R: Out of sync DC

[HELP_PC]

Why the stop error should be related to AD ?
I suggest to perform a chkdsk from the recovery console (included fixboot and 
fixmbr) and rebooting. Check also for last install of new hardware drivers or 
possible malware
 
GuidoElia
HELPPC
 

  _  

Da: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] 
Inviato: martedì 13 aprile 2010 22.12
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: Out of sync DC



Can you post the relevant events from the AD (NTDS) log?

 

Your easiest option is likely dcpromo /forceremoval, metadata cleanup, and then 
dcpromo back up.

 

Thanks,

Brian Desmond

br...@briandesmond.com

 

c - 312.731.3132

 

 

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

 

The event log looks good.  I dont see any errors related to AD.  When I boot it 
normally, it crashes with a stop 0x001c (i think) and says to reboot in AD 
recovery mode.  

 

Maybe I just need to do a regular ol' windows repair on it?

 

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
(:  814.375.3073  
*: jckel...@drmc.org 
***

-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 15:40
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

 

What do the event log look like - is it correctly processing updates, or do you 
see a lot of errors? When I have a DC down for several hours the only side 
effect I see if error in the event logs that clear up after an hour or so of 
replicating.

 

I've had an SBS server (by definition a DC) offline for 8+hours and no ill 
effects powering it back up and re-synching with the other DC's.

 

Dave

 

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Out of sync DC

 

Last night had one of our DC's offline for over 8 hours.  When we finally 
corrected the issue, it crashes on boot and says to boot into AD recovery mode. 
 OK, I rebooted in to the recovery mode...and it does boot successfully.  But, 
what do I do now?  Since its been so long, am I better off to just demote it 
out of the AD?

 

Its a 2008 DC.  I have 2 other 2008 DCs that are still up and running.  

 

Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks all!

 

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
(:  814.375.3073  
2  :   814.375.4005
*:   jckel...@drmc.org 
***

 

 

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. 

 

 

 

 

 

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. 

 

 

 


 


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

Re: Web Service Waiting for SQL Server

[Tigran K]

Are you the developer of the service? Why not add the wait or retry in
the service code?

--Tigran

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bonner, John  wrote:
> Hello Admins,
>
> I know this may be a simple questions for you guys but I'm a developer so my 
> knowledge is not as robust.
>
> Our web server has a service that relies on communication with SQL server. If 
> it doesn't see the SQL box Sitescope alarms as the service is not started. 
> Now this is fine and dandy except during maintenance windows when the servers 
> get rebooted and the web server comes up before the SQL box does. I know I 
> could have Sitescope attempt to start the service but I was wanting to be 
> more proactive and have Sitescope be the backup. So I was hoping there might 
> be a configuration / dependancy I could specify on that service to not 
> ATTEMPT it's first start until a check verifies SQL is up. Since I know this 
> is not a new problem I figured there must be a tried and true method for 
> handling this scenario?
>
> Thank You Very Much
> JB
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

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

RE: Web Service Waiting for SQL Server

[Bonner, John]

Separate boxes. Sorry didn't think of adding that.

JB


-Original Message-
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:46 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Web Service Waiting for SQL Server

Is SQL on the same box or?

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com

c   – 312.731.3132


-Original Message-
From: Bonner, John [mailto:jbon...@5280solutions.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Web Service Waiting for SQL Server

Hello Admins,

I know this may be a simple questions for you guys but I'm a developer so my 
knowledge is not as robust. 

Our web server has a service that relies on communication with SQL server. If 
it doesn't see the SQL box Sitescope alarms as the service is not started. Now 
this is fine and dandy except during maintenance windows when the servers get 
rebooted and the web server comes up before the SQL box does. I know I could 
have Sitescope attempt to start the service but I was wanting to be more 
proactive and have Sitescope be the backup. So I was hoping there might be a 
configuration / dependancy I could specify on that service to not ATTEMPT it's 
first start until a check verifies SQL is up. Since I know this is not a new 
problem I figured there must be a tried and true method for handling this 
scenario?

Thank You Very Much
JB
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
  ~


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


The information in this email may be confidential and is the
property of 5280 Solutions LLC. Access to this email by
anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is unauthorized. 
Forwarding, copying or reproduction of confidential
information without the express permission of 5280 Solutions
LLC is strictly prohibited. If you have received this
communication in error, please contact the sender 
immediately (by reply email) and delete the confidential
information from any computer immediately.

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

Window Manager

[Joseph L. Casale]

Hey guys,
So used to using kde now, when I get to Windows I miss all the stuff it does?

Anyone know an opensource or free desktop manager to give functionality like 
keep windows above, multiple desktops etc that they reco?

Thanks!
jlc

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

Re: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch repeater

[Rubens Almeida]

I've seen problems involving Riverbed accelerators, Outlook 2003 and
Exchange 2003. Lots of events 9646 on Exchange servers saying users
had hit the 32 sessions limit. Turns out the problem was one Riverbed
feature that kept MAPI sessions open to optimize mail traffic. Once
that was disabled the problems were resolved. Other than that it works
nice.

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

RE: Web Service Waiting for SQL Server

[Brian Desmond]

Is SQL on the same box or?

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com

c   – 312.731.3132


-Original Message-
From: Bonner, John [mailto:jbon...@5280solutions.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Web Service Waiting for SQL Server

Hello Admins,

I know this may be a simple questions for you guys but I'm a developer so my 
knowledge is not as robust. 

Our web server has a service that relies on communication with SQL server. If 
it doesn't see the SQL box Sitescope alarms as the service is not started. Now 
this is fine and dandy except during maintenance windows when the servers get 
rebooted and the web server comes up before the SQL box does. I know I could 
have Sitescope attempt to start the service but I was wanting to be more 
proactive and have Sitescope be the backup. So I was hoping there might be a 
configuration / dependancy I could specify on that service to not ATTEMPT it's 
first start until a check verifies SQL is up. Since I know this is not a new 
problem I figured there must be a tried and true method for handling this 
scenario?

Thank You Very Much
JB
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
  ~


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

RE: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch repeater

[James Hill]

Would someone please provide some more info on running VM's on these.  How does 
that work?  Are you able to run your own hypervisor etc?

-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 9:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch 
repeater

+4

-Original Message-
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 11:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch
repeater

+3
I tested both Cisco Waas, and Riverbed. We we're using a product called
Tacit, that has since been bought and sold and EOL'd now so it was time to
change.  Riverbed really outshined Waas. The Cisco product was (and still is
IMHO) being defined inside Cisco, and I had two code upgrade patches that
came out during testing that was like pulling teeth to get to work properly.
Exchange 2007 on Wass with the default encryption was painful, and
half-baked at the time (might be better now).  Also, if you plan on using
there remote user solution Cisco's product is a totally separate product and
requires it's own infrastructure. The Riverbed units, just plain worked
great going in. I've had 0 issues or complaints with file locking issues, or
other oddities that used to plague us with the Tacit solution. The Steelhead
mobile clients require a Steelhead Mobile controller for licensing (can be
run on a vm inside a normal Steelhead server) but they use our already
in-place Steelhead servers to connect to, and the process is pretty
seamless. We also got rid of all of our remote office domain controllers and
print servers and run a Windows 2008 vm on the Steelhead servers in those
offices now to reduce our footprint. One complaint I have with them is that
on the smaller units they are still 32-bit, so you can't run 2008R2 on them
as a vm although I'm told there going to be "fixing" that issue soon (which
to me means the cpu must already be 64-bit). 

Best thing about it is that it just plain works. 

Good Luck!
-Greg 




-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch
repeater

On 12 Apr 2010 at 10:06, Derrenbacker,  L. Jonathan  wrote:

> 
> I tested all of the major wan optimizers about 2 years ago including 
> Riverbed Steelheads, Cisco WAAS, and the Citrix product. The end 
> result is the Riverbed blew everyone out of the water. It wasn´t even 
> close. I initially thought the Citrix product would be best since at 
> the time all wan users used citrix for 100% of their work, but what I 
> found after installing demo units is the ICA protocol was apparently 
> not being optimized to the degree I had anticipated. I worked with 
> engineers of the product who explained how the ICA optimization worked 
> which after understanding it I wasn´t too impressed. The users notice 
> no real difference.When I put the steelheads in, the performance 
> increase was so great I actually eventually pulled everyone at all 
> remote sites off of citrix with the exception of 2 database apps that 
> still have to go through citrix because they´re too chatty. I average 
> a 7x bandwidth increase with the steelheads with their compression. IMO,
they might cost a lot more, but are worth every penny.

Is Microsoft's new Branch Office Server attacking this same problem?

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/





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


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


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


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

Re: dell rant

[Ben Scott]

  Yay!  I'm glad Dell came to their senses on this.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Michael D Faulkner
 wrote:
> Just got an email from our Dell rep indicating they have changed
> policies and will not restrict drive vendors on PERC H700 and H800
> controllers.  Requires a firmware update.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Senter, John [mailto:john.sen...@etrade.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:00 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: dell rant
>
> We had 2 Dell LTO drives and they worked fine with non-dell branded
> tapes.  The Dell tapes were Fuji at that time but we used Verbatim
> tapes.  We did have a issue with the very first LTO library they came
> out with years ago, but after working with them and the real manufacture
> it turned out to be a firmware issue that they corrected.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:32 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: dell rant
>
> Wow! I'm glad that IBM isn't that picky. We're using whatever LTO
> cartridge
> we can buy in our IBM tape drive for the AS/400. I've found that Amazon
> is a
> great place to find low-cost tapes. :-)
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:06 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: dell rant
>
> yeah, we usually avoid Dell, but we inherited a customer with an aging
> set of Dell servers and Dell LTO backup drive in a datacenter.  The tape
>
> drive would error out with any tape or cleaning cartridge that wasn't a
> Dell-branded cartridge.  ridiculous.
>
> Bill
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>

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

RE: dell rant

[Michael D Faulkner]

Just got an email from our Dell rep indicating they have changed
policies and will not restrict drive vendors on PERC H700 and H800
controllers.  Requires a firmware update.

