Are printer-related registry keys are safe to remove?
There are two Registry keys - *HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices\* and *HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts - *that, in a terminal services environment, seem to fill up with vast amounts of printers, apparently enumerated from any user that has ever logged on. Now some older pieces of software seem to look here for their printer settings, to the extent that when there are approximately 500 entries in there, meaning that the printing from these apps is very, very slow. According to an MS article these keys are for *user preferences for print devices in Windows NT 4.0*, so, would I be right in assuming I could simply remove all entries from these keys at logoff without causing myself any problems? TIA, JR -- 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
RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs
I just recently purchased an OCZ Revodrive (version 1) - http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-pci-express-ssd.html 120GB, which is effectively a pair of 60GB SSDs in RAID0... RATED specs are read 540MB/s, write 480MB/s 75,000 IOPS The newer X2 revision of the card is even faster!! - something like 740MB/s reads... I can't speak to how much of that *theoretical* performance is actually achieved in practice, but what I *can* say is that it makes an absolutely huge difference to startup app launch speeds... - from power on, my Win 7 Ultimate machine now takes longer to complete the BIOS POST than it does to run the entire Win7 bootup process to the point of presenting the Press C-A-D to logon message... somewhere between 15-20 seconds in total (about 8-10 seconds in the BIOS, around 8-10 seconds for boot). The only downside - if there is one - is that AFAIK, no current RAID solution for SSDs supports TRIM through to the drives, so you have to make do without it. I did a lot of research because of this issue before I purchased, and read a lot of other user reviews, tech site reviews etc... and got the strong impression that overall, these drives really don't seem to suffer performance degradation over time as a result of the lack of TRIM... it seems the Sandforce controllers are very strong on their wear levelling anyway, plus the added expedient of keeping a good portion of that 120GB unused (it's only my C: drive, I have a 1TB HDD as well for bulk storage) Only time will tell if that turns out to be the case, - but even if it did degrade, this thing is S fast, that I think even if performance halved it would still knock the pants of anything else! Paul G. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 March 2011 18:45 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs 40GB at US$89. Wow. The new SSD doubles sequential write speeds from its second generation X25-M drive to 220MB/sec sequential writes. The drive simply maintains the read throughput rate of the X25-M at up to 270 MB/sec Is that pretty good in terms of SSD? Curious if it's better to go this route, or get a PCI-X SSD card and forego the disk controller bottleneck. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I guess prices are dropping: http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/intel-doubles-capacity-drops-price-in-ssd- refresh/142814?sub=29878 http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/intel-doubles-capacity-drops-price-in-ssd -refresh/142814?sub=29878utm_source=29878utm_medium=entinfrautm_campaign= enews utm_source=29878utm_medium=entinfrautm_campaign=enews Stefan On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. I might bite the bullet and buy one. Looking around, looks like I can get a PCI-X SSD card that is big enough for a boot drive+my docs for around $200. I had no idea they were this cheap! From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 8:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Someone opens Windows Media Player / iTunes / Media Monkey. If your music library is on your SSD, then populating the list of albums and cover art is near instantaneous. Opening the Recent Item in Windows 7 (or the Start menu in previous versions) is instantaneous Search in Outlook is instantaneous (as is Windows search) There are many benefits to just putting everything except the most bulky storage onto an SSD. I even put my testing VMs on SSDs now (if I can) Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2011 8:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I would suspect that those of us on this list aren't the standard consumer. We tend to fall into two types, those who become Luddites at home, and those who manage sophisticated infrastructures at home. I think significant time savings can be gained by having the OS on SSD, the other stuff doesn't seem to need the same level of speed, but I could be talking out of my hat. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Fair enough. However it seems that any modern SSD has enough redundancy plus resiliency to survive tens of years of consumer use. Cheers Ken From: Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2011 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs True, I imagine they are trying to make it last longer by not writing to it so much. On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Why? I'd put as much stuff onto the SSD as you can - the performance difference between an SSD and a mechanical drive is simply unbelievable. Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 25
Re: Are printer-related registry keys are safe to remove?
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:01 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: There are two Registry keys - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices\ and HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts - that, in a terminal services environment, seem to fill up with vast amounts of printers, apparently enumerated from any user that has ever logged on. Shouldn't anything under HKCU (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) be a per-user setting, and not from any user who has ever logged on to your Terminal Server? Or is everyone logging on under one user account? -- 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: Are printer-related registry keys are safe to remove?
Both those keys just appear to fill up with every printer that has ever mapped on the Terminal Server, every time it populates. It is full of printers *from session x* corresponding to other users on the Terminal Server. The user can't see them in Devices and Printers, but they are all dropped into these keys. The sooner I bin these damned roaming profiles the better On 30 March 2011 11:55, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:01 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: There are two Registry keys - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices\ and HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts - that, in a terminal services environment, seem to fill up with vast amounts of printers, apparently enumerated from any user that has ever logged on. Shouldn't anything under HKCU (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) be a per-user setting, and not from any user who has ever logged on to your Terminal Server? Or is everyone logging on under one user account? -- 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 -- 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
Re: URGENT: Interrupt chkdsk, not on boot drive - RESOLVED
On 3/29/2011 11:49 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: Well then, Good luck tomorrow morning. I suspect, and hope, that this will all have a happy, uneventful ending. Luckily, it looks like it did ... It was still going when I got here at 6:30AM (11 hrs later). So I powered down; went to the SAN interface; deleted the whole drive; powered backup. Went straight into Windows, no error messages, etc. Looks like it's processing mail, too (altho with a 12 hour backlog, it may take a while to clear out the queue). Haven't looked at Disk Manager yet, or rescanned disks, etc. Waiting for my boss to come in at 8AM, and then we'll re-create that SAN disk, and show it to this server. Thanks everybody for the advice. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20 minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under Write debugging information, with the value %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP (and checked off Overwrite any existing file). But I never get any dump file - there are no files *.DMP anywhere on the server. And I don't know why it's not writing one. I want to run one through the WinDbg debugger, hopefully yo have it point at the problem (bad device driver, I'm guessing). The event log only says the previous shutdown was unexpected - never lists any bugcheck values or anything. So I'm sort of flying blind at this point. What would cause the DMP file to never be written? How can I get a DMP to analyze? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
You sure it's a BSOD? Could be a thermal condition, amongst many other things. Does it have any ASR values set? On 30 March 2011 13:37, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20 minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under Write debugging information, with the value %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP (and checked off Overwrite any existing file). But I never get any dump file - there are no files *.DMP anywhere on the server. And I don't know why it's not writing one. I want to run one through the WinDbg debugger, hopefully yo have it point at the problem (bad device driver, I'm guessing). The event log only says the previous shutdown was unexpected - never lists any bugcheck values or anything. So I'm sort of flying blind at this point. What would cause the DMP file to never be written? How can I get a DMP to analyze? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *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
Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
