RE: Copying large file
Can you compress the file and then copy it? If it is an SQL .bak file it may well compress a lot. What filesystem is that of the USB device? From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 14:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Copying large file I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn't copy the file??? OS: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2 Memory: 4096 MB Processor: 8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor I have read a copy of KB's but they were just saying to take SP1...Well I am on SP2??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
Also a HP P4500 (Lefthand) user here, have just added our third node in to give us more disk space. Because that node acts as both controller and diskshelf, our overall I/O throughput capacity increases with each one we add. Have got our main SQL Servers virtualised on to vSphere, all running off the P4500's at the backend, have never seen any performance worries. If you're strapped for cash, have a look at the HP Renew program, especially if you're in the US where there's an abundance of HP P4000 series kit, can usually pick up a starter pack with 3-5 year 24x7 support contract for a good discount. http://www.hp.com/united-states/renew-worldwide/index.html -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: 31 January 2011 19:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs I've spent most of this afternoon installing the second site in a three site (2 data, 1 FOM) P4000 setup. There's been a few WTF?! moments mostly around the CMC and reporting, but it's kind of neat to have your live data in two locations and be able to lose one and have it fail over damned near seamlessly (vsphere HA isn't great). I suspect Oliver's decision may be made when he sees how much even a pretty basic FC switch costs. Paul -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 18:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs I don't have any experience with FC, but I do love my LeftHand units - we started with two units and currently have three, with two-way replication between them. Not cheap, but cheaper than a lot of them, and they've been acquired by HP. Never had an ounce of trouble with them - a RAM stick went bad on one of them, and HP hotfooted a replacement to me with no issues. No downtime, either, because of the two way replication. I shut down the affected unit as soon as I got the RAM, replaced the stick, fired it back up, and nothing so much as hiccuped. Needed to seriously update the software when adding in the third unit, but a support rep held my hand over the phone, and that went smoothly, too. Awesome stuff. Kurt On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:13, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi Chaps We’re buying some bits to build a basic VM platform so that we can get rid of some old rack servers here. Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just use for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs? We are planning on having two physical hosts (probably Dell PE710s running either Hyper-V or ESXi) with a lump of shared storage on a SAN but we are at odds here as to whether we should go iSCSI or FC. Any comments or suggestions? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the
W3K R2 x64, read-only SAN volumes and ridiculously long boot-up time
Hello, we have W3K R2 x64 fileserver which has mounted some volumes from two SAN's over fibre. Boot and windows file volumes are read/write and some volumes are read-only(it's the SAN box setting) because there are Vsphere virtual machine files in these volumes(VMFS file system) and Networker needs them to be accessible so that it can do backups. Problem is the windows boot-up time which today was longer than one hour. After that I just powered server off, unmounted all six read-only volumes and after that it came up within five minutes. Usually the delay isn't so long, server comes up within 20-30 minutes, but today the delay was extra long. And the long delay started after read-only volumes were mounted from SAN(Automounting is disabled with diskpart automount disable). Nothing is written to event log and even the safe mode failed to came up within reasonable amount of time. Windows stays in some undetermined state. We can ping it but nothing else works. As the unmounting the read-only volumes helped I am inclined to think that there is some problems with windows and read-only volumes. It can't determine that they are read-ony and wants to do something with them? But I really don't want to say to SAN box that map this LUN with R/W rights. I am not sure that the windows won't write something then to these unknown partitions when I use Disk management for example. Has anyone some experiences with similar situation? Regards, Markko ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Copying large file
I will try and get the screen shot of the error. Something about insufficient resources but memory isn't spiked and the drive has 320GB of freespace. I will look into the events (don't recall any but I will look harder.) and robocopy. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Posted At: Monday, January 31, 2011 5:12 PM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: Copying large file Subject: Re: Copying large file On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:30 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn't copy the file??? What is the **EXACT** error message you get? Copy it verbatim. (Copy-and-paste if possible.) As others have suggested, try ROBOCOPY. If nothing else, it gives better diagnostics than most things. Check Event Viewer for anything related to the disk subsystem or filesystem drivers. CHKDSK the source drive; make sure the filesystem is good. If you run out of ideas: Try CHKDSK /R on the source drive. It will likely take several or more hours, but it will confirm the disk and the interface is good. -- 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: Copying large file
Haven't tried to compress yet. NTFS. From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:35 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: uc RE: Copying large file Subject: RE: Copying large file Can you compress the file and then copy it? If it is an SQL .bak file it may well compress a lot. What filesystem is that of the USB device? From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 14:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Copying large file I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn't copy the file??? OS: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2 Memory: 4096 MB Processor: 8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor I have read a copy of KB's but they were just saying to take SP1...Well I am on SP2??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com http://www.QinetiQ.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: First Windows Server 2008 member server
Is it just industry standard to move away from tape or do I need to buy a 3rd party to keep my tape library alive? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Posted At: Monday, January 31, 2011 5:13 PM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: First Windows Server 2008 member server Subject: Re: First Windows Server 2008 member server On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: NTBackup has been renamed and reimagined as Windows Server Backup... It is substantially better in 2008 R2 compared to 2008. But still does not support tape drives. -- 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: First Windows Server 2008 member server
You will need to buy a 3rd party backup app to use tape for 2008 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:27 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Is it just industry standard to move away from tape or do I need to buy a 3rd party to keep my tape library alive? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Posted At: Monday, January 31, 2011 5:13 PM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: First Windows Server 2008 member server Subject: Re: First Windows Server 2008 member server On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: NTBackup has been renamed and reimagined as Windows Server Backup... It is substantially better in 2008 R2 compared to 2008. But still does not support tape drives. -- 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: First Windows Server 2008 member server
Could I just use USB?? Or is that too slow? From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:36 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: First Windows Server 2008 member server Subject: Re: First Windows Server 2008 member server You will need to buy a 3rd party backup app to use tape for 2008 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:27 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Is it just industry standard to move away from tape or do I need to buy a 3rd party to keep my tape library alive? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Posted At: Monday, January 31, 2011 5:13 PM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: First Windows Server 2008 member server Subject: Re: First Windows Server 2008 member server On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: NTBackup has been renamed and reimagined as Windows Server Backup... It is substantially better in 2008 R2 compared to 2008. But still does not support tape drives. -- 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: First Windows Server 2008 member server
If I remember correctly you might not have to buy 3rd party if you have LTO-5 or above. There was supposed to be a filesystem built into LTO-5 where you would not need a 3rd party solution to utilize it. However not too many people have LTO-5 yet. -Original Message- From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: First Windows Server 2008 member server You will need to buy a 3rd party backup app to use tape for 2008 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:27 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Is it just industry standard to move away from tape or do I need to buy a 3rd party to keep my tape library alive? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Posted At: Monday, January 31, 2011 5:13 PM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: First Windows Server 2008 member server Subject: Re: First Windows Server 2008 member server On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: NTBackup has been renamed and reimagined as Windows Server Backup... It is substantially better in 2008 R2 compared to 2008. But still does not support tape drives. -- 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you do not have permission to disclose, copy, distribute, or open any attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by returning it to the sender and delete this copy from your system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Copying large file
I regularly copy my exchange backup file from disk to RDX cartridge using robocopy, and it is about 45 GB. While it is smaller than your file, I've never had a problem with it. What are your results with robocopy? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Haven’t tried to compress yet. NTFS. *From:* Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:35 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* uc RE: Copying large file *Subject:* RE: Copying large file Can you compress the file and then copy it? If it is an SQL .bak file it may well compress a lot. What filesystem is that of the USB device? -- *From:* itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] *Sent:* 31 January 2011 14:31 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Copying large file I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn’t copy the file??? *OS:* Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2 *Memory:* 4096 MB *Processor:* 8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor I have read a copy of KB’s but they were just saying to take SP1…Well I am on SP2??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: First Windows Server 2008 member server
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:27 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Is it just industry standard to move away from tape or do I need to buy a 3rd party to keep my tape library alive? While backup-to-disk is certainly a viable and popular solution these days, tape isn't quite dead yet. But Microsoft no longer supports tape in the tools which come with the OS. Perhaps not coincidentally, around the same time as support for tape backup was dropped from Windows, Microsoft introduced their Data Protection Manager product, which *does* support tape. As always, what *you* should do depends on your requirements. You can certainly keep your tape library alive if that's what makes sense for you. There's cost-effective backup software out there. -- 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: Audit service?
