RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Greg Mulholland]

yeah i was thinking of the wrong thing. i'm sure ive done similar to this once 
with a script file or host file like of some sort. i just cant remeber the 
exact details.

From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...

Um - that just sets the user's proxy server configuration. The problem here is 
DNS resolution...

Either the proxy server needs to use different DNS servers, or where the 
internal DNS record resolves to (DCs) needs to host a proxy server.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:28 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Thats the way i took it. actually a wpad script could probably do this in ISA
> or a simple proxy.pac if you had some other flavour. You'd have to test and
> might need some stuffing around to get it working.
>
> Greg
> 
> From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:22 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> I got the impression that the boss wanted internal users that type in
> http://company.com to be taken to their externally hosted website, just like
> if they typed that into a browser when outside the company network.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a
> > solution 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
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)
> >
> > But there are some much lighter-weight options.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ken
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > Well, tru dat.
> > >
> > > I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
> > >
> > > 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > > >
> > > > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
> > > >
> > > > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > > > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> > > >
> > > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> > > >
> > > > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > > > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > > > and be done with it.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Ken Schaefer]

ISA has proxy functionality. Just tell it to proxy requests that come in on 
port 80 for http://example.com to http://www.example.com (which would resolve 
to the public website) and select the URL rewriting option.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:38 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> I completely concur. ISA is not my specialty (nowhere close), but I don't
> see how ISA can resolve that on the internal DCs..
>
> IIS or some other proxy - sure. But ISA on a DC is much more "heavy" than
> IIS...
>
> 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:23 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> I got the impression that the boss wanted internal users that type in
> http://company.com to be taken to their externally hosted website, just like
> if they typed that into a browser when outside the company network.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a
> > solution 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
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)
> >
> > But there are some much lighter-weight options.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ken
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > Well, tru dat.
> > >
> > > I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
> > >
> > > 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > > >
> > > > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic
> shaper).
> > > >
> > > > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > > > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> > > >
> > > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> > > >
> > > > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > > > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > > > and be done with it.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Michael B. Smith]

I completely concur. ISA is not my specialty (nowhere close), but I don't
see how ISA can resolve that on the internal DCs..

IIS or some other proxy - sure. But ISA on a DC is much more "heavy" than
IIS...

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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...

I got the impression that the boss wanted internal users that type in
http://company.com to be taken to their externally hosted website, just like
if they typed that into a browser when outside the company network.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a
> solution 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
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)
>
> But there are some much lighter-weight options.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Well, tru dat.
> >
> > I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
> >
> > 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ken
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic
shaper).
> > >
> > > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> > >
> > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > > and be done with it.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Ken Schaefer]

Um - that just sets the user's proxy server configuration. The problem here is 
DNS resolution...

Either the proxy server needs to use different DNS servers, or where the 
internal DNS record resolves to (DCs) needs to host a proxy server.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:28 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Thats the way i took it. actually a wpad script could probably do this in ISA
> or a simple proxy.pac if you had some other flavour. You'd have to test and
> might need some stuffing around to get it working.
>
> Greg
> 
> From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:22 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> I got the impression that the boss wanted internal users that type in
> http://company.com to be taken to their externally hosted website, just like
> if they typed that into a browser when outside the company network.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a
> > solution 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
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)
> >
> > But there are some much lighter-weight options.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ken
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > Well, tru dat.
> > >
> > > I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
> > >
> > > 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > > >
> > > > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
> > > >
> > > > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > > > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> > > >
> > > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> > > >
> > > > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > > > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > > > and be done with it.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Greg Mulholland]

Thats the way i took it. actually a wpad script could probably do this in ISA 
or a simple proxy.pac if you had some other flavour. You'd have to test and 
might need some stuffing around to get it working.

Greg

From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...

I got the impression that the boss wanted internal users that type in 
http://company.com to be taken to their externally hosted website, just like if 
they typed that into a browser when outside the company network.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a
> solution 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
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)
>
> But there are some much lighter-weight options.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Well, tru dat.
> >
> > I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
> >
> > 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ken
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
> > >
> > > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> > >
> > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > > and be done with it.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Ken Schaefer]

I got the impression that the boss wanted internal users that type in 
http://company.com to be taken to their externally hosted website, just like if 
they typed that into a browser when outside the company network.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a
> solution 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
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)
>
> But there are some much lighter-weight options.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Well, tru dat.
> >
> > I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
> >
> > 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ken
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
> > >
> > > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> > >
> > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > > and be done with it.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Greg Mulholland]

and on a DC too.. starting to sound like an sbs setup :)

*duck*

From: Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...

I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a
solution 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


-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...

Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)

But there are some much lighter-weight options.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Well, tru dat.
>
> I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
>
> 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
> >
> > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> >
> > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > and be done with it.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > >
> > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > My DNS skills are weak...
> > >
> > > We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
> > >
> > > Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> > > wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
> > >
> > > I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> > > site, but that seems not to be working.
> > >
> > > How can I implement this?
> > >
> > > Kurt


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Michael B. Smith]

I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a
solution 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


-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...

Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)

But there are some much lighter-weight options.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Well, tru dat.
>
> I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
>
> 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
> >
> > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> >
> > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > and be done with it.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > >
> > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > My DNS skills are weak...
> > >
> > > We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
> > >
> > > Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> > > wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
> > >
> > > I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> > > site, but that seems not to be working.
> > >
> > > How can I implement this?
> > >
> > > Kurt


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Ken Schaefer]

Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-)

But there are some much lighter-weight options.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Well, tru dat.
>
> I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)
>
> 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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
> >
> > What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> > "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
> >
> > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> > - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> > and be done with it.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> > >
> > > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> > > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > > Subject: Stupid DNS question...
> > >
> > > My DNS skills are weak...
> > >
> > > We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
> > >
> > > Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> > > wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
> > >
> > > I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> > > site, but that seems not to be working.
> > >
> > > How can I implement this?
> > >
> > > Kurt


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Michael B. Smith]

Well, tru dat.

I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-)

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: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...

You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
>
> What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
>
> 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
>
> BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> and be done with it.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> >
> > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > My DNS skills are weak...
> >
> > We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
> >
> > Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> > wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
> >
> > I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> > site, but that seems not to be working.
> >
> > How can I implement this?
> >
> > Kurt
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> > ~   ~
> >
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> > ~   ~
> >
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: hyperv server

[Greg Mulholland]

what version of hyperv. i am asking specifically about the latest standalone 
hypervisor install, not windows 2008.


From: John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 12:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: hyperv server

I'm able to manage Hyper-V from my Vista machine. I don't recall having had to 
jump through any big hoops to get it to work...





John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
www.taylor.k12.fl.us



-Original Message-
From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: hyperv server

OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the 
standalone thing they brought out last week or so)

Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage 
it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup)

I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote 
management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle 
of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts 
of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv.

The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is 
running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any 
info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see 
if that magically fixes anything.

 It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your  host and 
management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say, 
equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They need 
to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i read a 
blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah the one 
that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure than others 
i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished the setup 
part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got 
was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go.

Greg
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: hyperv server

[Greg Mulholland]

Yep.. even on servcer core you shouldnt have to do what you have to do to get 
it working, i would have hoped.

From: Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 12:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: hyperv server

Hey Greg
Sorry I can't help out with the bare metal hyper V...however I've run it 
sucessfully in the core and even easier with the full Windows install.
Steve

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Greg Mulholland <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the 
standalone thing they brought out last week or so)

Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage 
it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup)

I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote 
management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle 
of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts 
of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv.

The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is 
running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any 
info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see 
if that magically fixes anything.

 It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your  host and 
management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say, 
equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They need 
to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i read a 
blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah the one 
that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure than others 
i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished the setup 
part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got 
was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go.

