sync that **($ with itunes. -troy -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Install ActiveSync http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-synch.mspx Then you can cable up! From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse? Never used one but I just forced him to return it to the office so I could the Ent Config Util... jlc From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ive used this method in the past https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_cab_file.aspx From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS CA's and iPhones CO got a new toy, blah blah... You know the story J So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
I heard reports of this, looks like Apple may have botched the SSL concept slightly in lieu of an easier user experience, lol. If this is the case, I wouldn't doubt it, but my CO says he tried to do it w/o the internal cert and it puked on an SSL error? jlc From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones What's weird here, is that I have a cert created from my Active Directory CA, so obviously not a trusted cert. The iPhone worked with it great, with no special config or cert import. And I checked, it's using SSL. Does the iPhone trust all certs by default? Sam From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS CA's and iPhones It is better to get a fully trusted cert. Our iPhones work well with our Go Daddy Cert on the Exchange Server Cheers GRaeme On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse? Never used one but I just forced him to return it to the office so I could the Ent Config Util... jlc From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ive used this method in the past https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_cab_file.aspx From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS CA's and iPhones CO got a new toy, blah blah... You know the story :) So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc -- Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
I cant believe I missed the iPhone part. Im going to bed. -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones U, I believe activesync desktop wont work with an iphone, I think you have to sync that **($ with itunes. -troy -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Install ActiveSync http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-synch.m spx Then you can cable up! From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse? Never used one but I just forced him to return it to the office so I could the Ent Config Util... jlc From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ive used this method in the past https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_c ab_file.aspx From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS CA's and iPhones CO got a new toy, blah blah... You know the story J So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util? I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if email worked to begin with? Am I missing something? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Offline Files
My Setup My Documents redirected to server \\server\share\UserName\mydocs Folder synchronization is turned on for laptops. I'm new to working with Offline Files. I have a user that works remotely and came into our home office today. Synced his offline files and poof All files are gone between now and the last time he synced.. Did a windows search for some of his files and nothing. Files are not on the server either. Looked in the offline folder and the newer files are not their either. Also in my digging it would appear that the person that set this up ( I'm new here) also enforced a 2Gb limit on Offline files.This user is over 2Gb so I'm guessing this is part of the problem. Is there anyway get these missing files back? Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use
I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside... 1) Their support is absolutely useless. If your production S500 goes down on a Saturday morning, you may not get it back up until Monday as they do not employ Tier 3 support on the weekends. 2) The filer panics and reboots when a volume hits 85% utilization. 3) Any changes made outside of the 'StoreVault Manager' GUI software are not supported. Even though there is a command line, you can't do anything in it and expect it to be supported. I could go on, but those are my biggest complaints. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Well tell us why! jlc From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use The S500/S550 series does use SATA drives. We use them in our test lab, but I would no longer consider using one for production. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Manager of Operations | Azaleos Corporation | T: 206.926.1945 | M: 540.322.7980 You rely on Exchange. We keep it running. From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Doesn't that use SATA drives? The MD3000i we purchased uses SAS drives. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use H, I can get the S550 for over half of that cost with more space.. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Equallogic, seriously? I was looking at PS5000E for like $26,000, 2TB single controler config. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You couldn't handle it. Shook From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Man, I need to get some of that... On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep and just sent you something off-list... Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Equallogic is cheaper then an S550? I am seeing ~5k for an S550 w/o drives? You sure? Thanks! jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use JLC, Look at Equallogic. Better IO's and cheaper than S550's. IME If you need a referral to the partner I used to get the primo pricing, let me know. Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I need some more IO and don't have time to roll my own solution as I cant afford the testing interval. Looking at some cheap Netapp S550's right now. Anyone got any experiences/reco's they can share? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?
I've had the same positive experience with interoperability. Their support can be less than exceptional though. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ? +1 I've NEVER had any problem getting a variety of SonicWALL models to talk to other vendor's equipment. Frequently it's simply a matter of knowing the appropriate magical incantations. Sure they have problems with Cisco *under certain conditions*, but that's Cisco's fault, not SonicWALLs. Many times Cisco will *only* talk to other Ciscos due to Cisco-proprietary extensions to standard protocols. Durf wrote: I've done it just fine in the past. This may be dependent on what version of the OS on both sides you're using, but I had no major issues. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Offline Files
Restore the server folder from backups or retrieve from shadow copied versions. This meets your anyway requirement. 2GB limit shouldn't cause this behavior. Versions of Window (client-side) might be useful information to somebody as Vista and XP do offline files very differently. Carl From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Offline Files My Setup My Documents redirected to server \\server\share\UserName\mydocs Folder synchronization is turned on for laptops. I'm new to working with Offline Files. I have a user that works remotely and came into our home office today. Synced his offline files and poof All files are gone between now and the last time he synced.. Did a windows search for some of his files and nothing. Files are not on the server either. Looked in the offline folder and the newer files are not their either. Also in my digging it would appear that the person that set this up ( I'm new here) also enforced a 2Gb limit on Offline files.This user is over 2Gb so I'm guessing this is part of the problem. Is there anyway get these missing files back? Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Offline Files
Windows XP SP2. Restoring the server is not going to help me out b/c they were changes made in between syncs. The changes would only have been in the offline files of the Windows XP Laptop. I'll looking offline files reading materials to try and understand this more. Matt On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Restore the server folder from backups or retrieve from shadow copied versions. This meets your anyway requirement. 2GB limit shouldn't cause this behavior. Versions of Window (client-side) might be useful information to somebody as Vista and XP do offline files very differently. Carl *From:* Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2008 12:46 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Offline Files My Setup My Documents redirected to server \\server\share\UserName\mydocs Folder synchronization is turned on for laptops. I'm new to working with Offline Files. I have a user that works remotely and came into our home office today. Synced his offline files and poof All files are gone between now and the last time he synced.. Did a windows search for some of his files and nothing. Files are not on the server either. Looked in the offline folder and the newer files are not their either. Also in my digging it would appear that the person that set this up ( I'm new here) also enforced a 2Gb limit on Offline files.This user is over 2Gb so I'm guessing this is part of the problem. Is there anyway get these missing files back? Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use
Errr, the rebooting part sold me :) Wow... From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside... 1) Their support is absolutely useless. If your production S500 goes down on a Saturday morning, you may not get it back up until Monday as they do not employ Tier 3 support on the weekends. 2) The filer panics and reboots when a volume hits 85% utilization. 3) Any changes made outside of the 'StoreVault Manager' GUI software are not supported. Even though there is a command line, you can't do anything in it and expect it to be supported. I could go on, but those are my biggest complaints. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Well tell us why! jlc From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use The S500/S550 series does use SATA drives. We use them in our test lab, but I would no longer consider using one for production. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Manager of Operations | Azaleos Corporation | T: 206.926.1945 | M: 540.322.7980 You rely on Exchange. We keep it running. From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Doesn't that use SATA drives? The MD3000i we purchased uses SAS drives. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use H, I can get the S550 for over half of that cost with more space.. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Equallogic, seriously? I was looking at PS5000E for like $26,000, 2TB single controler config. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You couldn't handle it. Shook From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Man, I need to get some of that... On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep and just sent you something off-list... Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Equallogic is cheaper then an S550? I am seeing ~5k for an S550 w/o drives? You sure? Thanks! jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use JLC, Look at Equallogic. Better IO's and cheaper than S550's. IME If you need a referral to the partner I used to get the primo pricing, let me know. Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I need some more IO and don't have time to roll my own solution as I cant afford the testing interval. Looking at some cheap Netapp S550's right now. Anyone got any experiences/reco's they can share? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?
