Any SharePoint Services experts here? Problems trying to Upgrade SharePoint services 2.0 to SharePoint Services 3.0
Hi I am in the process of testing a Gradual Upgrade from SharePoint services 2.0 to 3.0. We have only one front end web server connecting to a SQL server 2005 back end. I have 3 SharePoint Services 2.0 sites. 2 with content databases of about 20Gb and the other much smaller at about 350mb. All the sites have there own IP addresses. I have ran the Prescan.exe on the Webserver and all was OK with that. I installed sharePoint services 3.0 choseing to do a Gradual Upgrade and then ran the configuration Wizard where I chose to Create a New Server Farm All of that seemed to go OK and the wizard finished. I then opened the SharePoint Services 3 Administration console and went to the Operations Tab Upgrade and Migration section and clicked on Site Content Upgrade status. The first thing I noticed was that only 2 of my 3 sites were showing. Which leads to my first question. How do I get the site that is not showing to appear in the Administration Console? I then proceeded to upgrade the first of the 2 sites that were showing in the administration console. The Upgrade seemed to go OK and I can browse all the new upgraded site. However I can not connect to the old sharepoint services 2 site usingthe URL that was deffined during the upgrade which was the IP address of the old site wiuth a new port number. (http://192.168.2.14:42145). I get an error message which says Service Unavailable So the second question is how do I browse the old SharePoint services 2.0 site. The next issue is that when trying to upgrade the next site from the Admin console I get an error that : The IIS Web Site you have selected is in use by SharePoint. You must select another port or hostname I am starting the upgrade by clicking on the Begin Upgrade link under Operations Tab Upgrade and Migration section and Site Content Upgrade status. And clicking the link Begin upgrade oppsite my site. I am filling in all the relevant detail. We don't use Host Headers so I leave that blank. I created a new Application Pool with a configurable username and password. However when I click OK I then get the error message. The IIS Web Site you have selected is in use by SharePoint. You must select another port or hostname I have tried the procedure several times with the same result. Can anyone point me in the right direction for any or all of these issues. Thank you. Regards. Kevan Dickinson Network Manager NSF-CMI 23 Lodge Road Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough, Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK T:+44 01993 885661 E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com W:www.nsf-cmi.com ***Disclaimer*** The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, NSF-CMi Ltd and its subsidiaries are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. This footnote also confirms that this Email message has been checked by MailMarshal for the presence of computer viruses. Whilst we run anti-virus software, you are solely responsible for ensuring that any Email or attachment you receive is virus free. We disclaim any liability for any damage you suffer as a consequence of receiving any virus. NSF-CMi Ltd Registered in England No: 1899857 Registered Office: Hill House, 1 Little New Street, London, EX4A 3TR ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7?
Mremote is a sweet package for RDP/VNC etc etc access. Z From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? Yep. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? Does mRemote use whatever RDP is installed on your system? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? That's because, as you know, the 7 in Windows is not a version number, but a marketing designator. Win7 (and Win2008 R2) are version 6.1 -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Bad habits tend to get repeated. They call Windows 7 when it's 6.1. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? This is exactly what has me baffled right now... But I just download the XP Version, extracted the files, and mstsc.exe is listed as version 6.1.7600.16385 Why do they call it v7 when it's version 6.1? I know the Protocol version is 7, but come on... -Original Message- From: Burian, Matthew J. (mjb) [mailto:m...@burianit.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? Does anyone know if this 7.0 RDP client update for XP/Vista is something different than the version installed on Win 7? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969084 On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:48 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Have you got RDP set to allow connections from all types of client? I had a bit of trouble when it wasn't set to that, and I had the latest client... On 16 February 2010 16:45, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: Having a terrible time getting an RDP session open to my first Srv08 server. Works 50% of the time. Have to fire up the VMware Console to connect. Once I log in through the console, I can then connect to the Srv08. Firewall is disabled. ip4 only. ??? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? That's the same version I have (Win7 ultimate x64). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I have 6.1.7600; thought 7.x was out... -- 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. ~ 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: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7?
I would also check and see what is up in the firewall logs on Win2k8. But I agree with Wireshark, also use Nmap to test out whether a port is open or closed. The version you speak of is the same on my Win7 Enterprise also.. Z -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? Time to slap Wireshark on your machine and see what's happening, I think. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:58, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: This is exactly what has me baffled right now... But I just download the XP Version, extracted the files, and mstsc.exe is listed as version 6.1.7600.16385 Why do they call it v7 when it's version 6.1? I know the Protocol version is 7, but come on... -Original Message- From: Burian, Matthew J. (mjb) [mailto:m...@burianit.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? Does anyone know if this 7.0 RDP client update for XP/Vista is something different than the version installed on Win 7? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969084 On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:48 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Have you got RDP set to allow connections from all types of client? I had a bit of trouble when it wasn't set to that, and I had the latest client... On 16 February 2010 16:45, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: Having a terrible time getting an RDP session open to my first Srv08 server. Works 50% of the time. Have to fire up the VMware Console to connect. Once I log in through the console, I can then connect to the Srv08. Firewall is disabled. ip4 only. ??? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? That's the same version I have (Win7 ultimate x64). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I have 6.1.7600; thought 7.x was out... -- 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. ~ 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/ ~
CISCO VPN Client
Anyone point me on how to Disable the old CISCO VPN Client and leave the AnyConnect still enabled? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel
Havent seen anything yet in my testing of about 100 machines. I wouldn't mind comparing memory dumps to see if it's the same place that Windows is barfing on. Most of the reports is based on Rustock or TDSS rootkits, so the box is already p0wned, the patch is actually alerting the unsuspecting user/business that there system has been compromised and everything that was processed or created on it is suspect. (Bank accounts, data, processes, private emails, etc etc) Which leads me to believe there will be a lot of Identity fraud trying to be committed with the credentials harvested off this r00ted systems. (Violation of Confidentiality and Integrity) Been seeing a lot of Phishing with PDF Spam inside word-documents from trusted users that have been harvested by email viruses.. Z From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel girlfriend's netbook seems to have this problem now, but how can you remote screen share if it cycles through BSODs ? On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Marc Maiffret marc.maiff...@fireeye.com wrote: I have heard that some of the people being affected with a BSOD as it relates to this patch is because the system is compromised with a rootkit that is breaking when the new update is applied and causes the bluescreen. I would be happy to personally take a look at anyone's computer (can remote screen share) whom is having this problem as I would like to investigate further. -Marc Signed, Marc Maiffret Chief Security Architect FireEye, Inc. http://www.FireEye.com http://www.fireeye.com/ -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel I've got a user's Vista Home Premium desktop that they brought in to have me fix after applying Windows Updates and getting a BSOD when it rebooted. Getting an error in SCFLTR.SYS and a STOP error as well. Anyone know if this is the same problem? -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries IT Manager ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ~ 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/ ~
MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/rootkit_authors_issue_patch_fo.php Since late last week, it has been reported that the machines which blue-screened after this MS update were found to have been infected with a root kit called TDSS. This morning, I see a report that the authors of this root kit have developed a patch for it. So, rooted machines should all boot as normal now. -- 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. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote on 02/17/2010 07:52:41 AM: Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
MS and the AV vendors should hire the rootkit authors to find and fix their OS bugs, and the AV detections. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/rootkit_authors_issue_patch _fo.php Since late last week, it has been reported that the machines which blue-screened after this MS update were found to have been infected with a root kit called TDSS. This morning, I see a report that the authors of this root kit have developed a patch for it. So, rooted machines should all boot as normal now. -- 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. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote on 02/17/2010 07:52:41 AM: Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
only the ones that aren't BSOD-ing , they'd still need to boot up to phone home for the rootkit patch ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' _ From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/rootkit_authors_issue_patch_fo. php Since late last week, it has been reported that the machines which blue-screened after this MS update were found to have been infected with a root kit called TDSS. This morning, I see a report that the authors of this root kit have developed a patch for it. So, rooted machines should all boot as normal now. -- 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 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 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. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote on 02/17/2010 07:52:41 AM: Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
12 servers (W2k3 SP2) 100 workstations (XPPro SP3) Zero problems. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Troubleshooting DHCP
Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I'm kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It's also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can't get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can't contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay-this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I'm guessing that I'm going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I've never in my life used one. I've just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Troubleshooting DHCP
How large is the environment? Multiple subnets? Any commonalities between the clients that can't get DHCP addresses (same subnet, same OS patch level, etc...)? Any firewalls in-between the clients and the DHCP server? Firewalls turned on, on the client side? Cisco helper address issue? We use Wireshark here, and I think you'll find it well suited to what you are looking for,and it's free: http://www.wireshark.org/ I would put it on the DHCP server and a client and examine both. You need to see if the packets are getting to the DHCP server from the client. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 02/17/2010 09:49 AM Subject:Troubleshooting DHCP Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I’m kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It’s also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can’t get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can’t contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay—this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I’m guessing that I’m going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I’ve never in my life used one. I’ve just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Removable SATA backups
