Re: Anal?
I think you've contacted the wrong 'group' buddy. - lol On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Santino Codispoti santino.codisp...@yahoo.com wrote: What does the group feel about ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Firefox tips (was: GP software deployment best practices)
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: At $WORK I routinely have 80+ FF windows open, and many have multiple tabs. I rarely have more than one Firefox window open anymore, thanks to TreeStyleTab. And I find BarTab helps memory usage *hugely*. If you haven't installed these extensions yet, you're really hurting yourself. TreeStyleTab = collapsible hierarchical tab structures http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2352/treestyletab.png http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en BarTab = unload page content for inactive tabs, while keeping the tab around https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab/ -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: DNS latency
You can try using dig +trace, never used it on a windows box but this might help you out: http://unroutable.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-install-dig-for-windows.html -matt From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:riverside...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DNS latency I have an Active Directory domain, which means I have my own DNS environment. For any name resolution that is not in my domain, my DNS server must pass the request up to our ISP for resolution. Is there a way to measure how long the added delay might be to gain a reply? In other words how much faster would it be if I were pointing directly at the ISP DNS servers, not my own that forward? Thanks In Advance! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: DNS latency
Nsbench? http://www.dslreports.com/faq/15890 From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:mbull...@root9.com] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS latency You can try using dig +trace, never used it on a windows box but this might help you out: http://unroutable.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-install-dig-for-windows.html -matt From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:riverside...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DNS latency I have an Active Directory domain, which means I have my own DNS environment. For any name resolution that is not in my domain, my DNS server must pass the request up to our ISP for resolution. Is there a way to measure how long the added delay might be to gain a reply? In other words how much faster would it be if I were pointing directly at the ISP DNS servers, not my own that forward? Thanks In Advance! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Firefox tips (was: GP software deployment best practices)
I shall give them a look. Thanks for this... Kurt On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:50, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: At $WORK I routinely have 80+ FF windows open, and many have multiple tabs. I rarely have more than one Firefox window open anymore, thanks to TreeStyleTab. And I find BarTab helps memory usage *hugely*. If you haven't installed these extensions yet, you're really hurting yourself. TreeStyleTab = collapsible hierarchical tab structures http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2352/treestyletab.png http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en BarTab = unload page content for inactive tabs, while keeping the tab around https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab/ -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Group Policy Preferences installing a local printer
Have you enabled GPP logging? There is a GPO to enable it for printing. Might be a good place to start. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 29 January 2011 1:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group Policy Preferences installing a local printer I'm having some trouble with this. After some fits and starts it appears that all of my Windows 7 clients are receiving the local printer I want them to have, however, when they physically attach the printer, it installs itself with a new name. It's not a huge deal, but something I was hoping to avoid. I also had turned on the preference setting allowing users to install devices of the printer class, so I think that's what's actually happening when a user plugs in the printer for the first time, and it appears that this policy is only for Windows 7 (maybe Vista, but that's moot since we don't have Vista). My real issue is with Windows XP. No printers are installed. And yes, i do have the Group Policy extenstions for XP installed on these workstations. I have been successfully managing the local administrators group and user, and even went so far as to verify that the settings were intact on the XP machines. Is installing local printers only applicable to Vista and Windows 7? Any ideas, hints, guides? GoogleFu got me this far, but I haven't been able to find definitive answers to my XP question. Thanks, Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Search Multiple PST archives on Win7
Hi all Can some recommend a product to search multiple PST archived email files? For some years I have used Lookout on Win XP and found it fantastic. It instantly searched my current Outlook folders plus the past few year's collection of emails that are held in separate PST files (one for each year). However it is not available on Windows 7 as far as I am aware. Is there anything else out there? Thanks for your help. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Search Multiple PST archives on Win7
Windows Search should be able to index these just fine. Just plug your query into the start menu. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Neil [mailto:neil.bow...@snowyhydro.com.au] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Search Multiple PST archives on Win7 Hi all Can some recommend a product to search multiple PST archived email files? For some years I have used Lookout on Win XP and found it fantastic. It instantly searched my current Outlook folders plus the past few year's collection of emails that are held in separate PST files (one for each year). However it is not available on Windows 7 as far as I am aware. Is there anything else out there? Thanks for your help. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Search Multiple PST archives on Win7
Agreed - of course it's possible you'll have to modify the index scope to include those PST files. But try it first and see - maybe they're already indexed. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com b...@rolandschorr.com -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 16:54 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Search Multiple PST archives on Win7 Windows Search should be able to index these just fine. Just plug your query into the start menu. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Neil [mailto:neil.bow...@snowyhydro.com.au] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Search Multiple PST archives on Win7 Hi all Can some recommend a product to search multiple PST archived email files? For some years I have used Lookout on Win XP and found it fantastic. It instantly searched my current Outlook folders plus the past few year's collection of emails that are held in separate PST files (one for each year). However it is not available on Windows 7 as far as I am aware. Is there anything else out there? Thanks for your help. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Some thoughts for your DR Plan
We now have the majority of things restored and up and running. Below are just some initial thoughts and ideas that I wanted to share with the list. It is in no way any form of DR plan nor is it meant to indicate what we did or didn't have. It's simply my experiences from our recent DR experience written down for the benefits of others. Some or none of this may apply to you. I certainly do not regard myself as any form of DR expert nor am I the first to have been through a real DR experience. However if I am able to provide any info that can assist others than I am more than happy to do so. * Don't ever think it can't happen, it can. * You do need a DR location, a live one if possible. Convince management of this! * Build redundancy into your designs of everything. Thanks to this all our stores were able to continue to trade even though the data centre was under water. * If you have something in your environment that isn't in your backup schedule, add it now, no matter how small it may be. * Consider that staff with specific duties in your DR plan may not be able to assist as they are tending to their own personal issues or physical access is simply not available. * Services you take for granted may simply be not available. There were power outages (some for weeks) and communication network outages. Phone systems quickly become overloaded in a Disaster, especially mobile/cell networks. * Make allowance for the following in your DR location(for relocation of office staff) oFurniture for staff oComputers and comms oPower, can the circuits handle the extra load you will be adding to the site? oBandwidth oAir conditioning/heating * Have remote visibility of your data centre and its surroundings oA camera or two would have shown us the level of the water and we could have saved much more equipment. * Add sensors to your data centre that shuts off the power if water is detected. * Exchange cached mode and offline files provide quick access to much critical information. * Keep critical infrastructure/server build/networking documentation in multiple places. oI had a recent backup at my personal residence. It was invaluable in the early stages of our Recovery. * Data restores oDo test restores regularly. Environments change all the time and maybe something hasn't been added to the backup list for that server. oEnsure that you can retrieve critical data quickly. Restores take time. oTapes - do anything to avoid them, if you have to use them have multiple tape drives available so that restores can be conducted more quickly. oHave backup backup servers. Especially with the tape catalogues available. We saw cataloguing of tapes take 14 hours plus. oHave an offsite location authorised as a delivery point with your Offsite Tape holder. * Check your emotions at the door. Remain calm and logical, consider others needs. The people that are true leaders(that doesn't necessarily mean all Managers) should be running the show. Everyone else will be looking to them for guidance. * Fire and water make fantastic servants, they are horrible masters. James. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
