DHCP fail-over
Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in it's exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: create iso
+1 -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: create iso InfraRecorder is awesome http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ Free, Bob wrote: I thought they were bad until I recently installed Nero for a portable DVD burner I bought for my laptop. Cripes, what an invasive POS -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ *** The information in this e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender by return e-mail delete this e-mail and refrain from any disclosure or action based on the information. *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Windows 2003 Enterprise 32 bit with GPT
Hi, Can someone advice me on this? Can Windows 2003 Enterprise 32bit support GPT disk? I have googled and find conflicting results. This document says no, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758966.aspx but this document says yes, http://www.plasmontech.com/downloads2/pdf/rts_cb018.pdf?bcsi_scan_2229F3D84EB0997D=0bcsi_scan_filename=rts_cb018.pdf Windows 2003 server (service pack 1) x86 Windows 2003 server claims support for disk’s greater than 2TB but this can be misleading since, while the logical volume will show up in Windows disk management tool, it will automatically partition the volume into separate pieces of no larger than 2TB, and allow no access to the partitions above address 2^32. In order to use volumes greater than 2TB, it is necessary to create a GPT partition table for the volume. GPT imposes some restrictions, which are listed below. So maybe I have misunderstood both articles. Can someone advice me? What my client wants to do is to shrink or increase the LUN size on the fly using Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 and only GPT support more than 2TB in a Windows OS. Thanks. Best Regards, WY Yahoo! Toolbar is now powered with Search Assist.Download it now! http://sg.toolbar.yahoo.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DHCP fail-over
Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in it's exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DHCP fail-over
We have a large number of freelancers and transient workers. With long lease times we sometimes hit the limit of the lease range on the server. Keeping it short means that the IPs are available again for us more quickly. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 15 September 2008 12:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in it's exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DHCP fail-over
-> RE: DHCP fail-over ntsysadmin -- Thread -- -- Date -- RE: DHCP fail-over Michael B. Smith Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:18:26 -0700 DHCP fail-over Oliver Marshall RE: DHCP fail-over NTSysAdmin RE: DHCP fail-over Oliver Marshall RE: DHCP fail-over Michael B. Smith RE: DHCP fail-over Oliver Marshall RE: DHCP fail-over Michael B. Smith RE: DHCP fail-over René de Haas RE: DHCP fail-over Ken Schaefer RE: DHCP fail-over Oliver Marshall Reply via email to
RE: DHCP fail-over
Keep in mind that while, in general, you should note about ½ of each of your clients connecting to each DHCP server, the range available to each DHCP server needs to be sufficient to meet the needs of all the potential clients (otherwise, it isnt redundant!). You may have thought through that, but I just thought Id throw it out there. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Oh Im aware we could expand the range, part of which will be done with the 2nd DHCP, but where possible we try to put in as much redundancy as we can, and DHCP a good target for that now. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2008 13:17 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over So? Expand the range. As for your original question, your conclusion is correct. They dont actually need to be excluded. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over We have a large number of freelancers and transient workers. With long lease times we sometimes hit the limit of the lease range on the server. Keeping it short means that the IPs are available again for us more quickly. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 15 September 2008 12:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, Im looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in its exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Dumb question #1 - Jet Direct
OK, dumb question #1 for the day... I've inherited an HP Laserjet 4100n (with a Jet Direct network card). It has a reasonably usable control panel on it, so I've set TCP/IP settings, added it (static IP) to DNS, etc. All went well until time to connect to it... As I said, I inherited this, and I have no documentation except for what I downloaded from HP. I am asked for the Jet Direct password. Not being able to find this in what documentation came with the software download, I need to know - how does one reset the Jet Direct password to a null? Otherwise, is there a generic password HP uses (other than null or password)? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DHCP fail-over
Yes, but also you feel pain immediately once your DHCP server is down. If you give it a leasetime of 2 days you have one day to get the server back up. To answer your question I would go for option B, ie no exclusion ranges, but give A range 1-50 and B range 51-100. René From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over We have a large number of freelancers and transient workers. With long lease times we sometimes hit the limit of the lease range on the server. Keeping it short means that the IPs are available again for us more quickly. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 15 September 2008 12:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in it's exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly *** The information in this e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender by return e-mail delete this e-mail and refrain from any disclosure or action based on the information. *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Dumb question #1 - Jet Direct
According to this list there isn't one ( http://www.cyxla.com/passwords/passwords.html) although maybe some more digging will turn up something more substantial... 2008/9/15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, dumb question #1 for the day... I've inherited an HP Laserjet 4100n (with a Jet Direct network card). It has a reasonably usable control panel on it, so I've set TCP/IP settings, added it (static IP) to DNS, etc. All went well until time to connect to it... As I said, I inherited this, and I have no documentation except for what I downloaded from HP. I am asked for the Jet Direct password. Not being able to find this in what documentation came with the software download, I need to know - how does one reset the Jet Direct password to a null? Otherwise, is there a generic password HP uses (other than null or password)? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ 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: Dumb question #1 - Jet Direct
The previous owner probably set it, you'll have to do a hard reset. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=reset+jetdirect+password -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dumb question #1 - Jet Direct OK, dumb question #1 for the day... I've inherited an HP Laserjet 4100n (with a Jet Direct network card). It has a reasonably usable control panel on it, so I've set TCP/IP settings, added it (static IP) to DNS, etc. All went well until time to connect to it... As I said, I inherited this, and I have no documentation except for what I downloaded from HP. I am asked for the Jet Direct password. Not being able to find this in what documentation came with the software download, I need to know - how does one reset the Jet Direct password to a null? Otherwise, is there a generic password HP uses (other than null or password)? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ 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/ ~
Dumb question #2 - trusts
For the past 12 years we have existed as an independant network from our main HQ in New York. (We're in Illinois.) New CIO wants the network all merged into one domain. (This is messy in part because our NT domain ends with .int, and theirs ends with .org, which is the same as our public domain name. We'll skip this for now...) Oh yeah, both offices Win2003 AD native. I asked about this months ago, and I was told that a full two-way trust would solve nearly everything. (The alternative I was told was to install a brand new forest and move all nodes, users, etc into that - messy again!) So, now that we have a brand new WAN set up between us and NY, we're ready to set up the trust. I know how to establish the trust. What I had a hard time finding last night was what happens once the trust is established. Specifically: 1. DNS - do the domains exchange and load zone information automagically,or is it fairly straight forward adding the zone information via browsing? 2. SHARES! This is the big one... How does one set up shares for company file folders, etc between the two domains? With one domain, the UNC was \\server\share. Now that there are two sets (two domains) of servers, can one continue to use UNC naming? If so, how is this done? I'd hate to be told that network resources now need IP address and that UNC is out! I figure things like local users being able to log into workstations in the other domain are set via group policy... Thanks! Back to Googling and searching Technet... -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Dumb question #2 - trusts
1a. On the source DNS servers, allow the remote DNS servers to do zone transfers. On the remote DNS servers, set up the domains as secondaries. 1b. You didn't ask about WINS, but do the same thing for WINS (it's called replication partners in WINS). If you aren't using WINS, I suggest you do. Otherwise, (1a) needs to be more complicated in order to deal with short-name resolution. 2. It's no different as long as short name resolution works (see 1b). If short name resolution doesn't work, you'll need to either learn about DNS suffixes (which makes 1a and DHCP more complicated) or use fully qualified domain names in your share UNCs. Note that you'll need to do work on Share Permissions AND NTFS permissions for remote users to access shares. Other: ensure that everyone has a UPN set and that you aren't using the same UPN in both forests. For more information about UPNs, see http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/the-user-pr inciple-name-and-you.aspx. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dumb question #2 - trusts For the past 12 years we have existed as an independant network from our main HQ in New York. (We're in Illinois.) New CIO wants the network all merged into one domain. (This is messy in part because our NT domain ends with .int, and theirs ends with .org, which is the same as our public domain name. We'll skip this for now...) Oh yeah, both offices Win2003 AD native. I asked about this months ago, and I was told that a full two-way trust would solve nearly everything. (The alternative I was told was to install a brand new forest and move all nodes, users, etc into that - messy again!) So, now that we have a brand new WAN set up between us and NY, we're ready to set up the trust. I know how to establish the trust. What I had a hard time finding last night was what happens once the trust is established. Specifically: 1. DNS - do the domains exchange and load zone information automagically,or is it fairly straight forward adding the zone information via browsing? 2. SHARES! This is the big one... How does one set up shares for company file folders, etc between the two domains? With one domain, the UNC was \\server\share. Now that there are two sets (two domains) of servers, can one continue to use UNC naming? If so, how is this done? I'd hate to be told that network resources now need IP address and that UNC is out! I figure things like local users being able to log into workstations in the other domain are set via group policy... Thanks! Back to Googling and searching Technet... -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ 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/ ~
Hyper-V - is it possible to change the order in which vm's boot?
