Re: Utility to Access all Registry Keys remotely
Just don't forget to unload it afterwards - I was once editing our users' mandatory profile and left the Registry hive loaded on my machine. Since then I have decided to maintain multiple copies :-) 2009/1/5 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM, David James bigdadd...@gmail.com wrote: If you connect to the admin on that workstation share you can browse to the %systemroot%\system32\config folder and see all the hives. In regedit click on HKLM or HLC and the choose file-load hive, then open them from that admin share. Isn't that bad from a file locking standpoint? I was under the impression that the remote registry options in REGEDIT use some kind of special RPC, rather than a simple file access. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare Product Confusion
It *allows* it, but it does not include it. For those features you need a VirtualCenter license, and to get that, you might as well buy ESX. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servr... Oh it sure does! From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
UK Police planning to hack citizens' PCs
Nice..this isn't a hoax is it? http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5626 A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he believes that it is proportionate and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime - defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece I have a HUGE problem with this. What's next, surveillance cameras in your house? In the states it would be done to make sure there's no child abuse or meth production going on. It's one thing to poll my ISP to see where I've been, another to connect to my PC in my house! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT UK Police planning to hack citizens' PCs
The Times over stated what is happening from what I read. Other papers report no changes in the rules or laws. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: UK Police planning to hack citizens' PCs Nice..this isn't a hoax is it? http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5626 A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he believes that it is proportionate and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime - defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece I have a HUGE problem with this. What's next, surveillance cameras in your house? In the states it would be done to make sure there's no child abuse or meth production going on. It's one thing to poll my ISP to see where I've been, another to connect to my PC in my house! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare Product Confusion
Sorry I should have been more specific. Out of the box it does not do any of those features. You have to PAY to get them. That would be upgrading to Enterprise ESXi. But stating that it does not support it was a misnomer. My apologies. I consider it to be the equivalent of 2003 Std 32 bit vs 2003 Enterprise. 2003 Enterprise 32 bit will support 8 gig ram, standard wont. You have to upgrade to it in order for it to work. I classified them as 2 different products. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servr... Oh it sure does! From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: UK Police planning to hack citizens' PCs
I cannot wait for my girlfriend's sister to set up the necessary paperwork for my family to emigrate to the United States. I am sick to death of living in the police state that the UK has become. Whether these laws are workable or not is moot - the fact that they have been passed would make me want to take to the streets in revolutionary mode - if I was a little younger and didn't have kids. G 2009/1/6 David Lum david@nwea.org Nice..this isn't a hoax is it? http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5626 A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he believes that it is proportionate and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece I have a HUGE problem with this. What's next, surveillance cameras in your house? In the states it would be done to make sure there's no child abuse or meth production going on. It's one thing to poll my ISP to see where I've been, another to connect to my PC in my house! *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: UK Police planning to hack citizens' PCs
LOL-have you ever heard of the Patriot Act? If big brother wants to, he can. Your rhetorical question What's next, surveillance cameras in your house? reminds me of the Patrick Henry 'Liberty or Death' speech. They tell us, sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/henry.htm From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: UK Police planning to hack citizens' PCs Nice..this isn't a hoax is it? http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5626 A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he believes that it is proportionate and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime - defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece I have a HUGE problem with this. What's next, surveillance cameras in your house? In the states it would be done to make sure there's no child abuse or meth production going on. It's one thing to poll my ISP to see where I've been, another to connect to my PC in my house! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT - Staffing Overtime
I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Staffing Overtime
Not knowing what state. not sure. In California, you can be salary and still receive overtime. If you are Exempt, then you won't be entitled to overtime. From what I was told by someone that used to work with the California Labor Board, a good rule of thumb is if you are in the position of hire and fire. If so, then you are exempt.. no overtime. If not, you are non-exempt and are entitled to overtime. Of course.. I am sure there are exceptions and loopholes. *** Note, I am not an employment lawyer. Best to contact your state's labor board and/or an employment attorney. From: Sean Houston [mailto:seanthous...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT - Staffing Overtime I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Staffing Overtime
Post your results here, if you're able to. I know that some IT positions are exempt from overtime even if they're not management, but I've always been hazy on which positions qualified. I know an awful lot of IT people who aren't programmers or developers but who are salaried and put in a lot of overtime for free. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttp://www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Sean Houston [mailto:seanthous...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Staffing Overtime I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.commailto:saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.commailto:seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Staffing Overtime
Here's a relevant article: http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=2588 Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Sean Houston [mailto:seanthous...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT - Staffing Overtime I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Staffing Overtime
I am not a developer or programmer and I am salaried. Granted I make well over the $455/wk or $27/hr mentioned earlier...and I couldn't care less about overtime. YMMV TVK From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Staffing Overtime Post your results here, if you're able to. I know that some IT positions are exempt from overtime even if they're not management, but I've always been hazy on which positions qualified. I know an awful lot of IT people who aren't programmers or developers but who are salaried and put in a lot of overtime for free. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttp://www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Sean Houston [mailto:seanthous...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Staffing Overtime I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.commailto:saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.commailto:seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
NTFS Permissions