Msinfo32 give you very similar information and outputs, but doesn’t list installed software: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300887 I used to use msinfo32 to collect the hardware info for smaller client before I hooked Sysaid into them, which collects hardware/software and changes (very SMS like, but less complex). Free for under 100 computers, has an agent that runs on each box and tracks when hardware/software is added/removed. http://www.ilient.com/freeware.htm As someone else said, sounds like you used Belarc which I used for a little while until I realized it wasn’t free for my uses. Dave From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Audit service? Sure! [cid:image001.jpg@01CBC1D8.5694A530] Try it, you'll like it. Win7 even has a 64bit version. Lots of good info in there. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:51, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.commailto:egold...@gmail.com wrote: DirectX diagnostics, really ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.commailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Audit service? For hardware, a very nice tool is included in the OS: dxdiag You might be able to cobble something together with WMI or perhaps even psinfo for the software. Kurt On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:05, Eric Brouwer ithelp.e...@gmail.commailto:ithelp.e...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Back in the day, I used to use a web based service that audited all our PCs when they logged in. It would gather information such as hardware specs, installed software, IP info, etc. I could then run reports that would show me changes since last month, new computers since last month, etc. Any one know what this might have been called? Any one doing something similar now? It used to be a great tool at budget time. I'd sort my hardware, and budget to replace the worst 15-20% of PCs, and have documentation to back up my recommendations. It also helped with software compliance. If I had 150 Office licenses, I made sure the report showed less. Thanks! Eric ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin inline: image001.jpg
Re: Audit service?
I've used EzAudit, it is a paid software but it will give you everything plus the kitchen sink when you run it. They have a trial download http://www.ezaudit.net/ 50 PCs for $99 ... you can run it on as many as you want but you can only look at 50 audits at a time. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:22 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Msinfo32 give you very similar information and outputs, but doesn’t list installed software: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300887 I used to use msinfo32 to collect the hardware info for smaller client before I hooked Sysaid into them, which collects hardware/software and changes (very SMS like, but less complex). Free for under 100 computers, has an agent that runs on each box and tracks when hardware/software is added/removed. http://www.ilient.com/freeware.htm As someone else said, sounds like you used Belarc which I used for a little while until I realized it wasn’t free for my uses. Dave *From:* Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 31, 2011 4:19 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Audit service? Sure! [image: dxdiag.JPG] Try it, you'll like it. Win7 even has a 64bit version. Lots of good info in there. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:51, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: DirectX diagnostics, really ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Audit service? For hardware, a very nice tool is included in the OS: dxdiag You might be able to cobble something together with WMI or perhaps even psinfo for the software. Kurt On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:05, Eric Brouwer ithelp.e...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Back in the day, I used to use a web based service that audited all our PCs when they logged in. It would gather information such as hardware specs, installed software, IP info, etc. I could then run reports that would show me changes since last month, new computers since last month, etc. Any one know what this might have been called? Any one doing something similar now? It used to be a great tool at budget time. I'd sort my hardware, and budget to replace the worst 15-20% of PCs, and have documentation to back up my recommendations. It also helped with software compliance. If I had 150 Office licenses, I made sure the report showed less. Thanks! Eric ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Some thoughts for your DR Plan
James, Glad to hear things are getting better and back to a sort-of-normal for you. Thanks for taking the time to write down and share your thoughts. I passed your note on to our DR planning team, who appreciated your insights as they say they get great value from hearing real-world experiences such as yours. -Malcolm From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 20:06 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 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) o Furniture for staff o Computers and comms o Power, can the circuits handle the extra load you will be adding to the site? o Bandwidth o Air conditioning/heating .Have remote visibility of your data centre and its surroundings o A 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. o I had a recent backup at my personal residence. It was invaluable in the early stages of our Recovery. .Data restores o Do test restores regularly. Environments change all the time and maybe something hasn't been added to the backup list for that server. o Ensure that you can retrieve critical data quickly. Restores take time. o Tapes - do anything to avoid them, if you have to use them have multiple tape drives available so that restores can be conducted more quickly. o Have backup backup servers. Especially with the tape catalogues available. We saw cataloguing of tapes take 14 hours plus. o Have 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Paging file best practices
What's the current school of thought via size/location of paging files for servers (XenApp servers, to be precise)? I've been working with virtualized systems for so long where the disks no longer actually exist in relation to each other that I haven't thought about this for a long time, but at my new gig they use physical XenApp servers (ProLiant DL360 G6s with 24GB RAM). Is it best to keep the paging file on a separate physical drive, or will simply another partition of a single drive do? Will 1.5x physical RAM still cut the mustard, or is it better to go as initially big as possible (we don't need to save hard drive space, really) These servers are hardly maxing out on physical RAM as it is, but they are hoping to scope for up to 120 users per server so obviously the needs of the systems will increase as time goes by. TIA, -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Paging file best practices
I'm not sure about the specifics as they relate to XenApp, however above 4Gigs in a Windows environment may negate the need for a page file. It depends. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889654 Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. On Feb 1, 2011 10:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: What's the current school of thought via size/location of paging files for servers (XenApp servers, to be precise)? I've been working with virtualized systems for so long where the disks no longer actually exist in relation to each other that I haven't thought about this for a long time, but at my new gig they use physical XenApp servers (ProLiant DL360 G6s with 24GB RAM). Is it best to keep the paging file on a separate physical drive, or will simply another partition of a single drive do? Will 1.5x physical RAM still cut the mustard, or is it better to go as initially big as possible (we don't need to save hard drive space, really) These servers are hardly maxing out on physical RAM as it is, but they are hoping to scope for up to 120 users per server so obviously the needs of the systems will increase as time goes by. TIA, -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Copying large file
This is my last XCOPY /SEVCOYHKDR command. File creation error - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested services. S: drive is an NTFS Raid 5 with 860 GB of space. The file is 57GB on S:. The destination is a 320GB USB drive that has been formatted NTFS. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:50 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: Copying large file Subject: Re: Copying large file I regularly copy my exchange backup file from disk to RDX cartridge using robocopy, and it is about 45 GB. While it is smaller than your file, I've never had a problem with it. What are your results with robocopy? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Haven't tried to compress yet. NTFS. From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:35 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: uc RE: Copying large file Subject: RE: Copying large file Can you compress the file and then copy it? If it is an SQL .bak file it may well compress a lot. What filesystem is that of the USB device? From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 14:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Copying large file I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn't copy the file??? OS: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2 Memory: 4096 MB Processor: 8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor I have read a copy of KB's but they were just saying to take SP1...Well I am on SP2??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com http://www.qinetiq.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Copying large file
Just a wild question, is this a WD Passport? And are you using the original cable with the drive? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: This is my last XCOPY /SEVCOYHKDR command. File creation error – Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested services. S: drive is an NTFS Raid 5 with 860 GB of space. The file is 57GB on S:. The destination is a 320GB USB drive that has been formatted NTFS. *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:50 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* Copying large file *Subject:* Re: Copying large file I regularly copy my exchange backup file from disk to RDX cartridge using robocopy, and it is about 45 GB. While it is smaller than your file, I've never had a problem with it. What are your results with robocopy? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Haven’t tried to compress yet. NTFS. *From:* Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:35 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* uc RE: Copying large file *Subject:* RE: Copying large file Can you compress the file and then copy it? If it is an SQL .bak file it may well compress a lot. What filesystem is that of the USB device? -- *From:* itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] *Sent:* 31 January 2011 14:31 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Copying large file I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn’t copy the file??? *OS:* Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2 *Memory:* 4096 MB *Processor:* 8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor I have read a copy of KB’s but they were just saying to take SP1…Well I am on SP2??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Paging file best practices
I still see lots of paging activity in various applications, due to a number of factors including how they were developed. I will typically create an 8GB paging file on the primary OS partition for 64-bit systems, and be done with that. Of course that means I can never get a full crash dump, should that become necessary. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure about the specifics as they relate to XenApp, however above 4Gigs in a Windows environment may negate the need for a page file. It depends. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889654 Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. On Feb 1, 2011 10:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: What's the current school of thought via size/location of paging files for servers (XenApp servers, to be precise)? I've been working with virtualized systems for so long where the disks no longer actually exist in relation to each other that I haven't thought about this for a long time, but at my new gig they use physical XenApp servers (ProLiant DL360 G6s with 24GB RAM). Is it best to keep the paging file on a separate physical drive, or will simply another partition of a single drive do? Will 1.5x physical RAM still cut the mustard, or is it better to go as initially big as possible (we don't need to save hard drive space, really) These servers are hardly maxing out on physical RAM as it is, but they are hoping to scope for up to 120 users per server so obviously the needs of the systems will increase as time goes by. TIA, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
