date:20110110

Try a quick bit of scripting using psinfo or srvinfo. PowerShell can probably 
do it too

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From: Mark Robinson mark.robin...@cips.org
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:55:26 
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues 
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: Checking disk capacity remotely

Hi,

I wonder if you can help please.  I need to determine the free disk
capacity on 100+ networked PC's before we upgrade to Office 2010.  Does
anyone know of a free tool that I can use which will to scan these
machines remotely and determine and report on free disk space?   Don't
want to have to manage each machine remotely in turn using remote
desktop software if I can help it. 

Many thanks,

Mark

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RE: Checking disk capacity remotely

2011-01-10 Thread Erik Goldoff

You could very easily do this with PSINFO –Dfrom the Sysinternals tools
, either from a login script and direct the results to a text file on a
share, or locally, piping the computer names from a Net View command into a
Batch/CMD file with a FOR appending all to a single local file.

 

Erik Goldoff

IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks,  Security 

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

From: Mark Robinson [mailto:mark.robin...@cips.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Checking disk capacity remotely

 

Hi,

 

I wonder if you can help please.  I need to determine the free disk capacity
on 100+ networked PC’s before we upgrade to Office 2010.  Does anyone know
of a free tool that I can use which will to scan these machines remotely and
determine and report on free disk space?   Don’t want to have to manage each
machine remotely in turn using remote desktop software if I can help it. 

 

Many thanks,

 

Mark

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

   
Internet communications are not secure and therefore CIPS does not accept
legal responsibility for the contents of any e-mail message sent via this
medium. The content of any e-mail communication is the view of the
individual and CIPS does not accept legal liability for the contents.
Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of virus
or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is
received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure
that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by CIPS for any loss
or damage in any way arising from its use. 


CIPS runs the following software packages: MS Office Suite 2003, MS Visio
2003, MS Project 2002. Please ensure that any files you send are compatible.


   
The Chartered Institute of Purchasing  Supply (CIPS) is an organisation
incorporated under Royal Charter and is based at Easton House, Easton on the
Hill, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3NZ, tel: +44 (0)1780 756777, and is a registered
Charity number 1017938. CIPS Services Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary
company of CIPS, registered in England under number 2610367 and is
registered at the address shown above. Both organisations operate under a
group VAT registration number: 3426 489 42.

 

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RE: Checking disk capacity remotely

psinfo -d \\pcname file:///\\pcname  | findstr /I C:

 

Loop it through with the for command in a batch file and should output
the disk space accordingly that is free. 

 

Z

 

Edward E. Ziots

CISSP, Network +, Security +

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

Email:ezi...@lifespan.org

Cell:401-639-3505

 

From: Mark Robinson [mailto:mark.robin...@cips.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Checking disk capacity remotely

 

Hi,

 

I wonder if you can help please.  I need to determine the free disk
capacity on 100+ networked PC's before we upgrade to Office 2010.  Does
anyone know of a free tool that I can use which will to scan these
machines remotely and determine and report on free disk space?   Don't
want to have to manage each machine remotely in turn using remote
desktop software if I can help it. 

 

Many thanks,

 

Mark

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

   
Internet communications are not secure and therefore CIPS does not
accept legal responsibility for the contents of any e-mail message sent
via this medium. The content of any e-mail communication is the view of
the individual and CIPS does not accept legal liability for the
contents. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be
free of virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into
which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the
recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is
accepted by CIPS for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use.



CIPS runs the following software packages: MS Office Suite 2003, MS
Visio 2003, MS Project 2002. Please ensure that any files you send are
compatible. 

   
The Chartered Institute of Purchasing  Supply (CIPS) is an organisation
incorporated under Royal Charter and is based at Easton House, Easton on
the Hill, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3NZ, tel: +44 (0)1780 756777, and is a
registered Charity number 1017938. CIPS Services Limited is a wholly
owned subsidiary company of CIPS, registered in England under number
2610367 and is registered at the address shown above. Both organisations
operate under a group VAT registration number: 3426 489 42.

 

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Re: Checking disk capacity remotely

Maybe DameWare and/or Hyena might also be able to help with this, if you are 
not comfortable with a bit of batch scripting

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-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:19:40 
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues 
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: Checking disk capacity 
remotely

psinfo -d \\pcname file:///\\pcname  | findstr /I C:

Loop it through with the for command in a batch file and should output
the disk space accordingly that is free. 

Z

Edward E. Ziots

CISSP, Network +, Security +

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

Email:ezi...@lifespan.org

Cell:401-639-3505

From: Mark Robinson [mailto:mark.robin...@cips.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Checking disk capacity remotely

Hi,

I wonder if you can help please.  I need to determine the free disk
capacity on 100+ networked PC's before we upgrade to Office 2010.  Does
anyone know of a free tool that I can use which will to scan these
machines remotely and determine and report on free disk space?   Don't
want to have to manage each machine remotely in turn using remote
desktop software if I can help it. 

Many thanks,

Mark

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Internet communications are not secure and therefore CIPS does not
accept legal responsibility for the contents of any e-mail message sent
via this medium. The content of any e-mail communication is the view of
the individual and CIPS does not accept legal liability for the
contents. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be
free of virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into
which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the
recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is
accepted by CIPS for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use.

CIPS runs the following software packages: MS Office Suite 2003, MS
Visio 2003, MS Project 2002. Please ensure that any files you send are
compatible. 

The Chartered Institute of Purchasing  Supply (CIPS) is an organisation
incorporated under Royal Charter and is based at Easton House, Easton on
the Hill, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3NZ, tel: +44 (0)1780 756777, and is a
registered Charity number 1017938. CIPS Services Limited is a wholly
owned subsidiary company of CIPS, registered in England under number
2610367 and is registered at the address shown above. Both organisations
operate under a group VAT registration number: 3426 489 42.

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Re: Checking disk capacity remotely

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Patton

Have you looked at spiceworks?

T

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On 10 Jan 2011 12:55, Mark Robinson mark.robin...@cips.org wrote:
 Hi,



 I wonder if you can help please. I need to determine the free disk
 capacity on 100+ networked PC's before we upgrade to Office 2010. Does
 anyone know of a free tool that I can use which will to scan these
 machines remotely and determine and report on free disk space? Don't
 want to have to manage each machine remotely in turn using remote
 desktop software if I can help it.



 Many thanks,



 Mark


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legal responsibility for the contents of any e-mail message sent via this
medium. The content of any e-mail communication is the view of the
individual and CIPS does not accept legal liability for the contents.
Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of virus
or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is
received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure
that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by CIPS for any loss
or damage in any way arising from its use.

 CIPS runs the following software packages: MS Office Suite 2003, MS Visio
2003, MS Project 2002. Please ensure that any files you send are
compatible.

 The Chartered Institute of Purchasing  Supply (CIPS) is an organisation
incorporated under Royal Charter and is based at Easton House, Easton on the
Hill, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3NZ, tel: +44 (0)1780 756777, and is a registered
Charity number 1017938. CIPS Services Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary
company of CIPS, registered in England under number 2610367 and is
registered at the address shown above. Both organisations operate under a
group VAT registration number: 3426 489 42.

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RE: Checking disk capacity remotely

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Hershey

DameWare NT Utiliteis and Hyena both work fine in the office, but for
off-site checking, I've had to set up a virtual PC that is domain member
and that I boot after I've brought up my VPN connection into the work
network.

 

(Finally dumped my Blackberry Storm in favor of an HTC Incredible Droid
unit, since I'm on Verizon.  Much, much better.  J )

 

From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 5:24 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Checking disk capacity remotely

 

Maybe DameWare and/or Hyena might also be able to help with this, if you
are not comfortable with a bit of batch scripting

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device



From: Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:19:40 -0500

To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Subject: RE: Checking disk capacity remotely

 

psinfo -d \\pcname file:///\\pcname  | findstr /I C:

 

Loop it through with the for command in a batch file and should output
the disk space accordingly that is free. 

 

Z

 

Edward E. Ziots

CISSP, Network +, Security +

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

Email:ezi...@lifespan.org

Cell:401-639-3505

 

From: Mark Robinson [mailto:mark.robin...@cips.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Checking disk capacity remotely

 

Hi,

 

I wonder if you can help please.  I need to determine the free disk
capacity on 100+ networked PC's before we upgrade to Office 2010.  Does
anyone know of a free tool that I can use which will to scan these
machines remotely and determine and report on free disk space?   Don't
want to have to manage each machine remotely in turn using remote
desktop software if I can help it. 

 

Many thanks,

 

Mark

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

   
Internet communications are not secure and therefore CIPS does not
accept legal responsibility for the contents of any e-mail message sent
via this medium. The content of any e-mail communication is the view of
the individual and CIPS does not accept legal liability for the
contents. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be
free of virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into
which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the
recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is
accepted by CIPS for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use.



CIPS runs the following software packages: MS Office Suite 2003, MS
Visio 2003, MS Project 2002. Please ensure that any files you send are
compatible. 

   
The Chartered Institute of Purchasing  Supply (CIPS) is an organisation
incorporated under Royal Charter and is based at Easton House, Easton on
the Hill, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3NZ, tel: +44 (0)1780 756777, and is a
registered Charity number 1017938. CIPS Services Limited is a wholly
owned subsidiary company of CIPS, registered in England under number
2610367 and is registered at the address shown above. Both organisations
operate under a group VAT registration number: 3426 489 42.

 

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Re: Checking disk capacity remotely

Natively, you have SYSTEMINFO

Alternately, you could use SRVINFO (from the Resource Kit) or PSINFO (from
SysInternals)

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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Mark Robinson mark.robin...@cips.orgwrote:

 Hi,



 I wonder if you can help please.  I need to determine the free disk
 capacity on 100+ networked PC’s before we upgrade to Office 2010.  Does
 anyone know of a free tool that I can use which will to scan these machines
 remotely and determine and report on free disk space?   Don’t want to have
 to manage each machine remotely in turn using remote desktop software if I
 can help it.



 Many thanks,



 Mark

 IMPORTANT INFORMATION


 Internet communications are not secure and therefore CIPS does not accept
 legal responsibility for the contents of any e-mail message sent via this
 medium. The content of any e-mail communication is the view of the
 individual and CIPS does not accept legal liability for the contents.
 Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of virus
 or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is
 received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure
 that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by CIPS for any loss
 or damage in any way arising from its use.


 CIPS runs the following software packages: MS Office Suite 2003, MS Visio
 2003, MS Project 2002. Please ensure that any files you send are
 compatible.


 The Chartered Institute of Purchasing  Supply (CIPS) is an organisation
 incorporated under Royal Charter and is based at Easton House, Easton on the
 Hill, Stamford, Lincs PE9 3NZ, tel: +44 (0)1780 756777, and is a registered
 Charity number 1017938. CIPS Services Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary
 company of CIPS, registered in England under number 2610367 and is
 registered at the address shown above. Both organisations operate under a
 group VAT registration number: 3426 489 42.

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Re: 32bit drivers and Server 2008

2011-01-10 Thread Kelli Sterley

I opened up a MMC and added the Print Management snapin on a Win7 32 bit VM
(with admin rights).  Right click on the printer you want to add the 32 bit
drivers - Properties - Sharing Tab - Additional Drivers - Check the x86
box and it should ask you for the driver location.  Point this to where you
downloaded the 32 bit drivers.  It should copy it back up to the server.  I
had some that I had to do a couple times before it would go.  It took me
almost an entire day to deploy 8 printers ... It should not have to be THIS
hard!

Kelli

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote:

  Just tried this and the drivers uploaded to the server but it still
 doesn't work. I even tried installing the driver on a 32bit server and that
 doesn't work either. This is a driver for a Canon color copier. At this
 point I've wasted an entire day trying to get this damn driver to work with
 Win7 and it does if I manually install it on the desktop but just not from a
 friggin server..really frustrating.

 James

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 *From:* David Lum david@nwea.org
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
   *Sent:* Friday, January 07, 2011 4:05 PM
 *Subject:* RE: 32bit drivers and Server 2008

  I did this again just today…



 From the Windows 7 32-bit box, you connect to the 64-bit server print
 share, and when it asks for drivers you point it to a local folder (on the
 32-bit machine) where you had downloaded the 32-bit drivers from the printer
 manufacturer.