Doesn't sound like it's actually crashing. It's rebooting for some as yet unknown reason. I would check hardware issues first (bad memory, disk issues, power supply. etc.) Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/30/2011 08:38 AM Subject:Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20 minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under Write debugging information, with the value %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP (and checked off Overwrite any existing file). But I never get any dump file - there are no files *.DMP anywhere on the server. And I don't know why it's not writing one. I want to run one through the WinDbg debugger, hopefully yo have it point at the problem (bad device driver, I'm guessing). The event log only says the previous shutdown was unexpected - never lists any bugcheck values or anything. So I'm sort of flying blind at this point. What would cause the DMP file to never be written? How can I get a DMP to analyze? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
Not a direct answer to your question but something to look at..did you just install the Feb updates...look for 393802 and MAYBE 2264207. One of them, probably the first one has some issues with video card drivers that were written badly. See if there are updates for your vid card drivers or remove those two updates. HP is having a fair amount of trouble with this one, I had one server doing this. No newer vid card drivers available so I pulled those two updates and it is fine ever since. -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20 minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under Write debugging information, with the value %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP (and checked off Overwrite any existing file). But I never get any dump file - there are no files *.DMP anywhere on the server. And I don't know why it's not writing one. I want to run one through the WinDbg debugger, hopefully yo have it point at the problem (bad device driver, I'm guessing). The event log only says the previous shutdown was unexpected - never lists any bugcheck values or anything. So I'm sort of flying blind at this point. What would cause the DMP file to never be written? How can I get a DMP to analyze? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
On 3/30/2011 8:39 AM, James Rankin wrote: You sure it's a BSOD? No, I'm not, actually. Could be a thermal condition, amongst many other things. Does it have any ASR values set? Don't think so. Not sure how to check. Don't think we've set anything .. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
On 3/30/2011 8:43 AM, Christopher Bodnar wrote: Doesn't sound like it's actually crashing. It's rebooting for some as yet unknown reason. I would check hardware issues first (bad memory, disk issues, power supply. etc.) That's what we're begining to believe, too. Since I get no DMP file, and nothing in event log about bugcheck. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20 minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under Write debugging information, with the value %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP (and checked off Overwrite any existing file). Turn off the auto-reboot-on-crash thing. It's an option in the same dialog box. IIRC, some STOP errors don't write info to disk because they blew up in the I/O subsystem. But you can always read the text off the blue screen. If it still reboots, it's not a BugCheck. -- 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
What flavour of system is it? On branded stuff (HP, Dell, IBM, etc.) you can usually set threshholds within the management software to perform recovery actions under certain conditions. If you have a functioning ILO/DRAC/other management card, you can also sometimes replay the last restart, to see if it actually was a BSOD or something else. If you do have management software and agents loaded, it may be a good idea to get the server to all its latest hardware patch levels. On 30 March 2011 14:06, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/30/2011 8:39 AM, James Rankin wrote: You sure it's a BSOD? No, I'm not, actually. Could be a thermal condition, amongst many other things. Does it have any ASR values set? Don't think so. Not sure how to check. Don't think we've set anything .. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *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
Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
On 3/30/2011 8:51 AM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: Not a direct answer to your question but something to look at..did you just install the Feb updates... No. Not yet. We usually do Windows updates around the middle of the following month, but we haven't done any to this server, since it started rebooting daily right around the middle of the month ... and I just looked through the list of installed updates, and don't see either of those updates. look for 393802 and MAYBE 2264207. One of them, probably the first one has some issues with video card drivers that were written badly. See if there are updates for your vid card drivers or remove those two updates. HP is having a fair amount of trouble with this one, I had one server doing this. No newer vid card drivers available so I pulled those two updates and it is fine ever since. I'll look to see if there are any newer drivers or HP firmware updates. Thanks for the tip. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Deny roaming profile access at logon
I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they log on to a particular server? Other users of the same server need their roaming profile loaded, so the GPO for Always use local profile is no use, as this is a system-wide setting. TIA, JRR -- 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
Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
On 3/30/2011 9:10 AM, James Rankin wrote: What flavour of system is it? On branded stuff (HP, Dell, IBM, etc.) HP Proliant 380 G6. you can usually set threshholds within the management software to perform recovery actions under certain conditions. If you have a functioning ILO/DRAC/other management card, you can also sometimes replay the last restart, to see if it actually was a BSOD or something else. If you do have management software and agents loaded, it may be a good idea to get the server to all its latest hardware patch levels. Yeah, that's our next step, I think. On 30 March 2011 14:06, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/30/2011 8:39 AM, James Rankin wrote: You sure it's a BSOD? No, I'm not, actually. Could be a thermal condition, amongst many other things. Does it have any ASR values set? Don't think so. Not sure how to check. Don't think we've set anything .. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/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 -- 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 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: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?
Rack Space is very good about their hosting. MY big question is if you are using a Windows 2008 R2 server why not use SQL Standard Edition instead of Express?, also with 1GB ram SQL/Windows is going to get quite cramped for memory resources, and your application etc etc might not really run optimally? Also, what type of Data is going to be hosted on the server ( PCI? PII/PHI) has your management/security folks vetted the risk in compliance to the federal regulations for the data that will be contained within? Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? We need to move our cloud server hosting to a new company. We need to run a Windows 2008 R2 server, with SQL express, 1gb ram, and 10gb disk space. I have looked at a few, Server Intellect, Rack Space, and Amazon S2. Any real work experiences? Any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris Blair ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?
+1 for Rackspace From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? Rack Space is very good about their hosting. MY big question is if you are using a Windows 2008 R2 server why not use SQL Standard Edition instead of Express?, also with 1GB ram SQL/Windows is going to get quite cramped for memory resources, and your application etc etc might not really run optimally? Also, what type of Data is going to be hosted on the server ( PCI? PII/PHI) has your management/security folks vetted the risk in compliance to the federal regulations for the data that will be contained within? Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? We need to move our cloud server hosting to a new company. We need to run a Windows 2008 R2 server, with SQL express, 1gb ram, and 10gb disk space. I have looked at a few, Server Intellect, Rack Space, and Amazon S2. Any real work experiences? Any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris Blair ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Deny roaming profile access at logon
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they log on to a particular server? Is this for your Terminal Server with the printers problem? If so, isn't there a per-user Active Directory property to load a different profile for Terminal Servers? -- 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
I'd start with the simple stuff. Power cord in tight? Is the server in a clean server room? If not (or even if it is), check the fans and heat sinks for dust and clean it out. Speaking of fans, are all of them running? Air vents not blocked? -Paul -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20 minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under Write debugging information, with the value %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP (and checked off Overwrite any existing file). But I never get any dump file - there are no files *.DMP anywhere on the server. And I don't know why it's not writing one. I want to run one through the WinDbg debugger, hopefully yo have it point at the problem (bad device driver, I'm guessing). The event log only says the previous shutdown was unexpected - never lists any bugcheck values or anything. So I'm sort of flying blind at this point. What would cause the DMP file to never be written? How can I get a DMP to analyze? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?