Greg
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~







~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: hyperv server

[Greg Mulholland]

Both in a workgroup.

initialiy it didnt becausse the server has an admin account and my vista 
machine doesnt. After adding a local user (mirroring my vista user) to the hv 
server still no joy.

From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: hyperv server

Are they in a workgroup? Or a Domain?

If using a workgroup - does it work if you have the same username/password on 
both machines?

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 12:15 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: hyperv server
>
> I'm able to manage Hyper-V from my Vista machine. I don't recall having had to
> jump through any big hoops to get it to work...
>
>
>
>
>
> John Hornbuckle
> MIS Department
> Taylor County School District
> www.taylor.k12.fl.us
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:08 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: hyperv server
>
> OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the
> standalone thing they brought out last week or so)
>
> Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage
> it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup)
>
> I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote
> management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle
> of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts
> of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv.
>
> The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is
> running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any
> info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see
> if that magically fixes anything.
>
>  It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your  host and
> management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say,
> equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They
> need to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i
> read a blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah
> the one that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure
> than others i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished
> the setup part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and
> all i got was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go.
>
> Greg
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Ken Schaefer]

You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically.

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question...
>
> Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).
>
> What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
> "example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".
>
> 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...
>
> BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> and be done with it.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> >
> > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > My DNS skills are weak...
> >
> > We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
> >
> > Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> > wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
> >
> > I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> > site, but that seems not to be working.
> >
> > How can I implement this?
> >
> > Kurt
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> > ~   ~
> >
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> > ~   ~
> >
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Michael B. Smith]

Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper).

What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for
"example.com" you would redirect to "www.example.com".

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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...

BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
- 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
and be done with it.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
>
> 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Stupid DNS question...
>
> My DNS skills are weak...
>
> We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
>
> Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
>
> I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> site, but that seems not to be working.
>
> How can I implement this?
>
> Kurt
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: hyperv server

[Ken Schaefer]

Are they in a workgroup? Or a Domain?

If using a workgroup - does it work if you have the same username/password on 
both machines?

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 12:15 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: hyperv server
>
> I'm able to manage Hyper-V from my Vista machine. I don't recall having had to
> jump through any big hoops to get it to work...
>
>
>
>
>
> John Hornbuckle
> MIS Department
> Taylor County School District
> www.taylor.k12.fl.us
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:08 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: hyperv server
>
> OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the
> standalone thing they brought out last week or so)
>
> Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage
> it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup)
>
> I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote
> management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle
> of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts
> of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv.
>
> The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is
> running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any
> info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see
> if that magically fixes anything.
>
>  It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your  host and
> management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say,
> equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They
> need to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i
> read a blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah
> the one that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure
> than others i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished
> the setup part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and
> all i got was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go.
>
> Greg
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Stupid DNS question...

[Durf]

I don't think it can be done without mucking up your Active Directory
resolution.  Drop out to NSLOOKUP and type 'mycompany.com' - you should get
a list of your DC's.  If that's resolving to an external web host instead -
it will break things.  That's why there are those SRV records in DNS that
read "same as parent" in the top-level zone - your DC's are essentially
already aliased to mycompany.com.

-- Durf

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
> - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
> and be done with it.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
> >
> > 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Stupid DNS question...
> >
> > My DNS skills are weak...
> >
> > We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
> >
> > Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> > wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
> >
> > I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> > site, but that seems not to be working.
> >
> > How can I implement this?
> >
> > Kurt
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> > ~   ~
> >
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> > ~   ~
> >
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>



-- 
--
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.
Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: hyperv server

[John Hornbuckle]

I'm able to manage Hyper-V from my Vista machine. I don't recall having had to 
jump through any big hoops to get it to work...





John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
www.taylor.k12.fl.us



-Original Message-
From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: hyperv server

OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the 
standalone thing they brought out last week or so)

Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage 
it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup)

I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote 
management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle 
of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts 
of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv.

The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is 
running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any 
info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see 
if that magically fixes anything.

 It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your  host and 
management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say, 
equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They need 
to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i read a 
blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah the one 
that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure than others 
i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished the setup 
part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got 
was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go.

Greg
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Greg Mulholland]

Sounds like a bad practise to allow internal web requests to be forwarded out 
to the net unless you have a good reason to do so.


From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 10:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question...

It resolves to the IP address of my main DC - the FSMO role holder.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What does ping mycompany.com resolve to?
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 10:05 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Stupid DNS question...
>>
>> My DNS skills are weak...
>>
>> We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
>>
>> Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
>> wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
>>
>> I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
>> site, but that seems not to be working.
>>
>> How can I implement this?
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: hyperv server

[Steve Ens]

Hey Greg
Sorry I can't help out with the bare metal hyper V...however I've run it
sucessfully in the core and even easier with the full Windows install.
Steve

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Greg Mulholland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the
> standalone thing they brought out last week or so)
>
> Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to
> manage it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in
> workgroup)
>
> I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable
> remote management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a
> different kettle of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply
> because those parts of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv.
>
> The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service
> is running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for
> any info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv
> and see if that magically fixes anything.
>
>  It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your  host
> and management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can
> say, equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations.
> They need to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed
> when i read a blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and
> love' yeah the one that is harder to manager, takes longer to
> install/deploy/configure than others i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely
> funny that when i had finished the setup part of the hyperv server it said
> preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got was a dos window :). but i am
> giving it a go.
>
> Greg
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

hyperv server

[Greg Mulholland]

OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the 
standalone thing they brought out last week or so)

Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage 
it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup)

I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote 
management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle 
of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts 
of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv.

The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is 
running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any 
info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see 
if that magically fixes anything.

 It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your  host and 
management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say, 
equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They need 
to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i read a 
blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah the one 
that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure than others 
i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished the setup 
part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got 
was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go.

Greg
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Stupid DNS question...

[Kurt Buff]

Yup - the same, inside and out.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Rick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it the exact same domain name inside and out?  (mycompany.com is your AD 
> domain AND your public domain, as opposed to mycompany.local vs. 
> mycompany.com)
>
> I *think* if they're the same you're unable to do it.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Stupid DNS question...
>
> My DNS skills are weak...
>
> We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
>
> Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
>
> I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> site, but that seems not to be working.
>
> How can I implement this?
>
> Kurt
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Rick Berry]

Is it the exact same domain name inside and out?  (mycompany.com is your AD 
domain AND your public domain, as opposed to mycompany.local vs. mycompany.com)

I *think* if they're the same you're unable to do it.

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Stupid DNS question...

My DNS skills are weak...

We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.

Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.

I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
site, but that seems not to be working.

How can I implement this?

Kurt

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Stupid DNS question...

[Kurt Buff]

BTW - I'm fine if the answer is "can't be done without installing IIS"
- 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons,
and be done with it.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
>
> 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Stupid DNS question...
>
> My DNS skills are weak...
>
> We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
>
> Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
>
> I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> site, but that seems not to be working.
>
> How can I implement this?
>
> Kurt
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Stupid DNS question...

[Kurt Buff]

It resolves to the IP address of my main DC - the FSMO role holder.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What does ping mycompany.com resolve to?
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 10:05 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Stupid DNS question...
>>
>> My DNS skills are weak...
>>
>> We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
>>
>> Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
>> wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
>>
>> I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
>> site, but that seems not to be working.
>>
>> How can I implement this?
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Sam Cayze]

You have to create a new zone, and then a blank A record, not just an A
record...

I think.  Not a DNS expert by any means... But I just did something very
similar. 

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Stupid DNS question...

My DNS skills are weak...

We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.

Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.

I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
site, but that seems not to be working.