-Original Message-
From: Senter, John [mailto:john.sen...@etrade.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dell rant

We had 2 Dell LTO drives and they worked fine with non-dell branded
tapes.  The Dell tapes were Fuji at that time but we used Verbatim
tapes.  We did have a issue with the very first LTO library they came
out with years ago, but after working with them and the real manufacture
it turned out to be a firmware issue that they corrected.

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dell rant

Wow! I'm glad that IBM isn't that picky. We're using whatever LTO
cartridge
we can buy in our IBM tape drive for the AS/400. I've found that Amazon
is a
great place to find low-cost tapes. :-)



-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: dell rant

yeah, we usually avoid Dell, but we inherited a customer with an aging 
set of Dell servers and Dell LTO backup drive in a datacenter.  The tape

drive would error out with any tape or cleaning cartridge that wasn't a 
Dell-branded cartridge.  ridiculous.

Bill


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

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


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

Re: Win98SE errors

[Christopher Bodnar]

I have an old shrink wrapped copy of Windows 3.0 you can have. :) 

Better yet, I'm sure you have an old copy of OS/2 Warp laying around!





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 Aldrich" 
To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Date:   04/13/2010 04:27 PM
Subject:Win98SE errors



I’m building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our “music on hold”) 
and I’m getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related 
to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?
 

 
 
 



-
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! ~
~   ~
<><>

RE: Win98SE errors

[John Aldrich]

Guess I could try Ubuntu. If it doesn't work well, I guess I can reinstall
Windoze. :-)




-Original Message-
From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

+1 again.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.com
www.eaglemds.com


-Original Message-
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

Even cheaper:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

--
Peter van Houten


John Aldrich wrote the following:
> Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not
> even going to be connected to the network once it's set up.
>
>
>
> John-AldrichTile-Tools
>
>
>
> *From:* Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Win98SE errors
>
>
>
> +1.
>
>
>
> Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to
> random/repeat. We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.
>
> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> Technology Coordinator
> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA_
> _jra...@eaglemds.com mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>_
> _www.eaglemds.com http://www.eaglemds.com/>
>
> 
>
> *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Win98SE errors
>
>
>
> Don't use 98?
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich
> mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>>
wrote:
>
> I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on
> hold") and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to
> be related to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any
> ideas?
>
>
>
> John-AldrichTile-Tools
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> Any medical information contained in this electronic message is
> CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to
> view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This
> electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or
> legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s)
> and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an
> intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately
> and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute
> or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any
> action in reliance on the information that it contains.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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

Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy,
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message
may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It
is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that
it contains.

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



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

RE: Win98SE errors

[Cliff Partlow]

In this "New World Order" there are some question that just should not be
asked.

 

 

"From The Sunny Side Of The Street!"

Cliff P.

 

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Win98SE errors

 

I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on hold")
and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

 

 

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

RE: Win98SE errors

[Erik Goldoff]

Remove networking !

 

Erik Goldoff

IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks, & Security 

'  Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

Because I have to hit “enter” to get past ‘em. L

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

Ok, then if it isn’t going to be connected to the network, why do you care
about the VXD errors that seem to be related to networking?

 

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
 mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> jra...@eaglemds.com
 http://www.eaglemds.com/> www.eaglemds.com 

  _  

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of ‘em lying around. J It’s not even
going to be connected to the network once it’s set up.

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

+1.

 

Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat.
We’ve been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
 mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> jra...@eaglemds.com
 http://www.eaglemds.com/> www.eaglemds.com 

  _  

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

 

Don't use 98?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich 
wrote:

I’m building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our “music on hold”)
and I’m getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  _  

Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy,
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message
may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It
is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that
it contains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Re: Win98SE errors

[Andrew S. Baker]

Indeed.  You've already spent more than an MP3 solution would have cost...

-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Kurt Buff  wrote:

> What's your time worth?
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 13:39, John Aldrich
>  wrote:
> >
> > Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of ‘em lying around. J It’s not
> even going to be connected to the network once it’s set up.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Win98SE errors
> >
> >
> >
> > +1.
> >
> >
> >
> > Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat.
> We’ve been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.
> >
> > Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> > Technology Coordinator
> > Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
> > jra...@eaglemds.com
> > www.eaglemds.com
> >
> > 
> >
> > From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: Win98SE errors
> >
> >
> >
> > Don't use 98?
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich <
> jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote:
> >
> > I’m building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our “music on hold”)
> and I’m getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
> to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?
> >
>

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

RE: Win98SE errors

[John Aldrich]

Hmm.  I guess I could do that. J

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

 

Ubuntu is nice.  I have it on my netbook.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
 wrote:

+1 again.


Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.com

www.eaglemds.com



-Original Message-
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

Even cheaper:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

--
Peter van Houten


John Aldrich wrote the following:
> Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not
> even going to be connected to the network once it's set up.
>
>
>
> John-AldrichTile-Tools
>
>
>
> *From:* Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Win98SE errors
>
>
>
> +1.
>
>
>
> Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to
> random/repeat. We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.
>
> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> Technology Coordinator
> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA_
> _jra...@eaglemds.com mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>_
> _www.eaglemds.com http://www.eaglemds.com/>
>
> 
>
> *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Win98SE errors
>
>
>
> Don't use 98?
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich
> mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>>
wrote:
>
> I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on
> hold") and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to
> be related to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any
> ideas?
>
>
>
> John-AldrichTile-Tools
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> Any medical information contained in this electronic message is
> CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to
> view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This
> electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or
> legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s)
> and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an
> intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately
> and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute
> or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any
> action in reliance on the information that it contains.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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

Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy,
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message
may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It
is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that
it contains.

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




-- 
Sherry Abercrombie

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 
Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

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

RE: Win98SE errors

[John Aldrich]

Yep.

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: jgarciaitl...@gmail.com [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:46 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

 

What if windows 98 crashes you got backups?

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

  _  

From: "John Aldrich"  

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:39:18 -0400

To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not even
going to be connected to the network once it's set up.

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

+1.

 

Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat.
We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
 mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> jra...@eaglemds.com
 http://www.eaglemds.com/> www.eaglemds.com 

  _  

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

 

Don't use 98?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich 
wrote:

I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on hold")
and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  _  

Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy,
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message
may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It
is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that
it contains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

RE: Win98SE errors

[John Aldrich]

Because I have to hit "enter" to get past 'em. L

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

Ok, then if it isn't going to be connected to the network, why do you care
about the VXD errors that seem to be related to networking?

 

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
 mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> jra...@eaglemds.com
 http://www.eaglemds.com/> www.eaglemds.com 

  _  

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not even
going to be connected to the network once it's set up.

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

+1.

 

Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat.
We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
 mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> jra...@eaglemds.com
 http://www.eaglemds.com/> www.eaglemds.com 

  _  

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

 

Don't use 98?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich 
wrote:

I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on hold")
and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  _  

Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy,
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message
may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It
is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that
it contains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Re: Win98SE errors

[Sherry Abercrombie]

Ubuntu is nice.  I have it on my netbook.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle <
jra...@eaglemds.com> wrote:

> +1 again.
>
> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> Technology Coordinator
> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
> jra...@eaglemds.com
> www.eaglemds.com
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:43 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Win98SE errors
>
> Even cheaper:
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
>
> --
> Peter van Houten
>
>
> John Aldrich wrote the following:
> > Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not
> > even going to be connected to the network once it's set up.
> >
> >
> >
> > John-AldrichTile-Tools
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
> > *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> > *Subject:* RE: Win98SE errors
> >
> >
> >
> > +1.
> >
> >
> >
> > Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to
> > random/repeat. We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.
> >
> > Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> > Technology Coordinator
> > Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA_
> > _jra...@eaglemds.com mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>_
> > _www.eaglemds.com http://www.eaglemds.com/>
> >
> > 
> >
> > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
> > *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> > *Subject:* Re: Win98SE errors
> >
> >
> >
> > Don't use 98?
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich
> > mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on
> > hold") and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to
> > be related to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any
> > ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> > John-AldrichTile-Tools
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> > Any medical information contained in this electronic message is
> > CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to
> > view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This
> > electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or
> > legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s)
> > and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an
> > intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately
> > and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute
> > or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any
> > action in reliance on the information that it contains.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
> Any medical information contained in this electronic message is
> CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to
> view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This
> electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or
> legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s)
> and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended
> recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete
> this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this
> message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on
> the information that it contains.
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>


-- 
Sherry Abercrombie

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Re: Win98SE errors

[jgarciaitlist]

What if windows 98 crashes you got backups?
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

-Original Message-
From: "John Aldrich" 
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:39:18 
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not even
going to be connected to the network once it's set up.

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

+1.

 

Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat.
We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
 mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> jra...@eaglemds.com
 http://www.eaglemds.com/> www.eaglemds.com 

  _  

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

 

Don't use 98?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich 
wrote:

I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on hold")
and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  _  

Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy,
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message
may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It
is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that
it contains.