Good morning everyone: Here's the scenario. I have a server originally setup as a member server (Win 2003 Ent R2). This server acts as a file server that houses all of the students' home directories. I setup a local group on this server giving read/write permissions to all teachers so they can monitor the students' home directories as needed. Over the Christmas break, I get the bright idea to DCPROMO the server to a domain controller. The DCPROMO is successful, BUT, stupid me forgot about the local group FAC-STAFF that has read/write permissions on every folder and file in the student share. I know I can use xcacls to give a new domain group read/write permissions to the files and folders, but now I need a command line util to get rid of the invalid ACL entry (the dreaded SID entry) on every file/folder. When I run an xcacls.vbs on an existing file with invalid entries, I get this: Allowed BUILTIN\Administrators Full Control This Folder, Subfolde Allowed \ ModifyThis Folder, Subfolde I tried to do an xcacls.vbs /r on the \ account, but it did not work. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for all of the help and funny comments that will ensue. Clay ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: NTFS Permissions
ACK, a DC with file serving open for students? Sorry but as a fellow edu type I vote 'very bad' on that idea. Leave the old unused ACL on the folders, it won't hurt anything. -Original Message- From: Walker, Clay [mailto:c...@bridgeportisd.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NTFS Permissions Good morning everyone: Here's the scenario. I have a server originally setup as a member server (Win 2003 Ent R2). This server acts as a file server that houses all of the students' home directories. I setup a local group on this server giving read/write permissions to all teachers so they can monitor the students' home directories as needed. Over the Christmas break, I get the bright idea to DCPROMO the server to a domain controller. The DCPROMO is successful, BUT, stupid me forgot about the local group FAC-STAFF that has read/write permissions on every folder and file in the student share. I know I can use xcacls to give a new domain group read/write permissions to the files and folders, but now I need a command line util to get rid of the invalid ACL entry (the dreaded SID entry) on every file/folder. When I run an xcacls.vbs on an existing file with invalid entries, I get this: Allowed BUILTIN\Administrators Full Control This Folder, Subfolde Allowed \ ModifyThis Folder, Subfolde I tried to do an xcacls.vbs /r on the \ account, but it did not work. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for all of the help and funny comments that will ensue. Clay ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Staffing Overtime
+1 on going over the head of the HR person and forcing them to do THEIR job or getting them fired. There are additional laws in Ohio that they need to also check into. I believe you owe them OT or comp time. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Staffing Overtime Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.commailto:seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.commailto:saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.commailto:seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Server migration assistance
Thanks again for the advise Jim and Ben. I completed the server migration on New Years, relatively painlessly. Thought I'd throw a tidbit of info out there to whomever may want to run RoboCopy from a 2008 machine in future. I decided to map the source (remote) and found that the elevated command prompt couldn't see or access the mapping I'd made in explorer as the same user, non-elevated. From the elevated command prompt, before running RoboCopy, I had to use Net Use to map the drive under the elevated context. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
Found this on Ohio's website that relates to their overtime laws. Some additional research will be required on your part: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4111.03 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Utilizing SMS...
I'm trying to use SMS to get a handle on installed software and licensing - problem is, the report is MASSIVE, how can I pare it down to software that actually requires purchase? It's easy to get a list of what's in Add/Remove, but with some of the items listed I have no easy way of knowing if it must be purchased or not - short of Googling the product name and seeing what that gets me for info. Am I stuck with a super-tedious task here? It would be cool if there was a related reg key for purchase required... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Utilizing SMS...
I don't think so but others will clarify. I would think you could do your report on a virgin box (no pun intended) and exclude all the basic programs from the virgin install. Then add each program you normally add to a box. Each time add to the excluded items things that are free or maybe even make an additional report for those programs you realize you paid for as you go. In any case I think there is work to do but if you can keep it maintained you will be better off down the road. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Utilizing SMS... I'm trying to use SMS to get a handle on installed software and licensing - problem is, the report is MASSIVE, how can I pare it down to software that actually requires purchase? It's easy to get a list of what's in Add/Remove, but with some of the items listed I have no easy way of knowing if it must be purchased or not - short of Googling the product name and seeing what that gets me for info. Am I stuck with a super-tedious task here? It would be cool if there was a related reg key for purchase required... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
HR is most likely acting for the Company, and saving money by not giving an argument for more money. On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Solved: Windows 2008 image problem
Thought I would pass this along in case it saves anyone a headache down the road: Was building an image for deploying W2K8 using OSD with SMS 2003. Pulled down the image on a test machine and couldn't open control panel. Everything else seemed to be fine. Scanned it for viruses, nothing. Finally found that we had set the Software Licensing service to disabled. Our thought was that it servers the same purpose as the license Logging service in previous versions of Windows, which we normally disable. I have setup a KMS infrastructure and thought I had a better understanding of this service. Obviously that isn't the case. I'm not exactly sure why this happened, but I'll deal with the root cause later. Just wanted to pass on that if you decide to disable this service, you may run into issues. Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Utilizing SMS...
Try this site: http://www.myitforum.com/ Rod Trent is the SMS guru... On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:09 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I'm trying to use SMS to get a handle on installed software and licensing – problem is, the report is MASSIVE, how can I pare it down to software that actually requires purchase? It's easy to get a list of what's in Add/Remove, but with some of the items listed I have no easy way of knowing if it must be purchased or not – short of Googling the product name and seeing what that gets me for info. Am I stuck with a super-tedious task here? It would be cool if there was a related reg key for purchase required… *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
Awesome, Thanks everyone for your responses - it was some good information . I'm sure eventually we'll get this straightened out for the benefit of the IT staff here. Thanks, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Rob Bonfiglio robbonfig...@gmail.comwrote: Found this on Ohio's website that relates to their overtime laws. Some additional research will be required on your part: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4111.03 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
True, but they are in effect setting the company up for a lawsuit that the company would lose, which would result in the company spending a whole lot more money than they would if they just paid the OT and/or gave comp time. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: HR is most likely acting for the Company, and saving money by not giving an argument for more money. On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
Penny wise, Dollar stupid... On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: True, but they are in effect setting the company up for a lawsuit that the company would lose, which would result in the company spending a whole lot more money than they would if they just paid the OT and/or gave comp time. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.comwrote: HR is most likely acting for the Company, and saving money by not giving an argument for more money. On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Utilizing SMS...