Great questions. We are using the cloud server to host a low traffic webpage for a branch of our company. We started off with SQL express, as recommended by the web development firm. If needed, we will upgrade to SQL Standard. Thanks, Chris Blair 952-697-6270 chris_bl...@identisys.commailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? Rack Space is very good about their hosting. MY big question is if you are using a Windows 2008 R2 server why not use SQL Standard Edition instead of Express?, also with 1GB ram SQL/Windows is going to get quite cramped for memory resources, and your application etc etc might not really run optimally? Also, what type of Data is going to be hosted on the server ( PCI? PII/PHI) has your management/security folks vetted the risk in compliance to the federal regulations for the data that will be contained within? Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? We need to move our cloud server hosting to a new company. We need to run a Windows 2008 R2 server, with SQL express, 1gb ram, and 10gb disk space. I have looked at a few, Server Intellect, Rack Space, and Amazon S2. Any real work experiences? Any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris Blair ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Deny roaming profile access at logon
It's not the server with the printer issue, no (I have lots of issues lately, my wife tells me the same thing too) :-) Sorry, I should have been more specific - it's the TS roaming profile that I am trying to avoid loading for a certain subset of users. Not a standard roaming profile. I have not worked with fat clients for so long, I forget they exist :-) On 30 March 2011 14:37, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they log on to a particular server? Is this for your Terminal Server with the printers problem? If so, isn't there a per-user Active Directory property to load a different profile for Terminal Servers? -- 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 -- 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
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I’m currently using Webtrends but getting fed-up with performance / configuration / setup issues before I renew the maintenance, I wonder what you guys are using? I don’t need anything to sophisticated just visits and demographics are the most important reports. -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
Wow that sounds exactly like the problem we had with a DL380G6 about a year ago. HP shipped us a new mainboard before they figured it out. Check your version of the ilo firmware. If it's late 1.6x or early 1.7x there were a lot of problems with random reboots exactly as you describe. We updated the firmware to 1.8x and it's been fine since then. Turning off ASR in HP system management helped but didn't eliminate the problem altogether. If you look in your event log and see duplicate messages about the temperature and fan sensors you have a likely culprit. Good luck with it. I had a second G6 server with similar problems that ended up being an actual bad system board (acted like someone was yanking both power cords at the same time) so I'd definitely open a case with HP if you have warranty on it and have not done so already. Paul The disclaimer below does not necessarily reflect my views but is automagically generated by company elves. -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file I'd start with the simple stuff. Power cord in tight? Is the server in a clean server room? If not (or even if it is), check the fans and heat sinks for dust and clean it out. Speaking of fans, are all of them running? Air vents not blocked? -Paul -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20 minutes. In Control Panel, I have Kernel memory dump chosen under Write debugging information, with the value %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP (and checked off Overwrite any existing file). But I never get any dump file - there are no files *.DMP anywhere on the server. And I don't know why it's not writing one. I want to run one through the WinDbg debugger, hopefully yo have it point at the problem (bad device driver, I'm guessing). The event log only says the previous shutdown was unexpected - never lists any bugcheck values or anything. So I'm sort of flying blind at this point. What would cause the DMP file to never be written? How can I get a DMP to analyze? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 Note: This message is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied
So, shortly before I left yesterday I went through our GPOs that were applying to Win7 laptops. The only one I thought might have anything to do with this turned out to be the culprit, but I'm not exactly sure why. Since we won't be calling PSS at this point I may not find the answer to that, but here's what it was: Since we started adding Win7 policies (back in October/November 2010) along with many other policies, we enabled the setting for \computer configuration\Administrative Templates\Offline Files Encrypt the Offline Files cache. Yesterday as a test, I changed this to disabled, which decrypts the cache. After after rebooting the machines with the access denied errors, everything started working again, so I changed it at the domain level and got the same results-things are now working normally again. Question-does anyone know if this encryption is done using EFS? It is not specified in the policy description. We have disabled EFS at the domain level, as we don't want kids encrypting their files. So, it makes sense to me that if it uses EFS but it is disabled at the domain, this would cause a potential conflict and could cause the access denied errors we were seeing. What I don't understand is why the problem only starts after SP1 is applied, unless there is a problem with the RTM version applying this policy altogether. Hopefully today will be a better day... -Bonnie From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied Anyone else seeing this problem, or successfully syncing their offline files using a Win7 SP1 system in a domain? User logs onto Win7 non-sp1, offline sync of files works fine. Machine gets updated to SP1, same user (no changes) logs onto Win7 with SP1, offline sync throws access denied errors on all files. Log off, take the same user account (same profile, etc) back to a non-SP1 machine and offline sync works fine. We have quite a few Win7 systems now that have SP1, and are getting the same symptoms across multiple machines. I've tried tons of stuff, including changing the back-end server from WS03 R2 to WS08 R2 SP1, taking DFS out of the equation, changing paths from DNS names to netbios names to IPs, removing ABE, setting ownership to the user, and setting both NTFS and share permissions to full control all the way down the tree on the server to Everyone. As best I can tell, this is a client-side issue, but I'm not sure what else to look at. There are a few policies that control offline file behavior, and although nothing has changed from our non-sp1 setup, I'm happy to change something if it would help. We're about to open a PSS call, but I'm fishing for other ideas as well. Searching around, I'm just not seeing other people reporting this problem. Thanks, -Bonnie ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Deny roaming profile access at logon
Can't you change your current GPO to be more specific instead of authenticated users? I have several XenApp GPOs that have different settings for different groups, and I use TS Roaming profiles in them. Tom James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com 3/30/2011 9:39 AM It's not the server with the printer issue, no (I have lots of issues lately, my wife tells me the same thing too) :-) Sorry, I should have been more specific - it's the TS roaming profile that I am trying to avoid loading for a certain subset of users. Not a standard roaming profile. I have not worked with fat clients for so long, I forget they exist :-) On 30 March 2011 14:37, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they log on to a particular server? Is this for your Terminal Server with the printers problem? If so, isn't there a per-user Active Directory property to load a different profile for Terminal Servers? -- 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 -- 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 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Deny roaming profile access at logon
It's a computer-level GPO for only allow local profiles. It only applies to everyone, or not at all. Same goes for setting TS Profile via GPO. Unless you know different...I've been struggling to understand why TS Profile was a computer-level GPO for a while now. On 30 March 2011 15:40, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Can't you change your current GPO to be more specific instead of authenticated users? I have several XenApp GPOs that have different settings for different groups, and I use TS Roaming profiles in them. Tom James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com 3/30/2011 9:39 AM It's not the server with the printer issue, no (I have lots of issues lately, my wife tells me the same thing too) :-) Sorry, I should have been more specific - it's the TS roaming profile that I am trying to avoid loading for a certain subset of users. Not a standard roaming profile. I have not worked with fat clients for so long, I forget they exist :-) On 30 March 2011 14:37, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they log on to a particular server? Is this for your Terminal Server with the printers problem? If so, isn't there a per-user Active Directory property to load a different profile for Terminal Servers? -- 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 -- 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 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *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
Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
On 3/30/2011 10:08 AM, Paul Adams wrote: Wow that sounds exactly like the problem we had with a DL380G6 about a year ago. HP shipped us a new mainboard before they figured it out. Check your version of the ilo firmware. If it's late 1.6x or early 1.7x 2.05, it says. Good thought, tho. Looks like the ROM BIOS is just slightly out of date (it's from Dec 2010), but otherwise, we look up to date, from what I can see of firmware and drivers ... there were a lot of problems with random reboots exactly as you describe. We updated the firmware to 1.8x and it's been fine since then. Turning off ASR in HP system management helped but didn't eliminate the problem altogether. If you look in your event log and see duplicate messages about the temperature and fan sensors you have a likely culprit. Not seeing anything in the event logs, that's part of the problem. No bugchecks, no alerts, no warnings, no nothing. All normal messages, then The last system restart was unexpected. Good luck with it. I had a second G6 server with similar problems that ended up being an actual bad system board (acted like someone was yanking both power cords at the same time) so I'd definitely open a case with HP if you have warranty on it and have not done so already. Yeah, I think that's what will have to be done. I think we need to boot from SmartStart and run the diagnostics ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?
I've used Rackspace and AWS. I'm pretty happy with AWS and their EC2 offerings these days. There's a lot you can do there, including having load balancing, moving your entire server to a larger instance when you need something beefier, and integrated backups to S2. Something about having an image of your running server you can spin up in seconds is comforting. There are occasional issues; I did some extensive domain-based implementations with them and found some oddities around time sync and Kerberos, but nothing I couldn't work around easily enough. Support is also a bit slow; that's one area where Rackspace really excels. I currently run AWS servers for several clients and we're pretty happy with it. I think overall the self-manageability is more flexible with AWS than Rackspace. I think they're cheaper, too... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? We need to move our cloud server hosting to a new company. We need to run a Windows 2008 R2 server, with SQL express, 1gb ram, and 10gb disk space. I have looked at a few, Server Intellect, Rack Space, and Amazon S2. Any real work experiences? Any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris Blair ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: What I don’t understand is why the problem only starts after SP1 is applied, unless there is a problem with the RTM version applying this policy altogether. Or, it could be it was a problem in RTM and it's just the diagnostic was added in SP1. That is, maybe it was failing silently before and you just never knew? -- 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: Website Traffic Analyzer.