Good discussion... How does everybody address offsite retention? Are you really buying enough drives so you can retain backups for 6 months ago? What about archive? -sc From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removable SATA backups We've only just started to move clients to Disk and as most of our clients are SBS it works really well. Unlike tape it is more difficult to keep snapshots as an archive, so it becomes a backup and recovery device. Once they start giving away 64Gb data sticks at conferences we'll start using them. Remember that if you want to do traditional rotations then 10 USB dives is a lot more expensive than 10 Tapes. We use the built in software as it works well and reports in simple language to the on-site staff if there is an issue (if they get to it before us!). We have considered using VHD's for the storage media, and I know some people who use that on an external device along with a virtualised environment. One downside is that until SBS supports VHD mounting (it's still the 2008 kernel) then it puts a few extra steps into a recovery which would increase the restore time considerably. Mike From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: 16 February 2010 21:26 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removable SATA backups Not is through the backup media, but is through the backup application. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removable SATA backups I mentioned the big one - it's vss/block based instead of file based. The major thing this means is that (just like a tape), you hand off an entire drive (or two or three...however many you need to maintain your rotation and generational coverage) to WSB and it manages the contents. You don't touch the drive as a filesystem. All of your access to the drive (just like a tape) is through the backup media. However, you can have dozens/hundreds of generations of a file on a single backup drive. Because the backup is block based - just like VSS. It takes snapshots and copies the differential snapshot (more or less). It isn't file based. The higher your disk churn the fewer generations you can store on a given drive. For most of my smaller (read that as: SBS) clients, I have two 1 TB drives, one onsite and one offsite and I rotate them weekly. This is one of the backup options that Microsoft DPM has, and I know recent versions of BackupExec/NetBackup support it too. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Removable SATA backups Btw, Michael, what are some of the differences you need to consider in backup methodology with WSB? Thanks again -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:01:58 + To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Removable SATA backups I do this extensively with Windows Server Backup at my small customers, and at some mid-sized customers. It works surprisingly well. (WSB is MUCH smarter than you may think - it does require you think a bit differently than you are used to doing - because the backups are VSS/block based, not file based.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Removable SATA backups Has anyone looked into removable SATA drives as a valid backup technology for SMB environments? * http://www.storagesearch.com/nas-3.html http://www.storagesearch.com/nas-3.html * http://www.idealstor.com/teralyte.php http://www.idealstor.com/teralyte.php * http://www.google.com/products?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS357US357sourceid=chrome; q=Teralyteum=1ie=UTF-8sa=Nhl=entab=wf http://www.google.com/products?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS357US357sourceid=chrome q=Teralyteum=1ie=UTF-8sa=Nhl=entab=wf I'm trying to determine if this is really more flexible and cost-effective than virtual tape or traditional disk-to-disk approaches -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
LOL Malware patches to restore functionality... awesome. -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/rootkit_authors_issue_patch _fo.php Since late last week, it has been reported that the machines which blue-screened after this MS update were found to have been infected with a root kit called TDSS. This morning, I see a report that the authors of this root kit have developed a patch for it. So, rooted machines should all boot as normal now. -- 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. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote on 02/17/2010 07:52:41 AM: Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Troubleshooting DHCP
Wireshark is good and free. As is the NetMon 3.0 from MS. Sniff a good DHCP lease conversation, and then a failed one and compare the two. -sc From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting DHCP Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I'm kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It's also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can't get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can't contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay-this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I'm guessing that I'm going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I've never in my life used one. I've just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
Are they available for WSUS download/distribution? g On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: LOL…. Malware patches to restore functionality… awesome. -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/rootkit_authors_issue_patch_fo.php Since late last week, it has been reported that the machines which blue-screened after this MS update were found to have been infected with a root kit called TDSS. This morning, I see a report that the authors of this root kit have developed a patch for it. So, rooted machines should all boot as normal now. -- 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. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote on 02/17/2010 07:52:41 AM: Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Cisco servers?
Just got an email from our Cisco rep that Cisco now does servers. I'm not talking about the Cisco branded HPs. These look entirely different. Anyone out there heard anything about them (aside from what the sales people tell you)? Paul ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Cisco servers?
Did I hear something about them OEM'ing Fujitsu blade servers or something like that? -sc -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cisco servers? Just got an email from our Cisco rep that Cisco now does servers. I'm not talking about the Cisco branded HPs. These look entirely different. Anyone out there heard anything about them (aside from what the sales people tell you)? Paul ~ 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/ ~
Home Networking Question.
Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Cisco servers?
They had a partnership with Dell for Blade Servers, but that is ending. See below: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57585?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily _am_2010-02-16 -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cisco servers? Did I hear something about them OEM'ing Fujitsu blade servers or something like that? -sc -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cisco servers? Just got an email from our Cisco rep that Cisco now does servers. I'm not talking about the Cisco branded HPs. These look entirely different. Anyone out there heard anything about them (aside from what the sales people tell you)? Paul ~ 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: Home Networking Question.
You could try to see how it would behave with DropBox. It would depend on if Droxbox would replicate it while it was in use. I suspect that you'll need to actually setup a VPN tunnel for this to work properly. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Chyka, Robert bch...@medaille.edu Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:14:10 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP
Well, we seem to have fixed the problem. I reset one of our switches, and clients started picking up IP addresses after that. This makes absolutely no sense to me. We don't have multiple subnets, DHCP relay, or anything complex. This is about as plain vanilla a design as they make. And there were no other problems being exhibited. Normally if a switch was acting crazy, I'd expect lots of symptoms. But everything other than DHCP was working fine. Still, I'm going to check out Wireshark right now. I want to be prepared in the future. John From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting DHCP Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I'm kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It's also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can't get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can't contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay-this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I'm guessing that I'm going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I've never in my life used one. I've just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP
switch could have been blocking broadcast ( DHCP request from client ) across bridges but allowing directed traffic. Not completely uncommon even though it's not an every day thing. Was one of my complaints on the older 3Com switches years ago, needed to 'reboot' them after a month or so to keep them from acting intermittently flaky Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' _ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP Well, we seem to have fixed the problem. I reset one of our switches, and clients started picking up IP addresses after that. This makes absolutely no sense to me. We don't have multiple subnets, DHCP relay, or anything complex. This is about as plain vanilla a design as they make. And there were no other problems being exhibited. Normally if a switch was acting crazy, I'd expect lots of symptoms. But everything other than DHCP was working fine. Still, I'm going to check out Wireshark right now. I want to be prepared in the future. John From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting DHCP Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I'm kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It's also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can't get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can't contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay-this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I'm guessing that I'm going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I've never in my life used one. I've just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
Downtime costs root kit authors money, too! On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: LOL…. Malware patches to restore functionality… awesome. -sc *From:* richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:02 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/rootkit_authors_issue_patch_fo.php Since late last week, it has been reported that the machines which blue-screened after this MS update were found to have been infected with a root kit called TDSS. This morning, I see a report that the authors of this root kit have developed a patch for it. So, rooted machines should all boot as normal now. -- 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. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote on 02/17/2010 07:52:41 AM: Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP
If it happens again, this switch is headed for the dumpster... From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP switch could have been blocking broadcast ( DHCP request from client ) across bridges but allowing directed traffic. Not completely uncommon even though it's not an every day thing. Was one of my complaints on the older 3Com switches years ago, needed to 'reboot' them after a month or so to keep them from acting intermittently flaky Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP Well, we seem to have fixed the problem. I reset one of our switches, and clients started picking up IP addresses after that. This makes absolutely no sense to me. We don't have multiple subnets, DHCP relay, or anything complex. This is about as plain vanilla a design as they make. And there were no other problems being exhibited. Normally if a switch was acting crazy, I'd expect lots of symptoms. But everything other than DHCP was working fine. Still, I'm going to check out Wireshark right now. I want to be prepared in the future. John From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting DHCP Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I'm kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It's also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can't get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can't contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay-this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I'm guessing that I'm going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I've never in my life used one. I've just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP
just out of curiousity, what kind of switch is it ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' _ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP If it happens again, this switch is headed for the dumpster. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP
What kind of switch? If it's an HP, just get it replaced. Lifetime warranties are a beautiful thing... John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us 2/17/2010 7:36 AM If it happens again, this switch is headed for the dumpster... From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP switch could have been blocking broadcast ( DHCP request from client ) across bridges but allowing directed traffic. Not completely uncommon even though it's not an every day thing. Was one of my complaints on the older 3Com switches years ago, needed to 'reboot' them after a month or so to keep them from acting intermittently flaky Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP Well, we seem to have fixed the problem. I reset one of our switches, and clients started picking up IP addresses after that. This makes absolutely no sense to me. We don't have multiple subnets, DHCP relay, or anything complex. This is about as plain vanilla a design as they make. And there were no other problems being exhibited. Normally if a switch was acting crazy, I'd expect lots of symptoms. But everything other than DHCP was working fine. Still, I'm going to check out Wireshark right now. I want to be prepared in the future. John From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting DHCP Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I'm kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It's also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can't get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can't contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay-this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I'm guessing that I'm going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I've never in my life used one. I've just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Home Networking Question.