 In short, manually install the drivers on the 32-bit box first.



 Then on the 32-bit box, go to “printers” and get to the properties  of the
 printer you just installed, click the sharing tab, click additional drivers,
 put a check next to x86 and click OK – the 32-bit drivers should get
 uploaded to the 64-bit server and from there on you should be able to have
 other 32-bit systems connect to the 64-bit print server shared directly to
 get the 32-bit drivers.

 *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER
 NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
 (Desk) 503.548.5229 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764







 *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Friday, January 07, 2011 12:40 PM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* 32bit drivers and Server 2008



 I saw a blurb about this a few weeks ago on this list but now I cant find
 the thread. I have a 2008 server on which I have installed a 64bit print
 driver and I installed as an additional driver the 32bit version but it will
 not work with Win7 32bit clients. If I install the driver directly on a Win7
 box it works. I tried exporting and importing from the Win7 box using print
 management but that didnt work. I swore I saw in the discussion an
 alternative way to manually install the driver on the 2008 server from the
 Win7 box. Anyone know what I'm talking about here?



 James

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IP range for labs

2011-01-10 Thread Vicky Spelshaus

Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.

I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.

Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to
give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
option I am missing?


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RE: IP range for labs

Put your instructional machines on dedicated subnets and then your professor 
can plug those subnets in to the app?

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

c   - 312.731.3132

From: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IP range for labs

Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.

I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from 
cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of the 
classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.

Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to 
give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but they 
won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another option I 
am missing?


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Re: IP range for labs

How many labs and how many total machines are these?

Your question implies that the lab addresses are not segmented differently
from normal campus addresses.  Have I read that wrong?


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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Vicky Spelshaus
vicky.spelsh...@gmail.comwrote:

 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.

 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.

 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to
 give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?




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RE: IP range for labs

I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like she 
wants.

Why not? Couldn't you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP 
Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I'm 
assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some kind 
of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid out?)

...Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent. This 
may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of a 
campus you are supporting.


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: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IP range for labs

Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.

I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from 
cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of the 
classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.

Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to 
give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but they 
won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another option I 
am missing?


-- Organization and good planning are just crutches for people that can't 
handle stress and caffeine. - unknown

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Re: IP range for labs

My second to the last year at a high school with 6 labs and 2 mobile labs, I
reserved all the labs to one section of my subnet.  We had issues with
students accessing in appropriate websites occasionally.  Having the IP
address essentially static made identifying the offending computer easier.
My last year, I contemplated reserving all student computers in DHCP, but it
was my last year there and I wouldn't receive a lot of benefit from it.  I
did add a couple of the science labs which had 6-12 computers in them, but
not individual classroom computers for student use.

Going back to the OP.  There is something to be said for having a systematic
approach to IP addressing and naming in a large environment.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

  “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like
 she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to
 give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





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Re: IP range for labs

*There is something to be said for having a systematic approach to IP
addressing and naming in a large environment.  *


Indeed!!


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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:

 My second to the last year at a high school with 6 labs and 2 mobile labs,
 I reserved all the labs to one section of my subnet.  We had issues with
 students accessing in appropriate websites occasionally.  Having the IP
 address essentially static made identifying the offending computer easier.
 My last year, I contemplated reserving all student computers in DHCP, but it
 was my last year there and I wouldn't receive a lot of benefit from it.  I
 did add a couple of the science labs which had 6-12 computers in them, but
 not individual classroom computers for student use.

 Going back to the OP.  There is something to be said for having a
 systematic approach to IP addressing and naming in a large environment.

 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

  “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like
 she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee
 yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse
 to give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





 -- Organization and good planning are just crutches for people that can't
 handle stress and caffeine. - unknown

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



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RE: IP range for labs

Naming yes, but, I have never seen any reason to get creative with the IP 
addressing. Chunk the subnets up size and location wise and be done with it. 
Doing some sort of crazy static reservation scheme on a per machine basis 
without automation is going to just be endless overhead and work.

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

c   - 312.731.3132

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IP range for labs

There is something to be said for having a systematic approach to IP 
addressing and naming in a large environment.


Indeed!!



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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Link 
jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
My second to the last year at a high school with 6 labs and 2 mobile labs, I 
reserved all the labs to one section of my subnet.  We had issues with students 
accessing in appropriate websites occasionally.  Having the IP address 
essentially static made identifying the offending computer easier.  My last 
year, I contemplated reserving all student computers in DHCP, but it was my 
last year there and I wouldn't receive a lot of benefit from it.  I did add a 
couple of the science labs which had 6-12 computers in them, but not individual 
classroom computers for student use.

Going back to the OP.  There is something to be said for having a systematic 
approach to IP addressing and naming in a large environment.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
jra...@eaglemds.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:
I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like she 
wants.

Why not? Couldn't you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP 
Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I'm 
assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some kind 
of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid out?)

...Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent. This 
may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of a 
campus you are supporting.


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


From: Vicky Spelshaus 
[mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.commailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IP range for labs

Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.

I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from 
cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of the 
classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.

Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to 
give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but they 
won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another option I 
am missing?


-- Organization and good planning are just crutches for people that can't 
handle stress and caffeine. - unknown

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RE: Checking disk capacity remotely

2011-01-10 Thread Mark Robinson

Thanks for all of your replies - I actually opted for Spiceworks in the
end.

 

Many thanks

 

From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 13:33
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Checking disk capacity remotely

 

Have you looked at spiceworks?

T

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 Hi,
 
 
 
 I wonder if you can help please. I need to determine the free disk
 capacity on 100+ networked PC's before we upgrade to Office 2010. Does
 anyone know of a free tool that I can use which will to scan these
 machines remotely and determine and report on free disk space? Don't
 want to have to manage each machine remotely in turn using remote
 desktop software if I can help it. 
 
 
 
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Re: IP range for labs

No need to get creative on the IP side, but anticipating that you might want
to handle labs different from regular offices or classes, etc, are easy to
do with a little planning.  No major overhead required.


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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote:

 *Naming yes, but, I have never seen any reason to get creative with the IP
 addressing. Chunk the subnets up size and location wise and be done with it.
 Doing some sort of crazy static reservation scheme on a per machine basis
 without automation is going to just be endless overhead and work. *

 * *

 *Thanks,*

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 *br...@briandesmond.com*

 * *

 *c   – 312.731.3132*

 * *

 *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:07 AM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: IP range for labs



 ***There is something to be said for having a systematic approach to IP
 addressing and naming in a large environment.  *





 Indeed!!



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 *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...*





 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 My second to the last year at a high school with 6 labs and 2 mobile labs,
 I reserved all the labs to one section of my subnet.  We had issues with
 students accessing in appropriate websites occasionally.  Having the IP
 address essentially static made identifying the offending computer easier.
 My last year, I contemplated reserving all student computers in DHCP, but it
 was my last year there and I wouldn't receive a lot of benefit from it.  I
 did add a couple of the science labs which had 6-12 computers in them, but
 not individual classroom computers for student use.



 Going back to the OP.  There is something to be said for having a
 systematic approach to IP addressing and naming in a large environment.

 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

 “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like
 she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to
 give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





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Recommendation for new server (or two)

2011-01-10 Thread RichardMcClary

Greetings!

I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting the 
VMUser group forum), but as this group generally has somebody giving a 
quick AND USEFUL response, I thought I'd post here...
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Currently, we have an old PE-850 with one Pentium III, 1.266 GHz and 3 
Gb RAM.  It runs two applications...

UltraBac backup software (and it feeds a Quantum PX-502 tape library)

VMware vCenter 2.5

We are looking to replace the PX-502.  The library at which we are looking 
requires an external SAS port.  Given the nature of the slots on the PE 
(regular, circa 2003 PCI slots), we've been told it is difficult to find 
a SAS adapter for these slots.  Consequently (and also due to its age), we 
are now server shopping.

vCenter functions would be for management only.  However, we will need to 
go to VMWare products 4.1 and beyond (ESX would be on other host servers).

Specific questions:

1. Would it be a mistake to continue to use a single server for both 
vCenter management and for running network-wide backups to the local tape 
library?  In other words, should we replace the PE-850 with two servers 
instead?

2. For the vCenter, what would be an optimal minimum for CPU?  That is, 
how many cores in how many processors?  (That is, single quad, dual quad, 
single single core, etc)?

We can't really shoot the moon on this as we do have a limited budget 
for this.  Thanks!
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RE: IP range for labs

Agreed. I wouldn't get in to some crazy scheme beyond tossing instructional 
machines on different subnets.

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

c   - 312.731.3132

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IP range for labs

No need to get creative on the IP side, but anticipating that you might want to 
handle labs different from regular offices or classes, etc, are easy to do with 
a little planning.  No major overhead required.



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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Brian Desmond 
br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com wrote:
Naming yes, but, I have never seen any reason to get creative with the IP 
addressing. Chunk the subnets up size and location wise and be done with it. 
Doing some sort of crazy static reservation scheme on a per machine basis 
without automation is going to just be endless overhead and work.

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

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From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:07 AM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IP range for labs

There is something to be said for having a systematic approach to IP 
addressing and naming in a large environment.


Indeed!!



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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Link 
jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
My second to the last year at a high school with 6 labs and 2 mobile labs, I 
reserved all the labs to one section of my subnet.  We had issues with students 
accessing in appropriate websites occasionally.  Having the IP address 
essentially static made identifying the offending computer easier.  My last 
year, I contemplated reserving all student computers in DHCP, but it was my 
last year there and I wouldn't receive a lot of benefit from it.  I did add a 
couple of the science labs which had 6-12 computers in them, but not individual 
classroom computers for student use.

Going back to the OP.  There is something to be said for having a systematic 
approach to IP addressing and naming in a large environment.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
jra...@eaglemds.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:
I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like she 
wants.

Why not? Couldn't you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP 
Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I'm 
assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some kind 
of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid out?)

...Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent. This 
may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of a 
campus you are supporting.


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


From: Vicky Spelshaus 
[mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.commailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IP range for labs

Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.

I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from 
cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of the 
classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.

Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to 
give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but they 
won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another option I 
am missing?


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Re: IP range for labs

It became an issue at times when I was investigating a pattern of behavior
of a student.  I could only go back for 1 week, because I didn't maintain
DHCP logs.  So, my choice was maintain the logs, and the difficult lookup
process, matching host to IP address from the proxy log, to MAC address, and
then explaining to the teacher, principal, student, and possibly parent
every time, that yes, this was the machine involved, or changing my approach
to assigning IP addresses to student computers.

If I can say a machine always has the same address, I can shortcut a lot of
wrangling that takes place later on...
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote:

  *Naming yes, but, I have never seen any reason to get creative with the
 IP addressing. Chunk the subnets up size and location wise and be done with
 it. Doing some sort of crazy static reservation scheme on a per machine
 basis without automation is going to just be endless overhead and work. *

 * *

 *Thanks,*

 *Brian Desmond*

 *br...@briandesmond.com*

 * *

 *c   – 312.731.3132*

 * *

 *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:07 AM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: IP range for labs



 ***There is something to be said for having a systematic approach to IP
 addressing and naming in a large environment.  *





 Indeed!!



 *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio)
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  On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 My second to the last year at a high school with 6 labs and 2 mobile labs,
 I reserved all the labs to one section of my subnet.  We had issues with
 students accessing in appropriate websites occasionally.  Having the IP
 address essentially static made identifying the offending computer easier.
 My last year, I contemplated reserving all student computers in DHCP, but it
 was my last year there and I wouldn't receive a lot of benefit from it.  I
 did add a couple of the science labs which had 6-12 computers in them, but
 not individual classroom computers for student use.



 Going back to the OP.  There is something to be said for having a
 systematic approach to IP addressing and naming in a large environment.

 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

 “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like
 she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to
 give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





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RE: Recommendation for new server (or two)

2011-01-10 Thread Damien Solodow

It's generally wise to have your backup server be a separate box as most
backup packages will take as many resources as possible during the
windows. 

 

As far as the sizing of your vCenter server, how many ESX hosts do you
have and how many do you plan to add during the lifecycle of the server?
Are you running the SQL database on the vCenter box as well or do you
have a separate DB server?

 

DAMIEN SOLODOW

Systems Engineer

317.447.6033 (office)

317.217.6851 (fax)

HARRISON COLLEGE

 

From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Recommendation for new server (or two)

 


Greetings! 

