RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
Careful he has one of his czars watching this list, and he is taking names. Or not :-) From The Sunny Side Of The Street! Cliff P. From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th I agree! Please don't use this as a soap box for whatever obvious issues you have against the President or his administration and their efforts to include technology as a medium for reaching our YOUTH! Lord forgive him and the others that have tried this same method. Wait, no, there have been no other presidents to reach out through our youth via a technical medium. What on earth is he thinking! The fact that you'd use a list geared towards helping technical professionals to make this point is a contradiction within itself. While I respect the technical mindsets that help to drive this list and provide help to those of us in need I can't tell you how scary most of you sound and look through your OT posts. I agree with keeping the posts dedicated to the technical and pushing OT to other lists. Maybe create another list geared towards supporting political propaganda. I don't think it matters how technically proficient you are, if you lack the ability to recognize anyone's attempt to utilize technology as one of many ways to reach our YOUTH then you've obviously lost sight of the simple beauty that technology represents, which is GROWTH! I say nuke this post!!! .02 On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: OK. Please, just stop. This is not the proper place for this discussion. I don't care which side of the fence you're on, or if you even know. Take it to Admin_Misc, or Free Republic, or Daily Kos, or wherever. Stu is literally hovering over his keyboard, ready to push his It's time to move on hot key combination. Let's save him the trouble, shall we? And besides, our non-US brethren could care less anyway. I'm happy to discuss it. Just not here. rs ~ 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: SPAM Solution
I rebuild my desktop at home roughly every six months just for the fun of it, it's a lot less hassle than removing all the crap I install to take a look at. I always take a ghost image of it just before I blow it away as there is always something that I forgot to copy, the final straw was when I didn't realise the wife had over 10gig of photos sitting on her desktop, but she had a gog of them also under her temp folder. Frosty reception for a while after that :-) That's why I keep an old dell gx-270 under the desk, incase I forget a driver or do something else stupid. UBCD4Windows also comes in very handy at times for a rebuild as well. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/09/2009 21:12 Subject: RE: SPAM Solution local drives, with no backup at the moment. I personally don't have a lot to lose on my computer, but my wife would kill me if she lost her music... I've been thinking about Mozy, or something like that, but haven't gotten around to it. My machines at home are home-built, and the newest is about 2-3 years old now. About all we do on them, really, is listen to music, and play MMOs... If a computer crashed, I'd have to build from scratch. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 10:15 AM What do you do for file storage? Local C: drives and backups? If so, to what? -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution I have a computer room, with 3 desktops connecting through a router to my cable modem. My daughter connects from her room, through wireless to the same router. That's as complicated as I get at home, unless I fire up my Ubuntu box, which I'm using for learning purposes, but even then, I unplug the third computer to do that. Unfortunately, that room is the hottest room in the house to begin with, doesn't get the same flow through the AC duct as the rest of the house, so my cooling bill is pretty outrageous in the summer. That's not saying that I wouldn't like to do some other stuff, like poke around with virtualization, etc., but I don't have the budget to go out and buy hardware for it, and don't really have space for it either. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 8:00 AM Meh... I had ESXi running at home before we decided to go in on the business. At a cost of free, and with the flexibility you get, I don't see why you would NOT do it on a home net, unless you had some specific hardware you needed that ESXi choked on. And the home net _IS_ for play/non-work use. Music streaming, photo library, home movie streaming, interweb access, IP phone service, online Netflix/dish network, Exchange server, hobby mailing list servers, etc... Doesn't just about everybody have a home net these days? I'd only expect the nerds like us here to actually run a domain and have an IIS server, but we're also the audience that would likely then benefit from having a virtual infrastructure too... Last time I needed to move a server to a newer hardware platform it was just a file copy -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution Key words for you Steven, were business startup. When I'm at home, work is the farthest from my mind, if at all possible. I play at home, work at work... Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 7:32 AM Really? I have four ESXi hosts, one pair handling my home network, and another pair handling the production, dev, and test VM's, along with VPN and SharePoint servers for a business startup I'm involved with. I'd bet lotsa' folks here have ESXi at home... -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPAM Solution You, sir, have just gone to the top of the geek list, for having ESXi and VMs installed at home... tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com 9/3/2009 12:21 AM +1 for untangle, i have it running in a vm on esxi at home, really like it and pretty easy to set up. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/09/2009 02:59 Subject: Re: SPAM Solution I think Sunbelt's Ninja/VIPRE is a great choice for an in-house Exchange-based solution and should
Re: SPAM Solution
+1 on home setup not being work, get to play with stuff that I can't at work and keep the brain occupied. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/09/2009 21:05 Subject: Re: SPAM Solution I think the business startup is ancillary to the discussion. There are more than a few of us that have fairly substantial networks at home. Some with virtualization, even. I don't call working on my home network work. It's both a hobby and career improvement. -ASB - http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: Key words for you Steven, were business startup. When I'm at home, work is the farthest from my mind, if at all possible. I play at home, work at work... Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 7:32 AM Really? I have four ESXi hosts, one pair handling my home network, and another pair handling the production, dev, and test VM's, along with VPN and SharePoint servers for a business startup I'm involved with. I'd bet lotsa' folks here have ESXi at home... -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPAM Solution You, sir, have just gone to the top of the geek list, for having ESXi and VMs installed at home... tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com 9/3/2009 12:21 AM +1 for untangle, i have it running in a vm on esxi at home, really like it and pretty easy to set up. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/09/2009 02:59 Subject: Re: SPAM Solution I think Sunbelt's Ninja/VIPRE is a great choice for an in-house Exchange-based solution and should be in your short list of products for consideration. Another option for an in the cloud solution is Postini by Google Message Security. Last fall I switched two networks to it at just $3/user/year for inbound filtering. It's been nearly perfect but I don't know if they still offer that same minimal service at that price. You might want to check out UnTangle (http://www.untangle.com/home). It's not too difficult to install and will probably meet your client's needs for the cost of a spare PC. Roger Wright ___ On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Matt Plahtinsky cbusitl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a client that is really tight on money. I need to implement a Anti-SPAM solution. In the past I have worked with 3 different products Barracuda, GFI, and xWall. My favorite by far is Barracuda b/c of the ability to easily sort through the logs to tighten the rules. I HATE GFI, it might be a good product but I was never able to get it to work well for me. This client currently has GFI (which is up for renewal) and I don't think I they can afford a Barracuda appliance. I'm going to be looking at VIPRE but didn't know if there were any other reasonably priced solutions I should be evaluating. Exchange 2003 / 60 email accounts / old hardware. http://www.quinn-insurance.com This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. The contents should not be copied nor disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of QUINN-Insurance, unless otherwise specifically stated . As internet communications are not secure, QUINN-Insurance is not responsible for the contents of this message nor responsible for any change made to this message after it was sent by the original sender. Although virus scanning is used on all inbound and outbound e-mail, we advise you to carry out your own virus check before opening any attachment. We cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. QUINN-Life Direct Limited is regulated by the Financial Regulator. QUINN-Insurance Limited is regulated by the Financial Regulator and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for the conduct of UK business. QUINN-Life Direct Limited is registered in Ireland, registration number 292374 and is a private company limited by shares. QUINN-Insurance Limited is registered in Ireland, registration number 240768 and is a private company limited by shares. Both companies have their head office at Dublin Road, Cavan, Co. Cavan. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another
Whoa! Someone uses share permissions? I thought share permissions were just a hangover from the Win9x days (or when people installed NT4 with FAT32 file system instead of NTFS) to provide some security for those systems that couldn't do it on a file level. I'd use this opportunity to knock the share permissions on the head and drop them to Everyone:Full Control. They generally end up as the reason you can't work out why someone can't access a file. 2009/9/3 Terri Esham terri.es...@noaa.gov: What is the best free tool to copy share and NTFS permissions from one SAN disk to another. I have already tried Robocopy and it did copy the NTFS permission but not the Share permissions. I need to move a large amount of folders from one SAN disk to another and I don't want to have to recreate all the shares. The file server is running Windows 2008 Standard Server, SP2, all critical updates installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Terri ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT Funny/Lame: RDP Infinite Loop
Classic - thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote on 09/03/2009 04:01:33 PM: I made RDP divide by zero! (Was trying to test RDP from home into the same box). lol. [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: change operatins master
Client numbers are irrelevant. Infrastructure Master works by comparing what it has in its database with what a GC has in its. If you make the IM a GC, then when it compares its db with another GC there are no differences. And the IM then doesn't do anything. If you only have a single domain, then GCs don't store anything more than regular DCs. If all the DCs in the domain are also GCs, then there's nothing for the IM to do anyway. But if you have 1 domain, and not all DCs are GCs, then you need the IM to do things. And that means the IM can not be on a GC. Cheers Ken From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 4 September 2009 5:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: change operatins master That warning does not apply to a single (small) domain model if I remember correctly. You would have issues if this were a multi-domain, large number of clients type of setting. Jon On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.commailto:cluster...@gmail.com wrote: ok it seems I will be ok transferring this role to a single DC since this is a single forest single domain setup. Thanks for the help Erik. James - Original Message - From: James Kerrmailto:cluster...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:27 PM Subject: Re: change operatins master Thanks, going from ADUC on the 2003 DC did the trick. Now I'm reminded of something. Getting a popup stating that infrastructure master role should not be transferred to a GC server. Argh, its going to be the only server at that site. Do I have really need to have two DCs at a small site? What may happen if I hit yes to transfer the role? - Original Message - From: Erik Goldoffmailto:egold...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:16 PM Subject: RE: change operatins master but no other servers in the list ??? Does the new server show up in Domain Controllers' container in ADUC ? ok, in ADUC, right click on the domain.local and you should have an option to connect to another server, pick the one you want to house the role then click on Operations master and click the CHANGE button OR, if you did this from the 2008 server, the change should already be set with the old server holding the role, and the new server in the second position to Change to ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another
That's exactly what I do, but I need the folders to not lose their share permissions so users can still access the share over the network. Thanks, Terri Brian Desmond said the following on 9/3/2009 10:07 PM: Hi Terri- Others have chimed in with tools, but, I'll add the other part. Why are you using share permissions? They aren't granular and they just add confusion. Manage all your ACLs on NTFS (where you can do whatever you want more or less), and just grant Everyone:FC on shares. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -Original Message- From: Terri Esham [mailto:terri.es...@noaa.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another What is the best free tool to copy share and NTFS permissions from one SAN disk to another. I have already tried Robocopy and it did copy the NTFS permission but not the Share permissions. I need to move a large amount of folders from one SAN disk to another and I don't want to have to recreate all the shares. The file server is running Windows 2008 Standard Server, SP2, all critical updates installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Terri ~ 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: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another
That is what I do. I set the share permission to everyone full rights and use NTFS permissions. I obviously, didn't word my problem correctly. I just need the folders to show up as a share once they are moved so users can access them over the network. Thanks, Terri James Rankin said the following on 9/4/2009 3:46 AM: Whoa! Someone uses share permissions? I thought share permissions were just a hangover from the Win9x days (or when people installed NT4 with FAT32 file system instead of NTFS) to provide some security for those systems that couldn't do it on a file level. I'd use this opportunity to knock the share permissions on the head and drop them to Everyone:Full Control. They generally end up as the reason you can't work out why someone can't access a file. 2009/9/3 Terri Esham terri.es...@noaa.gov: What is the best free tool to copy share and NTFS permissions from one SAN disk to another. I have already tried Robocopy and it did copy the NTFS permission but not the Share permissions. I need to move a large amount of folders from one SAN disk to another and I don't want to have to recreate all the shares. The file server is running Windows 2008 Standard Server, SP2, all critical updates installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Terri ~ 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: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another
I think I've solved my problem. I might be able to use the Microsoft File Server Migration tool to move the files. I'll try that. Thanks for all your help. Terri Jonathan Link said the following on 9/3/2009 9:18 PM: And for copying, I'm partial to robocopy for the mirroring/security copying. Mirroring is useful if you have a narrow window for a transition. Run it once to do the bulk initial copy, then again right before the transition to the new disk/volue/device/whatever. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com mailto:asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Share permissions can be copied via PERMCOPY from one of the older resource kits (2000 or 2003, IIRC) See also: http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=Perms.TXT http://kb.ultratech-llc.com/?File=Perms.TXT and http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/Scripts/?File=DupPerms-A.BAT http://kb.ultratech-llc.com/Scripts/?File=DupPerms-A.BAT -ASB http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Terri Esham terri.es...@noaa.gov mailto:terri.es...@noaa.gov wrote: What is the best free tool to copy share and NTFS permissions from one SAN disk to another. I have already tried Robocopy and it did copy the NTFS permission but not the Share permissions. I need to move a large amount of folders from one SAN disk to another and I don't want to have to recreate all the shares. The file server is running Windows 2008 Standard Server, SP2, all critical updates installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Terri ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another