My Google skills are failing me this morning. I'm trying to figure out how to control the order in which Hyper-V virtual machines boot. Example - VM1 is a server VM2 is a SQL server VM3 is a domain controller I need VM3 to boot first, then VM2, then VM1. Can this boot order be defined? How? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Hyper-V - is it possible to change the order in which vm's boot?
Settings for the VM - Management section - Automatic Start Action - configure appropriate delay Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 September 2008 11:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V - is it possible to change the order in which vm's boot? My Google skills are failing me this morning. I'm trying to figure out how to control the order in which Hyper-V virtual machines boot. Example - VM1 is a server VM2 is a SQL server VM3 is a domain controller I need VM3 to boot first, then VM2, then VM1. Can this boot order be defined? How? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DHCP fail-over
Whilst you can just define the ranges, I would prefer to specify a proper subnet/netmask definition, and add the appropriate exclusions. It's easier to automate using netsh.exe as well (if you are going to be typing things in at a command line) Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 September 2008 10:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Oh I'm aware we could expand the range, part of which will be done with the 2nd DHCP, but where possible we try to put in as much redundancy as we can, and DHCP a good target for that now. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2008 13:17 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over So? Expand the range. As for your original question, your conclusion is correct. They don't actually need to be excluded. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over We have a large number of freelancers and transient workers. With long lease times we sometimes hit the limit of the lease range on the server. Keeping it short means that the IPs are available again for us more quickly. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 15 September 2008 12:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in it's exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DHCP fail-over
TypeType I didn't get this mouse free with my computer to TYPE!!! J From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2008 14:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Whilst you can just define the ranges, I would prefer to specify a proper subnet/netmask definition, and add the appropriate exclusions. It's easier to automate using netsh.exe as well (if you are going to be typing things in at a command line) Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 September 2008 10:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Oh I'm aware we could expand the range, part of which will be done with the 2nd DHCP, but where possible we try to put in as much redundancy as we can, and DHCP a good target for that now. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2008 13:17 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over So? Expand the range. As for your original question, your conclusion is correct. They don't actually need to be excluded. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over We have a large number of freelancers and transient workers. With long lease times we sometimes hit the limit of the lease range on the server. Keeping it short means that the IPs are available again for us more quickly. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 15 September 2008 12:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in it's exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 2003 Enterprise 32 bit with GPT
I think that Technet document is out-of-date (or only applies to RTM Win2k3 Server). It is dated 2003. See this FAQ (updated 2008): http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Mousehunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 September 2008 9:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2003 Enterprise 32 bit with GPT Hi, Can someone advice me on this? Can Windows 2003 Enterprise 32bit support GPT disk? I have googled and find conflicting results. This document says no, http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc758966.aspx but this document says yes, http://www.plasmontech.com/downloads2/pdf/rts_cb018.pdf?bcsi_scan_2229F3D84EB0 997D=0bcsi_scan_filename=rts_cb018.pdf Windows 2003 server (service pack 1) x86 Windows 2003 server claims support for disk’s greater than 2TB but this can be misleading since, while the logical volume will show up in Windows disk management tool, it will automatically partition the volume into separate pieces of no larger than 2TB, and allow no access to the partitions above address 2^32. In order to use volumes greater than 2TB, it is necessary to create a GPT partition table for the volume. GPT imposes some restrictions, which are listed below. So maybe I have misunderstood both articles. Can someone advice me? What my client wants to do is to shrink or increase the LUN size on the fly using Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 and only GPT support more than 2TB in a Windows OS. Thanks. Best Regards, WY ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: create iso
How do you figure this is from Microsoft? On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Cdimage.exe, it's from Microsoft. I create all my OpenBSD and Windows bootable CD's with this tool. Here is an example cmdline: CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXPFPP_EN -t12/31/2002,12:00:00 -h -j1 -m -bxpboot.img .\CD c:\WINXP_PRO_EN.ISO The CD folder is just the root of the CD. Oddly the tool is a little hard to find. But yu can get it from here: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/15/ -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Tigran K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: create iso Hi all, Please help I'm looking for an application that creates an ISO image file. I'm looking for a command line tool. Thanks --Tigran ~ 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: create iso
There is a CDIMAGE.EXE which is part of the WAIK - Windows Automated Installation Toolkit - for WinXP and Server 2003. WAIK was replaced by WDS and ADS for Vista and Server 2008; they prefer using ImageX and oscdimage. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Justin Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: create iso How do you figure this is from Microsoft? On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cdimage.exe, it's from Microsoft. I create all my OpenBSD and Windows bootable CD's with this tool. Here is an example cmdline: CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXPFPP_EN -t12/31/2002,12:00:00 -h -j1 -m -bxpboot.img .\CD c:\WINXP_PRO_EN.ISO The CD folder is just the root of the CD. Oddly the tool is a little hard to find. But yu can get it from here: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/15/ -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Tigran K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: create iso Hi all, Please help I'm looking for an application that creates an ISO image file. I'm looking for a command line tool. Thanks --Tigran ~ 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: create iso
It is part of the old MS WAIK Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Justin Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:58:10 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: create iso How do you figure this is from Microsoft? On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Cdimage.exe, it's from Microsoft. I create all my OpenBSD and Windows bootable CD's with this tool. Here is an example cmdline: CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXPFPP_EN -t12/31/2002,12:00:00 -h -j1 -m -bxpboot.img .\CD c:\WINXP_PRO_EN.ISO The CD folder is just the root of the CD. Oddly the tool is a little hard to find. But yu can get it from here: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/15/ -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Tigran K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: create iso Hi all, Please help I'm looking for an application that creates an ISO image file. I'm looking for a command line tool. Thanks --Tigran ~ 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/ ~ ~ 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: Fort Lauderdale area
This we absolutely gotta do in any event. Its been to long of a time coming! On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Durf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bo! Bo! You're coming out for a beer before you go. -- Durf On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ROFL... To tell the truth, there will be a lot I will miss here. There is a lot of fascinating history here, including hidden gems and yarns to be found during road-trips and vacation get-aways. My last was to visit Saint-Gaudens national historic site in Cornish, NH. An area rich in history, including the home, studios and gardens of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whom sculpted some of the most famous reliefs, statues, and coins in the US - many that are in the Boston area. http://www.nps.gov/saga There really is a lot to see around here, and its all pretty darn close-by! Also, I love to hike and snow-shoe. And I think my gear and going to get mighty dusty with no where to roam... well, there certainly wont be any shortage of other things to do and explore on the beaches and boardwalks... which a buddy of mine has been rubbing in my face for over a year now. But man am I sick of the winters and the attitudes here. I know mine sucks occasionally, and I hate myself for getting dragged into the crap-fest that is the New England attitude. And yea, foliage sure ain't what it used to be when I was a kid. The seasons have definitely changed - and not for the better. I do hope I go. One of the first things I'm going to do is drive to the end of Route 1 (Key West), and cross that off my list of things I've always wanted to do. :-) Have a great weekend everyone... On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Evan Brastow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HOW can you be itching to get out of New England!? As a fellow Massachusettsan, I can't believe you'd want to leave our wonderful historic charm, moderate though short-lived summers, beautiful autumn foliage that lasts two weeks, and winters that last nine frigging months and make you have to clean snow off your car every other day before you drive 4 mph to your freaking job so you can pay someone to plow your driveway while you pawn your belongings to pay the heating bill so you don't freeze while watching the Tom Brady-less Patriots lose to... The hell with it. I'm coming with you. Evan -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Fort Lauderdale area I'm looking at a possible job offer down there, and I'm itching to gtfo of New England. Are there any ppl here that are familiar with the area that can give me the lowdown of the area - or point me someplace that does? TIA! -- ME2 ~ 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/ ~ -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: create iso