I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting the
VMUser group forum), but as this group generally has somebody giving a
quick AND USEFUL response, I thought I'd post here... 
= 
Currently, we have an old PE-850 with one Pentium III, 1.266 GHz and 3
Gb RAM.  It runs two applications... 

UltraBac backup software (and it feeds a Quantum PX-502 tape library) 

VMware vCenter 2.5 

We are looking to replace the PX-502.  The library at which we are
looking requires an external SAS port.  Given the nature of the slots on
the PE (regular, circa 2003 PCI slots), we've been told it is
difficult to find a SAS adapter for these slots.  Consequently (and also
due to its age), we are now server shopping. 

vCenter functions would be for management only.  However, we will need
to go to VMWare products 4.1 and beyond (ESX would be on other host
servers). 

Specific questions: 

1. Would it be a mistake to continue to use a single server for both
vCenter management and for running network-wide backups to the local
tape library?  In other words, should we replace the PE-850 with two
servers instead? 

2. For the vCenter, what would be an optimal minimum for CPU?  That
is, how many cores in how many processors?  (That is, single quad, dual
quad, single single core, etc)? 

We can't really shoot the moon on this as we do have a limited budget
for this.  Thanks!
-- 
Richard D. McClary 
Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group 
ASPCA(r) 
1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 
Urbana, IL  61802 
  
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Re: Recommendation for new server (or two)

I run my backup and vCenter on the same server.  It also happens to be a
DC.  I have no complaints, but my environment is ~40 computers and users.
I happen to be running on a PE 830.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:


 Greetings!

 I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting the
 VMUser group forum), but as this group generally has somebody giving a quick
 AND USEFUL response, I thought I'd post here...
 =
 Currently, we have an old PE-850 with one Pentium III, 1.266 GHz and 3 Gb
 RAM.  It runs two applications...

 UltraBac backup software (and it feeds a Quantum PX-502 tape library)

 VMware vCenter 2.5

 We are looking to replace the PX-502.  The library at which we are looking
 requires an external SAS port.  Given the nature of the slots on the PE
 (regular, circa 2003 PCI slots), we've been told it is difficult to find a
 SAS adapter for these slots.  Consequently (and also due to its age), we are
 now server shopping.

 vCenter functions would be for management only.  However, we will need to
 go to VMWare products 4.1 and beyond (ESX would be on other host servers).

 Specific questions:

 1. Would it be a mistake to continue to use a single server for both
 vCenter management and for running network-wide backups to the local tape
 library?  In other words, should we replace the PE-850 with two servers
 instead?

 2. For the vCenter, what would be an optimal minimum for CPU?  That is,
 how many cores in how many processors?  (That is, single quad, dual quad,
 single single core, etc)?

 We can't really shoot the moon on this as we do have a limited budget for
 this.  Thanks!
 --
 Richard D. McClary
 Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group
 *ASPCA®*
 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
 Urbana, IL  61802

 richardmccl...@aspca.org

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RE: Recommendation for new server (or two)

2011-01-10 Thread Don Guyer

We have a quad-core blade handling both VCenter and CommVault. Our
environment is 100+ VMs and about 4TB of data. There's not a lot of
backups going on during the day when we are managing VMs, but we always
try to over engineer servers a little, if possible.

 

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: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Recommendation for new server (or two)

 


Greetings! 

I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting the
VMUser group forum), but as this group generally has somebody giving a
quick AND USEFUL response, I thought I'd post here... 
= 
Currently, we have an old PE-850 with one Pentium III, 1.266 GHz and 3
Gb RAM.  It runs two applications... 

UltraBac backup software (and it feeds a Quantum PX-502 tape library) 

VMware vCenter 2.5 

We are looking to replace the PX-502.  The library at which we are
looking requires an external SAS port.  Given the nature of the slots on
the PE (regular, circa 2003 PCI slots), we've been told it is
difficult to find a SAS adapter for these slots.  Consequently (and also
due to its age), we are now server shopping. 

vCenter functions would be for management only.  However, we will need
to go to VMWare products 4.1 and beyond (ESX would be on other host
servers). 

Specific questions: 

1. Would it be a mistake to continue to use a single server for both
vCenter management and for running network-wide backups to the local
tape library?  In other words, should we replace the PE-850 with two
servers instead? 

2. For the vCenter, what would be an optimal minimum for CPU?  That
is, how many cores in how many processors?  (That is, single quad, dual
quad, single single core, etc)? 

We can't really shoot the moon on this as we do have a limited budget
for this.  Thanks!
-- 
Richard D. McClary 
Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group 
ASPCA(r) 
1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 
Urbana, IL  61802 
  
richardmccl...@aspca.org 
  
P: 217-337-9761 
C: 217-417-1182 
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Re: IP range for labs

2011-01-10 Thread Vicky Spelshaus

More information:

It would be approximately 150 machines.  I'm one of only 2 people supporting
about 150 faculty/staff and over 1000 students, appromimately 450 machines,
the network infrastructure, phone system, security cameras, copiers, help
desk, training,distance ed class schedule (proctoring and remote instructor
support) - basically everything using electricity. Needless to say we are
stretched VERY thin.

This campus is one of 13 supported by a central office.  They 'assigned' our
IP structure.  xxx.xxx.200.xxx is 'reserved' for static IPs and 201-203 is
set for distribution.  I don't have enough addresses in the 200 range to
use.  If I reserved - in order as she wants - within the distribution
ranges, what would happen if I tried to assign an IP that was already in
use?  Would DHCP release that IP automatically or would I need to go aroung
rebooting machines?

Again sorry if I'm asking dumb questions.  It's been awhile since I even
looked at DHCP.



On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

  “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like
 she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to
 give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





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How about this for an uptime

uptime \\lswebdev

\\lswebdev has been up for: 0 day(s), 1193046 hour(s), 71582772
minute(s), -17 second(s)

 

This is a server I just built, I found the output to be quite humorous.
So many hours but just can't make a day of it. 

 

Z

 

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CISSP, Network +, Security +

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

Email:ezi...@lifespan.org

Cell:401-639-3505

 


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RE: IP range for labs

Personally I think you need to step back and consider whether or not this 
request is feasible. I get the impression from your message that it really 
isn't.

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

c   - 312.731.3132

From: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IP range for labs

More information:

It would be approximately 150 machines.  I'm one of only 2 people supporting 
about 150 faculty/staff and over 1000 students, appromimately 450 machines, the 
network infrastructure, phone system, security cameras, copiers, help desk, 
training,distance ed class schedule (proctoring and remote instructor support) 
- basically everything using electricity. Needless to say we are stretched VERY 
thin.

This campus is one of 13 supported by a central office.  They 'assigned' our IP 
structure.  xxx.xxx.200.xxx is 'reserved' for static IPs and 201-203 is set for 
distribution.  I don't have enough addresses in the 200 range to use.  If I 
reserved - in order as she wants - within the distribution ranges, what would 
happen if I tried to assign an IP that was already in use?  Would DHCP release 
that IP automatically or would I need to go aroung rebooting machines?

Again sorry if I'm asking dumb questions.  It's been awhile since I even looked 
at DHCP.



On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
jra...@eaglemds.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:
I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like she 
wants.

Why not? Couldn't you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP 
Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I'm 
assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some kind 
of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid out?)

...Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent. This 
may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of a 
campus you are supporting.


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


From: Vicky Spelshaus 
[mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.commailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IP range for labs

Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.

I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from 
cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of the 
classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.

Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to 
give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but they 
won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another option I 
am missing?


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RE: How about this for an uptime

2011-01-10 Thread Maglinger, Paul

Am I wrong or does that equate to about 136 years?

From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How about this for an uptime

uptime \\lswebdev
\\lswebdev has been up for: 0 day(s), 1193046 hour(s), 71582772 minute(s), -17 
second(s)

This is a server I just built, I found the output to be quite humorous.  So 
many hours but just can't make a day of it.

Z

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RE: How about this for an uptime

There was an issue with AMD chips in particular where the power savings thing 
that tweaks the clock speed would cause output like this. You'd see stuff like 
negative ping times too.

I don't recall this being an issue post Windows 2003 but it's been a while.

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

c   - 312.731.3132

From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How about this for an uptime

uptime \\lswebdevfile:///\\lswebdev
\\lswebdevfile:///\\lswebdev has been up for: 0 day(s), 1193046 hour(s), 
71582772 minute(s), -17 second(s)

This is a server I just built, I found the output to be quite humorous.  So 
many hours but just can't make a day of it.

Z

Edward E. Ziots
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Network Engineer
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Re: How about this for an uptime

2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Bunting

I sometimes have days that feel about that long...

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:

  uptime \\lswebdev

 \\lswebdev has been up for: 0 day(s), 1193046 hour(s), 71582772 minute(s),
 -17 second(s)



 This is a server I just built, I found the output to be quite humorous.  So
 many hours but just can’t make a day of it.



 Z



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Re: IP range for labs

Just wondered, if you can block by IP, has any testing been done to see if
you can block by FQDN?

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:

 What's your lease duration?  I entered the reservations on Friday
 afternoon[1].  On Monday morning, students came in, and noticed nothing.
 Lease duration is probably more important for your environment, because
 your period of inactivity may be little or none.  Reducing the lease
 duration to a small enough window to make the change transparent will be
 very useful.

 I had previously recorded the MAC addresses, deleted the existing leases I
 needed to move and then created the reservations.  Took about 40 minutes for
 the 200 lab computers to do the entry.

 Going along the lines of what Brian says, you can possibly implement this,
 but you need a window of downtime which may not be acceptable.  This may
 need to be delayed for a future project...
   On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Vicky Spelshaus 
 vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com wrote:

 More information:

 It would be approximately 150 machines.  I'm one of only 2 people
 supporting about 150 faculty/staff and over 1000 students, appromimately 450
 machines, the network infrastructure, phone system, security cameras,
 copiers, help desk, training,distance ed class schedule (proctoring and
 remote instructor support) - basically everything using
 electricity. Needless to say we are stretched VERY thin.

 This campus is one of 13 supported by a central office.  They 'assigned'
 our IP structure.  xxx.xxx.200.xxx is 'reserved' for static IPs and 201-203
 is set for distribution.  I don't have enough addresses in the 200 range to
 use.  If I reserved - in order as she wants - within the distribution
 ranges, what would happen if I tried to assign an IP that was already in
 use?  Would DHCP release that IP automatically or would I need to go aroung
 rebooting machines?

 Again sorry if I'm asking dumb questions.  It's been awhile since I even
 looked at DHCP.



  On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

   “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order
 like she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee
 yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students
 from cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses
 of the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse
 to give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





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Re: IP range for labs

What's your lease duration?  I entered the reservations on Friday
afternoon[1].  On Monday morning, students came in, and noticed nothing.
Lease duration is probably more important for your environment, because your
period of inactivity may be little or none.  Reducing the lease duration to
a small enough window to make the change transparent will be very useful.

I had previously recorded the MAC addresses, deleted the existing leases I
needed to move and then created the reservations.  Took about 40 minutes for
the 200 lab computers to do the entry.

Going along the lines of what Brian says, you can possibly implement this,
but you need a window of downtime which may not be acceptable.  This may
need to be delayed for a future project...
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Vicky Spelshaus vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 More information:

 It would be approximately 150 machines.  I'm one of only 2 people
 supporting about 150 faculty/staff and over 1000 students, appromimately 450
 machines, the network infrastructure, phone system, security cameras,
 copiers, help desk, training,distance ed class schedule (proctoring and
 remote instructor support) - basically everything using
 electricity. Needless to say we are stretched VERY thin.

 This campus is one of 13 supported by a central office.  They 'assigned'
 our IP structure.  xxx.xxx.200.xxx is 'reserved' for static IPs and 201-203
 is set for distribution.  I don't have enough addresses in the 200 range to
 use.  If I reserved - in order as she wants - within the distribution
 ranges, what would happen if I tried to assign an IP that was already in
 use?  Would DHCP release that IP automatically or would I need to go aroung
 rebooting machines?

 Again sorry if I'm asking dumb questions.  It's been awhile since I even
 looked at DHCP.