I have always been a Watchguard guy myself but I am configuring my first Sonicwall at this very moment and so far so good, though I am not even close to being done. The sonicwall is a 2040 and while it is different from Watchguard, it hasn't been that difficult to setup it seems pretty straight forward so far. Look forward to putting it into production this weekend. James - Original Message - From: Steve Ens To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:54 PM Subject: Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ? I only use Sonicwall, 2040, 3060, TZ190's...support isn't great, but you rarely need it. Knock on wood. On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone out there recommend a Sonicwall Pro 2040 ? I'm looking for a firewall to slap in a co-lo rack thats 1U, rack mountable, will be able to support the full 100mb line and also be easy and reliable. Normally I'm a Watchguard fan but their 1U entry level unit (X Core) is too much for this budget at the mo. Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Offline Files
The limit is a percentage of his hardrive space by default I believe. Make sure the User is at Sp3 and he has KB944898 installed. This DOES help with this issue.. Ive had it before. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Offline Files Restore the server folder from backups or retrieve from shadow copied versions. This meets your anyway requirement. 2GB limit shouldn't cause this behavior. Versions of Window (client-side) might be useful information to somebody as Vista and XP do offline files very differently. Carl From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Offline Files My Setup My Documents redirected to server \\server\share\UserName\mydocs Folder synchronization is turned on for laptops. I'm new to working with Offline Files. I have a user that works remotely and came into our home office today. Synced his offline files and poof All files are gone between now and the last time he synced.. Did a windows search for some of his files and nothing. Files are not on the server either. Looked in the offline folder and the newer files are not their either. Also in my digging it would appear that the person that set this up ( I'm new here) also enforced a 2Gb limit on Offline files.This user is over 2Gb so I'm guessing this is part of the problem. Is there anyway get these missing files back? Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Offline Files
Sorry, I mis-read, thought newer files on server were deleted by the syncing. Carl From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Offline Files Windows XP SP2. Restoring the server is not going to help me out b/c they were changes made in between syncs. The changes would only have been in the offline files of the Windows XP Laptop. I'll looking offline files reading materials to try and understand this more. Matt On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Restore the server folder from backups or retrieve from shadow copied versions. This meets your anyway requirement. 2GB limit shouldn't cause this behavior. Versions of Window (client-side) might be useful information to somebody as Vista and XP do offline files very differently. Carl From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Offline Files My Setup My Documents redirected to server \\server\share\UserName\mydocs Folder synchronization is turned on for laptops. I'm new to working with Offline Files. I have a user that works remotely and came into our home office today. Synced his offline files and poof All files are gone between now and the last time he synced.. Did a windows search for some of his files and nothing. Files are not on the server either. Looked in the offline folder and the newer files are not their either. Also in my digging it would appear that the person that set this up ( I'm new here) also enforced a 2Gb limit on Offline files.This user is over 2Gb so I'm guessing this is part of the problem. Is there anyway get these missing files back? Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
ESX and NetApp best practice question
List, Friend of mine is implementing ESX 3.5 on a filer and he is asking me if he should follow NetApp's advice on separating out the swap files on a different LUN to better manage snapshots. Now, I'm not a NetApp dude but I don't by this for the following reasons: 1. Another layer of complexity 2. Properly sized VMs (RAM) shouldn't be tapping the page file that much 3. Something happens to that swap LUN and performance tanks and/or OS blue screens 4. Recovery issues. (This maybe a stretch) I say keep the swap\temp directory on the same volume unless some non-standard requirements come into play Any of you NetApp\ESX admins have any feedback? Shook ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?
I spoke too soon. It seems I will have to RMA this unit as it keeps becoming unresponsive requiring a hard reboot to get it back again. Why me man!! I already registered the darn thing already! - Original Message - From: James Kerr To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:24 PM Subject: Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ? I have always been a Watchguard guy myself but I am configuring my first Sonicwall at this very moment and so far so good, though I am not even close to being done. The sonicwall is a 2040 and while it is different from Watchguard, it hasn't been that difficult to setup it seems pretty straight forward so far. Look forward to putting it into production this weekend. James - Original Message - From: Steve Ens To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:54 PM Subject: Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ? I only use Sonicwall, 2040, 3060, TZ190's...support isn't great, but you rarely need it. Knock on wood. On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone out there recommend a Sonicwall Pro 2040 ? I'm looking for a firewall to slap in a co-lo rack thats 1U, rack mountable, will be able to support the full 100mb line and also be easy and reliable. Normally I'm a Watchguard fan but their 1U entry level unit (X Core) is too much for this budget at the mo. Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Win 2008 domain
Anyone jumped aboard the 2008 AD already? Currently I have three domain controllers. I'm planning on demoting a DC, removing it from the domain, wiping the box, installing 2008, then run the necessary adpreps... anything else to take into consideration? I can keep the other two domain controllers running 2003 and leave the domain in mixed mode can I not? I also have a 03 member server running 03 exchange if that makes a difference. Any ssuggestions or caveats appreciated. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESX and NetApp best practice question
Netapp didn't mean OS swap :) They aren't aware of what OS is inside of your vm's or if it has a swap. BTW, if the swap disappears under windows it will BSOD for sure. They were referring to the host swap, heh... jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESX and NetApp best practice question List, Friend of mine is implementing ESX 3.5 on a filer and he is asking me if he should follow NetApp's advice on separating out the swap files on a different LUN to better manage snapshots. Now, I'm not a NetApp dude but I don't by this for the following reasons: 1. Another layer of complexity 2. Properly sized VMs (RAM) shouldn't be tapping the page file that much 3. Something happens to that swap LUN and performance tanks and/or OS blue screens 4. Recovery issues. (This maybe a stretch) I say keep the swap\temp directory on the same volume unless some non-standard requirements come into play Any of you NetApp\ESX admins have any feedback? Shook ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win 2008 domain
Did our seven DC's over the course of a month. I started the same way you are going to, demote/remove one and bring it up. It was a non-event, while I like many of the things in 2008 it feels more like a feature pack than an new server OS. The only issue we had were some WINS oddities with our old ghosting boot disks, just needed an lmhosts file on the disk or turn on the master browser service in the DC's. From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win 2008 domain Anyone jumped aboard the 2008 AD already? Currently I have three domain controllers. I'm planning on demoting a DC, removing it from the domain, wiping the box, installing 2008, then run the necessary adpreps... anything else to take into consideration? I can keep the other two domain controllers running 2003 and leave the domain in mixed mode can I not? I also have a 03 member server running 03 exchange if that makes a difference. Any ssuggestions or caveats appreciated. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Win 2008 domain
So no issues leaving the 03 DC's running alongside the 08 DC? On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Kennedy, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Did our seven DC's over the course of a month. I started the same way you are going to, demote/remove one and bring it up. It was a non-event, while I like many of the things in 2008 it feels more like a feature pack than an new server OS. The only issue we had were some WINS oddities with our old ghosting boot disks, just needed an lmhosts file on the disk or turn on the master browser service in the DC's. *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2008 2:27 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Win 2008 domain Anyone jumped aboard the 2008 AD already? Currently I have three domain controllers. I'm planning on demoting a DC, removing it from the domain, wiping the box, installing 2008, then run the necessary adpreps... anything else to take into consideration? I can keep the other two domain controllers running 2003 and leave the domain in mixed mode can I not? I also have a 03 member server running 03 exchange if that makes a difference. Any ssuggestions or caveats appreciated. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win 2008 domain