 

 

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

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

RE: Win98SE errors

[Raper, Jonathan - Eagle]

+1 again.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.com
www.eaglemds.com


-Original Message-
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

Even cheaper:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

--
Peter van Houten


John Aldrich wrote the following:
> Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not
> even going to be connected to the network once it's set up.
>
>
>
> John-AldrichTile-Tools
>
>
>
> *From:* Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Win98SE errors
>
>
>
> +1.
>
>
>
> Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to
> random/repeat. We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.
>
> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> Technology Coordinator
> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA_
> _jra...@eaglemds.com mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>_
> _www.eaglemds.com http://www.eaglemds.com/>
>
> 
>
> *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Win98SE errors
>
>
>
> Don't use 98?
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich
> mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on
> hold") and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to
> be related to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any
> ideas?
>
>
>
> John-AldrichTile-Tools
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> Any medical information contained in this electronic message is
> CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to
> view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This
> electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or
> legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s)
> and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an
> intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately
> and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute
> or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any
> action in reliance on the information that it contains.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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

Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL 
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, 
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may 
contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is 
intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as 
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this 
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from 
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not 
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it 
contains.

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

Re: Win98SE errors

[Peter van Houten]

Even cheaper:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

--
Peter van Houten


John Aldrich wrote the following:
Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not 
even going to be connected to the network once it's set up.


 


John-AldrichTile-Tools

 


*From:* Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Win98SE errors

 


+1.

 

Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to 
random/repeat. We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.


Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA_
_jra...@eaglemds.com mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>_
_www.eaglemds.com http://www.eaglemds.com/>



*From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Win98SE errors

 


Don't use 98?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich 
mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote:


I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on 
hold") and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to 
be related to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any 
ideas?


 


John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




Any medical information contained in this electronic message is 
CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to 
view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This 
electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or 
legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) 
and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an 
intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately 
and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute 
or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any 
action in reliance on the information that it contains.


 

 

 

 



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

Re: Win98SE errors

[Kurt Buff]

What's your time worth?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 13:39, John Aldrich
 wrote:
>
> Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of ‘em lying around. J It’s not even 
> going to be connected to the network once it’s set up.
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Win98SE errors
>
>
>
> +1.
>
>
>
> Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat. 
> We’ve been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.
>
> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> Technology Coordinator
> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
> jra...@eaglemds.com
> www.eaglemds.com
>
> 
>
> From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Win98SE errors
>
>
>
> Don't use 98?
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich  
> wrote:
>
> I’m building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our “music on hold”) and 
> I’m getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related to 
> networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL 
> and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, 
> disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message 
> may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is 
> intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as 
> recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this 
> message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from 
> your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not 
> disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that 
> it contains.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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

RE: Win98SE errors

[Raper, Jonathan - Eagle]

Ok, then if it isn't going to be connected to the network, why do you care 
about the VXD errors that seem to be related to networking?


Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.commailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>
www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/>


From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

Win9x boxes are cheaper. :) We got a ton of 'em lying around. :) It's not even 
going to be connected to the network once it's set up.

[cid:image001.jpg@01CADB28.34FBEA60][cid:image002@01cadb28.34fbea60]

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

+1.

Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat. We've 
been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.commailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>
www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/>


From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

Don't use 98?
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich 
mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote:
I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on hold") and 
I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related to 
networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

[cid:image001.jpg@01CADB28.34FBEA60][cid:image002@01cadb28.34fbea60]












Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL 
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, 
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may 
contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is 
intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as 
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this 
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from 
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not 
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it 
contains.









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

RE: Win98SE errors

[John Aldrich]

Win9x boxes are cheaper. J We got a ton of 'em lying around. J It's not even
going to be connected to the network once it's set up.

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win98SE errors

 

+1.

 

Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat.
We've been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
 mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> jra...@eaglemds.com
 http://www.eaglemds.com/> www.eaglemds.com 

  _  

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

 

Don't use 98?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich 
wrote:

I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on hold")
and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  _  

Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy,
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message
may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It
is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that
it contains.

 

 

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

RE: Win98SE errors

[Raper, Jonathan - Eagle]

+1.

Use an MP3 player connected to an AC adapter and set it to random/repeat. We've 
been doing that for YEARS with almost zero issues.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.commailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>
www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/>


From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win98SE errors

Don't use 98?
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich 
mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote:
I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on hold") and 
I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related to 
networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

[cid:image001.jpg@01CADB26.F1F5F9F0][cid:image002@01cadb26.f1f5f9f0]












Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL 
and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, 
disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may 
contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is 
intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as 
recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this 
message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from 
your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not 
disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it 
contains.

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

Re: Win98SE errors

[Jonathan Link]

Don't use 98?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Aldrich
wrote:

>  I’m building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our “music on hold”)
> and I’m getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
> to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?
>
>
>
> [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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

Win98SE errors

[John Aldrich]

I'm building a new Windows 98 box (just going to run our "music on hold")
and I'm getting some issues with missing VXD files that seem to be related
to networking. However, networking seems to be installed. Any ideas?

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 


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

Web Service Waiting for SQL Server

[Bonner, John]

Hello Admins,

I know this may be a simple questions for you guys but I'm a developer so my 
knowledge is not as robust. 

Our web server has a service that relies on communication with SQL server. If 
it doesn't see the SQL box Sitescope alarms as the service is not started. Now 
this is fine and dandy except during maintenance windows when the servers get 
rebooted and the web server comes up before the SQL box does. I know I could 
have Sitescope attempt to start the service but I was wanting to be more 
proactive and have Sitescope be the backup. So I was hoping there might be a 
configuration / dependancy I could specify on that service to not ATTEMPT it's 
first start until a check verifies SQL is up. Since I know this is not a new 
problem I figured there must be a tried and true method for handling this 
scenario?

Thank You Very Much
JB
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Out of sync DC

[Brian Desmond]

Can you post the relevant events from the AD (NTDS) log?

Your easiest option is likely dcpromo /forceremoval, metadata cleanup, and then 
dcpromo back up.

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com

c - 312.731.3132


From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

The event log looks good.  I dont see any errors related to AD.  When I boot it 
normally, it crashes with a stop 0x001c (i think) and says to reboot in AD 
recovery mode.

Maybe I just need to do a regular ol' windows repair on it?

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073
*:   jckel...@drmc.org
***
-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 15:40
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

What do the event log look like - is it correctly processing updates, or do you 
see a lot of errors? When I have a DC down for several hours the only side 
effect I see if error in the event logs that clear up after an hour or so of 
replicating.

I've had an SBS server (by definition a DC) offline for 8+hours and no ill 
effects powering it back up and re-synching with the other DC's.

Dave

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Out of sync DC

Last night had one of our DC's offline for over 8 hours.  When we finally 
corrected the issue, it crashes on boot and says to boot into AD recovery mode. 
 OK, I rebooted in to the recovery mode...and it does boot successfully.  But, 
what do I do now?  Since its been so long, am I better off to just demote it 
out of the AD?

Its a 2008 DC.  I have 2 other 2008 DCs that are still up and running.

Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks all!

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073
*  :   814.375.4005
*:   jckel...@drmc.org
***


This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.









This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.





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

RE: Out of sync DC

[Kelsey, John]

I'll have to verify the stop code.  I was pretty much out of gas after
an all-nighter.  Is it safe to try the 'last known good' on a DC?

 

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073  
*:   jckel...@drmc.org   
***

-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 16:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

 

Have you Googled that stop code yet?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms818873.aspx

 

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/stop0x001C.htm

 

 

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

 

The event log looks good.  I dont see any errors related to AD.  When I
boot it normally, it crashes with a stop 0x001c (i think) and says
to reboot in AD recovery mode.  

 

Maybe I just need to do a regular ol' windows repair on it?

 

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073  
*:   jckel...@drmc.org 
***

-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 15:40
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

 

What do the event log look like - is it correctly processing updates, or
do you see a lot of errors? When I have a DC down for several hours the
only side effect I see if error in the event logs that clear up after an
hour or so of replicating.

 

I've had an SBS server (by definition a DC) offline for 8+hours and no
ill effects powering it back up and re-synching with the other DC's.

 

Dave

 

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Out of sync DC

 

Last night had one of our DC's offline for over 8 hours.  When we
finally corrected the issue, it crashes on boot and says to boot into AD
recovery mode.  OK, I rebooted in to the recovery mode...and it does
boot successfully.  But, what do I do now?  Since its been so long, am I
better off to just demote it out of the AD?

 

Its a 2008 DC.  I have 2 other 2008 DCs that are still up and running.  

 

Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks all!

 

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073  
*  :   814.375.4005
*:   jckel...@drmc.org 
***

 

 

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the
system manager. This message contains confidential information and is
intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named
addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. 

 

 

 

 

 

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the
system manager. This message contains confidential information and is
intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named
addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. 

 

 

 

 
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

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

RE: Out of sync DC

[David Lum]

Have you Googled that stop code yet?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms818873.aspx

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/stop0x001C.htm


From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

The event log looks good.  I dont see any errors related to AD.  When I boot it 
normally, it crashes with a stop 0x001c (i think) and says to reboot in AD 
recovery mode.

Maybe I just need to do a regular ol' windows repair on it?

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073
*:   jckel...@drmc.org
***
-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 15:40
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

What do the event log look like - is it correctly processing updates, or do you 
see a lot of errors? When I have a DC down for several hours the only side 
effect I see if error in the event logs that clear up after an hour or so of 
replicating.

I've had an SBS server (by definition a DC) offline for 8+hours and no ill 
effects powering it back up and re-synching with the other DC's.

Dave

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Out of sync DC

Last night had one of our DC's offline for over 8 hours.  When we finally 
corrected the issue, it crashes on boot and says to boot into AD recovery mode. 
 OK, I rebooted in to the recovery mode...and it does boot successfully.  But, 
what do I do now?  Since its been so long, am I better off to just demote it 
out of the AD?