  On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

   “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order
 like she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee
 yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse
 to give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





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RE: Recommendation for new server (or two)

2011-01-10 Thread RichardMcClary

Nice to know - thanks!
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Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote on 01/10/2011 09:37:34 AM:

 We have a quad-core blade handling both VCenter and CommVault. Our 
 environment is 100+ VMs and about 4TB of data. There?s not a lot of 
 backups going on during the day when we are managing VMs, but we 
 always try to over engineer servers a little, if possible.
 
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 From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
 Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:19 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Recommendation for new server (or two)
 
 
 Greetings! 
 
 I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting 
 the VMUser group forum), but as this group generally has somebody 
 giving a quick AND USEFUL response, I thought I'd post here... 
 = 
 Currently, we have an old PE-850 with one Pentium III, 1.266 GHz 
 and 3 Gb RAM.  It runs two applications... 
 
 UltraBac backup software (and it feeds a Quantum PX-502 tape library) 
 
 VMware vCenter 2.5 
 
 We are looking to replace the PX-502.  The library at which we are 
 looking requires an external SAS port.  Given the nature of the 
 slots on the PE (regular, circa 2003 PCI slots), we've been told 
 it is difficult to find a SAS adapter for these slots.  Consequently
 (and also due to its age), we are now server shopping. 
 
 vCenter functions would be for management only.  However, we will 
 need to go to VMWare products 4.1 and beyond (ESX would be on other 
 host servers). 
 
 Specific questions: 
 
 1. Would it be a mistake to continue to use a single server for both
 vCenter management and for running network-wide backups to the local
 tape library?  In other words, should we replace the PE-850 with two
 servers instead? 
 
 2. For the vCenter, what would be an optimal minimum for CPU? 
 That is, how many cores in how many processors?  (That is, single 
 quad, dual quad, single single core, etc)? 
 
 We can't really shoot the moon on this as we do have a limited 
 budget for this.  Thanks!
 -- 
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 Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group 
 ASPCA® 
 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 
 Urbana, IL  61802 
 
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RE: IP range for labs

2011-01-10 Thread Ken Schaefer

As others have mentioned: why not subnet your address range?

Or, given your requirements, you could assign static addresses to the machines 
from your 201-203 range. Don't allow your DHCP servers to hand out addresses 
that you've staticly assigned. Effectively you're converting some of your 
allocated DHCP range to static.

Cheers
Ken


From: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 10 January 2011 11:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IP range for labs

More information:

It would be approximately 150 machines.  I'm one of only 2 people supporting 
about 150 faculty/staff and over 1000 students, appromimately 450 machines, the 
network infrastructure, phone system, security cameras, copiers, help desk, 
training,distance ed class schedule (proctoring and remote instructor support) 
- basically everything using electricity. Needless to say we are stretched VERY 
thin.

This campus is one of 13 supported by a central office.  They 'assigned' our IP 
structure.  xxx.xxx.200.xxx is 'reserved' for static IPs and 201-203 is set for 
distribution.  I don't have enough addresses in the 200 range to use.  If I 
reserved - in order as she wants - within the distribution ranges, what would 
happen if I tried to assign an IP that was already in use?  Would DHCP release 
that IP automatically or would I need to go aroung rebooting machines?

Again sorry if I'm asking dumb questions.  It's been awhile since I even looked 
at DHCP.



On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
jra...@eaglemds.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:
I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like she 
wants.

Why not? Couldn't you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP 
Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I'm 
assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some kind 
of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid out?)

...Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent. This 
may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of a 
campus you are supporting.


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


From: Vicky Spelshaus 
[mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.commailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IP range for labs

Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.

I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from 
cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of the 
classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.

Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to 
give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but they 
won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another option I 
am missing?





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Re: Recommendation for new server (or two)

2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Bunting

The vSphere 4.1 upgrade guide recommends 2 cores and 4gb of RAM to support
up to 50 hosts and 500 powered on virtual machines.

Jeff

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:


 Greetings!

 I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting the
 VMUser group forum), but as this group generally has somebody giving a quick
 AND USEFUL response, I thought I'd post here...
 =
 Currently, we have an old PE-850 with one Pentium III, 1.266 GHz and 3 Gb
 RAM.  It runs two applications...

 UltraBac backup software (and it feeds a Quantum PX-502 tape library)

 VMware vCenter 2.5

 We are looking to replace the PX-502.  The library at which we are looking
 requires an external SAS port.  Given the nature of the slots on the PE
 (regular, circa 2003 PCI slots), we've been told it is difficult to find a
 SAS adapter for these slots.  Consequently (and also due to its age), we are
 now server shopping.

 vCenter functions would be for management only.  However, we will need to
 go to VMWare products 4.1 and beyond (ESX would be on other host servers).

 Specific questions:

 1. Would it be a mistake to continue to use a single server for both
 vCenter management and for running network-wide backups to the local tape
 library?  In other words, should we replace the PE-850 with two servers
 instead?

 2. For the vCenter, what would be an optimal minimum for CPU?  That is,
 how many cores in how many processors?  (That is, single quad, dual quad,
 single single core, etc)?

 We can't really shoot the moon on this as we do have a limited budget for
 this.  Thanks!
 --
 Richard D. McClary
 Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group
 *ASPCA®*
 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
 Urbana, IL  61802

 richardmccl...@aspca.org

 P: 217-337-9761
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Re: How about this for an uptime

Did the time/date get reset since you initially built the server?


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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:

  uptime \\lswebdev

 \\lswebdev has been up for: 0 day(s), 1193046 hour(s), 71582772 minute(s),
 -17 second(s)



 This is a server I just built, I found the output to be quite humorous.  So
 many hours but just can’t make a day of it.



 Z



 Edward E. Ziots

 CISSP, Network +, Security +

 Network Engineer

 Lifespan Organization

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RE: How about this for an uptime

I just built it this morning. 

 

And yes it reset itself, after patching, etc etc. 

 

Z

 

Edward E. Ziots

CISSP, Network +, Security +

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

Email:ezi...@lifespan.org

Cell:401-639-3505

 

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:17 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How about this for an uptime

 

Did the time/date get reset since you initially built the server?


 

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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org
wrote:

uptime \\lswebdev

\\lswebdev has been up for: 0 day(s), 1193046 hour(s), 71582772
minute(s), -17 second(s)

 

This is a server I just built, I found the output to be quite humorous.
So many hours but just can't make a day of it. 

 

Z

 

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Network Engineer

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Re: IP range for labs

My thoughts as well.

Add to that what Ken just asked:  Can't this software that the professor is
intent on using block by FQDN?


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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote:

 *Personally I think you need to step back and consider whether or not this
 request is feasible. I get the impression from your message that it really
 isn’t.*

 * *

 *Thanks,*

 *Brian Desmond*

 *br...@briandesmond.com*

 * *

 *c   – 312.731.3132*

 * *

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:42 AM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: IP range for labs



 More information:



 It would be approximately 150 machines.  I'm one of only 2 people
 supporting about 150 faculty/staff and over 1000 students, appromimately 450
 machines, the network infrastructure, phone system, security cameras,
 copiers, help desk, training,distance ed class schedule (proctoring and
 remote instructor support) - basically everything using
 electricity. Needless to say we are stretched VERY thin.



 This campus is one of 13 supported by a central office.  They 'assigned'
 our IP structure.  xxx.xxx.200.xxx is 'reserved' for static IPs and 201-203
 is set for distribution.  I don't have enough addresses in the 200 range to
 use.  If I reserved - in order as she wants - within the distribution
 ranges, what would happen if I tried to assign an IP that was already in
 use?  Would DHCP release that IP automatically or would I need to go aroung
 rebooting machines?



 Again sorry if I'm asking dumb questions.  It's been awhile since I even
 looked at DHCP.





 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

 “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like
 she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse to
 give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





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Re: IP range for labs

2011-01-10 Thread Vicky Spelshaus

apparently not - just IP ranges

I'm going to talk with her...again... and explain why this just isn't a
viable option for the spring semester.  We can revisit for fall.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:

 My thoughts as well.

 Add to that what Ken just asked:  Can't this software that the professor is
 intent on using block by FQDN?


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  On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Brian Desmond 
 br...@briandesmond.comwrote:

   *Personally I think you need to step back and consider whether or not
 this request is feasible. I get the impression from your message that it
 really isn’t.*

 * *

 *Thanks,*

 *Brian Desmond*

 *br...@briandesmond.com*

 * *

 *c   – 312.731.3132*

 * *

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:42 AM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: IP range for labs



 More information:



 It would be approximately 150 machines.  I'm one of only 2 people
 supporting about 150 faculty/staff and over 1000 students, appromimately 450
 machines, the network infrastructure, phone system, security cameras,
 copiers, help desk, training,distance ed class schedule (proctoring and
 remote instructor support) - basically everything using
 electricity. Needless to say we are stretched VERY thin.



 This campus is one of 13 supported by a central office.  They 'assigned'
 our IP structure.  xxx.xxx.200.xxx is 'reserved' for static IPs and 201-203
 is set for distribution.  I don't have enough addresses in the 200 range to
 use.  If I reserved - in order as she wants - within the distribution
 ranges, what would happen if I tried to assign an IP that was already in
 use?  Would DHCP release that IP automatically or would I need to go aroung
 rebooting machines?



 Again sorry if I'm asking dumb questions.  It's been awhile since I even
 looked at DHCP.





 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

 “I could reserve them, but they won't be in a nice sequential order like
 she wants.”



 Why not? Couldn’t you reserve the range for her classroom and assign IP
 Addresses to individual MAC addresses in whatever order she wants? (I’m
 assuming you mean that she essentially wants IP addresses assigned in some
 kind of order that is in relation to the way the room is physically laid
 out?)



 …Aside from the fact that in doing so you would be setting a precedent.
 This may or may not be a good thing for your sanity, depending on how big of
 a campus you are supporting.



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

 *From:* Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 9:41 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* IP range for labs



 Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee
 yet.



 I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students from
 cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP addresses of
 the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the software.



 Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse
 to give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them, but
 they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there another
 option I am missing?





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RE: NAS USB-Gigabit adapter with Samba support

2011-01-10 Thread Carl Houseman

Well, we're going to give TonidoPlug a try.  Couldn't find a Cnet review of
TonidoPlug or one that compared a number of similar products, so hoping it's
better than 1st gen PogoPlug.

Another list mentioned the Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station as a
possibility, but user reviews on Amazon for that were pretty bad as well.  

 

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NAS USB-Gigabit adapter with Samba support

 

I've use a pogoplug and it is pretty slow.  The second gen model is suppose
to be better.  For what you're trying to do it would probably work if you
don't need fast file transfers.  Just don't load it up with a lot of small
files or it will die.  Cnet did a good review of it and other comparable
products a few weeks back.

 

  _  

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 4:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NAS USB-Gigabit adapter with Samba support

Reviews of it and other PogoPlug devices aren't so great.  PogoPlug's
website is required to use/configure and performance said to be bad.

 

From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:nisgo...@gmx.de] 
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:15 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NAS USB-Gigabit adapter with Samba support

 

How about the Seagate dockstar ?

 

- Original Message - 

From: Carl Houseman mailto:c.house...@gmail.com  

To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com  

Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:25 PM

Subject: RE: NAS USB-Gigabit adapter with Samba support

 

Interesting.  Do you have NAS experience with one of the commercial
products?  TonidoPlug is in the price range.  I just want to make sure
whatever I recommend is going to be stable and if warranty/support is
needed, there will be someone who knows what's going on to respond.

 

Carl

 

From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] 
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 3:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NAS USB-Gigabit adapter with Samba support

 

Sheevaplug?

 


Jack Kramer
Computer Systems Specialist
University Relations, Michigan State University
w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955

 

From: Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:59:49 -0500
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: NAS USB-Gigabit adapter with Samba support

 

Anyone got a lead on a reliable NAS adapter with a gigabit port and support
for up to 2 TB of USB drive (partitions  32GB) that can be mapped to drive
letters on Windows clients?

 

Yes, trying to make a file server for 3 people out of minimal hardware, some
of which is already owned (a 1.5TB WD Mybook), without spending an arm +
leg.  The most common device out there, from Addonics, doesn't appear to
support more than FAT32.   A device by Simpletech (Hitachi) supports NTFS
but only 100Mbps, and appears to have been discontinued within the past
year.