I ran OpenFiler in production for 8 months due to some budgetary constraints and some general operational deficiencies leftover from my predecessor. I was generally pretty happy with it, and only had one minor issue where one LUN was showing as a RAW drive. I was able to successfully recover the data. It also seemed to be unresilient to changes, but that could be memory playing tricks on me. As I recall, OpenFiler wasn't supporting multiple SCSI reservations at the time, so I couldn't really use it in a VMWare environment, unless each guest was on its own LUN. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I am looking to build a iSCSI on the relatively cheap ($1000). Some poking around on the Internet makes it look like a couple of GbE NIC’s in a PC, said PC with say, 4 SATA drives in RAID10 and OpenFiler ( http://www.openfiler.com/) would get you an iSCSI disk array. Amirite? Throw in a decent GbE switch (is the HP 1400-8G good enough?) and a Vista-later OS systems with 2 NIC’s and you’re set. I think. Vista and later come with a iSCSI initiator. On Hyper-V. Last week I for the first time installed the free 2008 R2 Hyper-V Not a ton to use at the console, but it does have a text-based menu so set NIC properties, machine/domain name, admin accounts, firewall properties, etc. With any luck I’ll be deploying it next week. 2008 R2 Hyper-V can use iSCSI and perform live migration (VMotion for you VMWare types). *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 *From:* Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 31, 2011 8:55 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs Yeah I really like ESXi but somehow the lack of a…..windows-like OS puts me off of it. Something about having a “real” desktop there to do things on in case we need it. Is that mad (or a sign of impending madness) ? -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web:http://www.g2support.com *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] *Sent:* 31 January 2011 16:51 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs Bear in mind that Equalogic = Dell, so your source for the MD3220i should be the same as your source for EQL. Re: HyperV vs ESXi – can’t say much for HyperV as I’ve no real experience with it, but I do know firsthand that EQL does work *very* nicely with ESXi. Jim *From:* Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 31, 2011 11:48 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs Thanks all. Good to know. I’ll spec out the prices for the MD3220i (which appears to the be the UK model) and also speak to Equalogic too. Next up….HyperV or ESXi J -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web:http://www.g2support.com *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 31 January 2011 16:44 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs iSCSI will work just fine for hosting a VM environment, as well as some other workloads. If you already have a FC infrastructure, then that's not a bad reason to go there, but iSCSI is very mature and stable and good performance if you don't purchase the cheapest equipment you can find. First, as others have pointed out, you need to size up your needs... *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Well, there will be maybe 3 VMs running on each host, most likely VM will have a redundant ‘spare’ running on the other physical host. The largest will be about 400GB+ of space running Exchange 2010 for about 100 users. Then perhaps a DC and a file server, and the latter will just be acting as a witness server for the Exchange DAG servers. I like the idea of iSCSI franky but experience of the s*** end of the market has put me off. Saying that the cost of the FC based setup puts me off even more J Olly *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] *Sent:* 31 January 2011 16:26 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs I have 3 MD3000/3200i SANs and they work wonderfully. That being said I found that while the fiber has better throughput (we also have an old 2Gb EMC AX150 fiber SAN) It was a lot more expensive to set up (Fiber switches aren’t cheap) and of course you need some marginal capability in configuring said switch. *John W. Cook* *System Administrator* *Partnership For Strong Families* *5950 NW 1st Place*
RE: Paging file best practices
There are a number of applications (SQL and Exchange among them) that use the paging file as a backing store as opposed to an actual paging file. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Paging file best practices I still see lots of paging activity in various applications, due to a number of factors including how they were developed. I will typically create an 8GB paging file on the primary OS partition for 64-bit systems, and be done with that. Of course that means I can never get a full crash dump, should that become necessary. ASB (My Bio via About.Mehttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.commailto:ncm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure about the specifics as they relate to XenApp, however above 4Gigs in a Windows environment may negate the need for a page file. It depends. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889654 Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. On Feb 1, 2011 10:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: What's the current school of thought via size/location of paging files for servers (XenApp servers, to be precise)? I've been working with virtualized systems for so long where the disks no longer actually exist in relation to each other that I haven't thought about this for a long time, but at my new gig they use physical XenApp servers (ProLiant DL360 G6s with 24GB RAM). Is it best to keep the paging file on a separate physical drive, or will simply another partition of a single drive do? Will 1.5x physical RAM still cut the mustard, or is it better to go as initially big as possible (we don't need to save hard drive space, really) These servers are hardly maxing out on physical RAM as it is, but they are hoping to scope for up to 120 users per server so obviously the needs of the systems will increase as time goes by. TIA, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Copying large file
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: This is my last XCOPY /SEVCOYHKDR command. File creation error – Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested services. S: drive is an NTFS Raid 5 with 860 GB of space. The file is 57GB on S:. The destination is a 320GB USB drive that has been formatted NTFS. I believe the actual error string would be Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service (not singular service, not plural). At least, that's what ERR.EXE tells me. ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES 0x800705AA = 1450 Doing a Google for ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES finds a lot of results, different people having the same trouble under different circumstances. But the common theme is always that Windows is running out of resources -- specifically, certain reserved memory resources used by the kernel to manage buffers/caching. It seems to be common with large I/O operations. In your particular situation, my guess is that the RAID array is way faster than the USB drive, so the source can read data much faster than the target can write it. Presumably, Windows handles this situation poorly, tries to buffer everything, and runs out of fixed resources. The suggestion someone made of compressing the file first is a good one. If that doesn't work, you might try using the /IPG switch (inter-packet gap) to ROBOCOPY. It lets you specify a time delay between packets (which I believe really means I/O system calls). It works for local (non-network) copies, too. By slowing down the rate at which data is written, it might keep Windows from exhausting its resources. -- 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: Copying large file
Robocopy is smart enough to not allow this to happen. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Copying large file On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: This is my last XCOPY /SEVCOYHKDR command. File creation error - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested services. S: drive is an NTFS Raid 5 with 860 GB of space. The file is 57GB on S:. The destination is a 320GB USB drive that has been formatted NTFS. I believe the actual error string would be Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service (not singular service, not plural). At least, that's what ERR.EXE tells me. ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES 0x800705AA = 1450 Doing a Google for ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES finds a lot of results, different people having the same trouble under different circumstances. But the common theme is always that Windows is running out of resources -- specifically, certain reserved memory resources used by the kernel to manage buffers/caching. It seems to be common with large I/O operations. In your particular situation, my guess is that the RAID array is way faster than the USB drive, so the source can read data much faster than the target can write it. Presumably, Windows handles this situation poorly, tries to buffer everything, and runs out of fixed resources. The suggestion someone made of compressing the file first is a good one. If that doesn't work, you might try using the /IPG switch (inter-packet gap) to ROBOCOPY. It lets you specify a time delay between packets (which I believe really means I/O system calls). It works for local (non-network) copies, too. By slowing down the rate at which data is written, it might keep Windows from exhausting its resources. -- 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: Copying large file
Yes and Yes. Passport essentials 320 USB. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:55 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: Copying large file Subject: Re: Copying large file Just a wild question, is this a WD Passport? And are you using the original cable with the drive? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: This is my last XCOPY /SEVCOYHKDR command. File creation error - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested services. S: drive is an NTFS Raid 5 with 860 GB of space. The file is 57GB on S:. The destination is a 320GB USB drive that has been formatted NTFS. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:50 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: Copying large file Subject: Re: Copying large file I regularly copy my exchange backup file from disk to RDX cartridge using robocopy, and it is about 45 GB. While it is smaller than your file, I've never had a problem with it. What are your results with robocopy? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Haven't tried to compress yet. NTFS. From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:35 AM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: uc RE: Copying large file Subject: RE: Copying large file Can you compress the file and then copy it? If it is an SQL .bak file it may well compress a lot. What filesystem is that of the USB device? From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 14:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Copying large file I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn't copy the file??? OS: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2 Memory: 4096 MB Processor: 8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor I have read a copy of KB's but they were just saying to take SP1...Well I am on SP2??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com http://www.qinetiq.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe
Re: Copying large file