Back in the day you used to have to export Registry permissions for the shares, but I think in this modern age the File Server Migration Tool does the trick as mentioned by someone earlier 2009/9/4 Terri Esham terri.es...@noaa.gov: That is what I do. I set the share permission to everyone full rights and use NTFS permissions. I obviously, didn't word my problem correctly. I just need the folders to show up as a share once they are moved so users can access them over the network. Thanks, Terri James Rankin said the following on 9/4/2009 3:46 AM: Whoa! Someone uses share permissions? I thought share permissions were just a hangover from the Win9x days (or when people installed NT4 with FAT32 file system instead of NTFS) to provide some security for those systems that couldn't do it on a file level. I'd use this opportunity to knock the share permissions on the head and drop them to Everyone:Full Control. They generally end up as the reason you can't work out why someone can't access a file. 2009/9/3 Terri Esham terri.es...@noaa.gov: What is the best free tool to copy share and NTFS permissions from one SAN disk to another. I have already tried Robocopy and it did copy the NTFS permission but not the Share permissions. I need to move a large amount of folders from one SAN disk to another and I don't want to have to recreate all the shares. The file server is running Windows 2008 Standard Server, SP2, all critical updates installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Terri ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
I absolutely refuse to comment on this thread. (oops!) -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th This is WOFT [1], and is SFA [2]. Particularly so after the rash of OT [3] posts that have recently been hitting this list. I was really hoping things were getting back to normal. Can't these things at least be saved until Friday? And OK, my interests are peaked. Is this FUD [4]? I ask because the only sites online I see reference this are nothing I would concider trustworthy news sources. The White House blog makes no mention of such an agenda for the 8th [5]. 1. Way Off F***ing Topic 2. Super F***ing Annoying 3. Off Topic 4. Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt 5. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/My-Education-My-Future/ -- ME2 On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Gene Giannamoregene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this J Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obamaÿÿ(tm)s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States ÿÿ(tm) intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence of the leader of the free worldÿÿ(tm)s perspective on education. No usurpation of parental rights. Parents have the unequivocal right to guide their children in matters of politics, religion, morality, and etc. The president may have rights and responsibilities to speak to the public, but will violate parental rights by speaking to minors directly without supplying a written transcript or preview of the broadcast. No captive audience. Without and Opt-in policy by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District , our children will be a captive audience to the influence of a politician. I believe need not make mention of historical abuses of this power by other nations. No matter how benign the Presidential address may seem, it reduces our liberty and our authority over our own children. So if you do not force our students to watch either by not broadcasting or having parents Opt-in, then you show your dedication to parental rights and authority. Thank you, Livermore parents ~ 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: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another
I used Robocopy to migrate the company fil servers data onto new hardware .Retaing all permissions I used the /COPYALL switch and it worked a treat. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k
Between that, and Google's distributed commodity storage model, I think there's some real compelling point for consideration for how some specific-purpose resources can be provided. -sc -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Wow, that might acutally satisfy our DBAs... for a year or two... :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to- build- cheap-cloud-storage/ ~ 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: Realtek NIC issues
This is true from a performance issue as well, not just reliability. RealTek cards have notoriously had sucky buffer designs. Yes... that's a technical term. -sc -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Realtek NIC issues Did you try the latest driver from Fujitsu? My experience is that the latest driver from RealTek doesn't always play nice. You are correct in your assessment that RealTek ethernet controllers are of inferior quality. Cards with Intel and Broadcom controllers cost more, and this is a situation where you get what you pay for. pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com wrote: Hi all I thought of posting this here just in case someone has encountered this issue before. We have a number of Fujitsu R570 workstations with onboard RealTek NICs. These are RTL 8168DP/8111DP Family PCI-E GBE type. We've been having intermittent issues with some of them. Sometimes they initialise, sometimes they don't. Meaning that when powering up the workstation and logging into Windows XP we get no network connectivity. When powering down the workstations and powering them up again after some time then the issue gets resolved. We also tried forcing the network speed on our HP switch and the NIC card i.e. we set them to 100 FDx. We're finding these issues very strange. By any chance does high humidty affect NICs? We've noted that Fujitsu in the past used to use Broadcom for their on-board NICs. Now it seems they're using Realtek. I think that Realtek are inferior in quality. Would appreciate any comments on this. -- 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/ ~
RE: SPAM Solution
Lol... I've just not bothered looking. I was hoping for a net decrease when I finally retired the 14-drive SCSI drive array[1], but the additional horsepower of the new servers has seemed o slightly increase the BTU load in my equipment closet. -sc [1]-An Compaq fiber-attached array with 18GB discs in a RAID 5. I've had that unit for 10+ years, in multiple harsh environments, and it endured a cross-country move and subsequent loading in and out of storage while we house shopped here... and I think I only lost one drive. Compaq made themselves some tough hardware back in the day. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPAM Solution Only $20-30? LOL My wife occasionally prays for power outages... -ASB - http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: Bah!, it's required for true geektum. Running Vsphere 4 at home for months now. I had a cobbled together Dell Precision workstation and was running ESX 3.5 on it. When we upgraded our triad at work to get the CPU's to all match I talked my boss in to letting me take home the Poweredge 2900 that didn't match any more. Dual Quad Xeon's with 24 gig of ram and about a TB of internal 15k SAS. Then I put together a storage server and installed Starwinds free ISCSI server on it. So now I can do full blown vmotion on shared storage between the Precision and Poweredge. And my electric bill has only gone up $20-30/month. ;^) -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPAM Solution You, sir, have just gone to the top of the geek list, for having ESXi and VMs installed at home... tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com 9/3/2009 12:21 AM +1 for untangle, i have it running in a vm on esxi at home, really like +it and pretty easy to set up. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/09/2009 02:59 Subject: Re: SPAM Solution I think Sunbelt's Ninja/VIPRE is a great choice for an in-house Exchange-based solution and should be in your short list of products for consideration. Another option for an in the cloud solution is Postini by Google Message Security. Last fall I switched two networks to it at just $3/user/year for inbound filtering. It's been nearly perfect but I don't know if they still offer that same minimal service at that price. You might want to check out UnTangle (http://www.untangle.com/home). It's not too difficult to install and will probably meet your client's needs for the cost of a spare PC. Roger Wright ___ On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Matt Plahtinsky cbusitl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a client that is really tight on money. I need to implement a Anti-SPAM solution. In the past I have worked with 3 different products Barracuda, GFI, and xWall. My favorite by far is Barracuda b/c of the ability to easily sort through the logs to tighten the rules. I HATE GFI, it might be a good product but I was never able to get it to work well for me. This client currently has GFI (which is up for renewal) and I don't think I they can afford a Barracuda appliance. I'm going to be looking at VIPRE but didn't know if there were any other reasonably priced solutions I should be evaluating. Exchange 2003 / 60 email accounts / old hardware. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SPAM Solution
No pictures? Tax/financial records? Home video? A file server (even just using OS software RAID) is amazingly cheap to acquire. I've suffered multiple individual component failures in desktops and servers at home, but have never lost a lick of important data... including music. -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution local drives, with no backup at the moment. I personally don't have a lot to lose on my computer, but my wife would kill me if she lost her music... I've been thinking about Mozy, or something like that, but haven't gotten around to it. My machines at home are home-built, and the newest is about 2-3 years old now. About all we do on them, really, is listen to music, and play MMOs... If a computer crashed, I'd have to build from scratch. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 10:15 AM What do you do for file storage? Local C: drives and backups? If so, to what? -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution I have a computer room, with 3 desktops connecting through a router to my cable modem. My daughter connects from her room, through wireless to the same router. That's as complicated as I get at home, unless I fire up my Ubuntu box, which I'm using for learning purposes, but even then, I unplug the third computer to do that. Unfortunately, that room is the hottest room in the house to begin with, doesn't get the same flow through the AC duct as the rest of the house, so my cooling bill is pretty outrageous in the summer. That's not saying that I wouldn't like to do some other stuff, like poke around with virtualization, etc., but I don't have the budget to go out and buy hardware for it, and don't really have space for it either. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 8:00 AM Meh... I had ESXi running at home before we decided to go in on the business. At a cost of free, and with the flexibility you get, I don't see why you would NOT do it on a home net, unless you had some specific hardware you needed that ESXi choked on. And the home net _IS_ for play/non-work use. Music streaming, photo library, home movie streaming, interweb access, IP phone service, online Netflix/dish network, Exchange server, hobby mailing list servers, etc... Doesn't just about everybody have a home net these days? I'd only expect the nerds like us here to actually run a domain and have an IIS server, but we're also the audience that would likely then benefit from having a virtual infrastructure too... Last time I needed to move a server to a newer hardware platform it was just a file copy -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution Key words for you Steven, were business startup. When I'm at home, work is the farthest from my mind, if at all possible. I play at home, work at work... Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 7:32 AM Really? I have four ESXi hosts, one pair handling my home network, and another pair handling the production, dev, and test VM's, along with VPN and SharePoint servers for a business startup I'm involved with. I'd bet lotsa' folks here have ESXi at home... -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPAM Solution You, sir, have just gone to the top of the geek list, for having ESXi and VMs installed at home... tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com 9/3/2009 12:21 AM +1 for untangle, i have it running in a vm on esxi at home, really like it and pretty easy to set up. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/09/2009 02:59 Subject: Re: SPAM Solution I think Sunbelt's Ninja/VIPRE is a great choice for an in-house Exchange-based solution and should be in your short list of products for consideration. Another option for an in the cloud solution is Postini by Google Message Security. Last fall I switched two networks to it at just $3/user/year for inbound filtering. It's been nearly perfect but I don't know if they still offer that same minimal
RE: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit
Thou shalt buy Intel NICS. -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit Looking to add NICs to a Windows 2008R2 server (installed 64 bit) and find that my old supply of 3Com 3c905B-TX aren't recognized, and no 64-bit drivers are on the 3Com site ... s.. Any recommendations for 100 or 1000 ethernet adapters that have 64 bit drivers and/or are recognized by Win2008 ? Thanks ( this is for a lab system, not a mission critical production box ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness
Basic info: What's the error? Name resolution? Ping IP/connectivity? Accessing via NetBIOS or DNS names? IPCONFIG /ALL output? -sc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness 32-bit XP Pro. The VPN does connect - no problem there. Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, Florida, United States On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: OK crazy question but is this a 32 0r 64-bit OS? Cisco VPN Client will not work on 64-bit. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness ArghI'm pulling my hair out on this one! New R500 laptop with Cisco VPN client on Windows XP. I can make the tunnel connections all day long but can't hit any resources inside the network. I've noticed that when the VPN is active my gateway IP is the same as the VPN-assigned machine IP so I guess that makes sense. But this happens regardless of which VPN endpoint I hit, which creds I use, wired or wireless NIC, etc. And on this machine only. And when comparing the client settings with another they appear identical. I've removed and reinstalled the OS, the Cisco client, reverted to a previous version, logged in locally, etc, etc, - no go. Any suggestions? Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit
I hate to admit it, but that makes sense.. I did have to read it twice tho. -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit LOL ! I heard what you didn't say ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit You can use anything you want as long as you want Intel or Broadcom. J Shook From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit Looking to add NICs to a Windows 2008R2 server (installed 64 bit) and find that my old supply of 3Com 3c905B-TX aren't recognized, and no 64-bit drivers are on the 3Com site ... s.. Any recommendations for 100 or 1000 ethernet adapters that have 64 bit drivers and/or are recognized by Win2008 ? Thanks ( this is for a lab system, not a mission critical production box ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: change operatins master
Did you ADPREP when you installed 2K8? -sc From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: change operatins master Actually the old DC is Win 2000 not 2003. - Original Message - From: James Kerr mailto:cluster...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:57 PM Subject: change operatins master Heh all, I have an old 2003 DC and a new 2008 DC. Im trying to remove the 2003 DC and when I got into change the operations master the only DC listed in both sections is the 2003 DC. So how do I make the 2008 DC the operations master, or is this something that isnt even part of 2008? James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: change operatins master
