Remote access - Allow employees work from home
HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: DC logon strangeness
I don’t see any mention of a problem here, but, given your setup you need to make sure you disable auto site coverage and DNS record publication outside of the local site so you don't have clients hitting DCs in sites they can't reach due to firewall rules. FWIW these types of setups work fine when properly managed, but, they generally cause a huge headache otherwise. How many clients do you have at these sites? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Laurence [mailto:laurence.chi...@jalapeno-bs.co.uk] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 6:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC logon strangeness DNS is setup as follows 2 x head office DCs are DNS servers and point to the ISP servers for forwarding each remote office DC is also a DNS server for local clients and is set so that the HO DCs are their forwarders HO has DHCP setup to give out a IP address and DNS server settings for the local HO LAN firewall has a block all rule and the following exceptions (amongst others): IT Tech team - speak to everything DCs at remote offices speak to DCs at Head Office for DNS / Time / AD Synch DCs at Head Office speak to DCs at remote offices AD Synch reason being that head office to remote office comms is over MPLS VPN. HO is on 10MB pipe each of the 25 remote sites is on 512kb pipe regards Laurence ~ 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: Slightly OT: carts for laptops
Poke around sites/catalogs targeting K-12 and higher-ed - these things are a staple of that industry. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Slightly OT: carts for laptops Folks, I am looking for carts for laptops. Staff will be using the laptops to enter data in our medical system. The carts will move from room to room during the day and in storage at night. Something where staff would be standing, I think. A built-in power strip would be nice. Suggestions? Tom Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail 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/ 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: Hosted VoIP recommendations
Take a look at Vitelity. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: E. Peeters [mailto:ml2...@ibarras.com] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hosted VoIP recommendations Hello gang, We have a production facility with a small office that we are looking at hosted VoIP for. Voice/data contracts are up for renewal and the PBX is sufficiently outdated that it is no longer supported by the manufacturers (nor are the handsets) so an all-in-one VoIP solution seems like s good bet. We'd probably end up with 10 handsets. I'm partial to Speakeasy/Megapath because I have been a customer of both in the past and pretty happy with their data service, but I've also looked at 8x8, TelCentris and Velocity. Am I missing a big fish? Any comment on the suppliers above (or any other we should look at) much appreciated. Thanks, Eric Peeters Ibarra's ~ 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: Standard SSL vs. UCC
I also use Digicert personally and recommend them to all my customers. OCS doesn't support wildcards - no idea about Lync. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standard SSL vs. UCC A couple of my clients use Digicert. I personally use Digicert. But I would say that 90% of my clients use GoDaddy (CertificatesForExchange is a GoDaddy reseller, that sells certificates at a lower cost than GoDaddy themselves). But even there, a one-year cert from Digitcert is $328, not $600... I don't recommend a wildcard cert unless you are also going to be using it for something other than Exchange (like OCS/Lync or webhosting). IMHO. YMMV. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standard SSL vs. UCC I was looking at the Digicert page here: http://www.digicert.com/unified-communications-ssl-tls.htm Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator c:832.373.7883 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standard SSL vs. UCC CAN it be done? With some difficulty. However, where do you get $600? A one-year, five-name UCC cert is available from CertificatesForExchange.com for USD $60. For $60, it isn't worth going through the hassle required to configure Exchange with a single-name-certificate. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Standard SSL vs. UCC Hey all, With Exchange 2007/2010, is it necessary to use a UCC/SAN certificate, or can a Standard one work okay so long as you resolve autodiscover to nothing or remove all *.domain lookups? I work for a company that services small to mid size companies who can't afford to pay almost $600 for a UCC cert but are running things like SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007 and want to utilize Outlook Anywhere. Thanks, Jay Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator Unetek, Inc. Mobile: 832.373.7883 Email:jd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ 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.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: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation
It was added in the 2008 tools. If you delete a DC object in ADUC the same UI gets presented. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation Interesting, never tried that, will have to. Kudos, 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 -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation On 12/1/2010 9:44 AM, Don Guyer wrote: Yeah, you're going to have to do it manually, NTDSUTIL. Once you do this 2-3 times, it becomes second nature and isn't very time consuming. Just be careful and read your commands before entering them. Heh. Actually ... I found that if you go into SitesServices, and hilight the NTDS Settings under the dearly departed server names, and right-click and say DELETE ... it comes up with a window, telling you you are trying to delete a DC. And 3 options ... the last of which is this server is permanently offline. If you choose that, the NTDS Settings then get deleted, and *then* you can delete the server from Sites and Services. So that's what I did. I will *also* do the manual metadata cleanup (if it's even needed), and remove the A records in DNS, and the records in _msdcs (as the 1st article recommends). And then the ADSIEDIT to remove old computer records, as the second article recommends. ~ 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: Port testing
If your DNS server isn't listening on TCP 53 it's not really fully functional. DNS queries in general go UDP, but, if the response is going to be greater than a certain size (I forget), then things have to transition over to TCP. The actual DNS packet structure (if you've ever looked) is incredibly space efficient (everything is single instanced), but sometimes you still have a large reply. Zone transfers are also TCP only. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Port testing Oh hey...now that you mention it.. From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Port testing You realize TCP 53 and UDP 53 perform two different tasks right? On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:06 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: W2K8 R2 server, how can I test for an open port on another machine? Specifically I need to see if ServerA can talk to port xxx on ServerB. I thought you could use telnet..but using it to check DNS when I type TELNET DNSSERVER 53 I get could not open port, yet DNS resolution works. If I do the same from my Win7 PC I get the expected result... 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.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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Other options involve Terminal Server/RDP or Citrix. We provide laptops for any employee or long-term consultant that we require to work remotely. For a few users, we even set them up with a desktop at the office, and allow them to VPN into *only* that desktop, from which they can then do any other work that they need. This can mitigate a lot of other issues. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com wrote: HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
We used a Citrix Access Gateway appliance to connect external users to published desktops identical to those they used at work. You can probably do a similar thing with TS/RDS On 8 December 2010 09:37, Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.comwrote: HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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 -- 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
+1. We have users either remote into a Terminal Server or if they have a desktop in the office, they RDP to it and do all their work from there. Mark From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 10:54 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Other options involve Terminal Server/RDP or Citrix. We provide laptops for any employee or long-term consultant that we require to work remotely. For a few users, we even set them up with a desktop at the office, and allow them to VPN into *only* that desktop, from which they can then do any other work that they need. This can mitigate a lot of other issues. ASB (My XeeSM Profile)http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.commailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com wrote: HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support ~ 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 _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by bluesource. For further information visit www.blue-source.com powered by Messagelabs ** This email is sent for and on behalf of Inspop.com Limited ** Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registration no. 310635. Inspop.com Limited [also trading as Confused.com] is registered in England and Wales at 2nd Floor, Friary House, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AE [Reg. No. 03857130]. Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies [which may contain alterations] subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the Information Security Officer by telephone on +44 [0] 29 2043 4372. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. This email has been swept for viruses before leaving our system. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. We may monitor the content of E-mails sent and received via our network for viruses or unauthorised use and for other lawful business purposes. ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
For years we have been allowing VPN then Remote Desktop. Folks love it and it works quite well. - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 4:37:24 AM Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
At the moment I am thinking about creating a VPN tunnel using certain protocols to allow them access their PC - but again there is security concerns. Citrix is an option but possibly an expensive one - I have not explored the TS options. @ Chipshead - can you elaborate your setup? - did you mean Remote desktop over VPN? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 10:54 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Other options involve Terminal Server/RDP or Citrix. We provide laptops for any employee or long-term consultant that we require to work remotely. For a few users, we even set them up with a desktop at the office, and allow them to VPN into *only* that desktop, from which they can then do any other work that they need. This can mitigate a lot of other issues. ASB (My XeeSM Profile)http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.commailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com wrote: HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support ~ 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
UAG - Universal Access Gateway, not the cheapest but fairly easy setup and good security. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed Dec 08 04:37:24 2010 Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Might have a look at that – Our main concern is the home PC – we have no control over the PC. And that any virus, malware or spyware is on the machine that could manifest itself back onto the core network. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: 08 December 2010 12:02 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home UAG - Universal Access Gateway, not the cheapest but fairly easy setup and good security. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed Dec 08 04:37:24 2010 Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Citrix or some form of VDI combined with an access gateway or VPN with host checking? From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 12:07 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Might have a look at that – Our main concern is the home PC – we have no control over the PC. And that any virus, malware or spyware is on the machine that could manifest itself back onto the core network. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: 08 December 2010 12:02 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home UAG - Universal Access Gateway, not the cheapest but fairly easy setup and good security. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed Dec 08 04:37:24 2010 Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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 -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96 The
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
We use Vmware View (VDI). We went that route simply because we already had a VMware infrastructure and it took a few hours work to set it up at get users up and running. From home all they have to do is click a link and the client installs via the web and they are connected up. Capabilities of the PCOIP client are great. From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
This is the exact reason we’ve implemented RDS/Terminal Services. Dave From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Might have a look at that – Our main concern is the home PC – we have no control over the PC. And that any virus, malware or spyware is on the machine that could manifest itself back onto the core network. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: 08 December 2010 12:02 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home UAG - Universal Access Gateway, not the cheapest but fairly easy setup and good security. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed Dec 08 04:37:24 2010 Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny.