Unfortunately, you've got a tedious task ahead of you. SMS (or SCCM 2007) doesn't have any idea about the licensing and purchasing requirements of your software. The closest it gets is with SCCM 2007 where it can count licenses for certain Microsoft products. Malcolm From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, 06 January, 2009 10:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Utilizing SMS... I'm trying to use SMS to get a handle on installed software and licensing - problem is, the report is MASSIVE, how can I pare it down to software that actually requires purchase? It's easy to get a list of what's in Add/Remove, but with some of the items listed I have no easy way of knowing if it must be purchased or not - short of Googling the product name and seeing what that gets me for info. Am I stuck with a super-tedious task here? It would be cool if there was a related reg key for purchase required... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
I've certainly seen companies that would rather pay their attorneys for litigation than just pay their employees or bills for that matter. On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: True, but they are in effect setting the company up for a lawsuit that the company would lose, which would result in the company spending a whole lot more money than they would if they just paid the OT and/or gave comp time. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: HR is most likely acting for the Company, and saving money by not giving an argument for more money. On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: VMWare Product Confusion
You may also want to look at PowerShell to help you automate reporting if you go this route as well. A great introductory article can be found here: http://www.vmguru.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu-62/scripting/74-getting-started-with-powershell-and-powergui-in-your-virtual-infrastructure Some limitations seem to apply. http://halr9000.com/article/612 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:01 AM, gswe...@actsconsulting.net wrote: Sorry I should have been more specific. Out of the box it does not do any of those features. You have to PAY to get them. That would be upgrading to Enterprise ESXi. But stating that it does not support it was a misnomer. My apologies. I consider it to be the equivalent of 2003 Std 32 bit vs 2003 Enterprise. 2003 Enterprise 32 bit will support 8 gig ram, standard wont. You have to upgrade to it in order for it to work. I classified them as 2 different products. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servr... Oh it sure does! From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks… Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Staffing Overtime
I'm still a little confused here... according to the DOL document, http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17a_overview.pdf a large portion of computer workers fall under Professional Exemption. I'd say that any SysAdmin or NetAdmin or the like that has certs or degrees will not qualify for any exemption. Helpdesk/support usually are certified, but most likely do not fit in Professional Exemption as well as do not qualify for Computer Emp Exemption. Pay 'em Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Staffing Overtime I've certainly seen companies that would rather pay their attorneys for litigation than just pay their employees or bills for that matter. On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: True, but they are in effect setting the company up for a lawsuit that the company would lose, which would result in the company spending a whole lot more money than they would if they just paid the OT and/or gave comp time. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: HR is most likely acting for the Company, and saving money by not giving an argument for more money. On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and
File name is too long
Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Server migration assistance
Apply this reg hack to your Vista machines and reboot. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] EnableLinkedConnections=dword:0001 It allows the mappings to be shared across elevated and non-elevated sessions. Carl -Original Message- From: Scott Klassen [mailto:klas9...@msn.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server migration assistance Thanks again for the advise Jim and Ben. I completed the server migration on New Years, relatively painlessly. Thought I'd throw a tidbit of info out there to whomever may want to run RoboCopy from a 2008 machine in future. I decided to map the source (remote) and found that the elevated command prompt couldn't see or access the mapping I'd made in explorer as the same user, non-elevated. From the elevated command prompt, before running RoboCopy, I had to use Net Use to map the drive under the elevated context. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: File name is too long
Use the subst command. You can get the syntax by typing subst /? from a command prompt. -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: File name is too long Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: File name is too long
SUBST might help. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Staffing Overtime
In California, you have to computer exempt professionals at least $37.94 per hour.. or about $79K per year. From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Staffing Overtime I'm still a little confused here... according to the DOL document, http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17a_overview.pdf a large portion of computer workers fall under Professional Exemption. I'd say that any SysAdmin or NetAdmin or the like that has certs or degrees will not qualify for any exemption. Helpdesk/support usually are certified, but most likely do not fit in Professional Exemption as well as do not qualify for Computer Emp Exemption. Pay 'em Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 _ From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Staffing Overtime I've certainly seen companies that would rather pay their attorneys for litigation than just pay their employees or bills for that matter. On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: True, but they are in effect setting the company up for a lawsuit that the company would lose, which would result in the company spending a whole lot more money than they would if they just paid the OT and/or gave comp time. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: HR is most likely acting for the Company, and saving money by not giving an argument for more money. On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things? Thanks! Sean Houston -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com
Powershell Question
Anyone know a good resource for powershell regexp's, I am trying to replicate the following regexp ^[[:space:]]+word|^[[:space:]]+[0-9] so I can clean up a log file for viewing. Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Powershell Question
This is a good start, and provides links http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.11.powershell.aspx Here is a link to the definitive reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs600312.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell Question Anyone know a good resource for powershell regexp's, I am trying to replicate the following regexp ^[[:space:]]+word|^[[:space:]]+[0-9] so I can clean up a log file for viewing. Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: File name is too long
While, as others suggest, 'subst' might help, your real help here is two-fold: 1) robocopy - get it from the MSFT resource kits. I can handle file/path specifications greater than 254 characters, as it uses a different API than win32 2) shorten the path. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: File name is too long
And it is WAY faster. Robocopy FTW. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long While, as others suggest, 'subst' might help, your real help here is two-fold: 1) robocopy - get it from the MSFT resource kits. I can handle file/path specifications greater than 254 characters, as it uses a different API than win32 2) shorten the path. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Powershell Question
Also, while I don't use regex much, the few times I have Regex Buddy was invaluable. http://www.regexbuddy.com/ And Micheal beat me to the link I use whenever I need a refresher. (ok, the link I read when I have to use regex) Brandon is evidently going to post more on the subject so you may want to follow his blog for future reading. http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2008/12/29/regular-expressions-and-powershell-part-1.aspx http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2008/12/28/regular-expression-webcast-series.aspx Steven On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com wrote: This is a good start, and provides links http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.11.powershell.aspx Here is a link to the definitive reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs600312.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell Question Anyone know a good resource for powershell regexp's, I am trying to replicate the following regexp ^[[:space:]]+word|^[[:space:]]+[0-9] so I can clean up a log file for viewing. Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: File name is too long
And reliable. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: And it is WAY faster. Robocopy FTW. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long While, as others suggest, 'subst' might help, your real help here is two-fold: 1) robocopy - get it from the MSFT resource kits. I can handle file/path specifications greater than 254 characters, as it uses a different API than win32 2) shorten the path. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Tuesday Funny - or is it?