May be, but I don't think that's the same as the link in the post that I questioned. On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a CDIMAGE.EXE which is part of the WAIK – Windows Automated Installation Toolkit – for WinXP and Server 2003. WAIK was replaced by WDS and ADS for Vista and Server 2008; they prefer using ImageX and oscdimage. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michaelhttp://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* Justin Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, September 15, 2008 9:58 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: create iso How do you figure this is from Microsoft? On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cdimage.exe, it's from Microsoft. I create all my OpenBSD and Windows bootable CD's with this tool. Here is an example cmdline: CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXPFPP_EN -t12/31/2002,12:00:00 -h -j1 -m -bxpboot.img .\CD c:\WINXP_PRO_EN.ISO The CD folder is just the root of the CD. Oddly the tool is a little hard to find. But yu can get it from here: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/15/ -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Tigran K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: create iso Hi all, Please help I'm looking for an application that creates an ISO image file. I'm looking for a command line tool. Thanks --Tigran ~ 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Fort Lauderdale area
Totally true. I drove out there some years back. Went through the Twin Cities, up to Fargo, and than kept west to western ND for a family reunion of sorts. Amazing country out there - and extremely nice people! Although, their definition of EYE-talian food is way out of spec... On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want cold weather and friendly people you should try the Twin Cities area. I keep trying to convince my wife to let me search for a job there, but she thinks it is too cold. (I'm from ND, currently living in WV for the last 11 years.) On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ROFL... To tell the truth, there will be a lot I will miss here. There is a lot of fascinating history here, including hidden gems and yarns to be found during road-trips and vacation get-aways. My last was to visit Saint-Gaudens national historic site in Cornish, NH. An area rich in history, including the home, studios and gardens of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whom sculpted some of the most famous reliefs, statues, and coins in the US - many that are in the Boston area. http://www.nps.gov/saga There really is a lot to see around here, and its all pretty darn close-by! Also, I love to hike and snow-shoe. And I think my gear and going to get mighty dusty with no where to roam... well, there certainly wont be any shortage of other things to do and explore on the beaches and boardwalks... which a buddy of mine has been rubbing in my face for over a year now. But man am I sick of the winters and the attitudes here. I know mine sucks occasionally, and I hate myself for getting dragged into the crap-fest that is the New England attitude. And yea, foliage sure ain't what it used to be when I was a kid. The seasons have definitely changed - and not for the better. I do hope I go. One of the first things I'm going to do is drive to the end of Route 1 (Key West), and cross that off my list of things I've always wanted to do. :-) Have a great weekend everyone... On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Evan Brastow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HOW can you be itching to get out of New England!? As a fellow Massachusettsan, I can't believe you'd want to leave our wonderful historic charm, moderate though short-lived summers, beautiful autumn foliage that lasts two weeks, and winters that last nine frigging months and make you have to clean snow off your car every other day before you drive 4 mph to your freaking job so you can pay someone to plow your driveway while you pawn your belongings to pay the heating bill so you don't freeze while watching the Tom Brady-less Patriots lose to... The hell with it. I'm coming with you. Evan -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Fort Lauderdale area I'm looking at a possible job offer down there, and I'm itching to gtfo of New England. Are there any ppl here that are familiar with the area that can give me the lowdown of the area - or point me someplace that does? TIA! -- ME2 ~ 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/ ~ -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Fort Lauderdale area
Wow, wow, and wow. Thanks for that awesome summary! I'll be heading down a single man, so I might be looking to live lavida loca or whatever that song title is - for a little while anyways. I'll prolly be apt/rental-bound until I figure out what I want out of the area. On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Delray Beach area, about 20 mins north of FTL. Its fine there, the city is huge you can live just about anywhere around there and still be 10-15 mins from your office. If you want family stuff, areas like Plantation, Weston (way west), Boca Raton are a good choice, if you are gay you will want to live around Wilton Manors, if you are a beach goer you live right along the water, if you are poor you live somewhere 1-2 miles west of the ocean to I95. If you are a boater you have a condo or TH with deep water access in a canal somewhere near the water but not on it. If you are wealthy you live off Las Olas and the Intra coastal, a little strip of area along Pompano Beach (Lighthouse Point) or in one of three key areas of Boca Raton. If you are single then the rest of the land is yours ;). Downtown FTL offers several high rise condos that have ocean views and you can walk to all the bars. Deerfield Beach a few miles North is where a lot of younger people are, you can hit the scene there and find a lot of 'college girl types'. Also a lot less expensive living with similar amenities. Delray Beach has one of the larger concentrations of party goers in one street (IMO). The only place you will find a guy asking for a handout, the street lined with benz/bmw's, and a drug dealer in every bar, oh not to mention everyone that works in those bars is in some program or another (Delray leads the nation I think in rehab programs). It makes for very interesting night life. Don't get lost though, two blocks away is some pretty bad ghettos. Oh yah all tucked inside this little 'strip' are 500-750k townhouses and condos. (The beach is clothing optional, I think, or at least it seems quite a few people like to go topless and no one ever says anything) Ive been down in the area for 15 years (South Beach to Boca Raton, to Delray) The housing market has pretty much tanked as much as its going to, lots of short sales and bank stuff going on in certain areas. The wealthier areas of course you wont find anything, I guess its whatever your looking for. Owning a house here isn't all its cracked up to be, real estate tax is high in lieu of a state sales tax (we have no state sales tax, just city/fed). You also need a HELL of a lot of insurance, and if you live east of I95 that can cost 50% of your mortgage payment depending on flood zone or not. Also there is no tradeoff for the breeze from the water, it makes a big difference between being on the water and getting that light breeze vs being 10 miles west and sitting in the swamp. As someone who owned homes out West and now rents right on the water, I can say Im much happier for about the same money. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Fort Lauderdale area
And there's nothing wrong with that! :-) On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Phillip Partipilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Totally! On Sep 13, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: theres a Dave Busters there for one. Oh boy, Chuck-E-Cheese for adults ! -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Fort Lauderdale area I'd sure love to live there, it is a beautiful city. Plenty of tech jobs too. Some nice old-style houses, or live along the rivers there, I've visited some really sweet homes with marinas right on the water there, they have a nice boat parade along the river where a buncha boats all tie-up rafting and people are hopping boat-to-boat partying. Lots of fun places, theres a Dave Busters there for one. Man, I would love to live there, but have a decent job about an hour north. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpamId=ODEzNjQ6NzQ0NDk0NjI5OnBqcEBwc25ldC5jb20%3D ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Is it dead Jim?
Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/12/2008 01:16:30 PM: Ricardo Montalbán FTW! To this day I want everything upholsterer in soft Corinthian leather... Fine Corinthian leather ... sniff ... ah ... On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KHAN rules! Even though Spock thinks he is illogical. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is it dead Jim? Khan!!! On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Yes I did, thanks for pointing that out. DARN IT I need more POWER! Ahem, To hell with you KIRK and your power requests! Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Richards, Brian D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is it dead Jim? That was a Star Trek reference (but maybe you knew that already ;-) Brian From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is it dead Jim? Jim isnt dead, Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Is it dead Jim? I haven't seen anything come through the last day or so and the archive doesn't show anything after about the 3rd... Damien Solodow Senior System Administrator Infrastructure Services Group Information Services Indiana Business College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct - (317) 217-6881 We are the Foundation of how Business Gets Done! -- ME2 ~ 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/ ~ -- ME2 ~ 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: KB 954156
FYI in case anyone cares, it appears MS updated this security patch on the 12th and lo and behold, it no longer wants to be installed on my 2003 server. Carl From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KB 954156 Giving this a bump because it likely got lost in the avalanche of old messages... So, of those of you who've approved KB 954156 for your 2003 SP2 servers, are none of you seeing it try to install there and fail? From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: KB 954156 WSUS identified this (Windows Media Encoder) update as required by my Windows 2003 server but it wouldn't install via AU. When attempting the install manually, it reports that WME isn't installed and therefore the update isn't appropriate. Anyone else? TIA, Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Fort Lauderdale area