Not me. Just tried it again. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. All I get is a Russian looking blog page. Webster From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Subject: RE: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. I’ll see you and raise you one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8jGVXOMswfeature=player_embedded From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Subject: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. Saw this and had to pass it along. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/05/irate-cash4gold-lett.html Really funny. Hope you all enjoy. ~ 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: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny.
Works fine to me too. From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 14:07 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. Not me. Just tried it again. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. All I get is a Russian looking blog page. Webster From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Subject: RE: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. I'll see you and raise you one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8jGVXOMswfeature=player_embedded From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Subject: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. Saw this and had to pass it along. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/05/irate-cash4gold-lett.html Really funny. Hope you all enjoy. ~ 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 This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com. ~ 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
Front-End/Report Utility for MySQL
I have setup MySQL for a couple of departments. Up till now they have used Open Office Base to access the MySQL databases and the very simple reports that can be created in Base were adequate but now they need something more robust. I've been trying out Navicat and it's ok. I'd appreciate any recommendation on other MySQL front-ends. Thanks. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com ~ 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
App runs from console but not Remote Desktop
Hi All, I have a Windows 2008R2 64bit Terminal Server. I have on particular app (Caseware) that refuses to run in a Remote Desktop session. Their tech support has been less than useful. Sitting down in front of the server, the app runs perfectly. Running the same app from Remote Desktop it crashes instantly with a Windows error citing a problem in module ntdll.dll. No other app on the terminal server experiences this problem. Can anyone suggest a solution? Shawn ~ 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: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop
What about running it in a console RDP session (/admin is the switch now I believe, or something similar) On 8 December 2010 14:19, Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com wrote: Hi All, I have a Windows 2008R2 64bit Terminal Server. I have on particular app (Caseware) that refuses to run in a Remote Desktop session. Their tech support has been less than useful. Sitting down in front of the server, the app runs perfectly. Running the same app from Remote Desktop it crashes instantly with a Windows error citing a problem in module ntdll.dll. No other app on the terminal server experiences this problem. Can anyone suggest a solution? Shawn ~ 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: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop
A couple of random thoughts that may or may not be useful. 1) Was it installed when the Terminal Server was in Install Mode? 2) What happens if you remote into it with the /console and /admin switches? (You didn't specify the client OS so just use 'em both.) 3) Have you disabled optional settings like the clipboard, audio, etc.? I kinda doubt that'll help, but what the heck? On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com wrote: Hi All, I have a Windows 2008R2 64bit Terminal Server. I have on particular app (Caseware) that refuses to run in a Remote Desktop session. Their tech support has been less than useful. Sitting down in front of the server, the app runs perfectly. Running the same app from Remote Desktop it crashes instantly with a Windows error citing a problem in module ntdll.dll. No other app on the terminal server experiences this problem. Can anyone suggest a solution? Shawn ~ 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: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop
Check out the Application Compatibility Toolkit. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop Hi All, I have a Windows 2008R2 64bit Terminal Server. I have on particular app (Caseware) that refuses to run in a Remote Desktop session. Their tech support has been less than useful. Sitting down in front of the server, the app runs perfectly. Running the same app from Remote Desktop it crashes instantly with a Windows error citing a problem in module ntdll.dll. No other app on the terminal server experiences this problem. Can anyone suggest a solution? Shawn ~ 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: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop
+1 - worked for me when I needed to get Adobe CS3 working on a 2003 Terminal Server. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 12/8/10 9:41 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Check out the Application Compatibility Toolkit. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop Hi All, I have a Windows 2008R2 64bit Terminal Server. I have on particular app (Caseware) that refuses to run in a Remote Desktop session. Their tech support has been less than useful. Sitting down in front of the server, the app runs perfectly. Running the same app from Remote Desktop it crashes instantly with a Windows error citing a problem in module ntdll.dll. No other app on the terminal server experiences this problem. Can anyone suggest a solution? Shawn ~ 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: CAD Workstation Spec
Jaw -- floor. Eyes -- popped out of head... A sustained rate of 155,000 IOPS/s is generated by using forty 256GB TorqX SSDs connected to five LSI SAS PCI-E controllers. Of course, the /s is redundant, but that's just insane... The system is capable of making a duplicate copy of a Blu-ray rip on the 40-drive SSD array in a blistering fast 0.9 seconds. That's at least an 8GB file copy in under a second. 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: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Not to be outdone: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Patriot-SSD-Intel-Xeon-LSI,9791.html -- Mike Gill From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Fast hard drives only help. A pair of Velociraptors or better yet, SAS drives would be great. The SSD is just more modern tech. Bet hey, why not stipe a pair of those right? But even that would be lame. This is where you need to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Nice timing on the thread, I just today was asked to spec our a CAD system. Surprised I haven't seen RAID 0 as part of the equation mentioned.. Dave From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec That 3D mouse looks pretty cool - and for the $ it's not bad at all. I used to do a ton of CAD work in previous positions, and I would have given my left pinky for something like that... 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: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec You need to look at some of the more complex models your users are working with and see where the bottle necks are. Read through the link Joseph sent to get better acquainted with what you need to look for in terms of specific brands and models of the different graphics cards. Depending on budget, my preference would be Xeon. You can get a dual socket motherboard and have a flexible base for starting with one CPU and adding a second in the near future. If CPU power isn't likely to be an issue before the next hardware refresh then an i7/i5 system may be fine. If you want the 6 core i7, you will want to get a board that has a LGA 1366 socket. You should be able to judge RAM by what the users are currently doing, then add an appropriate amount for growth. I would also use a fast SSD drive for the OS. And any CAD guy wall want a nice new pair of 24 or larger displays looking back at them. ;) And they do all have one of thesehttp://www.3dconnexion.com/products/what-is-a-3d-mouse.html right? Right? -- Mike Gill From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CAD Workstation Spec I need to upgrade a few PC's running AutoDesk Inventor to Workstations, question is how much horsepower is economically / practically needed? How do I compare i5, i7 or Xenon processors in CAD situations? RAM is pretty simple, Windows 7 64 bit probably 8 Gb should be ok. A video card with 1 Gb of DDR3 ram should be ok I Think. Any recommendations? -- SJ ~ 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 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
RE: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation
That explains why I haven't seen/tried that. I haven't built a test W2k8 environment yet, nor had to rip servers out of one. Thx, 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 -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 5:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation It was added in the 2008 tools. If you delete a DC object in ADUC the same UI gets presented. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation Interesting, never tried that, will have to. Kudos, 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 -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation On 12/1/2010 9:44 AM, Don Guyer wrote: Yeah, you're going to have to do it manually, NTDSUTIL. Once you do this 2-3 times, it becomes second nature and isn't very time consuming. Just be careful and read your commands before entering them. Heh. Actually ... I found that if you go into SitesServices, and hilight the NTDS Settings under the dearly departed server names, and right-click and say DELETE ... it comes up with a window, telling you you are trying to delete a DC. And 3 options ... the last of which is this server is permanently offline. If you choose that, the NTDS Settings then get deleted, and *then* you can delete the server from Sites and Services. So that's what I did. I will *also* do the manual metadata cleanup (if it's even needed), and remove the A records in DNS, and the records in _msdcs (as the 1st article recommends). And then the ADSIEDIT to remove old computer records, as the second article recommends. ~ 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: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny.
