Re: Citrix web interface query
Yes, all clear - I'm pretty sure I checked it, there were no specific domains specified, but I'll give it another check Cheers, On 30 October 2010 00:06, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: In Web Interface Management Console: Click your site Click Authentication Methods Click on your selected method Click Properties Click General | Domain Restriction Do you have “Restrict to the following domains” selected? If so, what domain(s) is/are there? For mine I have websterslab.com. If I login as websterslab\cwebster, the online plugin will not pass-through the login credentials because they do not match what you specified. Same problem if you specify “websterslab” and the user logs in with websterslab.com\cwebster or, if you allow, cwebs...@websterslab.com, the pass-through will not pass-through because the domains do not match. Am I clear in what I am trying to explain what may be causing your issue? Thanks Carl Webster Citrix Technology Professional http://dabcc.com/Webster *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Subject:* Re: Citrix web interface query It is just using pass-through for their currently logged-on credentials, they don't specify it. I'm starting to consider other alternatives now, such as trying to migrate these app servers to a legacy farm in the new domain On 29 October 2010 14:05, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Do you specify a domain in the sites or do the users enter the domain when they login? There is also an issue that if you specify a login domain as websterslab.com in the site settings but the user logs in websterslab\user the PNAgent (AKA online plugin) will NOT authenticate because websterslab != websterslab.com. Webster *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Subject:* Re: Citrix web interface query Yes, got all the appropriate entries in there. The logon works fine if I specify credentials from the old domains. It's just when I supply a username and password from the new domain - it barfs out the invalid credentials error. I can access file shares and such like in the old domains under a new domain userid, so I'm a bit confused as to why the PNAgent logon won't go. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
SBS 2003 storage upgrade
This is for our church so budget is really tight right now. We have a 2003 sbs system, running exchange, quickbooks and a power church app. Drive d holds the exchange database, all the user file shares and is almost full. Currently the server has one 80gig drive partitioned as C: 20 gig, D: the rest. Here is my plan to upgrade it. Do you think it will work or are there better/simpler options. I have a cheapio IDE raid card and 2 larger drives. I plan to shutdown the system, install the card and drives, boot and run the bios on the card to set up the two new drive as raid 1. Then boot into windows so that the OS can find the new card and install the drivers. I'll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D partition to the new raid 1 array I've just created, resizing in the process. When that is done, reboot the machine into windows, use disk manager to swap the existing D drive to the new larger one, make sure the shares are correct and then restart exchange, QB and power church. This would leave C on the original drive, and d on the new larger array. Not my first choice, but the two drives are free, they but aren't large enough to hold C and D and still have much room to grow. Or second scenario. Same server, but I also have cheapio sata card and 2 even larger hard drives. I'd like to clone the entire server to these two larger hard drives, expanding the c and d partitions and only end up with two drives in the system. I know I can use the UBCD to clone and resize the drives, but I'm doubting windows would boot from the new controller and drives. Any ideas or tried and true solutions would be appreciated. Glen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers
What server is each DNS server using as its primary DNS server? If it is using the other server, that might cause your problem, if for some reason, it's not failing over to the next one in the list in a timely fashion. Also, when you do an NSLOOKUP locally on each server, is it responding via IPv6 or IPv4? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Oct 30, 2010 7:10 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: When one of the servers is down DNS becomes totally unreachable until they are both available. So two DC's both hosting DNS. Shut down one, and the other stops serving DNS and DHCP. Once they are both up, everything comes back. Has anyone seen this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS 2003 storage upgrade
I vote for plan three, it seems simpler. Add the new drives and leave the old D drive in place and move user files or the exchange stores to that drive. Whichever is the largest. If it is the user files just robocopy them over then delete the old ones from the D drive leaving the new free space for the exchange stores. If it is the exchange stores you want to movemake new stores on the new drive and move the mailboxes over and delete the old stores after you are done. You can schedule the mailbox move at 2 am. It will do it while everyone, including you are asleep. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2003 storage upgrade This is for our church so budget is really tight right now. We have a 2003 sbs system, running exchange, quickbooks and a power church app. Drive d holds the exchange database, all the user file shares and is almost full. Currently the server has one 80gig drive partitioned as C: 20 gig, D: the rest. Here is my plan to upgrade it. Do you think it will work or are there better/simpler options. I have a cheapio IDE raid card and 2 larger drives. I plan to shutdown the system, install the card and drives, boot and run the bios on the card to set up the two new drive as raid 1. Then boot into windows so that the OS can find the new card and install the drivers. I'll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D partition to the new raid 1 array I've just created, resizing in the process. When that is done, reboot the machine into windows, use disk manager to swap the existing D drive to the new larger one, make sure the shares are correct and then restart exchange, QB and power church. This would leave C on the original drive, and d on the new larger array. Not my first choice, but the two drives are free, they but aren't large enough to hold C and D and still have much room to grow. Or second scenario. Same server, but I also have cheapio sata card and 2 even larger hard drives. I'd like to clone the entire server to these two larger hard drives, expanding the c and d partitions and only end up with two drives in the system. I know I can use the UBCD to clone and resize the drives, but I'm doubting windows would boot from the new controller and drives. Any ideas or tried and true solutions would be appreciated. Glen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade
On your 2nd scenario, I would install the drivers, first, so when you get everything transfered Windows will see your card. On Nov 1, 2010 8:47 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: This is for our church so budget is really tight right now. We have a 2003 sbs system, running exchange, quickbooks and a power church app. Drive d holds the exchange database, all the user file shares and is almost full. Currently the server has one 80gig drive partitioned as C: 20 gig, D: the rest. Here is my plan to upgrade it. Do you think it will work or are there better/simpler options. I have a cheapio IDE raid card and 2 larger drives. I plan to shutdown the system, install the card and drives, boot and run the bios on the card to set up the two new drive as raid 1. Then boot into windows so that the OS can find the new card and install the drivers. I’ll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D partition to the new raid 1 array I’ve just created, resizing in the process. When that is done, reboot the machine into windows, use disk manager to swap the existing D drive to the new larger one, make sure the shares are correct and then restart exchange, QB and power church. This would leave C on the original drive, and d on the new larger array. Not my first choice, but the two drives are free, they but aren’t large enough to hold C and D and still have much room to grow. Or second scenario. Same server, but I also have cheapio sata card and 2 even larger hard drives. I’d like to clone the entire server to these two larger hard drives, expanding the c and d partitions and only end up with two drives in the system. I know I can use the UBCD to clone and resize the drives, but I’m doubting windows would boot from the new controller and drives. Any ideas or tried and true solutions would be appreciated. Glen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: I’ll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D partition to the new raid 1 array I’ve just created, resizing in the process. As long as all services are stopped, you should be able to do the file copy from Windows. Just ROBOCOPY from D:\ to x:\, then use Device Manager to swap the drive letters. I know I can use the UBCD to clone and resize the drives, but I’m doubting windows would boot from the new controller and drives. There's a way to install and enable additional boot-time drivers, so you can migrate to a new storage controller. You have to do it in advance of the change. I know SYSPREP can do it, but that's not what you want here. Maybe someone else can chime in on this one. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com wrote: On your 2nd scenario, I would install the drivers, first, so when you get everything transfered Windows will see your card. IIRC, you have to do something special to tell Windows to load the drivers at boot time. It's not enough to just install them. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Citrix web interface query
Are your two domains in different forests? Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Subject: Re: Citrix web interface query Yes, all clear - I'm pretty sure I checked it, there were no specific domains specified, but I'll give it another check Cheers, On 30 October 2010 00:06, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: In Web Interface Management Console: Click your site Click Authentication Methods Click on your selected method Click Properties Click General | Domain Restriction Do you have Restrict to the following domains selected? If so, what domain(s) is/are there? For mine I have websterslab.com. If I login as websterslab\cwebster, the online plugin will not pass-through the login credentials because they do not match what you specified. Same problem if you specify websterslab and the user logs in with websterslab.com\cwebster or, if you allow, cwebs...@websterslab.com, the pass-through will not pass-through because the domains do not match. Am I clear in what I am trying to explain what may be causing your issue? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Citrix web interface query
Indeed they are On 1 November 2010 14:08, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Are your two domains in different forests? Webster *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Subject:* Re: Citrix web interface query Yes, all clear - I'm pretty sure I checked it, there were no specific domains specified, but I'll give it another check Cheers, On 30 October 2010 00:06, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: In Web Interface Management Console: Click your site Click Authentication Methods Click on your selected method Click Properties Click General | Domain Restriction Do you have “Restrict to the following domains” selected? If so, what domain(s) is/are there? For mine I have websterslab.com. If I login as websterslab\cwebster, the online plugin will not pass-through the login credentials because they do not match what you specified. Same problem if you specify “websterslab” and the user logs in with websterslab.com\cwebster or, if you allow, cwebs...@websterslab.com, the pass-through will not pass-through because the domains do not match. Am I clear in what I am trying to explain what may be causing your issue? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Citrix web interface query
Did you ask this question on EE also? Just curious because someone asked basically the same question there. Try to figure a way to write an article on this. Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Subject: Re: Citrix web interface query Indeed they are On 1 November 2010 14:08, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Are your two domains in different forests? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Citrix web interface query
Not guilty...haven't raised a question on EE for about five years now. On 1 November 2010 14:12, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Did you ask this question on EE also? Just curious because someone asked basically the same question there. Try to figure a way to write an article on this. Webster *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Subject:* Re: Citrix web interface query Indeed they are On 1 November 2010 14:08, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Are your two domains in different forests? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Citrix web interface query