I'm going to beat the dead horse. Use robocopy. If it's on the root of the drive, move it to a subfolder... On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:32 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Yes and Yes. Passport essentials 320 USB. *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:55 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* Copying large file *Subject:* Re: Copying large file Just a wild question, is this a WD Passport? And are you using the original cable with the drive? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: This is my last XCOPY /SEVCOYHKDR command. File creation error – Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested services. S: drive is an NTFS Raid 5 with 860 GB of space. The file is 57GB on S:. The destination is a 320GB USB drive that has been formatted NTFS. *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:50 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* Copying large file *Subject:* Re: Copying large file I regularly copy my exchange backup file from disk to RDX cartridge using robocopy, and it is about 45 GB. While it is smaller than your file, I've never had a problem with it. What are your results with robocopy? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Haven’t tried to compress yet. NTFS. *From:* Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:35 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* uc RE: Copying large file *Subject:* RE: Copying large file Can you compress the file and then copy it? If it is an SQL .bak file it may well compress a lot. What filesystem is that of the USB device? -- *From:* itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] *Sent:* 31 January 2011 14:31 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Copying large file I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn’t copy the file??? *OS:* Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2 *Memory:* 4096 MB *Processor:* 8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor I have read a copy of KB’s but they were just saying to take SP1…Well I am on SP2??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful
Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
I use Openfiler in production and am pretty happy with it – two servers, one 42TB and one 21TB (2tb and 1tb disks). Performance has been good. The system is attached to Windows Server hosts, both 2003 and 2008. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:24:35 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs I ran OpenFiler in production for 8 months due to some budgetary constraints and some general operational deficiencies leftover from my predecessor. I was generally pretty happy with it, and only had one minor issue where one LUN was showing as a RAW drive. I was able to successfully recover the data. It also seemed to be unresilient to changes, but that could be memory playing tricks on me. As I recall, OpenFiler wasn't supporting multiple SCSI reservations at the time, so I couldn't really use it in a VMWare environment, unless each guest was on its own LUN. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: I am looking to build a iSCSI on the relatively cheap ($1000). Some poking around on the Internet makes it look like a couple of GbE NIC’s in a PC, said PC with say, 4 SATA drives in RAID10 and OpenFiler (http://www.openfiler.com/) would get you an iSCSI disk array. Amirite? Throw in a decent GbE switch (is the HP 1400-8G good enough?) and a Vista-later OS systems with 2 NIC’s and you’re set. I think. Vista and later come with a iSCSI initiator. On Hyper-V. Last week I for the first time installed the free 2008 R2 Hyper-V Not a ton to use at the console, but it does have a text-based menu so set NIC properties, machine/domain name, admin accounts, firewall properties, etc. With any luck I’ll be deploying it next week. 2008 R2 Hyper-V can use iSCSI and perform live migration (VMotion for you VMWare types). David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs Yeah I really like ESXi but somehow the lack of a…..windows-like OS puts me off of it. Something about having a “real” desktop there to do things on in case we need it. Is that mad (or a sign of impending madness) ? -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web:http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.commailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 16:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs Bear in mind that Equalogic = Dell, so your source for the MD3220i should be the same as your source for EQL. Re: HyperV vs ESXi – can’t say much for HyperV as I’ve no real experience with it, but I do know firsthand that EQL does work very nicely with ESXi. Jim From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs Thanks all. Good to know. I’ll spec out the prices for the MD3220i (which appears to the be the UK model) and also speak to Equalogic too. Next up….HyperV or ESXi :) -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web:http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 16:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs iSCSI will work just fine for hosting a VM environment, as well as some other workloads. If you already have a FC infrastructure, then that's not a bad reason to go there, but iSCSI is very mature and stable and good performance if you don't purchase the cheapest equipment you can find. First, as others have pointed out, you need to size up your needs... ASB (My Bio via About.Mehttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Well, there will be maybe 3 VMs running on each host, most likely VM will have a redundant ‘spare’ running on the other physical host. The largest will be about 400GB+ of space running Exchange 2010 for about 100
Re: Intel developing security 'game-changer'
Scott, Your response points out things that I already pointed out in my response. Yes, there are specific scenarios where whitelisting does not prevent an attack. Even then, it still affords additional opportunities to mitigate exploitation of the vulnerability. Additionally, there are many other scenarios where whitelisting addresses a weakness of blacklisting. So you still come out ahead.Please note my comments about vendor facilitation of granular feature control to mitigate the types of problems that you are focusing on. Now, let's look at how the vulnerabilities you mention are actually exploited. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability - http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=992 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-001.mspx By getting someone to open up a specially crafted data file (via web, email, file share, etc), you can cause the primary application to spawn your executable (which is hidden in the data file) -- typically with all the rights of the spawning app. Now, depending on how such an application is initiated, it may not spawn as a child process, but as its own process. If it spawns as a child process, then whitelisting may or may not help. But, as its own process, it would fail to be initiated -- even in a zero day scenario for which no signatures exist. Even if this is only in 50% of the zero-day situations, you're still protected to a much greater degree than via signatures alone. *Antimalware signatures are generally produced much more rapidly than an application patch. So, while a zero day flaw may take a week (optimistic) to patch, the AV vendors could be blocking all .txt files containing the offending string of bits.* Which doesn't take into account all the effort that malware writers put into their work to ensure that offending string of bits is obfuscated. Even if it takes the signature writers a mere 24 hours to: - figure out all the combinations of bad bits - test and validate the fix - make the fix available to their distribution mechanisms - get your systems to pick them up That's still a long time for a zero-day infection to do its work. And, having worked with a number of AV vendors on zero-day scenarios, 2-3 days is not unreasonable for reverse engineering a good exploit. Where does that leave your systems which are only relying on a list of bad things to block? *Agreed…for the time being. But, if we were to flip a magic switch and swap to a predominantly white-list based environment, the most common exploitation vectors would switch to exploiting white-listed .exes through buffer overflows or other methods of tricking an .exe to doing more than displaying data in a data file.* I'm not sure where you have gotten this idea that buffer overflow and executable data exploits involve making the parent application do new tricks. All they do is get the parent application to run new code of the attackers choice, and in many cases, that code is subject to running in its own environment -- thus, blockable in a whitelisting scenario. I've experienced several examples of this during my testing of what later became Cisco's CSA product, and eEye's Blink! Here's a good article to read: http://www.intelligentwhitelisting.com/blog/problem-vulnerable-whitelisted-application-part-ii *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: Inline, but here’s some opening comments J White-listing .exes does nothing to stop attacks like .wmf and .jpg vulnerabilities below. http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/attacksignatures/detail.jsp?asid=21526 http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-091516-5119-99tabid=2 While these may be currently patched and/or low risk, I think they server to illustrate my point. Note that AV signatures detect the badness in them before Microsoft patched the offending executable. Also note that under all but the most restrictive white-listing campaign, the code that processes .wmf and .jpg would be allowed. Again, please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not saying white-listing is without its advantages. I’m simply saying that it’s not a solution to stop malware. Impair it? Yes. Stop some of it? Yes. But, the primary reason it stops some and even most current malware is because it’s not very popular yet. *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 31, 2011 2:47 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Intel developing security 'game-changer' *There are MORE good files that I want to use than bad that I want to block. * Except that most of those good files won't get executed if you stop a more limited number of other executables from launching. My concern is infected data files that are associated with a
Re: W3K R2 x64, read-only SAN volumes and ridiculously long boot-up time
Have you looked at the eventlog to see if there are any errors recorded there? *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Markko Meriniit markko.merin...@pria.eewrote: Hello, we have W3K R2 x64 fileserver which has mounted some volumes from two SAN's over fibre. Boot and windows file volumes are read/write and some volumes are read-only(it's the SAN box setting) because there are Vsphere virtual machine files in these volumes(VMFS file system) and Networker needs them to be accessible so that it can do backups. Problem is the windows boot-up time which today was longer than one hour. After that I just powered server off, unmounted all six read-only volumes and after that it came up within five minutes. Usually the delay isn't so long, server comes up within 20-30 minutes, but today the delay was extra long. And the long delay started after read-only volumes were mounted from SAN(Automounting is disabled with diskpart automount disable). Nothing is written to event log and even the safe mode failed to came up within reasonable amount of time. Windows stays in some undetermined state. We can ping it but nothing else works. As the unmounting the read-only volumes helped I am inclined to think that there is some problems with windows and read-only volumes. It can't determine that they are read-ony and wants to do something with them? But I really don't want to say to SAN box that map this LUN with R/W rights. I am not sure that the windows won't write something then to these unknown partitions when I use Disk management for example. Has anyone some experiences with similar situation? Regards, Markko ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
Why not just get a cheap NAS for each location? If that seems to cost prohibitive for 50+ locations, why not install Windows Live Sync (or DropBox, etc) on each of the machines under the same account? All files would be transfered to ALL sites whenever you put it on a single machine. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Durf stygm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