How can I implement this?

Kurt

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Ken Schaefer]

What does ping mycompany.com resolve to?

Cheers
Ken

> -Original Message-
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 10:05 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Stupid DNS question...
>
> My DNS skills are weak...
>
> We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
>
> Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
>
> I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> site, but that seems not to be working.
>
> How can I implement this?

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Stupid DNS question...

[Kurt Buff]

Not on your life...

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?
>
> 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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Stupid DNS question...
>
> My DNS skills are weak...
>
> We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.
>
> Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
> wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.
>
> I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
> site, but that seems not to be working.
>
> How can I implement this?
>
> Kurt
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Stupid DNS question...

[Michael B. Smith]

Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers?

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: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Stupid DNS question...

My DNS skills are weak...

We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.

Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.

I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
site, but that seems not to be working.

How can I implement this?

Kurt

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Stupid DNS question...

[Kurt Buff]

My DNS skills are weak...

We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal.

Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company
wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external.

I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web
site, but that seems not to be working.

How can I implement this?

Kurt

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Asset Management Barcodes

[Joe Tinney]

We used MetalCraft (www.idplate.com). We didn't choose a logo and but they do 
provide that service. 

-Original Message-
From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Asset Management Barcodes

I've used Maverick Labels with a logo.

http://www.mavericklabel.com/


-Original Message-
From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 3:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Asset Management Barcodes

We use PolyLabel for this.  We don't print our logo on them but I think they
can do it.

http://www.polylabel.com/

 - Andy O. 

From: Joe Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Asset Management Barcodes


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~
Confidentiality Notice: 

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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! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Asset Management Barcodes

[Ralph Smith]

I've used Maverick Labels with a logo.

http://www.mavericklabel.com/


-Original Message-
From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 3:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Asset Management Barcodes

We use PolyLabel for this.  We don't print our logo on them but I think they
can do it.

http://www.polylabel.com/

 - Andy O. 

From: Joe Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Asset Management Barcodes


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~
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! ~
~   ~

Asset Management Barcodes

[Joe Fox]

Does anyone know of a reputable company that will make custom barcodes for
asset managment purposes.  Basically I'm looking for someplace that can put
our corporate logo on the tag, and start the numbering sequence from a
specific range.

Thanks in advace,
-Joe
--
Joe Fox
Systems/Network Administrator

Mobile# (716) 846-9308
http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Asset Management Barcodes

[Andy Ognenoff]

We use PolyLabel for this.  We don’t print our logo on them but I think they
can do it.

http://www.polylabel.com/

 - Andy O. 

From: Joe Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Asset Management Barcodes


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Asset Management Barcodes

[Joe Fox]

Does anyone know of a reputable company that will make custom barcodes for
asset managment purposes.  Basically I'm looking for someplace that can put
our corporate logo on the tag, and start the numbering sequence from a
specific range.

Thanks in advace,
-Joe
--
Joe Fox
Systems/Network Administrator

Mobile# (716) 846-9308
http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Remote desktop issue

[Gene Giannamore]

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Abide International Inc.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote desktop issue

At the risk of sounding like a total newb, where do you do this?  Is it just 
their standard screensaver in their remote session?  Or is it a terminal 
session setting?

-Original Message-
From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote desktop issue

I think it's the screensaver on the server (for each user). We have the exact 
same scenario, W2k3 TS and 10 minute timeout (1 person complained and I stopped 
the screensaver for the user on the server).




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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote desktop issue

Good afternoon,



We are running Terminal Server on a Windows 2003 server to access a couple of 
applications.  Currently, user sessions stay active forever, and we want it 
like that.  The problem we are encountering is on the local side.  The remote 
desktop session times out after 10 minutes of inactivity, and requires the user 
to re-enter their credentials, but they are connected right back to where they 
were.  We don't want this to happen.  We basically want the remote client to 
stay connected and active all day.  I hope this makes sense.



How do I make this happen?  I have not set anything related to TS or RD session 
settings.  I thought the default values were unlimited.



What am I missing?



Thanks,



Eric Brown

IT Manager

Forest Post Productions

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(248) 855-4333









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RE: firewall lifespan

[Jim Majorowicz]

As a Watchguard Reseller, the only failure I've experienced in the last two
years (Since the release of the e-series when we became partners) was with a
4 year old Core that had a failure that was possibly related to a power
failure.  We had the replacement unit N.B.D.  (We're a SMB consultant firm,
so our clients can get away with downtime or being covered by cheep Linksys
firewall for 20 hours.)

 

 

From: Steve Burkett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: firewall lifespan

 

Be aware that Watchguard stopped selling the X500 in October 2006, and are
End of Life'ing it in October 2009.

 

See URL: http://www.watchguard.com/products/endoflife.asp

 

Think your best bet would be to troll ebay for a spare, but we've still got
a Firebox III X700 running at one of our sites 24-7 from 2002, so your X500
still has a few years left in it hopefully. In fact of the 40 or so units we
have (variety of SOHO, Edge, X Core and X Core e-series), I can't think of
us having a single hardware failure in the last 3-4 years.

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 08 October 2008 20:03
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: firewall lifespan

 

I have a perfectly functional firewall.  A pretty red Watchguard X 500 Core.
I've been running it 24-7 for 4 years now.  I've been through a lot of
hardware on my servers in that time.  So I'm wondering is this thing looking
at collecting social security or is it just going to be young and vital for
as long as Watchguard supports it?  I don't want lose my internet Access for
2 days while I wait for a replacement if it up and dies on me.  Do firewall
appliances like these have a predictable lifespan?

 

Thanks for any insight,

 

Bill 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Redirect a UNC to localhost?

[Michael B. Smith]

Google DisableStrictNameChecking

 

Regards,

 

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My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Redirect a UNC to localhost?

 

Good afternoon,

 

I have an old application running on an NT server in an equally old NT
domain.  It is the last app I need to figure out how to make work on a new
2003 domain.  Here's what I did:

 

1) Copied the application's folder to the new server, and ran the app.
(It's an Access MDE)

2) When I try to do anything, like run the employee roster, it says it
can not connect to \\server\share\some_database.mdb
 

3) I modified the hosts file so server is set to 127.0.0.1.  If I ping
server, it resolves "properly".  If I try mapping a drive to \\server
 , however, I see the shares on the old server so I don't
think my trick worked on UNCs.

 

Any ideas how to make this work?  I copied the DB the app is looking for
into the same directory structure.  It was written in 2000, and the
developer is long gone.  I don't see anything in the MDE that makes a call
to the outside, but from what I understand, there is probably some VB code
that I can't see/edit because of the format.

 

I really hope I'm not handcuffed to an ancient network because of an ancient
app!

 

Thanks,

 

Eric Brown

IT Manager

Forest Post Productions

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(248) 855-4333

 

 

 

 

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Redirect a UNC to localhost?

[EricB]

Good afternoon,

 

I have an old application running on an NT server in an equally old NT domain.  
It is the last app I need to figure out how to make work on a new 2003 domain.  
Here's what I did:

 

1)   Copied the application's folder to the new server, and ran the app. 
(It's an Access MDE)

2)   When I try to do anything, like run the employee roster, it says it 
can not connect to \\server\share\some_database.mdb 
 

3)   I modified the hosts file so server is set to 127.0.0.1.  If I ping 
server, it resolves "properly".  If I try mapping a drive to \\server 
 , however, I see the shares on the old server so I don't 
think my trick worked on UNCs.

 

Any ideas how to make this work?  I copied the DB the app is looking for into 
the same directory structure.  It was written in 2000, and the developer is 
long gone.  I don't see anything in the MDE that makes a call to the outside, 
but from what I understand, there is probably some VB code that I can't 
see/edit because of the format.