Someone has asked essentially the same exact question on EE. Gotta lab this and write about it. They can't get it to work either and I have never worked with XenApp in multiple forests. Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Subject: Re: Citrix web interface query Not guilty...haven't raised a question on EE for about five years now. On 1 November 2010 14:12, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Did you ask this question on EE also? Just curious because someone asked basically the same question there. Try to figure a way to write an article on this. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Patch Management
WSUS and SCCM 2007. We can't beat the license agreement our company has! On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Brumbaugh, Luke luke.brumba...@butlerschein.com wrote: Now that I have figured out how to update adobe. My next question is what do you guys use for patch management. What do you think of EminentWare for wsus? Is there something better? Luke L. Brumbaugh Network Engineer Butler Animal Health Supply Ph:(614) 659-1736 ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE - The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Schein Animal Health ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
After Action Report RE: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me
Now that the dust has settled, we know what happened. Our tech didn't completely disconnect the SAN connections (he unplugged them, but not far enough) when installing ESX v3.5 on a new physical host and it formatted a SAN drive instead of the local drive. If we had known this before powering off the VM's we could have VMotioned them to the other SAN, but at the time we didn't know this. I still shouldn't have had all my eggs on one SAN (and now don't), and version 4 of ESX doesn't allow this without having to click on some very prominent are you sure!?!?! boxes, whereas apparently v3.5 just throws it wherever and apparently making it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Dave From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 2:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me Sounds like you should home the redundant sets of VMs on different SAN volumes/whatever? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 11:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me I have 7 production systems running on 3 different ESX boxes in an ESX cluster, and 2 different logical SAN volumes (sorry am not SAN savvy, I just know I have two different SAN volumes to choose from when making a VM). Today, a SAN blows up and takes out half - our SharePoint server (heavily used), a Terminal Server , and an internal occasionally-used web server (Namescape rDirectory). Then somehow, when I was told to power down the other 4 VM's so our VMWare guy could reboot a vCenter server, 3 of the 4 remaining VM's decided to go AWOL (a combination of missing and disconnected). That took out my other two Terminal Servers and another lightly used internal web server. Did I mention I don't have the normal backups for these things because ...well...I'm an idiot and didn't confirm our backup guy installed backup software on these servers as I stood them up (process error on my part since I should confirm it's on there). None of these store data - they all talk to a backend SQL and the Terminal Servers are used to run apps that are slow if they run the same apps over VPN. SharePoint we got back quick because we do have a staging equivalent of it, so it was repoint to a config and content DB, DNS change, and done. I do have copious notes on how I built the others and can rebuild from scratch easily enough (I just finished the three TS boxes), but dude...six servers at once? The most frustrating part was discovering that the 4 systems that had been powered off could have been migrated before power off and there would have been no issue with them - the power down nuked 'em. Oh, and the lone surviving server - the PGP Universal Server that manages the encrypted machines. (Yes, the PGP machines will still boot w/out the server up, but still, I've been on this server 50% of my time over the last two weeks!). Dave ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Vipre and DB req's
Hi Joseph, The Windows Internal Database is a customized / modified version of SQL Express 2005 which is the version included with the Vipre installation. So installing Vipre using the Simple mode and letting is install it's own instance of SQL Express 2005 will result in pretty much what you're asking for. Regards, Phil Garven - Product Specialist - Sunbelt Exchange Archiver GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software www.sunbeltsoftware.comhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com Tel: +1 877-757-4094 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vipre and DB req's If you have 2008r2 w/ Windows Internal DB installed, can Vipre leverage this and simply install a new instance? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Vipre and deployment
The Uninstallers we create essentially just call the existing AV's built in uninstall process so it should be as effective as uninstalling the other AV through add / remove programs (we grab the uninstall string from the registry and run it) - however that often doesn't work as well as expected. We do add some other code, for example where Symantec is configured to require a password to uninstall it we try to disable that requirement. If you have an existing AV that is centrally managed and the management console has a method to uninstall it centrally which works then I would recommend using that before installing Vipre. This does leave the PC's without AV for a short period of time so it's best to do this when users are out - it requires reboots anyway. After moving to Vipre, if you have something like SMS I would recommend searching for any machines that still have any traces of the old AV's still on them and clean them up manually - we often see old file system drivers still hooked in which can really slow PCs down Regards, Phil Garven - Product Specialist - Sunbelt Exchange Archiver GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software www.sunbeltsoftware.comhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com Tel: +1 877-757-4094 From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre and deployment Unless the uninstaller has changed, it didn't work very well for us either with Symantec. It ended up being easier to remove it from each workstation and then push down the Vipre agent. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:10 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.commailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I can't speak for Symantec, but at least for AVG 8.5, Vipre's uninstaller didn't do a very good job of removing it, and several times I had to go to the local machine and manually delete the service. YMMV, though. From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.commailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Agent-Uninstallers/ From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.orgmailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment We still use Symantec on all our workstations. Would love to move over to Vipre. We have about a hundred workstations. Would I still have to go to all the workstations to change from Symantec to Vipre or is there now a way to do this from the server? From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.commailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment Yea, if I do it with the Console, I need to enable file and print services on the wkst etc... If I use a GPO, I don't. From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.commailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre and deployment You can deploy Vipre as an MSI from the console. I suppose that you can push the MSI with GP if you like. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.commailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: For you guys with experience using Vipre (I presume it's come a long way by now...) I am curious about a couple things. I gave up on Avira, my first point of support was the var in Canada who proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to be useless. Sophos required far too much reconfiguration of the wkst's and didn't offer their agent as an MSI so I could roll it out myself. Awaiting info from Kasperksy... Can the agents for Vipre be provided by MSI's so I don't have to change anything on the wkst's except maybe a port rule between it and the mgmt host after I push it via GP's? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with
Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)
Does anybody know about a fax service that can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet using a pre-paid account (I mean from any Pc using a logon ID) ? TIA GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)
https://www.j2.com/ I've used it. Free incoming as long as you don't need a toll free #. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account) Does anybody know about a fax service that can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet using a pre-paid account (I mean from any Pc using a logon ID) ? TIA GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin 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! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)
www.efax.com On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: Does anybody know about a fax service that can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet using a pre-paid account (I mean from any Pc using a logon ID) ? TIA *GuidoElia* *HELPPC* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
R: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)
I see that most of them are based on reception of faxes (that I don't need ). I need a service where I can send a fax to every country and from every country. Not quantities but individually. In many countries a fax has more legal value than an email even certified GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Inviato: lunedì 1 novembre 2010 16.13 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Re: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account) www.efax.com http://www.efax.com/ On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: Does anybody know about a fax service that can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet using a pre-paid account (I mean from any Pc using a logon ID) ? TIA GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)
You can send from eFax. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: I see that most of them are based on reception of faxes (that I don't need ). I need a service where I can send a fax to every country and from every country. Not quantities but individually. In many countries a fax has more legal value than an email even certified *GuidoElia* *HELPPC* -- *Da:* Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] *Inviato:* lunedì 1 novembre 2010 16.13 *A:* NT System Admin Issues *Oggetto:* Re: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account) www.efax.com On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: Does anybody know about a fax service that can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet using a pre-paid account (I mean from any Pc using a logon ID) ? TIA *GuidoElia* *HELPPC* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Exchange 2003 and BES 4 upgrade
I'm starting my planning and looking for suggestions, etc. My idea is to create two new VM's with W2008R2 and install BESX on one and Exchange 2010sp1 on the other. What is the preferred method, move the blackberry users first and then the mailboxes or vice versa? Is it kosher to move from my BES to BESX? I only really use a couple of different policies, so BESX looks like a decent alternative to the full blown BES. Any gotchas or ideas appreciated. Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: VMWare ESXi
Yeah, pulled that down this weekend and finally got it installed. Just have to brush up on my Linux as well as I want it to be storage for the whole Windows domain environment. Not sure just how to do that now. From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare ESXi I did exactly that with Openfiler as a vm, you can download a VMWare specific build from their site as far as I can remember. I also have it mounted back to the esxi box via nfs as I have my ISO's in the vm. It loves memory tho when copying files to/from it. T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 30 Oct 2010 19:59, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC USA rick.foga...@us.army.mil wrote: I have a Dell box that I'm using as a test ESXi server. It has some raw storage that isn't being used that I'd like to mount as a storage for the network. Anyone have any ideas on the best way to do that? I'm currently looking at the VMWare NAS appliances to download, but the VMWare site is having difficulties rendering them right now. Rick ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ blockedhttp://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ blockedhttp://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SDM Software’s new GP Reporting Pak?