Easiest VPN for a home user setup is to use Hamachi (now owned by LogMeIn). No firewalls to mess with and very simple to setup and use. - Andy O. From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Home Networking Question.
Is it good for a home point to point tunnel? -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Easiest VPN for a home user setup is to use Hamachi (now owned by LogMeIn). No firewalls to mess with and very simple to setup and use. - Andy O. From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP
Amer.com. Just a step or two down from Cisco. ;-) John From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP just out of curiousity, what kind of switch is it ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP If it happens again, this switch is headed for the dumpster... NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Home Networking Question.
+1. That's the most likely scenario to work. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Networking Question. You could try to see how it would behave with DropBox. It would depend on if Droxbox would replicate it while it was in use. I suspect that you'll need to actually setup a VPN tunnel for this to work properly. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone _ From: Chyka, Robert bch...@medaille.edu Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:14:10 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Quiz du jour
Today I was asked: What's the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Home Networking Question.
Excellent - that's probably the best use case I can think of. I use personally for RDP, file transfer, gaming, remote backup, etc. - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Is it good for a home point to point tunnel? -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Easiest VPN for a home user setup is to use Hamachi (now owned by LogMeIn). No firewalls to mess with and very simple to setup and use. - Andy O. From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Home Networking Question.
Thanks Andy, I will check it out! -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Excellent - that's probably the best use case I can think of. I use personally for RDP, file transfer, gaming, remote backup, etc. - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Is it good for a home point to point tunnel? -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Easiest VPN for a home user setup is to use Hamachi (now owned by LogMeIn). No firewalls to mess with and very simple to setup and use. - Andy O. From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Quiz du jour
Because he Vista/Win7/Win2K8 codebase introduced the idea of trust levels(aka integrity mechanisms) that map to user accounts. Thus even if you have specific perms on an object, if the object is mapped to a trust level higher than yours currently, then to invoke an action on it requires an explicit allow, hence the UAC prompt and/or RunAs. Interesting idea, and the Win7 implementation is much better than Vista's but still not entirely sure I like it. Russunovich had a good article on it. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quiz du jour Today I was asked: What's the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Home Networking Question.
You might want to consider suggesting a move to the Quickbooks hosted product. Although I've not tried it on a VPN, my personal opinion, based on using Quickbooks in a small business I own, is that you won't get this to work, or at least not in any acceptable manner. Quickbooks is a resource hog in the first place and gets exponentially worse (as well as more buggy) with each version. Multi-user access (initial opening, report generation, etc.) is slow even on 100 meg Ethernet, can't imagine what it might be like pulling across a VPN on a typical internet connection, might work on a fresh install, but as the database grows I think you'll just end up with a frustrated remote user. Again, opinion only, no hands on experience trying what you describe, and for that matter, no experience with their hosted version either, so take all this with a grain of salt. Dennis From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Home Networking Question.
Thank you for the insight Dennis. I thought it was Quickbooks, but just found out it is PeachTree they are using. ughhh! From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:dhoe...@ufcoop.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. You might want to consider suggesting a move to the Quickbooks hosted product. Although I've not tried it on a VPN, my personal opinion, based on using Quickbooks in a small business I own, is that you won't get this to work, or at least not in any acceptable manner. Quickbooks is a resource hog in the first place and gets exponentially worse (as well as more buggy) with each version. Multi-user access (initial opening, report generation, etc.) is slow even on 100 meg Ethernet, can't imagine what it might be like pulling across a VPN on a typical internet connection, might work on a fresh install, but as the database grows I think you'll just end up with a frustrated remote user. Again, opinion only, no hands on experience trying what you describe, and for that matter, no experience with their hosted version either, so take all this with a grain of salt. Dennis From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Home Networking Question.
Hamachi is ideal for this scenario. Easy, free, and sufficient. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Chyka, Robert bch...@medaille.edu wrote: Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Home Networking Question.
I agree that it's a very useful bit of software, and very easy to use. Occasionally, however, you won't get a direct tunnel between machines and traffic relays through servers at logmein. Latency becomes a big problem when this happens, and might prevent your remote user from being able to work. I never could pinpoint the exact cause of this when some (or all) of my remote machines would switch to relayed status. Often restarting the Hamachi client will fix it, but sometimes it won't. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Chyka, Robert bch...@medaille.edu wrote: Thanks Andy, I will check it out! -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Excellent - that's probably the best use case I can think of. I use personally for RDP, file transfer, gaming, remote backup, etc. - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Is it good for a home point to point tunnel? -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. Easiest VPN for a home user setup is to use Hamachi (now owned by LogMeIn). No firewalls to mess with and very simple to setup and use. - Andy O. From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
A lot of money. Especially when you consider that their product was virtually undetected before this episode. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:35:20 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? Downtime costs root kit authors money, too! On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: LOL…. Malware patches to restore functionality… awesome. -sc *From:* richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:02 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/rootkit_authors_issue_patch_fo.php Since late last week, it has been reported that the machines which blue-screened after this MS update were found to have been infected with a root kit called TDSS. This morning, I see a report that the authors of this root kit have developed a patch for it. So, rooted machines should all boot as normal now. -- 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. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote on 02/17/2010 07:52:41 AM: Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?