wondering if James knows how close to certain death he is when he confuses us New Englanders with New Jersey/New Yorkers!!?? I'll take a pill and be fine, don't worry twitch -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Fort Lauderdale area One thing though, if you are looking to get out of New England to get away from New Englanders, South FL may not be the best place. If I had a dollar for every empire or garden state tag I see in Miami daily, I would be sitting pretty. Its one of the reasons I want to leave Miami and move to more Southerner. territory ;-) If you are single and like Latino girls you are in luck down here though. I've never even dated an American girl in my life.(Sorry American girls on this list, its just my personal taste). James - Original Message - From: Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:33 AM Subject: Re: Fort Lauderdale area Wow, wow, and wow. Thanks for that awesome summary! I'll be heading down a single man, so I might be looking to live lavida loca or whatever that song title is - for a little while anyways. I'll prolly be apt/rental-bound until I figure out what I want out of the area. On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Delray Beach area, about 20 mins north of FTL. Its fine there, the city is huge you can live just about anywhere around there and still be 10-15 mins from your office. If you want family stuff, areas like Plantation, Weston (way west), Boca Raton are a good choice, if you are gay you will want to live around Wilton Manors, if you are a beach goer you live right along the water, if you are poor you live somewhere 1-2 miles west of the ocean to I95. If you are a boater you have a condo or TH with deep water access in a canal somewhere near the water but not on it. If you are wealthy you live off Las Olas and the Intra coastal, a little strip of area along Pompano Beach (Lighthouse Point) or in one of three key areas of Boca Raton. If you are single then the rest of the land is yours ;). Downtown FTL offers several high rise condos that have ocean views and you can walk to all the bars. Deerfield Beach a few miles North is where a lot of younger people are, you can hit the scene there and find a lot of 'college girl types'. Also a lot less expensive living with similar amenities. Delray Beach has one of the larger concentrations of party goers in one street (IMO). The only place you will find a guy asking for a handout, the street lined with benz/bmw's, and a drug dealer in every bar, oh not to mention everyone that works in those bars is in some program or another (Delray leads the nation I think in rehab programs). It makes for very interesting night life. Don't get lost though, two blocks away is some pretty bad ghettos. Oh yah all tucked inside this little 'strip' are 500-750k townhouses and condos. (The beach is clothing optional, I think, or at least it seems quite a few people like to go topless and no one ever says anything) Ive been down in the area for 15 years (South Beach to Boca Raton, to Delray) The housing market has pretty much tanked as much as its going to, lots of short sales and bank stuff going on in certain areas. The wealthier areas of course you wont find anything, I guess its whatever your looking for. Owning a house here isn't all its cracked up to be, real estate tax is high in lieu of a state sales tax (we have no state sales tax, just city/fed). You also need a HELL of a lot of insurance, and if you live east of I95 that can cost 50% of your mortgage payment depending on flood zone or not. Also there is no tradeoff for the breeze from the water, it makes a big difference between being on the water and getting that light breeze vs being 10 miles west and sitting in the swamp. As someone who owned homes out West and now rents right on the water, I can say Im much happier for about the same money. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- ME2 ~ 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: KB 954156
Hi Carl... I agree that there have been some weird things happening with this patch. My WSUS server didn't get it until Friday the 12th. I don't uses WSUS for my servers, I do a manual Windows Update which I did on Saturday the 13th and this patch wasn't detected as needed on any of my W2K3 servers (all SP2). Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KB 954156 FYI in case anyone cares, it appears MS updated this security patch on the 12th and lo and behold, it no longer wants to be installed on my 2003 server. Carl From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KB 954156 Giving this a bump because it likely got lost in the avalanche of old messages... So, of those of you who've approved KB 954156 for your 2003 SP2 servers, are none of you seeing it try to install there and fail? From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: KB 954156 WSUS identified this (Windows Media Encoder) update as required by my Windows 2003 server but it wouldn't install via AU. When attempting the install manually, it reports that WME isn't installed and therefore the update isn't appropriate. Anyone else? TIA, Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware
My first guess would be to restore to the HP, then see if the HP will boot into Safe Mode. If so, have video and NIC drivers handy to install to it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/15/2008 10:19:48 AM: I have a DR test coming soon, and our DR center just swapped on the old Dell OptiPlex GX280's to new Dual Core HP PCs. I already have an very custom ghost image of the Dell OptiPlex GX280 that would like to deploy onto their new HPs, if possible. (I have limited time in their DR center, I don't want to spend it making another image - and I don't have time to go buy a HP unit). I'm pretty familiar with restoring to dissimilar hardware/bare metal restores when it comes to servers, but not so much on XP/Desktops. Is there a way I can inject some drivers into the image? Like I said, I don't have an HP at my site, but I do have an OptiPlex GX280 Or perhaps I could install a base XP on the HP when I am onsite, and then use BackupExec to restore the XP image on top of that, (And not overwrite the hardware profile). Ideas?I little OT, but the list seems pretty quite lately :) Thanks, Sam (Sorry, resending. I originally sent this when the list was down). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware
I have a DR test coming soon, and our DR center just swapped on the old Dell OptiPlex GX280's to new Dual Core HP PCs. I already have an very custom ghost image of the Dell OptiPlex GX280 that would like to deploy onto their new HPs, if possible. (I have limited time in their DR center, I don't want to spend it making another image - and I don't have time to go buy a HP unit). I'm pretty familiar with restoring to dissimilar hardware/bare metal restores when it comes to servers, but not so much on XP/Desktops. Is there a way I can inject some drivers into the image? Like I said, I don't have an HP at my site, but I do have an OptiPlex GX280 Or perhaps I could install a base XP on the HP when I am onsite, and then use BackupExec to restore the XP image on top of that, (And not overwrite the hardware profile). Ideas?I little OT, but the list seems pretty quite lately :) Thanks, Sam (Sorry, resending. I originally sent this when the list was down). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware
Would it even boot at all? The HALs are way different. It is a syspreped image though, that get's my around a lot of that, right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware My first guess would be to restore to the HP, then see if the HP will boot into Safe Mode. If so, have video and NIC drivers handy to install to it. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/15/2008 10:19:48 AM: I have a DR test coming soon, and our DR center just swapped on the old Dell OptiPlex GX280's to new Dual Core HP PCs. I already have an very custom ghost image of the Dell OptiPlex GX280 that would like to deploy onto their new HPs, if possible. (I have limited time in their DR center, I don't want to spend it making another image - and I don't have time to go buy a HP unit). I'm pretty familiar with restoring to dissimilar hardware/bare metal restores when it comes to servers, but not so much on XP/Desktops. Is there a way I can inject some drivers into the image? Like I said, I don't have an HP at my site, but I do have an OptiPlex GX280 Or perhaps I could install a base XP on the HP when I am onsite, and then use BackupExec to restore the XP image on top of that, (And not overwrite the hardware profile). Ideas?I little OT, but the list seems pretty quite lately :) Thanks, Sam (Sorry, resending. I originally sent this when the list was down). ~ 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: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware
It's not the HALs you need to worry about, it's the storage drivers. The images will boot far enough to blue screen with STOP code 0x7B (aka INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE). If you can get the storage drivers squared away they'll most definitely boot - I know this 'cause I have a universal XP SP3 ghost image that will Just Work (except for things like audio) on the machines in question. Sam Cayze wrote: Would it even boot at all? The HALs are way different. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware
If you get an answer to this I'd love to know. We can get around it by installing the drivers for a standard IO card (say an adaptec scsi/sas and an adaptec sata raid controller) before doing the DR images. However, that assumes that we a) have the replacement raid card handy come the restoration time and also that we don't need to restore to some other hardware. Being able to restore to something totally dissimilar would be great. -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2008 17:06 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware It's not the HALs you need to worry about, it's the storage drivers. The images will boot far enough to blue screen with STOP code 0x7B (aka INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE). If you can get the storage drivers squared away they'll most definitely boot - I know this 'cause I have a universal XP SP3 ghost image that will Just Work (except for things like audio) on the machines in question. Sam Cayze wrote: Would it even boot at all? The HALs are way different. -- 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: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware
Ah, good call. Especially since I'm going from IDE to SATA/AHCI -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware It's not the HALs you need to worry about, it's the storage drivers. The images will boot far enough to blue screen with STOP code 0x7B (aka INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE). If you can get the storage drivers squared away they'll most definitely boot - I know this 'cause I have a universal XP SP3 ghost image that will Just Work (except for things like audio) on the machines in question. Sam Cayze wrote: Would it even boot at all? The HALs are way different. -- 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: WAP's
We use Proxim AP-700s at several clients. We like them.
Bill
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Netgear ProSafe WG302. Make sure you have the current firmware. I’ve
had great luck implementing these in a number of applications.
*From:* Fergal O'Connell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:11 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* WAP's
Hi All
Just looking to get some advise on Wireless G WAP’s – can you
recommend a particular WAP.
Previously we have used the Linksys WAP54G without success.
I am looking to install 1 in each floor(3) with possibly 1\2 repeaters
(if necessary).
It should have the usual spec’s PoE, WDS and 802.11g
(We previously had issues with the Linksys and some very old 3 Com
8000 where most of the clients would drop connectivity – and no matter
what we did we were unable to fully resolve.
So were at the point where the folks wan the Wlan rolled out again and
put up with a not so reliable service.)