 

I really hope I'm not handcuffed to an ancient network because of an ancient 
app!

 

Thanks,

 

Eric Brown

IT Manager

Forest Post Productions

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  

(248) 855-4333

 


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RE: PXE Boot to RDP Advice?

[Joseph L. Casale]

I do this with Thinstation which uses RDesktop. Works very nice...
A bit tricky for your redirected req's but I think it can all be done.
jlc

-Original Message-
From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: PXE Boot to RDP Advice?

Specifically is anyone out there doing this for Desktop Virtualization?
Once we have our full blown VM environment set up this is on the top of
my list of things to do.  My list of requirements would be the standard
KVM with audio but I would really like the ability for serial and USB
redirection.  We have a lot of critical inspection type pc's on our shop
floor that all have either USB or Serial attached equipment that would
be great virtualized.  And of course everyone has flash drives to plug
in, etc.
Thanks
Niles

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RE: Outlook 2007 File Attachment

[Fergal O'Connell]

Folder options -> View ->
I always remove the option to "Automatically search for network folders and 
printers"





-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 October 2008 01:15
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook 2007 File Attachment

Thanks, I will give that a shot tomorrow morning.  Post back to let you know

-Original Message-
From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook 2007 File Attachment

Anytime one of our users has a file problem in office/outlook 2007 (opening, 
saving, attaching, etc.), I have them run a reconnect script(batch file) that 
deletes the mapped drives and reconnects to them. So far this has worked.




Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook 2007 File Attachment

Thanks Bonnie,


Already checked, no hung printers or mapped drives that are not in a connected 
or ready state.  Any other ideas??



From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook 2007 File Attachment



Maybe the old problem where you have a disconnected resource that it hangs on 
when trying to connect to?  Look for other drive and printer mappings that are 
actually disconnected or unavailable.



-B



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Outlook 2007 File Attachment



Weird one..



I have an XP Sp2, system with Outlook 2007 SP1 and all updates that whenever 
they attach from their mapped network drive a file it hangs 15 to 20 secs for a 
50k or 500k file, size really doesn't matter.

But it attaches immediately from their my documents which is on the SAME server 
redirected.

Only difference is My Document redirection is done via UNC where there are 
trying to link from their Mapped Network Drive.



I have unloaded their AV, checked for any non default plugins in Outlook, 
cleared the securetemp folder, cleared their Internet Temp and System Temp 
folders, recreated a new Outlook profile.



Aside from creating a new Windows profile is their any other ideas I can try 
before totaling turning my client upside down on this issue.



Thanks


Greg



















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RE: Windows 2008 Terminal Server performance issues accessing files on 2003 server

[Gene Giannamore]

You might have to disable server and client op-locks. Seems like a lot of 
Sage's non-sql products use older database technologies (like MAS90, & 
MasterBuilder), that don't like newer op-lock technologies. In the past, I have 
had to do this to most of the 2003 servers I have installed/setup/




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-Original Message-
From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 2008 Terminal Server performance issues accessing files on 
2003 server

Hi there,

We have a client with a SBS 2003 server and a 2008 Terminal server.

They claim that occasionally the performance between the TS and the server is 
poor (only in Sage Line 50)

is there any tweaks that anyone can recommend that would improve the file 
access performance.

I have tried disabling SMB sigining, and others which have stopped the 
application freezing but it still slows down considerably.

If 1 or 5 users on the system most invoices take 10 -30 secs to generate and 
print but theres maybe 4 out of 15 that take 3 minutes plus, and whilst these 
are taking so long Sage stops working for everyone else, as for some reason 
only known to them their multiuser software relies on 1 file to control whos 
doing what an if on users process ties this file up everyon else stops when the 
need to access it.


Hope i made myself clear but its driving the client and us nuts, SAGE just say 
its an environmental issue, but there is many references to similar things on 
the net, with workstations as opposed to TS, and 2003 TS, which I have tried 
but still the problems persist which is why i think it may be specific to 2008.

Thanks


Graeme

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RE: AD Sites Question

[Woods, Tony]

Good info - thanks guys

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: October 08, 2008 5:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: AD Sites Question

 

You need GCs for determining universal group memberships. You can either
enable universal group membership caching on your non-GC DCs (but users
will need to have logged on so that the group memberships can be
cached), or make the DCs GCs.

 

I would make all the DCs GCs, or remember that you need to put your
Infrastructure Master FSMO role holder on a non-GC domain controller.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Woods, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2008 7:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: AD Sites Question

 

Hi - Windows 2003 Native Mode AD, one forest, one domain (where user
objects are contained) and one child domain. We've got a unique
environment in that we have floating LAN's aboard our vessels. Each
vessel is equipped with a radio that talks to receivers on islands but
while they're sailing, they are in and out of communication with our
network. Each vessel has 3-5 servers, including a DC. These vessels also
have anywhere from 3-7 POS stations as well as 2-10 PC's for staff. The
people here (before I joined) have set up a site for each ship. Each DC
on the ship is a GC and a DNS server. There are 36 of these vessels
floating around in and out of connectivity so the replication isn't all
that great. I know best practices state that if you have a DC in a site,
the DC should also be a GC. On a couple of ships, we tested removing the
GC service from the DC and the users could not log on. This would happen
when vessels were out of range. If they were in range, they could since
they were able to reach a GC in the data center. Is this working as
designed?

 

Thanks,

Tony

 

 

Tony Woods | Team Lead, Windows Data Center Operations | British
Columbia Ferry Services Inc. | Tel:  (250) 978-1507 | Fax: (250)
405-3533 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.bcferries.com 

 

 

 

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RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I think I'll do a Drupal and Joomla deployment and give them both a
second look

 

Thx everyone for the help!

 

From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. For instance you should
create Categories and Sections for your content and if you want to
create separate "child" sites under the parent site you can look at the
multisite component. There are also components for AD integration and
single sign-on. I can also tell you that you may not be satisfied with
the canned templates that come with it so you may have to venture out to
locate a template that fits your environment. From there you'll need to
customize it via the CSS stylesheet. This can become an issue if you're
not creative or familiar with editing style sheets. For reading material
there are a host of sites supporting Joomla so you shouldn't have a
problem googling for help on a particular issue. 

 

hth

gl

marvC



 

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Sorry I misspoke, the setup was cake indeed to get it up and running,
but how did you find it for configuring after the fact?, loading docs,
creating pages, layouts etc... that's the part that I couldn't get
working easily, perhaps I need to give it another try, did you read up
on any good places that helped you?

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:40 AM 


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Yes, externally accessible.

 

You only have to set like 6 values to get joomla running. Up and going
in less than 5 minutes.

 

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: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:26 AM 


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Externally accessible? Would I worry if it was only accessible inside

 

I liked what Joomla is / has , but it was kinda dauting at first to
setup, I got it all up and running, but the config seemed to be complex.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL
injection attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm
pissed off at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started
playing with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some
of the major differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 



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Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[MarvinC]

Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. For instance you should create
Categories and Sections for your content and if you want to create separate
"child" sites under the parent site you can look at the multisite component.
There are also components for AD integration and single sign-on. I can also
tell you that you may not be satisfied with the canned templates that come
with it so you may have to venture out to locate a template that fits your
environment. From there you'll need to customize it via the CSS stylesheet.
This can become an issue if you're not creative or familiar with editing
style sheets. For reading material there are a host of sites supporting
Joomla so you shouldn't have a problem googling for help on a particular
issue.

hth
gl
marvC



On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Sorry I misspoke, the setup was cake indeed to get it up and running, but
> how did you find it for configuring after the fact?, loading docs, creating
> pages, layouts etc… that's the part that I couldn't get working easily,
> perhaps I need to give it another try, did you read up on any good places
> that helped you?
>
>
>
> *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:40 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
> Yes, externally accessible.
>
>
>
> You only have to set like 6 values to get joomla running. Up and going in
> less than 5 minutes.
>
>
>
> 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:* Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:26 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
> Externally accessible? Would I worry if it was only accessible inside
>
>
>
> I liked what Joomla is / has , but it was kinda dauting at first to setup,
> I got it all up and running, but the config seemed to be complex.
>
>
>
> *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
> I can tell you my morning – I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
> attacks today.
>
>
>
> I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now – I'm pissed
> off at Joomla.
>
>
>
> 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:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
> Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing
> with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major
> differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
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Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Steven Peck]

Drupal has a higher initial learning curve then Joomla but once done
it tends to be more flexible.  If you just want a blog, use WordPress
as Drupal is significantly not really a single user blog.  On the
using front, all Warner Brothers and Sony Musics artists sites are
have been built on Drupal for the last year now as various other
diverse types of sites *.