Too funny, Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: ezi...@lifespan.org Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Tuesday Funny - or is it? Don't Shout at your Disk Drives! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/05/shouty_sun_engineer/print.html Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT - Staffing Overtime
Sort of / kind of / depends. The reality is most that are listed as exempt are probably not. But as long a there is not a complaint to the labor board (and a lawyer) the situation will probably remain status quo, especially in these wonderful economic times. Not part of the article but IT workers were also affected. http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=811 Complaining to a labor board, getting a lawyer, those are all things involving risk so people tend not to do them. Steven On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: In California, you have to computer exempt professionals at least $37.94 per hour.. or about $79K per year. From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Staffing Overtime I'm still a little confused here... according to the DOL document, http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17a_overview.pdf a large portion of computer workers fall under Professional Exemption. I'd say that any SysAdmin or NetAdmin or the like that has certs or degrees will not qualify for any exemption. Helpdesk/support usually are certified, but most likely do not fit in Professional Exemption as well as do not qualify for Computer Emp Exemption. Pay 'em Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Staffing Overtime I've certainly seen companies that would rather pay their attorneys for litigation than just pay their employees or bills for that matter. On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: True, but they are in effect setting the company up for a lawsuit that the company would lose, which would result in the company spending a whole lot more money than they would if they just paid the OT and/or gave comp time. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: HR is most likely acting for the Company, and saving money by not giving an argument for more money. On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: Your HR person needs to be fired. Seriously, this kind of thing is their job, and it sounds like you are doing the research and stating what the laws and such are instead of them. Any possibility of comp time being given? Sounds like you are on the right track and have done the research to back your position. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll have to go to an outside source. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the feedback. You always realize the things that seem so obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your head around the situation. The company has brances in several states, but the main office the IT staff is located in Ohio. Our HR department / person... has not been to helpful when it comes to the entire situation. I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered non-exempt. The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal documents. They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455 per week for Salary $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer, analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered Exempt. I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just answer our questions ;) I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback. Thanks again, Sean Houston On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Get your Human Resources Dept. involved. They should know exactly what the rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you are getting. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in regards to IT staff and salaries. I'm not management, but when it comes to anything IT related I'm the go to guy. I know there is a lot of gray area in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT work. From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are management. We have IT Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working overtime soon. I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but I'm meeting some strong opposition on this. I've read even if there is an agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50 hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor. Anyone have any thoughts, or
windows internal database
I am trying to determine what application on a 2003 Server is using the Windows Internal Database. No one seems to know anymore how this service got installed and for what... Sharepoint 3.0 is on the box, so it's likely that's how the Windows Internal Database got installed, but I'm not 100% sure. I do NOT want to remove the program from Add/Remove Programs until I first know exactly what it's used for. If it's really for Sharepoint, it can be removed so we are no longer using Sharepoint... Any idea how I can tell what app the ( MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE ) is being used for specifically? Thanks. JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: windows internal database
WSUS installs it if you decide not to use an SQL database. That is my bet. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: windows internal database I am trying to determine what application on a 2003 Server is using the Windows Internal Database. No one seems to know anymore how this service got installed and for what... Sharepoint 3.0 is on the box, so it's likely that's how the Windows Internal Database got installed, but I'm not 100% sure. I do NOT want to remove the program from Add/Remove Programs until I first know exactly what it's used for. If it's really for Sharepoint, it can be removed so we are no longer using Sharepoint... Any idea how I can tell what app the ( MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE ) is being used for specifically? Thanks. JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: windows internal database
So will WSS 2 and maybe 3. You can use the SQL Server management tools (including the SQL Server Express management tools) to look at the DB instance and see what the database names are - that'll almost certainly tell you what the application is. Similarly, you can find the files for the database in the file system. Filenames normally map to database names too (although that isn't required). Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows internal database WSUS installs it if you decide not to use an SQL database. That is my bet. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: windows internal database I am trying to determine what application on a 2003 Server is using the Windows Internal Database. No one seems to know anymore how this service got installed and for what... Sharepoint 3.0 is on the box, so it's likely that's how the Windows Internal Database got installed, but I'm not 100% sure. I do NOT want to remove the program from Add/Remove Programs until I first know exactly what it's used for. If it's really for Sharepoint, it can be removed so we are no longer using Sharepoint... Any idea how I can tell what app the ( MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE ) is being used for specifically? Thanks. JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: windows internal database
My WSS3 install uses the same exact db (MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE). If you are running SP that is not connected to a SQL back end then most likely it is the SP instance. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:17 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.comwrote: I am trying to determine what application on a 2003 Server is using the Windows Internal Database. No one seems to know anymore how this service got installed and for what... Sharepoint 3.0 is on the box, so it's likely that's how the Windows Internal Database got installed, but I'm not 100% sure. I do NOT want to remove the program from Add/Remove Programs until I first know exactly what it's used for. If it's really for Sharepoint, it can be removed so we are no longer using Sharepoint... Any idea how I can tell what app the ( MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE ) is being used for specifically? Thanks. JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: windows internal database
