date:20110405

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There
are some specific configuration requirements.

 

There's a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well. 

 

I've seen reports of it working within VMWare.

 

-sc

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

Harry,

It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS
software initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because,
as I understand it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS
boots.

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite
well (or the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a
VMFS store.

the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql
data/logs, exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store
breaks the EQL technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit
extensions to work.

 

what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the
host initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator
using the MS or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and
the consensus so far from all the replies has been a resounding it
depends...  LOL

 

What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided,
was to test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of
the disk subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the
Longitude Monitoring system's tools.



From: Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using
that to connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the
specific reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support
running the MS iSCSI initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose
host connects to a VMFS datastore via iSCSI. 

 

Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create
disk breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my
existing archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has
always been to create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for
exchange 2010 and SQL.

 

H

 

 

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh
k...@colonialsavings.com wrote:

Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and
others have pointed out, there's definitely pros and cons for either
choice.

 

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

Something else you made me remember.  If you plan to do MPIO at the Host
level then your VMFS disks will be able to take advantage of that.  EQ
just had a good webex about MPIO at the host level vs. guest level a
couple weeks ago, below is the recording.

 

https://dellenterprise.webex.com/ec0605l/eventcenter/recording/recordAct
ion.do?theAction=poprecordactname=%2Feventcenter%2Fframe%2Fg.doapiname
=lsr.phprenewticket=0renewticket=0actappname=ec0605lentappname=url01
07lneedFilter=falseisurlact=trueentactname=%2FnbrRecordingURL.dorID
=42187702rKey=bed3095e1947d127recordID=42187702rnd=1623196772siteurl
=dellenterpriseSP=ECAT=pbformat=short

 



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

File Servers are a bit questionable, but for SQL/Exchange it depends on
if you want to use the features of the ASMME for it. 

If you plan to present any VMFS from the ESX hosts though, definitely
install the ESX DSM.

If you do VMFS for SQL/Exchange, make sure the virtual SCSI adaptor is
the paravirtualized one as it can make a big difference on boxes with
heavy IO requirements. 

 

DAMIEN SOLODOW

Systems Engineer

317.447.6033 (office)

317.217.6851 (fax)

HARRISON COLLEGE

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

There will be some of each type that you mentioned.  File services, SQL
2005/2008, Exchange 2010.  I agree that there's some advantages to be
gained using the EQL HIT kits, both in the guest and the ESX servers.

 

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

We use option two here, there are a lot of very good EQ/Dell best
practice white papers dealing with this exact topic.  You didn't say
what's going to be running on your

APC battery tray

Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a
screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even
worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC
used to secure the batteries into the tray?





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RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-05 Thread Ken Schaefer

Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare

Cheers
Ken

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible: 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There are some 
specific configuration requirements.

There's a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.

I've seen reports of it working within VMWare.

-sc

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Harry,

It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS software 
initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because, as I understand 
it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS boots.

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite well (or 
the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest that is 
hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS store.

the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql data/logs, 
exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store breaks the EQL 
technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit extensions to work.

what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the host 
initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator using the MS 
or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and the consensus so far 
from all the replies has been a resounding it depends...  LOL

What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided, was to 
test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of the disk 
subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the Longitude 
Monitoring system's tools.

From: Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests
Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using that to 
connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the specific 
reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support running the MS iSCSI 
initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose host connects to a VMFS 
datastore via iSCSI.

Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create disk 
breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my existing 
archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has always been to 
create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for exchange 2010 and SQL.

H

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh 
k...@colonialsavings.commailto:k...@colonialsavings.com wrote:
Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and others 
have pointed out, there's definitely pros and cons for either choice.

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.commailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Something else you made me remember.  If you plan to do MPIO at the Host level 
then your VMFS disks will be able to take advantage of that.  EQ just had a 
good webex about MPIO at the host level vs. guest level a couple weeks ago, 
below is the recording.

https://dellenterprise.webex.com/ec0605l/eventcenter/recording/recordAction.do?theAction=poprecordactname=%2Feventcenter%2Fframe%2Fg.doapiname=lsr.phprenewticket=0renewticket=0actappname=ec0605lentappname=url0107lneedFilter=falseisurlact=trueentactname=%2FnbrRecordingURL.dorID=42187702rKey=bed3095e1947d127recordID=42187702rnd=1623196772siteurl=dellenterpriseSP=ECAT=pbformat=short

From: Damien Solodow 
[mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edumailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests
File Servers are a bit questionable, but for SQL/Exchange it depends on if you 
want to use the features of the ASMME for it.
If you plan to present any VMFS from the ESX hosts though, definitely install 
the ESX DSM.
If you do VMFS for SQL/Exchange, make sure the virtual SCSI adaptor is the 
paravirtualized one as it can make a big difference on boxes with heavy IO 
requirements.

DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033tel:317.447.6033 (office)
317.217.6851tel:317.217.6851 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE

From: Kim Longenbaugh 
[mailto:k...@colonialsavings.commailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

There will be some of each type that you mentioned.  File services, SQL 
2005/2008, Exchange 2010.  I agree that there's some advantages to be gained 
using the EQL HIT kits, both in the guest and the ESX

Re: APC battery tray

Not familiar with that one...

Our 2U 3000 VA unit has their batteries locked up in a cage (and the whole 
cage gets replaced).

In the past, APC used large areas of double-stick tape to hold individual 
batteries together into some battery packs.

I'm rather surprised the screwdriver didn't dislodge a battery.  Then 
again, it's his screwdriver.  He's probably also aware of the bigger 
concern - cracking a battery case open.  (Breaking that tray would 
probably not be a good thing, either.)

I have the feeling GooGone isn't going to work.  If the goo covers the 
entire bottom area of each battery, it will take days (weeks?) before it 
seeps in and loosens the goo.

In the mean time, check CDW, etc for after-market replacements which would 
include a new tray.
--
richard




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Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the 
tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a
screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even
worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC
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RE: APC battery tray

2011-04-05 Thread Matthew B Ames

Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into the tray?

Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close) then you 
need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: APC battery tray

Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our 
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a 
screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo Gone, 
but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even worse... Is 
that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC used to secure 
the batteries into the tray?

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RE: APC battery tray

2011-04-05 Thread Erik Goldoff

Guessing the tray has a ridge around the perimeter ?  More than likely, the
batteries have swelled and are now friction tight.


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-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: APC battery tray

Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a
screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even
worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC
used to secure the batteries into the tray?





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RE: APC battery tray

Yeah. It's looking like I'm going to have to replace it, tray and all, like
APC intended. :-( Would you spend the extra money for the name-brand
replacements (including the extra year of warranty) or go with the less
expensive after-market solution that is supposed to be compatible with the
RBC24 battery pack?




-Original Message-
From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: APC battery tray

Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into the
tray?

Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close) then
you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: APC battery tray

Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a
screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even
worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC
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RE: eagle cam is back

2011-04-05 Thread Free, Bob

We have had peregrines  nesting 10 years now at our main office building in 
San Francisco. They are quite the local celebs.

The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG) 
http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/index.htm  has had a nestcam on the nestbox for the 
last 6 yearrs or so  that gets upward of a million hits a day at peak

http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/nestcamSF.htm



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We have a pAir of peregrine falcons thAt perch up on a hotel downtown here. 
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RE: APC battery tray

Is this tray some sort of platform into which batteries are placed, 
wired, etc and then slid into the UPS?  How high up on the batteries does 
this extend?

Anyway, yes, many of us have had batteries swell.  Our (4) oldest 
RM-3000VA's each have two sets of 4 batteries, and the individual 
batteries are unitized by double-stick foam.  If just one of those 
batteries swells just a wee bit, it's extremely difficult to get them out 
of the UPS.  I have had some success with some small pry bars.  One time, 
though, I had to shut down the unit, pull it out of the rack, then undo a 
whole bunch of little screws to take the top off the UPS.

The following is far from best practices, but we really have crappy air 
control in our server room (and a couple of us are begging for funding do 
deal with this!).  Our racks lack sides, back, and doors.  After the 
battery swell episode (which required the top being removed to get to the 
batteries), we leave a 1 U space above and below each UPS.  Since doing 
this, we've had no more battery swelling events.
--
richard




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Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into the 
tray?

Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close) then 
you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: APC battery tray

Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our 
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the 
tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a 
screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo 
Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even 
worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC 
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RE: APC battery tray

Whether or not an extra year of warranty is worth it or not, simply 
consider how much fun you've been having with this the past 2 days or 
so...
--
richard




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Yeah. It's looking like I'm going to have to replace it, tray and all, 
like
APC intended. :-( Would you spend the extra money for the name-brand
replacements (including the extra year of warranty) or go with the less
expensive after-market solution that is supposed to be compatible with 
the
RBC24 battery pack?




-Original Message-
From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: APC battery tray

Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into the
tray?

Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close) then
you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: APC battery tray

Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the 
tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a
screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even
worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC
used to secure the batteries into the tray?





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RE: APC battery tray

:-) I guess my question would be, do YOU buy name-brand batteries or are the
aftermarket kits good enough? 

The metal tray in which these batteries reside goes up about 1/2 to 2/3 of
the way on the outside. The batteries do not appear to be swollen, but they
could be slightly swollen and provide just enough friction. I guess I really
have nothing to lose if I use a small pry bar. After all I am currently
planning on replacing the whole thing if I can't get the batteries out. :-)



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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: APC battery tray


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consider how much fun you've been having with this the past 2 days or so... 
-- 
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Yeah. It's looking like I'm going to have to replace it, tray and all, like
APC intended. :-( Would you spend the extra money for the name-brand
replacements (including the extra year of warranty) or go with the less
expensive after-market solution that is supposed to be compatible with the
RBC24 battery pack?




-Original Message-
From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: APC battery tray

Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into the
tray?

Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close) then
you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: APC battery tray

Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a
screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even
worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC
used to secure the batteries into the tray?





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RE: APC battery tray

We've had the batteries swell on our Compaq UPS's (OEM'ed by APC). Even
with sufficient cooling, they can do it with age, or if you have a long
outage where house HVAC is out, and the batteries are driving close to
max load, that single event can do it.

 

The battery trays in ours weren't much more than blister-packaging
type plastic and some tape hold the whole affair together. Piss-poor
design for replacement, if you ask me.

 

-sc

 

From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: APC battery tray

 


Is this tray some sort of platform into which batteries are placed,
wired, etc and then slid into the UPS?  How high up on the batteries
does this extend? 

Anyway, yes, many of us have had batteries swell.  Our (4) oldest
RM-3000VA's each have two sets of 4 batteries, and the individual
batteries are unitized by double-stick foam.  If just one of those
batteries swells just a wee bit, it's extremely difficult to get them
out of the UPS.  I have had some success with some small pry bars.  One
time, though, I had to shut down the unit, pull it out of the rack, then
undo a whole bunch of little screws to take the top off the UPS. 

The following is far from best practices, but we really have crappy
air control in our server room (and a couple of us are begging for
funding do deal with this!).  Our racks lack sides, back, and doors.
After the battery swell episode (which required the top being removed to
get to the batteries), we leave a 1 U space above and below each UPS.
Since doing this, we've had no more battery swelling events. 
-- 
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Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into
the tray?

Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close)
then you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: APC battery tray

Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the
tray.
The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with
a screwdriver by prying on them.

A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something
even worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue
what APC used to secure the batteries into the tray?





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RE: APC battery tray

There's what I buy, and what Purchasing ends up getting...  Besides 
perhaps guaranteed to last a year longer than the competitor's packs, APC 
also has their liability policy regarding equipment.  That is, if damage 
is caused to all your servers because a UPS goes wack-o, APC will take 
care of the hardware replacement (too bad the data on those servers is 
worth many times that of the server itself).  I believe if you use 
after-market batteries, that policy is voided.

APC packs once had a paid mailer for return to the recyclers.  Given the 
weight of the package, that was worth quite a bit.  (Now we just drive 
across town to the salvage yard that handles SLA batteries.)  Not _that_ 
big a deal, but it's annoying.
--
richard

John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 04/05/2011 10:02:01 
AM:

 :-) I guess my question would be, do YOU buy name-brand batteries or are 
the
 aftermarket kits good enough? 
 
 The metal tray in which these batteries reside goes up about 1/2 to 2/3 
of
 the way on the outside. The batteries do not appear to be swollen, but 
they
 could be slightly swollen and provide just enough friction. I guess I 
really
 have nothing to lose if I use a small pry bar. After all I am currently
 planning on replacing the whole thing if I can't get the batteries out. 
:-)
 
 
 
 From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:59 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: APC battery tray
 
 
 Whether or not an extra year of warranty is worth it or not, simply
 consider how much fun you've been having with this the past 2 days or 
so... 
 -- 
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 Yeah. It's looking like I'm going to have to replace it, tray and all, 
like
 APC intended. :-( Would you spend the extra money for the name-brand
 replacements (including the extra year of warranty) or go with the less
 expensive after-market solution that is supposed to be compatible with 
the
 RBC24 battery pack?
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:48 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: APC battery tray
 
 Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into 
the
 tray?
 
 Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close) 
then
 you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
 Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: APC battery tray
 
 Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
 rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the 
tray.
 The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with 
a
 screwdriver by prying on them.
 
 A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
 Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something 
even
 worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what 
APC
 used to secure the batteries into the tray?
 
 
 
 
 
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RE: Ping Stu: KnowBe4

2011-04-05 Thread Clark, Tommy R

Looks like loading core.js, main.js, transformer.js, validator.js, and
messages.js from 2ri.static.w2l.gurl.im:8000 is timing out and delaying
the page load.

 

From: bounce-9311516-8239...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
[mailto:bounce-9311516-8239...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of
Sam Cayze
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Ping Stu: KnowBe4

 

Stu, a friendly FYI, but your new site is taking forever to load. Even
websiteoptimization.com is reporting a 60 second load time on a T1.

 

I was just about to share your product with our CEO.  I thought some
increased user awareness would be a good measure due to the huge email
breach at Epsilon recently.  

 

Thanks,


Sam

 

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Drawing a blank - need help

2011-04-05 Thread Joseph Heaton

What is the Microsoft process where you can enable this on a file structure, 
and people access one share, and only see the folders below that they have 
access to?  I'm using Server 2K8 R2, but it was available back in 2k3, I 
think...



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RE: Drawing a blank - need help

Access based enumeration

Regards,

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Consultant and Exchange MVP
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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Drawing a blank - need help

What is the Microsoft process where you can enable this on a file structure, 
and people access one share, and only see the folders below that they have 
access to?  I'm using Server 2K8 R2, but it was available back in 2k3, I 
think...



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RE: APC battery tray

Well, I think I'll end up going back to Batteries Plus. I managed to get
ahold of a long-handled pry bar and break a couple of the batteries loose...
:-) Funny what happens when you use the right tool for the job. ;-)
Anyway, I'm going to be getting higher capacity batteries for about half the
cost of a new OEM tray of batteries... since I don't think this unit is
under warranty any more, I don't think it matters which batteries I use.



From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: APC battery tray
Importance: High


There's what I buy, and what Purchasing ends up getting...  Besides
perhaps guaranteed to last a year longer than the competitor's packs, APC
also has their liability policy regarding equipment.  That is, if damage is
caused to all your servers because a UPS goes wack-o, APC will take care of
the hardware replacement (too bad the data on those servers is worth many
times that of the server itself).  I believe if you use after-market
batteries, that policy is voided. 

APC packs once had a paid mailer for return to the recyclers.  Given the
weight of the package, that was worth quite a bit.  (Now we just drive
across town to the salvage yard that handles SLA batteries.)  Not _that_ big
a deal, but it's annoying. 
-- 
richard 

John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 04/05/2011 10:02:01
AM:

 :-) I guess my question would be, do YOU buy name-brand batteries or are
the
 aftermarket kits good enough? 
 
 The metal tray in which these batteries reside goes up about 1/2 to 2/3 of
 the way on the outside. The batteries do not appear to be swollen, but
they
 could be slightly swollen and provide just enough friction. I guess I
really
 have nothing to lose if I use a small pry bar. After all I am currently
 planning on replacing the whole thing if I can't get the batteries out.
:-)
 
 
 
 From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:59 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: APC battery tray
 
 
 Whether or not an extra year of warranty is worth it or not, simply
 consider how much fun you've been having with this the past 2 days or
so... 
 -- 
 richard 
 
 
 John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com 
 04/05/2011 09:53 AM 
 Please respond to
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 Subject
 RE: APC battery tray
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Yeah. It's looking like I'm going to have to replace it, tray and all,
like
 APC intended. :-( Would you spend the extra money for the name-brand
 replacements (including the extra year of warranty) or go with the less
 expensive after-market solution that is supposed to be compatible with
the
 RBC24 battery pack?
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:48 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: APC battery tray
 
 Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into the
 tray?
 
 Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close) then
 you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
 Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: APC battery tray
 
 Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
 rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the
tray.
 The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a
 screwdriver by prying on them.
 
 A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
 Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even
 worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC
 used to secure the batteries into the tray?
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

It is posible, but what we've discovered is that if you have a SAN
connectivity issue you've compilicated your life. We had a long term
performance issue and boot to SAN would be problematic. Local storage is
cheap cheap cheap. Frankly if I could I would have our Exchange in direct
attached storage but it is not up to me, we must spend way more because it
says 'SAN'.

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:

Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare

Cheers

Ken

*From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM

*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There are
some specific configuration requirements.

There’s a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.

I’ve seen reports of it working within VMWare.

-sc

*From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Harry,

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite well
(or the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS
store.

*From:* Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using that
to connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the specific
reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support running the MS
iSCSI initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose host connects to a
VMFS datastore via iSCSI.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com
wrote:

Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today. Like you and others
have pointed out, there’s definitely pros and cons for either choice.

*From:* N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
*Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM

*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

*From:* Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
*Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 12:07 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

File Servers are a bit questionable, but for SQL/Exchange it depends on if
you want to use the features of the ASMME for it.

If you plan to present any VMFS from the ESX hosts though, definitely
install the ESX DSM.

If you do VMFS for SQL/Exchange, make sure the virtual SCSI adaptor is the
paravirtualized one as it can make a big difference on boxes with heavy IO
requirements.

DAMIEN

Re: APC battery tray

2011-04-05 Thread Roger Wright

And I can vouch that APC will stand behind the warranty.  I had 4 PC's
replaced by them several years ago after a power issue following a
hurricane.  It was about a 30 minute process to validate the
connections and infrasturture with them over the phone but they came
through with a check within a couple weeks.


Roger Wright
___

There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time
somebody helped the homely? - Dolly Parton




On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:10 AM,  richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:

 There's what I buy, and what Purchasing ends up getting...  Besides
 perhaps guaranteed to last a year longer than the competitor's packs, APC
 also has their liability policy regarding equipment.  That is, if damage is
 caused to all your servers because a UPS goes wack-o, APC will take care of
 the hardware replacement (too bad the data on those servers is worth many
 times that of the server itself).  I believe if you use after-market
 batteries, that policy is voided.

 APC packs once had a paid mailer for return to the recyclers.  Given the
 weight of the package, that was worth quite a bit.  (Now we just drive
 across town to the salvage yard that handles SLA batteries.)  Not _that_ big
 a deal, but it's annoying.
 --
 richard

 John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 04/05/2011 10:02:01
 AM:

 :-) I guess my question would be, do YOU buy name-brand batteries or are
 the
 aftermarket kits good enough?

 The metal tray in which these batteries reside goes up about 1/2 to 2/3 of
 the way on the outside. The batteries do not appear to be swollen, but
 they
 could be slightly swollen and provide just enough friction. I guess I
 really
 have nothing to lose if I use a small pry bar. After all I am currently
 planning on replacing the whole thing if I can't get the batteries out.
 :-)



 From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:59 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: APC battery tray


 Whether or not an extra year of warranty is worth it or not, simply
 consider how much fun you've been having with this the past 2 days or
 so...
 --
 richard


 John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
 04/05/2011 09:53 AM
 Please respond to
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 Yeah. It's looking like I'm going to have to replace it, tray and all,
 like
 APC intended. :-( Would you spend the extra money for the name-brand
 replacements (including the extra year of warranty) or go with the less
 expensive after-market solution that is supposed to be compatible with
 the
 RBC24 battery pack?




 -Original Message-
 From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:48 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: APC battery tray

 Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into the
 tray?

 Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close) then
 you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.

 -Original Message-
 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
 Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: APC battery tray

 Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
 rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the
 tray.
 The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with a
 screwdriver by prying on them.

 A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
 Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something even
 worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what APC
 used to secure the batteries into the tray?





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RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-05 Thread Damien Solodow

The issue with local storage on VMware is that it makes Vmotion
problematic. J

The general recommendation is to present shared storage to your ESX
hosts (iSCSI, FC, NFS) and create VMFS volumes for your guests. As far
as they know it's local storage then.

 

DAMIEN SOLODOW

Systems Engineer

317.447.6033 (office)

317.217.6851 (fax)

HARRISON COLLEGE

 

From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

It is posible, but what we've discovered is that if you have a SAN
connectivity issue you've compilicated your life.  We had a long term
performance issue and boot to SAN would be problematic.  Local storage
is cheap cheap cheap.  Frankly if I could I would have our Exchange in
direct attached storage but it is not up to me, we must spend way more
because it says 'SAN'.

 

Steven Peck

http://www.blkmtn.org

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com
wrote:

Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There
are some specific configuration requirements.

 

There's a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well. 

 

I've seen reports of it working within VMWare.

 

-sc

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

Harry,

It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS
software initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because,
as I understand it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS
boots.

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite
well (or the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a
VMFS store.

the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql
data/logs, exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store
breaks the EQL technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit
extensions to work.

 

what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the
host initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator
using the MS or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and
the consensus so far from all the replies has been a resounding it
depends...  LOL

 

What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided,
was to test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of
the disk subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the
Longitude Monitoring system's tools.



From: Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using
that to connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the
specific reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support
running the MS iSCSI initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose
host connects to a VMFS datastore via iSCSI. 

 

Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create
disk breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my
existing archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has
always been to create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for
exchange 2010 and SQL.

 

H

 

 

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh
k...@colonialsavings.com wrote:

Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and
others have pointed out, there's definitely pros and cons for either
choice.

 

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

Something else you made me remember.  If you plan to do MPIO at the Host
level then your VMFS disks will be able to take advantage of that.  EQ
just had a good webex about MPIO at the host level vs. guest level a
couple weeks ago, below is the recording.

 

https://dellenterprise.webex.com/ec0605l/eventcenter/recording/recordAct
ion.do?theAction=poprecordactname=%2Feventcenter%2Fframe%2Fg.doapiname
=lsr.phprenewticket=0renewticket=0actappname=ec0605lentappname=url01
07lneedFilter=falseisurlact=trueentactname=%2FnbrRecordingURL.dorID
=42187702rKey=bed3095e1947d127recordID=42187702rnd=1623196772siteurl
=dellenterpriseSP=ECAT=pbformat=short

 



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew S. Baker

*Local storage is cheap cheap cheap.*

If price is the only consideration, then sure.

*ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio)
*Technology Services that Maximize Business Results...

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote:

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:

Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare

Cheers

Ken

*From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM

*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There
are some specific configuration requirements.

There’s a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.

I’ve seen reports of it working within VMWare.

-sc

*From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Harry,

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite well
(or the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS
store.

what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the
host initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator using
the MS or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and the
consensus so far from all the replies has been a resounding it depends...
LOL

*From:* Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using that
to connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the specific
reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support running the MS
iSCSI initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose host connects to a
VMFS datastore via iSCSI.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com
wrote:

Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today. Like you and
others have pointed out, there’s definitely pros and cons for either choice.

*From:* N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
*Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM

*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

*From:* Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
*Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 12:07 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

File Servers are a bit questionable, but for SQL/Exchange it depends on if
you want to use the features of

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Well, if you have SAN issues, you will have problems regardless if your
boot volumes are iSCSI on your san, or in your VMFS located on your SAN.
And additional troubles if your data volumes are on your SAN for that
matter.

 

Unless you are espousing foregoing shared storage for local-attach
storage altogether, in which case: 1) you also forego a significant bit
of convenience, HA, DR, etc... that a virtualized environment affords,
and 2) I disagree.

 

-sc

 

From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

It is posible, but what we've discovered is that if you have a SAN
connectivity issue you've compilicated your life.  We had a long term
performance issue and boot to SAN would be problematic.  Local storage
is cheap cheap cheap.  Frankly if I could I would have our Exchange in
direct attached storage but it is not up to me, we must spend way more
because it says 'SAN'.

 

Steven Peck

http://www.blkmtn.org

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com
wrote:

Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There
are some specific configuration requirements.

 

There's a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well. 

 

I've seen reports of it working within VMWare.

 

-sc

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

Harry,

It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS
software initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because,
as I understand it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS
boots.

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite
well (or the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a
VMFS store.

the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql
data/logs, exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store
breaks the EQL technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit
extensions to work.