Regards
Fergal O'Connell
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Trusts - domains forests
Hi again... We're soon setting up a two-way trust with our NY offices. On a TechNet article, I read Windows Server 2003 forest trusts cannot be created between a Windows Server 2003 forest and a Windows 2000 forest. Looking through the various AD settings I see that our domain functional level is at Win 2003. However, our forest functional level is at Win 2000... Our forest is a single isolated (at the moment) domain at a single location. I see that I can set up trusts between my Win2000-functional forest and individual domains within the NY forest (they have 3 locations). Would it be best (although tedious) to do this, or is there a way to jump my current forest to Win2003 level? -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Trusts - domains forests
Never mind - the on-line help for ADDT was actually clear and helpful! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/15/2008 10:57:06 AM: Hi again... We're soon setting up a two-way trust with our NY offices. On a TechNet article, I read Windows Server 2003 forest trusts cannot be created between a Windows Server 2003 forest and a Windows 2000 forest. Looking through the various AD settings I see that our domain functional level is at Win 2003. However, our forest functional level is at Win 2000... Our forest is a single isolated (at the moment) domain at a single location. I see that I can set up trusts between my Win2000-functional forest and individual domains within the NY forest (they have 3 locations). Would it be best (although tedious) to do this, or is there a way to jump my current forest to Win2003 level? -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ 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/ ~
Cable Modem + Wireless router
I have Comcast high speed Internet service. My 5 year old cable modem is dying. I am looking for a 2-in-1 wireless router and cable modem. What is everyone using these days? -Z.V. This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message 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: Cable Modem + Wireless router
Any particular reason you want an all-in-one device? I like separates better. Wireless standards change next month. New access point and you are good. Lightening kill your cable modem replace just the modem. Most big box electronics places have cable modems and a lot of office supply stores also carry them. -Original Message- From: Vue, Za [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cable Modem + Wireless router I have Comcast high speed Internet service. My 5 year old cable modem is dying. I am looking for a 2-in-1 wireless router and cable modem. What is everyone using these days? -Z.V. This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Cable Modem + Wireless router
What makes you think it's your cable modem? I went out bought a new Motorola SurfBoard as I thought my old one was dying. After an absurd time on the phone, they registered the MAC for the new modem... Same symptoms! After even more waiting (including the tech showing up over 3 hours after the no later than time), my cable got tested. It flunked. I'm back to using my old equipment. For over a month, now, I've had a coax cable banjo-strung across my back yard waiting for Comcast to come bury a new cable. Whatever, the inconsistant problem I had was not a failing modem but rather the signal coming to the OUTSIDE of my house was 0-1 Db (rather than the specified 10-12 Db). Anyway, unless you're able to n protocol for wireless, see if the firmware on your wireless can be updated. Then, just replace the modem. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Vue, Za [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/15/2008 12:01:44 PM: I have Comcast high speed Internet service. My 5 year old cable modem is dying. I am looking for a 2-in-1 wireless router and cable modem. What is everyone using these days? -Z.V. This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238 http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentI D=723 DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Printer Logon Scripts
I need to drop all but a few printers, then add my own new ones. Anyone know how to enumerate all the installed printers, and then I could loop those except the few I want to go through the RemovePrinterConnection Method. Thanks, jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware
Would a sanitized sysprep.inf help? (no product code, domain, password to join domain, etc) http://www.optimumdata.net/phil/sysprep.inf Testing it is nice and all, but if you consider that most business class (Dell OptiPlex or the equivalent Lenovo or HP) and professional-class (Dell Precision or similar) desktops use a very, very small combination of storage controllers I don't think you have much to worry about - once it works on a Dell OptiPlex configured for AHCI and non-AHCI SATA, it'll work on almost anything with an Intel SATA chipset. I can use (and have used!) the exact same image on Dell, HP and Lenovo desktops and only have to worry about the audio drivers. Oliver Marshall wrote: If you get an answer to this I'd love to know. We can get around it by installing the drivers for a standard IO card (say an adaptec scsi/sas and an adaptec sata raid controller) before doing the DR images. However, that assumes that we a) have the replacement raid card handy come the restoration time and also that we don't need to restore to some other hardware. Being able to restore to something totally dissimilar would be great. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Printer Logon Scripts
If you need to do it with CMD scripts I can't help. This is how I do it with .vbs login scripts (beware line wrappage): dim network, networkPrinters, portNumber, printerName, i set networkPrinters = network.EnumPrinterConnections for i = 0 to networkPrinters.count - 1 step 2 portNumber = networkPrinters.item (i) printerName = networkPrinters.item (i + 1) select case printerName case \\server\printer1 network.RemovePrinterConnection \\server\printer1, true, true case \\server\printer2 network.RemovePrinterConnection \\server\printer2, true, true end select next Joseph L. Casale wrote: I need to drop all but a few printers, then add my own new ones. Anyone know how to enumerate all the installed printers, and then I could loop those except the few I want to go through the RemovePrinterConnection Method. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
PDF Print Server
Guys, I was about to setup Acrophobia but noticed it cant be setup to print to file. I don't want to grow my Exchange DB unnecessarily with emailing these back! Anyone got a reco? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Printer Logon Scripts
Which language? On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to drop all but a few printers, then add my own new ones. Anyone know how to enumerate all the installed printers, and then I could loop those except the few I want to go through the RemovePrinterConnection Method. Thanks, jlc -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Printer Logon Scripts
Presuming you don't need infinite detail:
Set WMICompSystem = GetObject(winmgmts: _
{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\ strComputer \root\cimv2)
Set colLocal = WMICompSystem.ExecQuery _
(Select * from Win32_Printer Where Local = 'True')
Set colNetwork = WMICompSystem.ExecQuery _
(Select * from Win32_Printer Where Network = 'True')
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From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Printer Logon Scripts
I need to drop all but a few printers, then add my own new ones.
Anyone know how to enumerate all the installed printers, and then I could
loop those except the few I want to go through the RemovePrinterConnection
Method.
Thanks,
jlc
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RE: Cable Modem + Wireless router
Same. Never a 2-in-1 device. Never any multi-device in my house. Except for the remote. That's a law here in this house. 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 -Original Message- From: wjh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:44 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cable Modem + Wireless router I'm hesitant to use a 2 in 1. After suffering through almost two years of constantly reseting my router and modem, I ponied up for a new wrt54gl and loaded tomato on it. My connection has been rock solid since then. Bill Vue, Za wrote: I have Comcast high speed Internet service. My 5 year old cable modem is dying. I am looking for a 2-in-1 wireless router and cable modem. What is everyone using these days? -Z.V. This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message 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/ ~ ~ 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/ ~
Web Filtering
I know the list seems to have this discussion what seems like every month, but I've had it with my Barracuda Web Filter. We're considering building a trebuchet on top of city hall and flinging the blasted thing into the next county and let it be their problem. Our budget is extremely limited (can't nix the trebuchet as it is vital to our long term plans) and we need a content filtering solution that works and I'm considering performing a test install with SmoothWall Express 3 or Dans Guardian since they're free. Has anyone had any experience using these products or their pay counterpart SmoothWall Corporate Guardian? At $700, I'd be willing to pay for it if it can block content reasonably well and give me flexible reporting options. Any gotchas that I should be aware of? (other than these solutions being Linux-based) Many thanks in advance, Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Web Filtering
OpenDNS. Free, many folks rave about it and you can try it for free :) Can I borrow your trebuchet for our Barracuda Spam filter? We will be tossing ours this winter. From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web Filtering I know the list seems to have this discussion what seems like every month, but I've had it with my Barracuda Web Filter. We're considering building a trebuchet on top of city hall and flinging the blasted thing into the next county and let it be their problem. Our budget is extremely limited (can't nix the trebuchet as it is vital to our long term plans) and we need a content filtering solution that works and I'm considering performing a test install with SmoothWall Express 3 or Dans Guardian since they're free. Has anyone had any experience using these products or their pay counterpart SmoothWall Corporate Guardian? At $700, I'd be willing to pay for it if it can block content reasonably well and give me flexible reporting options. Any gotchas that I should be aware of? (other than these solutions being Linux-based) Many thanks in advance, Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Web Filtering
Is comprehensive reporting a requirement? If not, then OpenDNS is your ticket. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web Filtering I know the list seems to have this discussion what seems like every month, but I've had it with my Barracuda Web Filter. We're considering building a trebuchet on top of city hall and flinging the blasted thing into the next county and let it be their problem. Our budget is extremely limited (can't nix the trebuchet as it is vital to our long term plans) and we need a content filtering solution that works and I'm considering performing a test install with SmoothWall Express 3 or Dans Guardian since they're free. Has anyone had any experience using these products or their pay counterpart SmoothWall Corporate Guardian? At $700, I'd be willing to pay for it if it can block content reasonably well and give me flexible reporting options. Any gotchas that I should be aware of? (other than these solutions being Linux-based) Many thanks in advance, Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Web Filtering
Yeah, reporting is key for us. Basically need reports that say what a person surfed to, when they went there, and how long they were there. I feel like it's almost too much to ask for out of a free installation, but unfortunately I'm not in a position to spend much, if any, money. Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web Filtering Is comprehensive reporting a requirement? If not, then OpenDNS is your ticket. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web Filtering I know the list seems to have this discussion what seems like every month, but I've had it with my Barracuda Web Filter. We're considering building a trebuchet on top of city hall and flinging the blasted thing into the next county and let it be their problem. Our budget is extremely limited (can't nix the trebuchet as it is vital to our long term plans) and we need a content filtering solution that works and I'm considering performing a test install with SmoothWall Express 3 or Dans Guardian since they're free. Has anyone had any experience using these products or their pay counterpart SmoothWall Corporate Guardian? At $700, I'd be willing to pay for it if it can block content reasonably well and give me flexible reporting options. Any gotchas that I should be aware of? (other than these solutions being Linux-based) Many thanks in advance, Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Web Filtering
I would also love to borrow that trebuchet for our Barracuda. I was
hoping to have vaulted it months ago.
Bill
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OpenDNS. Free, many folks rave about it and you can try it for free J
Can I borrow your trebuchet for our Barracuda Spam filter? We will be
tossing ours this winter.