Its a 2008 DC.  I have 2 other 2008 DCs that are still up and running.

Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks all!

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073
*  :   814.375.4005
*:   jckel...@drmc.org
***


This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.









This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.





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

RE: Script help

[Steve Kelsay]

Thanks for the response. That is an interesting concept. I will work
with it. Thanks again.

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Script help

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Steve Kelsay 
wrote:
> The file names end in the characters "CTY" and a serial number from
1-50
> IE CTY01.pdf. The files will need to be moved to a subfolder that
> starts with the serial number, in this case for example, CTY01.pdf
> would be moved to the subfolder named 01Abbeville. I do not know quite
> how to go about this. Can anyone give me a lead to where to start?

  Can't take the time to provide tested working code, but CMD has some
features for extracting substrings built-in to variable expansion.
"SET /?" will give you a reference.  You should be able to do
something like

FOR %%f IN (*CTY??.PDF) DO (
SET FILE=%%f
SET SERIAL=%FILE:~-2%
SET DIR=%SERIAL%Abbeville
IF NOT EXIST %DIR% MKDIR %DIR%
MOVE %FILE% %DIR%
)

  Again, above is untested.

-- Ben

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

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

RE: Out of sync DC

[Kelsey, John]

The event log looks good.  I dont see any errors related to AD.  When I
boot it normally, it crashes with a stop 0x001c (i think) and says
to reboot in AD recovery mode.  

 

Maybe I just need to do a regular ol' windows repair on it?

 

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073  
*:   jckel...@drmc.org   
***

-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 15:40
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Out of sync DC

 

What do the event log look like - is it correctly processing updates, or
do you see a lot of errors? When I have a DC down for several hours the
only side effect I see if error in the event logs that clear up after an
hour or so of replicating.

 

I've had an SBS server (by definition a DC) offline for 8+hours and no
ill effects powering it back up and re-synching with the other DC's.

 

Dave

 

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Out of sync DC

 

Last night had one of our DC's offline for over 8 hours.  When we
finally corrected the issue, it crashes on boot and says to boot into AD
recovery mode.  OK, I rebooted in to the recovery mode...and it does
boot successfully.  But, what do I do now?  Since its been so long, am I
better off to just demote it out of the AD?

 

Its a 2008 DC.  I have 2 other 2008 DCs that are still up and running.  

 

Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks all!

 

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073  
*  :   814.375.4005
*:   jckel...@drmc.org 
***

 

 

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the
system manager. This message contains confidential information and is
intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named
addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. 

 

 

 

 
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

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

RE: Out of sync DC

[David Lum]

What do the event log look like - is it correctly processing updates, or do you 
see a lot of errors? When I have a DC down for several hours the only side 
effect I see if error in the event logs that clear up after an hour or so of 
replicating.

I've had an SBS server (by definition a DC) offline for 8+hours and no ill 
effects powering it back up and re-synching with the other DC's.

Dave

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Out of sync DC

Last night had one of our DC's offline for over 8 hours.  When we finally 
corrected the issue, it crashes on boot and says to boot into AD recovery mode. 
 OK, I rebooted in to the recovery mode...and it does boot successfully.  But, 
what do I do now?  Since its been so long, am I better off to just demote it 
out of the AD?

Its a 2008 DC.  I have 2 other 2008 DCs that are still up and running.

Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks all!

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073
*  :   814.375.4005
*:   jckel...@drmc.org
***


This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.





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

Out of sync DC

[Kelsey, John]

Last night had one of our DC's offline for over 8 hours.  When we
finally corrected the issue, it crashes on boot and says to boot into AD
recovery mode.  OK, I rebooted in to the recovery mode...and it does
boot successfully.  But, what do I do now?  Since its been so long, am I
better off to just demote it out of the AD?

 

Its a 2008 DC.  I have 2 other 2008 DCs that are still up and running.  

 

Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks all!

 

***
John C. Kelsey
DuBois Regional Medical Center
*:  814.375.3073  
*  :   814.375.4005
*:   jckel...@drmc.org   
***

 

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended 
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If 
you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This 
message contains confidential information and is intended only for the 
individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not 
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

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

Re: Display blanking at login

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM,   wrote:
> ... when one logs into one
> of these servers, the display goes blank for several seconds.  When the
> display comes back, it is "locked" (one must hit "Ctrl-Alt-Del" and enter
> the password to start working).

  In my experience, the display gets locked on user idle timeout
(screen saver) or on a power management event (laptop lid closes,
sleep button, etc.).  So I'd start looking there.  (Sure, they
shouldn't be happening in this case, but it shouldn't be happening at
all, so obviously something is broken.)  Check the settings for screen
saver and power management.  Possibly even change them, then change
them back, in case they're corrupt but not showing as corrupt.

  Also check the system clock, and time sync.

  Look at video card driver and settings.

> The first time I saw this, the main phone controller ended up failing over
> to its backup server.  (Calls continued, but calls on hold or in the queue
> were terminated.)

  I'm not impressed by the resiliency of your phone system.

-- Ben

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

Display blanking at login

[RichardMcClary]

Greetings!

This began a few weeks ago...  Our phone system (software only - 
Interactive Intelligence) runs on a system with includes 5 HP Proliant DL 
360GS servers.  All are Windows 2003 R2 "Server", SP-2.

The disturbing thing is, the "this" situation is that when one logs into 
one of these servers, the display goes blank for several seconds.  When 
the display comes back, it is "locked" (one must hit "Ctrl-Alt-Del" and 
enter the password to start working).

The first time I saw this, the main phone controller ended up failing over 
to its backup server.  (Calls continued, but calls on hold or in the queue 
were terminated.)

This happens both when logging in remotely AND/OR logging in at the server 
console.  Whenever I see the blank display, I worry that it may result in 
another fail-over.

Any ideas as to why all these HP servers began doing this fairly recently? 
 Oh yeah - nothing in the Sys or App events...

Thanks!
--
Richard D. McClary
Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group 
ASPCA®
1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
Urbana, IL  61802
 
richardmccl...@aspca.org
 
P: 217-337-9761
C: 217-417-1182
F: 217-337-9761
www.aspca.org
 
The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is 
from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA
®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may 
contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not 
the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any 
dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this 
e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have 
received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email 
and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any 
printout thereof.
 
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Script help

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Steve Kelsay  wrote:
> The file names end in the characters "CTY" and a serial number from 1-50
> IE CTY01.pdf. The files will need to be moved to a subfolder that
> starts with the serial number, in this case for example, CTY01.pdf
> would be moved to the subfolder named 01Abbeville. I do not know quite
> how to go about this. Can anyone give me a lead to where to start?

  Can't take the time to provide tested working code, but CMD has some
features for extracting substrings built-in to variable expansion.
"SET /?" will give you a reference.  You should be able to do
something like

FOR %%f IN (*CTY??.PDF) DO (
SET FILE=%%f
SET SERIAL=%FILE:~-2%
SET DIR=%SERIAL%Abbeville
IF NOT EXIST %DIR% MKDIR %DIR%
MOVE %FILE% %DIR%
)

  Again, above is untested.

-- Ben

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

Re: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

[James Kerr]

ok I guess I'll wait for netflix to send me another blu-ray disc and try 
that. If it still doesn't work I'll return the drive.


Thanks guys,

James
.
- Original Message - 
From: "Carl Houseman" 

To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:13 PM
Subject: RE: OT-BluRay Movie Discs


You have a bad blu-ray drive or a bad disc.  Windows should see something 
in

the drive.

I have a laptop with a blu-ray drive that worked for about a year, then it
began not recognizing a few of my discs.  I updated its firmware and after
that it doesn't see any blu-ray discs.  It wasn't a bad firmware flash
either, since DVD's still work fine.  But it's out of warranty so I am 
SOL.



You can probably take your movie to a store and ask them to play it 'cause
you want to see how it looks on that TV you might buy.  But more than 
likely
it's the drive.  If you confirm the drive is bad, let us know the 
make/model

so we can be careful in our future purchases.

Carl

-Original Message-
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

It came with power dvd that supports blu-ray playback. When I try to 
browse

the DVD through explorer it doesn't even recognize that there is a disc in
the drive.


- Original Message - 
From: "John Aldrich" 

To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: OT-BluRay Movie Discs



What software are you trying to use to play the BluRay disc? It could be
that the software doesn't support BluRay. Just guessing here. :-)




-Original Message-
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

Built my first PC with a blu-ray drive (HTPC). Got my first blu-ray DVD
and
it doesnt recognize the disc through explorer or power dvd. There isnt
something special I need to do right? It works fine with regular DVDs and
CDs. Blu-Ray discs should play just like a regular DVD right?

James




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



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

Script help

[Steve Kelsay]

I need some help with a scripting issue. 
I need to parse the filenames being FTPd from our mainframe to a folder,
then using a part of the name, move the files to subfolders.

The file names end in the characters "CTY" and a serial number from 1-50
IE CTY01.pdf. The files will need to be moved to a subfolder that
starts with the serial number, in this case for example, CTY01.pdf
would be moved to the subfolder named 01Abbeville. I do not know quite
how to go about this. Can anyone give me a lead to where to start?

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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[Joseph Heaton]

Ahh, ok... very understandable, especially in these times.