Did someone get pownd? . From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. All I get is a Russian looking blog page. Webster From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Subject: RE: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. I’ll see you and raise you one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8jGVXOMswfeature=player_embedded From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Subject: Really, really, really, early Friday Funny. Saw this and had to pass it along. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/05/irate-cash4gold-lett.html Really funny. Hope you all enjoy. ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Quick Newb SQL Question
Nope, you should keep your production DB's in full recovery mode. You can switch that in the SQL management Studio under options I believe, or via TSQL ( Look in books online, they have the syntax) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quick Newb SQL Question I have a SQL 2008 R2 database that was setup with the simple recovery model. It has been in production for a couple of weeks now. I would like to change it to full recovery model. Can I change this now without anything blowing up? James ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
+1 We provide remote users with laptops or desktops, configure them in the office with a VPN and TS RDP. We're currently looking into VDI for internal and remote users. _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Other options involve Terminal Server/RDP or Citrix. We provide laptops for any employee or long-term consultant that we require to work remotely. For a few users, we even set them up with a desktop at the office, and allow them to VPN into *only* that desktop, from which they can then do any other work that they need. This can mitigate a lot of other issues. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com wrote: HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Doing it this way, can you administratively control options like connecting local drives, printers, clipboard, etc? That might be important. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN *Erik Goldoff*** *IT Consultant* *Systems, Networks, Security * ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' *From:* Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:37 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC’s What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
For those using VDI, how is the bandwidth usage? We were looking at it briefly for some remote users, but our concern is the bandwidth, and how many users we could effectively provide services to at the same time. Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com 12/8/2010 7:49 AM +1 We provide remote users with laptops or desktops, configure them in the office with a VPN and TS RDP. We're currently looking into VDI for internal and remote users. _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Other options involve Terminal Server/RDP or Citrix. We provide laptops for any employee or long-term consultant that we require to work remotely. For a few users, we even set them up with a desktop at the office, and allow them to VPN into *only* that desktop, from which they can then do any other work that they need. This can mitigate a lot of other issues. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com wrote: HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support ~ 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: Quick Newb SQL Question
Thanks, I changed it in the management studio. I'm doing a full backup weekly, differentials daily and trans log hourly and also having backup exec grab those files nightly and put them on tape. The people (Henry Shein) who installed SQL and their software Dentrix setup the database in simple recovery mode. I knew with my limited knowledge that SQL 2008 had better backup functions then what's offered by simple mode, hence wanting to make the change, just wanted to make sure the change wouldn't screw anything up. James - Original Message - From: Ziots, Edward To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:42 AM Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Nope, you should keep your production DB's in full recovery mode. You can switch that in the SQL management Studio under options I believe, or via TSQL ( Look in books online, they have the syntax) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quick Newb SQL Question I have a SQL 2008 R2 database that was setup with the simple recovery model. It has been in production for a couple of weeks now. I would like to change it to full recovery model. Can I change this now without anything blowing up? James ~ 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: CAD Workstation Spec
Where it said Of course, the /s is redundant, but that's just insane, they were actually talking about the acceleration J From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Jaw à floor. Eyes à popped out of head... A sustained rate of 155,000 IOPS/s is generated by using forty 256GB TorqX SSDs connected to five LSI SAS PCI-E controllers. Of course, the /s is redundant, but that's just insane... The system is capable of making a duplicate copy of a Blu-ray rip on the 40-drive SSD array in a blistering fast 0.9 seconds. That's at least an 8GB file copy in under a second. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Not to be outdone: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Patriot-SSD-Intel-Xeon-LSI,9791.html -- Mike Gill From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Fast hard drives only help. A pair of Velociraptors or better yet, SAS drives would be great. The SSD is just more modern tech. Bet hey, why not stipe a pair of those right? But even that would be lame. This is where you need to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Nice timing on the thread, I just today was asked to spec our a CAD system. Surprised I haven't seen RAID 0 as part of the equation mentioned.. Dave From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec That 3D mouse looks pretty cool - and for the $ it's not bad at all. I used to do a ton of CAD work in previous positions, and I would have given my left pinky for something like that... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec You need to look at some of the more complex models your users are working with and see where the bottle necks are. Read through the link Joseph sent to get better acquainted with what you need to look for in terms of specific brands and models of the different graphics cards. Depending on budget, my preference would be Xeon. You can get a dual socket motherboard and have a flexible base for starting with one CPU and adding a second in the near future. If CPU power isn't likely to be an issue before the next hardware refresh then an i7/i5 system may be fine. If you want the 6 core i7, you will want to get a board that has a LGA 1366 socket. You should be able to judge RAM by what the users are currently doing, then add an appropriate amount for growth. I would also use a fast SSD drive for the OS. And any CAD guy wall want a nice new pair of 24 or larger displays looking back at them. ;) And they do all have one of these http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/what-is-a-3d-mouse.html right? Right? -- Mike Gill From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CAD Workstation Spec I need to upgrade a few PC's running AutoDesk Inventor to Workstations, question is how much horsepower is economically / practically needed? How do I compare i5, i7 or Xenon processors in CAD situations? RAM is pretty simple, Windows 7 64 bit probably 8 Gb should be ok. A video card with 1 Gb of DDR3 ram should be ok I Think. Any recommendations? -- SJ ~ 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: Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays
It was a very good piece Thanks for the send. -sc From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 9:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays It's mind boggling. It's a hell of a lot of responsibility too. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, 3 December 2010 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays One of the key take aways - for me - was that regardless of how smart their people are - they don't know everything. But they KNOW that and they continue to have a passion for learning and improving. But the pure SCALE of their operations - that blew me away. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ From: Ziots, Edward [ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays Honestly, I just watched the video, and it was enriching from a security prespective accordingly. It's a very good example of Risk Assessment at the highest levels affecting basically a global scope, so as the presenter said a lot, the decisions and there raminfications are not to be taken lightly. Also something that the presenter talked about a lot, is communication, ( Of course his quit worrying and call everyone was quite hilarious, until you actually realize on some of these vulnerabilities ( Especially the ATL Templates) you basically have to notify and call EVERYONE... Plus there was a lot of good insight on just how much work is done behind the scenes from the time the security researchers notify M$ there is a vulnerability it is verified and how much work it does take in certain situations to turn around a quality security fix to the customers. ( Although I didn't know they couldn't reproduce the BSOD ( AKA Rootkited Servers, PC's otherwise, either Auerlon or TDS, or otherwise) to the point they needed to buy someones PC/Server to find out it was ROOTED, then added that logic into the patching process, which is now apart of all there Kernel patching processes now, because it was pretty effective. Again a good presentation, and very enlightening. Pray for a low patch count this month, and less chaos in Yr 2011. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 5:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays Michael, Thanks for sharing this. I'm actually surprised no one else has commented. I say it all the time, perspective is an interesting thing. The article and the video really puts into perspective the behemoth of a task that Microsoft has in researching, writing, testing, and rolling out patches and updates for all of their applications and operating systems over the course of their 10 year security support lifecycle. I particularly chuckled over Dustin's comment, What were you doing in 2000? How many of you were in college? Using dial-up? In high school? It is REALLY easy for those of us in the trenches to criticize Microsoft for doing a bad job of x, y, and z, but most of us really have very little real idea of what is involved (or we don't take the time to think about it because we're stuck in our own little world with our own problems). Releasing an update that will force the reboot of 600+ MILLION PCs across the globe is just mind boggling. I can't say that I love Microsoft, but I have gained a newfound respect for people like Dustin that seem to really be passionate about what they do and how it impacts the rest of the world. Cheers, Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com https://owa.smithcons.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx www.eaglemds.com https://owa.smithcons.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FW: Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays Thanks to Susan Bradley for pointing this one out... this is worth watching (IMO). Even though it can be summarized in one sentence: ...but most people have little understanding of the massive amount of coordination and work it takes to release five new lines of code across 22 platforms in 36 languages. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Susan Bradley Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:11 AM Subject: [mvpsectalk] Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays - MSRC Ecosystem Strategy
Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Such things are configurable in TS/RDS and Citrix. If you allow them to connect directly to their work desktop, then no. On 12/8/2010 9:59 AM, RS wrote: Doing it this way, can you administratively control options like connecting local drives, printers, clipboard, etc? That might be important. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ 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: CAD Workstation Spec