 

To be helpful, your suggestion must be a black box (no spinning components
inside) that connects a large existing USB drive to the network with more
than just FTP support.  NAS enclosures are too expensive.   Will consider
100Mbps if it works *very* well, but prefer gigabit.

 

FWIW, thought I was going to solve this with the built-in NAS support of a
Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, which supports XFS in the native Buffalo firmware and
gigabit.  Problem with the native firmware, the SMB server is unstable.  And
Buffalo tech support is AWOL.  The factory DD-WRT doesn't include Samba
support; adding Samba to it is a complex/convoluted process, but push comes
to shove I may yet try that.

 

Thanks,

Carl

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Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on
to an XP machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

T:+44 01993 885661

E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

W:www.nsf-cmi.com

 

 


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RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

2011-01-10 Thread Don Guyer

What about other users?

 

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: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on
to an XP machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

T:+44 01993 885661

E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

W:www.nsf-cmi.com

 

 

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RE: Recommendation for new server (or two)

2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Poling

This might be a paradigm shift and also depends on the number of physical hosts 
and VMs, but why not consider running vCenter on a VM? That reduces the need 
for a physical server to host it and also provides some flexibility if you also 
have DRS, HA, etc.

Jeff

Jeffrey Poling
System Administrator | Information Systems
Moody Bible Institute
820 N. LaSalle Blvd., Chicago, IL 60610
312-329-8968
www.moodyministries.nethttp://www.moodyministries.net
From the Word. To Life.

From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Recommendation for new server (or two)


Nice to know - thanks!
--
RMc

Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.commailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote 
on 01/10/2011 09:37:34 AM:

 We have a quad-core blade handling both VCenter and CommVault. Our
 environment is 100+ VMs and about 4TB of data. There's not a lot of
 backups going on during the day when we are managing VMs, but we
 always try to over engineer servers a little, if possible.

 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

 From: richardmccl...@aspca.orgmailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org 
 [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]mailto:[mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
 Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:19 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Recommendation for new server (or two)


 Greetings!

 I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting
 the VMUser group forum), but as this group generally has somebody
 giving a quick AND USEFUL response, I thought I'd post here...
 =
 Currently, we have an old PE-850 with one Pentium III, 1.266 GHz
 and 3 Gb RAM.  It runs two applications...

 UltraBac backup software (and it feeds a Quantum PX-502 tape library)

 VMware vCenter 2.5

 We are looking to replace the PX-502.  The library at which we are
 looking requires an external SAS port.  Given the nature of the
 slots on the PE (regular, circa 2003 PCI slots), we've been told
 it is difficult to find a SAS adapter for these slots.  Consequently
 (and also due to its age), we are now server shopping.

 vCenter functions would be for management only.  However, we will
 need to go to VMWare products 4.1 and beyond (ESX would be on other
 host servers).

 Specific questions:

 1. Would it be a mistake to continue to use a single server for both
 vCenter management and for running network-wide backups to the local
 tape library?  In other words, should we replace the PE-850 with two
 servers instead?

 2. For the vCenter, what would be an optimal minimum for CPU?
 That is, how many cores in how many processors?  (That is, single
 quad, dual quad, single single core, etc)?

 We can't really shoot the moon on this as we do have a limited
 budget for this.  Thanks!
 --
 Richard D. McClary
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domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that 
we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says 
everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, 
authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they want 
to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and offsite 
backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they want to be 
on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding everything about 
it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or 
resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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RE: IP range for labs

2011-01-10 Thread N Parr

Assuming your web filter has this ability.  Why can't you just assign
the logons for those pc's to a group than can only access the specific
sites they need?  Base everything off the user id or pc name and forget
about IP's.  I do this all the time with my Barracuda.  If the user is a
member of this AD group it can go here and no where else.  It's how I
locked down our training kiosks to only access our online training
sites.  And since a majority of my pc's are general use data collection
pc's on the shop floor I have a group in AD that says if you're a member
then you are denied all internet access.  Everyone else gets filtered
like usual.



From: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IP range for labs


Please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question... not enough coffee
yet.
 
I have a situation where one of the professors wants to keep students
from cheating by restricting access to online quizes using the IP
addresses of the classroom workstations.  She can do this with the
software.  
 
Here is my problem - not surprisingly I'm using a DHCP server.  I refuse
to give over half the campus static IP addresses.  I could reserve them,
but they won't be in a nice seqential order like she wants.  Is there
another option I am missing?
 
 
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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-10 Thread Steve Ens

bandwagon?  I think not everyone will move there
If you are a small organizationit may make better sense to stay out of
the cloud.  Each situation is different.  I have one in and one out...



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 We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
 that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says
 everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
 authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
 want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
 offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
 want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
 everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
 thoughts and opinions or resources.

 Thanks,
 Jason
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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar

Jason,

I was at TechMentor back in October. Mark Minasi presented a talk about 
going to the cloud that covered a lot of good points, mostly against it. 
He's talking about putting out an audio CD of that presentation. 

http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36453



It might be worth your time. Very informative.

YMMV.


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From:   techconnect techconn...@bellsouth.net
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Date:   01/10/2011 11:50 AM
Subject:domain controller in the cloud???



We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us 
that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he 
says everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user 
folders, authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're 
using, they want to move to gmail but there's no central management there 
I know of,and offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and 
faculty and they want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without 
understanding everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was 
looking for thoughts and opinions or resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

Someone needs to take away his magazine reading privileges.

Just a couple of questions, assuming no one is concerned about (or has given
any consideration to) latency.

Does your organization have any redundant internet connectivity?

What servers do you have today, and where are they?  (How many offices,
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 We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
 that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says
 everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
 authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
 want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
 offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
 want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
 everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
 thoughts and opinions or resources.

 Thanks,
 Jason


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RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

2011-01-10 Thread Carl Houseman

Have you googled the error message?  Plenty of matches, plenty of causes.

 

Big hammer:  Delete the local cached copy of the roaming profile.  If no
help, delete the network copy of the roaming profile.

 

Carl

 

From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon.
Access denied

 

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group policy
client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on to an XP
machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

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Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Bunting

couldn't resist:

http://dilbert.com/dyn_file/str_strip/109703/gif/strip.print


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 We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
 that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says
 everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
 authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
 want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
 offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
 want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
 everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
 thoughts and opinions or resources.

 Thanks,
 Jason
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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

I see the point your board member is making, but the other side of that coin, 
from my standpoint is, who controls the data? What happens to the data when 
cloud provider of choice goes poof? What are your RPO and RTO, and how will you 
achieve recovery if the primary provider goes poof?

Also, what happens when you lose your internet connection for the better part 
of a day? Or, better yet, your provider loses their internet connection because 
a really advanced student or two have decided to perform a DDoS on that cloud 
provider because they don't want to take an exam that is brokered by, you 
guessed it, a server in the cloud...

Far fetched, I know, but like everything else, a business impact analysis 
should be performed to weigh the risks and benefits.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians  Associates, PA
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Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that 
we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says 
everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, 
authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they want 
to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and offsite 
backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they want to be 
on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding everything about 
it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or 
resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

Most excellent!


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Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud???

couldn't resist:

http://dilbert.com/dyn_file/str_strip/109703/gif/strip.print


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we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says 
everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, 
authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they want 
to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and offsite 
backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they want to be 
on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding everything about 
it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or 
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Jason
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WAN Link compression appliances

2011-01-10 Thread Jim Holmgren

What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We
have an office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.  

 

They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand
boxes, I'd like to see what other folks are using.

 

Thanks!

Jim

 

 

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XLHealth Corporation

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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

Someone needs to take away his magazine reading�privileges.


Just a couple of questions, assuming no one is concerned about (or has given 
any consideration to) latency.


Does your organization have any redundant internet connectivity?


What servers do you have today, and where are they? �(How many offices, 
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1 dell 2950  2003 AD and exchange 2003 1tb Raid 5 
2 buildings connected w/ 100mb fiber and 1 other building down the road with 
ipsec vpn tunnel( at this location we have a  limping Dell sc-1500 2003 server 
replicating just AD and  doing backups across the tunnel) they give us no 
budget and expect us to work with what we have and then we ask for replacement 
servers and they say lets move to the cloud. 

No redundancy on the internet, just cox business fiber.

I appreciate everyone suggestions even the cartoon:). But sometimes I have a 
problem convincing the administration of needed changes and upgrades and 
looking for pointers.

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RE: WAN Link compression appliances

2011-01-10 Thread Carol Fee

Riverbed

CFee
From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: WAN Link compression appliances

What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have an 
office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.

They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand boxes, 
I'd like to see what other folks are using.

Thanks!
Jim

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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-10 Thread Erik Goldoff

“Someone needs to take away his magazine reading privileges.”

 

+ 1

 

Sadly, laughing more because that’s too true too many times

 

 

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From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud???

 

Someone needs to take away his magazine reading privileges.

 

Just a couple of questions, assuming no one is concerned about (or has given
any consideration to) latency.

 

Does your organization have any redundant internet connectivity?

 

What servers do you have today, and where are they?  (How many offices,
buildings, etc)


 

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Re: WAN Link compression appliances

Evaluating SilverPeak.


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 What’s everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have
 an office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.



 They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand
 boxes, I’d like to see what other folks are using.



 Thanks!

 Jim





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 Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services

 XLHealth Corporation

 The Warehouse at Camden Yards

 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

 Baltimore, MD 21201

 410.625.2200 (main)

 443.524.8573 (direct)

 443-506.2400 (cell)

 www.xlhealth.com






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Re: WAN Link compression appliances

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Sullivan

+1

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Carol Fee c...@massbar.org wrote:

 Riverbed



 *CFee*

 *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 12:12 PM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* WAN Link compression appliances



 What’s everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have
 an office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.



 They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand
 boxes, I’d like to see what other folks are using.



 Thanks!

 Jim





 Jim Holmgren

 Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services

 XLHealth Corporation

 The Warehouse at Camden Yards

 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

 Baltimore, MD 21201

 410.625.2200 (main)

 443.524.8573 (direct)

 443-506.2400 (cell)

 www.xlhealth.com





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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

Any discussion of moving services to the cloud needs to begin with a
discussion of budgetary impact.  I say this, because it is a board member
who brings it up, throwing this back to them with some data along these
lines might give this individual board member something to truly consider.
Yes, it will require a lot of work, but I think you'll gain a lot from the
process.  Begin with your current challenges, lack of bandwidth, outages and
how you'll address those issues and the cost and stipulate it as a
requirement before moving forward.  Then, look at migrating services to the
cloud and the costs related to that.  Use five year estimates or actually
use the lifecycle of your equipment, when I was working for a school, I
still had three servers that were 7+ years.  My hunch is that the costs will
be at best equal but more than likely in favor of maintaining your own
infrastructure.



On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

 I see the point your board member is making, but the other side of that
 coin, from my standpoint is, who controls the data? What happens to the data
 when cloud provider of choice goes poof? What are your RPO and RTO, and how
 will you achieve recovery if the primary provider goes poof?

 Also, what happens when you lose your internet connection for the better
 part of a day? Or, better yet, your provider loses their internet connection
 because a really advanced student or two have decided to perform a DDoS on
 that cloud provider because they don't want to take an exam that is brokered
 by, you guessed it, a server in the cloud...

 Far fetched, I know, but like everything else, a business impact analysis
 should be performed to weigh the risks and benefits.

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

 -Original Message-
 From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net]
 Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

 We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
 that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says
 everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
 authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
 want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
 offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
 want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
 everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
 thoughts and opinions or resources.

 Thanks,
 Jason
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RE: WAN Link compression appliances

Anyone using Bluecoat (formerly Packeteer)?


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To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: WAN Link compression appliances

+1
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Carol Fee 
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Riverbed

CFee
From: Jim Holmgren 
[mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.commailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:12 PM
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Subject: WAN Link compression appliances

What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have an 
office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.

They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand boxes, 
I'd like to see what other folks are using.

Thanks!
Jim


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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

Here's one proposed course of action. Requires a good bit of time, or a
consulting partner that you can trust.

- Generate cost comparisons
- Research Security/Risk
- Understand technology complexity

First, determine what your actual needs are.

Next, spec out those systems in a local configuration (physical or virtual).

Next, spec out those same systems in the cloud.

One of the first things you notice is that costs in the cloud for something
like this will be static -- at best. They may go up.