Thought you were talking about Jeremy, until I clicked the link... Free, Bob r...@pge.com 10/29/2010 11:54 AM I am not using that tool in particular but have use others of theirs. Pricing is negotiable with anybody J I have known the principal of that endeavor for quite some time and he’s beyond reproach IMHO and as good as it gets WRT GPOs outside MS. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 11:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: SDM Software’s new GP Reporting Pak? Anyone using this ? http://www.sdmsoftware.com/blog/ http://www.sdmsoftware.com/blog/ If so, I'd like to hear feedback on how you like it. Looks like the perfect tool for a project I'm working on. Just got off the phone with the sales guy. Waiting on pricing. He told me it's licensed by the number of GPOs in your environment. Thinking it might be pricey. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Random poll: GPO count
Recent thread on SDMSoftware pricing per # of GPO’s makes me wonder…how many GPO’s do you guys have in your environment? We have 56! Very few of them are at the root level, but for example we have 10 GPO’s just to handle our Service Desk having local admin or remote desktop user membership for various systems. 6 different WSUS GPO’s, etc. 350-ish users, 450-ish workstations and ~125 servers… David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Random poll: GPO count
55-ish GPOs. 4000-ish users. 1000-ish workstations on domain. Anywhere from 1-2000-ish laptops – not on domain. When I first got here there were roughly 125 GPOs. Took us awhile but we widdled it down to current amount. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Random poll: GPO count Recent thread on SDMSoftware pricing per # of GPO’s makes me wonder…how many GPO’s do you guys have in your environment? We have 56! Very few of them are at the root level, but for example we have 10 GPO’s just to handle our Service Desk having local admin or remote desktop user membership for various systems. 6 different WSUS GPO’s, etc. 350-ish users, 450-ish workstations and ~125 servers… David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Random poll: GPO count
Approximately 250 GPOs ~1700 Users ~ 2000 Client Devices ~ 600 servers (including 180 Citrix servers) - Sean On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Recent thread on SDMSoftware pricing per # of GPO’s makes me wonder…how many GPO’s do you guys have in your environment? We have 56! Very few of them are at the root level, but for example we have 10 GPO’s just to handle our Service Desk having local admin or remote desktop user membership for various systems. 6 different WSUS GPO’s, etc. 350-ish users, 450-ish workstations and ~125 servers… *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Outlook Weidness HELP!!
I am hoping someone can offer some suggestions to a very weird Outlook problem I am having. When I open Outlook the performance is fine and I can change from different folders I have and they open each folder immediately. As time goes by changing from 1 folder to another gets slower and slower where it can take upwards of 60 seconds to view the contents of a different folder. I have tried this in both cached mode and no-cached mode without much differencece. I get no response or the message that Outlook is not responding though there is not a lot of CPU activity during this. If I close Outlook it can take upwards of 60 seconds for the actual Outlook*32 process to close down. Once it is closed if I reopen it everything is speedy for a while but then begins getting slower and slower. I deleted all of the outlook .dat files but this does not seemed to have made any differences. I have removed most of the Outlook add-ins also without any changes to the behavior. My Outlook is pretty much unusable after it has been running for 30 minutes to an hour. -- Thanks Dave Vantine ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Outlook Weidness HELP!!
Off the top of my head, this sounds like a memory problem, but I'd guess you probably already thought of that. A Google search found that a lot of people are having a similar problem. Although your situation was a bit vague on details I Googled Outlook gets progressively slower and found a bunch of hits. On the second page was this answer: http://everyjoe.com/work/finally-a-real-tip-to-speed-up-outlook-2007-169/ Basically the solution involves starting Outlook as an Admin, going to the Trust Center, then Addins and disabling all but indexing. Another suggestion for *temporarily* fixing it involves deleting the outcmd.dat file. *shrug* Not sure if you've tried the first fix or not, but it appears to be a common problem. From: Dave Vantine [mailto:dvant...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Weidness HELP!! I am hoping someone can offer some suggestions to a very weird Outlook problem I am having. When I open Outlook the performance is fine and I can change from different folders I have and they open each folder immediately. As time goes by changing from 1 folder to another gets slower and slower where it can take upwards of 60 seconds to view the contents of a different folder. I have tried this in both cached mode and no-cached mode without much differencece. I get no response or the message that Outlook is not responding though there is not a lot of CPU activity during this. If I close Outlook it can take upwards of 60 seconds for the actual Outlook*32 process to close down. Once it is closed if I reopen it everything is speedy for a while but then begins getting slower and slower. I deleted all of the outlook .dat files but this does not seemed to have made any differences. I have removed most of the Outlook add-ins also without any changes to the behavior. My Outlook is pretty much unusable after it has been running for 30 minutes to an hour. -- Thanks Dave Vantine ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Outlook Weidness HELP!!
Questions: 1. What version of Outlook? 2. Are you using it to connect to exchange or to POP accounts? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Dave Vantine [mailto:dvant...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Weidness HELP!! I am hoping someone can offer some suggestions to a very weird Outlook problem I am having. When I open Outlook the performance is fine and I can change from different folders I have and they open each folder immediately. As time goes by changing from 1 folder to another gets slower and slower where it can take upwards of 60 seconds to view the contents of a different folder. I have tried this in both cached mode and no-cached mode without much differencece. I get no response or the message that Outlook is not responding though there is not a lot of CPU activity during this. If I close Outlook it can take upwards of 60 seconds for the actual Outlook*32 process to close down. Once it is closed if I reopen it everything is speedy for a while but then begins getting slower and slower. I deleted all of the outlook .dat files but this does not seemed to have made any differences. I have removed most of the Outlook add-ins also without any changes to the behavior. My Outlook is pretty much unusable after it has been running for 30 minutes to an hour. -- Thanks Dave Vantine ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin 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! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: A real puzzler...