I bet some smart antivirus company (*COUGH* Sunbelt) will probably reverse engineer the malware patch to help detect the rootkit now. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? A lot of money. Especially when you consider that their product was virtually undetected before this episode. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone _ From: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:35:20 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? Downtime costs root kit authors money, too! On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: LOL.. Malware patches to restore functionality. awesome. -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS10-015 on W2K3 systems? http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/rootkit_authors_issue_patch_fo. php Since late last week, it has been reported that the machines which blue-screened after this MS update were found to have been infected with a root kit called TDSS. This morning, I see a report that the authors of this root kit have developed a patch for it. So, rooted machines should all boot as normal now. -- 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. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote on 02/17/2010 07:52:41 AM: Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what was the scale? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP
Same thing happened to me with an couple HP 4000M switch many years ago - random ports would just stop taking in broadcasts after a few months of uptime. A firmware update eventually solved that. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP switch could have been blocking broadcast ( DHCP request from client ) across bridges but allowing directed traffic. Not completely uncommon even though it's not an every day thing. Was one of my complaints on the older 3Com switches years ago, needed to 'reboot' them after a month or so to keep them from acting intermittently flaky Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' _ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RESOLVED: Troubleshooting DHCP Well, we seem to have fixed the problem. I reset one of our switches, and clients started picking up IP addresses after that. This makes absolutely no sense to me. We don't have multiple subnets, DHCP relay, or anything complex. This is about as plain vanilla a design as they make. And there were no other problems being exhibited. Normally if a switch was acting crazy, I'd expect lots of symptoms. But everything other than DHCP was working fine. Still, I'm going to check out Wireshark right now. I want to be prepared in the future. John From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting DHCP Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I'm kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It's also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can't get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can't contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay-this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I'm guessing that I'm going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I've never in my life used one. I've just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. _ If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpamId=ODEzNjQ6MTA0NjUyMjg1N jpwanBAcHNuZXQuY29t http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Troubleshooting DHCP
If you are sniffing on the client or at the switch, Wireshark. If you are sniffing on the server, either Wireshark or the Network Monitoring Tools that come with the OS. However, if you can get one of these machines to get an IP address, and then do an 'ipconfig /all' you'll see what it thinks is the DHCP server. Kurt On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:46, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I’m kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It’s also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can’t get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can’t contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay—this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I’m guessing that I’m going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I’ve never in my life used one. I’ve just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT: AIX system
Any PowerPC and AIX users out there that wouldn't mind a couple of questions offlist? Thanks Kevin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
SQL 2005 Mirroring
Anyone have this set up and working? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Quiz du jour
Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Exch2007 permissions issue
Haven't had much help from other sources with this issue so I thougth I'd try here. Environment: Single Exchange 2007 server I need to be able to access another user's mailbox via OWA in order for this particular software (GFI Mail Archiver) to work properly. When I use Account-A to logon to OWA 2007, I try to access another user's mailbox (Account-B) and I receive this error: You do not have permission to open this mailbox. For access or for more information, contact technical support for your organization. According to the documentation from GFI, I am supposed to enter this from the Exchange 2007 command prompt: Add-ADPermission Identity Mailbox Database -User domain\UsernameJOE AccessRights GenericAll I did that... but when logged into OWA as UsernameJOE, the error still occurs when trying to access another user's email via OWA. Really stuck here and could use some help. Can someone tell me what I should try next? Single Exchange 2007 server with MBX/CAS/HUB roles. Note - since making that change, the Exchange server has not been rebooted (I dont think it needs to be?), and also, the user account in question is a Domain Admin (is this possibly an issue because of inherited deny permissions??) Thanks. J myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exch2007 permissions issue
The Sunbelt Exchange forum is a great place to ask questions like this. :-) Regardless, the GFI instructions are wrong, at least as you've quoted them. The easiest thing to do is open the Exchange management Console, find Account-B, then click on Manage Full Access Permission in the Action pane, and give Account-A rights. And yes, you need to either restart-service msexchangeis or wait about two hours for the permissions cache to expire. No reboot required. In re: the Domain Admin question, explicitly assigned permissions override inherited permissions. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exch2007 permissions issue Haven't had much help from other sources with this issue so I thougth I'd try here. Environment: Single Exchange 2007 server I need to be able to access another user's mailbox via OWA in order for this particular software (GFI Mail Archiver) to work properly. When I use Account-A to logon to OWA 2007, I try to access another user's mailbox (Account-B) and I receive this error: You do not have permission to open this mailbox. For access or for more information, contact technical support for your organization. According to the documentation from GFI, I am supposed to enter this from the Exchange 2007 command prompt: Add-ADPermission -Identity Mailbox Database -User domain\UsernameJOE -AccessRights GenericAll I did that... but when logged into OWA as UsernameJOE, the error still occurs when trying to access another user's email via OWA. Really stuck here and could use some help. Can someone tell me what I should try next? Single Exchange 2007 server with MBX/CAS/HUB roles. Note - since making that change, the Exchange server has not been rebooted (I dont think it needs to be?), and also, the user account in question is a Domain Admin (is this possibly an issue because of inherited deny permissions??) Thanks. J myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Quiz du jour
For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exch2007 permissions issue
Hmm. A few counterpoints. 1. I'm not sure the caching is the problem. We waited over 24 hours and the results was the same. 2. Your method would require me doing this for EVERY single mailbox in the store, surely the method as explain by GFI is easier?? (unless I'm not understanding you correctly?) Furthmore, if I go to Account-B and look at Manage Full Access Permissions, Account-A is already listed (because of the command I ran the other day from the command-line) Thoughts? Thanks. J Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:59:46 + The Sunbelt Exchange forum is a great place to ask questions like this. :-) Regardless, the GFI instructions are wrong, at least as you've quoted them. The easiest thing to do is open the Exchange management Console, find Account-B, then click on Manage Full Access Permission in the Action pane, and give Account-A rights. And yes, you need to either restart-service msexchangeis or wait about two hours for the permissions cache to expire. No reboot required. In re: the Domain Admin question, explicitly assigned permissions override inherited permissions. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exch2007 permissions issue Haven't had much help from other sources with this issue so I thougth I'd try here. Environment: Single Exchange 2007 server I need to be able to access another user's mailbox via OWA in order for this particular software (GFI Mail Archiver) to work properly. When I use Account-A to logon to OWA 2007, I try to access another user's mailbox (Account-B) and I receive this error: You do not have permission to open this mailbox. For access or for more information, contact technical support for your organization. According to the documentation from GFI, I am supposed to enter this from the Exchange 2007 command prompt: Add-ADPermission -Identity Mailbox Database -User domain\UsernameJOE -AccessRights GenericAll I did that... but when logged into OWA as UsernameJOE, the error still occurs when trying to access another user's email via OWA. Really stuck here and could use some help. Can someone tell me what I should try next? Single Exchange 2007 server with MBX/CAS/HUB roles. Note - since making that change, the Exchange server has not been rebooted (I dont think it needs to be?), and also, the user account in question is a Domain Admin (is this possibly an issue because of inherited deny permissions??) Thanks. J myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SQL 2005 Mirroring
Yes. It rocks REALLY hard. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SQL 2005 Mirroring Anyone have this set up and working? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Quiz du jour
Having now worked on a couple Windows 7 machines, I have to say the Windows 7 version of UAC is nowhere near as intrusive as the Vista version! I still don't like it much, but it's better than it was! -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quiz du jour For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: Whats the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Exch2007 permissions issue
More counterpoints. 1] Like I said - the command you show is wrong. But caching can prevent things from taking affect immediately. 2] You didn't SAY you wanted to do it for every mailbox in the store! I'll go look up that command. But while I do, what mechanism did you use in OWA to attempt to access the other mailbox? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue Hmm. A few counterpoints. 1. I'm not sure the caching is the problem. We waited over 24 hours and the results was the same. 2. Your method would require me doing this for EVERY single mailbox in the store, surely the method as explain by GFI is easier?? (unless I'm not understanding you correctly?) Furthmore, if I go to Account-B and look at Manage Full Access Permissions, Account-A is already listed (because of the command I ran the other day from the command-line) Thoughts? Thanks. J Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:59:46 + The Sunbelt Exchange forum is a great place to ask questions like this. :-) Regardless, the GFI instructions are wrong, at least as you've quoted them. The easiest thing to do is open the Exchange management Console, find Account-B, then click on Manage Full Access Permission in the Action pane, and give Account-A rights. And yes, you need to either restart-service msexchangeis or wait about two hours for the permissions cache to expire. No reboot required. In re: the Domain Admin question, explicitly assigned permissions override inherited permissions. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exch2007 permissions issue Haven't had much help from other sources with this issue so I thougth I'd try here. Environment: Single Exchange 2007 server I need to be able to access another user's mailbox via OWA in order for this particular software (GFI Mail Archiver) to work properly. When I use Account-A to logon to OWA 2007, I try to access another user's mailbox (Account-B) and I receive this error: You do not have permission to open this mailbox. For access or for more information, contact technical support for your organization. According to the documentation from GFI, I am supposed to enter this from the Exchange 2007 command prompt: Add-ADPermission -Identity Mailbox Database -User domain\UsernameJOE -AccessRights GenericAll I did that... but when logged into OWA as UsernameJOE, the error still occurs when trying to access another user's email via OWA. Really stuck here and could use some help. Can someone tell me what I should try next? Single Exchange 2007 server with MBX/CAS/HUB roles. Note - since making that change, the Exchange server has not been rebooted (I dont think it needs to be?), and also, the user account in question is a Domain Admin (is this possibly an issue because of inherited deny permissions??) Thanks. J myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Microsoft(r) Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: CISCO VPN Client
Remove it is the best, they install into the same root directory under Program Files but have separate directories under that. They are separate programs as Microsoft sees them. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:07 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: Anyone point me on how to Disable the old CISCO VPN Client and leave the AnyConnect still enabled? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Quiz du jour
I take it that, same as under XP, that Win7's hosts file is 'Full Control' for DAs? That's interesting. I wonder how it recognizes that this file (and others like it) require UAC controls? That'll definitely take some getting used to, but IMHO more security is better. Kurt On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:03, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Exch2007 permissions issue
This is what you want to do: http://docs.blackberry.com/nl-nl/admin/deliverables/12142/Configure_Exchange_10_perms_for_Exchange_account_962758_11.jsp For Exchange 2007, change step 3 to add user to 'Exchange View-Only Administrator' security group. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue More counterpoints. 1] Like I said - the command you show is wrong. But caching can prevent things from taking affect immediately. 2] You didn't SAY you wanted to do it for every mailbox in the store! I'll go look up that command. But while I do, what mechanism did you use in OWA to attempt to access the other mailbox? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue Hmm. A few counterpoints. 1. I'm not sure the caching is the problem. We waited over 24 hours and the results was the same. 2. Your method would require me doing this for EVERY single mailbox in the store, surely the method as explain by GFI is easier?? (unless I'm not understanding you correctly?) Furthmore, if I go to Account-B and look at Manage Full Access Permissions, Account-A is already listed (because of the command I ran the other day from the command-line) Thoughts? Thanks. J Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:59:46 + The Sunbelt Exchange forum is a great place to ask questions like this. :-) Regardless, the GFI instructions are wrong, at least as you've quoted them. The easiest thing to do is open the Exchange management Console, find Account-B, then click on Manage Full Access Permission in the Action pane, and give Account-A rights. And yes, you need to either restart-service msexchangeis or wait about two hours for the permissions cache to expire. No reboot required. In re: the Domain Admin question, explicitly assigned permissions override inherited permissions. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exch2007 permissions issue Haven't had much help from other sources with this issue so I thougth I'd try here. Environment: Single Exchange 2007 server I need to be able to access another user's mailbox via OWA in order for this particular software (GFI Mail Archiver) to work properly. When I use Account-A to logon to OWA 2007, I try to access another user's mailbox (Account-B) and I receive this error: You do not have permission to open this mailbox. For access or for more information, contact technical support for your organization. According to the documentation from GFI, I am supposed to enter this from the Exchange 2007 command prompt: Add-ADPermission -Identity Mailbox Database -User domain\UsernameJOE -AccessRights GenericAll I did that... but when logged into OWA as UsernameJOE, the error still occurs when trying to access another user's email via OWA. Really stuck here and could use some help. Can someone tell me what I should try next? Single Exchange 2007 server with MBX/CAS/HUB roles. Note - since making that change, the Exchange server has not been rebooted (I dont think it needs to be?), and also, the user account in question is a Domain Admin (is this possibly an issue because of inherited deny permissions??) Thanks. J myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Microsoft(r) Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Home Networking Question.