* reference
http://www.drupalsites.net/
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites

Drupal's biggest weakness is in file handling.  There are various add
on modules that are available but if you need flexible advanced file
handling then don't go with Drupal.

As to the security side, Drupal has taken security seriously for a few
years now and has a dedicated team, an announce list and disclosure
policy.

If you want built in default wiki style behavior for people to write
and build collaborative documents online, then Drupal can work for
you.  Ping me off list if you want.  Oh, I run Drupal on windows
myself.  With the new IIS7 url rewrite, as soon as I can, I intend to
write up the install/config guide for the iis.net site on how to
leverage that.

Steven Peck
Drupal Project Documentation Lead  :)

http://www.blkmtn.org



On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:38 AM, MarvinC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've played with Joomla since it's birth from Mamba and have yet to run into
> any major issues. I'm sure arguments can be made as to the best features of
> both products so I won't go that route. I can only speak to my particular
> needs and for the longest time I haven't felt that Drupal fits the mold for
> a "portal". To me it feels more like a blogging tool and when compared with
> Wordpress it still comes up short.
> I say play around with them all and check the communities to see how others
> are responding.
>
> gl
> marvC
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Michael B. Smith
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I can tell you my morning – I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
>> attacks today.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now – I'm pissed
>> off at Joomla.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>>
>>
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started
>> playing with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of
>> the major differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>> From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>>
>>
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~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Michael B. Smith]

Oh that. No, my job is normally just to get the site up and going and then I
hand it over to a web developer. I'm no good at site design.

 

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: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:15 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Sorry I misspoke, the setup was cake indeed to get it up and running, but
how did you find it for configuring after the fact?, loading docs, creating
pages, layouts etc. that's the part that I couldn't get working easily,
perhaps I need to give it another try, did you read up on any good places
that helped you?

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Yes, externally accessible.

 

You only have to set like 6 values to get joomla running. Up and going in
less than 5 minutes.

 

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: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Externally accessible? Would I worry if it was only accessible inside

 

I liked what Joomla is / has , but it was kinda dauting at first to setup, I
got it all up and running, but the config seemed to be complex.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm pissed
off at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing
with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major
differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 

  _  

From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Michael B. Smith]

Sql injection is not MS-SQL specific.

 

In my case, the servers are windows server 2008 running iis 7 with fastcgi
support for php. The database is mysql 5.x; quite current. Same for joomla
engine.

 

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: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

eww! Is this still for a linux server or Windows? Either way I wouldn't run
either of them on MS SQL and would suggest MySQL or PostgreSQL.. The answer
is still the same in that the DB has be to be properly configured and
maintained.



 

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

We went through it a few months ago.  It's not just a Drupal or Joomla
problem.  The db needs protected.

 

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/hwaldron/archive/2008/06/01/microsoft-best-pr
actices-for-preventing-sql-injection-attacks.aspx

 

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/06/24/rise-in-sql-injection-attac
ks-exploiting-unverified-user-data-input.aspx 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:34 AM 


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Protecting against SQL injection is on my short list of things to learn
quickly in my Drupal test.

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

  _  

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM 


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm pissed
off at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing
with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major
differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 

  _  

From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[MarvinC]

eww! Is this still for a linux server or Windows? Either way I wouldn't run
either of them on MS SQL and would suggest MySQL or PostgreSQL.. The answer
is still the same in that the DB has be to be properly configured and
maintained.



On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  We went through it a few months ago.  It's not just a Drupal or Joomla
> problem.  The db needs protected.
>
>
>
>
> http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/hwaldron/archive/2008/06/01/microsoft-best-practices-for-preventing-sql-injection-attacks.aspx
>
>
>
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/06/24/rise-in-sql-injection-attacks-exploiting-unverified-user-data-input.aspx
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:34 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
> Protecting against SQL injection is on my short list of things to learn
> quickly in my Drupal test.
>
>
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
> I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
> attacks today.
>
>
>
> I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm pissed
> off at Joomla.
>
>
>
> 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:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
> Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing
> with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major
> differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
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~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Sorry I misspoke, the setup was cake indeed to get it up and running,
but how did you find it for configuring after the fact?, loading docs,
creating pages, layouts etc... that's the part that I couldn't get
working easily, perhaps I need to give it another try, did you read up
on any good places that helped you?

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Yes, externally accessible.

 

You only have to set like 6 values to get joomla running. Up and going
in less than 5 minutes.

 

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: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Externally accessible? Would I worry if it was only accessible inside

 

I liked what Joomla is / has , but it was kinda dauting at first to
setup, I got it all up and running, but the config seemed to be complex.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL
injection attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm
pissed off at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started
playing with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some
of the major differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 



From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Michael B. Smith]

Yes, externally accessible.

 

You only have to set like 6 values to get joomla running. Up and going in
less than 5 minutes.

 

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: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Externally accessible? Would I worry if it was only accessible inside

 

I liked what Joomla is / has , but it was kinda dauting at first to setup, I
got it all up and running, but the config seemed to be complex.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm pissed
off at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing
with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major
differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 

  _  

From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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~   ~

PXE Boot to RDP Advice?

[N Parr]

Specifically is anyone out there doing this for Desktop Virtualization?
Once we have our full blown VM environment set up this is on the top of
my list of things to do.  My list of requirements would be the standard
KVM with audio but I would really like the ability for serial and USB
redirection.  We have a lot of critical inspection type pc's on our shop
floor that all have either USB or Serial attached equipment that would
be great virtualized.  And of course everyone has flash drives to plug
in, etc.
Thanks
Niles

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Rod Trent]

We went through it a few months ago.  It's not just a Drupal or Joomla
problem.  The db needs protected.

 

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/hwaldron/archive/2008/06/01/microsoft-best-pr
actices-for-preventing-sql-injection-attacks.aspx

 

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/06/24/rise-in-sql-injection-attac
ks-exploiting-unverified-user-data-input.aspx 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Protecting against SQL injection is on my short list of things to learn
quickly in my Drupal test.

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

  _  

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm pissed
off at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing
with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major
differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 

  _  

From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[MarvinC]

I've played with Joomla since it's birth from Mamba and have yet to run into
any major issues. I'm sure arguments can be made as to the best features of
both products so I won't go that route. I can only speak to my particular
needs and for the longest time I haven't felt that Drupal fits the mold for
a "portal". To me it feels more like a blogging tool and when compared with
Wordpress it still comes up short.
I say play around with them all and check the communities to see how others
are responding.

gl
marvC

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Michael B. Smith <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I can tell you my morning – I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
> attacks today.
>
>
>
> I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now – I'm pissed
> off at Joomla.
>
>
>
> 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:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
> Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing
> with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major
> differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
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~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: DHCP failover and reservations

[Miller Bonnie L .]