wsus isnt installed on this server Original Message: - From: Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:19:54 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: windows internal database WSUS installs it if you decide not to use an SQL database. That is my bet. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: windows internal database I am trying to determine what application on a 2003 Server is using the Windows Internal Database. No one seems to know anymore how this service got installed and for what... Sharepoint 3.0 is on the box, so it's likely that's how the Windows Internal Database got installed, but I'm not 100% sure. I do NOT want to remove the program from Add/Remove Programs until I first know exactly what it's used for. If it's really for Sharepoint, it can be removed so we are no longer using Sharepoint... Any idea how I can tell what app the ( MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE ) is being used for specifically? Thanks. JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: windows internal database
You can stop the related service and see if something quits working...use at your own risk for that one though :-) David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows internal database wsus isnt installed on this server Original Message: - From: Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:19:54 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: windows internal database WSUS installs it if you decide not to use an SQL database. That is my bet. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: windows internal database I am trying to determine what application on a 2003 Server is using the Windows Internal Database. No one seems to know anymore how this service got installed and for what... Sharepoint 3.0 is on the box, so it's likely that's how the Windows Internal Database got installed, but I'm not 100% sure. I do NOT want to remove the program from Add/Remove Programs until I first know exactly what it's used for. If it's really for Sharepoint, it can be removed so we are no longer using Sharepoint... Any idea how I can tell what app the ( MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE ) is being used for specifically? Thanks. JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft(r) Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: windows internal database
It's definitely Sharepoint that installed it. RM On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:43:17 -0500, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.com said: wsus isnt installed on this server Original Message: - From: Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:19:54 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: windows internal database WSUS installs it if you decide not to use an SQL database. That is my bet. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: windows internal database
That's the thing... it's already stopped. It was startup. I'm just going to remove it, based on what I read from the responses here and what I found in googling, it seems to be from Sharepoint which has since also been removed. Original Message: - From: David Lum david@nwea.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:45:35 -0800 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: windows internal database You can stop the related service and see if something quits working...use at your own risk for that one though :-) David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: windows internal database wsus isnt installed on this server Original Message: - From: Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:19:54 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: windows internal database WSUS installs it if you decide not to use an SQL database. That is my bet. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: windows internal database I am trying to determine what application on a 2003 Server is using the Windows Internal Database. No one seems to know anymore how this service got installed and for what... Sharepoint 3.0 is on the box, so it's likely that's how the Windows Internal Database got installed, but I'm not 100% sure. I do NOT want to remove the program from Add/Remove Programs until I first know exactly what it's used for. If it's really for Sharepoint, it can be removed so we are no longer using Sharepoint... Any idea how I can tell what app the ( MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE ) is being used for specifically? Thanks. JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft(r) Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
CSA and VMWare
With all the VM talk lately, I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with Cisco Security Agent on a VM. Recently had a problem with a VM hanging after migrating it to another host. The VM wouldn't ping, and console wouldn't respond to CTRL-ALT-DEL although Virtual Center showed processor utilization at 50%. Reset VM and all was OK again. Nothing in the event logs except for the unexpected shutdown. CSA may not be the problem at all, or may only occasionally cause this; I don't have any evidence other than it happened once before on another VM. I thought perhaps the MAC address was changing and causing problems with CSA. FWIW, vm is 2003 Server SP2, , CSA v5.0 under ESX v3.5. vmdk is SAN based. Thanks, Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
I'm not very familiar with Crisco devices, but the VPN concentrators we use have a place in the configuration to set the max bandwidth used for a site-to-site tunnel. There is probably a similar setting in the Cisco device. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
All the remotes sites use EZVPN so no real site-to-site. Mobile clients use Cisco VPN Software client. So far, I have not located any settings which seem to affect the bandwidth. All the ones I have found are set to 100GB or higher. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I'm not very familiar with Crisco devices, but the VPN concentrators we use have a place in the configuration to set the max bandwidth used for a site-to-site tunnel. There is probably a similar setting in the Cisco device. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
If compression is enabled for your group, turn it off. If you need to, create an alternate group for modem users only, and enable compression on that group only. Also: have you confirmed this across different broadband/high-speed service providers? It could be that a particular ISP is limiting VPN throughput. -- ME2 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
Data Sheet http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5743/ps5749/ps2284/product_data_sheet09186a00801d3b56.html On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: http://supportwiki.cisco.com/ViewWiki/index.php/Cisco_VPN_3005_Concentrator This doc states max as 4Mbps. Apparently it is software only, and is discontinued at this point. I think the suggested replacement is an ASA (sized depending on what kind of throughput the requirements are). I couldn't find a data sheet. I hope that helps, Brian On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
Crisco devices? That would be a deep fat fryer, right? Heh. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com wrote: I'm not very familiar with Crisco devices, but the VPN concentrators we use have a place in the configuration to set the max bandwidth used for a site-to-site tunnel. There is probably a similar setting in the Cisco device. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
That is what McDonalds and KFC use for their free wireless connections that they provide. :-) TVK -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator Crisco devices? That would be a deep fat fryer, right? Heh. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com wrote: I'm not very familiar with Crisco devices, but the VPN concentrators we use have a place in the configuration to set the max bandwidth used for a site-to-site tunnel. There is probably a similar setting in the Cisco device. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
I skimmed the tech docs, faqs, and vvarious other sheets too. 4mbps max throughput is the number I saw. I read about limiting issues when using compression, and another vague reference to the amount of simultaneous connections. All vague, with no substance. -- ME2 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: Data Sheet http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5743/ps5749/ps2284/product_data_sheet09186a00801d3b56.html On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: http://supportwiki.cisco.com/ViewWiki/index.php/Cisco_VPN_3005_Concentrator This doc states max as 4Mbps. Apparently it is software only, and is discontinued at this point. I think the suggested replacement is an ASA (sized depending on what kind of throughput the requirements are). I couldn't find a data sheet. I hope that helps, Brian On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