When you're buying the server, you can opt not to refresh it for a year or
two (as seems to have occurred here), and you're ahead. Can't really do
that in an outsourced configuration.

Next, read up on the risks that you will have to mitigate in the cloud.
Understand what happens if you lose connectivity to your servers, and
compensate by proposing redundant connectivity, etc.

Next, understand what data you will be storing there, and make sure that
there are no security requirements that would be a factor. Also make sure
that you're using better encryption from school to cloud to avoid people
snooping.

Get a feel for any latency issues that you might have during logon and data
sharing. Also, what apps might you have to host, and will you be able to do
so in the cloud.

Make sure your organization's legal team is involved in the whole process,
as there are things they will know to ask or require.

Understand how backups will be handled and what your access to them will be.

Here are some resources to look at:

http://www.focus.com/questions/information-technology/what-is-a-good-reason-for-not-switching-to-a-cloud-computing/
- http://www.focus.com/product/hosting-bandwidth/

For the record, I'm a cloud advocate -- when it makes sense and things are
well thought out.

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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, techconnect techconn...@bellsouth.netwrote:

Someone needs to take away his magazine reading�privileges.

Just a couple of questions, assuming no one is concerned about (or has
given any consideration to) latency.

Does your organization have any redundant internet connectivity?

What servers do you have today, and where are they? �(How many offices,
buildings, etc)

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1 dell 2950 2003 AD and exchange 2003 1tb Raid 5
2 buildings connected w/ 100mb fiber and 1 other building down the road
with ipsec vpn tunnel( at this location we have a limping Dell sc-1500 2003
server replicating just AD and doing backups across the tunnel) they give
us no budget and expect us to work with what we have and then we ask for
replacement servers and they say lets move to the cloud.

No redundancy on the internet, just cox business fiber.

I appreciate everyone suggestions even the cartoon:). But sometimes I have
a problem convincing the administration of needed changes and upgrades and
looking for pointers.

Thanks,
Jason

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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

The numbers will definitely favor in-house equipment for organizations that
do not upgrade frequently...


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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:

 Any discussion of moving services to the cloud needs to begin with a
 discussion of budgetary impact.  I say this, because it is a board member
 who brings it up, throwing this back to them with some data along these
 lines might give this individual board member something to truly consider.
 Yes, it will require a lot of work, but I think you'll gain a lot from the
 process.  Begin with your current challenges, lack of bandwidth, outages and
 how you'll address those issues and the cost and stipulate it as a
 requirement before moving forward.  Then, look at migrating services to the
 cloud and the costs related to that.  Use five year estimates or actually
 use the lifecycle of your equipment, when I was working for a school, I
 still had three servers that were 7+ years.  My hunch is that the costs will
 be at best equal but more than likely in favor of maintaining your own
 infrastructure.



 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

 I see the point your board member is making, but the other side of that
 coin, from my standpoint is, who controls the data? What happens to the data
 when cloud provider of choice goes poof? What are your RPO and RTO, and how
 will you achieve recovery if the primary provider goes poof?

 Also, what happens when you lose your internet connection for the better
 part of a day? Or, better yet, your provider loses their internet connection
 because a really advanced student or two have decided to perform a DDoS on
 that cloud provider because they don't want to take an exam that is brokered
 by, you guessed it, a server in the cloud...

 Far fetched, I know, but like everything else, a business impact analysis
 should be performed to weigh the risks and benefits.

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

 -Original Message-
 From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net]
 Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

 We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
 that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says
 everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
 authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
 want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
 offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
 want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
 everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
 thoughts and opinions or resources.

 Thanks,
 Jason
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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-10 Thread Rod Trent

To add to this, also make sure to include some kind of an internal IT
efficiency report, showing the areas where there may be waste and those
areas that can be improved.  The cloud should always be the last resort.
Vendors are promoting the cloud as the solution, when it is only a bullet
point (pretty far down the list, too, IMO) in the decision making process.

 

There are quite a few areas where efficiency can be improved in any
organization.  It could be further virtualization, or even something as
simple turning PCs off at night, saving money for power consumption and CO2
emissions.   There are quite a few vendors who offer PC power mgmt software
that show ROI in as little as 6 months, and then 100% savings after that.
Take that money and save jobs or develop innovations to actually grow the
business.  Turn IT from a cost center into a cost savings center - and make
the CIO look silly. J

 

 

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud???

 

Any discussion of moving services to the cloud needs to begin with a
discussion of budgetary impact.  I say this, because it is a board member
who brings it up, throwing this back to them with some data along these
lines might give this individual board member something to truly consider.
Yes, it will require a lot of work, but I think you'll gain a lot from the
process.  Begin with your current challenges, lack of bandwidth, outages and
how you'll address those issues and the cost and stipulate it as a
requirement before moving forward.  Then, look at migrating services to the
cloud and the costs related to that.  Use five year estimates or actually
use the lifecycle of your equipment, when I was working for a school, I
still had three servers that were 7+ years.  My hunch is that the costs will
be at best equal but more than likely in favor of maintaining your own
infrastructure.



 

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

I see the point your board member is making, but the other side of that
coin, from my standpoint is, who controls the data? What happens to the data
when cloud provider of choice goes poof? What are your RPO and RTO, and how
will you achieve recovery if the primary provider goes poof?

Also, what happens when you lose your internet connection for the better
part of a day? Or, better yet, your provider loses their internet connection
because a really advanced student or two have decided to perform a DDoS on
that cloud provider because they don't want to take an exam that is brokered
by, you guessed it, a server in the cloud...

Far fetched, I know, but like everything else, a business impact analysis
should be performed to weigh the risks and benefits.

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


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From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says
everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
thoughts and opinions or resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

 

Hi

 

Yes I have Googled the error. A lot of people point the problem towards
profiles. I have tried deleting the local profile and the network
profile with no luck.

 

I can log into this PC with my network credentials.  We have even made
the user a local admin, just to see if we can get her logged into this
PC.

She has Full control and is Owner of her Network Profile Folder.

 

She can log into a Windows XP PC fine.

 

Regards.

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

T:+44 01993 885661

E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

W:www.nsf-cmi.com

 

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Have you googled the error message?  Plenty of matches, plenty of
causes.

 

Big hammer:  Delete the local cached copy of the roaming profile.  If no
help, delete the network copy of the roaming profile.

 

Carl

 

From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on
to an XP machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

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OT: Cell phone device manager

2011-01-10 Thread Bob Fronk

Hello list.

I am responsible for managing over 700 cell phones, Blackberries, Data cards, 
etc.  Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet to manage all the related info such 
as phone number, device ESN, device type, etc.  I also would like to be able to 
create various reports based off this data.

I suppose I could convert the spreadsheet into an Access database, design 
queries and reports, but time is a problem, so I am hoping to find something 
out of the box.  Google Fu is failing me, I am only finding synch type 
software.

If you use or know of something I appreciate a reply.

Thanks

BF


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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

Which is pretty descriptive of most educational environments... :-)

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:

 The numbers will definitely favor in-house equipment for organizations that
 do not upgrade frequently...


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  On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Link 
 jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:

  Any discussion of moving services to the cloud needs to begin with a
 discussion of budgetary impact.  I say this, because it is a board member
 who brings it up, throwing this back to them with some data along these
 lines might give this individual board member something to truly consider.
 Yes, it will require a lot of work, but I think you'll gain a lot from the
 process.  Begin with your current challenges, lack of bandwidth, outages and
 how you'll address those issues and the cost and stipulate it as a
 requirement before moving forward.  Then, look at migrating services to the
 cloud and the costs related to that.  Use five year estimates or actually
 use the lifecycle of your equipment, when I was working for a school, I
 still had three servers that were 7+ years.  My hunch is that the costs will
 be at best equal but more than likely in favor of maintaining your own
 infrastructure.



  On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
 jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:

  I see the point your board member is making, but the other side of that
 coin, from my standpoint is, who controls the data? What happens to the data
 when cloud provider of choice goes poof? What are your RPO and RTO, and how
 will you achieve recovery if the primary provider goes poof?

 Also, what happens when you lose your internet connection for the better
 part of a day? Or, better yet, your provider loses their internet connection
 because a really advanced student or two have decided to perform a DDoS on
 that cloud provider because they don't want to take an exam that is brokered
 by, you guessed it, a server in the cloud...

 Far fetched, I know, but like everything else, a business impact analysis
 should be performed to weigh the risks and benefits.

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

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 Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

  We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling
 us that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he
 says everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
 authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
 want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
 offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
 want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
 everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
 thoughts and opinions or resources.

 Thanks,
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RE: WAN Link compression appliances

2011-01-10 Thread Jim Holmgren

We are using Bluecoat for our web filtering, haven't looked into their
compression devices.

 

Jim

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WAN Link compression appliances

 

Anyone using Bluecoat (formerly Packeteer)?

 

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From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: WAN Link compression appliances

 

+1

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Carol Fee c...@massbar.org wrote:

Riverbed

 

CFee

From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: WAN Link compression appliances

 

What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We
have an office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.  

 

They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand
boxes, I'd like to see what other folks are using.

 

Thanks!

Jim

 

 

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XLHealth Corporation

The Warehouse at Camden Yards

351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

Baltimore, MD 21201 

410.625.2200 (main)

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Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

Have you checked for the ProfileList entry in the Registry?

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device

-Original Message-
From: Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:40:20 
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues 
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group 
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

Hi

Yes I have Googled the error. A lot of people point the problem towards
profiles. I have tried deleting the local profile and the network
profile with no luck.

I can log into this PC with my network credentials.  We have even made
the user a local admin, just to see if we can get her logged into this
PC.

She has Full control and is Owner of her Network Profile Folder.

She can log into a Windows XP PC fine.

Regards.

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

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E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

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From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

Have you googled the error message?  Plenty of matches, plenty of
causes.

Big hammer:  Delete the local cached copy of the roaming profile.  If no
help, delete the network copy of the roaming profile.

Carl

From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on
to an XP machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

Kevan Dickinson

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NSF-CMI

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RE: WAN Link compression appliances

2011-01-10 Thread Kim Longenbaugh

Take a look at the Citrix WanScaler/Branch Repeater stuff.  We did an in-house 
eval between Riverbed, SilverPeak, a Cisco offering, and the Citrix products.  
We allowed the engineers from each vendor tweak their stuff.  We found the best 
bang for the buck with the Citrix gear.

Of course, your mileage may vary depending on what's important to you, like 
CIFS, de-dup,etc.  Obviously if you're using Citrix clients, their product has 
an advantage in accelerating the ICA traffic.

 

From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: WAN Link compression appliances

 

What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have an 
office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.  

 

They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand boxes, 
I'd like to see what other folks are using.

 

Thanks!

Jim

 

 

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XLHealth Corporation

The Warehouse at Camden Yards

351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

Baltimore, MD 21201 

410.625.2200 (main)

443.524.8573 (direct)

443-506.2400 (cell)

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Re: OT: Cell phone device manager

2011-01-10 Thread Steve Ens

We use a program called Manager Plus Pro...can use it for anything...from
what I recall it wasn't too pricey.
http://www.managerplus.com/



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  Hello list.



 I am responsible for managing over 700 cell phones, Blackberries, Data
 cards, etc.  Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet to manage all the related
 info such as phone number, device ESN, device type, etc.  I also would like
 to be able to create various reports based off this data.



 I suppose I could convert the spreadsheet into an Access database, design
 queries and reports, but time is a problem, so I am hoping to find something
 “out of the box”.  Google Fu is failing me, I am only finding synch type
 software.



 If you use or know of something I appreciate a reply.



 Thanks



 BF



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Re: OT: Cell phone device manager

What about system center mobile device manager? I have very little experience 
of it however, just a quick guess

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:42:51 
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ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: OT:  Cell phone device manager

Hello list.

I am responsible for managing over 700 cell phones, Blackberries, Data cards, 
etc.  Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet to manage all the related info such 
as phone number, device ESN, device type, etc.  I also would like to be able to 
create various reports based off this data.

I suppose I could convert the spreadsheet into an Access database, design 
queries and reports, but time is a problem, so I am hoping to find something 
out of the box.  Google Fu is failing me, I am only finding synch type 
software.

If you use or know of something I appreciate a reply.