You also have to trust the hosting service. Not all 'clouds' have a silver lining... On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:05, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: VERY good point on trusting the user! J From: Chad Leeper [mailto:c...@capitalcityfruit.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Networking Question. I agree with Dennis. Use the hosted service. You also get the benefit of backups incase something happens to the host computer or that persons home. Do you want to trust a user with backups or data recovery??? /Chad Hamachi is ideal for this scenario. Easy, free, and sufficient. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Chyka, Robert bch...@medaille.edu wrote: Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Think green. Please consider the environment before printing CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information contained in this transmission is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, do not read it. Please immediately reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error and then delete it. Thank you. * ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Troubleshooting DHCP
John are you using IPSec in the network? There was a discussion within the last month where there was a bug of sorts with using IPSec and 2008 DHCP the fix looked easy but if you are not using IPSec then it is not going to help much. I personally never saw an issue with a mix of XP and Vista clients but I had a flat IP space. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If you are sniffing on the client or at the switch, Wireshark. If you are sniffing on the server, either Wireshark or the Network Monitoring Tools that come with the OS. However, if you can get one of these machines to get an IP address, and then do an 'ipconfig /all' you'll see what it thinks is the DHCP server. Kurt On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:46, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I’m kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It’s also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can’t get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can’t contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay—this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I’m guessing that I’m going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I’ve never in my life used one. I’ve just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ 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: Exch2007 permissions issue
LOL, sorry, I thought I specified for every mailbox in the store. My mistake :) Basically, I logon to OWA with Account-B, and there's a little dropdown arrow next to the Username at the top-right of the screen. I click the dropdown arrow and enter another user's user account info in the box. That's when the page error comes up saying there's a permission error. HTH. Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:07:42 + To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue More counterpoints. 1] Like I said - the command you show is wrong. But caching can prevent things from taking affect immediately. 2] You didn't SAY you wanted to do it for every mailbox in the store! I'll go look up that command. But while I do, what mechanism did you use in OWA to attempt to access the other mailbox? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue Hmm. A few counterpoints. 1. I'm not sure the caching is the problem. We waited over 24 hours and the results was the same. 2. Your method would require me doing this for EVERY single mailbox in the store, surely the method as explain by GFI is easier?? (unless I'm not understanding you correctly?) Furthmore, if I go to Account-B and look at Manage Full Access Permissions, Account-A is already listed (because of the command I ran the other day from the command-line) Thoughts? Thanks. J Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:59:46 + The Sunbelt Exchange forum is a great place to ask questions like this. :-) Regardless, the GFI instructions are wrong, at least as you've quoted them. The easiest thing to do is open the Exchange management Console, find Account-B, then click on Manage Full Access Permission in the Action pane, and give Account-A rights. And yes, you need to either restart-service msexchangeis or wait about two hours for the permissions cache to expire. No reboot required. In re: the Domain Admin question, explicitly assigned permissions override inherited permissions. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exch2007 permissions issue Haven't had much help from other sources with this issue so I thougth I'd try here. Environment: Single Exchange 2007 server I need to be able to access another user's mailbox via OWA in order for this particular software (GFI Mail Archiver) to work properly. When I use Account-A to logon to OWA 2007, I try to access another user's mailbox (Account-B) and I receive this error: You do not have permission to open this mailbox. For access or for more information, contact technical support for your organization. According to the documentation from GFI, I am supposed to enter this from the Exchange 2007 command prompt: Add-ADPermission -Identity Mailbox Database -User domain\UsernameJOE -AccessRights GenericAll I did that... but when logged into OWA as UsernameJOE, the error still occurs when trying to access another user's email via OWA. Really stuck here and could use some help. Can someone tell me what I should try next? Single Exchange 2007 server with MBX/CAS/HUB roles. Note - since making that change, the Exchange server has not been rebooted (I dont think it needs to be?), and also, the user account in question is a Domain Admin (is this possibly an issue because of inherited deny permissions??) Thanks. J myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Microsoft(r) Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider -
RE: Quiz du jour
Correct, the Win7 hosts file is FC for Administrators. In this particular case, the file is under %windir%, so figuring it out is pretty easy. For those that aren't, there is a special permission in the SACL that designates it as a protected file. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour I take it that, same as under XP, that Win7's hosts file is 'Full Control' for DAs? That's interesting. I wonder how it recognizes that this file (and others like it) require UAC controls? That'll definitely take some getting used to, but IMHO more security is better. Kurt On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:03, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Home Networking Question.
He could also try Home Server as the data warehouse at one of the homes with the HS client on both of the down level clients. No VPN or other software needed. They could share more than the database and the warehouse is easy to increase since it prefers to use USB drives. The only production maker of the Home Server is HP. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Hamachi is ideal for this scenario. Easy, free, and sufficient. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Chyka, Robert bch...@medaille.edu wrote: Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Running a DOS app on Win7
Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Quiz du jour
Ah. The SACL makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. A friend of mine got me a copy of Win7 Ultimate from the company store. I suppose it's time to put it on my Lenovo T61 (currently running XP) to get familiar with it. I'll post on a different thread about that - I'll probably have a few questions. Kurt On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:24, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Correct, the Win7 hosts file is FC for Administrators. In this particular case, the file is under %windir%, so figuring it out is pretty easy. For those that aren't, there is a special permission in the SACL that designates it as a protected file. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour I take it that, same as under XP, that Win7's hosts file is 'Full Control' for DAs? That's interesting. I wonder how it recognizes that this file (and others like it) require UAC controls? That'll definitely take some getting used to, but IMHO more security is better. Kurt On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:03, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Troubleshooting DHCP
Sorry I just saw you fixed the issue. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: John are you using IPSec in the network? There was a discussion within the last month where there was a bug of sorts with using IPSec and 2008 DHCP the fix looked easy but if you are not using IPSec then it is not going to help much. I personally never saw an issue with a mix of XP and Vista clients but I had a flat IP space. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If you are sniffing on the client or at the switch, Wireshark. If you are sniffing on the server, either Wireshark or the Network Monitoring Tools that come with the OS. However, if you can get one of these machines to get an IP address, and then do an 'ipconfig /all' you'll see what it thinks is the DHCP server. Kurt On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:46, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Yesterday I started having some DHCP weirdness that has grown today. I’m kind of stumped and need some guidance. DHCP server is Windows Server 2008. It’s also a DC and DNS server. It shows no errors relating to DHCP in Event Viewer, and there are plenty of addresses left in the scope. It can be pinged from client machines at 1 ms and no timeouts, and it can ping client machines with the same results. DNS is working fine. DC functions are working fine. DHCP, unfortunately, appears spotty. A number of clients (although apparently not all, from what I can tell) can’t get leases. If you run ipconfig /renew from a command prompt, they report that they can’t contact the DHCP server. If you manually assign an IP address, all works fine. So network connectivity seems okay—this seems to be strictly a DHCP issue. I’m guessing that I’m going to need a packet sniffer to further troubleshoot. I have to confess, though, that I’ve never in my life used one. I’ve just never needed to. So, can anyone recommend a free, simple packet sniffer I can run from a client machine to watch the DHCP traffic? And what, exactly, should I be looking for? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ 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: Running a DOS app on Win7
Just install XP mode. Don't sweat it, just do it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Quiz du jour
Because MSset it from max level(Vista) to 3/4 max (Win 7), from always notify to Notify when programs try to make changes. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:06 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Having now worked on a couple Windows 7 machines, I have to say the Windows 7 version of UAC is nowhere near as intrusive as the Vista version! I still don't like it much, but it's better than it was! -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quiz du jour For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: Whats the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Running a DOS app on Win7