It's not a big deal really. There's a MS Pro who blogged about this somewhere, but it won't kill you for a small site. -sc From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: change operatins master Thanks, going from ADUC on the 2003 DC did the trick. Now I'm reminded of something. Getting a popup stating that infrastructure master role should not be transferred to a GC server. Argh, its going to be the only server at that site. Do I have really need to have two DCs at a small site? What may happen if I hit yes to transfer the role? - Original Message - From: Erik Goldoff mailto:egold...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:16 PM Subject: RE: change operatins master but no other servers in the list ??? Does the new server show up in Domain Controllers' container in ADUC ? ok, in ADUC, right click on the domain.local and you should have an option to connect to another server, pick the one you want to house the role then click on Operations master and click the CHANGE button OR, if you did this from the 2008 server, the change should already be set with the old server holding the role, and the new server in the second position to Change to Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: change operatins master Yeah, trouble is that below that button the 2000 DC is listed there as well. - Original Message - From: Erik Goldoff mailto:egold...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:01 PM Subject: RE: change operatins master should be a button for the second listing, where you can change from the current to the desired DC Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: change operatins master Heh all, I have an old 2003 DC and a new 2008 DC. Im trying to remove the 2003 DC and when I got into change the operations master the only DC listed in both sections is the 2003 DC. So how do I make the 2008 DC the operations master, or is this something that isnt even part of 2008? James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SPAM Solution
I learnt the hard way, had 2 500Gb drive in raid 0 in my desktop. Bought a 1Tb drive to put into the esxi box to act as a file store and backup, had 75% of the stuff copied onto it when 1 of the 500's died. Some of the stuff that was lost was about 30Gb of the wife's photo's that she was working on, she still had the originals, but had lost the work she had done on them. After that she bought a Mac and an external hard drive to backup to, but still getting her to backup is a nightmare and all she has to do is connect the external and the Mac does it automatically for her. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 04/09/2009 14:08 Subject: RE: SPAM Solution No pictures? Tax/financial records? Home video? A file server (even just using OS software RAID) is amazingly cheap to acquire. I've suffered multiple individual component failures in desktops and servers at home, but have never lost a lick of important data... including music. -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution local drives, with no backup at the moment. I personally don't have a lot to lose on my computer, but my wife would kill me if she lost her music... I've been thinking about Mozy, or something like that, but haven't gotten around to it. My machines at home are home-built, and the newest is about 2-3 years old now. About all we do on them, really, is listen to music, and play MMOs... If a computer crashed, I'd have to build from scratch. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 10:15 AM What do you do for file storage? Local C: drives and backups? If so, to what? -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution I have a computer room, with 3 desktops connecting through a router to my cable modem. My daughter connects from her room, through wireless to the same router. That's as complicated as I get at home, unless I fire up my Ubuntu box, which I'm using for learning purposes, but even then, I unplug the third computer to do that. Unfortunately, that room is the hottest room in the house to begin with, doesn't get the same flow through the AC duct as the rest of the house, so my cooling bill is pretty outrageous in the summer. That's not saying that I wouldn't like to do some other stuff, like poke around with virtualization, etc., but I don't have the budget to go out and buy hardware for it, and don't really have space for it either. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 8:00 AM Meh... I had ESXi running at home before we decided to go in on the business. At a cost of free, and with the flexibility you get, I don't see why you would NOT do it on a home net, unless you had some specific hardware you needed that ESXi choked on. And the home net _IS_ for play/non-work use. Music streaming, photo library, home movie streaming, interweb access, IP phone service, online Netflix/dish network, Exchange server, hobby mailing list servers, etc... Doesn't just about everybody have a home net these days? I'd only expect the nerds like us here to actually run a domain and have an IIS server, but we're also the audience that would likely then benefit from having a virtual infrastructure too... Last time I needed to move a server to a newer hardware platform it was just a file copy -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution Key words for you Steven, were business startup. When I'm at home, work is the farthest from my mind, if at all possible. I play at home, work at work... Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 7:32 AM Really? I have four ESXi hosts, one pair handling my home network, and another pair handling the production, dev, and test VM's, along with VPN and SharePoint servers for a business startup I'm involved with. I'd bet lotsa' folks here have ESXi at home... -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPAM Solution You, sir, have just gone to the top of the geek list, for having ESXi and VMs installed at home... tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com 9/3/2009 12:21 AM +1 for untangle, i have it running in a vm on esxi at
RE: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another
Which reminds me: the default closed share perms on new shares in Win2K8 are annoying. -sc -Original Message- From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another Whoa! Someone uses share permissions? I thought share permissions were just a hangover from the Win9x days (or when people installed NT4 with FAT32 file system instead of NTFS) to provide some security for those systems that couldn't do it on a file level. I'd use this opportunity to knock the share permissions on the head and drop them to Everyone:Full Control. They generally end up as the reason you can't work out why someone can't access a file. 2009/9/3 Terri Esham terri.es...@noaa.gov: What is the best free tool to copy share and NTFS permissions from one SAN disk to another. I have already tried Robocopy and it did copy the NTFS permission but not the Share permissions. I need to move a large amount of folders from one SAN disk to another and I don't want to have to recreate all the shares. The file server is running Windows 2008 Standard Server, SP2, all critical updates installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Terri ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.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/ ~
Re: change operatins master
Now that is much clearer than the Microsoft documentation for 2000 and NOW I truly understand what was being said. Thank you. Jon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Client numbers are irrelevant. Infrastructure Master works by comparing what it has in its database with what a GC has in its. If you make the IM a GC, then when it compares its db with another GC there are no differences. And the IM then doesn’t do anything. If you only have a single domain, then GCs don’t store anything more than regular DCs. If all the DCs in the domain are also GCs, then there’s nothing for the IM to do anyway. But if you have 1 domain, and not all DCs are GCs, then you need the IM to do things. And that means the IM can not be on a GC. Cheers Ken *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, 4 September 2009 5:42 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: change operatins master That warning does not apply to a single (small) domain model if I remember correctly. You would have issues if this were a multi-domain, large number of clients type of setting. Jon On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: ok it seems I will be ok transferring this role to a single DC since this is a single forest single domain setup. Thanks for the help Erik. James - Original Message - *From:* James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:27 PM *Subject:* Re: change operatins master Thanks, going from ADUC on the 2003 DC did the trick. Now I'm reminded of something. Getting a popup stating that infrastructure master role should not be transferred to a GC server. Argh, its going to be the only server at that site. Do I have really need to have two DCs at a small site? What may happen if I hit yes to transfer the role? - Original Message - *From:* Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:16 PM *Subject:* RE: change operatins master but no other servers in the list ??? Does the new server show up in Domain Controllers' container in ADUC ? ok, in ADUC, right click on the domain.local and you should have an option to connect to another server, pick the one you want to house the role then click on Operations master and click the CHANGE button OR, if you did this from the 2008 server, the change should already be set with the old server holding the role, and the new server in the second position to Change to ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Removable media solution
Afternoon/morning all We work in a predominantly thin-client environment. One of the major gripes of our lovely user base is their inability to retrieve information from CDs and USB sticks. The JackPC thin clients that most of our users have are very hit and miss when it comes to detecting USB keys, and obviously have no CD capability at all. However, an environment like this also means we get hit with very few (read none) instances of malware among our users. I'm currently trying to find a solution that will allow our users to get info from media such as CDs and USB keys without increasing our malware exposure. Does anyone know of some sort of PC-based software that would allow us to, say, insert a CD or USB key into a standalone PC, scan it thoroughly for viruses and threats, and then (and only then) mount it as a shared drive that users could connect to from their thin client? I haven't given this much lateral thought so am looking for suggestions of all kinds for dealing with this conundrum. We do have application management rules that prevent users from executing untrusted files so worrying about executables is mostly out of the equation, thankfully. I am however also wondering whether a single scan with a single flavour of AV would be enough to label removable media as sanitised. As always all suggestions and tips gratefully received. -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness
One other thing to consider is the NIC setting for DHCP or is there an assigned address, and look at the DNS entries as well. Jon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Basic info: What’s the error? Name resolution? Ping IP/connectivity? Accessing via NetBIOS or DNS names? IPCONFIG /ALL output? -sc *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:49 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness 32-bit XP Pro. The VPN does connect - no problem there. Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, Florida, United States On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: OK crazy question but is this a 32 0r 64-bit OS? Cisco VPN Client will not work on 64-bit. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness ArghI'm pulling my hair out on this one! New R500 laptop with Cisco VPN client on Windows XP. I can make the tunnel connections all day long but can't hit any resources inside the network. I've noticed that when the VPN is active my gateway IP is the same as the VPN-assigned machine IP so I guess that makes sense. But this happens regardless of which VPN endpoint I hit, which creds I use, wired or wireless NIC, etc. And on this machine only. And when comparing the client settings with another they appear identical. I've removed and reinstalled the OS, the Cisco client, reverted to a previous version, logged in locally, etc, etc, - no go. Any suggestions? Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
SOHO: Data storage, RAID levels, backups, VMs, etc. (was: SPAM Solution)
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:20 AM, tony pattontony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com wrote: I rebuild my desktop at home roughly every six months just for the fun of it, it's a lot less hassle than removing all the crap I install to take a look at. Old answer: That is why they invented partition imaging. Image your system/software partition, do your tests, then restore after. Keep all your data on a separate partition, so don't have to blow that away. New answer: That is why they invented virtual machines. Do your testing in a VM, and revert the VM's virtual disk after. :-) On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:16 AM, tony pattontony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com wrote: ... had 2 500Gb drive in raid 0 in my desktop ... Yikes! RAID 0 means your chance of failure is multiplied by the number of drives. And given bit failure rates and the size of disks these days, the chance of failure approaches 100% for a single drive. RAID 0 might have had limited application in speed critical situations back when disks were wicked freaking expensive. These days, I'd never ever use it. If I needed the speed and storage capacity that badly, I'd do RAID 10 (striped array of mirrors). ... had 75% of the stuff copied onto it when 1 of the 500's died ... Chances are, it was already bad, you just didn't notice because you hadn't read from that block in a while. Patrol reads are your friend. ... Mac and an external hard drive to backup to, but still getting her to backup is a nightmare and all she has to do is connect the external and the Mac does it automatically for her. A backup solution that requires end-user action is doomed to failure. I recommend scripting something on the laptop that will automatically sync changes to a networked file server on a schedule, or whenever the network is available, or whatever. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit
+1 -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Steven M. Caesarescaes...@caesare.com wrote: Thou shalt buy Intel NICS. -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit Looking to add NICs to a Windows 2008R2 server (installed 64 bit) and find that my old supply of 3Com 3c905B-TX aren't recognized, and no 64-bit drivers are on the 3Com site ... s.. Any recommendations for 100 or 1000 ethernet adapters that have 64 bit drivers and/or are recognized by Win2008 ? Thanks ( this is for a lab system, not a mission critical production box ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness
Sorry I am thinking on the client not the other side. Jon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: One other thing to consider is the NIC setting for DHCP or is there an assigned address, and look at the DNS entries as well. Jon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Basic info: What’s the error? Name resolution? Ping IP/connectivity? Accessing via NetBIOS or DNS names? IPCONFIG /ALL output? -sc *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:49 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness 32-bit XP Pro. The VPN does connect - no problem there. Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, Florida, United States On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: OK crazy question but is this a 32 0r 64-bit OS? Cisco VPN Client will not work on 64-bit. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness ArghI'm pulling my hair out on this one! New R500 laptop with Cisco VPN client on Windows XP. I can make the tunnel connections all day long but can't hit any resources inside the network. I've noticed that when the VPN is active my gateway IP is the same as the VPN-assigned machine IP so I guess that makes sense. But this happens regardless of which VPN endpoint I hit, which creds I use, wired or wireless NIC, etc. And on this machine only. And when comparing the client settings with another they appear identical. I've removed and reinstalled the OS, the Cisco client, reverted to a previous version, logged in locally, etc, etc, - no go. Any suggestions? Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: SOHO: Data storage, RAID levels, backups, VMs, etc. (was: SPAM Solution)