*From:* Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Monday, September 15, 2008 3:17 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Web Filtering
I know the list seems to have this discussion what seems like every
month, but I've had it with my Barracuda Web Filter. We're considering
building a trebuchet on top of city hall and flinging the blasted
thing into the next county and let it be their problem. Our budget is
extremely limited (can't nix the trebuchet as it is vital to our long
term plans) and we need a content filtering solution that works and
I'm considering performing a test install with SmoothWall Express 3 or
Dans Guardian since they're free. Has anyone had any experience using
these products or their pay counterpart SmoothWall Corporate Guardian?
At $700, I'd be willing to pay for it if it can block content
reasonably well and give me flexible reporting options. Any gotchas
that I should be aware of? (other than these solutions being Linux-based)
Many thanks in advance,
Andrew Greene
IS Technician / Webmaster
City of Anderson
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
Install it on 2008 core. S From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win2008 activation
Windows IT Pro has a good article on it, but it is only available for subscribers. Its' InstantDoc #98153 at http://windowsitpro.com ...Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2008 activation Wow, I've never been so overwhelmed with trying to understand how to activate a product. I want to start using a single Windows 2008 Standard Server so I can begin learning it. However, it seems like I cannot activate the product via KMS (which I don't even have setup anywhere) because you need (5) Windows 2008 Server licenses in use to even begin using KMS. So, without using KMS, how should I activate this product? The product key I have is from one of my license agreements and is listed as Windows 2008 Std/Ent - KMS. I've read numerous things from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing.aspx but still don't quite understand exactly what I need to do. This seems a bit more bloated than it should be... Should I phone in the activation or use some other method? Thanks JR mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ~ 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: Web Filtering
I've used IPCop with the Cop+ plugin at a few offices and it has worked very well. IPCop is a fork of Smoothwall, and Cop+ is an addon for it that installs Dan's Guardian. http://ipcop.org/ http://firewalladdons.sourceforge.net/index.html From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web Filtering I know the list seems to have this discussion what seems like every month, but I've had it with my Barracuda Web Filter. We're considering building a trebuchet on top of city hall and flinging the blasted thing into the next county and let it be their problem. Our budget is extremely limited (can't nix the trebuchet as it is vital to our long term plans) and we need a content filtering solution that works and I'm considering performing a test install with SmoothWall Express 3 or Dans Guardian since they're free. Has anyone had any experience using these products or their pay counterpart SmoothWall Corporate Guardian? At $700, I'd be willing to pay for it if it can block content reasonably well and give me flexible reporting options. Any gotchas that I should be aware of? (other than these solutions being Linux-based) Many thanks in advance, Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson 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 that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win2008 activation
Looking at the MS docs, you'll need to have 5 or more devices before using KMS. There are several documents on the Tech Net site about licensing, but they do seem confusing. We buy our user CALS and server licenses in chunks, so I'm now sure how KMS addresses that when the authorization and license numbers are different for each batch. There are technically different MAK keys for each authorization agreement. So I really don't know how one can use a volume license key when there are different MAK keys associated with each bulk purchase. It would be nice to be able to set up a KMS server and be done with it but that does not seem possible. Comments from gurus already using KMS with multiple agreements? Salvador Manzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/15/2008 1:45 PM Without setting up a KMS server, you'll need to change it to a MAK key I think. This will activate against Microsoft's serer, like XP does. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2008 activation Wow, I've never been so overwhelmed with trying to understand how to activate a product. I want to start using a single Windows 2008 Standard Server so I can begin learning it. However, it seems like I cannot activate the product via KMS (which I don't even have setup anywhere) because you need (5) Windows 2008 Server licenses in use to even begin using KMS. So, without using KMS, how should I activate this product? The product key I have is from one of my license agreements and is listed as Windows 2008 Std/Ent - KMS. I've read numerous things from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing.aspx but still don't quite understand exactly what I need to do. This seems a bit more bloated than it should be... Should I phone in the activation or use some other method? Thanks JR mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ~ 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 e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Harddrive question - MBR hosed part II - Again?!
My head espload. This is happening AGAIN. An RMA'd drive is in the computer now. It seems very unlikely to be a problem with the machine that is corrupting the MBR in a way that can't be fixed. But two drives failing like this? What could be going on here?! Original Message: I have this one Seagate ATA drive that for the second time now has a corrupt MBR. The evidence is booting the computer leads to a disk read error, press control alt del to restart. I can boot to a BartPE disc and see the contents of the drive OK, and a chkdsk shows no errors. I am currently running the SeaTools extended test on the drive, which I did the last time this happened, as well as running SpinRite at level 4 5. I have done the fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console as well. Nothing I do will repair the damaged MBR. Fixmbr says the boot record is non-standard, but it cannot repair it even though it says it did. I can run it over and over again and it always says non-standard and that it was repaired. The only way I was able to use this drive again from the first time this happened was to repartition and reinstall the OS. I'm most likely going to RMA the drive, but I'm really curious as to what is going on and why fixmbr can't fix it while repartitioning can. Is there any other trick I'm missing? -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Cable Modem + Wireless router
never say never.. Fridge and freezer TV and 50 LCD monitor for gaming (when spouse not watching) Microwave and a clock On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Christopher J. Bosak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same. Never a 2-in-1 device. Never any multi-device in my house. Except for the remote. That's a law here in this house. 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 -Original Message- From: wjh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:44 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cable Modem + Wireless router I'm hesitant to use a 2 in 1. After suffering through almost two years of constantly reseting my router and modem, I ponied up for a new wrt54gl and loaded tomato on it. My connection has been rock solid since then. Bill Vue, Za wrote: I have Comcast high speed Internet service. My 5 year old cable modem is dying. I am looking for a 2-in-1 wireless router and cable modem. What is everyone using these days? -Z.V. This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message 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/ ~ ~ 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Harddrive question - MBR hosed part II - Again?!
I've seen this happen to (3) SATA drives on systems running Windows XP Professional. On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My head espload… This is happening AGAIN. An RMA'd drive is in the computer now. It seems very unlikely to be a problem with the machine that is corrupting the MBR in a way that can't be fixed. But two drives failing like this? What could be going on here?! Original Message: I have this one Seagate ATA drive that for the second time now has a corrupt MBR. The evidence is booting the computer leads to a disk read error, press control alt del to restart. I can boot to a BartPE disc and see the contents of the drive OK, and a chkdsk shows no errors. I am currently running the SeaTools extended test on the drive, which I did the last time this happened, as well as running SpinRite at level 4 5. I have done the fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console as well. Nothing I do will repair the damaged MBR. Fixmbr says the boot record is non-standard, but it cannot repair it even though it says it did. I can run it over and over again and it always says non-standard and that it was repaired. The only way I was able to use this drive again from the first time this happened was to repartition and reinstall the OS. I'm most likely going to RMA the drive, but I'm really curious as to what is going on and why fixmbr can't fix it while repartitioning can. Is there any other trick I'm missing? -- Mike Gill -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Harddrive question - MBR hosed part II - Again?!
Since it has happened to a couple of drives. Either the drive controller or the driver itself could be to blame. -- Original message -- From: Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] My head espload This is happening AGAIN. An RMAd drive is in the computer now. It seems very unlikely to be a problem with the machine that is corrupting the MBR in a way that cant be fixed. But two drives failing like this? What could be going on here?! Original Message: I have this one Seagate ATA drive that for the second time now has a corrupt MBR. The evidence is booting the computer leads to a disk read error, press control alt del to restart. I can boot to a BartPE disc and see the contents of the drive OK, and a chkdsk shows no errors. I am currently running the SeaTools extended test on the drive, which I did the last time this happened, as well as running SpinRite at level 4 5. I have done the fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console as well. Nothing I do will repair the damaged MBR. Fixmbr says the boot record is non-standard, but it cannot repair it even though it says it did. I can run it over and over again and it always says non-standard and that it was repaired. The only way I was able to use this drive again from the first time this happened was to repartition and reinstall the OS. Im most likely going to RMA the drive, but Im really curious as to what is going on and why fixmbr cant fix it while repartitioning can. Is there any other trick Im missing? -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Harddrive question - MBR hosed part II - Again?!