None, and there was a good 30 days between the first 2008 DC and the last 2003 DC. From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 2008 domain So no issues leaving the 03 DC's running alongside the 08 DC? On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Kennedy, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did our seven DC's over the course of a month. I started the same way you are going to, demote/remove one and bring it up. It was a non-event, while I like many of the things in 2008 it feels more like a feature pack than an new server OS. The only issue we had were some WINS oddities with our old ghosting boot disks, just needed an lmhosts file on the disk or turn on the master browser service in the DC's. From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win 2008 domain Anyone jumped aboard the 2008 AD already? Currently I have three domain controllers. I'm planning on demoting a DC, removing it from the domain, wiping the box, installing 2008, then run the necessary adpreps... anything else to take into consideration? I can keep the other two domain controllers running 2003 and leave the domain in mixed mode can I not? I also have a 03 member server running 03 exchange if that makes a difference. Any ssuggestions or caveats appreciated. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESX and NetApp best practice question
Here is an excerpt from page 52 of NetApp's TR3428 version 4.1 (NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices) from July 2008. This makes me think they are talking about the OS's swap as well as the host ESX. When you are implementing either NetApp Snapshot copies or SnapMirror, NetApp recommends separating transient and temporary data off the virtual disks that will be copied by using Snapshot or SnapMirror. Because Snapshot copies hold onto storage blocks that are no longer in use, transient and temporary data can consume a large amount of storage in a very short period of time. In addition, if you are replicating your environment for business continuance or disk-to-disk backup purposes, failure to separate the valuable data from the transient has a large impact on the amount of data sent at each replication update. Virtual machines should have their swap files, pagefile, and user and system temp directories moved to separate virtual disks residing on separate Datastores residing on NetApp volumes dedicated to this data type. In addition, the ESX Servers create a VMware swap file for every running VM. These files should also be moved to a separate Datastore residing on a separate NetApp volume, and the virtual disks that store these files should be set as independent disks, which are not affected by VMware snapshots. Am I misinterpreting that? Craig From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESX and NetApp best practice question Netapp didn't mean OS swap J They aren't aware of what OS is inside of your vm's or if it has a swap. BTW, if the swap disappears under windows it will BSOD for sure. They were referring to the host swap, heh... jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESX and NetApp best practice question List, Friend of mine is implementing ESX 3.5 on a filer and he is asking me if he should follow NetApp's advice on separating out the swap files on a different LUN to better manage snapshots. Now, I'm not a NetApp dude but I don't by this for the following reasons: 1. Another layer of complexity 2. Properly sized VMs (RAM) shouldn't be tapping the page file that much 3. Something happens to that swap LUN and performance tanks and/or OS blue screens 4. Recovery issues. (This maybe a stretch) I say keep the swap\temp directory on the same volume unless some non-standard requirements come into play Any of you NetApp\ESX admins have any feedback? Shook ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESX and NetApp best practice question
i think what you are getting at is the swapfile policy for virtual machines. The default is in the same directory as the virtual machines. The second option is to store the swapfile in a datstore specified by host. A big black warning tells you that a host specified datastore may degrade vmotion performance for the affected virtual machines. -Mike Original Message: - From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:29:36 -0600 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: ESX and NetApp best practice question Netapp didn't mean OS swap :) They aren't aware of what OS is inside of your vm's or if it has a swap. BTW, if the swap disappears under windows it will BSOD for sure. They were referring to the host swap, heh... jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESX and NetApp best practice question List, Friend of mine is implementing ESX 3.5 on a filer and he is asking me if he should follow NetApp's advice on separating out the swap files on a different LUN to better manage snapshots. Now, I'm not a NetApp dude but I don't by this for the following reasons: 1. Another layer of complexity 2. Properly sized VMs (RAM) shouldn't be tapping the page file that much 3. Something happens to that swap LUN and performance tanks and/or OS blue screens 4. Recovery issues. (This maybe a stretch) I say keep the swap\temp directory on the same volume unless some non-standard requirements come into play Any of you NetApp\ESX admins have any feedback? Shook ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Win 2008 domain
Well I'm thinking of leaving the 03 Dc's for more than a month...probably a year or so before I go fully 2008. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kennedy, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: None, and there was a good 30 days between the first 2008 DC and the last 2003 DC. *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2008 2:37 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Win 2008 domain So no issues leaving the 03 DC's running alongside the 08 DC? On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Kennedy, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did our seven DC's over the course of a month. I started the same way you are going to, demote/remove one and bring it up. It was a non-event, while I like many of the things in 2008 it feels more like a feature pack than an new server OS. The only issue we had were some WINS oddities with our old ghosting boot disks, just needed an lmhosts file on the disk or turn on the master browser service in the DC's. *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2008 2:27 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Win 2008 domain Anyone jumped aboard the 2008 AD already? Currently I have three domain controllers. I'm planning on demoting a DC, removing it from the domain, wiping the box, installing 2008, then run the necessary adpreps... anything else to take into consideration? I can keep the other two domain controllers running 2003 and leave the domain in mixed mode can I not? I also have a 03 member server running 03 exchange if that makes a difference. Any ssuggestions or caveats appreciated. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win 2008 domain
None for me so far. I introduced our first 08 DC to the domain about a month ago. All my other DCs are 03. No troubles. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttp://www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 2008 domain So no issues leaving the 03 DC's running alongside the 08 DC? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
Ok, so The Enterprise Deployment Config: You install an app which sets up a webserver to connect to (lame). I assume this is because they only developed one application and ported it to windows. You create a config, then either email it out, or export it to be downloaded by safari. It can contain a minimum of an EAS profile and APN config (lame again, they obviously have one or how the hell does it download it via Safari?) and an ssl cert (if you need it). The email option is busted as it needs the nix binary on a nix path (Lame to include that in my windows version?). Truth is, after adding the mime type to IIS the profile worked immediately after being downloaded and synced asap! If they did away with quirks above, this kicks the hell out of EAS on Mobile OS for setting up my un inclined users. I am going to try to leave the username partially blank so I can make one profile for all users. Cool... jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Invites for GrandCentral
Anyone have any invites that they would like to share for GrandCentral (www.grandcentral.com) CAR Office: 305-443-0331 xt. 1202 Mobile: 786-412-1746 Skype: 305-851-2606 Fax: 305-443-0350 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BB Pin: 23E727FF AIM: cramosMIA MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: cramosMIA This e-Mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-Mail in error please notify the sender via returned e-Mail. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-Mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Although IDF operates anti-virus programs, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. ** Think before you print this message. ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation
Top of their page. DISCLAIMER: These detection rates represent the TRUE POSITIVE detection rates of these various antivirus tools on the limited corpus of malware binaries captures by our honeynet. The results do not take into consideration the false positive rate of a given tool, and thus a tool that declares everything to be infected would appear to have the highest true positive percentage rate. All antivirus results provided via www.virustotal.com. From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation I'm a little baffled by this test. We're trying to figure out the methodology ourselves. Note that the top rankings include Ikaraus, BitDefender and WebWasher. They have good engines but these three have a very high rate of false positives. NOD32 has outstanding detection, but in this test they got a horribly low score. Sorry, that's a red-flag for me. I work with malware on a constant basis and I know NOD32 intimately. It's a very solid engine. So, this may mean that the test doesn't take into account engines that use emulation (like NOD32 and VIPRE). There are different methods of detecting viruses. The most basic is a string search. However, a string search has its limitations. A more powerful system is an emulator. An emulation-based engine sandboxes a binary and runs it in an emulator, observing its behavior. So, if the malware has been malformed (e.g. cannot be executed), then it can't be emulated, and it won't be detected. But an engine that uses a simple string search will find it. Also, these tests may use another AV engine as a benchmark. For example, if it gets one detection on VirusTotal, then it's considered a virus. This is, of course, complete nonsene but I've seen this idiocy happen with one reputable AV test outfit -- if one or two engines detects a sample as a virus, then it must be a virus. This is ridiculously flawed, but it does happen. There are also other issues at play, such as behavior detection. A product may not pick up a virus on a scan, but will pick it up when it tries to execute. The best test, IMHO, is the Andreas Marx AV-Test.org test, and the VirusBulletin tests. These are the most rigorous, and vetted tests. Also, each file included in the zoo has a reason to be there -- it's not there just because another engine detected it. At any rate, we're adding literally thousands of more definitions daily, and we're not standing still, regardless of who is testing a given product. Alex Alex Eckelberry, CEO Sunbelt Software, Inc. 33 N. Garden Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33755 727.562.0101 x220 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sunbeltsoftware.com http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/ www.sunbeltblog.com http://www.sunbeltblog.com/ From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation That's a pretty disturbing list. I don't see any details on their methodology - does anyone know how accurate this test is? I am real close to switching to VIPRE, but this gives me a little pause. I wonder if there is an opportunity to find out the details - what version product they are testing, definition levels at the time of testing, the applications settings used (e.g. did they have Active Protection enabled on VIPRE, if it was VIPRE). From: Michael D Faulkner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 5:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation We use NOD32 on our servers. Was a bit disappointed with this recent ranking report. http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/ From: Jonathan Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation I recommend ESET NOD, above all others. My team actually ran trials and performed research on Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, ESET, Kaspersky, and very recently Vipre. We have been running NOD in our 3-hospital environment for over 2 years with resounding success - this is not a paid advertisement ;) _ Jonathan Merrill MCP, CCA, NET+ Information Technology www.gomerrill.com http://www.gomerrill.com/ _ Subject: Corporate antivirus recommendation Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:51:15 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Hi folks, I know this is not an unusual request, but just thought I might get some updated opinions from people. I'm thinking of re-evaluating our allegiance to Trend Micro for desktop antivirus. Not that they've done anything wrong, just think
RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use
I echo the S500 comments, we have two of them. We do Full Disk Replication to a DR site. The gui is slow, tends to crash. The console is totally not supported, but when we do finally get a Tier 3 guy we can understand they do it all through the console anyway... I see why its unsupported because one wrong key click and poof goes your volume.. I will not be buying any of these again in the future. For smaller scale implementations we use the MD3000i and for larger we do the Equalogic or if they just require very high IO in a SMB environment. (Virtualized Exchange, SQL, etc using Vmware or Virtual Server for instance) I am worred about the 85% issue, have not seen that yet, but will be calling support and waiting to get confirmation and if so a fix for it. Thanks Greg From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside... 1) Their support is absolutely useless. If your production S500 goes down on a Saturday morning, you may not get it back up until Monday as they do not employ Tier 3 support on the weekends. 2) The filer panics and reboots when a volume hits 85% utilization. 3) Any changes made outside of the 'StoreVault Manager' GUI software are not supported. Even though there is a command line, you can't do anything in it and expect it to be supported. I could go on, but those are my biggest complaints. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Well tell us why! jlc From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use The S500/S550 series does use SATA drives. We use them in our test lab, but I would no longer consider using one for production. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Manager of Operations | Azaleos Corporation | T: 206.926.1945 | M: 540.322.7980 You rely on Exchange. We keep it running. From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Doesn't that use SATA drives? The MD3000i we purchased uses SAS drives. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use H, I can get the S550 for over half of that cost with more space.. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Equallogic, seriously? I was looking at PS5000E for like $26,000, 2TB single controler config. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You couldn't handle it. Shook From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Man, I need to get some of that... On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep and just sent you something off-list... Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Equallogic is cheaper then an S550? I am seeing ~5k for an S550 w/o drives? You sure? Thanks! jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use JLC, Look at Equallogic. Better IO's and cheaper than S550's. IME If you need a referral to the partner I used to get the primo pricing, let me know. Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I need some more IO and don't have time to roll my own solution as I cant afford the testing interval. Looking at some cheap Netapp S550's right now. Anyone got any experiences/reco's they can share? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use
Ask about watchdog reboots. It took awhile for us to get confirmation of what was causing the reboots in the first place. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I echo the S500 comments, we have two of them. We do Full Disk Replication to a DR site. The gui is slow, tends to crash. The console is totally not supported, but when we do finally get a Tier 3 guy we can understand they do it all through the console anyway... I see why its unsupported because one wrong key click and poof goes your volume.. I will not be buying any of these again in the future. For smaller scale implementations we use the MD3000i and for larger we do the Equalogic or if they just require very high IO in a SMB environment. (Virtualized Exchange, SQL, etc using Vmware or Virtual Server for instance) I am worred about the 85% issue, have not seen that yet, but will be calling support and waiting to get confirmation and if so a fix for it. Thanks Greg From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside... 1) Their support is absolutely useless. If your production S500 goes down on a Saturday morning, you may not get it back up until Monday as they do not employ Tier 3 support on the weekends. 2) The filer panics and reboots when a volume hits 85% utilization. 3) Any changes made outside of the 'StoreVault Manager' GUI software are not supported. Even though there is a command line, you can't do anything in it and expect it to be supported. I could go on, but those are my biggest complaints. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Well tell us why! jlc From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use The S500/S550 series does use SATA drives. We use them in our test lab, but I would no longer consider using one for production. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Manager of Operations | Azaleos Corporation | T: 206.926.1945 | M: 540.322.7980 You rely on Exchange. We keep it running. From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Doesn't that use SATA drives? The MD3000i we purchased uses SAS drives. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use H, I can get the S550 for over half of that cost with more space.. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Equallogic, seriously? I was looking at PS5000E for like $26,000, 2TB single controler config. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You couldn't handle it. Shook From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Man, I need to get some of that... On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep and just sent you something off-list... Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Equallogic is cheaper then an S550? I am seeing ~5k for an S550 w/o drives? You sure? Thanks! jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use JLC, Look at Equallogic. Better IO's and cheaper than S550's. IME If you need a referral to the partner I used to get the primo pricing, let me know. Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I need some more IO and don't have time to roll my own solution as I cant afford the testing interval. Looking at some cheap Netapp S550's right now. Anyone got any experiences/reco's they can share? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Offline Files