Cacti. AWstats Google Analytics. -Sam From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Website Traffic Analyzer. I'm currently using Webtrends but getting fed-up with performance / configuration / setup issues before I renew the maintenance, I wonder what you guys are using? I don't need anything to sophisticated just visits and demographics are the most important reports. -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied
Question-does anyone know if this encryption is done using EFS? Yes, it is specified in the EFS documentation that EFS is used for the offline file cache. The policy interaction you describe is very interesting. From a purely theoretical POV, if I disable EFS at the Domain level, that should be it, period. However there is a rapid publish KB that describes some unexpected behaviors with disabling/enabling EFS via policy http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960050/EN-US that may be germane to your situation. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied So, shortly before I left yesterday I went through our GPOs that were applying to Win7 laptops. The only one I thought might have anything to do with this turned out to be the culprit, but I'm not exactly sure why. Since we won't be calling PSS at this point I may not find the answer to that, but here's what it was: Since we started adding Win7 policies (back in October/November 2010) along with many other policies, we enabled the setting for \computer configuration\Administrative Templates\Offline Files Encrypt the Offline Files cache. Yesterday as a test, I changed this to disabled, which decrypts the cache. After after rebooting the machines with the access denied errors, everything started working again, so I changed it at the domain level and got the same results-things are now working normally again. Question-does anyone know if this encryption is done using EFS? It is not specified in the policy description. We have disabled EFS at the domain level, as we don't want kids encrypting their files. So, it makes sense to me that if it uses EFS but it is disabled at the domain, this would cause a potential conflict and could cause the access denied errors we were seeing. What I don't understand is why the problem only starts after SP1 is applied, unless there is a problem with the RTM version applying this policy altogether. Hopefully today will be a better day... -Bonnie From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied Anyone else seeing this problem, or successfully syncing their offline files using a Win7 SP1 system in a domain? User logs onto Win7 non-sp1, offline sync of files works fine. Machine gets updated to SP1, same user (no changes) logs onto Win7 with SP1, offline sync throws access denied errors on all files. Log off, take the same user account (same profile, etc) back to a non-SP1 machine and offline sync works fine. We have quite a few Win7 systems now that have SP1, and are getting the same symptoms across multiple machines. I've tried tons of stuff, including changing the back-end server from WS03 R2 to WS08 R2 SP1, taking DFS out of the equation, changing paths from DNS names to netbios names to IPs, removing ABE, setting ownership to the user, and setting both NTFS and share permissions to full control all the way down the tree on the server to Everyone. As best I can tell, this is a client-side issue, but I'm not sure what else to look at. There are a few policies that control offline file behavior, and although nothing has changed from our non-sp1 setup, I'm happy to change something if it would help. We're about to open a PSS call, but I'm fishing for other ideas as well. Searching around, I'm just not seeing other people reporting this problem. Thanks, -Bonnie ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Website Traffic Analyzer.
You might want to take a look at these two free versions to see if they meet your need : http://www.weblogexpert.com/lite.htm http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Website Traffic Analyzer. I’m currently using Webtrends but getting fed-up with performance / configuration / setup issues before I renew the maintenance, I wonder what you guys are using? I don’t need anything to sophisticated just visits and demographics are the most important reports. -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs
I have a Sony Vaio Z as my primary laptop. It has 4 x 64GB SSDs in a RAID0 configuration. I've had it for 11 months now, and if there's been performance degradation (through lack of TRIM) it hasn't been enough for me to notice. Cheers Ken From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2011 5:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I just recently purchased an OCZ Revodrive (version 1) - http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-pci-express-ssd.html 120GB, which is effectively a pair of 60GB SSDs in RAID0... RATED specs are read 540MB/s, write 480MB/s 75,000 IOPS The newer X2 revision of the card is even faster!! - something like 740MB/s reads... I can't speak to how much of that *theoretical* performance is actually achieved in practice, but what I *can* say is that it makes an absolutely huge difference to startup app launch speeds... - from power on, my Win 7 Ultimate machine now takes longer to complete the BIOS POST than it does to run the entire Win7 bootup process to the point of presenting the Press C-A-D to logon message... somewhere between 15-20 seconds in total (about 8-10 seconds in the BIOS, around 8-10 seconds for boot). The only downside - if there is one - is that AFAIK, no current RAID solution for SSDs supports TRIM through to the drives, so you have to make do without it. I did a lot of research because of this issue before I purchased, and read a lot of other user reviews, tech site reviews etc... and got the strong impression that overall, these drives really don't seem to suffer performance degradation over time as a result of the lack of TRIM... it seems the Sandforce controllers are very strong on their wear levelling anyway, plus the added expedient of keeping a good portion of that 120GB unused (it's only my C: drive, I have a 1TB HDD as well for bulk storage) Only time will tell if that turns out to be the case, - but even if it did degrade, this thing is S fast, that I think even if performance halved it would still knock the pants of anything else! Paul G. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 March 2011 18:45 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs 40GB at US$89. Wow. The new SSD doubles sequential write speeds from its second generation X25-M drive to 220MB/sec sequential writes. The drive simply maintains the read throughput rate of the X25-M at up to 270 MB/sec Is that pretty good in terms of SSD? Curious if it's better to go this route, or get a PCI-X SSD card and forego the disk controller bottleneck. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I guess prices are dropping: http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/intel-doubles-capacity-drops-price-in-ssd-refresh/142814?sub=29878utm_source=29878utm_medium=entinfrautm_campaign=enews Stefan On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.commailto:sca...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. I might bite the bullet and buy one. Looking around, looks like I can get a PCI-X SSD card that is big enough for a boot drive+my docs for around $200. I had no idea they were this cheap! From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 8:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Someone opens Windows Media Player / iTunes / Media Monkey. If your music library is on your SSD, then populating the list of albums and cover art is near instantaneous. Opening the Recent Item in Windows 7 (or the Start menu in previous versions) is instantaneous Search in Outlook is instantaneous (as is Windows search) There are many benefits to just putting everything except the most bulky storage onto an SSD. I even put my testing VMs on SSDs now (if I can) Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2011 8:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I would suspect that those of us on this list aren't the standard consumer. We tend to fall into two types, those who become Luddites at home, and those who manage sophisticated infrastructures at home. I think significant time savings can be gained by having the OS on SSD, the other stuff doesn't seem to need the same level of speed, but I could be talking out of my hat. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Fair enough. However it seems that any modern SSD has enough redundancy plus resiliency to survive tens of years of consumer use... Cheers Ken From: Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.commailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2011 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs True, I imagine they are trying to make it last longer by not writing to it
Re: Deny roaming profile access at logon
That's right. It's been a while since I created those GPOs. My error. What's the need to prevent a profile from loading? Perhaps there is something else we could suggest. James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com 3/30/2011 10:44 AM It's a computer-level GPO for only allow local profiles. It only applies to everyone, or not at all. Same goes for setting TS Profile via GPO. Unless you know different...I've been struggling to understand why TS Profile was a computer-level GPO for a while now. On 30 March 2011 15:40, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Can't you change your current GPO to be more specific instead of authenticated users? I have several XenApp GPOs that have different settings for different groups, and I use TS Roaming profiles in them. Tom James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com 3/30/2011 9:39 AM It's not the server with the printer issue, no (I have lots of issues lately, my wife tells me the same thing too) :-) Sorry, I should have been more specific - it's the TS roaming profile that I am trying to avoid loading for a certain subset of users. Not a standard roaming profile. I have not worked with fat clients for so long, I forget they exist :-) On 30 March 2011 14:37, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they log on to a particular server? Is this for your Terminal Server with the printers problem? If so, isn't there a per-user Active Directory property to load a different profile for Terminal Servers? -- 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 -- 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 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. 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
Re: URGENT: Interrupt chkdsk, not on boot drive
And this is why I like to run a plain ol' CHKDSK the first time before I commit to /F or /R or whatever. *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, this drive is mostly empty, too, so there's not a boatload of files to read through and verify. And it's at the Checking free space stage now, for 2 hours. So it *should* be done by the time I either go to bed, or wake up tomorrow. If you're getting Checking files and Checking free space, then you've run CHKDSK with the /R switch. (Or something else ran it that way.) /R tells CHKDSK to do read verification of the entire partition. Checking free space means it is reading every block on the LUN that isn't being used for something else. So the fact that the drive is empty won't help you. -- 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: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?