>>> "John Aldrich"  4/13/2010 9:01 AM >>>
We have sales reps who are company employees, however, they provide their
own computing and cell equipment. We also have a LOT of sales AGENTS who, of
course, are essentially private contractors who have their own phone
equipment, etc. Our company is pretty small, so we can't really afford to
provide computer hardware for a couple hundred sales reps. :-) And, while
I'd love to have a company cell phone, that's not going to happen either,
unless/until they demand I get a "smart" phone, at which time I'll bill the
company for the data portion of the plan. :-)




-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote, on-the-road users

So you have remote users, who are employees of your company, who don't use
company computing equipment?  Interesting...

>>> "John Aldrich"  4/13/2010 8:15 AM >>>
I don't. Period. The remote users are responsible for their own equipment.
The company does not supply laptops, cell phones, etc to our remote users.




-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely,
if ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their
e-mail through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.
How do you manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates,
etc?  Is it even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.


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



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


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



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


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

Re: Remote, on-the-road users

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Joseph Heaton  wrote:
> And these "in the field" users, which is what I have here... their machines
> are not actually part of your network, correct?  Not members of the domain?

  Incorrect.  Sorry, I should have mentioned that.  Our "field users"
have computers which are company owned, are domain members, and have
VPN access to the corporate network.  That places them within our main
network security perimeter, which is why we still strongly manage
them.  Their regular user accounts don't have admin rights, etc.

  Field users are responsible for their own backups.  I'll generally
give them a removable hard disk drive and a script that ROBOCOPY's
their data for them.  Plus the script logs when it is run, so I can
check that occasionally and chastise slackers.

> Ben Scott  4/13/2010 8:18 AM:
>>  We've got a couple users "in the field" who only occasionally visit
>> the main office -- a few times a year.  Those laptops are set to pull
>> Microsoft updates directly from Microsoft, rather than our internal
>> update servers.  Ditto for anti-virus updates.  Other applications are
>> handled on a very inconsistent, ad-hoc basis.  Sometimes we just wait
>> until they visit the LAN, sometimes I remote in (VPN, RDP, PSEXEC,
>> etc.) and do stuff.  I'm not happy with this, but haven't been able to
>> do anything better with our budget.

-- Ben

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

RE: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

[Carl Houseman]

You have a bad blu-ray drive or a bad disc.  Windows should see something in
the drive.

I have a laptop with a blu-ray drive that worked for about a year, then it
began not recognizing a few of my discs.  I updated its firmware and after
that it doesn't see any blu-ray discs.  It wasn't a bad firmware flash
either, since DVD's still work fine.  But it's out of warranty so I am SOL.


You can probably take your movie to a store and ask them to play it 'cause
you want to see how it looks on that TV you might buy.  But more than likely
it's the drive.  If you confirm the drive is bad, let us know the make/model
so we can be careful in our future purchases.

Carl

-Original Message-
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

It came with power dvd that supports blu-ray playback. When I try to browse 
the DVD through explorer it doesn't even recognize that there is a disc in 
the drive.


- Original Message - 
From: "John Aldrich" 
To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: OT-BluRay Movie Discs


> What software are you trying to use to play the BluRay disc? It could be
> that the software doesn't support BluRay. Just guessing here. :-)
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:44 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: OT-BluRay Movie Discs
>
> Built my first PC with a blu-ray drive (HTPC). Got my first blu-ray DVD 
> and
> it doesnt recognize the disc through explorer or power dvd. There isnt
> something special I need to do right? It works fine with regular DVDs and
> CDs. Blu-Ray discs should play just like a regular DVD right?
>
> James



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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[John Aldrich]

We have sales reps who are company employees, however, they provide their
own computing and cell equipment. We also have a LOT of sales AGENTS who, of
course, are essentially private contractors who have their own phone
equipment, etc. Our company is pretty small, so we can't really afford to
provide computer hardware for a couple hundred sales reps. :-) And, while
I'd love to have a company cell phone, that's not going to happen either,
unless/until they demand I get a "smart" phone, at which time I'll bill the
company for the data portion of the plan. :-)




-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote, on-the-road users

So you have remote users, who are employees of your company, who don't use
company computing equipment?  Interesting...

>>> "John Aldrich"  4/13/2010 8:15 AM >>>
I don't. Period. The remote users are responsible for their own equipment.
The company does not supply laptops, cell phones, etc to our remote users.




-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely,
if ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their
e-mail through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.
How do you manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates,
etc?  Is it even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.


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



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


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



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

Re: Remote, on-the-road users

[Joseph Heaton]

And these "in the field" users, which is what I have here... their machines are 
not actually part of your network, correct?  Not members of the domain?

>>> Ben Scott  4/13/2010 8:18 AM >>>
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Joseph Heaton  wrote:
> How do you guys manage remote users' machines?

  Most of our laptop users come in the main office on a regular basis
-- usually every day.  We treat those laptops basically the same as
desktops, for the most part.

  We've got a couple users "in the field" who only occasionally visit
the main office -- a few times a year.  Those laptops are set to pull
Microsoft updates directly from Microsoft, rather than our internal
update servers.  Ditto for anti-virus updates.  Other applications are
handled on a very inconsistent, ad-hoc basis.  Sometimes we just wait
until they visit the LAN, sometimes I remote in (VPN, RDP, PSEXEC,
etc.) and do stuff.  I'm not happy with this, but haven't been able to
do anything better with our budget.

> Is it even possible, realistically?

  It's possible.  It may be expensive or time-consuming.

-- Ben

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


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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[Joseph Heaton]

We have scientists, and game wardens, who don't come into offices.  They go 
straight out into the field, which in our case, is really in the fields...

>>> John Hornbuckle  4/13/2010 8:17 AM >>>
I'm sure there are much better ways, but we just make our users bring their 
laptops in periodically for updates. We don't provide desktops to anyone for 
home use.



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





-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use 
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely, if 
ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their e-mail 
through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.  How do you 
manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates, etc?  Is it 
even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.



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! ~
~   ~



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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[Joseph Heaton]

So you have remote users, who are employees of your company, who don't use 
company computing equipment?  Interesting...

>>> "John Aldrich"  4/13/2010 8:15 AM >>>
I don't. Period. The remote users are responsible for their own equipment.
The company does not supply laptops, cell phones, etc to our remote users.




-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely,
if ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their
e-mail through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.
How do you manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates,
etc?  Is it even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.


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



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


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

Re: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

[James Kerr]

It came with power dvd that supports blu-ray playback. When I try to browse 
the DVD through explorer it doesn't even recognize that there is a disc in 
the drive.



- Original Message - 
From: "John Aldrich" 

To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: OT-BluRay Movie Discs



What software are you trying to use to play the BluRay disc? It could be
that the software doesn't support BluRay. Just guessing here. :-)




-Original Message-
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

Built my first PC with a blu-ray drive (HTPC). Got my first blu-ray DVD 
and

it doesnt recognize the disc through explorer or power dvd. There isnt
something special I need to do right? It works fine with regular DVDs and
CDs. Blu-Ray discs should play just like a regular DVD right?

James


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


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



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

RE: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

[John Aldrich]

What software are you trying to use to play the BluRay disc? It could be
that the software doesn't support BluRay. Just guessing here. :-)




-Original Message-
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

Built my first PC with a blu-ray drive (HTPC). Got my first blu-ray DVD and 
it doesnt recognize the disc through explorer or power dvd. There isnt 
something special I need to do right? It works fine with regular DVDs and 
CDs. Blu-Ray discs should play just like a regular DVD right?

James 


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


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

RE: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

[Ken Schaefer]

You need some software that can decode Blu-Ray discs. 

Windows has a DVD decoder built-in now for encrypted DVDs (i.e. commercial 
releases - not the DVDs you burn yourself) - but doesn't ship with a Blu-Ray 
decoder. Most Blu-Ray drives should come with some software. Launch the 
software and then try to open the "drive" if double-clicking in Explorer 
doesn't work.

Cheers
Ken

-Original Message-
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT-BluRay Movie Discs

Built my first PC with a blu-ray drive (HTPC). Got my first blu-ray DVD and it 
doesnt recognize the disc through explorer or power dvd. There isnt something 
special I need to do right? It works fine with regular DVDs and CDs. Blu-Ray 
discs should play just like a regular DVD right?

James 

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

RE: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

[Jay Dale]

Did an IPCONFIG /all - nothing found.  Did a ping for .60 with the server 
turned off - nothing found.  Updated the firmware on the firewall, still get 
the message.

We are a small operation, however this server does demos of our software to O&G 
companies, so it can't really be shut down for too long.  I'm going to try the 
packet sniffer option and see if that shows anything.


Jay Dale
I.T. Manager, 3GiG
Mobile: 713.299.2541
Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com 

Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain 
confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended 
recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that 
any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or 
the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the 
intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended 
recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of 
this message.



-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jay Dale  wrote:
> It could be a case where the second server is thinking the IP of
> the application is the firewall instead.

  Even if that second server was confused like that (which I suppose
is possible), it shouldn't cause the firewall to claim the first
server's IP address.  Hmmm.

  Okay, let's back up and review what we know and what that tells us.

  (A1) We know the server at 192.168.0.60 is complaining of a
duplicate IP address, and the MAC address that server gives is the
same as the firewall's MAC address.

  Does the server at 192.168.0.60 have any additional IP addresses
configured?  Even if you don't think so, if you haven't checked
recently, run "IPCONFIG /ALL" on the .60 server to see if something
happened without your knowledge.

  Assuming the server at .60 has only that single IP address

  I believe the A1 message occurs when the server in question sees an
ARP reply from another host, for an IP address configured locally.
So, either (B1) the firewall emitted that ARP reply, or (B2) something
else is spoofing the firewall's MAC address and emitting the ARP
reply.