If this is a dell laptop, remove the Dell Trust Suite software(Embassy...). We had the exact same issue last week with a completely new network, reset perms on folders, and it was hit or miss. Eventually though they would do work at home, come in to sync and could not poof files go bye bye... Removed the software and instantly no problems. Software takes 5 to 10 mins to uninstall and looks to lock the system but leave it alone. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Offline Files Restore the server folder from backups or retrieve from shadow copied versions. This meets your anyway requirement. 2GB limit shouldn't cause this behavior. Versions of Window (client-side) might be useful information to somebody as Vista and XP do offline files very differently. Carl From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Offline Files My Setup My Documents redirected to server \\server\share\UserName\mydocs Folder synchronization is turned on for laptops. I'm new to working with Offline Files. I have a user that works remotely and came into our home office today. Synced his offline files and poof All files are gone between now and the last time he synced.. Did a windows search for some of his files and nothing. Files are not on the server either. Looked in the offline folder and the newer files are not their either. Also in my digging it would appear that the person that set this up ( I'm new here) also enforced a 2Gb limit on Offline files.This user is over 2Gb so I'm guessing this is part of the problem. Is there anyway get these missing files back? Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win 2008 domain
While safe computing says to split off your schema master while doing the upgrade, I've not seen it be an issue anywhere, except folks that had the old SFU schema changes and hadn't already applied the R2 schema fixes. Truly a non-issue. You can run a domain with 2000, 2003, and 2008 DCs and GCs; although you gain a lot of functionality by being at least at 2003 native for both DFL and FFL. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win 2008 domain Anyone jumped aboard the 2008 AD already? Currently I have three domain controllers. I'm planning on demoting a DC, removing it from the domain, wiping the box, installing 2008, then run the necessary adpreps... anything else to take into consideration? I can keep the other two domain controllers running 2003 and leave the domain in mixed mode can I not? I also have a 03 member server running 03 exchange if that makes a difference. Any ssuggestions or caveats appreciated. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Offline Files
BTW I should also mention this was happening on 10 Dell laptops, D830C's. No word from Dell yet as to what the issue maybe, but laptops we purchased 3 weeks ago don't have the issue but this is a newer version of the Embassy Trust suite software. I also for tests rebuilt the system from the ground up reinstalling everything. No problems until we reinstalled the Embassy software and then it was reproducible, removed it, problem went away. Downside, that software is used for the biometrics and encryption of the HDD on these machines if you use that. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Offline Files If this is a dell laptop, remove the Dell Trust Suite software(Embassy...). We had the exact same issue last week with a completely new network, reset perms on folders, and it was hit or miss. Eventually though they would do work at home, come in to sync and could not poof files go bye bye... Removed the software and instantly no problems. Software takes 5 to 10 mins to uninstall and looks to lock the system but leave it alone. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Offline Files Restore the server folder from backups or retrieve from shadow copied versions. This meets your anyway requirement. 2GB limit shouldn't cause this behavior. Versions of Window (client-side) might be useful information to somebody as Vista and XP do offline files very differently. Carl From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Offline Files My Setup My Documents redirected to server \\server\share\UserName\mydocs Folder synchronization is turned on for laptops. I'm new to working with Offline Files. I have a user that works remotely and came into our home office today. Synced his offline files and poof All files are gone between now and the last time he synced.. Did a windows search for some of his files and nothing. Files are not on the server either. Looked in the offline folder and the newer files are not their either. Also in my digging it would appear that the person that set this up ( I'm new here) also enforced a 2Gb limit on Offline files.This user is over 2Gb so I'm guessing this is part of the problem. Is there anyway get these missing files back? Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Ghost question
Anyone having any issues with burning images that contain XP SP3? We're running version 11.01 of the Ghost client. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Ghost question
What do you mean burning, writing out to a dvd when booted off the dos or pe version? jlc From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ghost question Anyone having any issues with burning images that contain XP SP3? We're running version 11.01 of the Ghost client. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Invites for GrandCentral
Let us know where you would like a number in the form below and we will invite you as soon as the service is publicly available. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Cesare' A. Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any invites that they would like to share for GrandCentral (www.grandcentral.com) CAR Office: 305-443-0331 xt. 1202 Mobile: 786-412-1746 Skype: 305-851-2606 Fax: 305-443-0350 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BB Pin: 23E727FF AIM: cramosMIA MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: cramosMIA This e-Mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-Mail in error please notify the sender via returned e-Mail. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-Mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Although IDF operates anti-virus programs, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. ** Think before you print this message. ** -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Ghost question
The way we do it is to boot the PC we're going to burn to, install the Ghost client, and burn through the Ghost Console. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ghost question What do you mean burning, writing out to a dvd when booted off the dos or pe version? jlc From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ghost question Anyone having any issues with burning images that contain XP SP3? We're running version 11.01 of the Ghost client. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.7/1632 - Release Date: 8/25/2008 7:05 AM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
You can do the same thing with Windows Mobile devices using cabinet files. The cabinet file can contain everything but their username and password, including any self generated certificate. Granted it isn't well known, but I have had it documented for a while. Settings: http://www.amset.info/exchange/mobile-deploy.asp SSL Certificate: http://www.amset.info/pocketpc/certificates3.asp With Exchange 2007 and Windows Mobile 6.1, if you are using a commercial SSL certificate then the users don't even need anything on their devices, just their email address and password. The iPhone has just woken lots of people up to what is required, and because Apple have a solution people think that is the only way. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/http://certificatesforexchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/http://domainsforexchange.net/ From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2008 20:35 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ok, so The Enterprise Deployment Config: You install an app which sets up a webserver to connect to (lame). I assume this is because they only developed one application and ported it to windows. You create a config, then either email it out, or export it to be downloaded by safari. It can contain a minimum of an EAS profile and APN config (lame again, they obviously have one or how the hell does it download it via Safari?) and an ssl cert (if you need it). The email option is busted as it needs the nix binary on a nix path (Lame to include that in my windows version?). Truth is, after adding the mime type to IIS the profile worked immediately after being downloaded and synced asap! If they did away with quirks above, this kicks the hell out of EAS on Mobile OS for setting up my un inclined users. I am going to try to leave the username partially blank so I can make one profile for all users. Cool... jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Ghost question
