Windows InTune
Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows InTune
Have experience with it. What do you need to know? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows InTune Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Windows InTune
Does it provide remote control as well as information on updates, AV, etc., is it easy enough to use, are there any security concerns, is it pretty transparent to the end user, etc. I was just looking for recommendations and a general feel as to whether it is a useful product to have, rather than trying to manage disparate clients individually On 15 April 2011 12:43, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Have experience with it. What do you need to know? *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 6:33 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows InTune Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Way to Deploy New Wireless SSID and WPA-PSK Passphrase to clients?
Smart, I would check out the Wifi Alliance website www.wi-fi.org and the IEEE for more info (http://standards.ieee.org/about/get/802/802.11.html) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Way to Deploy New Wireless SSID and WPA-PSK Passphrase to clients? +++ Use WPA2 over WPA if/wherever possible. Use AES over TKIP if/wherever possible. -- ME2 On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: I would probably look to more to WPA2-AES if your wireless network will support it, ( 802.11i), which is much better security than the WPA-PSK TKIP. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org mailto:email%3aezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Mercer, John [mailto:jmer...@northbay.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 8:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Way to Deploy New Wireless SSID and WPA-PSK Passphrase to clients? Our network team is looking to migrate our wireless network to a new SSID with WPA-PSK/TKIP. What options are there to automate that change to the mobile devices (WinXP) in our domain, whether via group policy or some other method? Our understanding is that the passphrase cannot be included in the Wireless Network Policies aspect of a GPO. Current options we are aware of are below. If there are others or you have any recommendations please chime in! Really wanting to avoid option 1... 1.Sneakernet 2.XML file distribution via script/GPO (haven't tested this yet) http://theether.net/kb/100166 3.Switch to IEEE 802.1X Thanks! John Mercer | Systems Engineer | NorthBay Healthcare | 707.646.3210 | jmer...@northbay.org The information contained in this e-mail or in attachments to this e-mail message may be privileged and confidential. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken or omitted in reliance of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and permanently delete all copies and attachment(s) from your computer system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Sharepoint 2010 Specifications and questions
To the list and the Sharepoint Guru's out there a few questions. I have been asked to spec hardware for a Sharepoint 2010 site for internal IS. (Note: I am a sharepoint N00b, so forgive my trivial questions) 1) Are folks out there storing there documents in Sharepoint in BLOB ( Binary Large Objects within SQL or are they using the Filestream parameter within SQL 2008/SQL 2008 R2 to store the documents in file-stores? 2) How many Web servers are folks using for a small site ( less than 1K in users) and what roles are they putting on which servers? Also any gotchas using Windows 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5 vs Windows 2008 and IIS 7.0 for the web-front end. 3) Also what are folks using to backup sharepoint so that documents within the sharepoint site back be retrieved ( Avepoint? Just native SQL backup? Windows Backup? Any guidance would be helpful, Sincerely, EZ Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows InTune
Microsoft is positioning it as a small to medium company size solution, however, it is built to scale to large organizations. One individual at Microsoft (who will remain nameless) said, -It's for larger organizations, just as much as for small companies. My marketing department keeps getting it wrong.- The product has been in beta for almost 2 years (well - actually longer if you consider that its roots are in the System Center Online codebase), so there's a lot of good stuff baked in. It does support remote assistance, AV is awesome (same codebase as Security Essentials), and can be completely transparent to the end user (you have several options). Made for business, but I run it on all of my family's (and some friends') PCs. If someone has an issue where the agent isn't installed, I can just send them a link to load it up and I can manage their computer in about 30 minutes. BTW: Here's a good FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/windowsintune-faq.aspx From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Does it provide remote control as well as information on updates, AV, etc., is it easy enough to use, are there any security concerns, is it pretty transparent to the end user, etc. I was just looking for recommendations and a general feel as to whether it is a useful product to have, rather than trying to manage disparate clients individually On 15 April 2011 12:43, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Have experience with it. What do you need to know? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows InTune Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning,
Re: Windows InTune
Nice comprehensive info, thanks! On 15 April 2011 13:05, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Microsoft is positioning it as a small to medium company size solution, however, it is built to scale to large organizations. One individual at Microsoft (who will remain nameless) said, -It’s for larger organizations, just as much as for small companies. My marketing department keeps getting it wrong.- The product has been in beta for almost 2 years (well – actually longer if you consider that its roots are in the System Center Online codebase), so there’s a lot of good stuff baked in. It does support remote assistance, AV is awesome (same codebase as Security Essentials), and can be completely transparent to the end user (you have several options). Made for business, but I run it on all of my family’s (and some friends’) PCs. If someone has an issue where the agent isn’t installed, I can just send them a link to load it up and I can manage their computer in about 30 minutes. BTW: Here’s a good FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/windowsintune-faq.aspx *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 7:44 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Windows InTune Does it provide remote control as well as information on updates, AV, etc., is it easy enough to use, are there any security concerns, is it pretty transparent to the end user, etc. I was just looking for recommendations and a general feel as to whether it is a useful product to have, rather than trying to manage disparate clients individually On 15 April 2011 12:43, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Have experience with it. What do you need to know? *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 6:33 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows InTune Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not
Re: OT: e-Reader
Negative reviews on which device? The Kobo? On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: I saw a couple of reviews on that device on Cnet and they were all negative. Funny thing is the Cnet reviews mentioned both the Kindle and Nook in the KOBO review. I could only find reviews on the Kindle and Nook on supported sites. Supported sites tend, at least in MHO, bias on who is supporting them. Jon On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: I'm watching this with interest as I've just started looking at them as well. One that looks interesting is the KOBO (know know if you can get it in the US). I *believe* there is an application out there that will allow the format to be changed from *whatever* to Kindle On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: On 14 Apr 2011 at 9:53, Kevin Lundy wrote: Fine. The Nook has apps on those platforms as well :) Honestly, I think the decision is 2 step: 1) e-ink or LCD screen 2) availability of books in the chosen format. A third part of the decision is multi-platform, with syncing your reading. It is my understanding that the Nook can sync books which are side-loaded (not purchased through the BN store) while I believe the Kindle only syncs books you have purchased. I just got a Nook but have yet to sign up for a Nook account since I have an unsupported phone (Palm Treo 755p). When I move to Android in a few months I'll probably start letting BN monitor what I read. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it would fully integrate with AD seeing how it's a MS product. I *thought* that the contacts were tied to AD and were pushed automatically based on some AD setting. I've just started reading about this and can't believe how many hoops you have to go through to push the contacts out, esp if you want to group them (not using OU's). Well, at least it's Friday! Cheers, Cameron On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Normaly OCS just runs. Recently I had a simliar issue after a data center power loss (maintenence work on UPS, cut back over to UPS, UPS went POP, server room went dark, team came in at 2am to power on very surprised servers [new UPS ordered, we have a trailer UPS wired in right now]) I had to nuke the files and syncnow to correct a corrupt address book issue. However, if your address book is working normally you will have a few hundred files like this. In my ABS directory I have 931 items dating back a little over 30 days. here's a link on how it works: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee323492(office.13).aspx I don't understand the second question. OCS2007r2 will see distribution lists are groups in the address list all on it's own. If you mean something else let us know. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning all, After knocking my head against various problems with the setup (thank you very much Mr. Consultant). I now have them sorted, but I have a couple of questions. 1. Can I delete all the created address book files (there are over 500 Delta and Fulls) and then force an 'abserver -syncnow' to recreate a 'now' version of the gal? (yes I know I'd have to delete the galcontacts.db to get it to recreate). 2. The consultant somehow managed to create groups that the users are being put in to, and I have NO idea where he did that. The address book settings are not setup to use OU's. As always...TIA! Cheers, Cameron ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