RackSpace is very good in this space. What will you be doing?Microsoft or Amazon will work well here, too, for most needs. *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Chris Blair chris_bl...@identisys.comwrote: We need to move our cloud server hosting to a new company. We need to run a Windows 2008 R2 server, with SQL express, 1gb ram, and 10gb disk space. I have looked at a few, Server Intellect, Rack Space, and Amazon S2. Any real work experiences? Any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris Blair ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
My co-worker found an HP alert about Proliant DL360 G6s (like this) where they can be subject to random reboots, exactly as we have been. Apparently, it's a known issue with this model server shipped before Nov 2009. Has to do with system board revision earlier than 0S. If the serial number is xxx947 or earlier, you may have it. There's a Online Flash Component for Windows - System Programmable Logic Device update available. (HP document ID: c01955503) 3 guesses as to what we're doing with that server this evening ... :-) I'll keep the list posted. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
Nice. I would just do it now and blame it on the ongoing crash problem. :) -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file My co-worker found an HP alert about Proliant DL360 G6s (like this) where they can be subject to random reboots, exactly as we have been. Apparently, it's a known issue with this model server shipped before Nov 2009. Has to do with system board revision earlier than 0S. If the serial number is xxx947 or earlier, you may have it. There's a Online Flash Component for Windows - System Programmable Logic Device update available. (HP document ID: c01955503) 3 guesses as to what we're doing with that server this evening ... :-) I'll keep the list posted. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
Or just do it now. Planned outages, even during business hours are alwyas better than unplanned ones. You also seem to have an element of unpredictability here, so... On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Nice. I would just do it now and blame it on the ongoing crash problem. :) -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file My co-worker found an HP alert about Proliant DL360 G6s (like this) where they can be subject to random reboots, exactly as we have been. Apparently, it's a known issue with this model server shipped before Nov 2009. Has to do with system board revision earlier than 0S. If the serial number is xxx947 or earlier, you may have it. There's a Online Flash Component for Windows - System Programmable Logic Device update available. (HP document ID: c01955503) 3 guesses as to what we're doing with that server this evening ... :-) I'll keep the list posted. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied
Thanks guys-it must be then that there was some kind of issue in RTM, and as Ben said, it was silently failing until SP1 applied. We're not trying to re-enable EFS via GPO at another level (using Computer config\Windows settings\security settings\public key policies), so I don't think the article applies in this case, but that is good to know about. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied Question-does anyone know if this encryption is done using EFS? Yes, it is specified in the EFS documentation that EFS is used for the offline file cache. The policy interaction you describe is very interesting. From a purely theoretical POV, if I disable EFS at the Domain level, that should be it, period. However there is a rapid publish KB that describes some unexpected behaviors with disabling/enabling EFS via policy http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960050/EN-US that may be germane to your situation. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied So, shortly before I left yesterday I went through our GPOs that were applying to Win7 laptops. The only one I thought might have anything to do with this turned out to be the culprit, but I'm not exactly sure why. Since we won't be calling PSS at this point I may not find the answer to that, but here's what it was: Since we started adding Win7 policies (back in October/November 2010) along with many other policies, we enabled the setting for \computer configuration\Administrative Templates\Offline Files Encrypt the Offline Files cache. Yesterday as a test, I changed this to disabled, which decrypts the cache. After after rebooting the machines with the access denied errors, everything started working again, so I changed it at the domain level and got the same results-things are now working normally again. Question-does anyone know if this encryption is done using EFS? It is not specified in the policy description. We have disabled EFS at the domain level, as we don't want kids encrypting their files. So, it makes sense to me that if it uses EFS but it is disabled at the domain, this would cause a potential conflict and could cause the access denied errors we were seeing. What I don't understand is why the problem only starts after SP1 is applied, unless there is a problem with the RTM version applying this policy altogether. Hopefully today will be a better day... -Bonnie From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied Anyone else seeing this problem, or successfully syncing their offline files using a Win7 SP1 system in a domain? User logs onto Win7 non-sp1, offline sync of files works fine. Machine gets updated to SP1, same user (no changes) logs onto Win7 with SP1, offline sync throws access denied errors on all files. Log off, take the same user account (same profile, etc) back to a non-SP1 machine and offline sync works fine. We have quite a few Win7 systems now that have SP1, and are getting the same symptoms across multiple machines. I've tried tons of stuff, including changing the back-end server from WS03 R2 to WS08 R2 SP1, taking DFS out of the equation, changing paths from DNS names to netbios names to IPs, removing ABE, setting ownership to the user, and setting both NTFS and share permissions to full control all the way down the tree on the server to Everyone. As best I can tell, this is a client-side issue, but I'm not sure what else to look at. There are a few policies that control offline file behavior, and although nothing has changed from our non-sp1 setup, I'm happy to change something if it would help. We're about to open a PSS call, but I'm fishing for other ideas as well. Searching around, I'm just not seeing other people reporting this problem. Thanks, -Bonnie ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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! ~ ~
Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption to protect the data at rest? That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which then shares that data. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing *srv.sys*. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied
Interesting—it might work now for you then. Was there a kb on that? I did take DFS out of the equation during testing and that didn’t seem to matter one iota—it would fail with a straight UNC path as well. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied EFS of offline files with DFS was failing for us pre-SP1. I haven't looked at it since SP1. Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Mar 30, 2011 12:14 PM, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Thanks guys—it must be then that there was some kind of issue in RTM, and as Ben said, it was silently failing until SP1 applied. We’re not trying to re-enable EFS via GPO at another level (using Computer config\Windows settings\security settings\public key policies), so I don’t think the article applies in this case, but that is good to know about. From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied Question—does anyone know if this encryption is done using EFS? Yes, it is specified in the EFS documentation that EFS is used for the offline file cache. The policy interaction you describe is very interesting. From a purely theoretical POV, if I disable EFS at the Domain level, that should be it, period. However there is a rapid publish KB that describes some unexpected behaviors with disabling/enabling EFS via policy http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960050/EN-US that may be germane to your situation. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied So, shortly before I left yesterday I went through our GPOs that were applying to Win7 laptops. The only one I thought might have anything to do with this turned out to be the culprit, but I’m not exactly sure why. Since we won’t be calling PSS at this point I may not find the answer to that, but here’s what it was: Since we started adding Win7 policies (back in October/November 2010) along with many other policies, we enabled the setting for \computer configuration\Administrative Templates\Offline Files “Encrypt the Offline Files cache”. Yesterday as a test, I changed this to disabled, which decrypts the cache. After after rebooting the machines with the “access denied” errors, everything started working again, so I changed it at the domain level and got the same results—things are now working “normally” again. Question—does anyone know if this encryption is done using EFS? It is not specified in the policy description. We have disabled EFS at the domain level, as we don’t want kids encrypting their files. So, it makes sense to me that if it uses EFS but it is disabled at the domain, this would cause a potential conflict and could cause the “access denied” errors we were seeing. What I don’t understand is why the problem only starts after SP1 is applied, unless there is a problem with the RTM version applying this policy altogether. Hopefully today will be a better day… -Bonnie From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 w/SP1 offline sync gives Access Denied Anyone else seeing this problem, or successfully syncing their offline files using a Win7 SP1 system in a domain? User logs onto Win7 non-sp1, offline sync of files works fine. Machine gets updated to SP1, same user (no changes) logs onto Win7 with SP1, offline sync throws “access denied” errors on all files. Log off, take the same user account (same profile, etc) back to a non-SP1 machine and offline sync works fine. We have quite a few Win7 systems now that have SP1, and are getting the same symptoms across multiple machines. I’ve tried tons of stuff, including changing the back-end server from WS03 R2 to WS08 R2 SP1, taking DFS out of the equation, changing paths from DNS names to netbios names to IPs, removing ABE, setting ownership to the user, and setting both NTFS and share permissions to full control all the way down the tree on the server to “Everyone”. As best I can tell, this is a client-side issue, but I’m not sure what else to look at. There are a few policies that control offline file behavior, and although nothing has changed from our non-sp1 setup, I’m happy to change something if it would help. We’re about to open a PSS call, but I’m fishing for other ideas as well. Searching around, I’m just not seeing other people reporting this problem. Thanks, -Bonnie ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:
RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if the server is stolen. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption to protect the data at rest? That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which then shares that data. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing srv.sys. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
Nope, I haven't seen that problem, although I am not using TrueCrypt on SBS 2003, just Windows 2003, Win7, Win2008 R2 *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing *srv.sys*. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Are printer-related registry keys are safe to remove?