 

what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the
host initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator
using the MS or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and
the consensus so far from all the replies has been a resounding it
depends...  LOL

 

What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided,
was to test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of
the disk subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the
Longitude Monitoring system's tools.



From: Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using
that to connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the
specific reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support
running the MS iSCSI initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose
host connects to a VMFS datastore via iSCSI. 

 

Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create
disk breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my
existing archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has
always been to create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for
exchange 2010 and SQL.

 

H

 

 

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh
k...@colonialsavings.com wrote:

Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and
others have pointed out, there's definitely pros and cons for either
choice.

 

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 

Something else you made me remember.  If you plan to do MPIO at the Host
level then your VMFS disks will be able to take advantage of that.  EQ
just had a good webex about MPIO at the host level vs. guest level a
couple weeks ago, below is the recording.

 

https://dellenterprise.webex.com/ec0605l/eventcenter/recording/recordAct
ion.do?theAction=poprecordactname=%2Feventcenter%2Fframe%2Fg.doapiname
=lsr.phprenewticket=0renewticket=0actappname=ec0605lentappname=url01
07lneedFilter=falseisurlact=trueentactname=%2FnbrRecordingURL.dorID
=42187702rKey=bed3095e1947d127recordID=42187702rnd=1623196772siteurl
=dellenterpriseSP=ECAT=pbformat=short

 



From: Damien Solodow

Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Price is not the only consideration. SAN boot really brings nothing to the
table except expensive C: Drives. File stores and all the other management
tricks on the SAN? Sure. SAN boot, not worth the hassle.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:

*Local storage is cheap cheap cheap.*

If price is the only consideration, then sure.

*ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio)
*Technology Services that Maximize Business Results...

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote:

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.comwrote:

Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare

Cheers

Ken

*From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM

*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There
are some specific configuration requirements.

There’s a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.

I’ve seen reports of it working within VMWare.

-sc

*From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Harry,

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite
well (or the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS
store.

what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the
host initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator using
the MS or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and the
consensus so far from all the replies has been a resounding it depends...
LOL

*From:* Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh
k...@colonialsavings.com wrote:

Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today. Like you and
others have pointed out, there’s definitely pros and cons for either choice.

*From:* N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
*Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM

*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

We use SAN storage, just not for the OS boot partition.  It's really
expeinsive for that and complicates troubleshooting as well.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:

 Well, if you have SAN issues, you will have problems regardless if your
 boot volumes are iSCSI on your san, or in your VMFS located on your SAN. And
 additional troubles if your data volumes are on your SAN for that matter.



 Unless you are espousing foregoing shared storage for local-attach storage
 altogether, in which case: 1) you also forego a significant bit of
 convenience, HA, DR, etc… that a virtualized environment affords, and 2) I
 disagree.



 -sc



 *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:32 AM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 It is posible, but what we've discovered is that if you have a SAN
 connectivity issue you've compilicated your life.  We had a long term
 performance issue and boot to SAN would be problematic.  Local storage is
 cheap cheap cheap.  Frankly if I could I would have our Exchange in direct
 attached storage but it is not up to me, we must spend way more because it
 says 'SAN'.



 Steven Peck

 http://www.blkmtn.org

 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:

 Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare



 Cheers

 Ken



 *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM


 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There are
 some specific configuration requirements.



 There’s a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.



 I’ve seen reports of it working within VMWare.



 -sc



 *From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 Harry,

 It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS
 software initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because, as I
 understand it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS boots.

 Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite well
 (or the EQL hit kit).

 Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
 that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS
 store.

 the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql
 data/logs, exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store breaks
 the EQL technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit extensions
 to work.



 what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the host
 initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator using the
 MS or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and the consensus
 so far from all the replies has been a resounding it depends...  LOL



 What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided,
 was to test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of the
 disk subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the Longitude
 Monitoring system's tools.
 --

 *From:* Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using that
 to connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the specific
 reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support running the MS
 iSCSI initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose host connects to a
 VMFS datastore via iSCSI.



 Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create disk
 breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my existing
 archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has always been to
 create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for exchange 2010 and
 SQL.



 H





 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com
 wrote:

 Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and others
 have pointed out, there’s definitely pros and cons for either choice.



 *From:* N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM


 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 Something else you made me remember.  If you plan to do MPIO at the Host
 level then your VMFS disks will be able to take advantage of that.  EQ just
 had a good webex about MPIO at the host level vs. guest level a couple weeks
 ago, below is the recording.

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

I've done cabinets full of iSCSI SAN boot for blade servers for n-tier web 
sites. As you scale, it becomes more attractive.

(And, at a certain level of scale, it becomes less attractive again - but there 
aren't many Googles/Facebooks/Hotmails out there.)

SAN doesn't have to be expensive anymore. I guess it depends on how you define 
SAN.

I define it, on the low-end, as 12-TB of RAID-5 in a Dell R* chassis with an 
iSCSI target. Of course, an EMC SAN is going to cost a lot more than 
that...(and give you lots more features, too).

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:46 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Price is not the only consideration.  SAN boot really brings nothing to the 
table except expensive C: Drives.   File stores and all the other management 
tricks on the SAN?  Sure.  SAN boot, not worth the hassle.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Andrew S. Baker 
asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
Local storage is cheap cheap cheap.

If price is the only consideration, then sure.




ASB (Professional Biohttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio)
Technology Services that Maximize Business Results...




On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven Peck 
sep...@gmail.commailto:sep...@gmail.com wrote:
It is posible, but what we've discovered is that if you have a SAN connectivity 
issue you've compilicated your life.  We had a long term performance issue and 
boot to SAN would be problematic.  Local storage is cheap cheap cheap.  Frankly 
if I could I would have our Exchange in direct attached storage but it is not 
up to me, we must spend way more because it says 'SAN'.

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer 
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare

Cheers
Ken

From: Steven M. Caesare 
[mailto:scaes...@caesare.commailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible: 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There are some 
specific configuration requirements.

There's a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.

I've seen reports of it working within VMWare.

-sc

From: Kim Longenbaugh 
[mailto:k...@colonialsavings.commailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests


Harry,

It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS software 
initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because, as I understand 
it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS boots.

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite well (or 
the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest that is 
hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS store.

the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql data/logs, 
exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store breaks the EQL 
technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit extensions to work.



what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the host 
initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator using the MS 
or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and the consensus so far 
from all the replies has been a resounding it depends...  LOL



What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided, was to 
test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of the disk 
subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the Longitude 
Monitoring system's tools.


From: Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.commailto:hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests
Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using that to 
connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the specific 
reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support running the MS iSCSI 
initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose host connects to a VMFS 
datastore via iSCSI.

Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create disk 
breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my existing 
archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has always been to 
create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for exchange 2010 and SQL.

H


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh 
k...@colonialsavings.commailto:k...@colonialsavings.com wrote:
Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and others 
have pointed out, there's definitely pros and cons for

Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-05 Thread Jonathan Link

Consider when whan of your hosts dies because of hardware failure, and
you're stuck with the VM on the machine's DAS.  Sure, you backup properly
but I never really like to restore from a backup unless I absolutely have
to...

As far as complicating troubleshooting, I just don't see it.  Either the
volume is there or it is not.  If your SAN is flakey, you're going to have
issues across all your storage needs.


On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote:

 We use SAN storage, just not for the OS boot partition.  It's really
 expeinsive for that and complicates troubleshooting as well.

  On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Steven M. Caesare 
 scaes...@caesare.comwrote:

   Well, if you have SAN issues, you will have problems regardless if your
 boot volumes are iSCSI on your san, or in your VMFS located on your SAN. And
 additional troubles if your data volumes are on your SAN for that matter.



 Unless you are espousing foregoing shared storage for local-attach storage
 altogether, in which case: 1) you also forego a significant bit of
 convenience, HA, DR, etc… that a virtualized environment affords, and 2) I
 disagree.



 -sc



 *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:32 AM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 It is posible, but what we've discovered is that if you have a SAN
 connectivity issue you've compilicated your life.  We had a long term
 performance issue and boot to SAN would be problematic.  Local storage is
 cheap cheap cheap.  Frankly if I could I would have our Exchange in direct
 attached storage but it is not up to me, we must spend way more because it
 says 'SAN'.



 Steven Peck

 http://www.blkmtn.org

 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com
 wrote:

 Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare



 Cheers

 Ken



 *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM


 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There
 are some specific configuration requirements.