There are some wsf files in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\ResKit\WMI Samples that can help with some of the automated tasks, if you have the resource kit installed On 15 April 2011 14:00, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it would fully integrate with AD seeing how it's a MS product. I *thought* that the contacts were tied to AD and were pushed automatically based on some AD setting. I've just started reading about this and can't believe how many hoops you have to go through to push the contacts out, esp if you want to group them (not using OU's). Well, at least it's Friday! Cheers, Cameron On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Normaly OCS just runs. Recently I had a simliar issue after a data center power loss (maintenence work on UPS, cut back over to UPS, UPS went POP, server room went dark, team came in at 2am to power on very surprised servers [new UPS ordered, we have a trailer UPS wired in right now]) I had to nuke the files and syncnow to correct a corrupt address book issue. However, if your address book is working normally you will have a few hundred files like this. In my ABS directory I have 931 items dating back a little over 30 days. here's a link on how it works: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee323492(office.13).aspx I don't understand the second question. OCS2007r2 will see distribution lists are groups in the address list all on it's own. If you mean something else let us know. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning all, After knocking my head against various problems with the setup (thank you very much Mr. Consultant). I now have them sorted, but I have a couple of questions. 1. Can I delete all the created address book files (there are over 500 Delta and Fulls) and then force an 'abserver -syncnow' to recreate a 'now' version of the gal? (yes I know I'd have to delete the galcontacts.db to get it to recreate). 2. The consultant somehow managed to create groups that the users are being put in to, and I have NO idea where he did that. The address book settings are not setup to use OU's. As always...TIA! Cheers, Cameron ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The problem with trying to automate the jobs will be that I can't just do it by OU (to break the users into groups) unless I want to start moving people around and verifying the GPO's against them. Though it may be something I'll do in the future to make the mgmt of this easier. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: There are some wsf files in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\ResKit\WMI Samples that can help with some of the automated tasks, if you have the resource kit installed On 15 April 2011 14:00, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it would fully integrate with AD seeing how it's a MS product. I *thought* that the contacts were tied to AD and were pushed automatically based on some AD setting. I've just started reading about this and can't believe how many hoops you have to go through to push the contacts out, esp if you want to group them (not using OU's). Well, at least it's Friday! Cheers, Cameron On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Normaly OCS just runs. Recently I had a simliar issue after a data center power loss (maintenence work on UPS, cut back over to UPS, UPS went POP, server room went dark, team came in at 2am to power on very surprised servers [new UPS ordered, we have a trailer UPS wired in right now]) I had to nuke the files and syncnow to correct a corrupt address book issue. However, if your address book is working normally you will have a few hundred files like this. In my ABS directory I have 931 items dating back a little over 30 days. here's a link on how it works: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee323492(office.13).aspx I don't understand the second question. OCS2007r2 will see distribution lists are groups in the address list all on it's own. If you mean something else let us know. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning all, After knocking my head against various problems with the setup (thank you very much Mr. Consultant). I now have them sorted, but I have a couple of questions. 1. Can I delete all the created address book files (there are over 500 Delta and Fulls) and then force an 'abserver -syncnow' to recreate a 'now' version of the gal? (yes I know I'd have to delete the galcontacts.db to get it to recreate). 2. The consultant somehow managed to create groups that the users are being put in to, and I have NO idea where he did that. The address book settings are not setup to use OU's. As always...TIA! Cheers, Cameron ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft.
RE: Windows InTune
Very nice. Can you leave out the antivirus portion? I'm very happy with Vipre and would prefer to stick with it where possible. Or is this another one of those things where Microsoft is trying to take over every possible market and shut all competitors out? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Nice comprehensive info, thanks! On 15 April 2011 13:05, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Microsoft is positioning it as a small to medium company size solution, however, it is built to scale to large organizations. One individual at Microsoft (who will remain nameless) said, -Its for larger organizations, just as much as for small companies. My marketing department keeps getting it wrong.- The product has been in beta for almost 2 years (well actually longer if you consider that its roots are in the System Center Online codebase), so theres a lot of good stuff baked in. It does support remote assistance, AV is awesome (same codebase as Security Essentials), and can be completely transparent to the end user (you have several options). Made for business, but I run it on all of my familys (and some friends) PCs. If someone has an issue where the agent isnt installed, I can just send them a link to load it up and I can manage their computer in about 30 minutes. BTW: Heres a good FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/windowsintune-faq.aspx From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Does it provide remote control as well as information on updates, AV, etc., is it easy enough to use, are there any security concerns, is it pretty transparent to the end user, etc. I was just looking for recommendations and a general feel as to whether it is a useful product to have, rather than trying to manage disparate clients individually On 15 April 2011 12:43, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Have experience with it. What do you need to know? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows InTune Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
I only have limited experience with OCS, but I recall that it was a bit of a pain to manage. Don't know whether the new incarnation of it (is it Lync?) might be somewhat better On 15 April 2011 14:17, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The problem with trying to automate the jobs will be that I can't just do it by OU (to break the users into groups) unless I want to start moving people around and verifying the GPO's against them. Though it may be something I'll do in the future to make the mgmt of this easier. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: There are some wsf files in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\ResKit\WMI Samples that can help with some of the automated tasks, if you have the resource kit installed On 15 April 2011 14:00, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it would fully integrate with AD seeing how it's a MS product. I *thought* that the contacts were tied to AD and were pushed automatically based on some AD setting. I've just started reading about this and can't believe how many hoops you have to go through to push the contacts out, esp if you want to group them (not using OU's). Well, at least it's Friday! Cheers, Cameron On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Normaly OCS just runs. Recently I had a simliar issue after a data center power loss (maintenence work on UPS, cut back over to UPS, UPS went POP, server room went dark, team came in at 2am to power on very surprised servers [new UPS ordered, we have a trailer UPS wired in right now]) I had to nuke the files and syncnow to correct a corrupt address book issue. However, if your address book is working normally you will have a few hundred files like this. In my ABS directory I have 931 items dating back a little over 30 days. here's a link on how it works: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee323492(office.13).aspx I don't understand the second question. OCS2007r2 will see distribution lists are groups in the address list all on it's own. If you mean something else let us know. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning all, After knocking my head against various problems with the setup (thank you very much Mr. Consultant). I now have them sorted, but I have a couple of questions. 1. Can I delete all the created address book files (there are over 500 Delta and Fulls) and then force an 'abserver -syncnow' to recreate a 'now' version of the gal? (yes I know I'd have to delete the galcontacts.db to get it to recreate). 2. The consultant somehow managed to create groups that the users are being put in to, and I have NO idea where he did that. The address book settings are not setup to use OU's. As always...TIA! Cheers, Cameron ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is
Good iPhone Network Apps
I wanted to find out which iPhone apps you guys like for network troubleshooting. -- Dennis Krebs Advanced Audio Visual ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Sharepoint 2010 Specifications and questions
Inline On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: To the list and the Sharepoint Guru’s out there a few questions. I have been asked to spec hardware for a Sharepoint 2010 site for internal IS. (Note: I am a sharepoint N00b, so forgive my trivial questions) 1) Are folks out there storing there documents in Sharepoint in BLOB ( Binary Large Objects within SQL or are they using the Filestream parameter within SQL 2008/SQL 2008 R2 to store the documents in file-stores? yes. To both. Older installations are solely BLOB. New installation by default are BLOB. In my opinion, it's not a simple binary decision. You need to factor the average size of your documents, how many, how often opened, etc. 2) How many Web servers are folks using for a small site ( less than 1K in users) and what roles are they putting on which servers? Also any gotchas using Windows 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5 vs Windows 2008 and IIS 7.0 for the web-front end. Sharepoint or Sharepoint Foundation? Extensive workflow? Event receivers? Large lists with custom filtering? Indexing file shares? Again, no simple answer. If using Foundation, fairly much out of the box, 2 front ends should handle the load. Both MS and VMware have some good whitepapers on virtualizing Sharepoint, I would start with them. 3) Also what are folks using to backup sharepoint so that documents within the sharepoint site back be retrieved ( Avepoint? Just native SQL backup? Windows Backup? There are 2 configurable recycle bins - one on each site, and one for admins. So between those, and PowerShell many people don't need much else. SQL backup, while important, will only allow you to restore a site collection - painful if you just need a document. It really gets down to your requirements, users, and SLA. As an example, on one of our farms we use only native tools. On another farm, we use Avepoint due to our SLA. Any guidance would be helpful, There are several good books. MS has some online labs. I suggest you spend some time there and that will help you then plan your infrastructure. Sincerely, EZ Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Windows InTune
I attended an InTune launch event a couple weeks ago. I think it looks like a nice first-step but seems pricey and not quite full-featured. For instance, can't initiate a Forefront a/v scan without actually connecting to the remote machine. But the interface and hardware/software inventory functions seems good. Roger Wright ___ Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” - Spock, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:32 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
PC Mover
Anyone know of software similar to LapLink PC Mover that could be used to migrate a program environment from a Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 one? it claims to be the *only* software of its kind, but I am wondering if that is true or not? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good iPhone Network Apps
My best one is not to use an iphone J Philip Lock Network Systems Manager Moulsham Street, CM2 0JQ Tel: 01245 293023 www.chelmsford.ac.uk http://www.chelmsford.ac.uk From: Dennis Krebs [mailto:dennis.kr...@advancedav.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 14:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good iPhone Network Apps I wanted to find out which iPhone apps you guys like for network troubleshooting. -- Dennis Krebs Advanced Audio Visual ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This e-mail any files and attachments transmitted with it are confidential and may be legally privileged. They are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by Chelmsford College or any associated or related company. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of, or any action taken or omitted in reliance on this e-mail or any file or attachment transmitted with it is strictly prohibited may be unlawful. We may monitor all email communication through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify Chelmsford College by e-mailing:postmas...@chelmsford-college.ac.uk. If you contact us by email, we may store your details to facilitate communication. We take reasonable precautions to ensure our emails are virus free. However, we cannot accept responsibility for any virus transmitted by Chelmsford College and recommend that you subject any incoming email to your own virus checking procedures. -- Scanned by iCritical. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadminimage001.jpg
RE: Good iPhone Network Apps
Get Jump and rdp to any server/pc you want. Works great. From: Dennis Krebs [mailto:dennis.kr...@advancedav.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good iPhone Network Apps I wanted to find out which iPhone apps you guys like for network troubleshooting. -- Dennis Krebs Advanced Audio Visual ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Could this be used for evil?