Download and install the Windows XP compatibility mode app for Windows 7. Of course, the new desktop must support hardware virtualization for it to work. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good. you read the subject line. Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exch2007 permissions issue
A followup... The user was/is already added to the Exchange-View Only group. This was done months back when 2007 was introduced as the user account (Account-A) in question is the account we use for Backupexec backups. I will give a try the commands you listed in the Blackberry link. Should be okay that it's stating those commands are for 2010, right? I'll let you know this afternoon how things go, when I'm on site and able to test. Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:15:55 + To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue This is what you want to do: http://docs.blackberry.com/nl-nl/admin/deliverables/12142/Configure_Exchange _10_perms_for_Exchange_account_962758_11.jsp For Exchange 2007, change step 3 to add user to 'Exchange View-Only Administrator' security group. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue More counterpoints. 1] Like I said - the command you show is wrong. But caching can prevent things from taking affect immediately. 2] You didn't SAY you wanted to do it for every mailbox in the store! I'll go look up that command. But while I do, what mechanism did you use in OWA to attempt to access the other mailbox? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue Hmm. A few counterpoints. 1. I'm not sure the caching is the problem. We waited over 24 hours and the results was the same. 2. Your method would require me doing this for EVERY single mailbox in the store, surely the method as explain by GFI is easier?? (unless I'm not understanding you correctly?) Furthmore, if I go to Account-B and look at Manage Full Access Permissions, Account-A is already listed (because of the command I ran the other day from the command-line) Thoughts? Thanks. J Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:59:46 + The Sunbelt Exchange forum is a great place to ask questions like this. :-) Regardless, the GFI instructions are wrong, at least as you've quoted them. The easiest thing to do is open the Exchange management Console, find Account-B, then click on Manage Full Access Permission in the Action pane, and give Account-A rights. And yes, you need to either restart-service msexchangeis or wait about two hours for the permissions cache to expire. No reboot required. In re: the Domain Admin question, explicitly assigned permissions override inherited permissions. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exch2007 permissions issue Haven't had much help from other sources with this issue so I thougth I'd try here. Environment: Single Exchange 2007 server I need to be able to access another user's mailbox via OWA in order for this particular software (GFI Mail Archiver) to work properly. When I use Account-A to logon to OWA 2007, I try to access another user's mailbox (Account-B) and I receive this error: You do not have permission to open this mailbox. For access or for more information, contact technical support for your organization. According to the documentation from GFI, I am supposed to enter this from the Exchange 2007 command prompt: Add-ADPermission -Identity Mailbox Database -User domain\UsernameJOE -AccessRights GenericAll I did that... but when logged into OWA as UsernameJOE, the error still occurs when trying to access another user's email via OWA. Really stuck here and could use some help. Can someone tell me what I should try next? Single Exchange 2007 server with MBX/CAS/HUB roles. Note - since making that change, the Exchange server has not been rebooted (I dont think it needs to be?), and also, the user account in question is a Domain Admin (is this possibly an issue because of inherited deny permissions??) Thanks. J myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Running a DOS app on Win7
Win7 itself is EXACTLY as incompatible as Vista. As much as Vista is maligned, Win7 is really nothing more than Vista service pack 3. The difference is that the ecosystem has caught up. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Running a DOS app on Win7 From what I have seen this is the best thing Microsoft has done with 7. Vista was a real bust with backward compatability but compatiblity mode with a machine with VT technology really works well. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.commailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Download and install the Windows XP compatibility mode app for Windows 7. Of course, the new desktop must support hardware virtualization for it to work. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.commailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exch2007 permissions issue
Yes, still should be ok. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue A followup... The user was/is already added to the Exchange-View Only group. This was done months back when 2007 was introduced as the user account (Account-A) in question is the account we use for Backupexec backups. I will give a try the commands you listed in the Blackberry link. Should be okay that it's stating those commands are for 2010, right? I'll let you know this afternoon how things go, when I'm on site and able to test. Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:15:55 + To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue This is what you want to do: http://docs.blackberry.com/nl-nl/admin/deliverables/12142/Configure_Exchange _10_perms_for_Exchange_account_962758_11.jsp For Exchange 2007, change step 3 to add user to 'Exchange View-Only Administrator' security group. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue More counterpoints. 1] Like I said - the command you show is wrong. But caching can prevent things from taking affect immediately. 2] You didn't SAY you wanted to do it for every mailbox in the store! I'll go look up that command. But while I do, what mechanism did you use in OWA to attempt to access the other mailbox? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exch2007 permissions issue Hmm. A few counterpoints. 1. I'm not sure the caching is the problem. We waited over 24 hours and the results was the same. 2. Your method would require me doing this for EVERY single mailbox in the store, surely the method as explain by GFI is easier?? (unless I'm not understanding you correctly?) Furthmore, if I go to Account-B and look at Manage Full Access Permissions, Account-A is already listed (because of the command I ran the other day from the command-line) Thoughts? Thanks. J Original Message: - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:59:46 + The Sunbelt Exchange forum is a great place to ask questions like this. :-) Regardless, the GFI instructions are wrong, at least as you've quoted them. The easiest thing to do is open the Exchange management Console, find Account-B, then click on Manage Full Access Permission in the Action pane, and give Account-A rights. And yes, you need to either restart-service msexchangeis or wait about two hours for the permissions cache to expire. No reboot required. In re: the Domain Admin question, explicitly assigned permissions override inherited permissions. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exch2007 permissions issue Haven't had much help from other sources with this issue so I thougth I'd try here. Environment: Single Exchange 2007 server I need to be able to access another user's mailbox via OWA in order for this particular software (GFI Mail Archiver) to work properly. When I use Account-A to logon to OWA 2007, I try to access another user's mailbox (Account-B) and I receive this error: You do not have permission to open this mailbox. For access or for more information, contact technical support for your organization. According to the documentation from GFI, I am supposed to enter this from the Exchange 2007 command prompt: Add-ADPermission -Identity Mailbox Database -User domain\UsernameJOE -AccessRights GenericAll I did that... but when logged into OWA as UsernameJOE, the error still occurs when trying to access another user's email via OWA. Really stuck here and could use some help. Can someone tell me what I should try next? Single Exchange 2007 server with MBX/CAS/HUB roles. Note - since making that change, the Exchange server has not been rebooted (I dont think it needs to be?), and also, the user account in question is a Domain Admin (is this possibly an issue because of inherited deny permissions??) Thanks. J myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application
Re: Running a DOS app on Win7
Go with the embedded XP mode. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:30:32 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ 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: Quiz du jour
Agreed and agreed. Frankly, I ran Vista x64 for 3 years and I never had a problem with UAC, even at max level. Much safer than the alternatives, too. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:03:44 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quiz du jour For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Quiz du jour
Ditto... Win7 is VistaSPx reborn in a smoother package, but although I didn't find any differences with it in terms of compatibility, I found it clunky. -sc -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Agreed and agreed. Frankly, I ran Vista x64 for 3 years and I never had a problem with UAC, even at max level. Much safer than the alternatives, too. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:03:44 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quiz du jour For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Running a DOS app on Win7
True but with the XP mode installed it fixes a lot of those compatablity issues. Things designed or workable under XP will work with XP mode. Vista did not have XP mode so you were forced to use Virtual PC or Server and neither were designed to work like XP mode in 7. Add to that you needed a license for the down client for Virtual PC or Server. I am not saying it is perfect but then nothing is truely perfect in this world is it? Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Win7 itself is EXACTLY as incompatible as Vista. As much as Vista is maligned, Win7 is really nothing more than “Vista service pack 3”. The difference is that the ecosystem has caught up. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Running a DOS app on Win7 From what I have seen this is the best thing Microsoft has done with 7. Vista was a real bust with backward compatability but compatiblity mode with a machine with VT technology really works well. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Download and install the Windows XP compatibility mode app for Windows 7. Of course, the new desktop must support hardware virtualization for it to work. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx *From:* Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don’t laugh! But I have an issue that’s funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It’s been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we’ve also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good… you read the subject line… Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won’t run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn’t give me any ability to print, I don’t think. And I’m going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven’t found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
How to locate/delete DNS A record???