If you just mean having a second server with the SAME scope, but service 
disabled unless needed, then yes.

>From the live server, run
netsh dhcp server export c:\dhcp.txt all

For the backupserver, run

Netsh dhcp server import c:\dhcp.txt all

-Bonnie

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DHCP failover and reservations

Hi,

When you are setting up a secondary DHCP server for a failover setup, is there 
a way to import the reservations from the existing DHCP server or do they have 
to be entered manually? We have a lot of DHCP reservations and it's inevitable 
that some will be entered incorrectly.

Olly

--
G2 Support
Online Backups

Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web:http://www.g2support.com








~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: DHCP failover and reservations

[Webster]

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Subject: DHCP failover and reservations

 

Hi,

 

When you are setting up a secondary DHCP server for a failover setup, is
there a way to import the reservations from the existing DHCP server or do
they have to be entered manually? We have a lot of DHCP reservations and
it's inevitable that some will be entered incorrectly.

 

http://koolbeans.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/howto-import-and-export-dhcp-reser
vations-in-server-2003/

 

 

Webster


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: DHCP failover and reservations

[Krishna Reddy]

Yes you can definitely import reservations.  I had done it a while ago
so I don't remember the command to import. Just google "import dhcp
reservations".  That is what I did.
 

Thanks,

 

Krishna Reddy
IT Manager
Nucomm, Inc.

 



From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DHCP failover and reservations



Hi,

 

When you are setting up a secondary DHCP server for a failover setup, is
there a way to import the reservations from the existing DHCP server or
do they have to be entered manually? We have a lot of DHCP reservations
and it's inevitable that some will be entered incorrectly.

 

Olly

 

--

G2 Support

Online Backups 

 

Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

Web:http://www.g2support.com  

 

 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[EricB]

Protecting against SQL injection is on my short list of things to learn quickly 
in my Drupal test.

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

  _  

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection 
attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm pissed off 
at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing 
with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major 
differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 

  _  

From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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~   ~

RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Externally accessible? Would I worry if it was only accessible inside

 

I liked what Joomla is / has , but it was kinda dauting at first to
setup, I got it all up and running, but the config seemed to be complex.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL
injection attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm
pissed off at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started
playing with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some
of the major differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 



From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Michael B. Smith]

I can tell you my morning - I've been dealing with 3 Joomla SQL injection
attacks today.

 

I know that they can happen with any framework; but right now - I'm pissed
off at Joomla.

 

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing
with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major
differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 

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From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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DHCP failover and reservations

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi,

 

When you are setting up a secondary DHCP server for a failover setup, is
there a way to import the reservations from the existing DHCP server or
do they have to be entered manually? We have a lot of DHCP reservations
and it's inevitable that some will be entered incorrectly.

 

Olly

 

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RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[EricB]

Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Joomla over Drupal?  I started playing 
with Drupal, and I really like it.  I'd love to know what some of the major 
differences, drawbacks, etc. are between the two.

 

  _  

From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

 

 

 

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~   ~

RE: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I'd guess for the most part I was looking for something that has an easy
learning curve, It needs to stay inside and secure so google apps are
out of the question

-Original Message-
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

If you want to share documents, you might want to go the Google Apps
route.  But I guess it depends on your meaning of "share".

Everything you listed is good in its own ways.  Since you have already
played with most of the top suggestions - what is it you found
lacking?  There are way of cross-integrating some of those apps to get
them to work together.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey All;
>
>
>
> I've been tasked with the job to create an IT site where all the teams
here
> can share Docs, info, something of a central repository of info in
case of
> disaster as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good Portal
app to
> try? It needs to be run in Linux, free or inexpensive
>
>
>
> Ive already played with Mediawiki, Joomla, Drupal, and Sharepoint ,
any
> others out there?
>
>
>
> Carlos Garcia-Moran
>
> Server / Storage Engineer
>
> Sprague Energy
>
> www.spragueenergy.com
>
> P: 603-430-5355
>
> C: 857-234-0343
>
> F: 603-430-7219
>
>
>
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are not
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Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[MarvinC]

Since it has to run on a linux server I'd suggest sticking with Joomla as
they have a pretty good selection of components and modules to help make for
a decent portal. The thing with Joomla and the others you've listed is that
you may need to locate a template, customize it, and then pay attention to
updates. This doesn't include staying on top of the MySQL and PHP updates as
they're released. So there's a slight administrative overhead. If you could
run it on a Windows box I'd say go with WSS 3.0 and call it a day.

gl
marvC
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If you want to share documents, you might want to go the Google Apps
> route.  But I guess it depends on your meaning of "share".
>
> Everything you listed is good in its own ways.  Since you have already
> played with most of the top suggestions - what is it you found
> lacking?  There are way of cross-integrating some of those apps to get
> them to work together.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey All;
> >
> >
> >
> > I've been tasked with the job to create an IT site where all the teams
> here
> > can share Docs, info, something of a central repository of info in case
> of
> > disaster as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good Portal app
> to
> > try? It needs to be run in Linux, free or inexpensive
> >
> >
> >
> > Ive already played with Mediawiki, Joomla, Drupal, and Sharepoint , any
> > others out there?
> >
> >
> >
> > Carlos Garcia-Moran
> >
> > Server / Storage Engineer
> >
> > Sprague Energy
> >
> > www.spragueenergy.com
> >
> > P: 603-430-5355
> >
> > C: 857-234-0343
> >
> > F: 603-430-7219
> >
> >
> >
> > _
> > This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is
> > confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges.
> > This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information
> > intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are
> not
> > an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use,
> > dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including
> > attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have
> > received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and
> delete
> > the original message and any attachments from your system.
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> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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>
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> ~   ~
>

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Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Robert Cato]

http://www.metadot.com/

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Hey All;
>
>
>
> I've been tasked with the job to create an IT site where all the teams here
> can share Docs, info, something of a central repository of info in case of
> disaster as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good Portal app to
> try? It needs to be run in Linux, free or inexpensive
>
>
>
> Ive already played with Mediawiki, Joomla, Drupal, and Sharepoint , any
> others out there?
>
>
>
> Carlos Garcia-Moran
>
> Server / Storage Engineer
>
> Sprague Energy
>
> www.spragueenergy.com
>
> P: 603-430-5355
>
> C: 857-234-0343
>
> F: 603-430-7219
>
>
>
> _
> This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is
> confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges.
> This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information
> intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not
> an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use,
> dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including
> attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have
> received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete
> the original message and any attachments from your system.
> _
>
>
>
>
>
>

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~   ~

RE: Triple boot

[David Mazzaccaro]

I am up and running:

Installed XP Pro (30 GB)
Installed VISTA Ultimate (20 GB)
Installed Ubuntu 8.04 (15 GB OS, 5 GB swap) 

I am now able to triple boot my laptop, with no problems.
Let the fun begin!

Thanks to all.

-Dave
 

-Original Message-
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Triple boot

Agreed [if you want a messy mixture of the Vista and Grub boot loaders].

I needed a clean, easily *modifiable* system; I would have preferred to use the 
free Grub approach but could not integrate all the operating systems I 
required.  Acronis OS Selector achieved that.

I said that Vista was forthright, not particular.

forth·right [adj.]

1. Direct and without evasion; straightforward.
2. Proceeding straight ahead.

i.e. Vista and XP, to a lesser extent, do not allow the efficient management of 
partitions as one is able to do in Grub and Acronis.

Moral of the story: Whatever floats your boat.