Ok... time to shop for an ASA. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I skimmed the tech docs, faqs, and vvarious other sheets too. 4mbps max throughput is the number I saw. I read about limiting issues when using compression, and another vague reference to the amount of simultaneous connections. All vague, with no substance. -- ME2 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: Data Sheet http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5743/ps5749/ps2284/ product_data_sheet09186a00801d3b56.html On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: http://supportwiki.cisco.com/ViewWiki/index.php/Cisco_VPN_3005_Concentra tor This doc states max as 4Mbps. Apparently it is software only, and is discontinued at this point. I think the suggested replacement is an ASA (sized depending on what kind of throughput the requirements are). I couldn't find a data sheet. I hope that helps, Brian On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
Anyone with PIX to ASA conversion experience care to weigh in? Sticking with Cisco due to current Cisco VOIP project and remote sites. -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator Ok... time to shop for an ASA. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I skimmed the tech docs, faqs, and vvarious other sheets too. 4mbps max throughput is the number I saw. I read about limiting issues when using compression, and another vague reference to the amount of simultaneous connections. All vague, with no substance. -- ME2 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: Data Sheet http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5743/ps5749/ps2284/ product_data_sheet09186a00801d3b56.html On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: http://supportwiki.cisco.com/ViewWiki/index.php/Cisco_VPN_3005_Concentra tor This doc states max as 4Mbps. Apparently it is software only, and is discontinued at this point. I think the suggested replacement is an ASA (sized depending on what kind of throughput the requirements are). I couldn't find a data sheet. I hope that helps, Brian On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
I've done a few conversions. It is pretty easy. Cisco has a converter tool pix to asa on teir website to help. -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: 1/6/09 3:35 PM Subject: RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator Anyone with PIX to ASA conversion experience care to weigh in? Sticking with Cisco due to current Cisco VOIP project and remote sites. -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator Ok... time to shop for an ASA. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I skimmed the tech docs, faqs, and vvarious other sheets too. 4mbps max throughput is the number I saw. I read about limiting issues when using compression, and another vague reference to the amount of simultaneous connections. All vague, with no substance. -- ME2 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: Data Sheet http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5743/ps5749/ps2284/ product_data_sheet09186a00801d3b56.html On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: http://supportwiki.cisco.com/ViewWiki/index.php/Cisco_VPN_3005_Concentra tor This doc states max as 4Mbps. Apparently it is software only, and is discontinued at this point. I think the suggested replacement is an ASA (sized depending on what kind of throughput the requirements are). I couldn't find a data sheet. I hope that helps, Brian On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
You mean CVPN3005 to ASA? Either way, we can get it setup :) Aaron T. Rohyans Senior Network Engineer CCIE #21945, CCSP, CCNA, CQS-Firewall, CQS-IDS, CQS-VPN, ISSP, CISP, JNCIA-ER DPSciences Corporation 7400 N. Shadeland Ave., Suite 245 Indianapolis, IN 46250 Office: (317) 849-6772 x 7626 Fax: (317) 849-7134 arohy...@dpsciences.com http://www.dpsciences.com/ -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator Anyone with PIX to ASA conversion experience care to weigh in? Sticking with Cisco due to current Cisco VOIP project and remote sites. -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator Ok... time to shop for an ASA. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I skimmed the tech docs, faqs, and vvarious other sheets too. 4mbps max throughput is the number I saw. I read about limiting issues when using compression, and another vague reference to the amount of simultaneous connections. All vague, with no substance. -- ME2 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: Data Sheet http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5743/ps5749/ps2284/ product_data_sheet09186a00801d3b56.html On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Brian Prentiss bprent...@gmail.com wrote: http://supportwiki.cisco.com/ViewWiki/index.php/Cisco_VPN_3005_Concentra tor This doc states max as 4Mbps. Apparently it is software only, and is discontinued at this point. I think the suggested replacement is an ASA (sized depending on what kind of throughput the requirements are). I couldn't find a data sheet. I hope that helps, Brian On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
ESXi newbie - question about data stores
I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
Use the VIClient. Double click the datastore, and there should be a button for Upload. From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:bryan.gar...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESXi newbie - question about data stores I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service console, so maybe no sshd -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores http://winscp.net/eng/index.php On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
Perfect. thanks. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu wrote: Use the VIClient. Double click the datastore, and there should be a button for Upload. *From:* Bryan Garmon [mailto:bryan.gar...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:46 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* ESXi newbie - question about data stores I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: File name is too long
Wow. First experience with robocopy. Great little tool! Thanks, guys. On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: And it is WAY faster. Robocopy FTW. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long While, as others suggest, 'subst' might help, your real help here is two-fold: 1) robocopy - get it from the MSFT resource kits. I can handle file/path specifications greater than 254 characters, as it uses a different API than win32 2) shorten the path. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
P2V SBS aka two DC's
Has anyone here P2V'd a couple of DC's? I P2V'd an SBS server in test and it went fine - my concern is how to handle it in production when there's a SBS server AND a 2nd DC involved. At some point I need to make the 2nd DC think that the first DC was just powered off for a bit. Would it work if I: 1) Do an offline P2V (read: the system (ServerA) P2V does a PXE boot into the host Hyper-V machine to get VM'd), 2) Leave physical ServerA off once it's P2V'd 3) Bring up the VM of ServerA? My thinking here is each DC would just think ServerA was powered off for a few hours, does this sound correct? Question 2: If I need to roll back to physical ServerAServerB (the 2nd DC) will now have thought it's talked to ServerA since the P2V outage, but effectively ServerA will have suffered a time warp by several hours, right? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: File name is too long
I've been using robocopy since it came out - I think with the NT3.51 RK. It's a very good and dear friend. Treat it well. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Wow. First experience with robocopy. Great little tool! Thanks, guys. On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: And it is WAY faster. Robocopy FTW. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long While, as others suggest, 'subst' might help, your real help here is two-fold: 1) robocopy - get it from the MSFT resource kits. I can handle file/path specifications greater than 254 characters, as it uses a different API than win32 2) shorten the path. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: File name is too long