Whatever... http://www.ramsan.com/products/73 - 14m IOPs :-) Even still - I replaced all my disks at home in my home server with SSDs (Patriot TorqX). I suspect the cheap LSI RAID controllers would be a bottleneck. Even with a higher end 3WARE controller, the bottleneck becomes the controller - not the SSDs. That said - good SSDs are awesome. A full Exchange 2010 setup was less than 6 minutes. Cheers Ken From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2010 10:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Jaw -- floor. Eyes -- popped out of head... A sustained rate of 155,000 IOPS/s is generated by using forty 256GB TorqX SSDs connected to five LSI SAS PCI-E controllers. Of course, the /s is redundant, but that's just insane... The system is capable of making a duplicate copy of a Blu-ray rip on the 40-drive SSD array in a blistering fast 0.9 seconds. That's at least an 8GB file copy in under a second. 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: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Not to be outdone: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Patriot-SSD-Intel-Xeon-LSI,9791.html -- Mike Gill From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Fast hard drives only help. A pair of Velociraptors or better yet, SAS drives would be great. The SSD is just more modern tech. Bet hey, why not stipe a pair of those right? But even that would be lame. This is where you need to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Nice timing on the thread, I just today was asked to spec our a CAD system. Surprised I haven't seen RAID 0 as part of the equation mentioned.. Dave From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec That 3D mouse looks pretty cool - and for the $ it's not bad at all. I used to do a ton of CAD work in previous positions, and I would have given my left pinky for something like that... 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: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec You need to look at some of the more complex models your users are working with and see where the bottle necks are. Read through the link Joseph sent to get better acquainted with what you need to look for in terms of specific brands and models of the different graphics cards. Depending on budget, my preference would be Xeon. You can get a dual socket motherboard and have a flexible base for starting with one CPU and adding a second in the near future. If CPU power isn't likely to be an issue before the next hardware refresh then an i7/i5 system may be fine. If you want the 6 core i7, you will want to get a board that has a LGA 1366 socket. You should be able to judge RAM by what the users are currently doing, then add an appropriate amount for growth. I would also use a fast SSD drive for the OS. And any CAD guy wall want a nice new pair of 24 or larger displays looking back at them. ;) And they do all have one of thesehttp://www.3dconnexion.com/products/what-is-a-3d-mouse.html right? Right? -- Mike Gill From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CAD Workstation Spec I need to upgrade a few PC's running AutoDesk Inventor to Workstations, question is how much horsepower is economically / practically needed? How do I compare i5, i7 or Xenon processors in CAD situations? RAM is pretty simple, Windows 7 64 bit probably 8 Gb should be ok. A video card with 1 Gb of DDR3 ram should be ok I Think. Any recommendations? -- SJ ~ 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! ~ ~
Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Depending on the details of your VPN mechanism - generally those that provide layer 3 connectivity: OpenVPN, PPTP, SSTP, L2TP/IPsec, straight IPsec and more - you may also require allowing TCP and UDP 53. You also need to consider whether the VPN captures internet traffic. Depending on your firewall, it can be a huge amount of grief or it can be really easy. Me? I don't trust my end users, and I most certainly do NOT trust their home computers, especially if spouses and/or children are around. I prefer VPNs that work only on layer 4 - the classic browser-based clientless SSL VPN. You can also provide similar functionality with SSH port forwarding. On 12/8/2010 9:36 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
That's what I thought, and why I asked the question. If Joe home user can connect his virus-riddled home (or even laptop) drives via the RDP session, what have you really gained? (This can also be a source of data leakage, not just inbound malware.) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Such things are configurable in TS/RDS and Citrix. If you allow them to connect directly to their work desktop, then no. On 12/8/2010 9:59 AM, RS wrote: Doing it this way, can you administratively control options like connecting local drives, printers, clipboard, etc? That might be important. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 15:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Quick Newb SQL Question
Yep, you defintely want to set it for full-recovery mode. This is why we control all DB installs, so that the vendors don't do whatever they feel like, and leave the users high and dry. ( Best you can do with Simple recovery mode is go back to the last full backup), with full recovery mode you can apply the latest backup and replay the transaction logs up to the minute you need the database back to. Good reason to always use best practices, never give vendors SA, and apply least privilege when granting permissions to vendor accounts for access to their databases. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quick Newb SQL Question Thanks, I changed it in the management studio. I'm doing a full backup weekly, differentials daily and trans log hourly and also having backup exec grab those files nightly and put them on tape. The people (Henry Shein) who installed SQL and their software Dentrix setup the database in simple recovery mode. I knew with my limited knowledge that SQL 2008 had better backup functions then what's offered by simple mode, hence wanting to make the change, just wanted to make sure the change wouldn't screw anything up. James - Original Message - From: Ziots, Edward mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:42 AM Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Nope, you should keep your production DB's in full recovery mode. You can switch that in the SQL management Studio under options I believe, or via TSQL ( Look in books online, they have the syntax) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quick Newb SQL Question I have a SQL 2008 R2 database that was setup with the simple recovery model. It has been in production for a couple of weeks now. I would like to change it to full recovery model. Can I change this now without anything blowing up? James ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Those are concerns you need to bring to management before you enable remote access features. They are the ones to set such policies. On 12/8/2010 11:49 AM, RS wrote: That's what I thought, and why I asked the question. If Joe home user can connect his virus-riddled home (or even laptop) drives via the RDP session, what have you really gained? (This can also be a source of data leakage, not just inbound malware.) -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ 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: CAD Workstation Spec
SSDs are a great way to quickly discover bottlenecks you never knew you had – like your PCIe interface for example. As the prices get more reasonable I'm finding excuses to deploy them more often; a couple of new workstations that I've deployed have been equipped with SSDs and my Mac Pro has had a 240GB one for about a year now, with boot times running about 30 seconds from hitting the power button to Outlook opening up. Stepping back to anything else feels like the stone age. I've found that with enough network storage I don't mind having a smaller SSD for my boot media – my backups go over the network, most of my work files are on the network, and my applications are insanely responsive thanks to the fast internal disk. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:41:31 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Whatever… http://www.ramsan.com/products/73 - 14m IOPs :-) Even still – I replaced all my disks at home in my home server with SSDs (Patriot TorqX). I suspect the cheap LSI RAID controllers would be a bottleneck. Even with a higher end 3WARE controller, the bottleneck becomes the controller – not the SSDs. That said – good SSDs are awesome. A full Exchange 2010 setup was less than 6 minutes. Cheers Ken From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2010 10:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Jaw -- floor. Eyes -- popped out of head… “A sustained rate of 155,000 IOPS/s is generated by using forty 256GB TorqX SSDs connected to five LSI SAS PCI-E controllers.” Of course, the /s is redundant, but that’s just insane… “The system is capable of making a duplicate copy of a Blu-ray rip on the 40-drive SSD array in a blistering fast 0.9 seconds. That's at least an 8GB file copy in under a second.” 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: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Not to be outdone: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Patriot-SSD-Intel-Xeon-LSI,9791.html -- Mike Gill From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Fast hard drives only help. A pair of Velociraptors or better yet, SAS drives would be great. The SSD is just more modern tech. Bet hey, why not stipe a pair of those right? But even that would be lame. This is where you need to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Nice timing on the thread, I just today was asked to spec our a CAD system. Surprised I haven't seen RAID 0 as part of the equation mentioned.. Dave From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec That 3D mouse looks pretty cool – and for the $ it’s not bad at all. I used to do a ton of CAD work in previous positions, and I would have given my left pinky for something like that… 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: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec You need to look at some of the more complex models your users are working with and see where the bottle necks are. Read through the link Joseph sent to get better acquainted with what you need to look for in terms of specific brands and models of the different graphics cards. Depending on budget, my preference would be Xeon. You can get a dual socket motherboard and have a flexible base for starting with one CPU and adding a second in the near future. If CPU power isn’t likely to be an issue before the next hardware refresh then an i7/i5 system may be fine. If you want the 6 core i7, you will want to get a board that has a LGA 1366 socket. You should be able to judge RAM by what the users are currently doing, then add an appropriate amount for growth. I would also
Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
The UAG addresses all these issues John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: RS rich...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed Dec 08 12:49:20 2010 Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's what I thought, and why I asked the question. If Joe home user can connect his virus-riddled home (or even laptop) drives via the RDP session, what have you really gained? (This can also be a source of data leakage, not just inbound malware.) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.commailto:p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Such things are configurable in TS/RDS and Citrix. If you allow them to connect directly to their work desktop, then no. On 12/8/2010 9:59 AM, RS wrote: Doing it this way, can you administratively control options like connecting local drives, printers, clipboard, etc? That might be important. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.commailto:p...@optimumdata.com ~ 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 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
I got a rock... :) From: pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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.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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
RDS or Citrix they only have access to drives via apps offered by the RDP or Citrix session – the home user cannot UNC to drives as one could via VPN. Launching Excel for example the EXCEL.EXE is on the RDS or Citrix box in RAM and not the local users box…hence and infected system cannot get to the EXCEL.EXE (or more importantly, it’s folder structure) to infect it. As other have said, you don’t really want a network connection between an unmanaged machine and your network. Dave From: RS [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's what I thought, and why I asked the question. If Joe home user can connect his virus-riddled home (or even laptop) drives via the RDP session, what have you really gained? (This can also be a source of data leakage, not just inbound malware.) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.commailto:p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Such things are configurable in TS/RDS and Citrix. If you allow them to connect directly to their work desktop, then no. On 12/8/2010 9:59 AM, RS wrote: Doing it this way, can you administratively control options like connecting local drives, printers, clipboard, etc? That might be important. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.commailto:p...@optimumdata.com ~ 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: Quick Newb SQL Question