I have seen this with both Apple and Win 7 products taking an IP and because of the way the firewall was configured not responding to ping's or several other products. I was only able to trace it back to a machine by killing switch ports one at a time and resetting DHCP until the offending machine was off the network. There had to be an easier way but I was at the time just in too much of a hurry to get the job done to look another way. Just for your info/laugh the the Win 7 machine was the management system and took the least amount of time to find. I was moving it from one subnet to another then remoting back in and discovered that I had no problem. Put that machine back in the original subnet and problem came back. Jon On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: The VM I'm standing up gets the error message that another machine has the IP address. The machine that seems to be responding is the DC. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 23:09, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Is the error that another machine has the IP address? Or is the error that another NIC in the machine has the same IP address? Slightly different errors, but the later usually means you have a hidden NIC. The former means some other machine has the IP. You can also get around the latter error by unchecking the validate configuration checkbox. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 31 October 2010 8:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 17:23, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I will try those commands, but can't really shut down the DC in the AU office - I don't have a way to start it remotely. Sure you do. You phone the guys in the AU office and have them hit the power button. HHOS. Or, if it's a managed switch, you could disable the switch port. Or, wait, didn't you say it's a VM? Does your VM system have a way to disable the virtual switch port? I'd try the Dev Mgr idea someone else posted first, of course. :) -- Ben The DC is not a VM - the machine that refuses the IP address is the VM. I'll try the other stuff first... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: A real puzzler...
No Apple, but there are a few Win7 machines, and some Linux machines. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:30, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen this with both Apple and Win 7 products taking an IP and because of the way the firewall was configured not responding to ping's or several other products. I was only able to trace it back to a machine by killing switch ports one at a time and resetting DHCP until the offending machine was off the network. There had to be an easier way but I was at the time just in too much of a hurry to get the job done to look another way. Just for your info/laugh the the Win 7 machine was the management system and took the least amount of time to find. I was moving it from one subnet to another then remoting back in and discovered that I had no problem. Put that machine back in the original subnet and problem came back. Jon On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: The VM I'm standing up gets the error message that another machine has the IP address. The machine that seems to be responding is the DC. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 23:09, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Is the error that another machine has the IP address? Or is the error that another NIC in the machine has the same IP address? Slightly different errors, but the later usually means you have a hidden NIC. The former means some other machine has the IP. You can also get around the latter error by unchecking the validate configuration checkbox. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 31 October 2010 8:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 17:23, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I will try those commands, but can't really shut down the DC in the AU office - I don't have a way to start it remotely. Sure you do. You phone the guys in the AU office and have them hit the power button. HHOS. Or, if it's a managed switch, you could disable the switch port. Or, wait, didn't you say it's a VM? Does your VM system have a way to disable the virtual switch port? I'd try the Dev Mgr idea someone else posted first, of course. :) -- Ben The DC is not a VM - the machine that refuses the IP address is the VM. I'll try the other stuff first... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: RE: VMWare ESXi
I did that through the web interface, it was a bit kludgy at the time. My computer is in semi-storage at the minute otherwise I'd be able to check it for you. The forums can be very helpful, but can be hard to find what your looking for at times. I'll dig it up when I get a chance. T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 1 Nov 2010 16:56, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC USA rick.foga...@us.army.mil wrote: Yeah, pulled that down this weekend and finally got it installed. Just have to brush up on my Linux as well as I want it to be storage for the whole Windows domain environment. Not sure just how to do that now. From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare ESXi I did exactly that with Openfiler as a vm, you can download a VMWare specific build from their site as far as I can remember. I also have it mounted back to the esxi box via nfs as I have my ISO's in the vm. It loves memory tho when copying files to/from it. T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 30 Oct 2010 19:59, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC USA rick.foga...@us.army.mil wrote: I have a Dell box that I'm using as a test ESXi server. It has some raw storage that isn't being used that I'd like to mount as a storage for the network. Anyone have any ideas on the best way to do that? I'm currently looking at the VMWare NAS appliances to download, but the VMWare site is having difficulties rendering them right now. Rick ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ blockedhttp://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ blockedhttp://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Random poll: GPO count
258 GPOs and counting 1800 staff, 14000+ students 6200 workstations 90+ servers From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Random poll: GPO count Recent thread on SDMSoftware pricing per # of GPO’s makes me wonder…how many GPO’s do you guys have in your environment? We have 56! Very few of them are at the root level, but for example we have 10 GPO’s just to handle our Service Desk having local admin or remote desktop user membership for various systems. 6 different WSUS GPO’s, etc. 350-ish users, 450-ish workstations and ~125 servers… David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: A real puzzler...
Here's what I see so far today after going to the control panel and selecting Show hidden devices - I don't think I'm seeing any ghost NICs: DC in AU office (Dell 1850 - seems to be replying to ARP for 192.168.61.31, but is 192.168.61.30): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection #2 (disabled - this is the one that picked up a DHCP address when plugged in) WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESXi4 box) in AU office (refuses to accept 192.168.61.30, says another machine has IP address): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESX 3.5 box) in US office, has same MAC as DC in AU office. Address is 192.168.10.82, has never had a 61.0/24 address, and isn't seeing any ARP requests for it: Direct Parallel VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) I'm thinking of standing up a small XP VM, and assigning it the problematic address, and see who answers. Kurt On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:26, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Kurt - In device manager is an option to show hidden devices. Enable that, both on the new server there and the old server there and see if you have a ghost NIC. I bet you will. And that ghost NIC probably has the problem IP address. Remove the ghost NIC and you'll remove the problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ralph Smith [...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A real puzzler... Do you have an AV application on the server? The reason I ask is I had some servers that exibited the exact symptoms you are describing after installing VIPRE Premium on them. Removing VIPRE solved the problem. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A real puzzler... All, I'm in the US, and have a problem in our AU office that I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around. I have a theory, but it is still a strange situation, and any feedback anyone can provide would be appreciated. The AU office has a server, which I've just recently stood up, using an address assigned by DHCP. This is not ideal, obviously, but the thing refuses to take the static IP address that it's slated to get (192.168.61.30.) It's a VM on a new ESXi server. When I try to assign it the static address, it keeps getting an error message that another machine has the address. However, when I ping the IP address that the machine refuses to use, I get no answer. When I use netmon on the VM in the AU office to capture ARP traffic, I get a MAC address that's for the DC. However, the DC has never had 192.168.61.30 - it's been 192.168.61.31 all its life in the AU office. I've even fired up regedit on the DC to search for the IP address, and all I'm showing is the one it's supposed to have - 192.168.61.31 I'm more than a little baffled by this one. One thing I should note, just because: The DC in the AU office is a machine that had been used in the US office about two years ago. We did a P2V on it, and the VM from that still lives on in the US office. They do share a MAC address (I don't know why, as I would have expected the the MAC to change when it got the virtual NIC), but AFAICT this shouldn't make a difference, since they are in different subnets entirely, with different addresses. Anyone have thoughts on this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: -- This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/
RE: A real puzzler...
Did you run the command sequence first? You won't see them without doing that. Anything ghosted will have a bit of a grayed-out appearance: Run cmd as administrator and type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1enter devmgmt.msc enter When device manager opens, select to show hidden devices. -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... Here's what I see so far today after going to the control panel and selecting Show hidden devices - I don't think I'm seeing any ghost NICs: DC in AU office (Dell 1850 - seems to be replying to ARP for 192.168.61.31, but is 192.168.61.30): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection #2 (disabled - this is the one that picked up a DHCP address when plugged in) WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESXi4 box) in AU office (refuses to accept 192.168.61.30, says another machine has IP address): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESX 3.5 box) in US office, has same MAC as DC in AU office. Address is 192.168.10.82, has never had a 61.0/24 address, and isn't seeing any ARP requests for it: Direct Parallel VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) I'm thinking of standing up a small XP VM, and assigning it the problematic address, and see who answers. Kurt On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:26, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Kurt - In device manager is an option to show hidden devices. Enable that, both on the new server there and the old server there and see if you have a ghost NIC. I bet you will. And that ghost NIC probably has the problem IP address. Remove the ghost NIC and you'll remove the problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ralph Smith [...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A real puzzler... Do you have an AV application on the server? The reason I ask is I had some servers that exibited the exact symptoms you are describing after installing VIPRE Premium on them. Removing VIPRE solved the problem. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A real puzzler... All, I'm in the US, and have a problem in our AU office that I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around. I have a theory, but it is still a strange situation, and any feedback anyone can provide would be appreciated. The AU office has a server, which I've just recently stood up, using an address assigned by DHCP. This is not ideal, obviously, but the thing refuses to take the static IP address that it's slated to get (192.168.61.30.) It's a VM on a new ESXi server. When I try to assign it the static address, it keeps getting an error message that another machine has the address. However, when I ping the IP address that the machine refuses to use, I get no answer. When I use netmon on the VM in the AU office to capture ARP traffic, I get a MAC address that's for the DC. However, the DC has never had 192.168.61.30 - it's been 192.168.61.31 all its life in the AU office. I've even fired up regedit on the DC to search for the IP address, and all I'm showing is the one it's supposed to have - 192.168.61.31 I'm more than a little baffled by this one. One thing I should note, just because: The DC in the AU office is a machine that had been used in the US office about two years ago. We did a P2V on it, and the VM from that still lives on in the US office. They do share a MAC address (I don't know why, as I would have expected the the MAC to change when it got the virtual NIC), but AFAICT this shouldn't make a difference, since they are in different subnets entirely, with different addresses. Anyone have thoughts on this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: -- This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is
Authentication
I just created an AD 2008 forest for my church. Most of the computers there are XP Home edition. I have created domain accounts in the AD forest with the same user name and password as they have on their XP Home system. Most of them can use domain resources without any authentication to the server. They just log on to their computer and it works. There are two computers where this is not the case. After logging on to XP, if they click Start | Run and type in \\server file:///\\server it prompts for a username and password. You can type in the same username and password that you used to log on to the computer and you can then use resources on the server. Can anyone suggest why the same username password works on some computers but not others? Thanks for your help. Curt Finley ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: A real puzzler...