If you're a bad guy, could you leverage this technology and be able to wipe systems clean if you wanted? http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20053910-83.html?tag=mncol;title David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Mobile 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Could this be used for evil?
It reads as if it is just Bitlocker built directly into the hardware. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Could this be used for evil? If you're a bad guy, could you leverage this technology and be able to wipe systems clean if you wanted? http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20053910-83.html?tag=mncol;title David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Mobile 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Sharepoint 2010 Specifications and questions
Thanks Kevin, Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sharepoint 2010 Specifications and questions Inline On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: To the list and the Sharepoint Guru's out there a few questions. I have been asked to spec hardware for a Sharepoint 2010 site for internal IS. (Note: I am a sharepoint N00b, so forgive my trivial questions) 1) Are folks out there storing there documents in Sharepoint in BLOB ( Binary Large Objects within SQL or are they using the Filestream parameter within SQL 2008/SQL 2008 R2 to store the documents in file-stores? yes. To both. Older installations are solely BLOB. New installation by default are BLOB. In my opinion, it's not a simple binary decision. You need to factor the average size of your documents, how many, how often opened, etc. 2) How many Web servers are folks using for a small site ( less than 1K in users) and what roles are they putting on which servers? Also any gotchas using Windows 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5 vs Windows 2008 and IIS 7.0 for the web-front end. Sharepoint or Sharepoint Foundation? Extensive workflow? Event receivers? Large lists with custom filtering? Indexing file shares? Again, no simple answer. If using Foundation, fairly much out of the box, 2 front ends should handle the load. Both MS and VMware have some good whitepapers on virtualizing Sharepoint, I would start with them. 3) Also what are folks using to backup sharepoint so that documents within the sharepoint site back be retrieved ( Avepoint? Just native SQL backup? Windows Backup? There are 2 configurable recycle bins - one on each site, and one for admins. So between those, and PowerShell many people don't need much else. SQL backup, while important, will only allow you to restore a site collection - painful if you just need a document. It really gets down to your requirements, users, and SLA. As an example, on one of our farms we use only native tools. On another farm, we use Avepoint due to our SLA. Any guidance would be helpful, There are several good books. MS has some online labs. I suggest you spend some time there and that will help you then plan your infrastructure. Sincerely, EZ Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org mailto:email%3aezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows InTune
Yeah-- quite honestly, like you said, this is a nice first step. Personally, I believe this will eventually replace SCE completely. Microsoft recently released System Center Advisor, too, which is a cloud-based monitoring system (say, OpsMgr). https://www.systemcenteradvisor.com/ -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune I attended an InTune launch event a couple weeks ago. I think it looks like a nice first-step but seems pricey and not quite full-featured. For instance, can't initiate a Forefront a/v scan without actually connecting to the remote machine. But the interface and hardware/software inventory functions seems good. Roger Wright ___ Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. - Spock, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:32 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows InTune
Yes, you can. However, you'll still need to use the separate reporting mechanism you have in place for Vipre, instead of getting alerts/notifications in the all-in-one Intune console. Personally, I don't believe that this is a case where MS is attempting to shut out competitors, but instead trying to provide a complete solution in one package. In addition, MS is pushing heavily to offer cloud alternatives to all of their System Center products, and I suspect, eventually, the cloud solutions will be the preferred solutions (give or take 5-10 years). Incidentally, there have been solutions like this on the market for a long, long while. Kaseya, KACE, Viewfinity, etc. IMO (i.e., I've worked with the others) Intune does it better and with less impact to the client. On another note, the pricing may seem steep to some, but consider that a Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade license comes with it. From the FAQ: As a Windows Intune customer, you are entitled to the following benefits while your subscriptions are active: │Upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise for all your PCs that are covered by Windows Intune, as long as they meet the minimum system requirements for Windows 7. │Access to downloadable Volume Licensing media for Windows 7 Enterprise (and prior versions) and activation keys so that you can install the desired version of Windows on your PCs. │Rights to upgrade to future versions of Windows, as well as downgrade rights to older versions. │Rights to run instances of Windows on up to 4 virtual operating system environments on each licensed PC. The Windows Intune cloud service can manage one virtual Windows OS environment in addition to one physical. Still -- for a lot of companies that don't have a management solution in place already, the ROI is quick. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Very nice. Can you leave out the antivirus portion? I'm very happy with Vipre and would prefer to stick with it where possible. Or is this another one of those things where Microsoft is trying to take over every possible market and shut all competitors out? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Nice comprehensive info, thanks! On 15 April 2011 13:05, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Microsoft is positioning it as a small to medium company size solution, however, it is built to scale to large organizations. One individual at Microsoft (who will remain nameless) said, -It's for larger organizations, just as much as for small companies. My marketing department keeps getting it wrong.- The product has been in beta for almost 2 years (well - actually longer if you consider that its roots are in the System Center Online codebase), so there's a lot of good stuff baked in. It does support remote assistance, AV is awesome (same codebase as Security Essentials), and can be completely transparent to the end user (you have several options). Made for business, but I run it on all of my family's (and some friends') PCs. If someone has an issue where the agent isn't installed, I can just send them a link to load it up and I can manage their computer in about 30 minutes. BTW: Here's a good FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/windowsintune-faq.aspx From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Does it provide remote control as well as information on updates, AV, etc., is it easy enough to use, are there any security concerns, is it pretty transparent to the end user, etc. I was just looking for recommendations and a general feel as to whether it is a useful product to have, rather than trying to manage disparate clients individually On 15 April 2011 12:43, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Have experience with it. What do you need to know? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows InTune Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour
RE: PC Mover
Program environment? The apps? There are a lot of solutions for migrating the user personalities, but a lot of vendors have strayed away (on purpose) from migrating apps due to potential legal implications with transferring apps between PCs. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC Mover Anyone know of software similar to LapLink PC Mover that could be used to migrate a program environment from a Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 one? it claims to be the *only* software of its kind, but I am wondering if that is true or not? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PC Mover
Yes, just the applications and all their associated settings, etc. Personally I would go for the full reinstall and avoid carrying any unnecessary bloat onto a new platform, but this is a request from one of my non-technical friends who has seen PC Mover advertised and is wondering if that is his only option, if he wants to avoid reinstalling everything On 15 April 2011 15:59, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Program environment? The apps? There are a lot of solutions for migrating the user personalities, but a lot of vendors have strayed away (on purpose) from migrating apps due to potential legal implications with transferring apps between PCs. *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 10:09 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* PC Mover Anyone know of software similar to LapLink PC Mover that could be used to migrate a program environment from a Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 one? it claims to be the *only* software of its kind, but I am wondering if that is true or not? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
Cannot remote control user session in TS 2008
When I try and remote control a user who is connected to my 2008 TS the user's session gets disconnected and the user gets the following error (Your remote desktop session has ended. Your network administrator might have ended the connection. Try connecting again, or contact technical support for assistance.) There are no errors in the end-clients event logs. The Terminal Server has the following error in the logs when the diconnected session occurs (The RDP protocol component DATA ENCRYPTION detected an error in the protocol stream and has disconnected the client) Event ID = 50 and the source is TermDD. Not sure when this started but I was able to remote control users about 2-3 months ago. End user are running Win 7 64 bit. Any help would be appreciated. Shaun ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PC Mover