On the 04/10/2008 14:24, Ken Schaefer wrote the following:
> Huh?
> 
> Install XP
> 
> Install Vista - it will recognise the prior operating system and add 
> it to the MS bootloader. Not sure what you mean by Vista being 
> particular about installation demands - it's not different to any 
> other OS
> 
> Install Ubuntu.
> 
> Cheers
> Ken
> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Saturday, 4 October 2008 8:02 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: Triple boot
>>
>> David, I needed a laptop with multiple operating systems for portable 
>> support work and I experimented for about a week until I managed to 
>> get the configuration below to work.  I initially tried every free 
>> route and almost gave up on the project even after resigning myself 
>> to using Acronis OS Selector.  Even that needed a lot of fiddling.
>>
>> I must warn you, it is not for the faint hearted and I can't 
>> guarantee it will work for you.  Vista, in particular is quite 
>> forthright in its installation demands!
>>
>> The procedure listed below your message...
>>
>>> *From:* David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> *Sent:* Friday, October 03, 2008 4:55 PM
>>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>>> *Subject:* Triple boot
>>>
>>> I would like to be able to triple boot my machine:
>>> Windows XP Professional
>>> Windows Vista Ultimate
>>> Ubuntu (latest version)
>>>
>>> What is the best way to do this?  My hard drive is 80GB I assume 
>>> Gparted is the best utility to create the the partions - and start 
>>> from there?
>>>
>>> Any direction to get me started is appreciated.
>>> Thx
>> Making a multiple boot system using Acronis OS Selector
>> --
>>
>> Using the following operating system and data partitions:
>>
>> . Windows Vista SP1
>> . Windows XP SP3
>> . Kubuntu Linux 8.04
>> . FreeBSD 7.0
>> . Linux/Unix swap
>> . NTFS data
>>
>> PC operating systems use a hard disk drive divided up into a number 
>> of partitions. Only 4 PRIMARY partitions are allowed.  It is possible 
>> to use EXTENDED partitions which can contain numerous LOGICAL 
>> partitions to create more than 4 partitions.
>>
>> The physical disk is divided up into cylinders, heads and sectors
>> (c/h/s) and each head covers a track of 63 sectors (sector 1 to 63).
>> The first sector of the disk 0/0/1 contains the MBR (Master Boot 
>> Record) and the partition table with the layout of the disk.  The 
>> remainder of this track (up to and including the last sector 63 is 
>> normally not used but for our purposes, it is used by Acronis to 
>> store the OS Selector boot loader code.  The first partition created 
>> will start at 0/1/1
>>
>> 1. Boot from the Linux or FreeBSD CD and create a small primary 
>> partition, say 100MB, as /dev/sda1 and format as FAT32.  This will be 
>> used to store the Acronis OS Selector programs and data.  Using FAT32 
>> format allows us to access the partition from DOS, if needed, in case 
>> of catastrophe.  Acronis allows one to use a Windows partition to 
>> store this data but knowing Windows, I would prefer to keep it 
>> completely separate.  It also allows us to add and delete partitions 
>> at a later stage without disturbing the code.
>>
>> 2. Boot from the Vista DVD and create the next partition for Vista.  
>> Use whatever disk space is needed but bear in mind that Vista (as 
>> well as XP, Linux and FreeBSD) will use the last NTFS partition to 
>> store data, so the program partition does not need to be too large, so I 
>> chose 20GB.
>>   Vista tends to rewrite the MBR and boot sectors, which is why we 
>> install it first.
>>
>> 3. Boot from the Linux CD and run GpartEd. Check that the first two 
>> partitions are /dev/sda1 (100MB) and /dev/sda2 (20GB).  Create the 
>> next partition (/dev/sda3) for Windows XP as NTFS and bear in mind 
>> the sizing constraints as per the Vista install.  (We cannot directly 
>> install XP a

Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[wjh]

how about dot project?

Garcia-Moran, Carlos wrote:
> 
>
> Hey All;
>
> I've been tasked with the job to create an IT site where all the teams 
> here can share Docs, info, something of a central repository of info 
> in case of disaster as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on a 
> good Portal app to try? It needs to be run in Linux, free or inexpensive
>
> Ive already played with Mediawiki, Joomla, Drupal, and Sharepoint , 
> any others out there?
>
> Carlos Garcia-Moran
>
> Server / Storage Engineer
>
> Sprague Energy
>
> www.spragueenergy.com 
>
> P: 603-430-5355
>
> C: 857-234-0343
>
> F: 603-430-7219
>
> _
> This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is
> confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges.
> This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information
> intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you 
> are not
> an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use,
> dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including
> attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have
> received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete
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>
>
>  


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Micheal Espinola Jr]

If you want to share documents, you might want to go the Google Apps
route.  But I guess it depends on your meaning of "share".

Everything you listed is good in its own ways.  Since you have already
played with most of the top suggestions - what is it you found
lacking?  There are way of cross-integrating some of those apps to get
them to work together.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey All;
>
>
>
> I've been tasked with the job to create an IT site where all the teams here
> can share Docs, info, something of a central repository of info in case of
> disaster as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good Portal app to
> try? It needs to be run in Linux, free or inexpensive
>
>
>
> Ive already played with Mediawiki, Joomla, Drupal, and Sharepoint , any
> others out there?
>
>
>
> Carlos Garcia-Moran
>
> Server / Storage Engineer
>
> Sprague Energy
>
> www.spragueenergy.com
>
> P: 603-430-5355
>
> C: 857-234-0343
>
> F: 603-430-7219
>
>
>
> _
> This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is
> confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges.
> This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information
> intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not
> an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use,
> dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including
> attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have
> received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete
> the original message and any attachments from your system.
> _
>
>
>
>



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ME2

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

IT Portal / Wiki Suggestion

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Hey All;

 

I've been tasked with the job to create an IT site where all the teams
here can share Docs, info, something of a central repository of info in
case of disaster as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good
Portal app to try? It needs to be run in Linux, free or inexpensive 

 

Ive already played with Mediawiki, Joomla, Drupal, and Sharepoint , any
others out there?

 

Carlos Garcia-Moran

Server / Storage Engineer

Sprague Energy

www.spragueenergy.com  

P: 603-430-5355

C: 857-234-0343

F: 603-430-7219

 


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RE: Remote desktop issue

[Phil Thompson]

MS TS screen saver is set to lock by default. Pain in the you know what!! If 
that isn't it here is the other place to look.

[cid:image001.jpg@01C929EB.270F3050]

[cid:image002.jpg@01C929EB.270F3050]


Phil

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote desktop issue


At the risk of sounding like a total newb, where do you do this?  Is it just 
their standard screensaver in their remote session?  Or is it a terminal 
session setting?

-Original Message-
From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote desktop issue

I think it's the screensaver on the server (for each user). We have the exact 
same scenario, W2k3 TS and 10 minute timeout (1 person complained and I stopped 
the screensaver for the user on the server).



Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
Technical Support
561 1st Street West
Sonoma,Ca.95476
(707) 935-1577Office
(707) 935-9387Fax
(707) 766-4185 Cell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote desktop issue

Good afternoon,


We are running Terminal Server on a Windows 2003 server to access a couple of 
applications.  Currently, user sessions stay active forever, and we want it 
like that.  The problem we are encountering is on the local side.  The remote 
desktop session times out after 10 minutes of inactivity, and requires the user 
to re-enter their credentials, but they are connected right back to where they 
were.  We don't want this to happen.  We basically want the remote client to 
stay connected and active all day.  I hope this makes sense.


How do I make this happen?  I have not set anything related to TS or RD session 
settings.  I thought the default values were unlimited.


What am I missing?


Thanks,


Eric Brown

IT Manager

Forest Post Productions

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(248) 855-4333








~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~






~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~<><>

RE: Remote desktop issue

[EricB]

At the risk of sounding like a total newb, where do you do this?  Is it just 
their standard screensaver in their remote session?  Or is it a terminal 
session setting?