 There’s a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.



 I’ve seen reports of it working within VMWare.



 -sc



 *From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 Harry,

 It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS
 software initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because, as I
 understand it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS boots.

 Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite well
 (or the EQL hit kit).

 Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
 that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS
 store.

 the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql
 data/logs, exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store breaks
 the EQL technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit extensions
 to work.



 what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the
 host initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator using
 the MS or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and the
 consensus so far from all the replies has been a resounding it depends...
 LOL



 What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided,
 was to test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of the
 disk subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the Longitude
 Monitoring system's tools.
  --

 *From:* Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using that
 to connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the specific
 reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support running the MS
 iSCSI initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose host connects to a
 VMFS datastore via iSCSI.



 Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create disk
 breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my existing
 archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has always been to
 create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for exchange 2010 and
 SQL.



 H





 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com
 wrote:

 Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and
 others have pointed out, there’s definitely pros and cons for either choice.



 *From:* N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011

RE: Strange - Outlook 2010 AutoArchive isn't

2011-04-05 Thread Joe Tinney

Sean,

What happens if you go to File  Mailbox Cleanup...  Archive and choose to 
archive based on AutoArchive settings?

You should see status updates as Outlook progresses through the folders in 
Outlook's status bar along the bottom. If the folder structure is sufficiently 
small this may complete before it shows anything to notice.

The biggest 'trick' to AutoArchive is that it doesn't care at all when the 
message was sent or received. AutoArchive works strictly off of the last 
Modified date.
Add that column to the folder view and see when these messages were last 
Modified to see if they meet your AutoArchive criteria.

Also, check to see if there are any GPOs configured for Outlook 2010 that may 
be controlling or superseding his AutoArchive settings.

Best of luck,
Joe Tinney

From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Strange - Outlook 2010 AutoArchive isn't

Sorry for the cross-post, I wanted the maximum exposure.

I've got one user on Outlook 2010 (Exchange 2003) where the AutoArchive isn't 
running even though it's set to run every 3 days without notification.  Are 
there events I should look for in the App or System logs on his workstation?  
I'm really at a loss.  This is a laptop that was formatted and re-installed 
just two weeks ago.  Fully up to date on all patches.

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Re: APC battery tray

2011-04-05 Thread James Kerr

I would and have ordered rbc24.
On Apr 5, 2011 11:36 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote:
 And I can vouch that APC will stand behind the warranty. I had 4 PC's
 replaced by them several years ago after a power issue following a
 hurricane. It was about a 30 minute process to validate the
 connections and infrasturture with them over the phone but they came
 through with a check within a couple weeks.


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 somebody helped the homely? - Dolly Parton




 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:10 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:

 There's what I buy, and what Purchasing ends up getting...  Besides
 perhaps guaranteed to last a year longer than the competitor's packs, APC
 also has their liability policy regarding equipment.  That is, if damage
is
 caused to all your servers because a UPS goes wack-o, APC will take care
of
 the hardware replacement (too bad the data on those servers is worth many
 times that of the server itself).  I believe if you use after-market
 batteries, that policy is voided.

 APC packs once had a paid mailer for return to the recyclers.  Given the
 weight of the package, that was worth quite a bit.  (Now we just drive
 across town to the salvage yard that handles SLA batteries.)  Not _that_
big
 a deal, but it's annoying.
 --
 richard

 John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 04/05/2011
10:02:01
 AM:

 :-) I guess my question would be, do YOU buy name-brand batteries or are
 the
 aftermarket kits good enough?

 The metal tray in which these batteries reside goes up about 1/2 to 2/3
of
 the way on the outside. The batteries do not appear to be swollen, but
 they
 could be slightly swollen and provide just enough friction. I guess I
 really
 have nothing to lose if I use a small pry bar. After all I am currently
 planning on replacing the whole thing if I can't get the batteries out.
 :-)



 From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:59 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: APC battery tray


 Whether or not an extra year of warranty is worth it or not, simply
 consider how much fun you've been having with this the past 2 days or
 so...
 --
 richard


 John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
 04/05/2011 09:53 AM
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 Yeah. It's looking like I'm going to have to replace it, tray and all,
 like
 APC intended. :-( Would you spend the extra money for the name-brand
 replacements (including the extra year of warranty) or go with the less
 expensive after-market solution that is supposed to be compatible with
 the
 RBC24 battery pack?




 -Original Message-
 From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:48 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: APC battery tray

 Is possible the batters have started to expand and are now jammed into
the
 tray?

 Check the voltage across the batteries, if it 0vdc (or pretty close)
then
 you need not really worry about them shorting out, imho.

 -Original Message-
 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
 Sent: 05 April 2011 15:34
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: APC battery tray

 Any tips for getting the batteries out of the tray in an APC UPS? Our
 rackmount APC takes 4 batteries and they appear to be *glued* into the
 tray.
 The guy at Batteries Plus was shocked that he couldn't get 'em out with
a
 screwdriver by prying on them.

 A friend on another list suggested soaking the bottom of the tray in Goo
 Gone, but I'm afraid that might short out the batteries or something
even
 worse... Is that likely to be safe and does anyone have any clue what
APC
 used to secure the batteries into the tray?





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Re: eagle cam is back

2011-04-05 Thread Steve Ens

Ours haven't nested yet...soon I hope.
http://www.species-at-risk.mb.ca/pefa/p-webcam.html

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote:

 We have had peregrines  nesting 10 years now at our main office building
 in San Francisco. They are quite the local celebs.

 The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG)
 http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/index.htm  has had a nestcam on the nestbox
 for the last 6 yearrs or so  that gets upward of a million hits a day at
 peak

 http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/nestcamSF.htm



 -Original Message-
 From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 7:01 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Re: eagle cam is back

 We have a pAir of peregrine falcons thAt perch up on a hotel downtown here.
 Often there is a webcam too ,I'll see if I can find the details.

 Sent from my iPad

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Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

This is a my environment and certain aspects that are less then optimal for
an ideal configuration vs your environment situation.  It's not that I am
wrong, it's that our disasters have lead me down a path where the blips were
less painful if the OS didn't die.  Your experience may have lead you down a
different path which is all to the good.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joseph L. Casale
jcas...@activenetwerx.comwrote:

  While you’re not wrong, you’re not right eitherJ

 So your boot vol is local, and your exchange DB’s etc are iSCSI: Your san
 blips, are you any better off? No.



 It works, it’s just scary for some to wrap their heads around…



 *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:32 AM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 It is posible, but what we've discovered is that if you have a SAN
 connectivity issue you've compilicated your life.  We had a long term
 performance issue and boot to SAN would be problematic.  Local storage is
 cheap cheap cheap.  Frankly if I could I would have our Exchange in direct
 attached storage but it is not up to me, we must spend way more because it
 says 'SAN'.



 Steven Peck

 http://www.blkmtn.org

 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:

 Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare



 Cheers

 Ken



 *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM


 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible:
 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There are
 some specific configuration requirements.



 There’s a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.



 I’ve seen reports of it working within VMWare.



 -sc



 *From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 Harry,

 It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS
 software initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because, as I
 understand it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS boots.

 Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite well
 (or the EQL hit kit).

 Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest
 that is hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS
 store.

 the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql
 data/logs, exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store breaks
 the EQL technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit extensions
 to work.



 what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the host
 initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator using the
 MS or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and the consensus
 so far from all the replies has been a resounding it depends...  LOL



 What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided,
 was to test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of the
 disk subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the Longitude
 Monitoring system's tools.
  --

 *From:* Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

 Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using that
 to connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the specific
 reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support running the MS
 iSCSI initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose host connects to a
 VMFS datastore via iSCSI.



 Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create disk
 breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my existing
 archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has always been to
 create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for exchange 2010 and
 SQL.



 H





 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com
 wrote:

 Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and others
 have pointed out, there’s definitely pros and cons for either choice.



 *From:* N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM


 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests



 Something else you made me remember.  If you plan to do MPIO at the Host
 level then your VMFS disks will be able to take advantage of that.  EQ just
 had a good webex about MPIO at the host level vs. guest level a couple weeks
 ago, below is the recording.

RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

2011-04-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale

I get that, I just don't see where having the OS up but the data gone or the 
stores disappear uncleanly is really any better?
To each his own:)

From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

This is a my environment and certain aspects that are less then optimal for an 
ideal configuration vs your environment situation.  It's not that I am wrong, 
it's that our disasters have lead me down a path where the blips were less 
painful if the OS didn't die.  Your experience may have lead you down a 
different path which is all to the good.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joseph L. Casale 
jcas...@activenetwerx.commailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
While you're not wrong, you're not right either:)
So your boot vol is local, and your exchange DB's etc are iSCSI: Your san 
blips, are you any better off? No.

It works, it's just scary for some to wrap their heads around...

From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.commailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:32 AM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

It is posible, but what we've discovered is that if you have a SAN connectivity 
issue you've compilicated your life.  We had a long term performance issue and 
boot to SAN would be problematic.  Local storage is cheap cheap cheap.  Frankly 
if I could I would have our Exchange in direct attached storage but it is not 
up to me, we must spend way more because it says 'SAN'.

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ken Schaefer 
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Boot from SAN is definitely possible within VMWare

Cheers
Ken

From: Steven M. Caesare 
[mailto:scaes...@caesare.commailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:01 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Boot from iSCSI SAN is possible: 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733(WS.10).aspx. There are some 
specific configuration requirements.

There's a boot version of the initiator for Win2K3 as well.

I've seen reports of it working within VMWare.

-sc

From: Kim Longenbaugh 
[mailto:k...@colonialsavings.commailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Harry,

It would be impossible to use the guest-based initiator like the MS software 
initiator or the EQL Hit kit to connect the OS drive, because, as I understand 
it, the software initiator doesn't load until the OS boots.

Any other drives can be connected via the MS software initiator quite well (or 
the EQL hit kit).

Vmware definitely supports running the msiSCSI initiator inside a guest that is 
hosted in an ESX server connected via the VM initiators to a VMFS store.

the answer to your second question about connecting data drives (sql data/logs, 
exchange stores) via the host initiator from a VMFS store breaks the EQL 
technology because the EQL stuff works on the EQL hit kit extensions to work.

what was the best option between attaching all drives as VMFS from the host 
initiator, or attaching the data drives via guest-based initiator using the MS 
or EQL initiators is the subject of my original post, and the consensus so far 
from all the replies has been a resounding it depends...  LOL

What other posters have suggested, and what the guys in my shop decided, was to 
test both ways using a solid tool to measure the performance of the disk 
subsystem, like IOMeter, perfmon, or in my case, some of the Longitude 
Monitoring system's tools.

From: Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.commailto:hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests
Those using the guest iSCSI initatior inside VM guests, are you using that to 
connect all the drives? OS, Data, logs, DBs ? I don't have the specific 
reference, but I always thought VMware didn't off support running the MS iSCSI 
initiator inside a guest windows server VM whose host connects to a VMFS 
datastore via iSCSI.

Those using EQL's -- using VMware's native iSCSI initiator to create disk 
breaks the app-aware snapshot feature? This is interesting since my existing 
archeticture, as a result of a reduced feature-set SAN, has always been to 
create VMFS datastores for new disks. Specifically for exchange 2010 and SQL.

H

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Kim Longenbaugh 
k...@colonialsavings.commailto:k...@colonialsavings.com wrote:
Thanks, I saw that, and just got the slide deck today.  Like you and others 
have pointed out, there's definitely pros and cons for either choice.

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.commailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:25 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS iSCSI initiators in VM guests

Something else you

RE: Drawing a blank - need help

2011-04-05 Thread Ziots, Edward

Correct, and it works a dream, I highly recommend you utilize it when
migrating your shares to Win2k8 if at all possible. 

Z

Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
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Cell:401-639-3505


-Original Message-
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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Drawing a blank - need help

Access based enumeration

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Drawing a blank - need help

What is the Microsoft process where you can enable this on a file
structure, and people access one share, and only see the folders below
that they have access to?  I'm using Server 2K8 R2, but it was available
back in 2k3, I think...



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RE: Drawing a blank - need help

2011-04-05 Thread Joseph Heaton

Thanks John and Michael.  Hate brain farts they can be s smelly.

 Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com 4/5/2011 8:25 AM 
Access based enumeration

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Subject: Drawing a blank - need help

What is the Microsoft process where you can enable this on a file structure, 
and people access one share, and only see the folders below that they have 
access to?  I'm using Server 2K8 R2, but it was available back in 2k3, I 
think...



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RE: Archives

The link from their page does seem to have disappeared when I looked for
it earlier today too: 

http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/utilities/login/

-sc

 -Original Message-
 From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:24 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Archives
 
 Are we not able to connect to the Lyris server directly anymore?  I
can't find a
 link for it on Sunbelt's Communities tab.  Would like to search the
archives, so
 I don't ask repetitive questions.
 
 
 
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RE: Drawing a blank - need help

2011-04-05 Thread Kennedy, Jim

You manage it in 2008/R2 with the often ignored Share and Storage Management 
MMC. Hit the properties of the share in that MMC and it is under 
Shareing/Advanced.  Although it looks like it is turned on by default in 
R2

-Original Message-
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Subject: RE: Drawing a blank - need help

Thanks John and Michael.  Hate brain farts they can be s smelly.

 Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com 4/5/2011 8:25 AM 
Access based enumeration

Regards,

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Consultant and Exchange MVP
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Subject: Drawing a blank - need help

What is the Microsoft process where you can enable this on a file structure, 
and people access one share, and only see the folders below that they have 
access to?  I'm using Server 2K8 R2, but it was available back in 2k3, I 
think...

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RE: PCWorld: 'Massive' Epsilon E-Mail Breach Hits Citi, Chase, Many More

2011-04-05 Thread Ziots, Edward

There is another problem with this, that there is a blind trust that
businesses give their partners ( absence of SLA's especially in the
security department) then when the partner gets breached ( remember
again, no security SLA's, no right to audit and verify the partner is
doing the right thing and its verified by a 3rd party), the downstream
liability to the business is where the lack of due diligence on the
business's half, is going to come back and bite them in the arse. 

 

Z

 

Edward E. Ziots

CISSP, Network +, Security +

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

Email:ezi...@lifespan.org

Cell:401-639-3505

 

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 4:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: PCWorld: 'Massive' Epsilon E-Mail Breach Hits Citi, Chase,
Many More

 

I don't either.  The size and scope, and the fact that it seems to be
growing illustrates the poor internal control of Epsilon.  We, as
consumers, are once again being shown that our personal information is a
commodity, that while valuable, is generally held insecurely.  And we,
the consumers, have very little power here, even though will bear the
burden collectively.


 

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com
wrote:

While I don't necessarily advocate ditching an organization as soon as
they have a security blunder (that we hear about), they do need to be
brought to task, because if nothing is done, then there's little
incentive to do things differently. 

 

Rather than leaving them outright, we need to push for some stringent
measures to be put into place that would benefit us, and cause them
lingering financial pain that they'd be more inclined to address their
security needs going forward.

 

Leaving will only get you so much -- the other clowns have the same bad
practices...


 

 
ASB (Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio ) 
Technology Services that Maximize Business Results...

 





On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com
wrote:

Perhaps.  Were I a client of this company, I'd have serious thoughts
about continuing to do business with them.  Sure, maybe this time they
only lost email addresses, which they had to then turn around to their
customers and say, Hey, sorry, this other company we contract with had
a breach and your email address was downloaded.

 

Phishing works, we know it works.  You, the members of this list and I
might not be inclined to click on something, but the masses are a
different story, even when adequately warned.  Now, the thieves, in this
case, know who is a customer of particular store and can create
carefully constructed emails designed to elicit personal information by
pretending to come from a trustworthy site.  My hunch, someone smart got
the list, and we won't see these emails appear for 6 months to a year.
Pure speculation, I know.



 

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming
angu...@geoapps.com wrote:

On 4 Apr 2011 at 15:56, Jonathan Link wrote:

 All your client list are belong to us!

 I'm interested in the long term consequences of this story...

Does not appear to be very bad IMHO as only names and emails for the
most part were
disclosed.

 

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Re: Drobo experiences

2011-04-05 Thread Roger Wright

We've had success with a couple models from Synology.  Easy AD
integration, decent performance, primarily used for install points and
archived data.


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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote:
 i am looking at some cheap disk archive too...looked at the drobo and the
 dlink but I think am going to get a Buffalo Terra pro...1U, 8TB ...

 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr
 michealespin...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 Directly supporting Drobo devices is new to me - but in the past two weeks
 I have come to the conclusion that these things are not worth the support
 headaches.  Particularly it seems, when dealing with DroboShare attached
 equipment.  I'm repeatedly seeing delays, timeouts, and outright
 connectivity drops.