You may be right, then - that it's the only one. I'd be interested to hear how they are getting around the potential licensing issues. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PC Mover Yes, just the applications and all their associated settings, etc. Personally I would go for the full reinstall and avoid carrying any unnecessary bloat onto a new platform, but this is a request from one of my non-technical friends who has seen PC Mover advertised and is wondering if that is his only option, if he wants to avoid reinstalling everything On 15 April 2011 15:59, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Program environment? The apps? There are a lot of solutions for migrating the user personalities, but a lot of vendors have strayed away (on purpose) from migrating apps due to potential legal implications with transferring apps between PCs. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC Mover Anyone know of software similar to LapLink PC Mover that could be used to migrate a program environment from a Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 one? it claims to be the *only* software of its kind, but I am wondering if that is true or not? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security
Re: PC Mover
Appears there is a free tool called PickMeApp which combined with Windows Easy Transfer may do the same thing, but that's about all the options I can find Interestingly none of the reviews make mention of licensing On 15 April 2011 16:17, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: You may be right, then – that it’s the only one. I’d be interested to hear how they are getting around the potential licensing issues. *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 10:58 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: PC Mover Yes, just the applications and all their associated settings, etc. Personally I would go for the full reinstall and avoid carrying any unnecessary bloat onto a new platform, but this is a request from one of my non-technical friends who has seen PC Mover advertised and is wondering if that is his only option, if he wants to avoid reinstalling everything On 15 April 2011 15:59, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Program environment? The apps? There are a lot of solutions for migrating the user personalities, but a lot of vendors have strayed away (on purpose) from migrating apps due to potential legal implications with transferring apps between PCs. *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 10:09 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* PC Mover Anyone know of software similar to LapLink PC Mover that could be used to migrate a program environment from a Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 one? it claims to be the *only* software of its kind, but I am wondering if that is true or not? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading
RE: Windows InTune
Not bad... was thinking of possibly getting that for, as previously mentioned, helping out friends and family. :-) I wonder if my refurbed Dell would meet the minimum specs for Windows 7? :-) -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Yes, you can. However, you'll still need to use the separate reporting mechanism you have in place for Vipre, instead of getting alerts/notifications in the all-in-one Intune console. Personally, I don't believe that this is a case where MS is attempting to shut out competitors, but instead trying to provide a complete solution in one package. In addition, MS is pushing heavily to offer cloud alternatives to all of their System Center products, and I suspect, eventually, the cloud solutions will be the preferred solutions (give or take 5-10 years). Incidentally, there have been solutions like this on the market for a long, long while. Kaseya, KACE, Viewfinity, etc. IMO (i.e., I've worked with the others) Intune does it better and with less impact to the client. On another note, the pricing may seem steep to some, but consider that a Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade license comes with it. From the FAQ: As a Windows Intune customer, you are entitled to the following benefits while your subscriptions are active: ¦Upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise for all your PCs that are covered by Windows Intune, as long as they meet the minimum system requirements for Windows 7. ¦Access to downloadable Volume Licensing media for Windows 7 Enterprise (and prior versions) and activation keys so that you can install the desired version of Windows on your PCs. ¦Rights to upgrade to future versions of Windows, as well as downgrade rights to older versions. ¦Rights to run instances of Windows on up to 4 virtual operating system environments on each licensed PC. The Windows Intune cloud service can manage one virtual Windows OS environment in addition to one physical. Still -- for a lot of companies that don't have a management solution in place already, the ROI is quick. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Very nice. Can you leave out the antivirus portion? I'm very happy with Vipre and would prefer to stick with it where possible. Or is this another one of those things where Microsoft is trying to take over every possible market and shut all competitors out? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Nice comprehensive info, thanks! On 15 April 2011 13:05, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Microsoft is positioning it as a small to medium company size solution, however, it is built to scale to large organizations. One individual at Microsoft (who will remain nameless) said, -It's for larger organizations, just as much as for small companies. My marketing department keeps getting it wrong.- The product has been in beta for almost 2 years (well - actually longer if you consider that its roots are in the System Center Online codebase), so there's a lot of good stuff baked in. It does support remote assistance, AV is awesome (same codebase as Security Essentials), and can be completely transparent to the end user (you have several options). Made for business, but I run it on all of my family's (and some friends') PCs. If someone has an issue where the agent isn't installed, I can just send them a link to load it up and I can manage their computer in about 30 minutes. BTW: Here's a good FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/windowsintune-faq.aspx From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Does it provide remote control as well as information on updates, AV, etc., is it easy enough to use, are there any security concerns, is it pretty transparent to the end user, etc. I was just looking for recommendations and a general feel as to whether it is a useful product to have, rather than trying to manage disparate clients individually On 15 April 2011 12:43, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Have experience with it. What do you need to know? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows InTune Anyone had any experience of this? I was thinking of a way to try and manage my home clients better, rather than remote accessing each machine separately and running updates / AV scans / health checks explicitly. Or are there any better ways to manage such widely distributed machines? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
Re: Cannot remote control user session in TS 2008
Hey Shaun, Same thing happens to me from just over a month ago. I have just virtualized my profiles, and the the terminal server is also virtualized on the same box. That's what I attributed the problem to be. Steve Sent from my iPad On 2011-04-15, at 9:56 AM, Shaun N Owens snow...@ucdavis.edu wrote: When I try and remote control a user who is connected to my 2008 TS the user's session gets disconnected and the user gets the following error (Your remote desktop session has ended. Your network administrator might have ended the connection. Try connecting again, or contact technical support for assistance.) There are no errors in the end-clients event logs. The Terminal Server has the following error in the logs when the diconnected session occurs (The RDP protocol component DATA ENCRYPTION detected an error in the protocol stream and has disconnected the client) Event ID = 50 and the source is TermDD. Not sure when this started but I was able to remote control users about 2-3 months ago. End user are running Win 7 64 bit. Any help would be appreciated. Shaun ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
SANS.ORG: MS11-020 (KB2508429) Upgrading from Critical to PATCH NOW
FYI: http://isc.sans.edu/diary/MS11-020+KB2508429+Upgrading+from+Critical+to+PATCH+NOW/10714 David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Mobile 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PC Mover
The issue is two-fold. 1. You never know what the end-user has installed on their own, so you could actually be aiding a criminal. 2. After transfer you have 2 copies of a single app running concurrently on separate PCs. It would be OK if, during the transfer, the originating app instance was removed or crippled after the transfer - I'm not sure this is actually done. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PC Mover Appears there is a free tool called PickMeApp which combined with Windows Easy Transfer may do the same thing, but that's about all the options I can find Interestingly none of the reviews make mention of licensing On 15 April 2011 16:17, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: You may be right, then - that it's the only one. I'd be interested to hear how they are getting around the potential licensing issues. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PC Mover Yes, just the applications and all their associated settings, etc. Personally I would go for the full reinstall and avoid carrying any unnecessary bloat onto a new platform, but this is a request from one of my non-technical friends who has seen PC Mover advertised and is wondering if that is his only option, if he wants to avoid reinstalling everything On 15 April 2011 15:59, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Program environment? The apps? There are a lot of solutions for migrating the user personalities, but a lot of vendors have strayed away (on purpose) from migrating apps due to potential legal implications with transferring apps between PCs. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC Mover Anyone know of software similar to LapLink PC Mover that could be used to migrate a program environment from a Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 one? it claims to be the *only* software of its kind, but I am wondering if that is true or not? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas.