  I would consider B2 to be fairly unlikely.  That generally is either
(C1) malice, or (C2) deliberate jiggery-pokery done on a network
interface to satisfy some other broken thing (like application
software licensed to a particular MAC address).  You're small enough
that C1 seems unlikely, and you'd presumably know if C2 was being
done.  So that leaves B1.

  Reasons I can think of for B1 are: (D1) Firewall is configured with
192.168.0.60 as a secondary IP address.  (D2) Firewall is doing proxy
ARP for another node, and that other node is configured with
192.168.0.60 as an IP address.  (D3) Firewall malfunction.

  Have you tried unplugging the "real" .192.168.0.60 server, and then
pinging 192.168.0.60 to see if something else answers?  That would
definitely be a good next step.  It should easily spot D1 or D2.

  Do you have the latest firmware loaded for the firewall?  Possibly
this is D3, and it's a bug fixed by a newer firmware.

  Possibly it is worth clearing NVRAM on the firewall, resetting it to
factory defaults, and re-creating the configuration from scratch.
Don't reuse an existing config file.  This is a pain, but again, you
seem to be a small operation (5 people, you said), so not *that* much
of a pain.  And if something is corrupt on the firewall, or some
obscure configuration item someone accidentally tripped over is
causing the problem, this will likely clear it.  I'd think this more
likely to fix something than just changing the nominal IP address of
the firewall from 192.168.0.2 to something else.

  If none of the above helps, I would prolly start using a packet
sniffer to watch what's actually happening on the network.  Use an
independent computer, start sniffing just before the real
192.168.0.60, and see if that bogus ARP reply shows up.  Then start
backtracking to see where it's coming from.

-- Ben

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

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

OT-BluRay Movie Discs

[James Kerr]

Built my first PC with a blu-ray drive (HTPC). Got my first blu-ray DVD and 
it doesnt recognize the disc through explorer or power dvd. There isnt 
something special I need to do right? It works fine with regular DVDs and 
CDs. Blu-Ray discs should play just like a regular DVD right?


James 



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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[Ken Schaefer]

I'll confess that most of our workforce is "out in the field" (>4000 users). 
Personally I haven't been into one of our offices for > 6 weeks.

We have a couple of ways of dealing with this:
a) an optional corporate image that has baked-in the necessary stuff to handle 
AV, patching and so forth
b) a corporate policy (plus an audit tool) for everyone else.
We are lucky that we are partly owned by Microsoft (so we have all the latest 
and greatest tech) and as an SI most of our mobile workforce is pretty 
technical. Of course we have the sales force etc. that aren't necessarily 
technical hence option (a)

Cheers
Ken

-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote, on-the-road users

Can't SCCM 2007 manage clients over HTTPS?

I assume that DirectAccess is designed to help solve some of these problems, by 
basically setting up a VPN without the users need to do it manually.

Cheers
Ken

-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use 
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely, if 
ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their e-mail 
through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.  How do you 
manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates, etc?  Is it 
even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.



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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[David Mazzaccaro]

ditto 

-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote, on-the-road users

I'm sure there are much better ways, but we just make our users bring
their laptops in periodically for updates. We don't provide desktops to
anyone for home use.



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





-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that
use laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that
rarely, if ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access
their e-mail through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as
they have.  How do you manage that type of system?  Ensure security
updates, AV updates, etc?  Is it even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.



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! ~ ~
  ~


.

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

Re: Remote, on-the-road users

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Joseph Heaton  wrote:
> How do you guys manage remote users' machines?

  Most of our laptop users come in the main office on a regular basis
-- usually every day.  We treat those laptops basically the same as
desktops, for the most part.

  We've got a couple users "in the field" who only occasionally visit
the main office -- a few times a year.  Those laptops are set to pull
Microsoft updates directly from Microsoft, rather than our internal
update servers.  Ditto for anti-virus updates.  Other applications are
handled on a very inconsistent, ad-hoc basis.  Sometimes we just wait
until they visit the LAN, sometimes I remote in (VPN, RDP, PSEXEC,
etc.) and do stuff.  I'm not happy with this, but haven't been able to
do anything better with our budget.

> Is it even possible, realistically?

  It's possible.  It may be expensive or time-consuming.

-- Ben

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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[John Hornbuckle]

I'm sure there are much better ways, but we just make our users bring their 
laptops in periodically for updates. We don't provide desktops to anyone for 
home use.



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





-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use 
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely, if 
ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their e-mail 
through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.  How do you 
manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates, etc?  Is it 
even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.



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! ~
~   ~

RE: Outlook appointments opening as emails

[Hart, Robert]

Both are fully patched and the problem still occurs on a different machine 
which makes this seem like an issue with the Calendar itself on the exchange 
side.  I may ping the exchange group and see what happens.  One of the problems 
is we cannot recreate it at will so trying to backtrack is not an option for 
us.  

 

Now when we view the appointments by “Category” or “Date”, not by “day” or 
“week” the appointment does not even show up in the list.  I can also copy the 
appointment from the users calendar to my calendar and then I have the same 
problem.  We just need to figure out how it got there and how to stop it from 
happening.  

 

 

 

 

Bob

 

From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] 
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 7:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Outlook appointments opening as emails

 

Hi Robert,

 

I'd be inclined to make sure Windows and Office (and Exchange if applicable) 
are fully patched and also try logging on as this user on a different 
workstation to see if you can recreate the problem in order to eliminate the 
suspicion that it is the computer or the user account / profile.

 

Let us know how you get on.

 

Regards,

 

andrew

 

 

On 10 April 2010 04:02, Hart, Robert  wrote:

Nope, did not work. 

 

Bob

 

 

 

 

From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 2:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Outlook appointments opening as emails

 

Try deleting the frmcache.dat (or the entire contents of the forms directory).

 

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\FORMS


- Sean

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Hart, Robert  
wrote:


I have a user where they have delegated permission to their calendar.
Basically other people create appointments on their calendar.  When the
user goes to open the appointment, instead of the appointment showing up
the email editor opens like they are replying to an email instead of
seeing the details to the appointment.  This also prevents the user from
seeing who as accepted the appointment or from modifying it.  This
happens when others create the appointments or when she does, not all
the time though.  Any ideas what is going?

Using:
Windows XP SP3
Office 2003 SP3


Thanks,

Bob

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

 

 

 

 

 




-- 
Kind regards,

Andrew Levicki
ルビッキー アンドルュー
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist on Windows 7
MCITP Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008
MCITP Enterprise Messaging Administrator on Exchange Server 2007
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows Server 2003
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
ITILv3

 

 

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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[John Aldrich]

I don't. Period. The remote users are responsible for their own equipment.
The company does not supply laptops, cell phones, etc to our remote users.




-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely,
if ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their
e-mail through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.
How do you manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates,
etc?  Is it even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.


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



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

Re: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jay Dale  wrote:
> It could be a case where the second server is thinking the IP of
> the application is the firewall instead.

  Even if that second server was confused like that (which I suppose
is possible), it shouldn't cause the firewall to claim the first
server's IP address.  Hmmm.

  Okay, let's back up and review what we know and what that tells us.

  (A1) We know the server at 192.168.0.60 is complaining of a
duplicate IP address, and the MAC address that server gives is the
same as the firewall's MAC address.

  Does the server at 192.168.0.60 have any additional IP addresses
configured?  Even if you don't think so, if you haven't checked
recently, run "IPCONFIG /ALL" on the .60 server to see if something
happened without your knowledge.

  Assuming the server at .60 has only that single IP address

  I believe the A1 message occurs when the server in question sees an
ARP reply from another host, for an IP address configured locally.
So, either (B1) the firewall emitted that ARP reply, or (B2) something
else is spoofing the firewall's MAC address and emitting the ARP
reply.

  I would consider B2 to be fairly unlikely.  That generally is either
(C1) malice, or (C2) deliberate jiggery-pokery done on a network
interface to satisfy some other broken thing (like application
software licensed to a particular MAC address).  You're small enough
that C1 seems unlikely, and you'd presumably know if C2 was being
done.  So that leaves B1.

  Reasons I can think of for B1 are: (D1) Firewall is configured with
192.168.0.60 as a secondary IP address.  (D2) Firewall is doing proxy
ARP for another node, and that other node is configured with
192.168.0.60 as an IP address.  (D3) Firewall malfunction.

  Have you tried unplugging the "real" .192.168.0.60 server, and then
pinging 192.168.0.60 to see if something else answers?  That would
definitely be a good next step.  It should easily spot D1 or D2.

  Do you have the latest firmware loaded for the firewall?  Possibly
this is D3, and it's a bug fixed by a newer firmware.

  Possibly it is worth clearing NVRAM on the firewall, resetting it to
factory defaults, and re-creating the configuration from scratch.
Don't reuse an existing config file.  This is a pain, but again, you
seem to be a small operation (5 people, you said), so not *that* much
of a pain.  And if something is corrupt on the firewall, or some
obscure configuration item someone accidentally tripped over is
causing the problem, this will likely clear it.  I'd think this more
likely to fix something than just changing the nominal IP address of
the firewall from 192.168.0.2 to something else.

  If none of the above helps, I would prolly start using a packet
sniffer to watch what's actually happening on the network.  Use an
independent computer, start sniffing just before the real
192.168.0.60, and see if that bogus ARP reply shows up.  Then start
backtracking to see where it's coming from.

-- Ben

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

RE: Remote, on-the-road users

[Ken Schaefer]

Can't SCCM 2007 manage clients over HTTPS?

I assume that DirectAccess is designed to help solve some of these problems, by 
basically setting up a VPN without the users need to do it manually.