Hence the main reason for the ESXi box :-) Snapshot, play to your hearts content, restore if needed. I backup my own stuff now to both a VM and external disk, chances of both going at the same time unlikly, but now that i've mentioned it, I'll give it a week :-) She's been well warned and I remind her of what happened when my PC went. The ESXi box only runs when I'm home so scripting to a network location won't work. I'd never use raid0 again, I new the risks but wanted the capacity. The disks are still under warranty, haven't gotten round to getting it replaced yet. I run a check every month on the remaining one, but if it goes, I'm not too worried about anything on it. At the minute I'm running a 64Gig SSD and the remaining 500Gb Samsung HD501J. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 04/09/2009 14:46 Subject: SOHO: Data storage, RAID levels, backups, VMs, etc. (was: SPAM Solution) On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:20 AM, tony pattontony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com wrote: I rebuild my desktop at home roughly every six months just for the fun of it, it's a lot less hassle than removing all the crap I install to take a look at. Old answer: That is why they invented partition imaging. Image your system/software partition, do your tests, then restore after. Keep all your data on a separate partition, so don't have to blow that away. New answer: That is why they invented virtual machines. Do your testing in a VM, and revert the VM's virtual disk after. :-) On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:16 AM, tony pattontony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com wrote: ... had 2 500Gb drive in raid 0 in my desktop ... Yikes! RAID 0 means your chance of failure is multiplied by the number of drives. And given bit failure rates and the size of disks these days, the chance of failure approaches 100% for a single drive. RAID 0 might have had limited application in speed critical situations back when disks were wicked freaking expensive. These days, I'd never ever use it. If I needed the speed and storage capacity that badly, I'd do RAID 10 (striped array of mirrors). ... had 75% of the stuff copied onto it when 1 of the 500's died ... Chances are, it was already bad, you just didn't notice because you hadn't read from that block in a while. Patrol reads are your friend. ... Mac and an external hard drive to backup to, but still getting her to backup is a nightmare and all she has to do is connect the external and the Mac does it automatically for her. A backup solution that requires end-user action is doomed to failure. I recommend scripting something on the laptop that will automatically sync changes to a networked file server on a schedule, or whenever the network is available, or whatever. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ http://www.quinn-insurance.com This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. The contents should not be copied nor disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of QUINN-Insurance, unless otherwise specifically stated . As internet communications are not secure, QUINN-Insurance is not responsible for the contents of this message nor responsible for any change made to this message after it was sent by the original sender. Although virus scanning is used on all inbound and outbound e-mail, we advise you to carry out your own virus check before opening any attachment. We cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. QUINN-Life Direct Limited is regulated by the Financial Regulator. QUINN-Insurance Limited is regulated by the Financial Regulator and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for the conduct of UK business. QUINN-Life Direct Limited is registered in Ireland, registration number 292374 and is a private company limited by shares. QUINN-Insurance Limited is registered in Ireland, registration number 240768 and is a private company limited by shares. Both companies have their head office at Dublin Road, Cavan, Co. Cavan. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit
+1 You can buy an Intel NIC now, or you can buy one later. Buying one now is cheaper. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: +1 -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Steven M. Caesarescaes...@caesare.com wrote: Thou shalt buy Intel NICS. -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ethernet adapter recommendation for Win2008 64bit Looking to add NICs to a Windows 2008R2 server (installed 64 bit) and find that my old supply of 3Com 3c905B-TX aren't recognized, and no 64-bit drivers are on the 3Com site ... s.. Any recommendations for 100 or 1000 ethernet adapters that have 64 bit drivers and/or are recognized by Win2008 ? Thanks ( this is for a lab system, not a mission critical production box ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ~ 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/ ~
Windows Police Pro
If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
Allowing a choice and forcing or requiring are 2 different things. I just do not believe any human being should be forced or required to listen to any politician. Encouraged yes, required no. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th Oh. My. God. President speaks to children. At a school. It's never, ever happened before.http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909030020 It's really sad that there is no debate in this country, just I don't accept your viewpoint, so I'm going to listen to other people who share the same views (even though they probably don't share all the same views). If my daughter could participate I would encourage her to be involved no matter who is president, even if I disagreed with all of his policies. Sheesh, are you afraid your kids will be brainwashed in one friggin speech? On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this :) Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obamaÿÿ(tm)s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States ÿÿ(tm) intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: 1. No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. 2. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence of the leader of the free worldÿÿ(tm)s perspective on education. 3. No usurpation of parental rights. Parents have the unequivocal right to guide their children in matters of politics, religion, morality, and etc. The president may have rights and responsibilities to speak to the public, but will violate parental rights by speaking to minors directly without supplying a written transcript or preview of the broadcast. 4. No captive audience. Without and Opt-in policy by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District , our children will be a captive audience to the influence of a politician. I believe need not make mention of historical abuses of this power by other nations. No matter how benign the Presidential address may seem, it reduces our liberty and our authority over our own children. So if you do not force our students to watch either by not broadcasting or having parents Opt-in, then you show your dedication to parental rights and authority. Thank you, Livermore parents ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Police Pro
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Got a link to decent tech info with, e.g., infection vectors and attack mechanisms? All I find is removal instructions and the usual mass confusion in online forums (the same kind that are full of people asking if NTOSKRNL.EXE is a virus). I'm particularly interested in whether it's exploiting any special security exposures, or if it's just your typical malware that depends on luser stupidity and admin rights to get into the computer. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
Could you people all please STFU about this? Yes, the above is rude. So is hijacking a forum that explicitly serves another purpose, and using it as a captive audience for your opinions. Ironic that you're all doing the exact same thing you don't want another guy doing. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Police Pro
Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove-windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent had the opportunity to try it yet. But I suspect I will very soon. -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
If its what I've heard its going to be about Stay in school, get an education, dont drop out then that is great. I remember watching our former Presidents in my classroom way back when..As long as the message is about education, directed at the children to stay in school and not about trying to convince them to tell their parents that the global warming thing is killing polar bears (when its really a hoax) and that we all need national healthcare (when we cant afford the current systems in place: Medicare/Medicaid, etc) and they're either on the edge of bankruptcy or massively corrupt -- then fine. It must be directed at the children regarding their education and education alone. Everything other than education would be considered propaganda, in my opinion. So lets see what happens. Personally, I think its yet another HUGE distraction as the issues that really face this nation are handled in back rooms by people who no nothing about what its like out in the real world where 95% of us actually live and work. Again, my opnion. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Allowing a choice and forcing or requiring are 2 different things. I just do not believe any human being should be forced or required to listen to any politician. Encouraged yes, required no. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:55 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th Oh. My. God. President speaks to children. At a school. It's never, ever happened before.http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909030020 It's really sad that there is no debate in this country, just I don't accept your viewpoint, so I'm going to listen to other people who share the same views (even though they probably don't share all the same views). If my daughter could participate I would encourage her to be involved no matter who is president, even if I disagreed with all of his policies. Sheesh, are you afraid your kids will be brainwashed in one friggin speech? On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this J Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obamaÿÿ™s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States ÿÿ™ intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: 1. No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. 2. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence of the leader of the free worldÿÿ™s perspective on education. 3. No usurpation of parental rights. Parents have the unequivocal right to guide their children in matters of politics, religion, morality, and etc. The president may have rights and responsibilities to speak to the public, but will violate parental rights by speaking to minors directly without supplying a written transcript or preview of the broadcast. 4. No captive audience. Without and Opt-in policy by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District , our children will be a *captive*audience to the influence of a politician. I believe need not make mention of historical abuses of this power by other nations. No matter how benign the Presidential address may seem, it reduces our liberty and our authority over our own children. So if you do not force our students to watch either by not broadcasting or having parents Opt-in, then you show your dedication to parental rights and authority. Thank
Re: Windows Police Pro
Well, this would not have worked with the rooted machine I came across a couple of weeks ago. Any of the various ways to access TaskManager were denied. Hitting the power button, then tapping F-8 to try to get into SafeMode would not work - numerous attempts ended up with regular mode XP running. The infected profile, a local admin on XP Home, did let me create a new administrator user. That new user was able to install MalwareBytes from a CD - no way to download anything with that root kit running! - and run it. Then this new user could finish running the assorted clean-up tools. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:37:45 AM: Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove- windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent had the opportunity to try it yet. But I suspect I will very soon. -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Police Pro
Just reading this makes me cringe. Why not wipe and rebuild? Data's relatively easy to extract from an infected machine with an extrenal HD and booting with the UBCD4Windows. I could never trust a machine that's been owned so thoroughly. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:47 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Well, this would not have worked with the rooted machine I came across a couple of weeks ago. Any of the various ways to access TaskManager were denied. Hitting the power button, then tapping F-8 to try to get into SafeMode would not work - numerous attempts ended up with regular mode XP running. The infected profile, a local admin on XP Home, did let me create a new administrator user. That new user was able to install MalwareBytes from a CD - no way to download anything with that root kit running! - and run it. Then this new user could finish running the assorted clean-up tools. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group *ASPCA®* 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 *www.aspca.org* http://www.aspca.org/ The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:37:45 AM: Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove- windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent had the opportunity to try it yet. But I suspect I will very soon. -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
ARGH!!! Let me quote Ben: Could you people all please STFU about this? Yes, the above is rude. So is hijacking a forum that explicitly serves another purpose, and using it as a captive audience for your opinions. Ironic that you're all doing the exact same thing you don't want another guy doing. I did not sign up for an ultra-conservative propaganda list. Stu, will you PLEASE shut this down? If folks continue to rehash it, I say give them the boot. From: TJ [mailto:iwebfor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th If its what I've heard its going to be about Stay in school, get an education, dont drop out then that is great. I remember watching our former Presidents in my classroom way back when..As long as the message is about education, directed at the children to stay in school and not about trying to convince them to tell their parents that the global warming thing is killing polar bears (when its really a hoax) and that we all need national healthcare (when we cant afford the current systems in place: Medicare/Medicaid, etc) and they're either on the edge of bankruptcy or massively corrupt -- then fine. It must be directed at the children regarding their education and education alone. Everything other than education would be considered propaganda, in my opinion. So lets see what happens. Personally, I think its yet another HUGE distraction as the issues that really face this nation are handled in back rooms by people who no nothing about what its like out in the real world where 95% of us actually live and work. Again, my opnion. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Allowing a choice and forcing or requiring are 2 different things. I just do not believe any human being should be forced or required to listen to any politician. Encouraged yes, required no. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com http://www.abideinternational.com/ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th Oh. My. God. President speaks to children. At a school. It's never, ever happened before.http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909030020 It's really sad that there is no debate in this country, just I don't accept your viewpoint, so I'm going to listen to other people who share the same views (even though they probably don't share all the same views). If my daughter could participate I would encourage her to be involved no matter who is president, even if I disagreed with all of his policies. Sheesh, are you afraid your kids will be brainwashed in one friggin speech? On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this J Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obamaÿÿ(tm)s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States ÿÿ(tm) intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: 1. No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. 2. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence
Re: Windows Police Pro
If it was rooted why repair? Sorry I just don't understand but then I so far have been able to get all of my garage clients but one to allow me to fdisk the system and rebuild. The one that would not I walked away from. I just was not going to give him false hopes that it was not hiding other things. Jon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:47 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Well, this would not have worked with the rooted machine I came across a couple of weeks ago. Any of the various ways to access TaskManager were denied. Hitting the power button, then tapping F-8 to try to get into SafeMode would not work - numerous attempts ended up with regular mode XP running. The infected profile, a local admin on XP Home, did let me create a new administrator user. That new user was able to install MalwareBytes from a CD - no way to download anything with that root kit running! - and run it. Then this new user could finish running the assorted clean-up tools. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group *ASPCA®* 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 *www.aspca.org* http://www.aspca.org/ The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:37:45 AM: Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove- windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent had the opportunity to try it yet. But I suspect I will very soon. -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
[LIST ADMIN MESSAGE] RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