Yes, they are safe to remove. I created a batch file with these two lines and call it from a group policy logoff script. reg DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices /va /f reg DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\printerports /va /f I will have to say, though, that this seems to make some user's Citrix session hang (they never logoff after closing their last app). I will probably move this to a logon script at some point. Ken Cornetet 812.482.8499 To err is human - to moo, bovine. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Are printer-related registry keys are safe to remove? There are two Registry keys - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices\ and HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts - that, in a terminal services environment, seem to fill up with vast amounts of printers, apparently enumerated from any user that has ever logged on. Now some older pieces of software seem to look here for their printer settings, to the extent that when there are approximately 500 entries in there, meaning that the printing from these apps is very, very slow. According to an MS article these keys are for user preferences for print devices in Windows NT 4.0, so, would I be right in assuming I could simply remove all entries from these keys at logoff without causing myself any problems? TIA, JR -- 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.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: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether or not it really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if the server is stolen. *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption to protect the data at rest? That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which then shares that data. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing *srv.sys*. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Deny roaming profile access at logon
I have been getting an error stating could not load profile when running published apps from a 2003 server. I thought it was because the 2008 R2 profile was incompatible, hence I was not wanting to load the roaming profile. However, thinking about it, I have just realised the error may be to do with the .v2 that you need to append to the profile name for 2008. I will know for sure tomorrow, but I think creating a blank 2003 profile in a folder without the .v2 extension may get rid of the errors. If it is that, thanks for making me think it through properly! Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:53:41 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: Re: Deny roaming profile access at logon That's right. It's been a while since I created those GPOs. My error. What's the need to prevent a profile from loading? Perhaps there is something else we could suggest. James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com 3/30/2011 10:44 AM It's a computer-level GPO for only allow local profiles. It only applies to everyone, or not at all. Same goes for setting TS Profile via GPO. Unless you know different...I've been struggling to understand why TS Profile was a computer-level GPO for a while now. On 30 March 2011 15:40, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Can't you change your current GPO to be more specific instead of authenticated users? I have several XenApp GPOs that have different settings for different groups, and I use TS Roaming profiles in them. Tom James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com 3/30/2011 9:39 AM It's not the server with the printer issue, no (I have lots of issues lately, my wife tells me the same thing too) :-) Sorry, I should have been more specific - it's the TS roaming profile that I am trying to avoid loading for a certain subset of users. Not a standard roaming profile. I have not worked with fat clients for so long, I forget they exist :-) On 30 March 2011 14:37, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I think this is probably a non-starter, but does anyone have any idea how I might go about preventing a user's roaming profile from loading when they log on to a particular server? Is this for your Terminal Server with the printers problem? If so, isn't there a per-user Active Directory property to load a different profile for Terminal Servers? -- 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 -- 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 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited.
RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
Lots of customers have data-at-rest encryption requirements. Otherwise, Microsoft wouldn't have bothered to develop BitLocker. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether or not it really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.commailto:c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if the server is stolen. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption to protect the data at rest? That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which then shares that data. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.commailto:c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing srv.sys. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
So, is this your roundabout recommendation of suggesting an upgrade? :-) IIRC Bitlocker wasn't available for SBS 2003 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Lots of customers have data-at-rest encryption requirements. Otherwise, Microsoft wouldn’t have bothered to develop BitLocker. J Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:00 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether or not it really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if the server is stolen. *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption to protect the data at rest? That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which then shares that data. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing *srv.sys*. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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:
Re: New Adobe Patches
On 22 Mar 2011 at 13:18, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: OK, thanks... There is also supposed to be a Reader 10.0.0.2 released as well (according to that release notes link). Your link, when I move around in its file structure, still has 10.0.0.1. The 10.0.2 patch is only for the Mac OS X version of Adobe Reader. The Windows version of the 10.0.2 patch for Reader will be rolled out with the scheduled quarterly patch. It appears from language in the bulletin that there *_is_* a patch for the full Acrobat product on Windows. Adobe - Security Bulletins: APSB11-06 - Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-06.html Adobe recommends users of Adobe Reader X (10.0.1) for Macintosh update to Adobe Reader X (10.0.2). For users of Adobe Reader 9.4.2 for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe has made available the update, Adobe Reader 9.4.3. Adobe recommends users of Adobe Acrobat X (10.0.1) for Windows and Macintosh update to Adobe Acrobat X (10.0.2). Adobe recommends users of Adobe Acrobat 9.4.2 for Windows and Macintosh update to Adobe Acrobat 9.4.3. Because Adobe Reader X Protected Mode would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing, we are planning to address this issue in Adobe Reader X for Windows with the next quarterly security update for Adobe Reader, currently scheduled for June 14, 2011. There is a link to the Acrobat download page on the bulletin. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 Security Blog: http://geoapps.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: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
One may choose to read into it whatever one's heart desires. :-) Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from ATT From: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? So, is this your roundabout recommendation of suggesting an upgrade? :-) IIRC Bitlocker wasn't available for SBS 2003 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Lots of customers have data-at-rest encryption requirements. Otherwise, Microsoft wouldn’t have bothered to develop BitLocker. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.comhttp://theessentialexchange.com/ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether or not it really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.commailto:c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if the server is stolen. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption to protect the data at rest? That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which then shares that data. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.commailto:c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing srv.sys. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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
Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file
On 3/30/2011 1:01 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: Or just do it now. Planned outages, even during business hours are alwyas better than unplanned ones. You also seem to have an element of unpredictability here, so... True. However, the instructions are a bit scary - they say that the patch may not work, if the motherboard is bad ... and then the flashing would fail, and you wouldn't be able to boot the computer *at all*. :-( So we think we'll do it Sat. This way, if it bricks the mobo, at least we have a 4 hour turnaround for a new mobo ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: ADUC Pluggins?
I've found SpecOps free gpupdate tool to be useful. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:48, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Any handy plugins avail for ADUC MMC? I can’t help but think how handy it would be to have another option similar to ‘manage’ but instead be ‘connect to C$’ -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: Group Enumeration Issue
Tried promoting from global to universal, but it didn't help we apparently have bigger AD issues, symptoms of which are starting to bubble up. No events in security event log, although the Default Domain Controller audit policy clearly as logon events, account logon events and other items set to monitor both successful and failed events. (Tried to reply multiple times this morning, but kept being rejected by the list server for send an attachment, although there was never one.) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Enumeration Issue Promote it. Sent from my HTC Tilt 2, a Windows phone from ATT From: Phil Hershey phers...@agia.com Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Group Enumeration Issue Hi, Michael. Global distribution. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Enumeration Issue What kind of group? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Phil Hershey [mailto:phers...@agia.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group Enumeration Issue Odd problem that has just cropped up. Domain with 4 DC's in 2 sites that are T3 connected, only about 350 users, native 2003 mode. We have a problem with resolving the members of a single one of our ~100 distribution groups. The server that holds all but one of the FSMO roles correctly shows all the member groups and users for this DL. If I go to the Members tab for this DL on any of the other DCs, the members box is empty. However if you try and add one of the groups or users that is actually already in this DL, you get a 'account name is already a member of the local group' error. REPLMON shows all successful replications, and a REPADMIN /syncall DC /force all shows completion without errors. Seems like we've got a problem with versioning on the DCs. They're all Server 2003 32-bit Std Edition and fully patched. Any ideas? Thanks. Phil Hershey MCSE 2003: Security | MCITP - Enterprise Messaging Admin 2010 AGIA Insurance Services ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO +1 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Lots of customers have data-at-rest encryption requirements. Otherwise, Microsoft wouldn't have bothered to develop BitLocker. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether or not it really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if the server is stolen. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption to protect the data at rest? That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which then shares that data. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing srv.sys. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ blockedhttp://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com blockedmailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ blockedhttp://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com blockedmailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal
I have a server 2003 VM that was P2V'd a while ago, it from a different division and has a whole bunch of c**p on it, ideally I would setup a new server but in the mean time I was trying to do some cleanup, It has Windows Desktop search 3.01 installed and I wanted to unistall, however it gives me this long list of updates that has been installed after and warning that the sky maybe falling if I continue. Is this true or should I go ahead with the removal? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: ADUC Pluggins?