Burn == dump image? Odd choice of lingo, but no issues with SP3 here, but I don't use the installable client. Just *casts with Server and console app. jlc -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ghost question The way we do it is to boot the PC we're going to burn to, install the Ghost client, and burn through the Ghost Console. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ghost question What do you mean burning, writing out to a dvd when booted off the dos or pe version? jlc From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ghost question Anyone having any issues with burning images that contain XP SP3? We're running version 11.01 of the Ghost client. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.7/1632 - Release Date: 8/25/2008 7:05 AM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS CA's and iPhones
Darn, I never looked at cabs even though I knew they existed, what a shame! Another link from your site (rpc/http) I'll be keeping:) Thanks! jlc From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones You can do the same thing with Windows Mobile devices using cabinet files. The cabinet file can contain everything but their username and password, including any self generated certificate. Granted it isn't well known, but I have had it documented for a while. Settings: http://www.amset.info/exchange/mobile-deploy.asp SSL Certificate: http://www.amset.info/pocketpc/certificates3.asp With Exchange 2007 and Windows Mobile 6.1, if you are using a commercial SSL certificate then the users don't even need anything on their devices, just their email address and password. The iPhone has just woken lots of people up to what is required, and because Apple have a solution people think that is the only way. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/http://certificatesforexchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/http://domainsforexchange.net/ From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2008 20:35 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones Ok, so The Enterprise Deployment Config: You install an app which sets up a webserver to connect to (lame). I assume this is because they only developed one application and ported it to windows. You create a config, then either email it out, or export it to be downloaded by safari. It can contain a minimum of an EAS profile and APN config (lame again, they obviously have one or how the hell does it download it via Safari?) and an ssl cert (if you need it). The email option is busted as it needs the nix binary on a nix path (Lame to include that in my windows version?). Truth is, after adding the mime type to IIS the profile worked immediately after being downloaded and synced asap! If they did away with quirks above, this kicks the hell out of EAS on Mobile OS for setting up my un inclined users. I am going to try to leave the username partially blank so I can make one profile for all users. Cool... jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
remote access
I have some users who connect from home using a VPN, and then use Remote Desktop to connect to a Terminal Server. The problem they are having is the Remote Desktop session disconnects after 5-20 minutes, and then they can't reconnect for about 30 minutes. Is there a GP setting that could be kicking them out? These users do not have this issue with Remote Desktop if they here at the campus, only when connecting thru the VPN. The VPN connection appears to stay connected. Thanks, Paul Everett IS Dept. Lee Mental Health Center 239-791-1551 Lee Mental Health Center, Inc. providing services through Ruth Cooper Center for Behavioral Health Care and VISTA Behavioral Crisis Services. Visit our website at www.leementalhealth.org blocked::http://www.leementalhealth.org/ to learn more. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any 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, including attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Ghost question
Sorry, I've never heard it called dump image. I use burn to indicate that I'm transferring the image from the server to a PC/laptop, thus burning the image into the machine's hard drive... :) Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ghost question Burn == dump image? Odd choice of lingo, but no issues with SP3 here, but I don't use the installable client. Just *casts with Server and console app. jlc -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ghost question The way we do it is to boot the PC we're going to burn to, install the Ghost client, and burn through the Ghost Console. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ghost question What do you mean burning, writing out to a dvd when booted off the dos or pe version? jlc From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ghost question Anyone having any issues with burning images that contain XP SP3? We're running version 11.01 of the Ghost client. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.7/1632 - Release Date: 8/25/2008 7:05 AM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.7/1632 - Release Date: 8/25/2008 7:05 AM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Ghost question
I think the Ghost Cast Server calls them dump and load operations where: Dump = pull image from client to .gho file on server Load = push image from server (.gho image) to client - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ghost question Sorry, I've never heard it called dump image. I use burn to indicate that I'm transferring the image from the server to a PC/laptop, thus burning the image into the machine's hard drive... :) Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ghost question Burn == dump image? Odd choice of lingo, but no issues with SP3 here, but I don't use the installable client. Just *casts with Server and console app. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: home Dir size question
I use DFolder already. Unfortunately, most of these 3rd party aps run under the context of the user logged in, and since the admin is denied, I cant see the size of the folder. I need a system level utility I think, if such a thing exist. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Terminal Server licensing question
Anyone know why Terminal Services would give out Temporary per device licenses instead of paid-for per user licenses? Is there somewhere in the configuration that I need to tell it to use per user, or do we need to go back and purchase per device? We're using them in conjunction with Citrix Presentation Server 4.0... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use
Has anyone tried solutions from Compellent? http://www.compellent.com/ Any thoughts/comments? Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I echo the S500 comments, we have two of them. We do Full Disk Replication to a DR site. The gui is slow, tends to crash. The console is totally not supported, but when we do finally get a Tier 3 guy we can understand they do it all through the console anyway... I see why its unsupported because one wrong key click and poof goes your volume.. I will not be buying any of these again in the future. For smaller scale implementations we use the MD3000i and for larger we do the Equalogic or if they just require very high IO in a SMB environment. (Virtualized Exchange, SQL, etc using Vmware or Virtual Server for instance) I am worred about the 85% issue, have not seen that yet, but will be calling support and waiting to get confirmation and if so a fix for it. Thanks Greg From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside... 1) Their support is absolutely useless. If your production S500 goes down on a Saturday morning, you may not get it back up until Monday as they do not employ Tier 3 support on the weekends. 2) The filer panics and reboots when a volume hits 85% utilization. 3) Any changes made outside of the 'StoreVault Manager' GUI software are not supported. Even though there is a command line, you can't do anything in it and expect it to be supported. I could go on, but those are my biggest complaints. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Well tell us why! jlc From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use The S500/S550 series does use SATA drives. We use them in our test lab, but I would no longer consider using one for production. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Manager of Operations | Azaleos Corporation | T: 206.926.1945 | M: 540.322.7980 You rely on Exchange. We keep it running. From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Doesn't that use SATA drives? The MD3000i we purchased uses SAS drives. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use H, I can get the S550 for over half of that cost with more space.. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Equallogic, seriously? I was looking at PS5000E for like $26,000, 2TB single controler config. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You couldn't handle it. Shook From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Man, I need to get some of that... On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep and just sent you something off-list... Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Equallogic is cheaper then an S550? I am seeing ~5k for an S550 w/o drives? You sure? Thanks! jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use JLC, Look at Equallogic. Better IO's and cheaper than S550's. IME If you need a referral to the partner I used to get the primo pricing, let me know. Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I need some more IO and don't have time to roll my own solution as I cant afford the testing interval. Looking at some cheap Netapp S550's right now. Anyone got any experiences/reco's they can share? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Terminal Server licensing question