Hi All, Let's put politics to rest on this list please? Remember to STAY ON TOPIC, LOW NOISE, and FRIENDLY! Thanks ! Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Founder, VP Marketing. P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 s...@sunbelt-software.com From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this J Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obamas-Address-to-Student s-Across-America-September-8-2009 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Stude nts-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: 1. No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. 2. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence of the leader of the free worlds perspective on education. 3. No usurpation of parental rights. Parents have the unequivocal right to guide their children in matters of politics, religion, morality, and etc. The president may have rights and responsibilities to speak to the public, but will violate parental rights by speaking to minors directly without supplying a written transcript or preview of the broadcast. 4. No captive audience. Without and Opt-in policy by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District , our children will be a captive audience to the influence of a politician. I believe need not make mention of historical abuses of this power by other nations. No matter how benign the Presidential address may seem, it reduces our liberty and our authority over our own children. So if you do not force our students to watch either by not broadcasting or having parents Opt-in, then you show your dedication to parental rights and authority. Thank you, Livermore parents .. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Police Pro
The first mistake with any infection is to try and boot from the HDD (safe mode or not) and perform repairs. Any malware worth its miserable salt will see that eventuality. Boot from a CD/DVD with some reputable tools thereon. My preference being ERD Commander with several malware scanners, Autoruns and Registry Workshop. -- Peter van Houten On the 04/09/2009 17:47, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote the following: Well, this would not have worked with the rooted machine I came across a couple of weeks ago. Any of the various ways to access TaskManager were denied. Hitting the power button, then tapping F-8 to try to get into SafeMode would not work - numerous attempts ended up with regular mode XP running. The infected profile, a local admin on XP Home, did let me create a new administrator user. That new user was able to install MalwareBytes from a CD - no way to download anything with that root kit running! - and run it. Then this new user could finish running the assorted clean-up tools. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group *ASPCA^® * 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 _www.aspca.org_ http://www.aspca.org/ The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals^® (ASPCA^® ) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:37:45 AM: Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove- windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent had the opportunity to try it yet. But I suspect I will very soon. -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Police Pro
If it were mine, I would have... It was a white box built by her son a hundred miles or so out of town. Once I got it apparently functional, I told her to have him deal with it. PS - related to another thread, STFU is not an invocation of our beloved Stu containing a typo. It is a plea to cease-and-desist for that thread! I rely too much on the real, on-topic posts of the person offended; please don't chase him away... Thanks! -- RMc Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:51:26 AM: Just reading this makes me cringe. Why not wipe and rebuild? Data's relatively easy to extract from an infected machine with an extrenal HD and booting with the UBCD4Windows. I could never trust a machine that's been owned so thoroughly. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:47 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Well, this would not have worked with the rooted machine I came across a couple of weeks ago. Any of the various ways to access TaskManager were denied. Hitting the power button, then tapping F-8 to try to get into SafeMode would not work - numerous attempts ended up with regular mode XP running. The infected profile, a local admin on XP Home, did let me create a new administrator user. That new user was able to install MalwareBytes from a CD - no way to download anything with that root kit running! - and run it. Then this new user could finish running the assorted clean-up tools. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:37:45 AM: Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove- windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent had the opportunity to try it yet. But I suspect I will very soon. -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows Police Pro
Sans has a decent write up of what it does: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7066 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Police Pro On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Got a link to decent tech info with, e.g., infection vectors and attack mechanisms? All I find is removal instructions and the usual mass confusion in online forums (the same kind that are full of people asking if NTOSKRNL.EXE is a virus). I'm particularly interested in whether it's exploiting any special security exposures, or if it's just your typical malware that depends on luser stupidity and admin rights to get into the computer. -- 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: Windows Police Pro
One question that I am pretty sure of the answer of is did the users have Admin or Power User status? One person asked in the ISC comments that question and I think someone on this list just asked the same or similar question. I am seen something similar but when the popup appears a User can go to Task Manager and kill the process and it does not appear to get infected. At least in Vista. All the users I have seen get infected by various thing all were running as Administrator, on XP they don't even get a popup telling them something is installing. So far my Vista clients have just closed out or restarted the machine and missed the bullet. Jon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: Sans has a decent write up of what it does: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7066 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Police Pro On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Got a link to decent tech info with, e.g., infection vectors and attack mechanisms? All I find is removal instructions and the usual mass confusion in online forums (the same kind that are full of people asking if NTOSKRNL.EXE is a virus). I'm particularly interested in whether it's exploiting any special security exposures, or if it's just your typical malware that depends on luser stupidity and admin rights to get into the computer. -- 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Remote desktop changed?
I'm curious of some behavior we have been seeing that seems to be out of the ordinary. Normally when you remote desktop to a machine, the remote machine locks and someone on the other side can't see what you are doing. Just recently I've gotten a couple reports of remote desktop sessions leaving the remote end open so that it can be seen. I didn't think this was even possible. Is there a setting that can be set to allow this, or anyone else know what might be going on? These are XP machines with SP3 installed generally. I know it doesn't seem to happen every time, but I have multiple reports of it happening. Please reply if you've seen anything like this or have any insight! Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows Police Pro
I had one pc infected with it. I could clean most of it but could never get back Task Mgr. Since she had a spare machine to use, I took it back to my office to work on it. I tried a lot of different tricks I've learned through the years but never got that functionality back. I finally reformated and gave it back to her yesterday. To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Windows Police Pro From: richardmccl...@aspca.org Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:47:42 -0500 Well, this would not have worked with the rooted machine I came across a couple of weeks ago. Any of the various ways to access TaskManager were denied. Hitting the power button, then tapping F-8 to try to get into SafeMode would not work - numerous attempts ended up with regular mode XP running. The infected profile, a local admin on XP Home, did let me create a new administrator user. That new user was able to install MalwareBytes from a CD - no way to download anything with that root kit running! - and run it. Then this new user could finish running the assorted clean-up tools. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:37:45 AM: Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove- windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent had the opportunity to try it yet. But I suspect I will very soon. -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ _ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Remote desktop changed?
That's strange...usually the only item you see from the TS Manager is a disconnect session not the end user seeing you From: Russ [mailto:shouldab...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote desktop changed? I'm curious of some behavior we have been seeing that seems to be out of the ordinary. Normally when you remote desktop to a machine, the remote machine locks and someone on the other side can't see what you are doing. Just recently I've gotten a couple reports of remote desktop sessions leaving the remote end open so that it can be seen. I didn't think this was even possible. Is there a setting that can be set to allow this, or anyone else know what might be going on? These are XP machines with SP3 installed generally. I know it doesn't seem to happen every time, but I have multiple reports of it happening. Please reply if you've seen anything like this or have any insight! Thanks! This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Remote desktop changed?
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Russshouldab...@gmail.com wrote: Just recently I've gotten a couple reports of remote desktop sessions leaving the remote end open so that it can be seen. I didn't think this was even possible. Remote Assistance works that way, and RA is basically just Remote Desktop with some helper infrastructure. And there's third-party remote control tools, like VNC, WebEx, GoTo*, etc. Depending on how you're getting these reports, maybe the person doing the reporting is not recognizing the difference. The remote admin mode or whatever it is for Win 2003 Server and later also works this way, even for the regular RDP client. That shouldn't apply to Win XP, of course, but maybe somebody found a way to make it happen? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Remote desktop changed?
I had one like that yesterday. I was RDP'd to an XP machine and the user on the console was able to watch what I was doing. Have not looked into why, but it sure was convenient... :-) Remote machine is XPSP3... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:shouldab...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote desktop changed? I'm curious of some behavior we have been seeing that seems to be out of the ordinary. Normally when you remote desktop to a machine, the remote machine locks and someone on the other side can't see what you are doing. Just recently I've gotten a couple reports of remote desktop sessions leaving the remote end open so that it can be seen. I didn't think this was even possible. Is there a setting that can be set to allow this, or anyone else know what might be going on? These are XP machines with SP3 installed generally. I know it doesn't seem to happen every time, but I have multiple reports of it happening. Please reply if you've seen anything like this or have any insight! Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Remote desktop changed?
I've seen this behavior on machines with UltraVNC on them. I'm not sure what order the connections have to occur but using VNC in conjunction with RDP has resulted in the station being unlocked AFTER the RDP session had been closed (and I assume it was unlocked during the session). From: Russ [mailto:shouldab...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote desktop changed? I'm curious of some behavior we have been seeing that seems to be out of the ordinary. Normally when you remote desktop to a machine, the remote machine locks and someone on the other side can't see what you are doing. Just recently I've gotten a couple reports of remote desktop sessions leaving the remote end open so that it can be seen. I didn't think this was even possible. Is there a setting that can be set to allow this, or anyone else know what might be going on? These are XP machines with SP3 installed generally. I know it doesn't seem to happen every time, but I have multiple reports of it happening. Please reply if you've seen anything like this or have any insight! Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: change operatins master
The way I came to remember it is if it is the only domain in the forest the IM is irrelevant if all DCs are GCs, the IM is irrelevant. The documentation is a lot better than it used to be- Requirements for infrastructure master placement The infrastructure master updates the names of security principals from other domains that are added to groups in its own domain. For example, if a user from one domain is a member of a group in a second domain and the user's name is changed in the first domain, the second domain is not notified that the user's name must be updated in the group's membership list. Because domain controllers in one domain do not replicate security principals to domain controllers in another domain, the second domain never becomes aware of the change in the absence of the infrastructure master. The infrastructure master constantly monitors group memberships, looking for security principals from other domains. If it finds one, it checks with the security principal's domain to verify that the information is updated. If the information is out of date, the infrastructure master performs the update and then replicates the change to the other domain controllers in its domain. Two exceptions apply to this rule. First, if all domain controllers are global catalog servers, the domain controller that hosts the infrastructure master role is insignificant because global catalogs replicate the updated information regardless of the domain to which they belong. Second, if the forest has only one domain, the domain controller that hosts the infrastructure master role is insignificant because security principals from other domains do not exist. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 6:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: change operatins master Now that is much clearer than the Microsoft documentation for 2000 and NOW I truly understand what was being said. Thank you. Jon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Client numbers are irrelevant. Infrastructure Master works by comparing what it has in its database with what a GC has in its. If you make the IM a GC, then when it compares its db with another GC there are no differences. And the IM then doesn't do anything. If you only have a single domain, then GCs don't store anything more than regular DCs. If all the DCs in the domain are also GCs, then there's nothing for the IM to do anyway. But if you have 1 domain, and not all DCs are GCs, then you need the IM to do things. And that means the IM can not be on a GC. Cheers Ken From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 4 September 2009 5:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: change operatins master That warning does not apply to a single (small) domain model if I remember correctly. You would have issues if this were a multi-domain, large number of clients type of setting. Jon On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: ok it seems I will be ok transferring this role to a single DC since this is a single forest single domain setup. Thanks for the help Erik. James - Original Message - From: James Kerr mailto:cluster...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:27 PM Subject: Re: change operatins master Thanks, going from ADUC on the 2003 DC did the trick. Now I'm reminded of something. Getting a popup stating that infrastructure master role should not be transferred to a GC server. Argh, its going to be the only server at that site. Do I have really need to have two DCs at a small site? What may happen if I hit yes to transfer the role? - Original Message - From: Erik Goldoff mailto:egold...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:16 PM Subject: RE: change operatins master but no other servers in the list ??? Does the new server show up in Domain Controllers' container in ADUC ? ok, in ADUC, right click on the domain.local and you should have an option to connect to another server, pick the one you want to house the role then click on Operations master and click the CHANGE button OR, if you did this from the 2008 server, the change should already be set with the old server holding the role, and the new server in the second position to Change to ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Remote desktop changed?