Thanks

BF

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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your resources 
to the cloud. Just because a member of your board says moving to the cloud is 
the way to go, doesn't make it so. 

There are a lot of things to consider: 

1) Availability ( of your resources) and of the cloud provider ( needs to be 
put in SLA) ( what happens when a major Internet ISP or link goes down which 
affects your availability? ( Is it the fault of the cloud provider? ( Not 
really, but the customer might not be able to get to their systems, which means 
availability is not assured)
2) Data Management ( of your servers) and encryption ( needs to be put in SLA)
3) Right to Audit ( of their processes) ( don’t take a SAS 70 or SSAE 16 part 
1/2, for face value)
4) Compliance ( Legal requirements) ( Most auditors don't know how to audit 
systems in the cloud, so how are you going to stay compliant? ( try PCI DSS for 
example)
5) How do you get your data and systems out of the cloud if you have to 
terminate your contract with the cloud provider, or want to move to another 
cloud provider?
6) Vetting process of the cloud provider when hiring staff that has access to 
your systems and data? And probably a lot of others also? ( You don't know 
this, and they aren't going to tell you either in most cases)

Just food for thought, but again its all about risk, and how much you are 
willing to take, that and giving up control. 

Z


Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505


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From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that 
we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says 
everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, 
authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they want 
to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and offsite 
backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they want to be 
on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding everything about 
it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or 
resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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RE: WAN Link compression appliances

I looked at Packeteer for packet shaping/WAN optimization (more than 5 years 
ago) before they were acquired by Bluecoat, and at the time I was very 
impressed with how they could shape based on protocol and application. Not sure 
how what they can do compares with the competition nowadays, though.

I ended up not implementing at the time because it did not make sense for me at 
the time because of how my WAN links were setup.  I kept them in the back of my 
mind for future reference.


Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
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Eagle Physicians  Associates, PA
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www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/


From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WAN Link compression appliances

We are using Bluecoat for our web filtering, haven't looked into their 
compression devices.

Jim

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WAN Link compression appliances

Anyone using Bluecoat (formerly Packeteer)?


Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
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Eagle Physicians  Associates, PA
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www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/


From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: WAN Link compression appliances

+1
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Carol Fee 
c...@massbar.orgmailto:c...@massbar.org wrote:
Riverbed

CFee
From: Jim Holmgren 
[mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.commailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: WAN Link compression appliances

What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have an 
office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.

They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand boxes, 
I'd like to see what other folks are using.

Thanks!
Jim


Jim Holmgren
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XLHealth Corporation
The Warehouse at Camden Yards
351 West Camden Street, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21201
410.625.2200 (main)
443.524.8573 (direct)
443-506.2400 (cell)
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RE: OT: Cell phone device manager

2011-01-10 Thread Rod Trent

That's one of those apps you will want to wait until the next rev of
ConfigMgr (2012) to take a look at.

From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Cell phone device manager

What about system center mobile device manager? I have very little
experience of it however, just a quick guess

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerryR wireless device

  _  

From: Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:42:51 -0500

To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Subject: OT: Cell phone device manager

Hello list.

I am responsible for managing over 700 cell phones, Blackberries, Data
cards, etc.  Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet to manage all the related
info such as phone number, device ESN, device type, etc.  I also would like
to be able to create various reports based off this data.

I suppose I could convert the spreadsheet into an Access database, design
queries and reports, but time is a problem, so I am hoping to find something
out of the box.  Google Fu is failing me, I am only finding synch type
software.

If you use or know of something I appreciate a reply.

Thanks

BF

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RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

Yes I have checked the registry on the local machine and can see that a
GUID has been created for her at HKLM\software\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

 

Kevan Dickinson

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From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:48
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Have you checked for the ProfileList entry in the Registry?

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device



From: Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:40:20 -

To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

 

Hi

 

Yes I have Googled the error. A lot of people point the problem towards
profiles. I have tried deleting the local profile and the network
profile with no luck.

 

I can log into this PC with my network credentials.  We have even made
the user a local admin, just to see if we can get her logged into this
PC.

She has Full control and is Owner of her Network Profile Folder.

 

She can log into a Windows XP PC fine.

 

Regards.

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

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E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

W:www.nsf-cmi.com

 

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Have you googled the error message?  Plenty of matches, plenty of
causes.

 

Big hammer:  Delete the local cached copy of the roaming profile.  If no
help, delete the network copy of the roaming profile.

 

Carl

 

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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on
to an XP machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

I have a slide deck written for ISACA NE that I can share if you want it to 
review the issues with moving to the cloud, which should give you talking 
points. 

Z

Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
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Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505


-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your resources 
to the cloud. Just because a member of your board says moving to the cloud is 
the way to go, doesn't make it so. 

There are a lot of things to consider: 

1) Availability ( of your resources) and of the cloud provider ( needs to be 
put in SLA) ( what happens when a major Internet ISP or link goes down which 
affects your availability? ( Is it the fault of the cloud provider? ( Not 
really, but the customer might not be able to get to their systems, which means 
availability is not assured)
2) Data Management ( of your servers) and encryption ( needs to be put in SLA)
3) Right to Audit ( of their processes) ( don’t take a SAS 70 or SSAE 16 part 
1/2, for face value)
4) Compliance ( Legal requirements) ( Most auditors don't know how to audit 
systems in the cloud, so how are you going to stay compliant? ( try PCI DSS for 
example)
5) How do you get your data and systems out of the cloud if you have to 
terminate your contract with the cloud provider, or want to move to another 
cloud provider?
6) Vetting process of the cloud provider when hiring staff that has access to 
your systems and data? And probably a lot of others also? ( You don't know 
this, and they aren't going to tell you either in most cases)

Just food for thought, but again its all about risk, and how much you are 
willing to take, that and giving up control. 

Z


Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505


-Original Message-
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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that 
we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says 
everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, 
authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they want 
to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and offsite 
backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they want to be 
on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding everything about 
it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or 
resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

Please share!

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


-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

I have a slide deck written for ISACA NE that I can share if you want it to 
review the issues with moving to the cloud, which should give you talking 
points.

Z

Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505


-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your resources 
to the cloud. Just because a member of your board says moving to the cloud is 
the way to go, doesn't make it so.

There are a lot of things to consider:

1) Availability ( of your resources) and of the cloud provider ( needs to be 
put in SLA) ( what happens when a major Internet ISP or link goes down which 
affects your availability? ( Is it the fault of the cloud provider? ( Not 
really, but the customer might not be able to get to their systems, which means 
availability is not assured)
2) Data Management ( of your servers) and encryption ( needs to be put in SLA)
3) Right to Audit ( of their processes) ( don't take a SAS 70 or SSAE 16 part 
1/2, for face value)
4) Compliance ( Legal requirements) ( Most auditors don't know how to audit 
systems in the cloud, so how are you going to stay compliant? ( try PCI DSS for 
example)
5) How do you get your data and systems out of the cloud if you have to 
terminate your contract with the cloud provider, or want to move to another 
cloud provider?
6) Vetting process of the cloud provider when hiring staff that has access to 
your systems and data? And probably a lot of others also? ( You don't know 
this, and they aren't going to tell you either in most cases)

Just food for thought, but again its all about risk, and how much you are 
willing to take, that and giving up control.

Z


Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505


-Original Message-
From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that 
we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says 
everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, 
authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they want 
to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and offsite 
backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they want to be 
on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding everything about 
it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or 
resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

Most definately and thank you.

Jason

I have a slide deck written for ISACA NE that I can share if you want it to 
review the issues with moving to the cloud, which should give you talking 
points. 

Z 

Edward E. Ziots 
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Network Engineer 
Lifespan Organization 
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RE: OT: Cell phone device manager

2011-01-10 Thread Bob Fronk

I have not looked at that yet, but would think it would be for active sync or 
windows based devices.  We don't have either.

BF

From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: Cell phone device manager

That's one of those apps you will want to wait until the next rev of ConfigMgr 
(2012) to take a look at.

From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Cell phone device manager

What about system center mobile device manager? I have very little experience 
of it however, just a quick guess

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device

From: Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:42:51 -0500
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: OT: Cell phone device manager

Hello list.

I am responsible for managing over 700 cell phones, Blackberries, Data cards, 
etc.  Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet to manage all the related info such 
as phone number, device ESN, device type, etc.  I also would like to be able to 
create various reports based off this data.

I suppose I could convert the spreadsheet into an Access database, design 
queries and reports, but time is a problem, so I am hoping to find something 
out of the box.  Google Fu is failing me, I am only finding synch type 
software.

If you use or know of something I appreciate a reply.

Thanks

BF

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Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

Delete it before they next log on then?

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device

-Original Message-
From: Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:53:40 
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues 
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group 
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

Yes I have checked the registry on the local machine and can see that a
GUID has been created for her at HKLM\software\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

T:+44 01993 885661

E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

W:www.nsf-cmi.com

From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:48
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

Have you checked for the ProfileList entry in the Registry?

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device

From: Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:40:20 -

To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

Hi

Yes I have Googled the error. A lot of people point the problem towards
profiles. I have tried deleting the local profile and the network
profile with no luck.

I can log into this PC with my network credentials.  We have even made
the user a local admin, just to see if we can get her logged into this
PC.

She has Full control and is Owner of her Network Profile Folder.

She can log into a Windows XP PC fine.

Regards.

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

T:+44 01993 885661

E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

W:www.nsf-cmi.com

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

Have you googled the error message?  Plenty of matches, plenty of
causes.

Big hammer:  Delete the local cached copy of the roaming profile.  If no
help, delete the network copy of the roaming profile.

Carl

From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on
to an XP machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Gill

Google App's does have central management for its services. Whether it's good 
enough to meet your needs, you'll just have to try it out. Also it may make 
sense to only have certain services be internet based, but others local. Print 
and file services for example seem obvious. For as many users as you have, you 
would need a pretty hefty pipe to come close to local network performance. 
What's your internet connection now? Let's say it's 40/10Mbs FiOS. Your network 
internally is most likely 100Mbs full duplex, and possibly 1Gbs. Would your 
users like the new speed? If some faculty or students in a media class start 
downloading large files, is it going to affect teachers opening Office docs? 
What about peak usage hours? I guess the network performance is what sticks out 
to me at first. It sounds like the board member just wants to move everything 
online and has no concept of availability, QoS or just reads mainstream news 
headlines about Cloud services with no real technical understanding.

-- 
Mike Gill

-Original Message-
From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that 
we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says 
everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, 
authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they want 
to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and offsite 
backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they want to be 
on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding everything about 
it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or 
resources.

Thanks,
Jason



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re: domain controller in the cloud???

So are there companies that provide AD services from the cloud?

And if so, do they just rely on you creating like an ipsec tunnel to their 
server from our sonicwall and just replicate AD locally?

Thanks and sorry if I am having bone-headed questions.

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RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

I have tried that as well already, but it did not make any difference.

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

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From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 18:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Delete it before they next log on then?

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device



From: Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:53:40 -

To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Yes I have checked the registry on the local machine and can see that a
GUID has been created for her at HKLM\software\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

T:+44 01993 885661

E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

W:www.nsf-cmi.com

 

 

From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:48
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Have you checked for the ProfileList entry in the Registry?

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device



From: Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:40:20 -

To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

 

Hi

 

Yes I have Googled the error. A lot of people point the problem towards
profiles. I have tried deleting the local profile and the network
profile with no luck.

 

I can log into this PC with my network credentials.  We have even made
the user a local admin, just to see if we can get her logged into this
PC.

She has Full control and is Owner of her Network Profile Folder.

 

She can log into a Windows XP PC fine.

 

Regards.

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

T:+44 01993 885661

E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

W:www.nsf-cmi.com

 

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Have you googled the error message?  Plenty of matches, plenty of
causes.

 

Big hammer:  Delete the local cached copy of the roaming profile.  If no
help, delete the network copy of the roaming profile.

 

Carl

 

From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
logon. Access denied

 

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group
policy client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on
to an XP machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

23 Lodge Road

Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

 

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E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

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Re: domain controller in the cloud???

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 Please share!

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 -Original Message-
 From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
  Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:56 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

 I have a slide deck written for ISACA NE that I can share if you want it to
 review the issues with moving to the cloud, which should give you talking
 points.