 Does anyone have any insight into similar issues, or (hopefully) anything
 to the contrary?  Thanks!

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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

Let AD do it.

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Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?

We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the things we're 
looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create them through AD (the 
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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Kennedy, Jim

Not a direct answer to your question, but this is my favorite KB article of all 
time and it might prove helpful to your migration. Once you decide the method 
of how to assign them this will let the users auto create them on first login.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443



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Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?

We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the things we're 
looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create them through AD (the 
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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale

That's how I do it, I also setup the perms on the top level folder initially so 
created directories have appropriate permissions for each new user...
jlc

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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:04 PM
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Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

Let AD do it.

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To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?

We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the things we're 
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Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Tom Miller

Have fun with that.  I did that same migration here a year ago or so.  I wrote 
a few scripts to remove the Novell client, iPrint, Zenworks, Patchlink, etc, as 
part of the migration.  I tried the Quest NDS migration tools and they were a 
complete bust.  So many issues that we abandoned the tools.  Waste of $$.  We 
used AD to create the home directories.  
 
The scripts are yours if you want them, send me a message off-line.
 
By the way robocopy is a great tool for the data copy portion of this sort of 
project.
 
Tom

 Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov 4/5/2011 1:57 PM 
We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the things we're 
looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create them through AD (the 
Profile tab), or through Group Policy?



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Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Martin

+1

It should be fairly easy to script. Although, I'm starting to prefer
RichCopy over RoboCopy. I haven't had a chance to compare the latest version
of RoboCopy to RichCopy, but the multithreading in RichCopy has proved to be
much faster than previous versions of RoboCopy.

- Sean

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote:

  Have fun with that.  I did that same migration here a year ago or so.  I
 wrote a few scripts to remove the Novell client, iPrint, Zenworks,
 Patchlink, etc, as part of the migration.  I tried the Quest NDS migration
 tools and they were a complete bust.  So many issues that we abandoned the
 tools.  Waste of $$.  We used AD to create the home directories.

 The scripts are yours if you want them, send me a message off-line.

 By the way robocopy is a great tool for the data copy portion of this sort
 of project.

 Tom

  Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov 4/5/2011 1:57 PM 

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 we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create them through AD
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Re: Archives

2011-04-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr

OT
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4mAeqq9is
/OT

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:

 The link from their page does seem to have disappeared when I looked for
 it earlier today too:

 http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/utilities/login/

 -sc

  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:24 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: Archives
 
  Are we not able to connect to the Lyris server directly anymore?  I
 can't find a
  link for it on Sunbelt's Communities tab.  Would like to search the
 archives, so
  I don't ask repetitive questions.
 
 
 
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Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr

+1

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:

 Let AD do it.

 Regards,

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 Consultant and Exchange MVP
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 -Original Message-
 From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:57 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?

 We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the things
 we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create them through AD
 (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?



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Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Jon Harris

+1 works well.

Jon

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:

 Let AD do it.

 Regards,

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 -Original Message-
 From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:57 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?

 We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the things
 we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create them through AD
 (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?



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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Webster

I like this KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313

In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
TS/RDS/Citrix users.

Thanks


Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://dabcc.com/Webster

 -Original Message-
 From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
 Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
 We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the things
 we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create them through
AD
 (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?


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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Webster

Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a PS
cmdlet to do this:

Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network -RootPath
\\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:

You think? :)


Carl Webster
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http://dabcc.com/Webster

 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
 I like this KB:
 
 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313
 
 In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
 TS/RDS/Citrix users.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the
  things we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create
  them through
 AD
  (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?


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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

You can do that with the AD PowerShell module (and with ADSI in earlier 
versions of PS, and with dsmod.exe in cmd.exe as far as that is concerned).

I thought the question was about the best way to CREATE the home directory. Not 
to assign it. :-)

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-Original Message-
From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a PS
cmdlet to do this:

Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network -RootPath
\\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:

You think? :)


Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://dabcc.com/Webster

 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
 I like this KB:
 
 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313
 
 In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
 TS/RDS/Citrix users.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the
  things we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create
  them through
 AD
  (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?


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IIS WMI and PowerShell

2011-04-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar

Thought I would pass this along in the hope that it may save someone some 
time:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730973.aspx

So I'm trying to retrieve some settings on virtual directories on an 
internal FTP sever we have. I've been trying to use PowerShell as much as 
possible instead of VBScript, so I fire it up and start working at it. 
Eventually decide on something like this:

get-wmiobject -Class IIsFtpVirtualDirSetting -NameSpace 
root\MicrosoftIISv2 -Computer FTPSERVERNAME

And I get Access Denied, so I try another namespace on the same server:

get-wmiobject -list -NameSpace root\Microsoftnlb -Computer FTPSERVERNAME

Works perfectly. Huh?. try another. All the namespaces enumerate 
except for MicrosoftIISv2. Again, huh? So I finally Google it and and 
found the link above, which explains it in detail. Ugh..

If you are still with me here, and interested, try enumerating the 
UNCUserName and UNCPassWord. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I 
did that. I know it's FTP and across the wire the passwords are sent in 
clear text, but I had no idea they were stored that way as well. Not good.

Thanks for listening. 

Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP
Technical Support III
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
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RE: Archives

Is that like the new equivalent to getting rickrolled? Otherwise, I may be an 
old-fuddy-duddy, but I just don't get it.

Regards,

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Consultant and Exchange MVP
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From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 3:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Archives

OT
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4mAeqq9is
/OT

--
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Steven M. Caesare 
scaes...@caesare.commailto:scaes...@caesare.com wrote:
The link from their page does seem to have disappeared when I looked for
it earlier today too:

http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/utilities/login/

-sc

 -Original Message-
 From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.govmailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:24 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Archives

 Are we not able to connect to the Lyris server directly anymore?  I
can't find a
 link for it on Sunbelt's Communities tab.  Would like to search the
archives, so
 I don't ask repetitive questions.



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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Webster

Picky, picky.


Carl Webster
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 -Original Message-
 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
 You can do that with the AD PowerShell module (and with ADSI in earlier
 versions of PS, and with dsmod.exe in cmd.exe as far as that is
concerned).
 
 I thought the question was about the best way to CREATE the home
 directory. Not to assign it. :-)
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
 Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a PS
 cmdlet to do this:
 
 Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network -
 RootPath \\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:
 
 You think? :)


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Re: Archives

2011-04-05 Thread Jonathan Link

I think the message was highly targeted but broadly cast...

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:

  Is that like the new equivalent to getting rickrolled? Otherwise, I may
 be an old-fuddy-duddy, but I just don’t get it.



 Regards,



 Michael B. Smith

 Consultant and Exchange MVP

 http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/



 *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, April 05, 2011 3:36 PM

 *To:* NT System Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Archives



 OT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4mAeqq9is
 /OT

 --
 ME2







  On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com
 wrote:

 The link from their page does seem to have disappeared when I looked for
 it earlier today too:

 http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/utilities/login/

 -sc


  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:24 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: Archives
 
  Are we not able to connect to the Lyris server directly anymore?  I
 can't find a
  link for it on Sunbelt's Communities tab.  Would like to search the
 archives, so
  I don't ask repetitive questions.
 
 
 
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RE: IIS WMI and PowerShell

Old news. :)

Seriously (and perhaps shockingly) there are still some few things that are 
easier to do in vbscript.

Try to do this over remote PowerShell for example (instead of targeting a 
remote server from a local instance). Introduce yourself to Kerberos dual-hop 
problems (which you may have previously seen in SharePoint but most 
administrators are lucky enough to have never seen before).

(Sorry, feeling a little cynical tonight.)

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IIS WMI and PowerShell

Thought I would pass this along in the hope that it may save someone some time:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730973.aspx

So I'm trying to retrieve some settings on virtual directories on an internal 
FTP sever we have. I've been trying to use PowerShell as much as possible 
instead of VBScript, so I fire it up and start working at it. Eventually decide 
on something like this:

get-wmiobject -Class IIsFtpVirtualDirSetting -NameSpace root\MicrosoftIISv2 
-Computer FTPSERVERNAME

And I get Access Denied, so I try another namespace on the same server:

get-wmiobject -list -NameSpace root\Microsoftnlb -Computer FTPSERVERNAME

Works perfectly. Huh?. try another. All the namespaces enumerate except for 
MicrosoftIISv2. Again, huh? So I finally Google it and and found the link 
above, which explains it in detail. Ugh..