Hello Everyone. I have a W2K3 Domain in my test environment. I have a member server that I joined to the domain with the wrong IP address. Now pinging the server or running NSLOOKUP replies with the wrong IP. I changed the IP on the server and tried IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS but I receive an error in the eventlog. How can I locate/delete the A record? I tried manually looking for it in the DNS MMC, but no joy. thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Quiz du jour
Well, I never had any real complaints about Vista, but Win7 is definitely an improvement. It's been running in my house for a while, but I finally did an in-place upgrade over Vista on my laptop (a few weeks back) and on my desktop (last night) and it is smoother than its predecessor. Noticeably so. And I recovered 50GB of disk space, although I'm not sure why. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:51:13 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quiz du jour Ditto... Win7 is VistaSPx reborn in a smoother package, but although I didn't find any differences with it in terms of compatibility, I found it clunky. -sc -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Agreed and agreed. Frankly, I ran Vista x64 for 3 years and I never had a problem with UAC, even at max level. Much safer than the alternatives, too. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:03:44 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quiz du jour For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Quiz du jour
Maybe system restores? I don't know either I have seen that a couple of time but not as large. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I never had any real complaints about Vista, but Win7 is definitely an improvement. It's been running in my house for a while, but I finally did an in-place upgrade over Vista on my laptop (a few weeks back) and on my desktop (last night) and it is smoother than its predecessor. Noticeably so. And I recovered 50GB of disk space, although I'm not sure why. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:51:13 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quiz du jour Ditto... Win7 is VistaSPx reborn in a smoother package, but although I didn't find any differences with it in terms of compatibility, I found it clunky. -sc -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Agreed and agreed. Frankly, I ran Vista x64 for 3 years and I never had a problem with UAC, even at max level. Much safer than the alternatives, too. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:03:44 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quiz du jour For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Quiz du jour
I wonder if it resets the local CSC file cache ? -sc -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Well, I never had any real complaints about Vista, but Win7 is definitely an improvement. It's been running in my house for a while, but I finally did an in-place upgrade over Vista on my laptop (a few weeks back) and on my desktop (last night) and it is smoother than its predecessor. Noticeably so. And I recovered 50GB of disk space, although I'm not sure why. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:51:13 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quiz du jour Ditto... Win7 is VistaSPx reborn in a smoother package, but although I didn't find any differences with it in terms of compatibility, I found it clunky. -sc -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Agreed and agreed. Frankly, I ran Vista x64 for 3 years and I never had a problem with UAC, even at max level. Much safer than the alternatives, too. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:03:44 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quiz du jour For example, you are signed in with a domain admin account to your workstation and you want to edit your local hosts file. You can't, unless you start the editor with run-as (or start the editor from an elevated command prompt). This is intentional behavior. (And I personally think a darn good one - but if you hate it, you can disable UAC - which I regard as a mistake.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quiz du jour Can you explain a little more what this scenario is? I don't have any experience yet with anything past WinXP/Win2k3. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:50, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Today I was asked: “What’s the point of NTFS ACLs if, when having full control to a file I still have to run-as” I knew the answer once but a quick search comes up empty for me. Anyone? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: CISCO VPN Client
Actually on the ASA. I think I have it found now but I am still testing. From: Jon Harris Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CISCO VPN Client Remove it is the best, they install into the same root directory under Program Files but have separate directories under that. They are separate programs as Microsoft sees them. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:07 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: Anyone point me on how to Disable the old CISCO VPN Client and leave the AnyConnect still enabled? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: How to locate/delete DNS A record???
Did you try the ipconfig /flushdns From: Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How to locate/delete DNS A record??? Hello Everyone. I have a W2K3 Domain in my test environment. I have a member server that I joined to the domain with the wrong IP address. Now pinging the server or running NSLOOKUP replies with the wrong IP. I changed the IP on the server and tried IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS but I receive an error in the eventlog. How can I locate/delete the A record? I tried manually looking for it in the DNS MMC, but no joy. thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: CISCO VPN Client
Why are you getting rid of the VPN client? You don't remove it you disable it on the ASA. Just make sure all the rules are correct for the ASA first. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:13 PM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: Actually on the ASA. I think I have it found now but I am still testing. *From:* Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:10 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject:* Re: CISCO VPN Client Remove it is the best, they install into the same root directory under Program Files but have separate directories under that. They are separate programs as Microsoft sees them. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:07 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.comwrote: Anyone point me on how to Disable the old CISCO VPN Client and leave the AnyConnect still enabled? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: CISCO VPN Client
Ok. I am looking at that area under Remote VPN in Configuration and someone has my VPN Client info and they are trying a Brute Force Vocab attack to my AD's. So I have moved all my users to AnyConnect and I am ready to remove the VPN Client from the ASA or disable it... From: Jon Harris Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CISCO VPN Client Why are you getting rid of the VPN client? You don't remove it you disable it on the ASA. Just make sure all the rules are correct for the ASA first. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:13 PM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: Actually on the ASA. I think I have it found now but I am still testing. From: Jon Harris Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CISCO VPN Client Remove it is the best, they install into the same root directory under Program Files but have separate directories under that. They are separate programs as Microsoft sees them. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:07 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: Anyone point me on how to Disable the old CISCO VPN Client and leave the AnyConnect still enabled? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: How to locate/delete DNS A record???
Yes, I've tried that with no luck. Thanks for the suggestion though. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.uswrote: Did you try the ipconfig /flushdns *From:* Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* How to locate/delete DNS A record??? Hello Everyone. I have a W2K3 Domain in my test environment. I have a member server that I joined to the domain with the wrong IP address. Now pinging the server or running NSLOOKUP replies with the wrong IP. I changed the IP on the server and tried IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS but I receive an error in the eventlog. How can I locate/delete the A record? I tried manually looking for it in the DNS MMC, but no joy. thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: How to locate/delete DNS A record???
I’ve never had to do this, but I assume this will work. Use ADSIEdit. Connect to DomainDnsZones context. Browse to DC=dns zone,CN=MicrosoftDNS,dc=domaindnszones,etc. Delete the record. -Mike --- Michael Waltonen University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology 2221 University Ave SE #400 Minneapolis, MN 55414 Office: (612) 625-0961 Email: waltonen(at)umn.edu *From:* bounce-8824640-8243...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto: bounce-8824640-8243...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] *On Behalf Of *Mark Smith *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:36 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: How to locate/delete DNS A record??? Yes, I've tried that with no luck. Thanks for the suggestion though. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: Did you try the ipconfig /flushdns *From:* Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* How to locate/delete DNS A record??? Hello Everyone. I have a W2K3 Domain in my test environment. I have a member server that I joined to the domain with the wrong IP address. Now pinging the server or running NSLOOKUP replies with the wrong IP. I changed the IP on the server and tried IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS but I receive an error in the eventlog. How can I locate/delete the A record? I tried manually looking for it in the DNS MMC, but no joy. thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Running a DOS app on Win7
I prefer to think of it like Vista SE (Second Edition) Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com 2/17/2010 9:40 AM Win7 itself is EXACTLY as incompatible as Vista. As much as Vista is maligned, Win7 is really nothing more than Vista service pack 3. The difference is that the ecosystem has caught up. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Running a DOS app on Win7 From what I have seen this is the best thing Microsoft has done with 7. Vista was a real bust with backward compatability but compatiblity mode with a machine with VT technology really works well. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.commailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Download and install the Windows XP compatibility mode app for Windows 7. Of course, the new desktop must support hardware virtualization for it to work. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.commailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ 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: How to locate/delete DNS A record???
Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up being able to delete the 'bad' record using the DNSCMD /RECORDDEL command. Thanks! On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Michael Waltonen walto...@umn.edu wrote: I’ve never had to do this, but I assume this will work. Use ADSIEdit. Connect to DomainDnsZones context. Browse to DC=dns zone,CN=MicrosoftDNS,dc=domaindnszones,etc. Delete the record. -Mike --- Michael Waltonen University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology 2221 University Ave SE #400 Minneapolis, MN 55414 Office: (612) 625-0961 Email: waltonen(at)umn.edu *From:* bounce-8824640-8243...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto: bounce-8824640-8243...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] *On Behalf Of *Mark Smith *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:36 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: How to locate/delete DNS A record??? Yes, I've tried that with no luck. Thanks for the suggestion though. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: Did you try the ipconfig /flushdns *From:* Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* How to locate/delete DNS A record??? Hello Everyone. I have a W2K3 Domain in my test environment. I have a member server that I joined to the domain with the wrong IP address. Now pinging the server or running NSLOOKUP replies with the wrong IP. I changed the IP on the server and tried IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS but I receive an error in the eventlog. How can I locate/delete the A record? I tried manually looking for it in the DNS MMC, but no joy. thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SQL 2005 Mirroring
The SA account? You should be in a domain using windows auth, ne? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SQL 2005 Mirroring Having trouble communicating between the witness, publisher, and subscriber... I can connect to thru Management Console to the SA account on all three but when I start up Mirroring I get a 1418 error?? From: Michael B. Smithmailto:mich...@smithcons.com Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: SQL 2005 Mirroring Yes. It rocks REALLY hard. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SQL 2005 Mirroring Anyone have this set up and working? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Running a DOS app on Win7
We found an app that runs on Vista but not Win7. It surprised me, because I was operating under the assumption that anything that worked with Vista would work with Win7, and anything that DIDN'T work with Vista wouldn't work with Win7. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running a DOS app on Win7 I prefer to think of it like Vista SE (Second Edition) Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com 2/17/2010 9:40 AM Win7 itself is EXACTLY as incompatible as Vista. As much as Vista is maligned, Win7 is really nothing more than Vista service pack 3. The difference is that the ecosystem has caught up. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Running a DOS app on Win7 From what I have seen this is the best thing Microsoft has done with 7. Vista was a real bust with backward compatability but compatiblity mode with a machine with VT technology really works well. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.commailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Download and install the Windows XP compatibility mode app for Windows 7. Of course, the new desktop must support hardware virtualization for it to work. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.commailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ 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/ ~ NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT: AIX system
Be glad to help if I can. Not an expert but I do a lot of scripting in AIX On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Kevin Lundy klu...@gmail.com wrote: Any PowerPC and AIX users out there that wouldn't mind a couple of questions offlist? Thanks Kevin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Running a DOS app on Win7
Really? Interesting. I'm also surprised. Care to share? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running a DOS app on Win7 We found an app that runs on Vista but not Win7. It surprised me, because I was operating under the assumption that anything that worked with Vista would work with Win7, and anything that DIDN'T work with Vista wouldn't work with Win7. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running a DOS app on Win7 I prefer to think of it like Vista SE (Second Edition) Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com 2/17/2010 9:40 AM Win7 itself is EXACTLY as incompatible as Vista. As much as Vista is maligned, Win7 is really nothing more than Vista service pack 3. The difference is that the ecosystem has caught up. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Running a DOS app on Win7 From what I have seen this is the best thing Microsoft has done with 7. Vista was a real bust with backward compatability but compatiblity mode with a machine with VT technology really works well. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.commailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Download and install the Windows XP compatibility mode app for Windows 7. Of course, the new desktop must support hardware virtualization for it to work. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.commailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ 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/ ~ NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ 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: SQL 2005 Mirroring
Just using general names for the forum. domain\appsa account = sa account to me. Sorry for being vague. From: Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SQL 2005 Mirroring The SA account? You should be in a domain using windows auth, ne? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SQL 2005 Mirroring Having trouble communicating between the witness, publisher, and subscriber... I can connect to thru Management Console to the SA account on all three but when I start up Mirroring I get a 1418 error?? From: Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SQL 2005 Mirroring Yes. It rocks REALLY hard. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SQL 2005 Mirroring Anyone have this set up and working? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SQL 2005 Mirroring
There are metric buttloads of potential issues with a 1418 error. I'd start on google and just work down the page. sql mirror error 1418 Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SQL 2005 Mirroring Just using general names for the forum. domain\appsa account = sa account to me. Sorry for being vague. From: Michael B. Smithmailto:mich...@smithcons.com Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: SQL 2005 Mirroring The SA account? You should be in a domain using windows auth, ne? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SQL 2005 Mirroring Having trouble communicating between the witness, publisher, and subscriber... I can connect to thru Management Console to the SA account on all three but when I start up Mirroring I get a 1418 error?? From: Michael B. Smithmailto:mich...@smithcons.com Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: SQL 2005 Mirroring Yes. It rocks REALLY hard. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SQL 2005 Mirroring Anyone have this set up and working? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Home Networking Question.
On 17 Feb 2010 at 11:01, Chyka, Robert wrote: Thank you for the insight Dennis. I thought it was Quickbooks, but just found out it is PeachTree they are using. ughhh! IMHO accounting databases probably won't work at all over VPNs unless they're built to run that way. I would set up a second computer in the site where the database was running and use a remote-control product (LogMeIn Free, UltraVNC with encryption, pcAnywhere) to control the second PC. Given that you can get a low-cost PC that will run headless for a few $100, that will be the most cost-effective solution. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 ~! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT Home Wireless Question.
I'm looking at buying a BluRay player that has an ethernet port so I can stream content from the Net. I want to make it wireless and have it connect to my wireless router. What do I need to do this? Another router that can act as a bridge? TIA James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Running a DOS app on Win7
64-bit version of Win7? Yeah, that's a problem. The 32-bit version should run 16-bit DOS apps. Carl From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good. you read the subject line. Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT: Marketing position open
If there's anyone in the North Georgia area who's looking for work, we have a Marketing Manager position open here at Blueridge Carpet in Ellijay, GA. Relocation pay probably isn't an option, but I thought I'd mention it here just in case there's someone on here that's looking for work. More of a combination marketing manager/web master position. J Email me off-list for the job duties and contact info for the person accepting the resume's / applications. John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: OT Home Wireless Question.
You already have a WiFi access point at home? If so, then a wireless gaming adapter plugged in to the RJ-45 of your BR deck will bridge it over to your AP... Can get them for $30-40 or so... -sc From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT Home Wireless Question. I'm looking at buying a BluRay player that has an ethernet port so I can stream content from the Net. I want to make it wireless and have it connect to my wireless router. What do I need to do this? Another router that can act as a bridge? TIA James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT Home Wireless Question.
Yes, google wireless bridge for options. DD-WRT has wireless bridge capability, if you have a router that can run it, that might be the least expensive option. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-turn-an-old-router-into-a-wireless-bridg e/ Carl From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT Home Wireless Question. I'm looking at buying a BluRay player that has an ethernet port so I can stream content from the Net. I want to make it wireless and have it connect to my wireless router. What do I need to do this? Another router that can act as a bridge? TIA James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Home Networking Question.
quickbooks or peachtree will suck over a vpn and will eventually corrupt your database. You are better off with either a hosted solution, or setting up a cheap desktop at the location with the database and letting the second user RDP and run the app from there Bill .Chyka, Robert wrote: Thank you for the insight Dennis. I thought it was Quickbooks, but just found out it is PeachTree they are using. ughhh! *From:* Dennis Hoefer [mailto:dhoe...@ufcoop.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:00 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Home Networking Question. You might want to consider suggesting a move to the Quickbooks hosted product. Although I've not tried it on a VPN, my personal opinion, based on using Quickbooks in a small business I own, is that you won't get this to work, or at least not in any acceptable manner. Quickbooks is a resource hog in the first place and gets exponentially worse (as well as more buggy) with each version. Multi-user access (initial opening, report generation, etc.) is slow even on 100 meg Ethernet, can't imagine what it might be like pulling across a VPN on a typical internet connection, might work on a fresh install, but as the database grows I think you'll just end up with a frustrated remote user. Again, opinion only, no hands on experience trying what you describe, and for that matter, no experience with their hosted version either, so take all this with a grain of salt. Dennis *From:* Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the host home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Running a DOS app on Win7
It's some goofy educational app--not anything that would affect most people. :-) But we replaced Vista machines with Win7 at one of our schools, and one app is refusing to run. I'm not sure if the tech has tried compatibility mode yet. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running a DOS app on Win7 Really? Interesting. I'm also surprised. Care to share? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running a DOS app on Win7 We found an app that runs on Vista but not Win7. It surprised me, because I was operating under the assumption that anything that worked with Vista would work with Win7, and anything that DIDN'T work with Vista wouldn't work with Win7. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running a DOS app on Win7 I prefer to think of it like Vista SE (Second Edition) Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com 2/17/2010 9:40 AM Win7 itself is EXACTLY as incompatible as Vista. As much as Vista is maligned, Win7 is really nothing more than Vista service pack 3. The difference is that the ecosystem has caught up. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Running a DOS app on Win7 From what I have seen this is the best thing Microsoft has done with 7. Vista was a real bust with backward compatability but compatiblity mode with a machine with VT technology really works well. Jon On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.commailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Download and install the Windows XP compatibility mode app for Windows 7. Of course, the new desktop must support hardware virtualization for it to work. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.commailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ 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/ ~ NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ 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/ ~ NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