RE: Windows InTune
Regarding Windows 7... I've loaded Windows 7 on 3-4 year old hardware and it's out-performed %previous version% considerably. Also, 99% of the time, there's no need to mess with drivers after the W7 install, which saves time. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Not bad... was thinking of possibly getting that for, as previously mentioned, helping out friends and family. :-) I wonder if my refurbed Dell would meet the minimum specs for Windows 7? :-) -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Yes, you can. However, you'll still need to use the separate reporting mechanism you have in place for Vipre, instead of getting alerts/notifications in the all-in-one Intune console. Personally, I don't believe that this is a case where MS is attempting to shut out competitors, but instead trying to provide a complete solution in one package. In addition, MS is pushing heavily to offer cloud alternatives to all of their System Center products, and I suspect, eventually, the cloud solutions will be the preferred solutions (give or take 5-10 years). Incidentally, there have been solutions like this on the market for a long, long while. Kaseya, KACE, Viewfinity, etc. IMO (i.e., I've worked with the others) Intune does it better and with less impact to the client. On another note, the pricing may seem steep to some, but consider that a Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade license comes with it. From the FAQ: As a Windows Intune customer, you are entitled to the following benefits while your subscriptions are active: ¦Upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise for all your PCs that are covered by Windows Intune, as long as they meet the minimum system requirements for Windows 7. ¦Access to downloadable Volume Licensing media for Windows 7 Enterprise (and prior versions) and activation keys so that you can install the desired version of Windows on your PCs. ¦Rights to upgrade to future versions of Windows, as well as downgrade rights to older versions. ¦Rights to run instances of Windows on up to 4 virtual operating system environments on each licensed PC. The Windows Intune cloud service can manage one virtual Windows OS environment in addition to one physical. Still -- for a lot of companies that don't have a management solution in place already, the ROI is quick. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Very nice. Can you leave out the antivirus portion? I'm very happy with Vipre and would prefer to stick with it where possible. Or is this another one of those things where Microsoft is trying to take over every possible market and shut all competitors out? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Nice comprehensive info, thanks! On 15 April 2011 13:05, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Microsoft is positioning it as a small to medium company size solution, however, it is built to scale to large organizations. One individual at Microsoft (who will remain nameless) said, -It's for larger organizations, just as much as for small companies. My marketing department keeps getting it wrong.- The product has been in beta for almost 2 years (well - actually longer if you consider that its roots are in the System Center Online codebase), so there's a lot of good stuff baked in. It does support remote assistance, AV is awesome (same codebase as Security Essentials), and can be completely transparent to the end user (you have several options). Made for business, but I run it on all of my family's (and some friends') PCs. If someone has an issue where the agent isn't installed, I can just send them a link to load it up and I can manage their computer in about 30 minutes. BTW: Here's a good FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/windowsintune-faq.aspx From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Does it provide remote control as well as information on updates, AV, etc., is it easy enough to use, are there any security concerns, is it pretty transparent to the end user, etc. I was just looking for recommendations and a general feel as to whether it is a useful product to have, rather than trying to manage disparate clients individually On 15 April 2011 12:43, Rod Trent
[semi-OT] Finding good IT service providers?
Dr. Nick Hi everybody! /Dr. Nick The company I work for has myself as the IT Manager, plus my one minion. Most of the time we're good, but sometimes we get a short-term higher workload and I call in reinforcements on a contract or time-and-materials basis. The local mom-and-pop shop I had been using has had turnover and their new people fail to impress. So I'm looking to find a new IT services provider. My problem is, before you hire them, they all look the same -- glossy brochures, alleged referrals from happy customers, reassurances that they're the best, etc. Does anyone have any tips on how to tell the good from the bad? I've thought of asking them for info on how many techs they have and what their qualifications are (training, certs, etc.), but I know from past experience that an expensive piece of paper only gets you so much. Is there anything like a Yelp for IT providers? (If anyone wants to give me a referral, feel free to do so, but please do so off-list. We're in North-East Massachusetts, right on the border with NH.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft Product. Microsoft purchased the technology that became Live Communications Server 2003 and released LCS2005 soon afterwards. OCS2007 is really more in the mode MS likes and OCS2007r2 included nice improvements. All the above said, OCS is a communications tool built on the SIP protocol and is constrained by that model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol) and is not like email despite it being positioned next to Exchanage in the MS messaging suite. SIP leans more towards subscription and OCS overall is a messaging and presence tool. When you 'add a contact' you are really 'subscribing' to that contacts presence status. That person is so likely to be someone you interact with, that it is important that you are 'notified' of their presence status so that you can communicate more effectively with them. Everytime a person in your contacts status changes (away, in a meeting, busy, do not disturb) that change is 'pushed' to all clients with a subscription to that person. This adds load do the database and environment and I think the default contacts (subscriptions) per person is 100 (as in each person can have 100 people add them to their contact list, we've set ours to 200). If a person is not someone that you interact with on a regular basis, then why would you want them in your cntacts list? Just look them up in the address book or see their status in the latest email you got from them in Outlook. An example, I have in my contacts list all the members of my team and the two other windows team and associated managers. I have specific individuals from our help desk and the database team and a few people I lunch with and two project managers whose projects I am a resource on and I will remove the PMs as soon as the project is done (40 people). Anyone else, I get out of the address book, I don't normally care what their status' is. Distribution lists can be added to a persons contact list and these will update membership locally but generally these are client driven operations, not pushed out globally. There are tools/scripts to do this, but it's not generally how any of the tools in this space operate even though it can be done. When we first implemented it here some managers wanted to force a standard 'contacts' list to everyone but we were fortunatly able to brign them around and not do that. What are you looking to do? Force 'standard' contact lists? That will be an unfortunate adminstrative burden for you. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The problem with trying to automate the jobs will be that I can't just do it by OU (to break the users into groups) unless I want to start moving people around and verifying the GPO's against them. Though it may be something I'll do in the future to make the mgmt of this easier. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: There are some wsf files in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\ResKit\WMI Samples that can help with some of the automated tasks, if you have the resource kit installed On 15 April 2011 14:00, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it would fully integrate with AD seeing how it's a MS product. I *thought* that the contacts were tied to AD and were pushed automatically based on some AD setting. I've just started reading about this and can't believe how many hoops you have to go through to push the contacts out, esp if you want to group them (not using OU's). Well, at least it's Friday! Cheers, Cameron On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Normaly OCS just runs. Recently I had a simliar issue after a data center power loss (maintenence work on UPS, cut back over to UPS, UPS went POP, server room went dark, team came in at 2am to power on very surprised servers [new UPS ordered, we have a trailer UPS wired in right now]) I had to nuke the files and syncnow to correct a corrupt address book issue. However, if your address book is working normally you will have a few hundred files like this. In my ABS directory I have 931 items dating back a little over 30 days. here's a link on how it works: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee323492(office.13).aspx I don't understand the second question. OCS2007r2 will see distribution lists are groups in the address list all on it's own. If you mean something else let us know. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning all, After knocking my head against various problems with the setup (thank you very much Mr. Consultant). I now have them sorted, but I have a couple of questions. 1. Can
Re: PC Mover
As far as the legality of moving software goes, it's fine, provided it's removed/disabled on the old PC when done. There are protections under US copyright law for this sort of thing. (See US Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 117. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#117) I'm aware of the fact that many licenses claim to prohibit it anyway. Licenses claim a lot of things they don't actually have the legal power to enforce. Microsoft can put Buy using this software, you must name your firstborn child 'Bill' in their EULA, but it has all the legal force of a sysadmin's damn. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Could this be used for evil?