Not a plug-in, but if you are looking to have more functionality, I can highly recommend DameWare's NT Utilities. The amount of options available is staggering. But not free. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/30/2011 02:48 PM Subject:ADUC Pluggins? Any handy plugins avail for ADUC MMC? I can’t help but think how handy it would be to have another option similar to ‘manage’ but instead be ‘connect to C$’ -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 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Group Enumeration Issue
Do a DCDIAG with the /e /i switches and look closely at the results. You should be seeing something there. Also do a repadmin /showrepl Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Phil Hershey phers...@agia.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/30/2011 03:26 PM Subject:RE: Group Enumeration Issue Tried promoting from global to universal, but it didn’t help we apparently have bigger AD issues, symptoms of which are starting to bubble up. No events in security event log, although the Default Domain Controller audit policy clearly as logon events, account logon events and other items set to monitor both successful and failed events. (Tried to reply multiple times this morning, but kept being rejected by the list server for send an attachment, although there was never one.) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Enumeration Issue Promote it. Sent from my HTC Tilt 2, a Windows phone from ATT From: Phil Hershey phers...@agia.com Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Group Enumeration Issue Hi, Michael. Global distribution. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Enumeration Issue What kind of group? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Phil Hershey [mailto:phers...@agia.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group Enumeration Issue Odd problem that has just cropped up. Domain with 4 DC’s in 2 sites that are T3 connected, only about 350 users, native 2003 mode. We have a problem with resolving the members of a single one of our ~100 distribution groups. The server that holds all but one of the FSMO roles correctly shows all the member groups and users for this DL. If I go to the Members tab for this DL on any of the other DCs, the members box is empty. However if you try and add one of the groups or users that is actually already in this DL, you get a ‘account name is already a member of the local group’ error. REPLMON shows all successful replications, and a REPADMIN /syncall DC /force all shows completion without errors. Seems like we’ve got a problem with versioning on the DCs. They’re all Server 2003 32-bit Std Edition and fully patched. Any ideas? Thanks. Phil Hershey MCSE 2003: Security | MCITP - Enterprise Messaging Admin 2010 AGIA Insurance Services ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~
RE: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?
we use peak10 and like it. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? RackSpace is very good in this space. What will you be doing?Microsoft or Amazon will work well here, too, for most needs. ASB (Professional Biohttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Chris Blair chris_bl...@identisys.commailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com wrote: We need to move our cloud server hosting to a new company. We need to run a Windows 2008 R2 server, with SQL express, 1gb ram, and 10gb disk space. I have looked at a few, Server Intellect, Rack Space, and Amazon S2. Any real work experiences? Any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris Blair ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal
Take a snapshot, take the plunge :-) Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:29:56 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal I have a server 2003 VM that was P2V'd a while ago, it from a different division and has a whole bunch of c**p on it, ideally I would setup a new server but in the mean time I was trying to do some cleanup, It has Windows Desktop search 3.01 installed and I wanted to unistall, however it gives me this long list of updates that has been installed after and warning that the sky maybe falling if I continue. Is this true or should I go ahead with the removal? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal
Yes from Googeling it seems it should be ok and I do have the luxury of the snapshot, I'll go for it later after hours. Thanks Stefan On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: Take a snapshot, take the plunge :-) Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device -- *From: * Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com *Date: *Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:29:56 -0400 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal I have a server 2003 VM that was P2V'd a while ago, it from a different division and has a whole bunch of c**p on it, ideally I would setup a new server but in the mean time I was trying to do some cleanup, It has Windows Desktop search 3.01 installed and I wanted to unistall, however it gives me this long list of updates that has been installed after and warning that the sky maybe falling if I continue. Is this true or should I go ahead with the removal? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
VESA LCD monitor stands
Anyone know where I can get some generic, VESA LCD monitor stands? I don't want an arm, I just want to repurpose some flat-panel monitors we had mounted on walls that we're no longer using and I no longer have the mounting hardware for the monitors in question. I've got like a 19 and a 20-21 LCD I'd like to repurpose. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: VESA LCD monitor stands
Monoprice.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VESA LCD monitor stands Anyone know where I can get some generic, VESA LCD monitor stands? I don't want an arm, I just want to repurpose some flat-panel monitors we had mounted on walls that we're no longer using and I no longer have the mounting hardware for the monitors in question. I've got like a 19 and a 20-21 LCD I'd like to repurpose. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: VESA LCD monitor stands
I have a bunch of Dell monitor stands I can't get rid of... want to buy them for cheap? :) -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VESA LCD monitor stands Anyone know where I can get some generic, VESA LCD monitor stands? I don't want an arm, I just want to repurpose some flat-panel monitors we had mounted on walls that we're no longer using and I no longer have the mounting hardware for the monitors in question. I've got like a 19 and a 20-21 LCD I'd like to repurpose. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: VESA LCD monitor stands
Would that the monitors were all Dell... :-( -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VESA LCD monitor stands I have a bunch of Dell monitor stands I can't get rid of... want to buy them for cheap? :) -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VESA LCD monitor stands Anyone know where I can get some generic, VESA LCD monitor stands? I don't want an arm, I just want to repurpose some flat-panel monitors we had mounted on walls that we're no longer using and I no longer have the mounting hardware for the monitors in question. I've got like a 19 and a 20-21 LCD I'd like to repurpose. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?
Had the 0x35 BSOD before changing DfsIRPStackSize, haven't had one since, but I have had 0x7e BSOD before and after that change. Had the 0x7e BSOD before and after protecting the encrypted container folder from AV RT scans. Now I've disabled all AV RT scans and if it crashes again, I plan to pull off AVG altogether. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether or not it really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if the server is stolen. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption to protect the data at rest? That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which then shares that data. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared to the network for access by XP client machines. I've done this on a Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV. Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were x107e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x0035 (NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing srv.sys. All of the BSODs coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume. It could be reading or writing For the case of the 0x35, I increased the DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about MUP.sys. Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD since, it was today's 7e). So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since Google hasn't heard of it. I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org. Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope that makes a difference. Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope they are using different code that might be related to these crashes? Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b) encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up FreeOTFE, I'm all ears. [The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work... I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.] TIA Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: VESA LCD monitor stands
Thanks... Had to figure out where on their site to find it (even after a search) but I found it. Not bad... Thanks! -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VESA LCD monitor stands I have a bunch of Dell monitor stands I can't get rid of... want to buy them for cheap? :) -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VESA LCD monitor stands Anyone know where I can get some generic, VESA LCD monitor stands? I don't want an arm, I just want to repurpose some flat-panel monitors we had mounted on walls that we're no longer using and I no longer have the mounting hardware for the monitors in question. I've got like a 19 and a 20-21 LCD I'd like to repurpose. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: ADUC Pluggins?
Pretty impressive, thanks. For $290, looks like a no-brainer. -Sam From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ADUC Pluggins? Not a plug-in, but if you are looking to have more functionality, I can highly recommend DameWare's NT Utilities. The amount of options available is staggering. But not free. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:03/30/2011 02:48 PM Subject:ADUC Pluggins? _ Any handy plugins avail for ADUC MMC? I can’t help but think how handy it would be to have another option similar to ‘manage’ but instead be ‘connect to C$’ -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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Exporting from Lotus Notes (NSF) to Outlook (PST)
Anyone have a tool they have used, free or not. I basically am looking to get calendar/contacts from some ex-lotus notes users into Outlook/Exchange. I'm hoping a good conversion tool can catch all the recurring appointments correctly. Using more standard formats for exporting just won't cut it. We really need native NSF to PST conversion. -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: Exporting from Lotus Notes (NSF) to Outlook (PST)
Keep in mind some of the recurrence patterns supported by Notes simply aren't supported by Outlook/Exchange. The Quest tools do a good job and can do NSF imports (instead of Domino) - I think they support PST export too. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exporting from Lotus Notes (NSF) to Outlook (PST) Anyone have a tool they have used, free or not. I basically am looking to get calendar/contacts from some ex-lotus notes users into Outlook/Exchange. I'm hoping a good conversion tool can catch all the recurring appointments correctly. Using more standard formats for exporting just won't cut it. We really need native NSF to PST conversion. -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.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: VESA LCD monitor stands
We just purchased some kind of expensive ones from 3M they are available most office supply places they are MS110MB and they work pretty well, and have some nice features. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VESA LCD monitor stands Anyone know where I can get some generic, VESA LCD monitor stands? I don't want an arm, I just want to repurpose some flat-panel monitors we had mounted on walls that we're no longer using and I no longer have the mounting hardware for the monitors in question. I've got like a 19 and a 20-21 LCD I'd like to repurpose. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: ADUC Pluggins?