If you are still with me here, and interested, try enumerating the UNCUserName 
and UNCPassWord. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I did that. I know 
it's FTP and across the wire the passwords are sent in clear text, but I had no 
idea they were stored that way as well. Not good.

Thanks for listening.

Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP
Technical Support III
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email: christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com
Phone: 610-807-6459
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Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

So, ADUC/RSAT will create the directory, if specified, at account creation.

Will creating the account in powershell do the same?

Kurt

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:11, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
 You can do that with the AD PowerShell module (and with ADSI in earlier 
 versions of PS, and with dsmod.exe in cmd.exe as far as that is concerned).

 I thought the question was about the best way to CREATE the home directory. 
 Not to assign it. :-)

 Regards,

 Michael B. Smith
 Consultant and Exchange MVP
 http://TheEssentialExchange.com


 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:08 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a PS
 cmdlet to do this:

 Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network -RootPath
 \\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:

 You think? :)


 Carl Webster
 Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
 http://dabcc.com/Webster

 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 I like this KB:

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313

 In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
 TS/RDS/Citrix users.

  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the
  things we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create
  them through
 AD
  (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?


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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

It will work exactly the same, given the sole exception that ADUC/RSAT provide 
additional parameter validation that PowerShell/ADSI do not.

Regards,

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-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

So, ADUC/RSAT will create the directory, if specified, at account creation.

Will creating the account in powershell do the same?

Kurt

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:11, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
 You can do that with the AD PowerShell module (and with ADSI in earlier 
 versions of PS, and with dsmod.exe in cmd.exe as far as that is concerned).

 I thought the question was about the best way to CREATE the home directory. 
 Not to assign it. :-)

 Regards,

 Michael B. Smith
 Consultant and Exchange MVP
 http://TheEssentialExchange.com


 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:08 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a PS
 cmdlet to do this:

 Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network -RootPath
 \\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:

 You think? :)


 Carl Webster
 Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
 http://dabcc.com/Webster

 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 I like this KB:

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313

 In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
 TS/RDS/Citrix users.

  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the
  things we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create
  them through
 AD
  (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?


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Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

So, building the powershell stuff into a web page, with proper account
credentials on the back end, and making it available to HR, is my
preference.

As someone around here used to say: Automation leads to relaxation.

Heh.

Kurt

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:49, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
 It will work exactly the same, given the sole exception that ADUC/RSAT 
 provide additional parameter validation that PowerShell/ADSI do not.

 Regards,

 Michael B. Smith
 Consultant and Exchange MVP
 http://TheEssentialExchange.com


 -Original Message-
 From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:38 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

 So, ADUC/RSAT will create the directory, if specified, at account creation.

 Will creating the account in powershell do the same?

 Kurt

 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:11, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
 You can do that with the AD PowerShell module (and with ADSI in earlier 
 versions of PS, and with dsmod.exe in cmd.exe as far as that is concerned).

 I thought the question was about the best way to CREATE the home directory. 
 Not to assign it. :-)

 Regards,

 Michael B. Smith
 Consultant and Exchange MVP
 http://TheEssentialExchange.com


 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:08 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a PS
 cmdlet to do this:

 Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network -RootPath
 \\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:

 You think? :)


 Carl Webster
 Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
 http://dabcc.com/Webster

 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 I like this KB:

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313

 In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
 TS/RDS/Citrix users.

  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the
  things we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create
  them through
 AD
  (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?


 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
 ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~

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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Crawford, Scott

Love it - Automation leads to relaxation.

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

So, building the powershell stuff into a web page, with proper account
credentials on the back end, and making it available to HR, is my
preference.

As someone around here used to say: Automation leads to relaxation.

Heh.

Kurt

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:49, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
 It will work exactly the same, given the sole exception that ADUC/RSAT 
 provide additional parameter validation that PowerShell/ADSI do not.

 Regards,

 Michael B. Smith
 Consultant and Exchange MVP
 http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 -Original Message-
 From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:38 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

 So, ADUC/RSAT will create the directory, if specified, at account creation.

 Will creating the account in powershell do the same?

 Kurt

 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:11, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
 You can do that with the AD PowerShell module (and with ADSI in earlier 
 versions of PS, and with dsmod.exe in cmd.exe as far as that is concerned).

 I thought the question was about the best way to CREATE the home directory. 
 Not to assign it. :-)

 Regards,

 Michael B. Smith
 Consultant and Exchange MVP
 http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:08 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a PS
 cmdlet to do this:

 Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network -RootPath
 \\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:

 You think? :)

 Carl Webster
 Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
 http://dabcc.com/Webster

 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 I like this KB:

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313

 In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
 TS/RDS/Citrix users.

  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?

  We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the
  things we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create
  them through
 AD
  (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?

 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
 ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~

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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

Ayup.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

So, building the powershell stuff into a web page, with proper account
credentials on the back end, and making it available to HR, is my
preference.

As someone around here used to say: Automation leads to relaxation.

Heh.

Kurt

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:49, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
 It will work exactly the same, given the sole exception that ADUC/RSAT 
 provide additional parameter validation that PowerShell/ADSI do not.

 Regards,

 Michael B. Smith
 Consultant and Exchange MVP
 http://TheEssentialExchange.com


 -Original Message-
 From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:38 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

 So, ADUC/RSAT will create the directory, if specified, at account creation.

 Will creating the account in powershell do the same?

 Kurt

 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:11, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
 You can do that with the AD PowerShell module (and with ADSI in earlier 
 versions of PS, and with dsmod.exe in cmd.exe as far as that is concerned).

 I thought the question was about the best way to CREATE the home directory. 
 Not to assign it. :-)

 Regards,

 Michael B. Smith
 Consultant and Exchange MVP
 http://TheEssentialExchange.com


 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:08 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a PS
 cmdlet to do this:

 Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network -RootPath
 \\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:

 You think? :)


 Carl Webster
 Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
 http://dabcc.com/Webster

 -Original Message-
 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
 Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

 I like this KB:

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313

 In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
 TS/RDS/Citrix users.

  -Original Message-
  From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
  Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the
  things we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create
  them through
 AD
  (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?


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 ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~

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RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread James Hill

This is the easiest approach imo.

It's all automated, folder is created, correct permissions are set etc.

-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2011 4:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

Not a direct answer to your question, but this is my favorite KB article of all 
time and it might prove helpful to your migration. Once you decide the method 
of how to assign them this will let the users auto create them on first login.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443

-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?

We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the things we're 
looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create them through AD (the 
Profile tab), or through Group Policy?

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Re: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew S. Baker

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:

 So, building the powershell stuff into a web page, with proper account
 credentials on the back end, and making it available to HR, is my
 preference.

 As someone around here used to say: Automation leads to relaxation.

 Heh.

 Kurt

 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:49, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com
 wrote:
  It will work exactly the same, given the sole exception that ADUC/RSAT
 provide additional parameter validation that PowerShell/ADSI do not.
 
  Regards,
 
  Michael B. Smith
  Consultant and Exchange MVP
  http://TheEssentialExchange.com
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:38 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: Re: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  So, ADUC/RSAT will create the directory, if specified, at account
 creation.
 
  Will creating the account in powershell do the same?
 
  Kurt
 
  On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 15:11, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com
 wrote:
  You can do that with the AD PowerShell module (and with ADSI in earlier
 versions of PS, and with dsmod.exe in cmd.exe as far as that is concerned).
 
  I thought the question was about the best way to CREATE the home
 directory. Not to assign it. :-)
 
  Regards,
 
  Michael B. Smith
  Consultant and Exchange MVP
  http://TheEssentialExchange.com
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:08 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  Now that I have been bitten by the PowerShell bug, there is probably a
 PS
  cmdlet to do this:
 
  Get-Users -OnlyCitrixUsers  | Set-HomeDirectory -Location Network
 -RootPath
  \\Server\Share -DriveLetter H:
 
  You think? :)
 
 
  Carl Webster
  Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
  http://dabcc.com/Webster
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
  Subject: RE: Creating home directories - Best method?
 
  I like this KB:
 
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313
 
  In my part of the computer world, I let Group Policy do the work for
  TS/RDS/Citrix users.
 
   -Original Message-
   From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
   Subject: Creating home directories - Best method?
  
   We're planning out our migration from Novell to AD, and one of the
   things we're looking at is home directories.  Is it best to create
   them through
  AD
   (the Profile tab), or through Group Policy?
 


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