It's part of the OS with Vista and Server 2008. Finally - respectability! :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long I've been using robocopy since it came out - I think with the NT3.51 RK. It's a very good and dear friend. Treat it well. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Wow. First experience with robocopy. Great little tool! Thanks, guys. On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: And it is WAY faster. Robocopy FTW. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long While, as others suggest, 'subst' might help, your real help here is two-fold: 1) robocopy - get it from the MSFT resource kits. I can handle file/path specifications greater than 254 characters, as it uses a different API than win32 2) shorten the path. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: File name is too long
There is an awesome word doc if you missed it int he tools directory. Some switches I generally use to help on larger file migrations robocopy \\source\path \destination\path /s /e /R:3 /LOG:log.txt /TEE The /s /e does the sub directories (even empty ones) /R:3 means that if it 'hangs' on a file then it only tries 3 times. Otherwise it can 'hang' for a very long long time. The /log is useful for troubleshooting and /TEE outputting to the screen gives you a nice scrolling wall of text to impress your cube visitors with how industrious you are. Steven On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Wow. First experience with robocopy. Great little tool! Thanks, guys. On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: And it is WAY faster. Robocopy FTW. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long While, as others suggest, 'subst' might help, your real help here is two-fold: 1) robocopy - get it from the MSFT resource kits. I can handle file/path specifications greater than 254 characters, as it uses a different API than win32 2) shorten the path. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
ah, hadn't thought about that. Think I will keep my ESX server farm. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu wrote: Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service console, so maybe no sshd -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores http://winscp.net/eng/index.php On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: P2V SBS aka two DC's
Dave, We don't have an SBS environment, but we have P2V'd multiple production DCs both 2000 and 2003 without noticeable issue. We did it similar to what you said and the VM DC comes up and thinks it has a new nic, but joins in with replication right away. Be careful on your reliance on going back to physical after you have been using your virtual. Ideally this would work ok as the security token between DC and AD shouldn't have changed and hopefully the SYSVOL data would simply realize it has an old version number and replicate with the other DC(s). I am curious if folks have tried this running the VM for a bit and then floating back to the physical due to issues. What types of issues caused the need to roll-back? I guess if all else fails in a worst case scenario a restore from backup including a non-authoritative restore of system state should bring you back to square one. It shouldn't matter but ours was all on ESX infrastructure. -Troy -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P2V SBS aka two DC's Has anyone here P2V'd a couple of DC's? I P2V'd an SBS server in test and it went fine - my concern is how to handle it in production when there's a SBS server AND a 2nd DC involved. At some point I need to make the 2nd DC think that the first DC was just powered off for a bit. Would it work if I: 1) Do an offline P2V (read: the system (ServerA) P2V does a PXE boot into the host Hyper-V machine to get VM'd), 2) Leave physical ServerA off once it's P2V'd 3) Bring up the VM of ServerA? My thinking here is each DC would just think ServerA was powered off for a few hours, does this sound correct? Question 2: If I need to roll back to physical ServerAServerB (the 2nd DC) will now have thought it's talked to ServerA since the P2V outage, but effectively ServerA will have suffered a time warp by several hours, right? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Cute, if slow, game for teaching regular folks how to spot Phishing scams in browser URLs ... http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/new/index.html Anyone else see the irony in sending around a random URL to teach people not to trust random URLs? ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator
Check the CPU utilisation on the VPN 3000. I cant recall max throughput on VPN 3005 but it is not particularly high From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 6:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator All the remotes sites use EZVPN so no real site-to-site. Mobile clients use Cisco VPN Software client. So far, I have not located any settings which seem to affect the bandwidth. All the ones I have found are set to 100GB or higher. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I'm not very familiar with Crisco devices, but the VPN concentrators we use have a place in the configuration to set the max bandwidth used for a site-to-site tunnel. There is probably a similar setting in the Cisco device. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator I am using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 as an endpoint for mobile users and small remote sites. Lately I have found that remote sites can only pull down 2.8mpbs over the VPN. We have a DS3, so I would expect the remote clients to be able to pull down their full bandwidth, depending on connection (DSL / Cable). I have tested this at two sites, each with over 10mbs available to them for download. When off VPN, they get the full 10mbps, when VPN is connected (which forces all traffic across the VPN) the download speed drops back to 2.8mbps. I can't seem to locate the bottle neck producing setting inside the VPN concentrator. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Bob The Smith Family is a national, independent non profit organisation that helps disadvantaged Australian children realise their potential through education. Kids shouldnt have to worrybut thousands of disadvantaged Aussie kids do. Please donate to The Smith Family Christmas Appeal today. The information contained in this message is intended for the named addressee only, and is confidential to the sender and intended recipient. If you are not the named addressee please do not copy, distribute, take any action reliant on, or disclose anything in this e-mail message to any other person or organisation. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: File name is too long
Yeah, unlike me... Heh. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com wrote: It's part of the OS with Vista and Server 2008. Finally - respectability! :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long I've been using robocopy since it came out - I think with the NT3.51 RK. It's a very good and dear friend. Treat it well. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Wow. First experience with robocopy. Great little tool! Thanks, guys. On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: And it is WAY faster. Robocopy FTW. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File name is too long While, as others suggest, 'subst' might help, your real help here is two-fold: 1) robocopy - get it from the MSFT resource kits. I can handle file/path specifications greater than 254 characters, as it uses a different API than win32 2) shorten the path. Kurt On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game
Anyone see the irony in using a flash-enabled site to teach anyone about security? feh. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Cute, if slow, game for teaching regular folks how to spot Phishing scams in browser URLs ... http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/new/index.html Anyone else see the irony in sending around a random URL to teach people not to trust random URLs? ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT : Anti-Phishing training game