I thought that *was* the behavior if you logged onto the remote machine with the same credentials of the currently logged on user??? From: Russ [mailto:shouldab...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote desktop changed? I'm curious of some behavior we have been seeing that seems to be out of the ordinary. Normally when you remote desktop to a machine, the remote machine locks and someone on the other side can't see what you are doing. Just recently I've gotten a couple reports of remote desktop sessions leaving the remote end open so that it can be seen. I didn't think this was even possible. Is there a setting that can be set to allow this, or anyone else know what might be going on? These are XP machines with SP3 installed generally. I know it doesn't seem to happen every time, but I have multiple reports of it happening. Please reply if you've seen anything like this or have any insight! Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows Police Pro
Thanks for the FYI, Been stuck in NPP Memory issues with an Oracle Cluster for the last 4 days Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Police Pro I had one pc infected with it. I could clean most of it but could never get back Task Mgr. Since she had a spare machine to use, I took it back to my office to work on it. I tried a lot of different tricks I've learned through the years but never got that functionality back. I finally reformated and gave it back to her yesterday. To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Windows Police Pro From: richardmccl...@aspca.org Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:47:42 -0500 Well, this would not have worked with the rooted machine I came across a couple of weeks ago. Any of the various ways to access TaskManager were denied. Hitting the power button, then tapping F-8 to try to get into SafeMode would not work - numerous attempts ended up with regular mode XP running. The infected profile, a local admin on XP Home, did let me create a new administrator user. That new user was able to install MalwareBytes from a CD - no way to download anything with that root kit running! - and run it. Then this new user could finish running the assorted clean-up tools. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org http://www.aspca.org/ The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:37:45 AM: Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove- windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent had the opportunity to try it yet. But I suspect I will very soon. -- ME2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. Click here. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows Police Pro
I have too, I believe. Screen almost got some users to click on it. -sc -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Police Pro If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Remote desktop changed?
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Mazzaccarodavid.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: I thought that *was* the behavior if you logged onto the remote machine with the same credentials of the currently logged on user??? Nope, it locks the local console. Or at least, it always has for us. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Remote desktop changed?
This was a machine that did not have UltraVNC on the remote end, however the admin machine probably did have it installed. It's convenient, yes, but it seems to be a major issue if you didn't know it was happening and the wrong eyes were peeking in on what you were doing . . . On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: I’ve seen this behavior on machines with UltraVNC on them. I’m not sure what order the connections have to occur but using VNC in conjunction with RDP has resulted in the station being unlocked AFTER the RDP session had been closed (and I assume it was unlocked during the session). *From:* Russ [mailto:shouldab...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, September 04, 2009 12:24 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Remote desktop changed? I'm curious of some behavior we have been seeing that seems to be out of the ordinary. Normally when you remote desktop to a machine, the remote machine locks and someone on the other side can't see what you are doing. Just recently I've gotten a couple reports of remote desktop sessions leaving the remote end open so that it can be seen. I didn't think this was even possible. Is there a setting that can be set to allow this, or anyone else know what might be going on? These are XP machines with SP3 installed generally. I know it doesn't seem to happen every time, but I have multiple reports of it happening. Please reply if you've seen anything like this or have any insight! Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Remote desktop changed?
Nope. I just tested it here, and RDP to a test machine locks the console, and unlocking the console closes the RDP session. But that's not what happened to the other machine yesterday... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote desktop changed? I thought that *was* the behavior if you logged onto the remote machine with the same credentials of the currently logged on user??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Police Pro
Looks like its the same family as XP Antivirus 2008...antispyware 2009 etc etc on and on.. - Original Message - From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:48 PM Subject: RE: Windows Police Pro I have too, I believe. Screen almost got some users to click on it. -sc -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Police Pro If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Its the next big thing that you will be re-imaging infected systems for. I've seen it twice now, and its very messy. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness
The most recent analysis shows that the issue only shows up when making a VPN connection through a Linksys WRT54G2 router. If I remove the router from the path I'm able to map drives just fine. I have an older WRT54G at home - no issues. Belkin or DLink router - fine. Gee... you'd think a Linksys by Cisco router would be fully compatible with the Cisco VPN client but apparently not! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I got it working… partially. I renamed the machine just in case there was an issue with certificates or something. No change in behavior. Manually removed all things Cisco from the drive and registry, rebooted and reinstalled the client, and rebooted again. If I connect to an available unsecured wireless network and then make the VPN connection, I can map internal resources (but not ping). If I connect to to an available WPA2 wireless network I can make the VPN connection but cannot connect to internal resources. In both cases the default gateway on the Cisco virtual adapter is blank. However, on my personal machine that gateway address is 10.0.0.1. On my home network (WPA2) I connected to the VPN and mapped drives no problem. Apparently there's an issue with the WPA2 network available from my office, but I can't imagine what it is since I can connect and map drives fine using other machines over that wireless network. Still a stumper... Roger Wright ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: isa 2006 domain sets
That is strange. I have several rules using Domain Name Sets running on my ISA proxies. Are you seeing anything of interest in the event logs? Is the ISA server using the same DNS servers as your clients? Have you tried completely deleting the Domain Name Set and associated rule and then recreating them? I've fixed some odd rule issues that way. -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets Yes that's it, in the same rule I have some ip sets and those work as expected. Strange right? From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets There is no need for the FW client to do this. So you created a domain name set, then you created a rule allowing traffic to that domain name set? That's really all there is to do. Your domains were entered just as *.microsoft.com (without the quotes), with no http://;, right? -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: isa 2006 domain sets Hey all, I have a locked down ISA 2006 box, it works pretty well, but we need to allow some internet access to certain sites. I added a domain name set for like *.microsoft.com and *.symantec.com however that doesn't work. I see in the logs that if I monitor it when I goto the site the monitor agent is reporting the IP address(es) not the name. I went in and put a few of the IP's in manually and that works. Is there something Im missing for Domain Name sets to work? I looked at Schinders isa 2004 article on it and don't think I saw anything relevant unless I *need* to have the fw client to make this work which is not going to happen. The server can resolve names correctly so its not that it cannot resolve the DNS name it just doesn't. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows Police Pro
His article mentions .exe file associations are broken during his repair
attempt because of the malware's use of its own command interpreter. Here is
a .reg to re associate .exe and .lnk extensions/filetypes. Also remember you
can use tasklist and taskkill in a command window if the taskmanager is
unavailable. I just ran into this Trojan called vundo and it sounds a lot
like WPP. Thank God for SysInternal's tools.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
@=exefile
Content Type=application/x-msdownload
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\PersistentHandler]
@={098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile]
@=Application
EditFlags=hex:38,07,00,00
TileInfo=prop:FileDescription;Company;FileVersion
InfoTip=prop:FileDescription;Company;FileVersion;Create;Size
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon]
@=%1
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open]
EditFlags=hex:00,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
@=\%1\ %*
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas\command]
@=\%1\ %*
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\DropHandler]
@={86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\PEAnalyser]
@={09A63660-16F9-11d0-B1DF-004F56001CA7}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\PifProps]
@={86F19A00-42A0-1069-A2E9-08002B30309D}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\ShimLayer Property
Page]
@={513D916F-2A8E-4F51-AEAB-0CBC76FB1AF8}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile]
@=Registration Entries
EditFlags=dword:0010
BrowserFlags=dword:0008
--
Mike Gill
-Original Message-
From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows Police Pro
Sans has a decent write up of what it does:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7066
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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RE: Windows Police Pro
I followed these steps to get rid of it on one of my employees personal computers. Copied these two files to a zip drive: http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/reg/fixtm.reg http://live.sunbeltsoftware.com Download vipre rescue. Run the fixtm.reg and merge the data to your registry Open windows task manager go into the process tab and shut down Windows Police Pro.exe and Svchast.exe Run the vipre.exe from the jump drive(dvd or cd if you prefer) and let it clean the system. I rebooted and had no issues after that. I uninistalled Norton and put vipre consumer on there and he says everything is working with no problems... Hope this helps. Regards, Chris Orovet Technical Support O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 F: (727)812-0278 Email: supp...@atsi-inc.com Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. ~Chopra Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message immediately. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Police Pro Thanks for the FYI, Been stuck in NPP Memory issues with an Oracle Cluster for the last 4 days Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Police Pro I had one pc infected with it. I could clean most of it but could never get back Task Mgr. Since she had a spare machine to use, I took it back to my office to work on it. I tried a lot of different tricks I've learned through the years but never got that functionality back. I finally reformated and gave it back to her yesterday. To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Windows Police Pro From: richardmccl...@aspca.org Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:47:42 -0500 Well, this would not have worked with the rooted machine I came across a couple of weeks ago. Any of the various ways to access TaskManager were denied. Hitting the power button, then tapping F-8 to try to get into SafeMode would not work - numerous attempts ended up with regular mode XP running. The infected profile, a local admin on XP Home, did let me create a new administrator user. That new user was able to install MalwareBytes from a CD - no way to download anything with that root kit running! - and run it. Then this new user could finish running the assorted clean-up tools. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org http://www.aspca.org/ The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 09/04/2009 10:37:45 AM: Of course, shortly after sending this I come across something decent on page 7 of my most recent Google search. This one looks good, walks through a Malwarebytes-based cleaning, and covers things that I haven't seen in any other guides I have come across: http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove- windows-police-pro-removal-guide-t13546.htm However, I dont think it will work in all circumstances of a WPP infection (particularly if the registry is corrupted and .exe's can be run), but its worth a try. Even the Microsoft forum discussions on this malware are useless. But of course, I say this one looks good, since I havent
RE: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness
Could it be that the router at home is using the same ip address as the VPN at work? I ran into strange problem when using 192.168.0.X at home and work. Changed one to 192.168.100.x and no problems. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness The most recent analysis shows that the issue only shows up when making a VPN connection through a Linksys WRT54G2 router. If I remove the router from the path I'm able to map drives just fine. I have an older WRT54G at home - no issues. Belkin or DLink router - fine. Gee... you'd think a Linksys by Cisco router would be fully compatible with the Cisco VPN client but apparently not! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I got it working... partially. I renamed the machine just in case there was an issue with certificates or something. No change in behavior. Manually removed all things Cisco from the drive and registry, rebooted and reinstalled the client, and rebooted again. If I connect to an available unsecured wireless network and then make the VPN connection, I can map internal resources (but not ping). If I connect to to an available WPA2 wireless network I can make the VPN connection but cannot connect to internal resources. In both cases the default gateway on the Cisco virtual adapter is blank. However, on my personal machine that gateway address is 10.0.0.1. On my home network (WPA2) I connected to the VPN and mapped drives no problem. Apparently there's an issue with the WPA2 network available from my office, but I can't imagine what it is since I can connect and map drives fine using other machines over that wireless network. Still a stumper... Roger Wright ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness
+1 on that. I changed mine years ago after running into this. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness Could it be that the router at home is using the same ip address as the VPN at work? I ran into strange problem when using 192.168.0.X at home and work. Changed one to 192.168.100.x and no problems. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness The most recent analysis shows that the issue only shows up when making a VPN connection through a Linksys WRT54G2 router. If I remove the router from the path I'm able to map drives just fine. I have an older WRT54G at home - no issues. Belkin or DLink router - fine. Gee... you'd think a Linksys by Cisco router would be fully compatible with the Cisco VPN client but apparently not! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I got it working... partially. I renamed the machine just in case there was an issue with certificates or something. No change in behavior. Manually removed all things Cisco from the drive and registry, rebooted and reinstalled the client, and rebooted again. If I connect to an available unsecured wireless network and then make the VPN connection, I can map internal resources (but not ping). If I connect to to an available WPA2 wireless network I can make the VPN connection but cannot connect to internal resources. In both cases the default gateway on the Cisco virtual adapter is blank. However, on my personal machine that gateway address is 10.0.0.1. On my home network (WPA2) I connected to the VPN and mapped drives no problem. Apparently there's an issue with the WPA2 network available from my office, but I can't imagine what it is since I can connect and map drives fine using other machines over that wireless network. Still a stumper... Roger Wright This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately via e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake; then, delete this e-mail from your system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Remote desktop changed?