Since it has happened to a couple of drives. Either the drive controller or the driver itself could be to blame. -- Original message -- From: Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] My head espload This is happening AGAIN. An RMAd drive is in the computer now. It seems very unlikely to be a problem with the machine that is corrupting the MBR in a way that cant be fixed. But two drives failing like this? What could be going on here?! Original Message: I have this one Seagate ATA drive that for the second time now has a corrupt MBR. The evidence is booting the computer leads to a disk read error, press control alt del to restart. I can boot to a BartPE disc and see the contents of the drive OK, and a chkdsk shows no errors. I am currently running the SeaTools extended test on the drive, which I did the last time this happened, as well as running SpinRite at level 4 5. I have done the fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console as well. Nothing I do will repair the damaged MBR. Fixmbr says the boot record is non-standard, but it cannot repair it even though it says it did. I can run it over and over again and it always says non-standard and that it was repaired. The only way I was able to use this drive again from the first time this happened was to repartition and reinstall the OS. Im most likely going to RMA the drive, but Im really curious as to what is going on and why fixmbr cant fix it while repartitioning can. Is there any other trick Im missing? -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win2008 activation
You should be able to set the server up as a KMS server, it will require an internet connection for activation. Once activated it should not bother you again, as long as it has an internet connection. You will need a total of at least 5 devices before the remaining devices will be permanently/temporarily activated. I say it that way because by default the clients will check with the KMS server every 7 days, and are required to validate a minimum of every 30 days. ** Disclaimer ** I did this with Vista over a year ago. To the best of my knowledge the licensing has not changed. The only difference I can think of is Vista KMS requires a min. of 25 clients. I do have a Windows 2008 KMS license but have not activated it yet. Running a test server at the moment. Jim M From: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2008 activation Looking at the MS docs, you'll need to have 5 or more devices before using KMS. There are several documents on the Tech Net site about licensing, but they do seem confusing. We buy our user CALS and server licenses in chunks, so I'm now sure how KMS addresses that when the authorization and license numbers are different for each batch. There are technically different MAK keys for each authorization agreement. So I really don't know how one can use a volume license key when there are different MAK keys associated with each bulk purchase. It would be nice to be able to set up a KMS server and be done with it but that does not seem possible. Comments from gurus already using KMS with multiple agreements? Salvador Manzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/15/2008 1:45 PM Without setting up a KMS server, you'll need to change it to a MAK key I think. This will activate against Microsoft's serer, like XP does. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2008 activation Wow, I've never been so overwhelmed with trying to understand how to activate a product. I want to start using a single Windows 2008 Standard Server so I can begin learning it. However, it seems like I cannot activate the product via KMS (which I don't even have setup anywhere) because you need (5) Windows 2008 Server licenses in use to even begin using KMS. So, without using KMS, how should I activate this product? The product key I have is from one of my license agreements and is listed as Windows 2008 Std/Ent - KMS. I've read numerous things from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing.aspx but still don't quite understand exactly what I need to do. This seems a bit more bloated than it should be... Should I phone in the activation or use some other method? Thanks JR mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ~ 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 e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Web Filtering
Not happy with your Barracuda? The one I use has been trouble free and catches a huge amount of SPAM. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web Filtering OpenDNS. Free, many folks rave about it and you can try it for free :) Can I borrow your trebuchet for our Barracuda Spam filter? We will be tossing ours this winter. From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web Filtering I know the list seems to have this discussion what seems like every month, but I've had it with my Barracuda Web Filter. We're considering building a trebuchet on top of city hall and flinging the blasted thing into the next county and let it be their problem. Our budget is extremely limited (can't nix the trebuchet as it is vital to our long term plans) and we need a content filtering solution that works and I'm considering performing a test install with SmoothWall Express 3 or Dans Guardian since they're free. Has anyone had any experience using these products or their pay counterpart SmoothWall Corporate Guardian? At $700, I'd be willing to pay for it if it can block content reasonably well and give me flexible reporting options. Any gotchas that I should be aware of? (other than these solutions being Linux-based) Many thanks in advance, Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
Server Core makes no difference architecturally to what is happening Cheers Ken From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 5:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Install it on 2008 core. S From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware
The way did it back when I worked at a computer shop was; change the xp atapi controllers to standard dual channel ide controller ( I just do it for all of them - some computers have more than 1) then clone set new pc bios' ide/sata controllers into legacy mode before trying to boot almost always boots or at least allows safe mode uninstall drivers, then install drivers if the above didn't boot, then did an xp repair install I got the info from http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/07/09/move-windows-xp-hard-drive-or-change-motherboard-without-getting-blue-screen-of-death/ From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware I have a DR test coming soon, and our DR center just swapped on the old Dell OptiPlex GX280's to new Dual Core HP PCs. I already have an very custom ghost image of the Dell OptiPlex GX280 that would like to deploy onto their new HPs, if possible. (I have limited time in their DR center, I don't want to spend it making another image - and I don't have time to go buy a HP unit). I'm pretty familiar with restoring to dissimilar hardware/bare metal restores when it comes to servers, but not so much on XP/Desktops. Is there a way I can inject some drivers into the image? Like I said, I don't have an HP at my site, but I do have an OptiPlex GX280 Or perhaps I could install a base XP on the HP when I am onsite, and then use BackupExec to restore the XP image on top of that, (And not overwrite the hardware profile). Ideas?I little OT, but the list seems pretty quite lately :) Thanks, Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
Your parent partition (the first copy of Win2k8 you installed) *is* running on the hypervisor. I will send you some slides offlist that explain what is happening from an architectural perspective. The hypervisor now arbitrates all access to CPU (for example), however access to physical resources (e.g. disk, network) are handled by drivers in the parent partition. Guest machines use VMBus to send data to the parent partition (e.g. via shared memory space or CPU cache) which then sends it to physical resources. The problem with the stand alone Hyper-V is no clustering feature support. That means you don't get any HA features. As you surmise, you probably can't use the host for very much except being a host. But that's probably what you want to do anyway (gives you more resources for the guests), and if you buy an Enterprise license you get 1 physical license, and 4 guest licenses, so you aren't wasting anything per se - you can't convert the physical licence into an extra virtual one to run an additional workload. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
In this particular (small) environment, a copy of 2008 Enterprise is not available. Only one copy of Windows 2008 Standard is available. My goal is to pick up and re-host any/all virtual servers, including the single 2008 server, to spare hardware within record time. So I don't want to spend my only 2008 server license on a not-100%-virtual Hyper-V host. From this perspective, I would say that standalone Hyper-V makes more sense. Counterpoint? Don't spend what I haven't got or promote features I don't need. Carl From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Your parent partition (the first copy of Win2k8 you installed) *is* running on the hypervisor. I will send you some slides offlist that explain what is happening from an architectural perspective. The hypervisor now arbitrates all access to CPU (for example), however access to physical resources (e.g. disk, network) are handled by drivers in the parent partition. Guest machines use VMBus to send data to the parent partition (e.g. via shared memory space or CPU cache) which then sends it to physical resources. The problem with the stand alone Hyper-V is no clustering feature support. That means you don't get any HA features. As you surmise, you probably can't use the host for very much except being a host. But that's probably what you want to do anyway (gives you more resources for the guests), and if you buy an Enterprise license you get 1 physical license, and 4 guest licenses, so you aren't wasting anything per se - you can't convert the physical licence into an extra virtual one to run an additional workload. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238 http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentI D=723 DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
Your Windows Server 2008 Standard license should give you one physical and one virtual license. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V In this particular (small) environment, a copy of 2008 Enterprise is not available. Only one copy of Windows 2008 Standard is available. My goal is to pick up and re-host any/all virtual servers, including the single 2008 server, to spare hardware within record time. So I don't want to spend my only 2008 server license on a not-100%-virtual Hyper-V host. From this perspective, I would say that standalone Hyper-V makes more sense. Counterpoint? Don't spend what I haven't got or promote features I don't need. Carl From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Your parent partition (the first copy of Win2k8 you installed) *is* running on the hypervisor. I will send you some slides offlist that explain what is happening from an architectural perspective. The hypervisor now arbitrates all access to CPU (for example), however access to physical resources (e.g. disk, network) are handled by drivers in the parent partition. Guest machines use VMBus to send data to the parent partition (e.g. via shared memory space or CPU cache) which then sends it to physical resources. The problem with the stand alone Hyper-V is no clustering feature support. That means you don't get any HA features. As you surmise, you probably can't use the host for very much except being a host. But that's probably what you want to do anyway (gives you more resources for the guests), and if you buy an Enterprise license you get 1 physical license, and 4 guest licenses, so you aren't wasting anything per se - you can't convert the physical licence into an extra virtual one to run an additional workload. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