Yup - no ghosted NICs. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:39, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Did you run the command sequence first? You won't see them without doing that. Anything ghosted will have a bit of a grayed-out appearance: Run cmd as administrator and type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 enter devmgmt.msc enter When device manager opens, select to show hidden devices. -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... Here's what I see so far today after going to the control panel and selecting Show hidden devices - I don't think I'm seeing any ghost NICs: DC in AU office (Dell 1850 - seems to be replying to ARP for 192.168.61.31, but is 192.168.61.30): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection #2 (disabled - this is the one that picked up a DHCP address when plugged in) WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESXi4 box) in AU office (refuses to accept 192.168.61.30, says another machine has IP address): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESX 3.5 box) in US office, has same MAC as DC in AU office. Address is 192.168.10.82, has never had a 61.0/24 address, and isn't seeing any ARP requests for it: Direct Parallel VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) I'm thinking of standing up a small XP VM, and assigning it the problematic address, and see who answers. Kurt On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:26, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Kurt - In device manager is an option to show hidden devices. Enable that, both on the new server there and the old server there and see if you have a ghost NIC. I bet you will. And that ghost NIC probably has the problem IP address. Remove the ghost NIC and you'll remove the problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ralph Smith [...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A real puzzler... Do you have an AV application on the server? The reason I ask is I had some servers that exibited the exact symptoms you are describing after installing VIPRE Premium on them. Removing VIPRE solved the problem. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A real puzzler... All, I'm in the US, and have a problem in our AU office that I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around. I have a theory, but it is still a strange situation, and any feedback anyone can provide would be appreciated. The AU office has a server, which I've just recently stood up, using an address assigned by DHCP. This is not ideal, obviously, but the thing refuses to take the static IP address that it's slated to get (192.168.61.30.) It's a VM on a new ESXi server. When I try to assign it the static address, it keeps getting an error message that another machine has the address. However, when I ping the IP address that the machine refuses to use, I get no answer. When I use netmon on the VM in the AU office to capture ARP traffic, I get a MAC address that's for the DC. However, the DC has never had 192.168.61.30 - it's been 192.168.61.31 all its life in the AU office. I've even fired up regedit on the DC to search for the IP address, and all I'm showing is the one it's supposed to have - 192.168.61.31 I'm more than a little baffled by this one. One thing I should note, just because: The DC in the AU office is a machine that had been used in the US office about two years ago. We did a P2V on it, and the VM from that still lives on in the US office. They do share a MAC address (I don't know why, as I would have expected the the MAC to change when it got the virtual NIC), but AFAICT this shouldn't make a difference, since they are in different subnets entirely, with different addresses. Anyone have thoughts on this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: -- This communication,
Re: A real puzzler...
BTW - I don't think I mentioned it, but all of the Windows boxes are Win2k3 R2 fully patched. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:48, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yup - no ghosted NICs. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:39, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Did you run the command sequence first? You won't see them without doing that. Anything ghosted will have a bit of a grayed-out appearance: Run cmd as administrator and type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 enter devmgmt.msc enter When device manager opens, select to show hidden devices. -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... Here's what I see so far today after going to the control panel and selecting Show hidden devices - I don't think I'm seeing any ghost NICs: DC in AU office (Dell 1850 - seems to be replying to ARP for 192.168.61.31, but is 192.168.61.30): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection #2 (disabled - this is the one that picked up a DHCP address when plugged in) WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESXi4 box) in AU office (refuses to accept 192.168.61.30, says another machine has IP address): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESX 3.5 box) in US office, has same MAC as DC in AU office. Address is 192.168.10.82, has never had a 61.0/24 address, and isn't seeing any ARP requests for it: Direct Parallel VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) I'm thinking of standing up a small XP VM, and assigning it the problematic address, and see who answers. Kurt On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:26, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Kurt - In device manager is an option to show hidden devices. Enable that, both on the new server there and the old server there and see if you have a ghost NIC. I bet you will. And that ghost NIC probably has the problem IP address. Remove the ghost NIC and you'll remove the problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ralph Smith [...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A real puzzler... Do you have an AV application on the server? The reason I ask is I had some servers that exibited the exact symptoms you are describing after installing VIPRE Premium on them. Removing VIPRE solved the problem. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A real puzzler... All, I'm in the US, and have a problem in our AU office that I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around. I have a theory, but it is still a strange situation, and any feedback anyone can provide would be appreciated. The AU office has a server, which I've just recently stood up, using an address assigned by DHCP. This is not ideal, obviously, but the thing refuses to take the static IP address that it's slated to get (192.168.61.30.) It's a VM on a new ESXi server. When I try to assign it the static address, it keeps getting an error message that another machine has the address. However, when I ping the IP address that the machine refuses to use, I get no answer. When I use netmon on the VM in the AU office to capture ARP traffic, I get a MAC address that's for the DC. However, the DC has never had 192.168.61.30 - it's been 192.168.61.31 all its life in the AU office. I've even fired up regedit on the DC to search for the IP address, and all I'm showing is the one it's supposed to have - 192.168.61.31 I'm more than a little baffled by this one. One thing I should note, just because: The DC in the AU office is a machine that had been used in the US office about two years ago. We did a P2V on it, and the VM from that still lives on in the US office. They do share a MAC address (I don't know why, as I would have expected the the MAC to change when it got the virtual NIC), but AFAICT this shouldn't make a difference, since they are in different subnets entirely, with different addresses. Anyone have thoughts on this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an
Re: Authentication
What's different about the machines where this isn't working? Is the case of those passwords identical to what you think it should be? What are they using for DNS? *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jim Dandy jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu wrote: I just created an AD 2008 forest for my church. Most of the computers there are XP Home edition. I have created domain accounts in the AD forest with the same user name and password as they have on their XP Home system. Most of them can use domain resources without any authentication to the server. They just log on to their computer and it works. There are two computers where this is not the case. After logging on to XP, if they click Start | Run and type in \\server it prompts for a username and password. You can type in the same username and password that you used to log on to the computer and you can then use resources on the server. Can anyone suggest why the same username password works on some computers but not others? Thanks for your help. Curt Finley ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Outlook Weidness HELP!!