-Original Message-
From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote desktop issue

I think it's the screensaver on the server (for each user). We have the exact 
same scenario, W2k3 TS and 10 minute timeout (1 person complained and I stopped 
the screensaver for the user on the server).




Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
Technical Support
561 1st Street West
Sonoma,Ca.95476
(707) 935-1577Office
(707) 935-9387Fax
(707) 766-4185 Cell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]





-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote desktop issue

Good afternoon,



We are running Terminal Server on a Windows 2003 server to access a couple of 
applications.  Currently, user sessions stay active forever, and we want it 
like that.  The problem we are encountering is on the local side.  The remote 
desktop session times out after 10 minutes of inactivity, and requires the user 
to re-enter their credentials, but they are connected right back to where they 
were.  We don't want this to happen.  We basically want the remote client to 
stay connected and active all day.  I hope this makes sense.



How do I make this happen?  I have not set anything related to TS or RD session 
settings.  I thought the default values were unlimited.



What am I missing?



Thanks,



Eric Brown

IT Manager

Forest Post Productions

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(248) 855-4333









~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Triple boot

[Peter van Houten]

Agreed [if you want a messy mixture of the Vista and Grub boot loaders].

I needed a clean, easily *modifiable* system; I would have preferred to
use the free Grub approach but could not integrate all the operating
systems I required.  Acronis OS Selector achieved that.

I said that Vista was forthright, not particular.

forth·right [adj.]

1. Direct and without evasion; straightforward.
2. Proceeding straight ahead.

i.e. Vista and XP, to a lesser extent, do not allow the efficient
management of partitions as one is able to do in Grub and Acronis.

Moral of the story: Whatever floats your boat.

On the 04/10/2008 14:24, Ken Schaefer wrote the following:

Huh?

Install XP

Install Vista - it will recognise the prior operating system and add it to the 
MS bootloader. Not sure what you mean by Vista being particular about 
installation demands - it's not different to any other OS

Install Ubuntu.

Cheers
Ken


-Original Message-
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 4 October 2008 8:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Triple boot

David, I needed a laptop with multiple operating systems for portable
support work and I experimented for about a week until I managed to get
the configuration below to work.  I initially tried every free route and
almost gave up on the project even after resigning myself to using
Acronis OS Selector.  Even that needed a lot of fiddling.

I must warn you, it is not for the faint hearted and I can't guarantee
it will work for you.  Vista, in particular is quite forthright in its
installation demands!

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*From:* David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Friday, October 03, 2008 4:55 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Triple boot

I would like to be able to triple boot my machine:
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate
Ubuntu (latest version)

What is the best way to do this?  My hard drive is 80GB
I assume Gparted is the best utility to create the the partions - and
start from there?

Any direction to get me started is appreciated.
Thx

Making a multiple boot system using Acronis OS Selector
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Using the following operating system and data partitions:

. Windows Vista SP1
. Windows XP SP3
. Kubuntu Linux 8.04
. FreeBSD 7.0
. Linux/Unix swap
. NTFS data

PC operating systems use a hard disk drive divided up into a number of
partitions. Only 4 PRIMARY partitions are allowed.  It is possible to
use EXTENDED partitions which can contain numerous LOGICAL partitions to
create more than 4 partitions.

The physical disk is divided up into cylinders, heads and sectors
(c/h/s) and each head covers a track of 63 sectors (sector 1 to 63).
The first sector of the disk 0/0/1 contains the MBR (Master Boot Record)
and the partition table with the layout of the disk.  The remainder of
this track (up to and including the last sector 63 is normally not used
but for our purposes, it is used by Acronis to store the OS Selector
boot loader code.  The first partition created will start at 0/1/1

1. Boot from the Linux or FreeBSD CD and create a small primary
partition, say 100MB, as /dev/sda1 and format as FAT32.  This will be
used to store the Acronis OS Selector programs and data.  Using FAT32
format allows us to access the partition from DOS, if needed, in case of
catastrophe.  Acronis allows one to use a Windows partition to store
this data but knowing Windows, I would prefer to keep it completely
separate.  It also allows us to add and delete partitions at a later
stage without disturbing the code.

2. Boot from the Vista DVD and create the next partition for Vista.  Use
whatever disk space is needed but bear in mind that Vista (as well as
XP, Linux and FreeBSD) will use the last NTFS partition to store data,
so the program partition does not need to be too large, so I chose 20GB.
  Vista tends to rewrite the MBR and boot sectors, which is why we
install it first.

3. Boot from the Linux CD and run GpartEd. Check that the first two
partitions are /dev/sda1 (100MB) and /dev/sda2 (20GB).  Create the next
partition (/dev/sda3) for Windows XP as NTFS and bear in mind the sizing
constraints as per the Vista install.  (We cannot directly install XP as
the install process would overwrite our MBR and system boot sectors, so
we will use a partition copy later on).

4. Create the fourth primary partition (/dev/sda4) as an extended
partition.  (This will contain the remainder of the logical partitions
we require).  Use all the remaining space on the disk.  Within this
extended partition, create an EXT3 partition (/dev/sda5) for Linux and a
partition (/dev/sda6) for FreeBSD Unix.  Make sure the mount points are
set as "/".  Use whatever size is required (I used 10GB each)  Create
ONE swap partition (/dev/sda7) for Linux and Unix and the rule of thumb
is 2 x RAM, so I used 2,048MB.  Lastly, create a data partition
(/dev/sda8) for all the operating sy

Windows 2008 Terminal Server performance issues accessing files on 2003 server

[Graeme Carstairs]

Hi there,
We have a client with a SBS 2003 server and a 2008 Terminal server.

They claim that occasionally the performance between the TS and the server
is poor (only in Sage Line 50)

is there any tweaks that anyone can recommend that would improve the file
access performance.

I have tried disabling SMB sigining, and others which have stopped
the application freezing but it still slows down considerably.

If 1 or 5 users on the system most invoices take 10 -30 secs to generate and
print but theres maybe 4 out of 15 that take 3 minutes plus, and whilst
these are taking so long Sage stops working for everyone else, as for some
reason only known to them their multiuser software relies on 1 file to
control whos doing what an if on users process ties this file up everyon
else stops when the need to access it.


Hope i made myself clear but its driving the client and us nuts, SAGE just
say its an environmental issue, but there is many references to similar
things on the net, with workstations as opposed to TS, and 2003 TS, which I
have tried but still the problems persist which is why i think it may be
specific to 2008.

Thanks


Graeme

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RE: firewall lifespan

[Steve Burkett]

Be aware that Watchguard stopped selling the X500 in October 2006, and
are End of Life'ing it in October 2009.

 

See URL: http://www.watchguard.com/products/endoflife.asp

 

Think your best bet would be to troll ebay for a spare, but we've still
got a Firebox III X700 running at one of our sites 24-7 from 2002, so
your X500 still has a few years left in it hopefully. In fact of the 40
or so units we have (variety of SOHO, Edge, X Core and X Core e-series),
I can't think of us having a single hardware failure in the last 3-4
years.

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 08 October 2008 20:03
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: firewall lifespan

 

I have a perfectly functional firewall.  A pretty red Watchguard X 500
Core.  I've been running it 24-7 for 4 years now.  I've been through a
lot of hardware on my servers in that time.  So I'm wondering is this
thing looking at collecting social security or is it just going to be
young and vital for as long as Watchguard supports it?  I don't want
lose my internet Access for 2 days while I wait for a replacement if it
up and dies on me.  Do firewall appliances like these have a predictable
lifespan?

 

Thanks for any insight,

 

Bill 
 
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