yes, exactly - it should lock the workstation and disconnect the remote session if logged into again. I'd love to get an answer as to when or why it doesn't always happen. It would be a nice thing if it was configurable. :) On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.orgwrote: Nope. I just tested it here, and RDP to a test machine locks the console, and unlocking the console closes the RDP session. But that's not what happened to the other machine yesterday... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote desktop changed? I thought that *was* the behavior if you logged onto the remote machine with the same credentials of the currently logged on user??? ~ 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/ ~
Blank screen saver
We are working on implementing VM View in our Association. I am trying to set the screen saver to the blank one using group policies. Does anyone know the executable nae for the blank screen saver? Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Police Pro
*Isn't* ntoskrnl.exe a virus? :-) 2009/9/4 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Micheal Espinola Jrmichealespin...@gmail.com wrote: If you havent heard of it already, start Googling it. Got a link to decent tech info with, e.g., infection vectors and attack mechanisms? All I find is removal instructions and the usual mass confusion in online forums (the same kind that are full of people asking if NTOSKRNL.EXE is a virus). I'm particularly interested in whether it's exploiting any special security exposures, or if it's just your typical malware that depends on luser stupidity and admin rights to get into the computer. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Blank screen saver
scrnsave.scr 2009/9/4 Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org We are working on implementing VM View in our Association. I am trying to set the screen saver to the blank one using group policies. Does anyone know the executable nae for the blank screen saver? Thanks -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
SOHO MFP Printer Questions
This is a printer for my mom type question. She needs an MFP with FAX and wireless capabilities. I've been looking online and narrowed my list to an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 or the Epson WorkForce 600. I'm wondering if anyone here uses one of these at home, or set up a similar model for anyone. I just need this thing to work and be easy to use. It will be used wirelessly, so I need to make sure when she brings her laptop out to the office the printer picks and works without fuss. If anyone can add their experience I would like to hear it, or if there is another unit they like a lot in the $200 to $250 range. One thing that bugs me about the Epson is apparently you can't even print black if one of the color carts is out of ink. I don't know if the HP has this problem. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
The HP driver software these days is absolutely 100% hateful. Awful, awful stuff. That said, my mother in law has one and it works pretty much all the time. If you do go with an HP, step through the installation manually and install as little of the crud as possible. Just my $.02 RS From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SOHO MFP Printer Questions This is a printer for my mom type question. She needs an MFP with FAX and wireless capabilities. I've been looking online and narrowed my list to an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 or the Epson WorkForce 600. I'm wondering if anyone here uses one of these at home, or set up a similar model for anyone. I just need this thing to work and be easy to use. It will be used wirelessly, so I need to make sure when she brings her laptop out to the office the printer picks and works without fuss. If anyone can add their experience I would like to hear it, or if there is another unit they like a lot in the $200 to $250 range. One thing that bugs me about the Epson is apparently you can't even print black if one of the color carts is out of ink. I don't know if the HP has this problem. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
+5 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:42:07 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions The HP driver software these days is absolutely 100% hateful. Awful, awful stuff. That said, my mother in law has one and it works pretty much all the time. If you do go with an HP, step through the installation manually and install as little of the crud as possible. Just my $.02 RS From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SOHO MFP Printer Questions This is a printer for my mom type question. She needs an MFP with FAX and wireless capabilities. I've been looking online and narrowed my list to an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 or the Epson WorkForce 600. I'm wondering if anyone here uses one of these at home, or set up a similar model for anyone. I just need this thing to work and be easy to use. It will be used wirelessly, so I need to make sure when she brings her laptop out to the office the printer picks and works without fuss. If anyone can add their experience I would like to hear it, or if there is another unit they like a lot in the $200 to $250 range. One thing that bugs me about the Epson is apparently you can't even print black if one of the color carts is out of ink. I don't know if the HP has this problem. -- Mike Gill ~ 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: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
Aside from the drivers being junk (as has been said), my wife and I have the
predecessor to the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One found here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lxfa7l. Ours uses the 02 ink carts (same concept on
this - 'cept the number is now 564) and I really prefer buying the individual
ink colors that I use vs. buying a multi-color tub.
Sean Rector, MCSE
From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
This is a printer for my mom type question. She needs an MFP with FAX and
wireless capabilities. I've been looking online and narrowed my list to an HP
OfficeJet Pro 8500 or the Epson WorkForce 600. I'm wondering if anyone here
uses one of these at home, or set up a similar model for anyone. I just need
this thing to work and be easy to use. It will be used wirelessly, so I need to
make sure when she brings her laptop out to the office the printer picks and
works without fuss. If anyone can add their experience I would like to hear
it, or if there is another unit they like a lot in the $200 to $250 range. One
thing that bugs me about the Epson is apparently you can't even print black if
one of the color carts is out of ink. I don't know if the HP has this problem.
--
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RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
I'm familiar with this. I tend to download the basic/network/minimal driver from the HP website, extract it and browse to the .inf's on the first attempt of installing the driver. Some printers won't allow this and you MUST run the executable installer, which I hate. This HP seems to offer FAX to SMB, which would indicate scan to SMB possibly. I like the separate color ink carts as well which was a requirement when looking. I'm really surprised I wasn't able to find any Bluetooth enabled MFP's printers. What an underused technology. -- Mike Gill From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions The HP driver software these days is absolutely 100% hateful. Awful, awful stuff. That said, my mother in law has one and it works pretty much all the time. If you do go with an HP, step through the installation manually and install as little of the crud as possible. Just my $.02 RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness
No, their using different IP schemes. Replacing the Linky with a DLink did the trick. Tried a Netgear unit first - it wouln't pick up an IP address when connected to the cable modem, but did just fine on the internal network. Roger Wright ___ On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Could it be that the router at home is using the same ip address as the VPN at work? I ran into strange problem when using 192.168.0.X at home and work. Changed one to 192.168.100.x and no problems. *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, September 04, 2009 1:59 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness The most recent analysis shows that the issue only shows up when making a VPN connection through a Linksys WRT54G2 router. If I remove the router from the path I'm able to map drives just fine. I have an older WRT54G at home - no issues. Belkin or DLink router - fine. Gee... you'd think a Linksys by Cisco router would be fully compatible with the Cisco VPN client but apparently not! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I got it working… partially. I renamed the machine just in case there was an issue with certificates or something. No change in behavior. Manually removed all things Cisco from the drive and registry, rebooted and reinstalled the client, and rebooted again. If I connect to an available unsecured wireless network and then make the VPN connection, I can map internal resources (but not ping). If I connect to to an available WPA2 wireless network I can make the VPN connection but cannot connect to internal resources. In both cases the default gateway on the Cisco virtual adapter is blank. However, on my personal machine that gateway address is 10.0.0.1. On my home network (WPA2) I connected to the VPN and mapped drives no problem. Apparently there's an issue with the WPA2 network available from my office, but I can't imagine what it is since I can connect and map drives fine using other machines over that wireless network. Still a stumper... Roger Wright ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
On 4 Sep 2009 at 11:52, Stu Sjouwerman wrote: Hi All, Let's put politics to rest on this list please? Amen, brother. Religion, too, I hope ;-) -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
rpc over https
Hey Guys and Gals, Can someone clarify this for me please. Im setting up rpc over https for some remote users that require access to mail and the contacts. Im finding conflicting information when setting up the ssl portion. Should the ssl cert be setup for my exchange internal fqdn or my external address? Also everything is pointing towards setting this up for my default website. Should this be setup for the exchange website and not the default? I have 1 exchange server: Windows 2003 ent sp2 Exchange 2003 ent sp2- This is my only DC as well(don't ask was made to set it up this way) If anyone has a link they can shoot me that would clarify this id appreciate it. Regards, Chris Orovet Technical Support O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 F: (727)812-0278 Email: supp...@atsi-inc.com Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. ~Chopra Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message immediately. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
Well, my dad ( 76 years old ) has the Epson WorkForce 500, and is using the USB connection, so I cannot answer to the wireless. But for an old man that is not very computer literate, he works the Epson just fine. Uses the scanner to scan stamps for his stamp collecting club, and sells excess on eBay. Prints just fine, copies just fine, and he even receives and send faxes without issue. Not much of any problem at all to mention. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SOHO MFP Printer Questions This is a printer for my mom type question. She needs an MFP with FAX and wireless capabilities. I've been looking online and narrowed my list to an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 or the Epson WorkForce 600. I'm wondering if anyone here uses one of these at home, or set up a similar model for anyone. I just need this thing to work and be easy to use. It will be used wirelessly, so I need to make sure when she brings her laptop out to the office the printer picks and works without fuss. If anyone can add their experience I would like to hear it, or if there is another unit they like a lot in the $200 to $250 range. One thing that bugs me about the Epson is apparently you can't even print black if one of the color carts is out of ink. I don't know if the HP has this problem. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: rpc over https
The SSL cert must be for whatever address your users will use from the outside (the inside will work too if you set up a split DNS structure). The site really depends on how you set it up. Could be the default, or possibly something else if you customize it. I set ours up 4 or 5 years ago and haven't touched it since, so I don't really remember how much choice you have. A quick look at the IIS config on our Exchange server puts it in the default site. One thing about the cert you need to understand. The trusted chain in the certificate store on your user's machines must go all the way up to the issuing authority. It doesn't have to be a commercial cert, but the issuing authority must be trusted. You can even use a self-signed cert, but it must be installed manually. The easiest way to do this is with IE. Once you get this working I think you'll really appreciate the benefits, at least with Exchange 2003. The folks here rave about 2010's OWA, so maybe it won't be needed in the future. Good luck, RS -Original Message- From: Chris Orovet [mailto:coro...@atsi-inc.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: rpc over https Importance: High Hey Guys and Gals, Can someone clarify this for me please. Im setting up rpc over https for some remote users that require access to mail and the contacts. Im finding conflicting information when setting up the ssl portion. Should the ssl cert be setup for my exchange internal fqdn or my external address? Also everything is pointing towards setting this up for my default website. Should this be setup for the exchange website and not the default? I have 1 exchange server: Windows 2003 ent sp2 Exchange 2003 ent sp2- This is my only DC as well(don't ask was made to set it up this way) If anyone has a link they can shoot me that would clarify this id appreciate it. Regards, Chris Orovet Technical Support O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 F: (727)812-0278 Email: supp...@atsi-inc.com Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. ~Chopra Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message immediately. ~ 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: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
Yes. One part of this picture is to simplify. She's got three machines currently between the printing, copying and faxing. As for the laser option, well it becomes quite an initial expense in comparison to purchase the printer and a set of toners. I think the return would be a couple two to three years out or more based on her print/copy volume. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SOHO MFP Printer Questions On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Mike Gilllis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: She needs an MFP with FAX and wireless capabilities. Does she need color printing? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mike Gilllis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: As for the laser option, well it becomes quite an initial expense in comparison to purchase the printer ... The Brother I mentioned seemed to be about $50 more than a inkjet with comparable features. ... and a set of toners. Have you priced ink cartridges lately? And seen how often they have to be replaced? Now compare that with the page volume of even the *starter* toner cartridge that comes with most laser printers these days. You'd pay it off the first time you need to buy more ink. Which will be about one week after you buy the printer. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: rpc over https
Thanks finally figured it out. I will probably see the latest version of exchange in production in about 5 years if im lucky... Regards, Chris Orovet Technical Support O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 F: (727)812-0278 Email: supp...@atsi-inc.com Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. ~Chopra Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message immediately. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rpc over https The SSL cert must be for whatever address your users will use from the outside (the inside will work too if you set up a split DNS structure). The site really depends on how you set it up. Could be the default, or possibly something else if you customize it. I set ours up 4 or 5 years ago and haven't touched it since, so I don't really remember how much choice you have. A quick look at the IIS config on our Exchange server puts it in the default site. One thing about the cert you need to understand. The trusted chain in the certificate store on your user's machines must go all the way up to the issuing authority. It doesn't have to be a commercial cert, but the issuing authority must be trusted. You can even use a self-signed cert, but it must be installed manually. The easiest way to do this is with IE. Once you get this working I think you'll really appreciate the benefits, at least with Exchange 2003. The folks here rave about 2010's OWA, so maybe it won't be needed in the future. Good luck, RS -Original Message- From: Chris Orovet [mailto:coro...@atsi-inc.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: rpc over https Importance: High Hey Guys and Gals, Can someone clarify this for me please. Im setting up rpc over https for some remote users that require access to mail and the contacts. Im finding conflicting information when setting up the ssl portion. Should the ssl cert be setup for my exchange internal fqdn or my external address? Also everything is pointing towards setting this up for my default website. Should this be setup for the exchange website and not the default? I have 1 exchange server: Windows 2003 ent sp2 Exchange 2003 ent sp2- This is my only DC as well(don't ask was made to set it up this way) If anyone has a link they can shoot me that would clarify this id appreciate it. Regards, Chris Orovet Technical Support O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 F: (727)812-0278 Email: supp...@atsi-inc.com Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. ~Chopra Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message immediately. ~ 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: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