Make sure you back up transaction logs also or your transaction logs will grow From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Yep, you defintely want to set it for full-recovery mode. This is why we control all DB installs, so that the vendors don't do whatever they feel like, and leave the users high and dry. ( Best you can do with Simple recovery mode is go back to the last full backup), with full recovery mode you can apply the latest backup and replay the transaction logs up to the minute you need the database back to. Good reason to always use best practices, never give vendors SA, and apply least privilege when granting permissions to vendor accounts for access to their databases. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quick Newb SQL Question Thanks, I changed it in the management studio. I'm doing a full backup weekly, differentials daily and trans log hourly and also having backup exec grab those files nightly and put them on tape. The people (Henry Shein) who installed SQL and their software Dentrix setup the database in simple recovery mode. I knew with my limited knowledge that SQL 2008 had better backup functions then what's offered by simple mode, hence wanting to make the change, just wanted to make sure the change wouldn't screw anything up. James - Original Message - From: Ziots, Edward mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:42 AM Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Nope, you should keep your production DB's in full recovery mode. You can switch that in the SQL management Studio under options I believe, or via TSQL ( Look in books online, they have the syntax) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quick Newb SQL Question I have a SQL 2008 R2 database that was setup with the simple recovery model. It has been in production for a couple of weeks now. I would like to change it to full recovery model. Can I change this now without anything blowing up? James ~ 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 ~ 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: Quick Newb SQL Question
Yep, agreed we do it every hour, and its part of the maintenance plan for all DB's. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Make sure you back up transaction logs also or your transaction logs will grow From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Yep, you defintely want to set it for full-recovery mode. This is why we control all DB installs, so that the vendors don't do whatever they feel like, and leave the users high and dry. ( Best you can do with Simple recovery mode is go back to the last full backup), with full recovery mode you can apply the latest backup and replay the transaction logs up to the minute you need the database back to. Good reason to always use best practices, never give vendors SA, and apply least privilege when granting permissions to vendor accounts for access to their databases. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quick Newb SQL Question Thanks, I changed it in the management studio. I'm doing a full backup weekly, differentials daily and trans log hourly and also having backup exec grab those files nightly and put them on tape. The people (Henry Shein) who installed SQL and their software Dentrix setup the database in simple recovery mode. I knew with my limited knowledge that SQL 2008 had better backup functions then what's offered by simple mode, hence wanting to make the change, just wanted to make sure the change wouldn't screw anything up. James - Original Message - From: Ziots, Edward mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:42 AM Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Nope, you should keep your production DB's in full recovery mode. You can switch that in the SQL management Studio under options I believe, or via TSQL ( Look in books online, they have the syntax) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quick Newb SQL Question I have a SQL 2008 R2 database that was setup with the simple recovery model. It has been in production for a couple of weeks now. I would like to change it to full recovery model. Can I change this now without anything blowing up? James ~ 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 ~ 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!
Re: Quick Newb SQL Question
Same here. - Original Message - From: Ziots, Edward To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:05 PM Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Yep, agreed we do it every hour, and its part of the maintenance plan for all DB's. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Make sure you back up transaction logs also or your transaction logs will grow From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Yep, you defintely want to set it for full-recovery mode. This is why we control all DB installs, so that the vendors don't do whatever they feel like, and leave the users high and dry. ( Best you can do with Simple recovery mode is go back to the last full backup), with full recovery mode you can apply the latest backup and replay the transaction logs up to the minute you need the database back to. Good reason to always use best practices, never give vendors SA, and apply least privilege when granting permissions to vendor accounts for access to their databases. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quick Newb SQL Question Thanks, I changed it in the management studio. I'm doing a full backup weekly, differentials daily and trans log hourly and also having backup exec grab those files nightly and put them on tape. The people (Henry Shein) who installed SQL and their software Dentrix setup the database in simple recovery mode. I knew with my limited knowledge that SQL 2008 had better backup functions then what's offered by simple mode, hence wanting to make the change, just wanted to make sure the change wouldn't screw anything up. James - Original Message - From: Ziots, Edward To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:42 AM Subject: RE: Quick Newb SQL Question Nope, you should keep your production DB's in full recovery mode. You can switch that in the SQL management Studio under options I believe, or via TSQL ( Look in books online, they have the syntax) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quick Newb SQL Question I have a SQL 2008 R2 database that was setup with the simple recovery model. It has been in production for a couple of weeks now. I would like to change it to full recovery model. Can I change this now without anything blowing up? James ~ 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 ~ 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
Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
I asked them about it and they said they haven't done cookies in a couple of years... It's now a donation to a charity they give us to choose from On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, pdw1...@hotmail.com wrote: You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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 ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
Was it shiny? On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: I got a rock… J *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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 ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
Send it to Cash4Gold! On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: Was it shiny? On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: I got a rock… J *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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 ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
o shiny Don Ely don@gmail.com 12/8/2010 11:10 AM Was it shiny? On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: I got a rock… J *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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 ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - From: pdw1...@hotmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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 ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
Was it painted gold? - Original Message - From: Maglinger, Paul To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:46 PM Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? I got a rock. J From: pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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 ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she's done that), and I'm eating one right now...If yours isn't doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. :) 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: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - From: pdw1...@hotmail.commailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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.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 Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate
RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
And black. From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? Was it shiny? On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.commailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: I got a rock... :) From: pdw1...@hotmail.commailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.commailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.commailto:stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.commailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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.commailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.govmailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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.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
Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
And then there's always LogMeIn Pro.. -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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 STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Aye, but hopefully a small number, I hate trying to worry about a software client piece on an unmanaged system, bad enough making sure a browser has a doodad. Big fan of LogMeIn though, I use it every day. Dave -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home And then there's always LogMeIn Pro.. -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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 STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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
GPO for Password Policy question
W2K3 FFL domain: Can someone let me know if this is correct: OK, so you have your default domain policy, which is linked to the domain. You have account Password policies configured there. This affects both local SAM accounts and AD accounts. If you decided for some business reason that you didn't want these password policies to apply to local SAM accounts (i.e. password complexity requirements), but only AD accounts, could you remove the password policies from the default domain GPO and apply them to the default Domain controllers GPO, which should then only affect AD accounts? Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she’s done that), and I’m eating one right now…If yours isn’t doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. J Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA* *jra...@eaglemds.com* *www.eaglemds.com -- *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM *Subject:* RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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
TS Gateway question
Studying up to prepare for 2008 Remote Desktop service roll-out, wondering if anyone out there has implemented multi domain gateway. We have 3 domains, 1 management domain with 2 way trust to other domains. Can we put the Gateway in the management domain and use it to grant access to Remote Desktop servers in the other domains? ~ 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: TS Gateway question
I haven't done it, but it should work if you have trusts. Dave From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: TS Gateway question Studying up to prepare for 2008 Remote Desktop service roll-out, wondering if anyone out there has implemented multi domain gateway. We have 3 domains, 1 management domain with 2 way trust to other domains. Can we put the Gateway in the management domain and use it to grant access to Remote Desktop servers in the other domains? ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
M.beer and cheesecake. You guys hiring?! J 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: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she's done that), and I'm eating one right now...If yours isn't doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. J Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - From: pdw1...@hotmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that.