Or... Robocopy and scheduled tasks. Dave From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Why not just get a cheap NAS for each location? If that seems to cost prohibitive for 50+ locations, why not install Windows Live Sync (or DropBox, etc) on each of the machines under the same account? All files would be transfered to ALL sites whenever you put it on a single machine. ASB (My Bio via About.Mehttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Durf stygm...@gmail.commailto:stygm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: W3K R2 x64, read-only SAN volumes and ridiculously long boot-up time
I believe he mentions there is nothing in the event log. Not so sure this will help, but if you have diskperf enabled ( -y ) then diskperf will attempt a single write operation on even read only volumes. I believe in windows 2003 the default is diskperf -y. We had this issue when transitioning from Windows 200 to Windows 2003 with a weird SAN app and read only volumes. The diskperf write test (even on read only volumes) would blue screen our systems. Hitachi SANs for the .. well for the something unpleasant. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at the eventlog to see if there are any errors recorded there? *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Markko Meriniit markko.merin...@pria.eewrote: Hello, we have W3K R2 x64 fileserver which has mounted some volumes from two SAN's over fibre. Boot and windows file volumes are read/write and some volumes are read-only(it's the SAN box setting) because there are Vsphere virtual machine files in these volumes(VMFS file system) and Networker needs them to be accessible so that it can do backups. Problem is the windows boot-up time which today was longer than one hour. After that I just powered server off, unmounted all six read-only volumes and after that it came up within five minutes. Usually the delay isn't so long, server comes up within 20-30 minutes, but today the delay was extra long. And the long delay started after read-only volumes were mounted from SAN(Automounting is disabled with diskpart automount disable). Nothing is written to event log and even the safe mode failed to came up within reasonable amount of time. Windows stays in some undetermined state. We can ping it but nothing else works. As the unmounting the read-only volumes helped I am inclined to think that there is some problems with windows and read-only volumes. It can't determine that they are read-ony and wants to do something with them? But I really don't want to say to SAN box that map this LUN with R/W rights. I am not sure that the windows won't write something then to these unknown partitions when I use Disk management for example. Has anyone some experiences with similar situation? Regards, Markko ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Paging file best practices
We used to do the 1.5 times size of ram here, but since windows 2008 we stopped mucking around with the settings on most of our servers. If some specific server has needs, the assigned engineer will look at it on an individual basis but frankly it's just not something to really worry about for 95% of our servers. The remaining 5% are either high performance apps or old systems held together with duct tape and hope (as in hope you are not on call when it finally dies a horrible death). Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: There are a number of applications (SQL and Exchange among them) that use the paging file as a “backing store” as opposed to an actual paging file. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:11 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Paging file best practices I still see lots of paging activity in various applications, due to a number of factors including how they were developed. I will typically create an 8GB paging file on the primary OS partition for 64-bit systems, and be done with that. Of course that means I can never get a full crash dump, should that become necessary. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure about the specifics as they relate to XenApp, however above 4Gigs in a Windows environment may negate the need for a page file. It depends. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889654 Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. On Feb 1, 2011 10:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: What's the current school of thought via size/location of paging files for servers (XenApp servers, to be precise)? I've been working with virtualized systems for so long where the disks no longer actually exist in relation to each other that I haven't thought about this for a long time, but at my new gig they use physical XenApp servers (ProLiant DL360 G6s with 24GB RAM). Is it best to keep the paging file on a separate physical drive, or will simply another partition of a single drive do? Will 1.5x physical RAM still cut the mustard, or is it better to go as initially big as possible (we don't need to save hard drive space, really) These servers are hardly maxing out on physical RAM as it is, but they are hoping to scope for up to 120 users per server so obviously the needs of the systems will increase as time goes by. TIA, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: First Windows Server 2008 member server
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 06:02, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:27 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Is it just industry standard to move away from tape or do I need to buy a 3rd party to keep my tape library alive? While backup-to-disk is certainly a viable and popular solution these days, tape isn't quite dead yet. But Microsoft no longer supports tape in the tools which come with the OS. Perhaps not coincidentally, around the same time as support for tape backup was dropped from Windows, Microsoft introduced their Data Protection Manager product, which *does* support tape. As always, what *you* should do depends on your requirements. You can certainly keep your tape library alive if that's what makes sense for you. There's cost-effective backup software out there. -- Ben Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. pp. 83. ISBN 0-13-349945-6. And that was considered an old saw by then... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Copying large file
Agreed. I'd also be interested to know what the pagefile configuration on this box is... *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I'm going to beat the dead horse. Use robocopy. If it's on the root of the drive, move it to a subfolder... On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:32 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.comwrote: Yes and Yes. Passport essentials 320 USB. *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:55 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* Copying large file *Subject:* Re: Copying large file Just a wild question, is this a WD Passport? And are you using the original cable with the drive? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: This is my last XCOPY /SEVCOYHKDR command. File creation error – Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested services. S: drive is an NTFS Raid 5 with 860 GB of space. The file is 57GB on S:. The destination is a 320GB USB drive that has been formatted NTFS. *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:50 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* Copying large file *Subject:* Re: Copying large file I regularly copy my exchange backup file from disk to RDX cartridge using robocopy, and it is about 45 GB. While it is smaller than your file, I've never had a problem with it. What are your results with robocopy? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Haven’t tried to compress yet. NTFS. *From:* Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] *Posted At:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:35 AM *Posted To:* itli...@imcu.com *Conversation:* uc RE: Copying large file *Subject:* RE: Copying large file Can you compress the file and then copy it? If it is an SQL .bak file it may well compress a lot. What filesystem is that of the USB device? -- *From:* itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] *Sent:* 31 January 2011 14:31 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Copying large file I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn’t copy the file??? *OS:* Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2 *Memory:* 4096 MB *Processor:* 8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor I have read a copy of KB’s but they were just saying to take SP1…Well I am on SP2??? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
For that many sites, I'd like something else handle all the replication rather than scripts. And I really like scripting. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Or… Robocopy and scheduled tasks. Dave *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:03 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Why not just get a cheap NAS for each location? If that seems to cost prohibitive for 50+ locations, why not install Windows Live Sync (or DropBox, etc) on each of the machines under the same account? All files would be transfered to ALL sites whenever you put it on a single machine. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Durf stygm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Copying large file
Late arrival, sorry What app are you using to copy? It sounds as if you are hitting a 32-bit limitation of some sort. -- ME2 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:30 AM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5 drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn’t copy the file??? What is the **EXACT** error message you get? Copy it verbatim. (Copy-and-paste if possible.) As others have suggested, try ROBOCOPY. If nothing else, it gives better diagnostics than most things. Check Event Viewer for anything related to the disk subsystem or filesystem drivers. CHKDSK the source drive; make sure the filesystem is good. If you run out of ideas: Try CHKDSK /R on the source drive. It will likely take several or more hours, but it will confirm the disk and the interface is good. -- 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: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
Yes, I've seen your knowledgebase... :-) On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: For that many sites, I'd like something else handle all the replication rather than scripts. And I really like scripting. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Or… Robocopy and scheduled tasks. Dave *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:03 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Why not just get a cheap NAS for each location? If that seems to cost prohibitive for 50+ locations, why not install Windows Live Sync (or DropBox, etc) on each of the machines under the same account? All files would be transfered to ALL sites whenever you put it on a single machine. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Durf stygm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
This sounds exactly like the description of the BranchCache feature in Win7/2008R2... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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
WSUS - XP Clients not getting GPO settings
I'm testing WSUS 3.0 but I'm having a problem getting XP clients to use the WSUS server instead of MS Updates. I believe I have the WSUS server setup correctly since Windows 7 PCs are getting the GPO update to use the WSUS server and they are seeing the updates offered on the WSUS server. When I setup XP PCs to get the WSUS GPO config, they continue to access the MS Windows Update website. Another thing I've tried is using the local policy to configure the redirect to the WSUS server. If I do this on a Windows 7 PC, it works. If I do the same thing on a Windows XP PC, it doesn't. All the XP Pcs are SP3. Am I missing some kind of optional Windows XP update to make this work? -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
Doesn't sound like he's using any servers, though... *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote: *This sounds exactly like the description of the BranchCache feature in Win7/2008R2…* * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:17 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Audit service?