 Z

 Edward E. Ziots
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 -Original Message-
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 Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:51 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

 There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your
 resources to the cloud. Just because a member of your board says moving to
 the cloud is the way to go, doesn't make it so.

 There are a lot of things to consider:

 1) Availability ( of your resources) and of the cloud provider ( needs to
 be put in SLA) ( what happens when a major Internet ISP or link goes down
 which affects your availability? ( Is it the fault of the cloud provider? (
 Not really, but the customer might not be able to get to their systems,
 which means availability is not assured)
 2) Data Management ( of your servers) and encryption ( needs to be put in
 SLA)
 3) Right to Audit ( of their processes) ( don't take a SAS 70 or SSAE 16
 part 1/2, for face value)
 4) Compliance ( Legal requirements) ( Most auditors don't know how to audit
 systems in the cloud, so how are you going to stay compliant? ( try PCI DSS
 for example)
 5) How do you get your data and systems out of the cloud if you have to
 terminate your contract with the cloud provider, or want to move to another
 cloud provider?
 6) Vetting process of the cloud provider when hiring staff that has access
 to your systems and data? And probably a lot of others also? ( You don't
 know this, and they aren't going to tell you either in most cases)

 Just food for thought, but again its all about risk, and how much you are
 willing to take, that and giving up control.

 Z


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 -Original Message-
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 Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

 We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
 that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says
 everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
 authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
 want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
 offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
 want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
 everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
 thoughts and opinions or resources.

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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

I think you nailed it about the board member, i just wanted some points to come 
back with other than it doesn't feel right. 
And as far as google I think they are a wolf in sheeps clothing, their data 
mining efforts who really knows what they do with it all until someone uncovers 
something like them not wanting to get rid of data they picked up wifi 
searching. If an indiviual was doing that the repercussions for him would be 
different.

Security and the possesion of resources are my motives, i know i have issues.

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Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

Did you delete that registry entry when you deleted the profile folder in
c:\users?



On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Kevan Dickinson 
kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com wrote:

  Yes I have checked the registry on the local machine and can see that a
 GUID has been created for her at HKLM\software\Windows
 NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList



 *Kevan Dickinson*

 *Network Manager*

 *NSF-CMI*

 23 Lodge Road

 Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

 Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK



 T:+44 01993 885661

 E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com e%3akevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

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 *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
 *Sent:* 10 January 2011 17:48

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
 logon. Access denied



 Have you checked for the ProfileList entry in the Registry?

 Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device
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 *From: *Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com

 *Date: *Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:40:20 -

 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

 *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
 

 *Subject: *RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
 logon. Access denied





 Hi



 Yes I have Googled the error. A lot of people point the problem towards
 profiles. I have tried deleting the local profile and the network profile
 with no luck.



 I can log into this PC with my network credentials.  We have even made the
 user a local admin, just to see if we can get her logged into this PC.

 She has Full control and is Owner of her Network Profile Folder.



 She can log into a Windows XP PC fine.



 Regards.



 *Kevan Dickinson*

 *Network Manager*

 *NSF-CMI*

 23 Lodge Road

 Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

 Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK



 T:+44 01993 885661

 E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com e%3akevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com

 W:www.nsf-cmi.com





 *From:* Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* 10 January 2011 17:00
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
 logon. Access denied



 Have you googled the error message?  Plenty of matches, plenty of causes.



 Big hammer:  Delete the local cached copy of the roaming profile.  If no
 help, delete the network copy of the roaming profile.



 Carl



 *From:* Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the
 logon. Access denied



 Hi

 We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003
 domain.
 The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

 Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group policy
 client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on to an XP
 machine OK.

 Can anyone help please?

 Regards



 *Kevan Dickinson*

 *Network Manager*

 *NSF-CMI*

 23 Lodge Road

 Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

 Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK



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RE: Cell phone device manager

MAYBE


http://www.amtelnet.com/products/cell_phone_management_software.php

Had to think like a facilities or purchasing director to find something. Think 
asset or services management/tracking. However tracjking, combined with cell 
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From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Cell phone device manager

Hello list.

I am responsible for managing over 700 cell phones, Blackberries, Data cards, 
etc.  Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet to manage all the related info such 
as phone number, device ESN, device type, etc.  I also would like to be able to 
create various reports based off this data.

I suppose I could convert the spreadsheet into an Access database, design 
queries and reports, but time is a problem, so I am hoping to find something 
out of the box.  Google Fu is failing me, I am only finding synch type 
software.

If you use or know of something I appreciate a reply.

Thanks

BF


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RE: WAN Link compression appliances

2011-01-10 Thread Malcolm Reitz

Same here. We have a pretty far-flung and well-entrenched Riverbed
implementation, though, so we haven't looked at anything else recently.

 

-Malcolm

 

 

 

From: Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:19
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WAN Link compression appliances

 

Riverbed

 

CFee

From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: WAN Link compression appliances

 

What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have
an office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.  

 

They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand
boxes, I'd like to see what other folks are using.

 

Thanks!

Jim

 

 

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XLHealth Corporation

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RE: WAN Link compression appliances

Riverbeds have been the de-facto solution at every large corp customer I've 
worked in.

Thanks,
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c   - 312.731.3132

From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: WAN Link compression appliances

What's everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have an 
office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.

They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand boxes, 
I'd like to see what other folks are using.

Thanks!
Jim


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Re: WAN Link compression appliances

That's because they all subscribe to Gartner. :)

Riverbed is the premiere player here, of course, so I'm not implying that
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 * *

 *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 11:12 AM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* WAN Link compression appliances



 What’s everyone using for WAN link compression devices these days?  We have
 an office in Bangalore, currently using Expand Networks devices.



 They are due for an upgrade and before I pull the trigger on new Expand
 boxes, I’d like to see what other folks are using.



 Thanks!

 Jim





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 Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services

 XLHealth Corporation

 The Warehouse at Camden Yards

 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

 Baltimore, MD 21201

 410.625.2200 (main)

 443.524.8573 (direct)

 443-506.2400 (cell)

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RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. Access denied

2011-01-10 Thread Miller Bonnie L .

Ideas: Share permissions to the profile folder don't allow full control or 
possible typo in the actual profile path applied to the user account?

-Bonnie

From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. 
Access denied

I have tried that as well already, but it did not make any difference.

Kevan Dickinson
Network Manager
NSF-CMI
23 Lodge Road
Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,
Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

T:+44 01993 885661
E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com
W:www.nsf-cmi.com

From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 10 January 2011 18:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. 
Access denied

Delete it before they next log on then?

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device

From: Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:53:40 -
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. 
Access denied

Yes I have checked the registry on the local machine and can see that a GUID 
has been created for her at HKLM\software\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Kevan Dickinson
Network Manager
NSF-CMI
23 Lodge Road
Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,
Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

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E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com
W:www.nsf-cmi.com

From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:48
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. 
Access denied

Have you checked for the ProfileList entry in the Registry?

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device

From: Kevan Dickinson kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:40:20 -
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. 
Access denied

Hi

Yes I have Googled the error. A lot of people point the problem towards 
profiles. I have tried deleting the local profile and the network profile with 
no luck.

I can log into this PC with my network credentials.  We have even made the user 
a local admin, just to see if we can get her logged into this PC.
She has Full control and is Owner of her Network Profile Folder.

She can log into a Windows XP PC fine.

Regards.

Kevan Dickinson
Network Manager
NSF-CMI
23 Lodge Road
Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,
Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

T:+44 01993 885661
E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com
W:www.nsf-cmi.com

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 January 2011 17:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. 
Access denied

Have you googled the error message?  Plenty of matches, plenty of causes.

Big hammer:  Delete the local cached copy of the roaming profile.  If no help, 
delete the network copy of the roaming profile.

Carl

From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 PC: the group policy client service failed the logon. 
Access denied

Hi

We are trying to log a user onto a windows 7 PC in a Windows server 2003 domain.
The user has a .V2 user profile folder on the Network.

Each time we try to log her in we get this error message the group policy 
client service failed the logon. Access denied.  She can log on to an XP 
machine OK.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

Kevan Dickinson
Network Manager
NSF-CMI
23 Lodge Road
Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,
Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK

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RE: OT: Cell phone device manager

Do you have an existing ticketing tool/CMDB? Create a new CI class with all the 
properties of the phones and create CIs for them like any other asset.

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

c   - 312.731.3132

From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Cell phone device manager

We use a program called Manager Plus Pro...can use it for anything...from what 
I recall it wasn't too pricey.
http://www.managerplus.com/



On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Bob Fronk 
b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote:
Hello list.

I am responsible for managing over 700 cell phones, Blackberries, Data cards, 
etc.  Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet to manage all the related info such 
as phone number, device ESN, device type, etc.  I also would like to be able to 
create various reports based off this data.

I suppose I could convert the spreadsheet into an Access database, design 
queries and reports, but time is a problem, so I am hoping to find something 
out of the box.  Google Fu is failing me, I am only finding synch type 
software.

If you use or know of something I appreciate a reply.

Thanks

BF


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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-10 Thread David Mazzaccaro

I would love a copy as well!
Thx

-Original Message-
From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

Please share!

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

-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

I have a slide deck written for ISACA NE that I can share if you want it
to review the issues with moving to the cloud, which should give you
talking points.

Z

Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505

-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your
resources to the cloud. Just because a member of your board says moving
to the cloud is the way to go, doesn't make it so.

There are a lot of things to consider:

1) Availability ( of your resources) and of the cloud provider ( needs
to be put in SLA) ( what happens when a major Internet ISP or link goes
down which affects your availability? ( Is it the fault of the cloud
provider? ( Not really, but the customer might not be able to get to
their systems, which means availability is not assured)
2) Data Management ( of your servers) and encryption ( needs to be put
in SLA)
3) Right to Audit ( of their processes) ( don't take a SAS 70 or SSAE 16
part 1/2, for face value)
4) Compliance ( Legal requirements) ( Most auditors don't know how to
audit systems in the cloud, so how are you going to stay compliant? (
try PCI DSS for example)
5) How do you get your data and systems out of the cloud if you have to
terminate your contract with the cloud provider, or want to move to
another cloud provider?
6) Vetting process of the cloud provider when hiring staff that has
access to your systems and data? And probably a lot of others also? (
You don't know this, and they aren't going to tell you either in most
cases)

Just food for thought, but again its all about risk, and how much you
are willing to take, that and giving up control.

Z

Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505

-Original Message-
From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he
says everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user
folders, authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're
using, they want to move to gmail but there's no central management
there I know of,and offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400
students and faculty and they want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I
think without understanding everything about it(I'm not entirely clear
either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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RE: domain controller in the cloud???

If you would like this slide deck ( so as not to kill the listserv)
please email me directly. 

Z

Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505


-Original Message-
From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

Please share!

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


-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

I have a slide deck written for ISACA NE that I can share if you want it
to review the issues with moving to the cloud, which should give you
talking points.

Z

Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505


-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: domain controller in the cloud???

There is a lot of things you need to look at if and when moving your
resources to the cloud. Just because a member of your board says moving
to the cloud is the way to go, doesn't make it so.

There are a lot of things to consider:

1) Availability ( of your resources) and of the cloud provider ( needs
to be put in SLA) ( what happens when a major Internet ISP or link goes
down which affects your availability? ( Is it the fault of the cloud
provider? ( Not really, but the customer might not be able to get to
their systems, which means availability is not assured)
2) Data Management ( of your servers) and encryption ( needs to be put
in SLA)
3) Right to Audit ( of their processes) ( don't take a SAS 70 or SSAE 16
part 1/2, for face value)
4) Compliance ( Legal requirements) ( Most auditors don't know how to
audit systems in the cloud, so how are you going to stay compliant? (
try PCI DSS for example)
5) How do you get your data and systems out of the cloud if you have to
terminate your contract with the cloud provider, or want to move to
another cloud provider?
6) Vetting process of the cloud provider when hiring staff that has
access to your systems and data? And probably a lot of others also? (
You don't know this, and they aren't going to tell you either in most
cases)

Just food for thought, but again its all about risk, and how much you
are willing to take, that and giving up control.

Z


Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505


-Original Message-
From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: domain controller in the cloud???

We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he
says everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user
folders, authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're
using, they want to move to gmail but there's no central management
there I know of,and offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400
students and faculty and they want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I
think without understanding everything about it(I'm not entirely clear
either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or resources.

Thanks,
Jason
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RE: domain controller in the cloud???