RE: GPO for Password Policy question
If you want to affect local accounts, set the policy on the OU[s] containing the computer objects with a higher precedence than the Domain policy. It has always been documented that Domain password policy must be in the Default Domain Policy. Recent version covering W2K3- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773164(WS.10).aspx To accommodate APIs from previous versions of the operating system that make changes directly to default GPOs, changes to the following security policy settings must be made directly in the Default Domain Policy GPO or in the Default Domain Controllers Policy GPO: * Default Domain Security Policy Settings: * Password Policy * Domain Account Lockout Policy * Domain Kerberos Policy From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO for Password Policy question W2K3 FFL domain: Can someone let me know if this is correct: OK, so you have your default domain policy, which is linked to the domain. You have account Password policies configured there. This affects both local SAM accounts and AD accounts. If you decided for some business reason that you didn't want these password policies to apply to local SAM accounts (i.e. password complexity requirements), but only AD accounts, could you remove the password policies from the default domain GPO and apply them to the default Domain controllers GPO, which should then only affect AD accounts? Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
During university I worked a co-op term at the weather office and won a 12-pack in the Xmas exchange. It was wrapped in an old weather map and I got lots of interesting looks on the bus ride home. From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? M.beer and cheesecake. You guys hiring?! J 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 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she's done that), and I'm eating one right now...If yours isn't doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. J Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - From: pdw1...@hotmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself
RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
The other name for that gameDirty Santa. 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: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she's done that), and I'm eating one right now...If yours isn't doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. :) Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.commailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - From: pdw1...@hotmail.commailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.commailto:stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.commailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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.commailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.govmailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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
RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
That's it! We did this at a previous company. Some people got real salty over it. 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: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? The other name for that gameDirty Santa. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she's done that), and I'm eating one right now...If yours isn't doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. J Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - From: pdw1...@hotmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM
RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
Thanks for the tip-I've just e-mailed our sales team asking where the heck our cookies are! :-) John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she's done that), and I'm eating one right now...If yours isn't doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. :) 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/ NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
We do that at my wife's Grandmother's house... only they call it a Chinese Christmas, I think... From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? That’s it! We did this at a previous company. Some people got real salty over it. 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 From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? The other name for that game….Dirty Santa. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she’s done that), and I’m eating one right now…If yours isn’t doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. ☺ Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - From: pdw1...@hotmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend
Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
I guess what I was trying to point out is that rolling out a basic RDP over VPN solution leaves potential holes that need to be addressed. We use TS Gateway and disable device redirection on the CAP. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: RDS or Citrix they only have access to drives via apps offered by the RDP or Citrix session – the home user cannot UNC to drives as one could via VPN. Launching Excel for example the EXCEL.EXE is on the RDS or Citrix box in RAM and not the local users box…hence and infected system cannot get to the EXCEL.EXE (or more importantly, it’s folder structure) to infect it. As other have said, you don’t really want a network connection between an unmanaged machine and your network. Dave *From:* RS [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:49 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's what I thought, and why I asked the question. If Joe home user can connect his virus-riddled home (or even laptop) drives via the RDP session, what have you really gained? (This can also be a source of data leakage, not just inbound malware.) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Such things are configurable in TS/RDS and Citrix. If you allow them to connect directly to their work desktop, then no. On 12/8/2010 9:59 AM, RS wrote: Doing it this way, can you administratively control options like connecting local drives, printers, clipboard, etc? That might be important. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
Thanks for the ideas! First year at my new job and they are doing the same thing. I was plain out of ideas. Jon On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she’s done that), and I’m eating one right now…If yours isn’t doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. J Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA* *jra...@eaglemds.com* *www.eaglemds.com -- *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM *Subject:* RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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
Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Previous job used F5 ssl, access was through the web browser with RDP to the desktops, but that was only for IT staff on call. Email was also accessed via it for the office users, it was wrapped around the Notes email client. No direct access to the LAN but it had the capability to do it. At home I use Untangle, it has OpenVPN built in and also has a portal available but that's a chargeable extra. www.Untangle.com T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 8 Dec 2010 17:45, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Depending on the details of your VPN mechanism - generally those that provide layer 3 connectivity: OpenVPN, PPTP, SSTP, L2TP/IPsec, straight IPsec and more - you may also require allowing TCP and UDP 53. You also need to consider whether the VPN captures internet traffic. Depending on your firewall, it can be a huge amount of grief or it can be really easy. Me? I don't trust my end users, and I most certainly do NOT trust their home computers, especially if spouses and/or children are around. I prefer VPNs that work only on layer 4 - the classic browser-based clientless SSL VPN. You can also provide similar functionality with SSH port forwarding. On 12/8/2010 9:36 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
*How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? * Most were. Mine certainly was, because that's the scenario that I have supported for the past 5+ years... Of course, there's more than one way to skin this cat, but the proposed options are all viable and sustainable. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jim McAtee j...@zolx.com wrote: How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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: document sprawl
When talking about duplicates... Try Easy Duplicate Finder www.easyduplicatefinder.com I ran it on one file server and found that users had ~35gb of *identicle* files. Now to convince them that they don't NEED 5 copies of the same files. What's interesting, is that running that app showed me its only a handful of users that are really bad for it. Cheers, Cameron ~ 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: GPO for Password Policy question
Yes, it works as you describe. I've done this before by blocking inheritance of the default domain policy (easy to test without fooling with your default domain GPO), but your method is probably easier to manage. -Malcolm From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 14:30 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO for Password Policy question W2K3 FFL domain: Can someone let me know if this is correct: OK, so you have your default domain policy, which is linked to the domain. You have account Password policies configured there. This affects both local SAM accounts and AD accounts. If you decided for some business reason that you didn't want these password policies to apply to local SAM accounts (i.e. password complexity requirements), but only AD accounts, could you remove the password policies from the default domain GPO and apply them to the default Domain controllers GPO, which should then only affect AD accounts? Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- 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: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
Last year, someone brought a bottle of Stoli's in a gift pack. That bady boy went from hand to hand until it landed in mine for the last time :) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she’s done that), and I’m eating one right now…If yours isn’t doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. J Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA* *jra...@eaglemds.com* *www.eaglemds.com -- *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM *Subject:* RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
If you are licensed for 2008 R2 install one server with it and enable the Remote Desktop Server Gateway role. Install a cert and configure who you want to have access through it to what. Test it out. I'd do this before paying for Citrix licensing. RD Gateway is incredibly easy to implement, no need for VPN's, no need for special client software. Most Developers I know like to have all of their tools available. Giving them simple direct access straight to their desktop is optimal imo. From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2010 3:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 15:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.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: document sprawl
Great if you want to spend $30. If you'd rather spend that $30 on something else, go here, because all of these are free: http://doubles.sourceforge.net/ http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/content/duplicate-cleaner http://www.clonespy.com/?Download http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-duplicate-file-detector.htm 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: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: document sprawl When talking about duplicates... Try Easy Duplicate Finder www.easyduplicatefinder.comhttp://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/ I ran it on one file server and found that users had ~35gb of *identicle* files. Now to convince them that they don't NEED 5 copies of the same files. What's interesting, is that running that app showed me its only a handful of users that are really bad for it. Cheers, Cameron ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Jim, A user will pretty much RDP into their desktop and therefore have full access to the full development environment - all other core services that are not public lie OWA etc. Another option that is management and I have to consider is using a 3rd party vendor to provide the solution for us - like logmein.com etc Win2008 R2 TS is something else that I have too look into but have very little knowledge or experience in that area. -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 20:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
I just found out no liquid gifts will be allowed as we have interns that will participate and they are all sub 21. Jon On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: Last year, someone brought a bottle of Stoli's in a gift pack. That bady boy went from hand to hand until it landed in mine for the last time :) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she’s done that), and I’m eating one right now…If yours isn’t doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. J Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA* *jra...@eaglemds.com* *www.eaglemds.com -- *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM *Subject:* RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ 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! ~
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Check out Teamviewer for remote management... Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com 12/8/2010 3:25 PM Jim, A user will pretty much RDP into their desktop and therefore have full access to the full development environment - all other core services that are not public lie OWA etc. Another option that is management and I have to consider is using a 3rd party vendor to provide the solution for us - like logmein.com etc Win2008 R2 TS is something else that I have too look into but have very little knowledge or experience in that area. -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 20:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