How is that going to help OP's position. It doesn't. Cheers Ken From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Wait until next month when Hyper-V Server 2008 is released...:) With Hyper-V Server 2008, Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor is installed in the parent partition, and it provides just the bare essentials required for booting the system, providing hypervisor services, and exposing the management hooks necessary for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. It does include drivers as well, but little else from Server 2008. It's not Server Core. It's much less than that: At boot time, you'll be prompted from a command line interface to configure some basic configuration options. But management occurs from the free Hyper-V management console (on Vista or Server 2008) or System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. S From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V In this particular (small) environment, a copy of 2008 Enterprise is not available. Only one copy of Windows 2008 Standard is available. My goal is to pick up and re-host any/all virtual servers, including the single 2008 server, to spare hardware within record time. So I don't want to spend my only 2008 server license on a not-100%-virtual Hyper-V host. From this perspective, I would say that standalone Hyper-V makes more sense. Counterpoint? Don't spend what I haven't got or promote features I don't need. Carl From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Your parent partition (the first copy of Win2k8 you installed) *is* running on the hypervisor. I will send you some slides offlist that explain what is happening from an architectural perspective. The hypervisor now arbitrates all access to CPU (for example), however access to physical resources (e.g. disk, network) are handled by drivers in the parent partition. Guest machines use VMBus to send data to the parent partition (e.g. via shared memory space or CPU cache) which then sends it to physical resources. The problem with the stand alone Hyper-V is no clustering feature support. That means you don't get any HA features. As you surmise, you probably can't use the host for very much except being a host. But that's probably what you want to do anyway (gives you more resources for the guests), and if you buy an Enterprise license you get 1 physical license, and 4 guest licenses, so you aren't wasting anything per se - you can't convert the physical licence into an extra virtual one to run an additional workload. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
The standard licenses that I received from MS came with two Product Keys - one for installing the physical host, and one for installing a VM. Not sure what type of license these where (retail, NFR, whatever), but if those are what you have, then you can install a Hyper-V host, and then use the same license to give yourself the first guest machine. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Yeah, I know about that - that's what I've been calling Standalone Hyper-V. Notice the URL in my OP? I was just trying to discern if there is *any* advantage to running Hyper-V hosting features on 2008 Standard server, when I need that 2008 server to also provide all the usual server functions. Looks like there isn't. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Wait until next month when Hyper-V Server 2008 is released...:) With Hyper-V Server 2008, Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor is installed in the parent partition, and it provides just the bare essentials required for booting the system, providing hypervisor services, and exposing the management hooks necessary for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. It does include drivers as well, but little else from Server 2008. It's not Server Core. It's much less than that: At boot time, you'll be prompted from a command line interface to configure some basic configuration options. But management occurs from the free Hyper-V management console (on Vista or Server 2008) or System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. S From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V In this particular (small) environment, a copy of 2008 Enterprise is not available. Only one copy of Windows 2008 Standard is available. My goal is to pick up and re-host any/all virtual servers, including the single 2008 server, to spare hardware within record time. So I don't want to spend my only 2008 server license on a not-100%-virtual Hyper-V host. From this perspective, I would say that standalone Hyper-V makes more sense. Counterpoint? Don't spend what I haven't got or promote features I don't need. Carl From: Ken Schaefer [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Your parent partition (the first copy of Win2k8 you installed) *is* running on the hypervisor. I will send you some slides offlist that explain what is happening from an architectural perspective. The hypervisor now arbitrates all access to CPU (for example), however access to physical resources (e.g. disk, network) are handled by drivers in the parent partition. Guest machines use VMBus to send data to the parent partition (e.g. via shared memory space or CPU cache) which then sends it to physical resources. The problem with the stand alone Hyper-V is no clustering feature support. That means you don't get any HA features. As you surmise, you probably can't use the host for very much except being a host. But that's probably what you want to do anyway (gives you more resources for the guests), and if you buy an Enterprise license you get 1 physical license, and 4 guest licenses, so you aren't wasting anything per se - you can't convert the physical licence into an extra virtual one to run an additional workload. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
But what is the advantage to spending the resources (RAM, disk) on even a 2008 Server Core config to run the Hyper-V host, when my other choice is to save those resources for the actual VMs and use the standalone Hyper-V server instead? What feature in Hyper-V host services under 2008 makes it advantageous to use that instead of standalone Hyper-V server, for the functional requirement I've outlined? Answer the question or say I don't know. It's not enough that I *can* do it with a single Server 2008 standard license - the question is WHY do it if I have a minimal footprint Hyper-V solution which is similar to VMWare ESXi but with full support for all hardware supported by Windows. Carl From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Your Windows Server 2008 Standard license should give you one physical and one virtual license. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V In this particular (small) environment, a copy of 2008 Enterprise is not available. Only one copy of Windows 2008 Standard is available. My goal is to pick up and re-host any/all virtual servers, including the single 2008 server, to spare hardware within record time. So I don't want to spend my only 2008 server license on a not-100%-virtual Hyper-V host. From this perspective, I would say that standalone Hyper-V makes more sense. Counterpoint? Don't spend what I haven't got or promote features I don't need. Carl From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V Your parent partition (the first copy of Win2k8 you installed) *is* running on the hypervisor. I will send you some slides offlist that explain what is happening from an architectural perspective. The hypervisor now arbitrates all access to CPU (for example), however access to physical resources (e.g. disk, network) are handled by drivers in the parent partition. Guest machines use VMBus to send data to the parent partition (e.g. via shared memory space or CPU cache) which then sends it to physical resources. The problem with the stand alone Hyper-V is no clustering feature support. That means you don't get any HA features. As you surmise, you probably can't use the host for very much except being a host. But that's probably what you want to do anyway (gives you more resources for the guests), and if you buy an Enterprise license you get 1 physical license, and 4 guest licenses, so you aren't wasting anything per se - you can't convert the physical licence into an extra virtual one to run an additional workload. Cheers Ken From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V I was asking about standalone Hyper-V some time ago and looks like it's almost here. http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238 http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/pda/Article.cfm?ArticleID=100238DepartmentI D=723 DepartmentID=723 Meanwhile, I installed Server 2008 for testing and installed the Hyper-V features and much to my newbie surprise, my 2008 server was not converted to a virtual instance of itself. I understand the reason for that now. The question boils down to, wouldn't I want all instances of servers on a hardware platform to be running on the bare metal hypervisor if possible? One of the goals of virtualizing is easy portability to run on alternate/standby hardware, and the 2008 Hyper-V host server isn't portable. That means not using the host server for anything but a host server, and that's a waste of a license. Am I missing anything? Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V But what is the advantage to spending the resources (RAM, disk) on even a 2008 Server Core config to run the Hyper-V host, when my other choice is to save those resources for the actual VMs and use the standalone Hyper-V server instead? What feature in Hyper-V host services under 2008 makes it advantageous to use that instead of standalone Hyper-V server, for the functional requirement I've outlined? Answer the question or say I don't know. This wasn't your original question. Please take your attitude somewhere else For reference, your original question was: Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? And the answer to that is it depends. You go figure it out for yourself. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
So Carl's not allowed to ask more than one question per post. I think your attitude is the bad attitude. They must be giving MVP status to anyone in OZ nowadays... From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V But what is the advantage to spending the resources (RAM, disk) on even a 2008 Server Core config to run the Hyper-V host, when my other choice is to save those resources for the actual VMs and use the standalone Hyper-V server instead? What feature in Hyper-V host services under 2008 makes it advantageous to use that instead of standalone Hyper-V server, for the functional requirement I've outlined? Answer the question or say I don't know. This wasn't your original question. Please take your attitude somewhere else For reference, your original question was: Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? And the answer to that is it depends. You go figure it out for yourself. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
Carl's saying: answer the question, or say 'you don't know' That's some kind of ultimatum that isn't necessary. I'm trying to help the guy answer his original question. If he wants to change the question, that's fine, but he can do so without the attitude. His original post, about how the parent partition works, contained some factual inaccuracies, and I'm trying to provide information on how this stuff actually works. Turning around with attitude is called biting the hand that feeds you. As far as I'm concerned, he can go figure it out himself then. Lastly, the MVP thing is irrelevant. I don't put myself out as an MVP - I don't have a sig, or anything similar. So, please don't bring irrelevancies into the conversation. Cheers Ken From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V So Carl's not allowed to ask more than one question per post. I think your attitude is the bad attitude. They must be giving MVP status to anyone in OZ nowadays... From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V But what is the advantage to spending the resources (RAM, disk) on even a 2008 Server Core config to run the Hyper-V host, when my other choice is to save those resources for the actual VMs and use the standalone Hyper-V server instead? What feature in Hyper-V host services under 2008 makes it advantageous to use that instead of standalone Hyper-V server, for the functional requirement I've outlined? Answer the question or say I don't know. This wasn't your original question. Please take your attitude somewhere else For reference, your original question was: Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? And the answer to that is it depends. You go figure it out for yourself. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
watch it buddy!! :p From: Steve Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V So Carl's not allowed to ask more than one question per post. I think your attitude is the bad attitude. They must be giving MVP status to anyone in OZ nowadays... From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V But what is the advantage to spending the resources (RAM, disk) on even a 2008 Server Core config to run the Hyper-V host, when my other choice is to save those resources for the actual VMs and use the standalone Hyper-V server instead? What feature in Hyper-V host services under 2008 makes it advantageous to use that instead of standalone Hyper-V server, for the functional requirement I've outlined? Answer the question or say I don't know. This wasn’t your original question. Please take your attitude somewhere else For reference, your original question was: Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? And the answer to that is “it depends”. You go figure it out for yourself. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Harddrive question - MBR hosed part II - Again?!
Resolution? 12 gage? Roto-hammer? -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Harddrive question - MBR hosed part II - Again?! I've seen this happen to (3) SATA drives on systems running Windows XP Professional. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