If it exists, it can be used for evil. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
Actually...that's what I've been *asked* to setup...a minimum 'set' of contacts from the various locations grouped by function, etc On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft Product. Microsoft purchased the technology that became Live Communications Server 2003 and released LCS2005 soon afterwards. OCS2007 is really more in the mode MS likes and OCS2007r2 included nice improvements. All the above said, OCS is a communications tool built on the SIP protocol and is constrained by that model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol) and is not like email despite it being positioned next to Exchanage in the MS messaging suite. SIP leans more towards subscription and OCS overall is a messaging and presence tool. When you 'add a contact' you are really 'subscribing' to that contacts presence status. That person is so likely to be someone you interact with, that it is important that you are 'notified' of their presence status so that you can communicate more effectively with them. Everytime a person in your contacts status changes (away, in a meeting, busy, do not disturb) that change is 'pushed' to all clients with a subscription to that person. This adds load do the database and environment and I think the default contacts (subscriptions) per person is 100 (as in each person can have 100 people add them to their contact list, we've set ours to 200). If a person is not someone that you interact with on a regular basis, then why would you want them in your cntacts list? Just look them up in the address book or see their status in the latest email you got from them in Outlook. An example, I have in my contacts list all the members of my team and the two other windows team and associated managers. I have specific individuals from our help desk and the database team and a few people I lunch with and two project managers whose projects I am a resource on and I will remove the PMs as soon as the project is done (40 people). Anyone else, I get out of the address book, I don't normally care what their status' is. Distribution lists can be added to a persons contact list and these will update membership locally but generally these are client driven operations, not pushed out globally. There are tools/scripts to do this, but it's not generally how any of the tools in this space operate even though it can be done. When we first implemented it here some managers wanted to force a standard 'contacts' list to everyone but we were fortunatly able to brign them around and not do that. What are you looking to do? Force 'standard' contact lists? That will be an unfortunate adminstrative burden for you. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The problem with trying to automate the jobs will be that I can't just do it by OU (to break the users into groups) unless I want to start moving people around and verifying the GPO's against them. Though it may be something I'll do in the future to make the mgmt of this easier. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: There are some wsf files in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\ResKit\WMI Samples that can help with some of the automated tasks, if you have the resource kit installed On 15 April 2011 14:00, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it would fully integrate with AD seeing how it's a MS product. I *thought* that the contacts were tied to AD and were pushed automatically based on some AD setting. I've just started reading about this and can't believe how many hoops you have to go through to push the contacts out, esp if you want to group them (not using OU's). Well, at least it's Friday! Cheers, Cameron On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Normaly OCS just runs. Recently I had a simliar issue after a data center power loss (maintenence work on UPS, cut back over to UPS, UPS went POP, server room went dark, team came in at 2am to power on very surprised servers [new UPS ordered, we have a trailer UPS wired in right now]) I had to nuke the files and syncnow to correct a corrupt address book issue. However, if your address book is working normally you will have a few hundred files like this. In my ABS directory I have 931 items dating back a little over 30 days. here's a link on how it works: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee323492(office.13).aspx I don't understand the second question. OCS2007r2 will see distribution lists are groups in the address list all on it's own. If you mean something else let us know. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Apr 14,
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
I had to do that in a previous job. It can be done with those scripts but it is fairly non-dynamic when it comes to updating users who have left, etc. You could do it with some form of scripting querying AD but it's a big fudge. In the end we opted to set up a script to auto-enable every user for OCS and then simply allowed them to create their own contact groups. Administratively it was a huge PITA to maintain these contact sets. We put together a document detailing how to set up contact groups, how to use OCS for dialing people from Outlook, etc. and sent it to every user after they'd been enabled for the software. In the long run this was probably more productive. On 15 April 2011 17:12, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Actually...that's what I've been *asked* to setup...a minimum 'set' of contacts from the various locations grouped by function, etc On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft Product. Microsoft purchased the technology that became Live Communications Server 2003 and released LCS2005 soon afterwards. OCS2007 is really more in the mode MS likes and OCS2007r2 included nice improvements. All the above said, OCS is a communications tool built on the SIP protocol and is constrained by that model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol) and is not like email despite it being positioned next to Exchanage in the MS messaging suite. SIP leans more towards subscription and OCS overall is a messaging and presence tool. When you 'add a contact' you are really 'subscribing' to that contacts presence status. That person is so likely to be someone you interact with, that it is important that you are 'notified' of their presence status so that you can communicate more effectively with them. Everytime a person in your contacts status changes (away, in a meeting, busy, do not disturb) that change is 'pushed' to all clients with a subscription to that person. This adds load do the database and environment and I think the default contacts (subscriptions) per person is 100 (as in each person can have 100 people add them to their contact list, we've set ours to 200). If a person is not someone that you interact with on a regular basis, then why would you want them in your cntacts list? Just look them up in the address book or see their status in the latest email you got from them in Outlook. An example, I have in my contacts list all the members of my team and the two other windows team and associated managers. I have specific individuals from our help desk and the database team and a few people I lunch with and two project managers whose projects I am a resource on and I will remove the PMs as soon as the project is done (40 people). Anyone else, I get out of the address book, I don't normally care what their status' is. Distribution lists can be added to a persons contact list and these will update membership locally but generally these are client driven operations, not pushed out globally. There are tools/scripts to do this, but it's not generally how any of the tools in this space operate even though it can be done. When we first implemented it here some managers wanted to force a standard 'contacts' list to everyone but we were fortunatly able to brign them around and not do that. What are you looking to do? Force 'standard' contact lists? That will be an unfortunate adminstrative burden for you. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The problem with trying to automate the jobs will be that I can't just do it by OU (to break the users into groups) unless I want to start moving people around and verifying the GPO's against them. Though it may be something I'll do in the future to make the mgmt of this easier. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: There are some wsf files in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\ResKit\WMI Samples that can help with some of the automated tasks, if you have the resource kit installed On 15 April 2011 14:00, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it would fully integrate with AD seeing how it's a MS product. I *thought* that the contacts were tied to AD and were pushed automatically based on some AD setting. I've just started reading about this and can't believe how many hoops you have to go through to push the contacts out, esp if you want to group them (not using OU's). Well, at least it's Friday! Cheers, Cameron On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Normaly OCS just runs. Recently I had a simliar issue after a data center power loss (maintenence work on UPS, cut back over
RE: Process Monitor reading
I can look but Process Monitor probably isn't the best tool here. Xperf is likely a better option given the more holistic data gathering it can do. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Process Monitor reading I wouldn't normally ask this, but I'm kind of at my wits' end. Is there anyone out there who could maybe have a look at a Process Monitor logfile and tell me if they can see any kind of smoking gun in there? The situation is this - we have 2008 R2 Terminal Servers that occasionally will start treading water, resulting in horrendous logon times for users. We've tried disabling just about everything, GPOs, AppSense, EdgeSight, SCOM, antivirus, we have patched them to the hilt with every hotfix we can find for every piece of software, run countless monitors and logs, sent details to various support teams, even had a Citrix consultant on site to offer his opinion, yet still the problem exists. We have carefully monitored the apps in use on the problem systems (which seem to be completely random) and can find no correlation between application usage and the occurrence of this issue. The servers have been monitored by several different tools, native and otherwise, and do not red-line in any way apart from occasional spikes of memory usage and page faults, but nothing happens that seems to justify the terrible performance slowdown that occurs. The servers are physical Compaq DL360 G6 systems with 16GB of RAM and 16 CPUs. Luckily I managed to capture a ProcMon log the last time this problem happened (usually running it causes the server to come to a complete halt, more or less). Rather interestingly, when the logon completed, the ProcMon log was actually running two minutes behind real-time - it took two minutes to catch up with what was actually happening live on the server! I've had a good hunt through this, but I'm more used to looking for application issues than trying to troubleshoot a logon with ProcMon, and I simply don't know what to look for to try and identify the causes of the slowdown. Microsoft's removal of the user environment debug logging in 2008 and up is a real pain, as it was (fairly) straightforward to troubleshoot the logon process previously. I am fairly sure that the problem is something intrinsic to the system - i.e. not caused by a third-party piece of software. I'm on the verge of recommending that the whole server farm is ripped and replaced but I want to make sure I've covered all my bases before I go down that route. If anyone can help with this, please ping me offline and I'll gladly provide access to the (monstrously large, given that the logon I was monitoring took six minutes) log file. Or if anyone has any pointers that they think might help with the performance, I'll also gladly take them on board. TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box