Cheers
Ken

-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote, on-the-road users

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use 
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely, if 
ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their e-mail 
through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.  How do you 
manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates, etc?  Is it 
even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.


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

Remote, on-the-road users

[Joseph Heaton]

How do you guys manage remote users' machines?  I have many users that use 
laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely, if 
ever actually connect to the network by wire.  They'll access their e-mail 
through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have.  How do you 
manage that type of system?  Ensure security updates, AV updates, etc?  Is it 
even possible, realistically?


Any thoughts are appreciated.


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

SURVEY: Is Virtualization Helping Or Hurting Uptime?

[Stu Sjouwerman]

Hi Guys, we'd be thrilled if you can help out with this one...

SURVEY: Is Virtualization Helping Or Hurting Uptime?

Does your network deliver acceptable level of uptime? Have you virtualized your 
environment and if so, has virtualization enabled your organization to achieve 
better economies of scale and improved server and application availability? Is 
your server infrastructure getting the job done? Sunbelt Software and ITIC 
would like your experience. We've created a new survey.

The questions are straightforward and it should take less than 5 minutes to 
complete. All responses are kept confidential. And once again, anyone who 
completes the survey is eligible to win one of two (2) free personalized iPods! 
To be eligible to win the iPods you must leave your Email address along with 
your comment in the final question comment box. Here's the link:
http://www.wservernews.com/100412-Virtualization-Survey

As always, we will post an Executive Summary of the results and survey 
highlights in this newsletter once we've polled all the results. Anyone who 
completes the survey is also eligible to obtain a free copy of the Report by 
emailing Laura directly at ldi...@itic-corp.com. Thanks in advance and we look 
forward to your input!
http://www.wservernews.com/100412-Virtualization-Survey

Warm regards,

Stu Sjouwerman
Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media
P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218
F: +1-727-562-5199
s...@sunbelt-software.com


...

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

RE: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

[John Aldrich]

That's strange...I can't even guess why it would do that, but since you've
double-checked just about everything else *shrug*




-Original Message-
From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

I have gone through each office and have determined there are no devices or
equipment doing DHCP.  I am also in agreement that switching the IP on the
LAN side will not solve the issue, although I will be trying it this
afternoon.

I do have a theory on what could be causing it, however.  We have an
application that we develop that is hosted on that .60 server.  At one point
within the software, you can pull up maps and geographical locations from an
ArcGIS server, which is a different IP.  The application actually goes out
to our FQDN and back into the network on a different port and hits that
server to pull up the map information.  It could be a case where the second
server is thinking the IP of the application is the firewall instead.
Again, this is just a theory, but I've checked everywhere else and have not
found anything that could be causing the situation.

Jay Dale
I.T. Manager, 3GiG
Mobile: 713.299.2541
Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com 

Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may
contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the
intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and
attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly
prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive
information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply
e-mail and delete all copies of this message.


-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

I tend to agree. I think you'll find that someone has *something* plugged in
that is doing DHCP. Whether they realize it or not, they've caused this
problem. I'd suggest going around and unplugging any piece of SOHO equipment
that you did not personally install and configure, one by one, and then see
if after unplugging each one (and with the "offending server" unplugged,)
you can still ping the IP address of the server.



-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 4:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Jay Dale  wrote:
> Wifi is 10.0.1.0/24, Sonicwall is 10.0.1.1.  DHCP range on local is
between
> .100 and .200, same for wifi.  The IP for the server is .60 that keeps
> rejecting ...

  Okay, given what you've said so far, I don't think changing the IP
address of the SonicWall on the wired network is likely to help
anyway.  If the SonicWall is mistakenly doing proxy ARP, or otherwise
configured to claim an additional incorrect address, it would keep
doing so.  I don't know why they suggest that.

  (Unless the SonicWall support folks are just engaged in some
"shotgun debugging": "The making of relatively undirected changes to
software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence.
This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs."  (Jargon
File))

  If you can, I'd suggest taking the server that keeps rejecting, and
unplugging it from the LAN.  Then use a different computer (still
plugged into the LAN) to try ping'ing 192.168.0.60 and see if anything
answers.  If it does, you can start tracing there.  :-)

> ... in the Sonicwall ARP cache it is listed with the correct MAC address.

  ARP caches are generally overwritten as soon as a new answer comes
in.  Since the problem is intermittent, it could be that when the
failure mode occurs, the ARP cache in the Sonicwall would show
something different, but by the time you can check it, that bogus
answer has been replaced.

> And we only have 5 guys in this office, and I've walked around and asked -
> they're all developers and are fairly knowledgeable about what I ask them
> (for the most part - they are developers you know...:))

  Hmmm.  Well, they might not realize that combination
print-server/coffee-maker they got at Staples is also a DHCP server.
Or, they could just be flat-out lying.  But I guess we'll take their
word for it for now.  :)

-- Ben

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



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


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



~ Finally, powerful endpoint 

RE: msvcrt.dll error: _except_handler4_common

[Joe Tinney]

You might try Process Explorer and using the Find function to find
msvcrt.dll. That would at least tell you the processes that are using
it. This usually works for me whenever the erroring application actually
hangs and doesn't just exit and note the error. If it just continues on
and actually exits you may have a difficult time indeed tracking it
down.

 

Doing a search on my Win 7 64-bit system found 36 processes using that
DLL at the moment.

 

Good luck!

 

Joe 

 

From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: msvcrt.dll error: _except_handler4_common

 

This is on Windows 2003 std 32bit. I get this error when trying to run
the management console for Soapbox Server (an xmpp messaging package).
This was working months ago, but I had to stop working on it until now
due to lack of time.  Even trying to reinstall gives me the same message
just as it comes to the screen for creating/using the SQLExpress
database.

 

Searching online mentions using depends.exe to try and figure out what
is hitting the msvcrt.dll, but I can't seem to figure out how to make
depends.exe do that. I've tried process monitor and only see registry
paths come up. Other people have found dwmapi.dll on their system and
solved this error by renaming or deleting that file, but it's not
present on my system.

 

This function is present in the Vista msvcrt.dll, but not the XP/2003
version. Looking for answers or tips on how to solve this. TIA.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

 

 

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

RE: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

[Jay Dale]

I have gone through each office and have determined there are no devices or 
equipment doing DHCP.  I am also in agreement that switching the IP on the LAN 
side will not solve the issue, although I will be trying it this afternoon.

I do have a theory on what could be causing it, however.  We have an 
application that we develop that is hosted on that .60 server.  At one point 
within the software, you can pull up maps and geographical locations from an 
ArcGIS server, which is a different IP.  The application actually goes out to 
our FQDN and back into the network on a different port and hits that server to 
pull up the map information.  It could be a case where the second server is 
thinking the IP of the application is the firewall instead.  Again, this is 
just a theory, but I've checked everywhere else and have not found anything 
that could be causing the situation.

Jay Dale
I.T. Manager, 3GiG
Mobile: 713.299.2541
Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com 

Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain 
confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended 
recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that 
any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or 
the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the 
intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended 
recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of 
this message.


-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

I tend to agree. I think you'll find that someone has *something* plugged in
that is doing DHCP. Whether they realize it or not, they've caused this
problem. I'd suggest going around and unplugging any piece of SOHO equipment
that you did not personally install and configure, one by one, and then see
if after unplugging each one (and with the "offending server" unplugged,)
you can still ping the IP address of the server.



-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 4:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Jay Dale  wrote:
> Wifi is 10.0.1.0/24, Sonicwall is 10.0.1.1.  DHCP range on local is
between
> .100 and .200, same for wifi.  The IP for the server is .60 that keeps
> rejecting ...

  Okay, given what you've said so far, I don't think changing the IP
address of the SonicWall on the wired network is likely to help
anyway.  If the SonicWall is mistakenly doing proxy ARP, or otherwise
configured to claim an additional incorrect address, it would keep
doing so.  I don't know why they suggest that.

  (Unless the SonicWall support folks are just engaged in some
"shotgun debugging": "The making of relatively undirected changes to
software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence.
This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs."  (Jargon
File))

  If you can, I'd suggest taking the server that keeps rejecting, and
unplugging it from the LAN.  Then use a different computer (still
plugged into the LAN) to try ping'ing 192.168.0.60 and see if anything
answers.  If it does, you can start tracing there.  :-)

> ... in the Sonicwall ARP cache it is listed with the correct MAC address.

  ARP caches are generally overwritten as soon as a new answer comes
in.  Since the problem is intermittent, it could be that when the
failure mode occurs, the ARP cache in the Sonicwall would show
something different, but by the time you can check it, that bogus
answer has been replaced.

> And we only have 5 guys in this office, and I've walked around and asked -
> they're all developers and are fairly knowledgeable about what I ask them
> (for the most part - they are developers you know...:))

  Hmmm.  Well, they might not realize that combination
print-server/coffee-maker they got at Staples is also a DHCP server.
Or, they could just be flat-out lying.  But I guess we'll take their
word for it for now.  :)

-- Ben

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



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


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

Re: Copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7

[James Rankin]

I found a solution to this, but unfortunately not one that most people can
probably implement.

By loading up Citrix Profile Management, I get access to some funky GPOs
that allow me to use a template profile for all my users. I created the
basic profile using the link I quoted (
http://joeelway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!2708.entry).
This works a treat, but as I said, a bit unfortunate that it's only
available to those who've paid for Citrix. it also seems to do a really good
job of stopping profile bloat, so far. I've got a test user that has been
running Office, Adobe Reader, IE, AutoCAD and Office Communicator and their
whole profile adds up to 1.4MB.