Its in the config On 8/25/08, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why Terminal Services would give out Temporary per device licenses instead of paid-for per user licenses? Is there somewhere in the configuration that I need to tell it to use per user, or do we need to go back and purchase per device? We're using them in conjunction with Citrix Presentation Server 4.0... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: home Dir size question
Someone suggested windirstat - I second that. However, there's also a console utility from long ago called diruse.exe, from one of the older server RK's. It's pretty dang handy. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way for me to list the folder sizes of users Home Directories? The users are set to redirect their my docs to their home directories, and the my doc's are set to private. So I cant Right click and see the folder size. How can I see all the users size of their home dirs? The reason I am asking is that we lost over 100GB of free space overnight and I want to see who done it.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: home Dir size question
Thank you for that info, this tool made my day...(was pretty bad until this tool was mentioned) Thomas -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: home Dir size question Someone suggested windirstat - I second that. However, there's also a console utility from long ago called diruse.exe, from one of the older server RK's. It's pretty dang handy. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way for me to list the folder sizes of users Home Directories? The users are set to redirect their my docs to their home directories, and the my doc's are set to private. So I cant Right click and see the folder size. How can I see all the users size of their home dirs? The reason I am asking is that we lost over 100GB of free space overnight and I want to see who done it.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could install it? We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like to protect them centrally to reduce ownership costs, make troubleshooting easier, and allow us to proactively spot things like common infections. So far Trend's OfficeScan and Panda are about the only ones that seem to do that. Stu, or anyone else - does anything else work OK for traveling laptops (no VPN)? == John == From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. For our needs I'd add: 4)Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because it's the standard. *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Terminal Server licensing question
Terminal Server Licensing Config? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Terminal Server licensing question Its in the config On 8/25/08, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why Terminal Services would give out Temporary per device licenses instead of paid-for per user licenses? Is there somewhere in the configuration that I need to tell it to use per user, or do we need to go back and purchase per device? We're using them in conjunction with Citrix Presentation Server 4.0... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.7/1632 - Release Date: 8/25/2008 7:05 AM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
Good question! I just sent this exact same question into sunbelts support page this morning. Were in the same boat. Our laptop users only connect to our network a few times a year but we still provide remote support. We need an antivirus product that will check in with us every time its online. Matt On 8/25/08, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could install it? We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like to protect them centrally to reduce ownership costs, make troubleshooting easier, and allow us to proactively spot things like common infections. So far Trend's OfficeScan and Panda are about the only ones that seem to do that. Stu, or anyone else - does anything else work OK for traveling laptops (no VPN)? == John == From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. For our needs I'd add: 4)Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because it's the standard. *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
Vipre\CSE has the option to get update from the Internet if internal servers are not availble. Works very well... Shook From: Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Good question! I just sent this exact same question into sunbelts support page this morning. Were in the same boat. Our laptop users only connect to our network a few times a year but we still provide remote support. We need an antivirus product that will check in with us every time its online. Matt On 8/25/08, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could install it? We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like to protect them centrally to reduce ownership costs, make troubleshooting easier, and allow us to proactively spot things like common infections. So far Trend's OfficeScan and Panda are about the only ones that seem to do that. Stu, or anyone else - does anything else work OK for traveling laptops (no VPN)? == John == From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. For our needs I'd add: 4)Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because it's the standard. *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Interactive Whiteboards/Smartboards for Education
Does anyone here have recommendations for smartboard/interactive whiteboards, particularly for young children? Our teachers use Bluetooth tablets for the majority of their stuff but the administration is wanting something like this for the smaller children to interact with the computer/projector system and we've not used one of these in quite some time. Thought I'd see if anyone has any suggestions. Jon Lewis ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
I think yes, but I'm going to make sure and ask the lead dev !! Stu -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops You mean you would like it to check in for status and reporting purposes? With VIPRE, or any other product that has similar options, what would happen if you set the update options for laptops to update from Sunbelt's servers over the Internet, but set the policy\reporting server to the public IP address on your router, and port forwarded those ports to your VIPRE server. Would that work? -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Vipre\CSE has the option to get update from the Internet if internal servers are not availble. Works very well... Shook From: Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Good question! I just sent this exact same question into sunbelts support page this morning. Were in the same boat. Our laptop users only connect to our network a few times a year but we still provide remote support. We need an antivirus product that will check in with us every time its online. Matt On 8/25/08, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could install it? We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like to protect them centrally to reduce ownership costs, make troubleshooting easier, and allow us to proactively spot things like common infections. So far Trend's OfficeScan and Panda are about the only ones that seem to do that. Stu, or anyone else - does anything else work OK for traveling laptops (no VPN)? == John == From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. For our needs I'd add: 4)Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because it's the standard. *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Confidentiality Notice: -- This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
Another option maybe - if the AV product can be forced to check in though a script(can VIPRE?), and you can set up a VPN with something like OpenVPN or Cisco VPN client command line, you could create a script to run once a day that connects the VPN, forces the AV to check in, then disconnects the VPN. Just thinking out loud. -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops I think yes, but I'm going to make sure and ask the lead dev !! Stu -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops You mean you would like it to check in for status and reporting purposes? With VIPRE, or any other product that has similar options, what would happen if you set the update options for laptops to update from Sunbelt's servers over the Internet, but set the policy\reporting server to the public IP address on your router, and port forwarded those ports to your VIPRE server. Would that work? -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Vipre\CSE has the option to get update from the Internet if internal servers are not availble. Works very well... Shook From: Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Good question! I just sent this exact same question into sunbelts support page this morning. Were in the same boat. Our laptop users only connect to our network a few times a year but we still provide remote support. We need an antivirus product that will check in with us every time its online. Matt On 8/25/08, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could install it? We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like to protect them centrally to reduce ownership costs, make troubleshooting easier, and allow us to proactively spot things like common infections. So far Trend's OfficeScan and Panda are about the only ones that seem to do that. Stu, or anyone else - does anything else work OK for traveling laptops (no VPN)? == John == From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. For our needs I'd add: 4)Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because it's the standard. *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