If there isn't a problem they're causing I wouldn't go messing with it. Much of this stuff is core to the OS and they aren't likely to have done any testing with it turned off... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box 2008 R2 seems to have a vast array of pre-configured scheduled tasks. I can see the benefit from stuff like the Time Sync, IP address conflict, and Disk Defragmenter, but are all the others strictly required? I'm trying to streamline Terminal Services boxes and I'm thinking about disabling some of these tasks, are there any gotchas I should be aware of? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
Ya, we created documentation on adding contacts and it became a manager issue if they cared (LCS2005sp1 less tools) which it turns out they did not. With OCS2007r2 you can just target distribution groups and their membership will dynamically update so that may be a less painful route to go. If posible, I would try to edge your management to away from 'mandated minimum standard contacts'. Let's see, right now the average number of contacts per user here is 34.64 (I wonder if being .64 of a contact hurts?). Our highest is 162 contacts. Good luck with that, some management teams seem enamored with the illusion of top down dictates. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:16 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I had to do that in a previous job. It can be done with those scripts but it is fairly non-dynamic when it comes to updating users who have left, etc. You could do it with some form of scripting querying AD but it's a big fudge. In the end we opted to set up a script to auto-enable every user for OCS and then simply allowed them to create their own contact groups. Administratively it was a huge PITA to maintain these contact sets. We put together a document detailing how to set up contact groups, how to use OCS for dialing people from Outlook, etc. and sent it to every user after they'd been enabled for the software. In the long run this was probably more productive. On 15 April 2011 17:12, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Actually...that's what I've been *asked* to setup...a minimum 'set' of contacts from the various locations grouped by function, etc On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft Product. Microsoft purchased the technology that became Live Communications Server 2003 and released LCS2005 soon afterwards. OCS2007 is really more in the mode MS likes and OCS2007r2 included nice improvements. All the above said, OCS is a communications tool built on the SIP protocol and is constrained by that model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol) and is not like email despite it being positioned next to Exchanage in the MS messaging suite. SIP leans more towards subscription and OCS overall is a messaging and presence tool. When you 'add a contact' you are really 'subscribing' to that contacts presence status. That person is so likely to be someone you interact with, that it is important that you are 'notified' of their presence status so that you can communicate more effectively with them. Everytime a person in your contacts status changes (away, in a meeting, busy, do not disturb) that change is 'pushed' to all clients with a subscription to that person. This adds load do the database and environment and I think the default contacts (subscriptions) per person is 100 (as in each person can have 100 people add them to their contact list, we've set ours to 200). If a person is not someone that you interact with on a regular basis, then why would you want them in your cntacts list? Just look them up in the address book or see their status in the latest email you got from them in Outlook. An example, I have in my contacts list all the members of my team and the two other windows team and associated managers. I have specific individuals from our help desk and the database team and a few people I lunch with and two project managers whose projects I am a resource on and I will remove the PMs as soon as the project is done (40 people). Anyone else, I get out of the address book, I don't normally care what their status' is. Distribution lists can be added to a persons contact list and these will update membership locally but generally these are client driven operations, not pushed out globally. There are tools/scripts to do this, but it's not generally how any of the tools in this space operate even though it can be done. When we first implemented it here some managers wanted to force a standard 'contacts' list to everyone but we were fortunatly able to brign them around and not do that. What are you looking to do? Force 'standard' contact lists? That will be an unfortunate adminstrative burden for you. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The problem with trying to automate the jobs will be that I can't just do it by OU (to break the users into groups) unless I want to start moving people around and verifying the GPO's against them. Though it may be something I'll do in the future to make the mgmt of this easier. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: There are some wsf files in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\ResKit\WMI Samples that can help with some
Re: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box
rant on While I really like 2008/2008R2 I'm a bit at a loss trying to understand why there would be Tasks which would be considered core to the OS even visible. I'm not a software developer, but why make important scheduled tasks ,strictly designed for the OS, clearly visible to the server admin.. rant off On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote: *If there isn’t a problem they’re causing I wouldn’t go messing with it. Much of this stuff is core to the OS and they aren’t likely to have done any testing with it turned off…* * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:25 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box 2008 R2 seems to have a vast array of pre-configured scheduled tasks. I can see the benefit from stuff like the Time Sync, IP address conflict, and Disk Defragmenter, but are all the others strictly required? I'm trying to streamline Terminal Services boxes and I'm thinking about disabling some of these tasks, are there any gotchas I should be aware of? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Process Monitor reading
I will have a look at xperf Monday, cheers Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:22:28 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: Process Monitor reading I can look but Process Monitor probably isn't the best tool here. Xperf is likely a better option given the more holistic data gathering it can do. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Process Monitor reading I wouldn't normally ask this, but I'm kind of at my wits' end. Is there anyone out there who could maybe have a look at a Process Monitor logfile and tell me if they can see any kind of smoking gun in there? The situation is this - we have 2008 R2 Terminal Servers that occasionally will start treading water, resulting in horrendous logon times for users. We've tried disabling just about everything, GPOs, AppSense, EdgeSight, SCOM, antivirus, we have patched them to the hilt with every hotfix we can find for every piece of software, run countless monitors and logs, sent details to various support teams, even had a Citrix consultant on site to offer his opinion, yet still the problem exists. We have carefully monitored the apps in use on the problem systems (which seem to be completely random) and can find no correlation between application usage and the occurrence of this issue. The servers have been monitored by several different tools, native and otherwise, and do not red-line in any way apart from occasional spikes of memory usage and page faults, but nothing happens that seems to justify the terrible performance slowdown that occurs. The servers are physical Compaq DL360 G6 systems with 16GB of RAM and 16 CPUs. Luckily I managed to capture a ProcMon log the last time this problem happened (usually running it causes the server to come to a complete halt, more or less). Rather interestingly, when the logon completed, the ProcMon log was actually running two minutes behind real-time - it took two minutes to catch up with what was actually happening live on the server! I've had a good hunt through this, but I'm more used to looking for application issues than trying to troubleshoot a logon with ProcMon, and I simply don't know what to look for to try and identify the causes of the slowdown. Microsoft's removal of the user environment debug logging in 2008 and up is a real pain, as it was (fairly) straightforward to troubleshoot the logon process previously. I am fairly sure that the problem is something intrinsic to the system - i.e. not caused by a third-party piece of software. I'm on the verge of recommending that the whole server farm is ripped and replaced but I want to make sure I've covered all my bases before I go down that route. If anyone can help with this, please ping me offline and I'll gladly provide access to the (monstrously large, given that the logon I was monitoring took six minutes) log file. Or if anyone has any pointers that they think might help with the performance, I'll also gladly take them on board. TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box
It’s part of the very modular redesign of 2008+. I think it’s great. It gives you control when you NEED IT. And secondly, in order to see many of the tasks, you have to enable “view hidden tasks”. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box rant on While I really like 2008/2008R2 I'm a bit at a loss trying to understand why there would be Tasks which would be considered core to the OS even visible. I'm not a software developer, but why make important scheduled tasks ,strictly designed for the OS, clearly visible to the server admin.. rant off On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com wrote: If there isn’t a problem they’re causing I wouldn’t go messing with it. Much of this stuff is core to the OS and they aren’t likely to have done any testing with it turned off… Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438tel:312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132tel:312.731.3132 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box 2008 R2 seems to have a vast array of pre-configured scheduled tasks. I can see the benefit from stuff like the Time Sync, IP address conflict, and Disk Defragmenter, but are all the others strictly required? I'm trying to streamline Terminal Services boxes and I'm thinking about disabling some of these tasks, are there any gotchas I should be aware of? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box
I'd recommend leaving them. :) The OS handles them just fine without any performance issue that I'm aware of. Plus what Brian said... *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:25 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: 2008 R2 seems to have a vast array of pre-configured scheduled tasks. I can see the benefit from stuff like the Time Sync, IP address conflict, and Disk Defragmenter, but are all the others strictly required? I'm trying to streamline Terminal Services boxes and I'm thinking about disabling some of these tasks, are there any gotchas I should be aware of? TIA, JRR ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box