I'm not sure of all the reasons involved, but logmein and GotoMyPC are banned by our security group for use in connectivity. We use a VPN solution from company laptops into the network. For other users, a Citrix solution is used. Until a few minutes ago, I was keeping an eye on this thread just on general interest. I've just been asked to provide a comprehensive list of what is needed for people to work at home. While this thread has generally concentrated on the actual solutions involved, which we generally have set up, something I don't think that has come up with is the requirements from the user's end. If it's a company laptop, we can generally control the specs of the machine and the software and policies on it.If it's a home machine going to a terminal server, Citrix farm, etc., it's less so but as a rule, most machines sold in the last several years can handle that, unless the user has turned it into sludge with their computing habits. Still, I think a minimum CPU and RAM requirement may not be a bad idea. Another big variable is bandwidth and connectivity. I think it would be prudent to not support wireless connections for several reasons, primarily that supporting them is rather hellish should something go wrong. In terms of providers, I'm most familiar with cable (Comcast). Do satellite internet providers for the home give enough bandwidth pull this kind of thing off? I believe FiOS is definitely capable of the level of bandwidth needed. Would you require a speed test with one of the sites out there that do that, specifying a destination near your connection point, which wouldn't necessarily be conclusive. What other considerations on this line of thought are there? Gary Whitten -Original Message- From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Jim, A user will pretty much RDP into their desktop and therefore have full access to the full development environment - all other core services that are not public lie OWA etc. Another option that is management and I have to consider is using a 3rd party vendor to provide the solution for us - like logmein.com etc Win2008 R2 TS is something else that I have too look into but have very little knowledge or experience in that area. -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 20:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
The old argument about personal PC vs. work machine can be blurred these days, especially if you're able to implement NAP. Bandwidth is definitely a concern, as there are still plenty of people running on dial-up. Which brings up a question. If the user is required to work from home, is the company on the hook for paying for the internet pipe? Gary Whitten li...@undiscoveredworlds.com 12/8/2010 4:01 PM I'm not sure of all the reasons involved, but logmein and GotoMyPC are banned by our security group for use in connectivity. We use a VPN solution from company laptops into the network. For other users, a Citrix solution is used. Until a few minutes ago, I was keeping an eye on this thread just on general interest. I've just been asked to provide a comprehensive list of what is needed for people to work at home. While this thread has generally concentrated on the actual solutions involved, which we generally have set up, something I don't think that has come up with is the requirements from the user's end. If it's a company laptop, we can generally control the specs of the machine and the software and policies on it.If it's a home machine going to a terminal server, Citrix farm, etc., it's less so but as a rule, most machines sold in the last several years can handle that, unless the user has turned it into sludge with their computing habits. Still, I think a minimum CPU and RAM requirement may not be a bad idea. Another big variable is bandwidth and connectivity. I think it would be prudent to not support wireless connections for several reasons, primarily that supporting them is rather hellish should something go wrong. In terms of providers, I'm most familiar with cable (Comcast). Do satellite internet providers for the home give enough bandwidth pull this kind of thing off? I believe FiOS is definitely capable of the level of bandwidth needed. Would you require a speed test with one of the sites out there that do that, specifying a destination near your connection point, which wouldn't necessarily be conclusive. What other considerations on this line of thought are there? Gary Whitten -Original Message- From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Jim, A user will pretty much RDP into their desktop and therefore have full access to the full development environment - all other core services that are not public lie OWA etc. Another option that is management and I have to consider is using a 3rd party vendor to provide the solution for us - like logmein.com etc Win2008 R2 TS is something else that I have too look into but have very little knowledge or experience in that area. -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 20:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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! ~ ~
Distributing TV over IP
I have an interesting one for the list... Our school district has cable television available to each school through the local cable company. We have a new(er) school which we are now looking at providing television services. In our older schools, the cable company ran coax to each classroom with a centralized industrial splitter... giving many channels a grainy, less than ideal image. Hey, it's the 21's century... can I push the video over IP? Here's what I'm envisioning: Cable comes into our MDF, and we have some kind of encoder that takes the signal. Then, throughout a building we have some decoders which happily take the feed from the encoder and play it to whatever kind of TV it's plugged into. The decoder would be able to control which channel the encoder is sending... and for extra points the decoder's remote can control the TV's power and volume. Does such a solution exist? Some more details: The cable company only provides basic cable for free, which does _not_ require one of their own decoding boxes. I know that the signal that the basic cable provides is ye-old-analogue signaling, plus a few of the new digital channels. My expertise in TV signaling is extremely limited, so I don't know much more than that. Has anybody had experience with this kind of TV distribution over IP? (Not to be confused with IPTV.) I know this could go crazy... Multicasting, Recording/DVRs, user security, PC clients, etc... but let's start with what would be very basic (Live TV only) and cheap. Thanks for any input! --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
RD Gateway is incredibly easy to implement, no need for VPN's, no need for special client software. Other than requiring IE and a Windows OS. Dave From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home If you are licensed for 2008 R2 install one server with it and enable the Remote Desktop Server Gateway role. Install a cert and configure who you want to have access through it to what. Test it out. I'd do this before paying for Citrix licensing. RD Gateway is incredibly easy to implement, no need for VPN's, no need for special client software. Most Developers I know like to have all of their tools available. Giving them simple direct access straight to their desktop is optimal imo. From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2010 3:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 15:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
IE isn't required. Neither is a Windows OS. There are apps on iphone, ipad, and Android that support RD Gateway. OSX on the other hand... From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home RD Gateway is incredibly easy to implement, no need for VPN's, no need for special client software. Other than requiring IE and a Windows OS. Dave From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home If you are licensed for 2008 R2 install one server with it and enable the Remote Desktop Server Gateway role. Install a cert and configure who you want to have access through it to what. Test it out. I'd do this before paying for Citrix licensing. RD Gateway is incredibly easy to implement, no need for VPN's, no need for special client software. Most Developers I know like to have all of their tools available. Giving them simple direct access straight to their desktop is optimal imo. From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2010 3:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 15:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.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
Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?
That's easily solved, just have to steal something if they open alcohol, and they can't steal alcohol.. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: I just found out no liquid gifts will be allowed as we have interns that will participate and they are all sub 21. Jon On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: Last year, someone brought a bottle of Stoli's in a gift pack. That bady boy went from hand to hand until it landed in mine for the last time :) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I bake 'em if I want 'em. On a related holiday party track. The last three years at our Christmas party we have a white elephant gift exchange. I'm aware of another name for it, but it escapes me at the moment. Pick a number from the hat, you open a gift in sequence. You can steal someone else's gift. We have a limit of three steals. I've brought a cheesecake (that I made) three years in a row. It is always the most stolen gift[1], and people have been eyeing me to see which gift I bring. The wrapped object is a certificate/photo of said cheescake, which is housed at a secure location until the end of the exchange to prevent a cheescake fight. Although, this year it might be entertaining to see if a fight ensues... This year's cheesecake will be a vanilla chocolate swirl on a brownie crust. [1] One year someone brought a six pack of some beer which was stolen the max number of times, the final one was by me. It was tasty, but the brand escapes me now... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Our PC Connection account rep sent us homemade chocolate chip cookies today (second year in a row that she’s done that), and I’m eating one right now…If yours isn’t doing the same, then you need to do one or all of the following: 1. give them grief 2. ask for a different account rep that bakes cookies 3. spend a TON of money with them like we did. J Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA* *jra...@eaglemds.com* *www.eaglemds.com -- *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? They stopped sending me the box of cookies years ago and I've bought a ton from them the last few years. Anyway, I'm buying most of my hardware through PC Connection now so I guess I won't be expecting any cookies this year again. James - Original Message - *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:38 PM *Subject:* RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? You still get cookies from them? Last year all we got was a card saying they donated the cash equivalent to a charity. (In the same vein as a couple of the other posts, that message from them sure sounded a lot like George telling people he donated their present to the 'human fund.') Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:59 -0600 Subject: Re: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? From: stevey...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If you use CDW, check with your rep regarding the holiday ti n of cookies...I have had one four years in a row. Makes my office very popular (like it wasnt before) On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I've never worked at a company where it was frowned upon. I have a USB-fed LED decoration that spells out JOY, hooked up to my laptop. Other cubes/areas are heavily decorated. Previous job I had, each dept had their own trees setup in their areas. ***holding my tongue on the whole Holiday issue*** :p 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 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? A buddy and myself ran lights around our cubicles, and we've gotten several others involved. We're having to call them holiday lights, so as not to offend anyone. We also have a small, 3' fiber optic tree, and some garland to finish it off. Was just curious if you guys were allowed to do anything like that. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:
Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
If you're talking about RDP (TS/RDS) or ICA (Citrix) bandwidth on the users' end is only an issue if they are on dial-up. Any kind of wired broadband connection is more than enough. Even a 256kbit line is fine. Home satellite might be an issue; the problem is more latency than bandwidth. On 12/8/2010 6:01 PM, Gary Whitten wrote: I'm not sure of all the reasons involved, but logmein and GotoMyPC are banned by our security group for use in connectivity. We use a VPN solution from company laptops into the network. For other users, a Citrix solution is used. Until a few minutes ago, I was keeping an eye on this thread just on general interest. I've just been asked to provide a comprehensive list of what is needed for people to work at home. While this thread has generally concentrated on the actual solutions involved, which we generally have set up, something I don't think that has come up with is the requirements from the user's end. If it's a company laptop, we can generally control the specs of the machine and the software and policies on it.If it's a home machine going to a terminal server, Citrix farm, etc., it's less so but as a rule, most machines sold in the last several years can handle that, unless the user has turned it into sludge with their computing habits. Still, I think a minimum CPU and RAM requirement may not be a bad idea. Another big variable is bandwidth and connectivity. I think it would be prudent to not support wireless connections for several reasons, primarily that supporting them is rather hellish should something go wrong. In terms of providers, I'm most familiar with cable (Comcast). Do satellite internet providers for the home give enough bandwidth pull this kind of thing off? I believe FiOS is definitely capable of the level of bandwidth needed. Would you require a speed test with one of the sites out there that do that, specifying a destination near your connection point, which wouldn't necessarily be conclusive. What other considerations on this line of thought are there? Gary Whitten -Original Message- From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Jim, A user will pretty much RDP into their desktop and therefore have full access to the full development environment - all other core services that are not public lie OWA etc. Another option that is management and I have to consider is using a 3rd party vendor to provide the solution for us - like logmein.com etc Win2008 R2 TS is something else that I have too look into but have very little knowledge or experience in that area. -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 20:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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!