What would be cool would be an AV agent that could generate an email with it's data - could be encrypted - and send it to an email account on your domain that is checked by the AV server. The server then reads the email, updates the database and deletes the email. No open ports on the firewall, no special VPN to set up. Could something like that be workable? -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops I think yes, but I'm going to make sure and ask the lead dev !! Stu -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops You mean you would like it to check in for status and reporting purposes? With VIPRE, or any other product that has similar options, what would happen if you set the update options for laptops to update from Sunbelt's servers over the Internet, but set the policy\reporting server to the public IP address on your router, and port forwarded those ports to your VIPRE server. Would that work? -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Vipre\CSE has the option to get update from the Internet if internal servers are not availble. Works very well... Shook From: Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Good question! I just sent this exact same question into sunbelts support page this morning. Were in the same boat. Our laptop users only connect to our network a few times a year but we still provide remote support. We need an antivirus product that will check in with us every time its online. Matt On 8/25/08, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could install it? We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like to protect them centrally to reduce ownership costs, make troubleshooting easier, and allow us to proactively spot things like common infections. So far Trend's OfficeScan and Panda are about the only ones that seem to do that. Stu, or anyone else - does anything else work OK for traveling laptops (no VPN)? == John == From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. For our needs I'd add: 4)Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because it's the standard. *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
That would be sweet..Umm very sweet indeed.. Talk about a simplified rock solid compliance tool for remote offices and at home/on the road employees. -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops What would be cool would be an AV agent that could generate an email with it's data - could be encrypted - and send it to an email account on your domain that is checked by the AV server. The server then reads the email, updates the database and deletes the email. No open ports on the firewall, no special VPN to set up. Could something like that be workable? -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops I think yes, but I'm going to make sure and ask the lead dev !! Stu -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops You mean you would like it to check in for status and reporting purposes? With VIPRE, or any other product that has similar options, what would happen if you set the update options for laptops to update from Sunbelt's servers over the Internet, but set the policy\reporting server to the public IP address on your router, and port forwarded those ports to your VIPRE server. Would that work? -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Vipre\CSE has the option to get update from the Internet if internal servers are not availble. Works very well... Shook From: Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Good question! I just sent this exact same question into sunbelts support page this morning. Were in the same boat. Our laptop users only connect to our network a few times a year but we still provide remote support. We need an antivirus product that will check in with us every time its online. Matt On 8/25/08, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could install it? We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like to protect them centrally to reduce ownership costs, make troubleshooting easier, and allow us to proactively spot things like common infections. So far Trend's OfficeScan and Panda are about the only ones that seem to do that. Stu, or anyone else - does anything else work OK for traveling laptops (no VPN)? == John == From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. For our needs I'd add: 4)Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because it's the standard. *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint
Remembering Custom Search Web Page of old Michael
Many years ago --at least 5 -- a Michael in this group provided a custom web page where one could search in Google, Google groups, EventID etc etc. by selecting a radio button for them. I would very much like to get code of such a webpage, especially since search box in Google bar often freezes in my IE7 of Vista. I am willing to pay for such a page. Thanks. Jay Kulsh So. Pasadena, CA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
How about https, with both client and server certificates required? Much simpler. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Ralph Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be cool would be an AV agent that could generate an email with it's data - could be encrypted - and send it to an email account on your domain that is checked by the AV server. The server then reads the email, updates the database and deletes the email. No open ports on the firewall, no special VPN to set up. Could something like that be workable? -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops I think yes, but I'm going to make sure and ask the lead dev !! Stu -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops You mean you would like it to check in for status and reporting purposes? With VIPRE, or any other product that has similar options, what would happen if you set the update options for laptops to update from Sunbelt's servers over the Internet, but set the policy\reporting server to the public IP address on your router, and port forwarded those ports to your VIPRE server. Would that work? -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Vipre\CSE has the option to get update from the Internet if internal servers are not availble. Works very well... Shook From: Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops Good question! I just sent this exact same question into sunbelts support page this morning. Were in the same boat. Our laptop users only connect to our network a few times a year but we still provide remote support. We need an antivirus product that will check in with us every time its online. Matt On 8/25/08, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could install it? We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like to protect them centrally to reduce ownership costs, make troubleshooting easier, and allow us to proactively spot things like common infections. So far Trend's OfficeScan and Panda are about the only ones that seem to do that. Stu, or anyone else - does anything else work OK for traveling laptops (no VPN)? == John == From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. For our needs I'd add: 4)Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because it's the standard. *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~
FW: RE: MS Outlook signature control
Um... Too tight of controls? This is an NT Admin list, we will share many 'system commands'... -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:19 PM To: Sam Cayze Subject: Re: RE: MS Outlook signature control Sorry, your message was not sent out to 'exchangelist' because the first word of your message looks very similar to a system command. If it is a command, you should email it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your message is definitely not a command, and is instead an email message that everyone on exchangelist should receive, then you should re-send your message, changing the first word so that it does not cause this warning. --- The rejected text was: Remove write access to the signature folder perhpas? Then the option will be grayed out in Outlook. I mark all the user's default signatures as read only, so they can't edit them, and muck up our standard format. However, I allow them to create new ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS Outlook signature control
Anyway, Ajay Kulsh, read my response below. Hope it helps, Sam -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FW: RE: MS Outlook signature control Um... Too tight of controls? This is an NT Admin list, we will share many 'system commands'... -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:19 PM To: Sam Cayze Subject: Re: RE: MS Outlook signature control Sorry, your message was not sent out to 'exchangelist' because the first word of your message looks very similar to a system command. If it is a command, you should email it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your message is definitely not a command, and is instead an email message that everyone on exchangelist should receive, then you should re-send your message, changing the first word so that it does not cause this warning. --- The rejected text was: Remove write access to the signature folder perhpas? Then the option will be grayed out in Outlook. I mark all the user's default signatures as read only, so they can't edit them, and muck up our standard format. However, I allow them to create new ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