Bingo! ezaudit was what we used. Thanks! And thanks to everyone else for the suggestions. Lots of good stuff to try here. Much appreciated. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Kelli Sterley kjsterley.li...@gmail.comwrote: I've used EzAudit, it is a paid software but it will give you everything plus the kitchen sink when you run it. They have a trial download http://www.ezaudit.net/ 50 PCs for $99 ... you can run it on as many as you want but you can only look at 50 audits at a time. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:22 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Msinfo32 give you very similar information and outputs, but doesn’t list installed software: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300887 I used to use msinfo32 to collect the hardware info for smaller client before I hooked Sysaid into them, which collects hardware/software and changes (very SMS like, but less complex). Free for under 100 computers, has an agent that runs on each box and tracks when hardware/software is added/removed. http://www.ilient.com/freeware.htm As someone else said, sounds like you used Belarc which I used for a little while until I realized it wasn’t free for my uses. Dave *From:* Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 31, 2011 4:19 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Audit service? Sure! [image: dxdiag.JPG] Try it, you'll like it. Win7 even has a 64bit version. Lots of good info in there. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:51, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: DirectX diagnostics, really ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Audit service? For hardware, a very nice tool is included in the OS: dxdiag You might be able to cobble something together with WMI or perhaps even psinfo for the software. Kurt On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:05, Eric Brouwer ithelp.e...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Back in the day, I used to use a web based service that audited all our PCs when they logged in. It would gather information such as hardware specs, installed software, IP info, etc. I could then run reports that would show me changes since last month, new computers since last month, etc. Any one know what this might have been called? Any one doing something similar now? It used to be a great tool at budget time. I'd sort my hardware, and budget to replace the worst 15-20% of PCs, and have documentation to back up my recommendations. It also helped with software compliance. If I had 150 Office licenses, I made sure the report showed less. Thanks! Eric ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage
RE: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
I believe Win7 offers this sans server side requirement. BranchCache caches content from remote file and Web servers in the branch location so that users can more quickly access this information. The cache can be hosted centrally on a server in the branch location, or can be distributed across user PCs. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd573290 Dave From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Doesn't sound like he's using any servers, though... ASB (My Bio via About.Mehttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com wrote: This sounds exactly like the description of the BranchCache feature in Win7/2008R2... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.commailto:stygm...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: http://aws.amazon.com/
+1 This is where we do all our new development, and will roll out the production infrastructure as well. See: http://www.knowbe4.com/ Warm regards, Stu -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: http://aws.amazon.com/ I've done a bunch of work with the AWS stuff. While it is a good system and allows for some pretty cool fast provisioning, it's not without its pain points. When you combine it with the S3 storage and a backup app like Cloudberry, it can let you do a lot of cool things. If you are working on web-type stuff that has to be tested from outside, it's invaluable. You can set it up, firewall it, and let your developers and anyone else pound on it with no risks to your inside network. As with any new technology, there are gotchas and plenty things that need to be done correctly to avoid coffin corners down the road. Doing domain stuff can be a bit tricky due to time/Kerberos/reboot issues, but I've done it successfully. If all your access is internal, and you already have a VM infrastructure, you probably won't gain much. It is neat to be able to spin up a high-performance server in seconds without worrying about hitting your underlying infrastructure too hard. But that comes with a $ price, too. For me, the bottom line is that it is definitely worth a look to see if it solves a problem... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: http://aws.amazon.com/ My boss' boss floating it to use because a developer got their boss's ear. My reply was what business requirement does this meet?. We do already have a VMWare lab manager which I think does essentially this already. Bottom line is I was directly asked to comment on it, but I have no direct link in the chain of this product getting used or not. I am however in good seats with people that can influence this or not (else that doc wouldn't have made it to me at all). David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: http://aws.amazon.com/ What was the nature of the request? AWS is great for giving access to developers who need to put things together quickly (for prototypes, etc) which will need broad external access. Allows you to focus more on requests that are fleshed out and heading for production, or that require quick turn- up/tear-down times. ASB (My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio ) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:46 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: This just got put in my lap for comments and thoughts. Kneejerk says why - we already have infrastructure here.. Although throwing our developers into this gets them off my environment that, while appealing, isn't the right reason to consider such an action. Thoughts/comments about the service? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
web content filtering in the SMB
Hey guys, I was just quoting renewals for a sonicwall firewall for a client. They use the built-in, licenseable content filtering built into the firewall. It looks like SW raised the price and it is bumping $1,000 for this feature for a 25 person office. Do you think that money could be spent elsewhere with another filtering product to get better ROI? Really, they just think they need to have this in place to block employees from the seedy places. I would like a solution that helps avoid malware and I don't think the SW content filtering does a thing to help avoid malware. Do you have any other suggestions that are in the same ballpark and are low maintenance/administration time? Thanks. bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: web content filtering in the SMB
iPrism Extremely low admin/maint time. Can be a big pill to swallow up front, though they will work with you on pricing. -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: web content filtering in the SMB Hey guys, I was just quoting renewals for a sonicwall firewall for a client. They use the built-in, licenseable content filtering built into the firewall. It looks like SW raised the price and it is bumping $1,000 for this feature for a 25 person office. Do you think that money could be spent elsewhere with another filtering product to get better ROI? Really, they just think they need to have this in place to block employees from the seedy places. I would like a solution that helps avoid malware and I don't think the SW content filtering does a thing to help avoid malware. Do you have any other suggestions that are in the same ballpark and are low maintenance/administration time? Thanks. bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: WSUS - XP Clients not getting GPO settings
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Bob Hartung bhart...@wiscoind.com wrote: When I setup XP PCs to get the WSUS GPO config, they continue to access the MS Windows Update website. Use GPRESULT (CLI) or RSOP.MSC (GUI) to make sure the policy is actually applying properly. This applies even for the machine-local GPO. Check C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log for clues. Am I missing some kind of optional Windows XP update to make this work? We don't have to install anything special to get XP SP3 to honor our WSUS GPO. The GPO settings we use are: Computer Config - Admin Templates - Windows Components - Windows Update Config Auto Updates = Enabled, 4 (Auto download schedule install), 0 (Every day), 4:00 AM Specify intranet service location = Enabled, http://foo [where foo is the name of our WSUS server] Reschedule installs = 60 minutes No auto-restart = Disabled Auto Update detect freq = 22 hours Allow immediate install = Enabled -- 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: Getting Rid of CAT5?
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone had any luck getting a scrapyard to pay for this stuff? It is copper after all… Yes. There's a local scrapyard that pays by the pound for scrap cable. With insulation still on, it's not very much, but it's better than nothing. It's been a while, but I think it's something like 40 cents/pound. This will doubtless vary considerably by region and luck. Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! I'll see your CAT5 and raise you CAT3, thinnet, 25-, 50-, and 100-pair telco cables, lamp cord, Twinax, serial, DECNET, and crap I can't even identify. The joys of working in a 100 year old building. FYI: 100-pair cable is frelling heavy, and difficult to cut. -- 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: Getting Rid of CAT5?
You need a fair amount of wire to get any amount of copper. According to this site 24 gauge copper wire of 817.7 feet weighs one pound. Divided by 8 (strands in cat 5) yields a little more than 102 feet needed to get a pound of copper. Then discount that price based on all the insullation that needs to be used. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone had any luck getting a scrapyard to pay for this stuff? It is copper after all… I just pulled all the wire out of a bunch of offices, and we just re-wired our space. Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! I have mountains of excess wire I want to get rid of. Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Getting Rid of CAT5?
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: You need a fair amount of wire to get any amount of copper. According to this site 24 gauge copper wire of 817.7 feet weighs one pound. Divided by 8 (strands in cat 5) yields a little more than 102 feet needed to get a pound of copper. Then discount that price based on all the insullation that needs to be used. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone had any luck getting a scrapyard to pay for this stuff? It is copper after all… I just pulled all the wire out of a bunch of offices, and we just re-wired our space. Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! I have mountains of excess wire I want to get rid of. Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Getting Rid of CAT5?
Argh... http://www.interfacebus.com/Copper_Wire_AWG_SIze.html There's the site, gmail decided to freak out and send a couple of messages on me... On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: You need a fair amount of wire to get any amount of copper. According to this site 24 gauge copper wire of 817.7 feet weighs one pound. Divided by 8 (strands in cat 5) yields a little more than 102 feet needed to get a pound of copper. Then discount that price based on all the insullation that needs to be used. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone had any luck getting a scrapyard to pay for this stuff? It is copper after all… I just pulled all the wire out of a bunch of offices, and we just re-wired our space. Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! I have mountains of excess wire I want to get rid of. Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: web content filtering in the SMB
What model SonicWall do you have? You will also get malware protection on the SonicWall if you purchase a bundle that has content filtering and gateway AV protection. Have you had a look at www.firewalls.com ( http://www.firewalls.com/sonicwall/sonicwall-firewall/sonicwall-nsa-series/sonicwall-nsa-240) An NSA 240 bundle with all the UTM/CFS/IPS addons included only runs $1,391 for a year, and subscription renewals look to start at $582 for 1 year. We have a couple of these in a failover pair and they work fine. The CFS stuff isn't very granular, and the concept of allowing users to manually override filtering for a short period of time isn't something that SonicWall seems to have considered, but we worked around the limitations successfully. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.comwrote: Hey guys, I was just quoting renewals for a sonicwall firewall for a client. They use the built-in, licenseable content filtering built into the firewall. It looks like SW raised the price and it is bumping $1,000 for this feature for a 25 person office. Do you think that money could be spent elsewhere with another filtering product to get better ROI? Really, they just think they need to have this in place to block employees from the seedy places. I would like a solution that helps avoid malware and I don't think the SW content filtering does a thing to help avoid malware. Do you have any other suggestions that are in the same ballpark and are low maintenance/administration time? Thanks. bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: web content filtering in the SMB
I’m a big fan of WebMarshal. Out of the box settings are good and it’s highly configurable and very easy to use. You can plug in a bunch of different AV/Malware scanners. http://www.m86security.com/products/web_security/webmarshal.asp Give the free trial a go. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 7:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: web content filtering in the SMB What model SonicWall do you have? You will also get malware protection on the SonicWall if you purchase a bundle that has content filtering and gateway AV protection. Have you had a look at www.firewalls.comhttp://www.firewalls.com (http://www.firewalls.com/sonicwall/sonicwall-firewall/sonicwall-nsa-series/sonicwall-nsa-240) An NSA 240 bundle with all the UTM/CFS/IPS addons included only runs $1,391 for a year, and subscription renewals look to start at $582 for 1 year. We have a couple of these in a failover pair and they work fine. The CFS stuff isn't very granular, and the concept of allowing users to manually override filtering for a short period of time isn't something that SonicWall seems to have considered, but we worked around the limitations successfully. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.commailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote: Hey guys, I was just quoting renewals for a sonicwall firewall for a client. They use the built-in, licenseable content filtering built into the firewall. It looks like SW raised the price and it is bumping $1,000 for this feature for a 25 person office. Do you think that money could be spent elsewhere with another filtering product to get better ROI? Really, they just think they need to have this in place to block employees from the seedy places. I would like a solution that helps avoid malware and I don't think the SW content filtering does a thing to help avoid malware. Do you have any other suggestions that are in the same ballpark and are low maintenance/administration time? Thanks. bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Getting Rid of CAT5?
Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! 22? That's half a lab! Sm:)e. Sorry, I couldn't resist. It seems like I wire a new lab, or re-wire an old one, every year here. It's not uncommon for us to pull 16 lines at a time, and do that 2 or three times. Oh, and why did you pull out the Cat-5? Did you need gigabit to each desktop? I hope you pulled Cat6A or better for the future. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Getting Rid of CAT5?
Oh, and why did you pull out the Cat-5? Turning our old server room and a bunch of offices back over to the building to lease out. We moved into some new space. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Getting Rid of CAT5? Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! 22? That's half a lab! Sm:)e. Sorry, I couldn't resist. It seems like I wire a new lab, or re-wire an old one, every year here. It's not uncommon for us to pull 16 lines at a time, and do that 2 or three times. Oh, and why did you pull out the Cat-5? Did you need gigabit to each desktop? I hope you pulled Cat6A or better for the future. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: web content filtering in the SMB
It's a 2040. Richard Stovall wrote: What model SonicWall do you have? You will also get malware protection on the SonicWall if you purchase a bundle that has content filtering and gateway AV protection. Have you had a look at www.firewalls.com http://www.firewalls.com (http://www.firewalls.com/sonicwall/sonicwall-firewall/sonicwall-nsa-series/sonicwall-nsa-240) An NSA 240 bundle with all the UTM/CFS/IPS addons included only runs $1,391 for a year, and subscription renewals look to start at $582 for 1 year. We have a couple of these in a failover pair and they work fine. The CFS stuff isn't very granular, and the concept of allowing users to manually override filtering for a short period of time isn't something that SonicWall seems to have considered, but we worked around the limitations successfully. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote: Hey guys, I was just quoting renewals for a sonicwall firewall for a client. They use the built-in, licenseable content filtering built into the firewall. It looks like SW raised the price and it is bumping $1,000 for this feature for a 25 person office. Do you think that money could be spent elsewhere with another filtering product to get better ROI? Really, they just think they need to have this in place to block employees from the seedy places. I would like a solution that helps avoid malware and I don't think the SW content filtering does a thing to help avoid malware. Do you have any other suggestions that are in the same ballpark and are low maintenance/administration time? Thanks. bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto: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 mailto: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: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
Interesting - I'll look into that more. Thanks for all your input while I was struggling through the snow, all. The client is a property management firm, and the quality and equipment available at each site...varies widely. These are small rental offices and apartment complexes and so forth, connected by VPN to home base, and most of their apps are web-based, so the site bandwidth also tends to be low. Anything that runs under a user profile (Dropbox, Windows Live) can't necessarily be counted upon, as access to a particular desktop is spotty at any given time. We use Kaseya for management, so I'm looking to maximize that with a scriptable solution that doesn't require anything to be running in userland. Do Dropbox or Live Sync run a true background sync as a service, or does the sync run as a user process? I can set them up under a service account, but if they require the profile to be logged in to sync I'd be out of luck. They are starting to pick up Windows 7 though, so BranchCache may be an option for some sites. We're pushing for a cheap LinkStation at each site, but purchases unfortunately require approval from each site manager, as the property management company doesn't technically own each site, just manages it. Thanks all! -- Durf On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I believe Win7 offers this sans server side requirement. “ BranchCache caches content from remote file and Web servers in the branch location so that users can more quickly access this information. The cache can be hosted centrally on a server in the branch location, or can be distributed across user PCs.” http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd573290 Dave *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:32 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Doesn't sound like he's using any servers, though... *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: *This sounds exactly like the description of the BranchCache feature in Win7/2008R2…* * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:17 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
Re: Getting Rid of CAT5?
Typical for a state agency, at least here in Florida. I got some stuff from an Office of the Attorney General's office that was moving to new space. The System Admin was sent an email followed by a printed signed memo telling him he was to remove EVERYTHING the state had paid to be installed in the space. When asked about damage to the walls due to removal of copper wire he was told in writing they did not care just get it out. It took him and two others two days to pull all the copper wire out move it to the new space and then he was told to pitch it in the dumpster. He told me the space was a mess holes in the walls from removal of jacks some broken roof tiles. The end result was he had a lot of networking stuff to get rid of and copper wire to dump in a dumpster. I got all but the copper wire. Jon On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, and why did you pull out the Cat-5? Turning our old server room and a bunch of offices back over to the building to lease out. We moved into some new space. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Getting Rid of CAT5? Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! 22? That's half a lab! Sm:)e. Sorry, I couldn't resist. It seems like I wire a new lab, or re-wire an old one, every year here. It's not uncommon for us to pull 16 lines at a time, and do that 2 or three times. Oh, and why did you pull out the Cat-5? Did you need gigabit to each desktop? I hope you pulled Cat6A or better for the future. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
Live Sync certainly runs in the context of the logged on user as it lives in the tray and needs a Live ID signin. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Interesting - I'll look into that more. Thanks for all your input while I was struggling through the snow, all. The client is a property management firm, and the quality and equipment available at each site...varies widely. These are small rental offices and apartment complexes and so forth, connected by VPN to home base, and most of their apps are web-based, so the site bandwidth also tends to be low. Anything that runs under a user profile (Dropbox, Windows Live) can't necessarily be counted upon, as access to a particular desktop is spotty at any given time. We use Kaseya for management, so I'm looking to maximize that with a scriptable solution that doesn't require anything to be running in userland. Do Dropbox or Live Sync run a true background sync as a service, or does the sync run as a user process? I can set them up under a service account, but if they require the profile to be logged in to sync I'd be out of luck. They are starting to pick up Windows 7 though, so BranchCache may be an option for some sites. We're pushing for a cheap LinkStation at each site, but purchases unfortunately require approval from each site manager, as the property management company doesn't technically own each site, just manages it. Thanks all! -- Durf On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: I believe Win7 offers this sans server side requirement. BranchCache caches content from remote file and Web servers in the branch location so that users can more quickly access this information. The cache can be hosted centrally on a server in the branch location, or can be distributed across user PCs. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd573290 Dave From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Doesn't sound like he's using any servers, though... ASB (My Bio via About.Mehttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com wrote: This sounds exactly like the description of the BranchCache feature in Win7/2008R2... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.commailto:stygm...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?
Drop box runs within the user process. How big or how many data files are you dealing with, though? Only the changed bits are transmitted, so the sync process for Dropbox is very quick. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Durf stygm...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting - I'll look into that more. Thanks for all your input while I was struggling through the snow, all. The client is a property management firm, and the quality and equipment available at each site...varies widely. These are small rental offices and apartment complexes and so forth, connected by VPN to home base, and most of their apps are web-based, so the site bandwidth also tends to be low. Anything that runs under a user profile (Dropbox, Windows Live) can't necessarily be counted upon, as access to a particular desktop is spotty at any given time. We use Kaseya for management, so I'm looking to maximize that with a scriptable solution that doesn't require anything to be running in userland. Do Dropbox or Live Sync run a true background sync as a service, or does the sync run as a user process? I can set them up under a service account, but if they require the profile to be logged in to sync I'd be out of luck. They are starting to pick up Windows 7 though, so BranchCache may be an option for some sites. We're pushing for a cheap LinkStation at each site, but purchases unfortunately require approval from each site manager, as the property management company doesn't technically own each site, just manages it. Thanks all! -- Durf On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I believe Win7 offers this sans server side requirement. “ BranchCache caches content from remote file and Web servers in the branch location so that users can more quickly access this information. The cache can be hosted centrally on a server in the branch location, or can be distributed across user PCs.” http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd573290 Dave *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:32 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Doesn't sound like he's using any servers, though... *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: *This sounds exactly like the description of the BranchCache feature in Win7/2008R2…* * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:17 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* File distribution with local peer to peer feature? Hi all; I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look to the peer file server for the file. In my ideal, the file server would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The process would be something like: 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local network. 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. 4. If no, a file server is elected and downloads the file. 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a
RE: web content filtering in the SMB
I’m biased, but: http://www.gfi.com/internet-monitoring-software From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: web content filtering in the SMB I’m a big fan of WebMarshal. Out of the box settings are good and it’s highly configurable and very easy to use. You can plug in a bunch of different AV/Malware scanners. http://www.m86security.com/products/web_security/webmarshal.asp Give the free trial a go. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 7:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: web content filtering in the SMB What model SonicWall do you have? You will also get malware protection on the SonicWall if you purchase a bundle that has content filtering and gateway AV protection. Have you had a look at www.firewalls.comhttp://www.firewalls.com (http://www.firewalls.com/sonicwall/sonicwall-firewall/sonicwall-nsa-series/sonicwall-nsa-240) An NSA 240 bundle with all the UTM/CFS/IPS addons included only runs $1,391 for a year, and subscription renewals look to start at $582 for 1 year. We have a couple of these in a failover pair and they work fine. The CFS stuff isn't very granular, and the concept of allowing users to manually override filtering for a short period of time isn't something that SonicWall seems to have considered, but we worked around the limitations successfully. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.commailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote: Hey guys, I was just quoting renewals for a sonicwall firewall for a client. They use the built-in, licenseable content filtering built into the firewall. It looks like SW raised the price and it is bumping $1,000 for this feature for a 25 person office. Do you think that money could be spent elsewhere with another filtering product to get better ROI? Really, they just think they need to have this in place to block employees from the seedy places. I would like a solution that helps avoid malware and I don't think the SW content filtering does a thing to help avoid malware. Do you have any other suggestions that are in the same ballpark and are low maintenance/administration time? Thanks. bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Getting Rid of CAT5?