On 13 April 2010 09:39, James Rankin  wrote:

> As I said, sysprepping every time I want to make a minor modification to
> the base profile is a bit of a pain.
>
> Also, I concur with Carl about getting Enabler to work. It doesn't want to
> play on my 2008 R2 Citrix systems.
>
> Using the guidelines given here (
> http://joeelway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!2708.entry)
>  seems to allow me to create a profile correctly, but it doesn't seem to be
> loading for the users. However this may be because I haven't got the roaming
> profile path specified - I'm playing with Citrix Profile Management and want
> to see how that goes before creating new roaming profiles.
>
> On 12 April 2010 17:51, Manpreet Chaniana  wrote:
>
>> Well what we have done is we do Sysprep the each Windows 2008 servers and
>> as a part of the XML files we have set the admin profile and its copies the
>> data to the Default user profile and it works like a charm
>>
>>  --
>> *From:* Carl Houseman 
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues 
>> *Sent:* Mon, April 12, 2010 12:29:14 PM
>> *Subject:* RE: Copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7
>>
>>  The black wallpaper problem can be solved.  See post from "Snatraps"
>> near the bottom of this long discussion thread about the problem on Technet:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/5a5d44b6-116a-4a21-bc64-53379218ecc6
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, there's two versions of Enabler out there that purport to
>> do the same thing, and neither one worked on my W7 x64.
>>
>>
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
>> *Sent:* Monday, April 12, 2010 10:52 AM
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone found a workaround of any sort for the issue with copying
>> profiles in Windows 2008 R2 - i.e. it can't be done, the Copy button is
>> greyed-out in System properties for all except the Default User profile? All
>> I am looking to do is apply some basic settings and remove some of the
>> associated default user bloat by copying a customised profile to
>> "\\DC\netlogon\Default User.v2", but MS appear to have removed this
>> functionality for some reason and are now recommending that you use a local
>> account and then copy it to the default profile using sysprep. As I
>> occasionally want to make updates to this customised default profile, this
>> seems like a bit of a pain in the proverbials to have had the functionality
>> removed - especially as it was available during my testing on Server 2008
>> R1.
>>
>> I have read a few threads recommending the use of a third-party tool
>> called Windows Enabler, but apparently this changes the desktop to black,
>> which makes it unsuitable for me. There are also a few suggestions for
>> renaming the Default folder and then renaming the customised folder to
>> Default, but I don't fancy doing this...it seems a bit haphazard for my
>> liking, and I like to get the base user profile nice and smart and
>> streamlined.
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas or tips I would be very grateful,
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> JRR
>>
>> --
>> "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."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> "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."
>
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
"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! ~
~   ~

RE: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

[John Aldrich]

I tend to agree. I think you'll find that someone has *something* plugged in
that is doing DHCP. Whether they realize it or not, they've caused this
problem. I'd suggest going around and unplugging any piece of SOHO equipment
that you did not personally install and configure, one by one, and then see
if after unplugging each one (and with the "offending server" unplugged,)
you can still ping the IP address of the server.



-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 4:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Initial access to server denied, then accepted

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Jay Dale  wrote:
> Wifi is 10.0.1.0/24, Sonicwall is 10.0.1.1.  DHCP range on local is
between
> .100 and .200, same for wifi.  The IP for the server is .60 that keeps
> rejecting ...

  Okay, given what you've said so far, I don't think changing the IP
address of the SonicWall on the wired network is likely to help
anyway.  If the SonicWall is mistakenly doing proxy ARP, or otherwise
configured to claim an additional incorrect address, it would keep
doing so.  I don't know why they suggest that.

  (Unless the SonicWall support folks are just engaged in some
"shotgun debugging": "The making of relatively undirected changes to
software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence.
This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs."  (Jargon
File))

  If you can, I'd suggest taking the server that keeps rejecting, and
unplugging it from the LAN.  Then use a different computer (still
plugged into the LAN) to try ping'ing 192.168.0.60 and see if anything
answers.  If it does, you can start tracing there.  :-)

> ... in the Sonicwall ARP cache it is listed with the correct MAC address.

  ARP caches are generally overwritten as soon as a new answer comes
in.  Since the problem is intermittent, it could be that when the
failure mode occurs, the ARP cache in the Sonicwall would show
something different, but by the time you can check it, that bogus
answer has been replaced.

> And we only have 5 guys in this office, and I've walked around and asked -
> they're all developers and are fairly knowledgeable about what I ask them
> (for the most part - they are developers you know...:))

  Hmmm.  Well, they might not realize that combination
print-server/coffee-maker they got at Staples is also a DHCP server.
Or, they could just be flat-out lying.  But I guess we'll take their
word for it for now.  :)

-- Ben

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



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

RE: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch repeater

[Martin Blackstone]

+4

-Original Message-
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 11:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch
repeater

+3
I tested both Cisco Waas, and Riverbed. We we're using a product called
Tacit, that has since been bought and sold and EOL'd now so it was time to
change.  Riverbed really outshined Waas. The Cisco product was (and still is
IMHO) being defined inside Cisco, and I had two code upgrade patches that
came out during testing that was like pulling teeth to get to work properly.
Exchange 2007 on Wass with the default encryption was painful, and
half-baked at the time (might be better now).  Also, if you plan on using
there remote user solution Cisco's product is a totally separate product and
requires it's own infrastructure. The Riverbed units, just plain worked
great going in. I've had 0 issues or complaints with file locking issues, or
other oddities that used to plague us with the Tacit solution. The Steelhead
mobile clients require a Steelhead Mobile controller for licensing (can be
run on a vm inside a normal Steelhead server) but they use our already
in-place Steelhead servers to connect to, and the process is pretty
seamless. We also got rid of all of our remote office domain controllers and
print servers and run a Windows 2008 vm on the Steelhead servers in those
offices now to reduce our footprint. One complaint I have with them is that
on the smaller units they are still 32-bit, so you can't run 2008R2 on them
as a vm although I'm told there going to be "fixing" that issue soon (which
to me means the cpu must already be 64-bit). 

Best thing about it is that it just plain works. 

Good Luck!
-Greg 




-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch
repeater

On 12 Apr 2010 at 10:06, Derrenbacker,  L. Jonathan  wrote:

> 
> I tested all of the major wan optimizers about 2 years ago including 
> Riverbed Steelheads, Cisco WAAS, and the Citrix product. The end 
> result is the Riverbed blew everyone out of the water. It wasn´t even 
> close. I initially thought the Citrix product would be best since at 
> the time all wan users used citrix for 100% of their work, but what I 
> found after installing demo units is the ICA protocol was apparently 
> not being optimized to the degree I had anticipated. I worked with 
> engineers of the product who explained how the ICA optimization worked 
> which after understanding it I wasn´t too impressed. The users notice 
> no real difference.When I put the steelheads in, the performance 
> increase was so great I actually eventually pulled everyone at all 
> remote sites off of citrix with the exception of 2 database apps that 
> still have to go through citrix because they´re too chatty. I average 
> a 7x bandwidth increase with the steelheads with their compression. IMO,
they might cost a lot more, but are worth every penny.

Is Microsoft's new Branch Office Server attacking this same problem?

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/





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


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


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

Re: Copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7

[James Rankin]

As I said, sysprepping every time I want to make a minor modification to the
base profile is a bit of a pain.

Also, I concur with Carl about getting Enabler to work. It doesn't want to
play on my 2008 R2 Citrix systems.

Using the guidelines given here (
http://joeelway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!2708.entry ) seems
to allow me to create a profile correctly, but it doesn't seem to be loading
for the users. However this may be because I haven't got the roaming profile
path specified - I'm playing with Citrix Profile Management and want to see
how that goes before creating new roaming profiles.

On 12 April 2010 17:51, Manpreet Chaniana  wrote:

> Well what we have done is we do Sysprep the each Windows 2008 servers and
> as a part of the XML files we have set the admin profile and its copies the
> data to the Default user profile and it works like a charm
>
>  --
> *From:* Carl Houseman 
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues 
> *Sent:* Mon, April 12, 2010 12:29:14 PM
> *Subject:* RE: Copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7
>
>  The black wallpaper problem can be solved.  See post from "Snatraps" near
> the bottom of this long discussion thread about the problem on Technet:
>
>
>
>
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/5a5d44b6-116a-4a21-bc64-53379218ecc6
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, there's two versions of Enabler out there that purport to do
> the same thing, and neither one worked on my W7 x64.
>
>
>
> Carl
>
>
>
> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 12, 2010 10:52 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7
>
>
>
> Has anyone found a workaround of any sort for the issue with copying
> profiles in Windows 2008 R2 - i.e. it can't be done, the Copy button is
> greyed-out in System properties for all except the Default User profile? All
> I am looking to do is apply some basic settings and remove some of the
> associated default user bloat by copying a customised profile to
> "\\DC\netlogon\Default User.v2", but MS appear to have removed this
> functionality for some reason and are now recommending that you use a local
> account and then copy it to the default profile using sysprep. As I
> occasionally want to make updates to this customised default profile, this
> seems like a bit of a pain in the proverbials to have had the functionality
> removed - especially as it was available during my testing on Server 2008
> R1.
>
> I have read a few threads recommending the use of a third-party tool called
> Windows Enabler, but apparently this changes the desktop to black, which
> makes it unsuitable for me. There are also a few suggestions for renaming
> the Default folder and then renaming the customised folder to Default, but I
> don't fancy doing this...it seems a bit haphazard for my liking, and I like
> to get the base user profile nice and smart and streamlined.
>
> If anyone has any ideas or tips I would be very grateful,
>
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
>
> JRR
>
> --
> "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."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
"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! ~
~   ~