Using Vipre? It causes most of my odd problems with Outlook. On Monday, November 1, 2010, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Questions: What version of Outlook? Are you using it to connect to exchange or to POP accounts? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: Dave Vantine [mailto:dvant...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Weidness HELP!! I am hoping someone can offer some suggestions to a very weird Outlook problem I am having. When I open Outlook the performance is fine and I can change from different folders I have and they open each folder immediately. As time goes by changing from 1 folder to another gets slower and slower where it can take upwards of 60 seconds to view the contents of a different folder. I have tried this in both cached mode and no-cached mode without much differencece. I get no response or the message that Outlook is not responding though there is not a lot of CPU activity during this. If I close Outlook it can take upwards of 60 seconds for the actual Outlook*32 process to close down. Once it is closed if I reopen it everything is speedy for a while but then begins getting slower and slower. I deleted all of the outlook .dat files but this does not seemed to have made any differences. I have removed most of the Outlook add-ins also without any changes to the behavior. My Outlook is pretty much unusable after it has been running for 30 minutes to an hour. -- Thanks Dave Vantine ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin 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! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: A real puzzler...
Have you checked WINS/Lmhosts for duplicates or static entries? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... BTW - I don't think I mentioned it, but all of the Windows boxes are Win2k3 R2 fully patched. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:48, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yup - no ghosted NICs. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:39, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Did you run the command sequence first? You won't see them without doing that. Anything ghosted will have a bit of a grayed-out appearance: Run cmd as administrator and type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 enter devmgmt.msc enter When device manager opens, select to show hidden devices. -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... Here's what I see so far today after going to the control panel and selecting Show hidden devices - I don't think I'm seeing any ghost NICs: DC in AU office (Dell 1850 - seems to be replying to ARP for 192.168.61.31, but is 192.168.61.30): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection #2 (disabled - this is the one that picked up a DHCP address when plugged in) WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESXi4 box) in AU office (refuses to accept 192.168.61.30, says another machine has IP address): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESX 3.5 box) in US office, has same MAC as DC in AU office. Address is 192.168.10.82, has never had a 61.0/24 address, and isn't seeing any ARP requests for it: Direct Parallel VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) I'm thinking of standing up a small XP VM, and assigning it the problematic address, and see who answers. Kurt On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:26, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Kurt - In device manager is an option to show hidden devices. Enable that, both on the new server there and the old server there and see if you have a ghost NIC. I bet you will. And that ghost NIC probably has the problem IP address. Remove the ghost NIC and you'll remove the problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ralph Smith [...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A real puzzler... Do you have an AV application on the server? The reason I ask is I had some servers that exibited the exact symptoms you are describing after installing VIPRE Premium on them. Removing VIPRE solved the problem. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A real puzzler... All, I'm in the US, and have a problem in our AU office that I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around. I have a theory, but it is still a strange situation, and any feedback anyone can provide would be appreciated. The AU office has a server, which I've just recently stood up, using an address assigned by DHCP. This is not ideal, obviously, but the thing refuses to take the static IP address that it's slated to get (192.168.61.30.) It's a VM on a new ESXi server. When I try to assign it the static address, it keeps getting an error message that another machine has the address. However, when I ping the IP address that the machine refuses to use, I get no answer. When I use netmon on the VM in the AU office to capture ARP traffic, I get a MAC address that's for the DC. However, the DC has never had 192.168.61.30 - it's been 192.168.61.31 all its life in the AU office. I've even fired up regedit on the DC to search for the IP address, and all I'm showing is the one it's supposed to have - 192.168.61.31 I'm more than a little baffled by this one. One thing I should note, just because: The DC in the AU office is a machine that had been used in the US office about two years ago. We did a P2V on it, and the VM from that still lives on in the US office. They do share a MAC address (I don't know why, as I would have expected the the MAC to change when it got the virtual NIC), but AFAICT this shouldn't make a difference, since they are in different subnets entirely, with different addresses. Anyone have thoughts on this? Kurt ~
RE: Authentication
I have no idea what the difference is. That's why I'm asking the question. Perhaps there is some registry (or other type) setting that I'm unaware of that could be affecting this? I'm not sure what your second question it. The usernames and passwords are the same on both the domain and the local machine. I'm using the AD integrated DNS. Curt From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Authentication What's different about the machines where this isn't working? Is the case of those passwords identical to what you think it should be? What are they using for DNS? ASB (My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jim Dandy jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu wrote: I just created an AD 2008 forest for my church. Most of the computers there are XP Home edition. I have created domain accounts in the AD forest with the same user name and password as they have on their XP Home system. Most of them can use domain resources without any authentication to the server. They just log on to their computer and it works. There are two computers where this is not the case. After logging on to XP, if they click Start | Run and type in \\server file:///\\server it prompts for a username and password. You can type in the same username and password that you used to log on to the computer and you can then use resources on the server. Can anyone suggest why the same username password works on some computers but not others? Thanks for your help. Curt Finley ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Authentication
Is it possible that these two computers had previously connected to this server with a different username/password, and saved the credentials, and those credentials no longer work? Even if you don't think so, check it - Start/Run control userpasswords2, on the Advanced tab click Manage passwords. Carl From: Jim Dandy [mailto:jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Authentication I just created an AD 2008 forest for my church. Most of the computers there are XP Home edition. I have created domain accounts in the AD forest with the same user name and password as they have on their XP Home system. Most of them can use domain resources without any authentication to the server. They just log on to their computer and it works. There are two computers where this is not the case. After logging on to XP, if they click Start | Run and type in \\server file:///\\server it prompts for a username and password. You can type in the same username and password that you used to log on to the computer and you can then use resources on the server. Can anyone suggest why the same username password works on some computers but not others? Thanks for your help. Curt Finley ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs
LOL. Leave it to Symantec to be different. I heard a rumor I may be getting first-hand experience with it so I may want to pick your brain J Rgds --bob From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs Hi, We're implementing SSIM (the Symantec product) and it pulls logs. Apparently it scales... Cheers Ken From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, 29 October 2010 11:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs I have learned here over the years not to be overly presumptive hence the caveat about not understanding the requirements which were a little vague to me, particularly the fact that I didn't see an agent mentioned J That's also the opposite of the SIEM solutions and MSSPs I've ever worked with as well, IME the endpoints push to the collector/aggregator and as I said, I don't envision how an aggregator pulling logs scales worth a darn so I asked the question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: A real puzzler...