I just picked up a brother all in one with wireless and it was nice and easy to setup on a small network. From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SOHO MFP Printer Questions This is a printer for my mom type question. She needs an MFP with FAX and wireless capabilities. I've been looking online and narrowed my list to an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 or the Epson WorkForce 600. I'm wondering if anyone here uses one of these at home, or set up a similar model for anyone. I just need this thing to work and be easy to use. It will be used wirelessly, so I need to make sure when she brings her laptop out to the office the printer picks and works without fuss. If anyone can add their experience I would like to hear it, or if there is another unit they like a lot in the $200 to $250 range. One thing that bugs me about the Epson is apparently you can't even print black if one of the color carts is out of ink. I don't know if the HP has this problem. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
The brother I picked up from Comp USA was 299 and the HP one comparable was 399 for b/w but the HP color was 499 with 150 off. The Brother scans nice from multiple computers has a 35 page ADF and is fast and quiet. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SOHO MFP Printer Questions On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mike Gilllis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: As for the laser option, well it becomes quite an initial expense in comparison to purchase the printer ... The Brother I mentioned seemed to be about $50 more than a inkjet with comparable features. ... and a set of toners. Have you priced ink cartridges lately? And seen how often they have to be replaced? Now compare that with the page volume of even the *starter* toner cartridge that comes with most laser printers these days. You'd pay it off the first time you need to buy more ink. Which will be about one week after you buy the printer. -- 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: isa 2006 domain sets
No but that's a thought, what I did notice that was odd, was that when I goto www.microsoft.com the rule shows the IP address not the name. I can resolve by name from ISA and it is pointing to the same internal DNS server (that was my first inclination). I know the rule works because I have several other IP ranges that function. Very odd. From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets That is strange. I have several rules using Domain Name Sets running on my ISA proxies. Are you seeing anything of interest in the event logs? Is the ISA server using the same DNS servers as your clients? Have you tried completely deleting the Domain Name Set and associated rule and then recreating them? I've fixed some odd rule issues that way. -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets Yes that's it, in the same rule I have some ip sets and those work as expected. Strange right? From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: isa 2006 domain sets There is no need for the FW client to do this. So you created a domain name set, then you created a rule allowing traffic to that domain name set? That's really all there is to do. Your domains were entered just as *.microsoft.com (without the quotes), with no http://;, right? -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: isa 2006 domain sets Hey all, I have a locked down ISA 2006 box, it works pretty well, but we need to allow some internet access to certain sites. I added a domain name set for like *.microsoft.com and *.symantec.com however that doesn't work. I see in the logs that if I monitor it when I goto the site the monitor agent is reporting the IP address(es) not the name. I went in and put a few of the IP's in manually and that works. Is there something Im missing for Domain Name sets to work? I looked at Schinders isa 2004 article on it and don't think I saw anything relevant unless I *need* to have the fw client to make this work which is not going to happen. The server can resolve names correctly so its not that it cannot resolve the DNS name it just doesn't. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT Funny/Lame: RDP Infinite Loop
Ive done this with radmin before by accident and it did the same thing never tried it with TS J From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT Funny/Lame: RDP Infinite Loop Classic - thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org/ www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote on 09/03/2009 04:01:33 PM: I made RDP divide by zero! (Was trying to test RDP from home into the same box). lol. [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k
I saw this the other day, I don't know why I never think to share it ... not the mindset I guess.. Compared to what some SANs cost and what you get for the money it's a pretty decent deal, just have fun finding a bad drive :) -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Between that, and Google's distributed commodity storage model, I think there's some real compelling point for consideration for how some specific-purpose resources can be provided. -sc -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Wow, that might acutally satisfy our DBAs... for a year or two... :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to- build- cheap-cloud-storage/ ~ 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: SPAM Solution
Yah time machine is decent until you actually goto use it. From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution I learnt the hard way, had 2 500Gb drive in raid 0 in my desktop. Bought a 1Tb drive to put into the esxi box to act as a file store and backup, had 75% of the stuff copied onto it when 1 of the 500's died. Some of the stuff that was lost was about 30Gb of the wife's photo's that she was working on, she still had the originals, but had lost the work she had done on them. After that she bought a Mac and an external hard drive to backup to, but still getting her to backup is a nightmare and all she has to do is connect the external and the Mac does it automatically for her. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 04/09/2009 14:08 Subject: RE: SPAM Solution _ No pictures? Tax/financial records? Home video? A file server (even just using OS software RAID) is amazingly cheap to acquire. I've suffered multiple individual component failures in desktops and servers at home, but have never lost a lick of important data... including music. -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [ mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution local drives, with no backup at the moment. I personally don't have a lot to lose on my computer, but my wife would kill me if she lost her music... I've been thinking about Mozy, or something like that, but haven't gotten around to it. My machines at home are home-built, and the newest is about 2-3 years old now. About all we do on them, really, is listen to music, and play MMOs... If a computer crashed, I'd have to build from scratch. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 10:15 AM What do you do for file storage? Local C: drives and backups? If so, to what? -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [ mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution I have a computer room, with 3 desktops connecting through a router to my cable modem. My daughter connects from her room, through wireless to the same router. That's as complicated as I get at home, unless I fire up my Ubuntu box, which I'm using for learning purposes, but even then, I unplug the third computer to do that. Unfortunately, that room is the hottest room in the house to begin with, doesn't get the same flow through the AC duct as the rest of the house, so my cooling bill is pretty outrageous in the summer. That's not saying that I wouldn't like to do some other stuff, like poke around with virtualization, etc., but I don't have the budget to go out and buy hardware for it, and don't really have space for it either. Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 8:00 AM Meh... I had ESXi running at home before we decided to go in on the business. At a cost of free, and with the flexibility you get, I don't see why you would NOT do it on a home net, unless you had some specific hardware you needed that ESXi choked on. And the home net _IS_ for play/non-work use. Music streaming, photo library, home movie streaming, interweb access, IP phone service, online Netflix/dish network, Exchange server, hobby mailing list servers, etc... Doesn't just about everybody have a home net these days? I'd only expect the nerds like us here to actually run a domain and have an IIS server, but we're also the audience that would likely then benefit from having a virtual infrastructure too... Last time I needed to move a server to a newer hardware platform it was just a file copy -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [ mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution Key words for you Steven, were business startup. When I'm at home, work is the farthest from my mind, if at all possible. I play at home, work at work... Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 9/3/2009 7:32 AM Really? I have four ESXi hosts, one pair handling my home network, and another pair handling the production, dev, and test VM's, along with VPN and SharePoint servers for a business startup I'm involved with. I'd bet lotsa' folks here have ESXi at home... -sc -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [ mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov
RE: Windows Police Pro
Uhm, don't you guys use opendns? This solves a lot of these problems FWIW Once you get it of course its too late, but a decent a/v on the email and opendns and your more likely to catch swine flu from the keyboard J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: rpc over https
Well it's still required post 2003. You shouldn't be doing OWA without SSL anyway. Outlook 2007+ and Exchange 2007+ use SSL connectivity even while on the LAN for certain things - autodiscover, address book download, web services, etc. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rpc over https The SSL cert must be for whatever address your users will use from the outside (the inside will work too if you set up a split DNS structure). The site really depends on how you set it up. Could be the default, or possibly something else if you customize it. I set ours up 4 or 5 years ago and haven't touched it since, so I don't really remember how much choice you have. A quick look at the IIS config on our Exchange server puts it in the default site. One thing about the cert you need to understand. The trusted chain in the certificate store on your user's machines must go all the way up to the issuing authority. It doesn't have to be a commercial cert, but the issuing authority must be trusted. You can even use a self-signed cert, but it must be installed manually. The easiest way to do this is with IE. Once you get this working I think you'll really appreciate the benefits, at least with Exchange 2003. The folks here rave about 2010's OWA, so maybe it won't be needed in the future. Good luck, RS -Original Message- From: Chris Orovet [mailto:coro...@atsi-inc.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: rpc over https Importance: High Hey Guys and Gals, Can someone clarify this for me please. Im setting up rpc over https for some remote users that require access to mail and the contacts. Im finding conflicting information when setting up the ssl portion. Should the ssl cert be setup for my exchange internal fqdn or my external address? Also everything is pointing towards setting this up for my default website. Should this be setup for the exchange website and not the default? I have 1 exchange server: Windows 2003 ent sp2 Exchange 2003 ent sp2- This is my only DC as well(don't ask was made to set it up this way) If anyone has a link they can shoot me that would clarify this id appreciate it. Regards, Chris Orovet Technical Support O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 F: (727)812-0278 Email: supp...@atsi-inc.com Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. ~Chopra Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message immediately. ~ 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: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k
Careful numbering during installation is a must in this case, I think. And, while in the article they use HTTP for file access, I think an iSCSI stack would be really cool, along with DRBD (under Linux), carp/ggate/gmirror (under FreeBSD) or some other technology for replication/HA. Kurt On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 15:19, Benjamin Zachary - Listsli...@levelfive.us wrote: I saw this the other day, I don't know why I never think to share it ... not the mindset I guess.. Compared to what some SANs cost and what you get for the money it's a pretty decent deal, just have fun finding a bad drive :) -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Between that, and Google's distributed commodity storage model, I think there's some real compelling point for consideration for how some specific-purpose resources can be provided. -sc -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Wow, that might acutally satisfy our DBAs... for a year or two... :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to- build- cheap-cloud-storage/ ~ 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: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k
Not every application supports file access via http, so isn't entirely the bees knees. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I saw this the other day, I don't know why I never think to share it ... not the mindset I guess.. Compared to what some SANs cost and what you get for the money it's a pretty decent deal, just have fun finding a bad drive :) -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Between that, and Google's distributed commodity storage model, I think there's some real compelling point for consideration for how some specific-purpose resources can be provided. -sc -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k Wow, that might acutally satisfy our DBAs... for a year or two... :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to- build- cheap-cloud-storage/ ~ 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: SOHO MFP Printer Questions
+1000 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mike Gilllis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: As for the laser option, well it becomes quite an initial expense in comparison to purchase the printer ... The Brother I mentioned seemed to be about $50 more than a inkjet with comparable features. ... and a set of toners. Have you priced ink cartridges lately? And seen how often they have to be replaced? Now compare that with the page volume of even the *starter* toner cartridge that comes with most laser printers these days. You'd pay it off the first time you need to buy more ink. Which will be about one week after you buy the printer. -- 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: rpc over https
Absotively you should be using SSL for OWA. I was just referring to RPC over https, the use of which for external mail clients might be obviated in Exchange 2010 if the reviews are correct. We're still on 2003, so I wasn't aware of the Exchange 2007 bits. Thanks, RS On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: Well it's still required post 2003. You shouldn't be doing OWA without SSL anyway. Outlook 2007+ and Exchange 2007+ use SSL connectivity even while on the LAN for certain things - autodiscover, address book download, web services, etc. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rpc over https The SSL cert must be for whatever address your users will use from the outside (the inside will work too if you set up a split DNS structure). The site really depends on how you set it up. Could be the default, or possibly something else if you customize it. I set ours up 4 or 5 years ago and haven't touched it since, so I don't really remember how much choice you have. A quick look at the IIS config on our Exchange server puts it in the default site. One thing about the cert you need to understand. The trusted chain in the certificate store on your user's machines must go all the way up to the issuing authority. It doesn't have to be a commercial cert, but the issuing authority must be trusted. You can even use a self-signed cert, but it must be installed manually. The easiest way to do this is with IE. Once you get this working I think you'll really appreciate the benefits, at least with Exchange 2003. The folks here rave about 2010's OWA, so maybe it won't be needed in the future. Good luck, RS -Original Message- From: Chris Orovet [mailto:coro...@atsi-inc.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: rpc over https Importance: High Hey Guys and Gals, Can someone clarify this for me please. Im setting up rpc over https for some remote users that require access to mail and the contacts. Im finding conflicting information when setting up the ssl portion. Should the ssl cert be setup for my exchange internal fqdn or my external address? Also everything is pointing towards setting this up for my default website. Should this be setup for the exchange website and not the default? I have 1 exchange server: Windows 2003 ent sp2 Exchange 2003 ent sp2- This is my only DC as well(don't ask was made to set it up this way) If anyone has a link they can shoot me that would clarify this id appreciate it. Regards, Chris Orovet Technical Support O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 F: (727)812-0278 Email: supp...@atsi-inc.com Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. ~Chopra Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message immediately. ~ 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/ ~