Absolutely ... Took me a while to get ahold of the sender to verify it was valid, it was someone that I trust, but wanted to make sure his address wasn't being spoofed ! Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 6:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Cute, if slow, game for teaching regular folks how to spot Phishing scams in browser URLs ... http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/new/index.html Anyone else see the irony in sending around a random URL to teach people not to trust random URLs? ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
You can use SSH in ESXi, it's just unsupported by Vmware. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores ah, hadn't thought about that. Think I will keep my ESX server farm. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu wrote: Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service console, so maybe no sshd -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores http://winscp.net/eng/index.php On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game
Ironic to be sure but it's about the only way I will get my ID10T users to learn any security. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tue Jan 06 18:56:06 2009 Subject: Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game Anyone see the irony in using a flash-enabled site to teach anyone about security? feh. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Cute, if slow, game for teaching regular folks how to spot Phishing scams in browser URLs ... http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/new/index.html Anyone else see the irony in sending around a random URL to teach people not to trust random URLs? ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
Using SSH is different to having a service console. The service console is generally what allows those apps to work. Until the new version are rewritten for esxi :) -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores You can use SSH in ESXi, it's just unsupported by Vmware. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores ah, hadn't thought about that. Think I will keep my ESX server farm. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu wrote: Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service console, so maybe no sshd -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores http://winscp.net/eng/index.php On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
How to enable ssh for esxi 1) At the console press ALT-F1 2) type* *unsupported in the console and press Enter.(You will not see the text) 3) If you typed in unsupported correctly, you will see a command line login. Enter the password for the root login. 4) Edit the file inetd.conf ** and find the line that begins with #ssh and remove the #. 6) restart the inetd services by running the command* /*sbin/services.sh restart On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Greg Mulholland g...@krystaltek.com wrote: Using SSH is different to having a service console. The service console is generally what allows those apps to work. Until the new version are rewritten for esxi :) -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores You can use SSH in ESXi, it's just unsupported by Vmware. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores ah, hadn't thought about that. Think I will keep my ESX server farm. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu wrote: Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service console, so maybe no sshd -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores http://winscp.net/eng/index.php On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: P2V SBS aka two DC's
I have had such good success with vmware convertor 3 (not 4 beta) I just get a good backup, convert it and run it. In all of the multiDC environments I have done this the only problem I ever run into is the time being off by too much. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 17:25 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P2V SBS aka two DC's Has anyone here P2V'd a couple of DC's? I P2V'd an SBS server in test and it went fine - my concern is how to handle it in production when there's a SBS server AND a 2nd DC involved. At some point I need to make the 2nd DC think that the first DC was just powered off for a bit. Would it work if I: 1) Do an offline P2V (read: the system (ServerA) P2V does a PXE boot into the host Hyper-V machine to get VM'd), 2) Leave physical ServerA off once it's P2V'd 3) Bring up the VM of ServerA? My thinking here is each DC would just think ServerA was powered off for a few hours, does this sound correct? Question 2: If I need to roll back to physical ServerA..ServerB (the 2nd DC) will now have thought it's talked to ServerA since the P2V outage, but effectively ServerA will have suffered a time warp by several hours, right? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
The service restart doesn't work on 3.5u3 you have to kill the service via kill -HUP | grep inetd or something like that. Lots of documentation on doing it, and I have it enabled on all my boxes in production. From: R. Mac [mailto:big...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 20:58 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores How to enable ssh for esxi 1) At the console press ALT-F1 2) type unsupported in the console and press Enter.(You will not see the text) 3) If you typed in unsupported correctly, you will see a command line login. Enter the password for the root login. 4) Edit the file inetd.conf and find the line that begins with #ssh and remove the #. 6) restart the inetd services by running the command /sbin/services.sh restart On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Greg Mulholland g...@krystaltek.com wrote: Using SSH is different to having a service console. The service console is generally what allows those apps to work. Until the new version are rewritten for esxi :) -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores You can use SSH in ESXi, it's just unsupported by Vmware. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores ah, hadn't thought about that. Think I will keep my ESX server farm. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu wrote: Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service console, so maybe no sshd -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores http://winscp.net/eng/index.php On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: CSA and VMWare
I have an older Cisco catalyst that gives me hiccups like that too actually. In my colo if I point a vm from one server to another there is like a 30-60 sec delay before the box will start networking functions again. Its not the server, because if I move it from my backup esx boxes to my tertiary set which is on a 16 port dlink gigabit switch (hey its my third backup set!) I don't have the same issue. -Original Message- From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 14:21 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CSA and VMWare With all the VM talk lately, I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with Cisco Security Agent on a VM. Recently had a problem with a VM hanging after migrating it to another host. The VM wouldn't ping, and console wouldn't respond to CTRL-ALT-DEL although Virtual Center showed processor utilization at 50%. Reset VM and all was OK again. Nothing in the event logs except for the unexpected shutdown. CSA may not be the problem at all, or may only occasionally cause this; I don't have any evidence other than it happened once before on another VM. I thought perhaps the MAC address was changing and causing problems with CSA. FWIW, vm is 2003 Server SP2, , CSA v5.0 under ESX v3.5. vmdk is SAN based. Thanks, Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: CSA and VMWare
Spanning trees You need to enable portfast on that port. Benjamin Zachary - Lists wrote: I have an older Cisco catalyst that gives me hiccups like that too actually. In my colo if I point a vm from one server to another there is like a 30-60 sec delay -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: CSA and VMWare
That sure is what it sounds like -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 6:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CSA and VMWare Spanning trees You need to enable portfast on that port. Benjamin Zachary - Lists wrote: I have an older Cisco catalyst that gives me hiccups like that too actually. In my colo if I point a vm from one server to another there is like a 30-60 sec delay -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