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 14:05, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! 22? That's half a lab! Sm:)e. Sorry, I couldn't resist. It seems like I wire a new lab, or re-wire an old one, every year here. It's not uncommon for us to pull 16 lines at a time, and do that 2 or three times. Oh, and why did you pull out the Cat-5? Did you need gigabit to each desktop? I hope you pulled Cat6A or better for the future. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District Lease contract issues aside, State and local code nowadays sometimes specifies that old cable must be pulled when new cable is run. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Scope Documents
Hi All, After recently being burned by a client/project, I'm trying to come with a new and better scope document. Could you please review the sample below and provide feedback for things that are missing? I'm specifically looking for assumptions and disclaimers that would be important to include in almost any scope document. Shawn === Project Scope Document Purpose: Describe in simple terms what the project is all about. Project Activities: (steps needed to complete project) for example: - Upgrade firmware and drivers on the new servers - Install Windows 2008 R2 on both servers - Install Exchange 2010 etc. Project Deliverables: (What are we going to build) - A working email server Project Completion: (The project is complete when) - Email from the Internet reaches each mailbox Project Assumptions All requested software will run correctly. Workstations are free of viruses, spy-ware or other defects that would prevent them from being joined to the domain or working correctly. Network printers will have server compatible drivers. Old Anti-Virus can be removed easily from each PC. Disclaimers 1. Items that fall out of the deliverables phase and cannot be easily quantified in the completion phase are considered out of scope and will be billed separately. 2. Existing client technology that is incompatible with the solution offered above will be handled on a case by case best effort basis and billed separately. 3. Custom software except for Noratek built software, is considered outside scope. 4. If a problem comes up that affects a project completion guideline or project deliverable and it has been covered as a project assumption, the particular guideline/deliverable will be nullified. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Scope Documents
How were you burned? My own PSA is 5 pages, and each SoW is about 4 pages. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Scope Documents Hi All, After recently being burned by a client/project, I'm trying to come with a new and better scope document. Could you please review the sample below and provide feedback for things that are missing? I'm specifically looking for assumptions and disclaimers that would be important to include in almost any scope document. Shawn === Project Scope Document Purpose: Describe in simple terms what the project is all about. Project Activities: (steps needed to complete project) for example: - Upgrade firmware and drivers on the new servers - Install Windows 2008 R2 on both servers - Install Exchange 2010 etc. Project Deliverables: (What are we going to build) - A working email server Project Completion: (The project is complete when) - Email from the Internet reaches each mailbox Project Assumptions All requested software will run correctly. Workstations are free of viruses, spy-ware or other defects that would prevent them from being joined to the domain or working correctly. Network printers will have server compatible drivers. Old Anti-Virus can be removed easily from each PC. Disclaimers 1. Items that fall out of the deliverables phase and cannot be easily quantified in the completion phase are considered out of scope and will be billed separately. 2. Existing client technology that is incompatible with the solution offered above will be handled on a case by case best effort basis and billed separately. 3. Custom software except for Noratek built software, is considered outside scope. 4. If a problem comes up that affects a project completion guideline or project deliverable and it has been covered as a project assumption, the particular guideline/deliverable will be nullified. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Scope Documents
It was really my own fault. I didn't do a proper SoW for a large to me ($50k) project. I've been rather lazy lately. The client massively increased scope on me and then held the money ransom. My quote included a rather vague item of: Server setup for $X. They took server setup to include a whole lot of extra work. :( Not having proper project documentation meant my ability to fight was somewhat limited. Good lesson for me, not to be lazy. Normally I deal with great clients and this isn't an issue. Would you be interested in sending me yours off list to review? Shawn How were you burned? My own PSA is 5 pages, and each SoW is about 4 pages. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Scope Documents Hi All, After recently being burned by a client/project, I'm trying to come with a new and better scope document. Could you please review the sample below and provide feedback for things that are missing? I'm specifically looking for assumptions and disclaimers that would be important to include in almost any scope document. Shawn === Project Scope Document Purpose: Describe in simple terms what the project is all about. Project Activities: (steps needed to complete project) for example: - Upgrade firmware and drivers on the new servers - Install Windows 2008 R2 on both servers - Install Exchange 2010 etc. Project Deliverables: (What are we going to build) - A working email server Project Completion: (The project is complete when) - Email from the Internet reaches each mailbox Project Assumptions All requested software will run correctly. Workstations are free of viruses, spy-ware or other defects that would prevent them from being joined to the domain or working correctly. Network printers will have server compatible drivers. Old Anti-Virus can be removed easily from each PC. Disclaimers 1.Items that fall out of the deliverables phase and cannot be easily quantified in the completion phase are considered out of scope and will be billed separately. 2.Existing client technology that is incompatible with the solution offered above will be handled on a case by case best effort basis and billed separately. 3.Custom software except for Noratek built software, is considered outside scope. 4.If a problem comes up that affects a project completion guideline or project deliverable and it has been covered as a project assumption, the particular guideline/deliverable will be nullified. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: XenApp 6 logon issues
My apologies for the delayed response. Have become self-employed and buried with work (which is a very nice problem to have). Take a look at this Citrix utility: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX124446 Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://dabcc.com/Webster http://dabcc.com/Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: XenApp 6 logon issues Anyone else seeing issues with XenApp 6 systems whereby logons to published desktops are simply not working after the server reaches a load of about 6000? We have the other servers in the app pool configured to show a full load through the load evaluators so we can stress-test two new physical servers, but as soon as the load on these two servers hits 6000 or so (roughly 60-70 user sessions), logons keep hanging until we remove the full load load evaluator from one of the other servers in the pool, and then everything seems to work OK again. Should we be using the load evaluators in this way to simulate full loads on some of the servers? Personally I would have just removed them from the application pool. TIA, -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: What does a $1,000,000,000 recall look like?
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: If you're an early adopter of Sandy Bridge, be aware that there is a flaw in the chipsets that will degrade SATA performance on 3Gbps SATA ports, ultimately resulting in complete device disconnect. More details are emerging: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4143/the-source-of-intels-cougar-point-sata-bug The problem is in Cougar Point chipsets -- AKA 6-series. Specifically, it affects the four 3Gb/s SATA ports. The chipset also offers two 6Gb/s ports, which are unaffected. Apparently the problem is due to one (1) improperly designed transistor, which is connected to the clocking logic. The bias voltage is slightly too high, causing the transistor to degrade over time. Some interesting Murphy factors here: (1) The problem only exists in the B stepping (revision). The A stepping is fine. Unfortunately, the B stepping is what's shipping to production customers. I'd be willing to bet most of the in-depth testing was done on the A stepping. (2) The bad transistor is not actually used. It's a leftover from a previous design. Apparently, Intel based a lot of the Cougar Point chipset design off previous designs, and so there are some dead circuits (my term) the way software can have dead code. Intel's current party line is that this i\s not a recall. The author of the article supposes that's because many of the chips will end up in laptops where the 3Gb/s ports aren't used. Another article I've read (and lost track of) mentioned that some motherboards use third-party SATA controllers and don't use the Cougar Point 3Gb/s ports, either. In such, the fault won't hurt anything, and doesn't need to be recalled. So it will be up to system builders to handle any recall operations. -- 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