+1 for Dameware. It's great. On Wednesday, March 30, 2011, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty impressive, thanks. For $290, looks like a no-brainer.-Sam From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ADUC Pluggins? Not a plug-in, but if you are looking to have more functionality, I can highly recommend DameWare's NT Utilities. The amount of options available is staggering. But not free. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/30/2011 02:48 PM Subject: ADUC Pluggins? Any handy plugins avail for ADUC MMC? I can’t help but think how handy it would be to have another option similar to ‘manage’ but instead be ‘connect to C$’ -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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: ADUC Pluggins?
Another option in this category is Hyena: http://www.systemtools.com/hyena/pricing.htm I've used both, but prefer DameWare NT Utilities. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/30/2011 04:58 PM Subject:RE: ADUC Pluggins? Pretty impressive, thanks. For $290, looks like a no-brainer. -Sam From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ADUC Pluggins? Not a plug-in, but if you are looking to have more functionality, I can highly recommend DameWare's NT Utilities. The amount of options available is staggering. But not free. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:03/30/2011 02:48 PM Subject:ADUC Pluggins? Any handy plugins avail for ADUC MMC? I can’t help but think how handy it would be to have another option similar to ‘manage’ but instead be ‘connect to C$’ -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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: ADUC Pluggins?
How about AD Reports by Maxpowersoft? Not a plungin and not free (licensed by technician install), but very handy for reporting on AD, and not too terribly expensive. Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Mar 30, 2011 2:48 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Any handy plugins avail for ADUC MMC? I can't help but think how handy it would be to have another option similar to 'manage' but instead be 'connect to C$' -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: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal
I've uninstalled that a few times in similar situations and not seen any problems. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal Yes from Googeling it seems it should be ok and I do have the luxury of the snapshot, I'll go for it later after hours. Thanks Stefan On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Take a snapshot, take the plunge :-) Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device From: Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.commailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:29:56 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal I have a server 2003 VM that was P2V'd a while ago, it from a different division and has a whole bunch of c**p on it, ideally I would setup a new server but in the mean time I was trying to do some cleanup, It has Windows Desktop search 3.01 installed and I wanted to unistall, however it gives me this long list of updates that has been installed after and warning that the sky maybe falling if I continue. Is this true or should I go ahead with the removal? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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 -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal
Ok, just did it and you where correct. no problems, time to delete the snapshot, BTW gained back about 8 Gigs. SJ On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: I’ve uninstalled that a few times in similar situations and not seen any problems. *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:19 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal Yes from Googeling it seems it should be ok and I do have the luxury of the snapshot, I'll go for it later after hours. Thanks Stefan On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Take a snapshot, take the plunge :-) Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device -- *From: *Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com *Date: *Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:29:56 -0400 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal I have a server 2003 VM that was P2V'd a while ago, it from a different division and has a whole bunch of c**p on it, ideally I would setup a new server but in the mean time I was trying to do some cleanup, It has Windows Desktop search 3.01 installed and I wanted to unistall, however it gives me this long list of updates that has been installed after and warning that the sky maybe falling if I continue. Is this true or should I go ahead with the removal? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win7 upgrade question
I recommend you spend an hour or two looking at MDT 2010 Update 1 in detail (MDT - Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). Not only will it do everything you want (and then some) - it's free. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 upgrade question All, We're on the cusp of getting a MSFT EA in place (it looking like 90% sure, right now), and we've been ordering Dell laptops for lease with Win7 Pro on them. I want to get all of them up to Win7 Enterprise, and thought I had read somewhere that it was just a matter of a key update. I can't find any documentation on that, however, and our vendor rep pointed me at this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579%28WS.10%29.aspx So, for those of you who know about this kind of thing, what would you do? Right now I'm contemplating either something like this: http://laplink.com/pcmover or just doing an Anytime upgrade to Ultimate, and calling it good, because the lease will run out before the OS EOLs. Anyone have better thoughts on this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win7 upgrade question
Win 7 Enterprise is not on the retail disks, when you get your agreement you will have access to download it. If you have TechNet access then you can start playing with the MDT and get the ISO from the same place. You can go straight to SP1 on the builds and deploy from USB or over the net depending on what else you put on the build. You can certainly get rid of any OEM junk. Mike -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: 31 March 2011 04:04 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 upgrade question I recommend you spend an hour or two looking at MDT 2010 Update 1 in detail (MDT - Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). Not only will it do everything you want (and then some) - it's free. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 upgrade question All, We're on the cusp of getting a MSFT EA in place (it looking like 90% sure, right now), and we've been ordering Dell laptops for lease with Win7 Pro on them. I want to get all of them up to Win7 Enterprise, and thought I had read somewhere that it was just a matter of a key update. I can't find any documentation on that, however, and our vendor rep pointed me at this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579%28WS.10%29.aspx So, for those of you who know about this kind of thing, what would you do? Right now I'm contemplating either something like this: http://laplink.com/pcmover or just doing an Anytime upgrade to Ultimate, and calling it good, because the lease will run out before the OS EOLs. Anyone have better thoughts on this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win7 upgrade question
Excellent. Thank you very much. Kurt On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 20:03, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I recommend you spend an hour or two looking at MDT 2010 Update 1 in detail (MDT - Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). Not only will it do everything you want (and then some) - it's free. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 upgrade question All, We're on the cusp of getting a MSFT EA in place (it looking like 90% sure, right now), and we've been ordering Dell laptops for lease with Win7 Pro on them. I want to get all of them up to Win7 Enterprise, and thought I had read somewhere that it was just a matter of a key update. I can't find any documentation on that, however, and our vendor rep pointed me at this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579%28WS.10%29.aspx So, for those of you who know about this kind of thing, what would you do? Right now I'm contemplating either something like this: http://laplink.com/pcmover or just doing an Anytime upgrade to Ultimate, and calling it good, because the lease will run out before the OS EOLs. Anyone have better thoughts on this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Win7 upgrade question
Last time I had a Technet subscription was in, ummm - 1997, IIRC. I'll have to look at that, and our budget, and see if we can fit it in. Thanks. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 20:08, Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net wrote: Win 7 Enterprise is not on the retail disks, when you get your agreement you will have access to download it. If you have TechNet access then you can start playing with the MDT and get the ISO from the same place. You can go straight to SP1 on the builds and deploy from USB or over the net depending on what else you put on the build. You can certainly get rid of any OEM junk. Mike -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: 31 March 2011 04:04 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win7 upgrade question I recommend you spend an hour or two looking at MDT 2010 Update 1 in detail (MDT - Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). Not only will it do everything you want (and then some) - it's free. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win7 upgrade question All, We're on the cusp of getting a MSFT EA in place (it looking like 90% sure, right now), and we've been ordering Dell laptops for lease with Win7 Pro on them. I want to get all of them up to Win7 Enterprise, and thought I had read somewhere that it was just a matter of a key update. I can't find any documentation on that, however, and our vendor rep pointed me at this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579%28WS.10%29.aspx So, for those of you who know about this kind of thing, what would you do? Right now I'm contemplating either something like this: http://laplink.com/pcmover or just doing an Anytime upgrade to Ultimate, and calling it good, because the lease will run out before the OS EOLs. Anyone have better thoughts on this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