RE: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop
There are some applications that will not run under terminal services - for example, sfc (system file checker). Jeffrey also had issues in the past installing Netscape Directory Services remotely unless he used the /admin option to install it in the console session, but once installed, it ran fine. If the other suggestions do not help, you might need to check with the vendor and find out if their application is compatible with Terminal Services. Sincerely, Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris VIPCS -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop Hi All, I have a Windows 2008R2 64bit Terminal Server. I have on particular app (Caseware) that refuses to run in a Remote Desktop session. Their tech support has been less than useful. Sitting down in front of the server, the app runs perfectly. Running the same app from Remote Desktop it crashes instantly with a Windows error citing a problem in module ntdll.dll. No other app on the terminal server experiences this problem. Can anyone suggest a solution? Shawn ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
We use a Juniper SSL vpn for our remote users that does the following: 1. Determines the client connecting in (PC, MAC, Linux, smartphone, iphone) 2. For the smartphones\iphones it checks policy for the user and if there in the approved group it allows them to access our internal apps via there client app only IF they have our security toolset (Junos) installed. Otherwise it boots them off. 3. For pc\macs, it checks for our internal certificate (along with their login in credentials) and if it has the proper cert, it passes them over to go through our network connect policy, which verifies that they are running one of our approved AV programs, that the defs are not more than 1 day old (if they are it tells the client virus program to update, and waits for up to 3 minutes to update and checks again), and that there firewall on the laptop is up and running. If that's all good, they get assigned network access based on their ad group info, and it works very well. If it does not have our cert (such as a home pc) direct network access is denied, and all that we allow is a proxied terminal server session that is run in a browser session (so no remote disks, or any direct connection from the client. Only the SSL vpn device talks to the connected RDP session). What lists of machines they can connect to via the proxied rpd is determined by group access in AD and shows as a bookmark on their web page. This also works well for contractors as we can give them just the access they require and nothing more. If they need to upload files for example, they get a web browser with a upload link to the share that we defined. They can't go anywhere else. So it makes for a great Extranet setup. The great thing about this setup is the client piece. It's really easy on the end user. And being ssl it gets us past many of the old challenges using ipsec or PPTP, etc. Not the cheapest, but we'll worth it. Good luck! -Greg -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home If you're talking about RDP (TS/RDS) or ICA (Citrix) bandwidth on the users' end is only an issue if they are on dial-up. Any kind of wired broadband connection is more than enough. Even a 256kbit line is fine. Home satellite might be an issue; the problem is more latency than bandwidth. On 12/8/2010 6:01 PM, Gary Whitten wrote: I'm not sure of all the reasons involved, but logmein and GotoMyPC are banned by our security group for use in connectivity. We use a VPN solution from company laptops into the network. For other users, a Citrix solution is used. Until a few minutes ago, I was keeping an eye on this thread just on general interest. I've just been asked to provide a comprehensive list of what is needed for people to work at home. While this thread has generally concentrated on the actual solutions involved, which we generally have set up, something I don't think that has come up with is the requirements from the user's end. If it's a company laptop, we can generally control the specs of the machine and the software and policies on it.If it's a home machine going to a terminal server, Citrix farm, etc., it's less so but as a rule, most machines sold in the last several years can handle that, unless the user has turned it into sludge with their computing habits. Still, I think a minimum CPU and RAM requirement may not be a bad idea. Another big variable is bandwidth and connectivity. I think it would be prudent to not support wireless connections for several reasons, primarily that supporting them is rather hellish should something go wrong. In terms of providers, I'm most familiar with cable (Comcast). Do satellite internet providers for the home give enough bandwidth pull this kind of thing off? I believe FiOS is definitely capable of the level of bandwidth needed. Would you require a speed test with one of the sites out there that do that, specifying a destination near your connection point, which wouldn't necessarily be conclusive. What other considerations on this line of thought are there? Gary Whitten -Original Message- From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Jim, A user will pretty much RDP into their desktop and therefore have full access to the full development environment - all other core services that are not public lie OWA etc. Another option that is management and I have to consider is using a 3rd party vendor to provide the solution for us - like logmein.com etc Win2008 R2 TS is something else that I have too look into but have very little knowledge or experience in that area. -Original
Re: Malwarebytes 1.50 is available
Try these: http://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5763 Please report back if they work! -- ME2 On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Smith winsysad...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a script that can update and run scheduled scans of the free version? On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: -- ME2 ~ 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: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Except for dialup, most bandwidth options today aren't going to be an issue with Citrix, RDP or even VPN. Bandwidth is not going to be the biggest concern. Memory, possibly, if we're talking VPN. But for RDP/Citrix? Anything produced and sold in the past 4 years is likely to be fine. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Gary Whitten li...@undiscoveredworlds.comwrote: I'm not sure of all the reasons involved, but logmein and GotoMyPC are banned by our security group for use in connectivity. We use a VPN solution from company laptops into the network. For other users, a Citrix solution is used. Until a few minutes ago, I was keeping an eye on this thread just on general interest. I've just been asked to provide a comprehensive list of what is needed for people to work at home. While this thread has generally concentrated on the actual solutions involved, which we generally have set up, something I don't think that has come up with is the requirements from the user's end. If it's a company laptop, we can generally control the specs of the machine and the software and policies on it.If it's a home machine going to a terminal server, Citrix farm, etc., it's less so but as a rule, most machines sold in the last several years can handle that, unless the user has turned it into sludge with their computing habits. Still, I think a minimum CPU and RAM requirement may not be a bad idea. Another big variable is bandwidth and connectivity. I think it would be prudent to not support wireless connections for several reasons, primarily that supporting them is rather hellish should something go wrong. In terms of providers, I'm most familiar with cable (Comcast). Do satellite internet providers for the home give enough bandwidth pull this kind of thing off? I believe FiOS is definitely capable of the level of bandwidth needed. Would you require a speed test with one of the sites out there that do that, specifying a destination near your connection point, which wouldn't necessarily be conclusive. What other considerations on this line of thought are there? Gary Whitten -Original Message- From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Jim, A user will pretty much RDP into their desktop and therefore have full access to the full development environment - all other core services that are not public lie OWA etc. Another option that is management and I have to consider is using a 3rd party vendor to provide the solution for us - like logmein.com etc Win2008 R2 TS is something else that I have too look into but have very little knowledge or experience in that area. -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:j...@zolx.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 20:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home How many of these suggestions are being given in the context of a software development environment? What do the remote developers actually need access to? In many cases it's only to code repositories. Do they need RDP access to their desktops? What about build systems? Can Citrix be used effectively in either case without introducing a billion other headaches? - Original Message - From: Fergal O'Connell foconn...@curamsoftware.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. ~ 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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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
RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
Oh? Once again I learn something new! From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home IE isn't required. Neither is a Windows OS. There are apps on iphone, ipad, and Android that support RD Gateway. OSX on the other hand... From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home RD Gateway is incredibly easy to implement, no need for VPN's, no need for special client software. Other than requiring IE and a Windows OS. Dave From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home If you are licensed for 2008 R2 install one server with it and enable the Remote Desktop Server Gateway role. Install a cert and configure who you want to have access through it to what. Test it out. I'd do this before paying for Citrix licensing. RD Gateway is incredibly easy to implement, no need for VPN's, no need for special client software. Most Developers I know like to have all of their tools available. Giving them simple direct access straight to their desktop is optimal imo. From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2010 3:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home That's the plan - However I just wanted to bounce this off to see what other folks are doing - I might go with the Citrix solution but I will need to get pricing to see what the overall costs are. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 15:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Do they have desktops in the office ? Setup a vpn that only allows port 3389 (RDP) and then they can MSTSC/RDP to their desktops without allowing other risky traffic from personal equipment over the VPN Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote access - Allow employees work from home HI, We are a software development house and have approx 200+ developers based at our HQ. I have a requirement to allow a lot these users work from home. Currently we have setup a Dial up VPN to our firewall which works fine. However a % of these users do not have laptops and we are reluctant for people to connect in over their home PC's What do other people do to allow remote\home users work from home? What are my options? Regards Fergal O'Connell ICT Support The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.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 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. 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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