I've checked WINS - that IP address doesn't exist in the WINS tables. We don't use LMHOSTS - I disable that on all servers - I doubt anyone has it on a workstation, either, but I don't have control over that. Also, I've lied a bit, because I've been more than a bit distracted today... There is a RAS Async Adapter that appears ghosted on each machine, but I can't remove it - it says that it's necessary to boot the machine. And, mea culpa, I tried again on all of the machines, and found that there were two ghosted NICs on the VM in the US office, and uninstalled them, but have not rebooted the US VM yet. That, so far, hasn't solved the issue. I will see if I can reboot the VM in the US office this evening. If that doesn't solve it, I will also change the MAC address on the US VM, though as I've said before I don't see that a duplicate MAC address on separate subnets should be a problem. Kurt On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 14:04, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Have you checked WINS/Lmhosts for duplicates or static entries? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... BTW - I don't think I mentioned it, but all of the Windows boxes are Win2k3 R2 fully patched. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:48, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yup - no ghosted NICs. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:39, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Did you run the command sequence first? You won't see them without doing that. Anything ghosted will have a bit of a grayed-out appearance: Run cmd as administrator and type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 enter devmgmt.msc enter When device manager opens, select to show hidden devices. -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... Here's what I see so far today after going to the control panel and selecting Show hidden devices - I don't think I'm seeing any ghost NICs: DC in AU office (Dell 1850 - seems to be replying to ARP for 192.168.61.31, but is 192.168.61.30): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection #2 (disabled - this is the one that picked up a DHCP address when plugged in) WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESXi4 box) in AU office (refuses to accept 192.168.61.30, says another machine has IP address): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network Connection WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) VM (on ESX 3.5 box) in US office, has same MAC as DC in AU office. Address is 192.168.10.82, has never had a 61.0/24 address, and isn't seeing any ARP requests for it: Direct Parallel VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter WAN Miniport (IP) WAN Miniport (L2TP) WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) WAN Miniport (PPPOE) WAN Miniport (PPTP) I'm thinking of standing up a small XP VM, and assigning it the problematic address, and see who answers. Kurt On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:26, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Kurt - In device manager is an option to show hidden devices. Enable that, both on the new server there and the old server there and see if you have a ghost NIC. I bet you will. And that ghost NIC probably has the problem IP address. Remove the ghost NIC and you'll remove the problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ralph Smith [...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A real puzzler... Do you have an AV application on the server? The reason I ask is I had some servers that exibited the exact symptoms you are describing after installing VIPRE Premium on them. Removing VIPRE solved the problem. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A real puzzler... All, I'm in the US, and have a problem in our AU office that I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around. I have a theory, but it is still a strange situation, and any feedback anyone can provide would be appreciated. The AU office has a server, which I've just recently stood up, using an address assigned by DHCP. This is not ideal, obviously, but the thing refuses to take the static IP address that it's slated to get (192.168.61.30.) It's a VM on a new ESXi server. When I try to assign it the static address, it keeps getting an error message that another machine has
Re: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs
Ugh, our Information Security team is implementing SSIM right now. I'm not directly involved, other than having to provide upwards of 10TB for expected storage requirements. I just shudder at anything branded Symantec anymore - Sean On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: LOL. Leave it to Symantec to be different. I heard a rumor I may be getting first-hand experience with it so I may want to pick your brain J Rgds --bob *From:* Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] *Sent:* Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:36 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs Hi, We’re implementing SSIM (the Symantec product) and it pulls logs. Apparently it scales… Cheers Ken *From:* Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] *Sent:* Friday, 29 October 2010 11:09 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs I have learned here over the years not to be overly presumptive hence the caveat about not understanding the requirements which were a little vague to me, particularly the fact that I didn’t see an agent mentioned J That’s also the opposite of the SIEM solutions and MSSPs I’ve ever worked with as well, IME the endpoints push to the collector/aggregator and as I said, I don’t envision how an aggregator pulling logs scales worth a darn so I asked the question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs
But just look at the upsell opportunities. Now they're going to have to sell you something to manage that storage. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 6:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs Ugh, our Information Security team is implementing SSIM right now. I'm not directly involved, other than having to provide upwards of 10TB for expected storage requirements. I just shudder at anything branded Symantec anymore - Sean On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: LOL. Leave it to Symantec to be different. I heard a rumor I may be getting first-hand experience with it so I may want to pick your brain :) Rgds --bob From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs Hi, We're implementing SSIM (the Symantec product) and it pulls logs. Apparently it scales... Cheers Ken From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, 29 October 2010 11:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs I have learned here over the years not to be overly presumptive hence the caveat about not understanding the requirements which were a little vague to me, particularly the fact that I didn't see an agent mentioned :) That's also the opposite of the SIEM solutions and MSSPs I've ever worked with as well, IME the endpoints push to the collector/aggregator and as I said, I don't envision how an aggregator pulling logs scales worth a darn so I asked the question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Virtual Machine Disk Configuration
Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? If so what should the max utilization of the disk on that LUN be? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. Where do you see this message? On the VM? I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine... I don't really know what you mean by that. Can you elaborate a bit? ...but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? Not that I've ever heard of. You'd have a management nightmare on your hands pretty quickly if you had a large number of VMs. If so what should the max utilization of the disk on that LUN be? I don't know of a hard and fast number/rule, but if you're using snapshot-based backup method (such as VCB) you definitely need free space on the LUNs for the snapshots to grow until the backup is finished and the snapshots can be eliminated. What virtualization platform are you running? What version? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration
The host is Windows 2008 R2 running Hyper V. The performance is monitored via UPTIME monitoring software but I see similar high reading using perfmon (%disk time). Don't see any error messages at high utilization but the exchange 2003 server is responding poorly when disk is busy. There are 15 guest machines on this particular host but most of them dont use too much in the way of resources. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. Where do you see this message? On the VM? I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine... I don't really know what you mean by that. Can you elaborate a bit? ...but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? Not that I've ever heard of. You'd have a management nightmare on your hands pretty quickly if you had a large number of VMs. If so what should the max utilization of the disk on that LUN be? I don't know of a hard and fast number/rule, but if you're using snapshot-based backup method (such as VCB) you definitely need free space on the LUNs for the snapshots to grow until the backup is finished and the snapshots can be eliminated. What virtualization platform are you running? What version? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration
We'd need a lot more info. Start with your disk configuration. How many disks make up the storage pool or raid group the exchange lun is allocated from? Are there other luns allocated from the same pool? How many? Which exchange resources reside on the lun (stores, logs, etc.)? Disk busy warnings buy themselves don't hold much weight, unless of course there are noticeable performances issues, which you alluded to. You'll want to capture disk queue and disk latency stats ( avg disk queue length and avg disk sec/reads and writes). Avg queue depth should below X (where X equals the number of physical disks. Read/write times should avg below 20ms and not spike above 50ms. I'd also recommend running the exbpa and the troubleshooting assistant. If you can gather I/O stats you may be able to determine if the disks can handle the load. If it doesn't appear Exchange is stressing your resources, you may need your SAN monitoring tools to determine if total I/O (assuming multiple luns share the same disks) are more than the disks can handle. I'm not familiar with EVAs, but overloading disks in a SAN can lead to cache flushing which could affect performance of the array itself. - Sean On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: The host is Windows 2008 R2 running Hyper V. The performance is monitored via UPTIME monitoring software but I see similar high reading using perfmon (%disk time). Don't see any error messages at high utilization but the exchange 2003 server is responding poorly when disk is busy. There are 15 guest machines on this particular host but most of them dont use too much in the way of resources. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. Where do you see this message? On the VM? I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine... I don't really know what you mean by that. Can you elaborate a bit? ...but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? Not that I've ever heard of. You'd have a management nightmare on your hands pretty quickly if you had a large number of VMs. If so what should the max utilization of the disk on that LUN be? I don't know of a hard and fast number/rule, but if you're using snapshot-based backup method (such as VCB) you definitely need free space on the LUNs for the snapshots to grow until the backup is finished and the snapshots can be eliminated. What virtualization platform are you running? What version? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration
The san has 21 FC disks configured as a raid 5 array. There have two luns configured from this array. All 15 guest machines are located on one of these luns (including exchange). The performance hit appears mainly on exchange but other servers are suffering as well. The interesting thing is that IOPS for the entire lun holding the 15 VM's is only around 600 at the time that the disk busy is around 95%. The disk queue for that lun is around 4 - I will need to set up longer term monitoring to get the read/write times when the disk set gets busy (which is usually first thing in the morning) On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: We'd need a lot more info. Start with your disk configuration. How many disks make up the storage pool or raid group the exchange lun is allocated from? Are there other luns allocated from the same pool? How many? Which exchange resources reside on the lun (stores, logs, etc.)? Disk busy warnings buy themselves don't hold much weight, unless of course there are noticeable performances issues, which you alluded to. You'll want to capture disk queue and disk latency stats ( avg disk queue length and avg disk sec/reads and writes). Avg queue depth should below X (where X equals the number of physical disks. Read/write times should avg below 20ms and not spike above 50ms. I'd also recommend running the exbpa and the troubleshooting assistant. If you can gather I/O stats you may be able to determine if the disks can handle the load. If it doesn't appear Exchange is stressing your resources, you may need your SAN monitoring tools to determine if total I/O (assuming multiple luns share the same disks) are more than the disks can handle. I'm not familiar with EVAs, but overloading disks in a SAN can lead to cache flushing which could affect performance of the array itself. - Sean On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: The host is Windows 2008 R2 running Hyper V. The performance is monitored via UPTIME monitoring software but I see similar high reading using perfmon (%disk time). Don't see any error messages at high utilization but the exchange 2003 server is responding poorly when disk is busy. There are 15 guest machines on this particular host but most of them dont use too much in the way of resources. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com rich...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. Where do you see this message? On the VM? I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine... I don't really know what you mean by that. Can you elaborate a bit? ...but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? Not that I've ever heard of. You'd have a management nightmare on your hands pretty quickly if you had a large number of VMs. If so what should the max utilization of the disk on that LUN be? I don't know of a hard and fast number/rule, but if you're using snapshot-based backup method (such as VCB) you definitely need free space on the LUNs for the snapshots to grow until the backup is finished and the snapshots can be eliminated. What virtualization platform are you running? What version? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration
Is there any sort of utilization stats on the EVA? Frankly I wouldn't expect 21 spindles RAID5 to perform very well at all with a mixed workload like this. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Mark Milo [mailto:markmilo2...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 9:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration The san has 21 FC disks configured as a raid 5 array. There have two luns configured from this array. All 15 guest machines are located on one of these luns (including exchange). The performance hit appears mainly on exchange but other servers are suffering as well. The interesting thing is that IOPS for the entire lun holding the 15 VM's is only around 600 at the time that the disk busy is around 95%. The disk queue for that lun is around 4 - I will need to set up longer term monitoring to get the read/write times when the disk set gets busy (which is usually first thing in the morning) On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.commailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: We'd need a lot more info. Start with your disk configuration. How many disks make up the storage pool or raid group the exchange lun is allocated from? Are there other luns allocated from the same pool? How many? Which exchange resources reside on the lun (stores, logs, etc.)? Disk busy warnings buy themselves don't hold much weight, unless of course there are noticeable performances issues, which you alluded to. You'll want to capture disk queue and disk latency stats ( avg disk queue length and avg disk sec/reads and writes). Avg queue depth should below X (where X equals the number of physical disks. Read/write times should avg below 20ms and not spike above 50ms. I'd also recommend running the exbpa and the troubleshooting assistant. If you can gather I/O stats you may be able to determine if the disks can handle the load. If it doesn't appear Exchange is stressing your resources, you may need your SAN monitoring tools to determine if total I/O (assuming multiple luns share the same disks) are more than the disks can handle. I'm not familiar with EVAs, but overloading disks in a SAN can lead to cache flushing which could affect performance of the array itself. - Sean On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.commailto:markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: The host is Windows 2008 R2 running Hyper V. The performance is monitored via UPTIME monitoring software but I see similar high reading using perfmon (%disk time). Don't see any error messages at high utilization but the exchange 2003 server is responding poorly when disk is busy. There are 15 guest machines on this particular host but most of them dont use too much in the way of resources. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.commailto:rich...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.commailto:markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. Where do you see this message? On the VM? I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine... I don't really know what you mean by that. Can you elaborate a bit? ...but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? Not that I've ever heard of. You'd have a management nightmare on your hands pretty quickly if you had a large number of VMs. If so what should the max utilization of the disk on that LUN be? I don't know of a hard and fast number/rule, but if you're using snapshot-based backup method (such as VCB) you definitely need free space on the LUNs for the snapshots to grow until the backup is finished and the snapshots can be eliminated. What virtualization platform are you running? What version? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body:
Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration
I don't have stats on the eva performance as yet. What would you suggest the configuration should be for the main disk array? Just to clarify the disk pool is Vraid5 while the disks for individual guest VM's have typically been configured as raid 1 for operating system and log disks and raid 5 for data. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote: *Is there any sort of utilization stats on the EVA? Frankly I wouldn’t expect 21 spindles RAID5 to perform very well at all with a mixed workload like this. * * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Mark Milo [mailto:markmilo2...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 01, 2010 9:14 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration The san has 21 FC disks configured as a raid 5 array. There have two luns configured from this array. All 15 guest machines are located on one of these luns (including exchange). The performance hit appears mainly on exchange but other servers are suffering as well. The interesting thing is that IOPS for the entire lun holding the 15 VM's is only around 600 at the time that the disk busy is around 95%. The disk queue for that lun is around 4 - I will need to set up longer term monitoring to get the read/write times when the disk set gets busy (which is usually first thing in the morning) On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: We'd need a lot more info. Start with your disk configuration. How many disks make up the storage pool or raid group the exchange lun is allocated from? Are there other luns allocated from the same pool? How many? Which exchange resources reside on the lun (stores, logs, etc.)? Disk busy warnings buy themselves don't hold much weight, unless of course there are noticeable performances issues, which you alluded to. You'll want to capture disk queue and disk latency stats ( avg disk queue length and avg disk sec/reads and writes). Avg queue depth should below X (where X equals the number of physical disks. Read/write times should avg below 20ms and not spike above 50ms. I'd also recommend running the exbpa and the troubleshooting assistant. If you can gather I/O stats you may be able to determine if the disks can handle the load. If it doesn't appear Exchange is stressing your resources, you may need your SAN monitoring tools to determine if total I/O (assuming multiple luns share the same disks) are more than the disks can handle. I'm not familiar with EVAs, but overloading disks in a SAN can lead to cache flushing which could affect performance of the array itself. - Sean On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: The host is Windows 2008 R2 running Hyper V. The performance is monitored via UPTIME monitoring software but I see similar high reading using perfmon (%disk time). Don't see any error messages at high utilization but the exchange 2003 server is responding poorly when disk is busy. There are 15 guest machines on this particular host but most of them dont use too much in the way of resources. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. Where do you see this message? On the VM? I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine... I don't really know what you mean by that. Can you elaborate a bit? ...but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? Not that I've ever heard of. You'd have a management nightmare on your hands pretty quickly if you had a large number of VMs. If so what should the max utilization of the disk on that LUN be? I don't know of a hard and fast number/rule, but if you're using snapshot-based backup method (such as VCB) you definitely need free space on the LUNs for the snapshots to grow until the backup is finished and the snapshots can be eliminated. What virtualization platform are you running? What version? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that
Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration
On the VMs, are you running multiple disks in guest-OS-based RAID configurations underneath the EVA's vRAID5 protection, with all the VHDs on the same LUN? What is the exact config for the problematic Exchange server? On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have stats on the eva performance as yet. What would you suggest the configuration should be for the main disk array? Just to clarify the disk pool is Vraid5 while the disks for individual guest VM's have typically been configured as raid 1 for operating system and log disks and raid 5 for data. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote: *Is there any sort of utilization stats on the EVA? Frankly I wouldn’t expect 21 spindles RAID5 to perform very well at all with a mixed workload like this. * * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Mark Milo [mailto:markmilo2...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 01, 2010 9:14 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration The san has 21 FC disks configured as a raid 5 array. There have two luns configured from this array. All 15 guest machines are located on one of these luns (including exchange). The performance hit appears mainly on exchange but other servers are suffering as well. The interesting thing is that IOPS for the entire lun holding the 15 VM's is only around 600 at the time that the disk busy is around 95%. The disk queue for that lun is around 4 - I will need to set up longer term monitoring to get the read/write times when the disk set gets busy (which is usually first thing in the morning) On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: We'd need a lot more info. Start with your disk configuration. How many disks make up the storage pool or raid group the exchange lun is allocated from? Are there other luns allocated from the same pool? How many? Which exchange resources reside on the lun (stores, logs, etc.)? Disk busy warnings buy themselves don't hold much weight, unless of course there are noticeable performances issues, which you alluded to. You'll want to capture disk queue and disk latency stats ( avg disk queue length and avg disk sec/reads and writes). Avg queue depth should below X (where X equals the number of physical disks. Read/write times should avg below 20ms and not spike above 50ms. I'd also recommend running the exbpa and the troubleshooting assistant. If you can gather I/O stats you may be able to determine if the disks can handle the load. If it doesn't appear Exchange is stressing your resources, you may need your SAN monitoring tools to determine if total I/O (assuming multiple luns share the same disks) are more than the disks can handle. I'm not familiar with EVAs, but overloading disks in a SAN can lead to cache flushing which could affect performance of the array itself. - Sean On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: The host is Windows 2008 R2 running Hyper V. The performance is monitored via UPTIME monitoring software but I see similar high reading using perfmon (%disk time). Don't see any error messages at high utilization but the exchange 2003 server is responding poorly when disk is busy. There are 15 guest machines on this particular host but most of them dont use too much in the way of resources. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. Where do you see this message? On the VM? I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine... I don't really know what you mean by that. Can you elaborate a bit? ...but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? Not that I've ever heard of. You'd have a management nightmare on your hands pretty quickly if you had a large number of VMs. If so what should the max utilization of the disk on that LUN be? I don't know of a hard and fast number/rule, but if you're using snapshot-based backup method (such as VCB) you definitely need free space on the LUNs for the snapshots to grow until the backup is finished and the snapshots can be eliminated. What virtualization platform are you running? What version? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