AND, if you're not using admin credentials, you won't see any but the ones you have rights to. *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: It’s part of the very modular redesign of 2008+. I think it’s great. It gives you control when you NEED IT. And secondly, in order to see many of the tasks, you have to enable “view hidden tasks”. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 12:31 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box rant on While I really like 2008/2008R2 I'm a bit at a loss trying to understand why there would be Tasks which would be considered core to the OS even visible. I'm not a software developer, but why make important scheduled tasks ,strictly designed for the OS, clearly visible to the server admin.. rant off On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: *If there isn’t a problem they’re causing I wouldn’t go messing with it. Much of this stuff is core to the OS and they aren’t likely to have done any testing with it turned off…* * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:25 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box 2008 R2 seems to have a vast array of pre-configured scheduled tasks. I can see the benefit from stuff like the Time Sync, IP address conflict, and Disk Defragmenter, but are all the others strictly required? I'm trying to streamline Terminal Services boxes and I'm thinking about disabling some of these tasks, are there any gotchas I should be aware of? TIA, JRR ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box
I think it's great too. Lots of built in examples of what is going on with your system and what times it happens. We have one system that does it's most intensive work at night, so we were able to move the 'ScheduledDefrag' from 1am to 1pm when the system is sleeping. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: It’s part of the very modular redesign of 2008+. I think it’s great. It gives you control when you NEED IT. And secondly, in order to see many of the tasks, you have to enable “view hidden tasks”. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 12:31 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box rant on While I really like 2008/2008R2 I'm a bit at a loss trying to understand why there would be Tasks which would be considered core to the OS even visible. I'm not a software developer, but why make important scheduled tasks ,strictly designed for the OS, clearly visible to the server admin.. rant off On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: *If there isn’t a problem they’re causing I wouldn’t go messing with it. Much of this stuff is core to the OS and they aren’t likely to have done any testing with it turned off…* * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:25 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Scheduled tasks on a 2008 R2 box 2008 R2 seems to have a vast array of pre-configured scheduled tasks. I can see the benefit from stuff like the Time Sync, IP address conflict, and Disk Defragmenter, but are all the others strictly required? I'm trying to streamline Terminal Services boxes and I'm thinking about disabling some of these tasks, are there any gotchas I should be aware of? TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: Windows InTune
Just to add to the Win 7 on older equipment comment, I'm sitting here right now on a six year old Pentium 4 system that is running Windows 7 as well as or better than it ran Windows XP. I did have to add in a cheap graphics card because I couldn't find a driver for the onboard graphics. Ralph -Original Message- From: Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Regarding Windows 7... I've loaded Windows 7 on 3-4 year old hardware and it's out-performed %previous version% considerably. Also, 99% of the time, there's no need to mess with drivers after the W7 install, which saves time. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Not bad... was thinking of possibly getting that for, as previously mentioned, helping out friends and family. :-) I wonder if my refurbed Dell would meet the minimum specs for Windows 7? :-) -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Yes, you can. However, you'll still need to use the separate reporting mechanism you have in place for Vipre, instead of getting alerts/notifications in the all-in-one Intune console. Personally, I don't believe that this is a case where MS is attempting to shut out competitors, but instead trying to provide a complete solution in one package. In addition, MS is pushing heavily to offer cloud alternatives to all of their System Center products, and I suspect, eventually, the cloud solutions will be the preferred solutions (give or take 5-10 years). Incidentally, there have been solutions like this on the market for a long, long while. Kaseya, KACE, Viewfinity, etc. IMO (i.e., I've worked with the others) Intune does it better and with less impact to the client. On another note, the pricing may seem steep to some, but consider that a Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade license comes with it. From the FAQ: As a Windows Intune customer, you are entitled to the following benefits while your subscriptions are active: ¦Upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise for all your PCs that are covered by Windows Intune, as long as they meet the minimum system requirements for Windows 7. ¦Access to downloadable Volume Licensing media for Windows 7 Enterprise (and prior versions) and activation keys so that you can install the desired version of Windows on your PCs. ¦Rights to upgrade to future versions of Windows, as well as downgrade rights to older versions. ¦Rights to run instances of Windows on up to 4 virtual operating system environments on each licensed PC. The Windows Intune cloud service can manage one virtual Windows OS environment in addition to one physical. Still -- for a lot of companies that don't have a management solution in place already, the ROI is quick. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Very nice. Can you leave out the antivirus portion? I'm very happy with Vipre and would prefer to stick with it where possible. Or is this another one of those things where Microsoft is trying to take over every possible market and shut all competitors out? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Nice comprehensive info, thanks! On 15 April 2011 13:05, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Microsoft is positioning it as a small to medium company size solution, however, it is built to scale to large organizations. One individual at Microsoft (who will remain nameless) said, -It's for larger organizations, just as much as for small companies. My marketing department keeps getting it wrong.- The product has been in beta for almost 2 years (well - actually longer if you consider that its roots are in the System Center Online codebase), so there's a lot of good stuff baked in. It does support remote assistance, AV is awesome (same codebase as Security Essentials), and can be completely transparent to the end user (you have several options). Made for business, but I run it on all of my family's (and some friends') PCs. If someone has an issue where the agent isn't installed, I can just send them a link to load it up and I can manage their computer in about 30 minutes. BTW: Here's a good FAQ
RE: Interview for new position.
11. Are you willing to work for free? Or, for a Gamefly subscription? From: Jacob Kisner [mailto:jbdkis...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Interview for new position. I am using my gmail email of obvious reasons. But most of you know who I am.. not to many Jacob's on the list ;-) After 15 years, I am looking for a new position and next week I have an interview for a Director of IT position for a college/education non profit group. I will be the head IT person and I will report to the Executive Director of the non profit. The first interview will consist of the search committee. The second interview, right after the first one, will consist of various IT staff that I would manager if I am selected for the position. Little different of a format than I am used to, but does not bother me. So, I have developed a list of questions to possibly ask (will think of more over the weekend.) 1. Why do you like working for this non profit? 2. What do you like the least about working for this non profit? 3. What do you need from me to make your job successful? 4. What motivates you? 5. How does that IT staff define success? 6. If you were the IT director, what would you like to see? change? 7. What were some of the strengthens and weaknesses of the last IT director? 8. What are some of the processes you like to see improved? If you have been in one of these types of interviews where you interview your potential boss, what do you look for? (and no, access to free movies wont be a option...) TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Did I get dropped again
We got your email, and there have been emails on both lists. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Did I get dropped again I guess Lyris has decided to not send me emails again? No emails from NT List or Exchange list since yesterday ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Did I get dropped again
[1] Friggin Lyris [2] Any questions, see [1] From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Did I get dropped again I guess Lyris has decided to not send me emails again? No emails from NT List or Exchange list since yesterday ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Did I get dropped again
LOL -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: [1] Friggin Lyris [2] Any questions, see [1] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
You mention something interesting (we do have OCS2007r2)...target distribution groups? Sounds like a much better way to go. Any pointers? On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Ya, we created documentation on adding contacts and it became a manager issue if they cared (LCS2005sp1 less tools) which it turns out they did not. With OCS2007r2 you can just target distribution groups and their membership will dynamically update so that may be a less painful route to go. If posible, I would try to edge your management to away from 'mandated minimum standard contacts'. Let's see, right now the average number of contacts per user here is 34.64 (I wonder if being .64 of a contact hurts?). Our highest is 162 contacts. Good luck with that, some management teams seem enamored with the illusion of top down dictates. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:16 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: I had to do that in a previous job. It can be done with those scripts but it is fairly non-dynamic when it comes to updating users who have left, etc. You could do it with some form of scripting querying AD but it's a big fudge. In the end we opted to set up a script to auto-enable every user for OCS and then simply allowed them to create their own contact groups. Administratively it was a huge PITA to maintain these contact sets. We put together a document detailing how to set up contact groups, how to use OCS for dialing people from Outlook, etc. and sent it to every user after they'd been enabled for the software. In the long run this was probably more productive. On 15 April 2011 17:12, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Actually...that's what I've been *asked* to setup...a minimum 'set' of contacts from the various locations grouped by function, etc On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft Product. Microsoft purchased the technology that became Live Communications Server 2003 and released LCS2005 soon afterwards. OCS2007 is really more in the mode MS likes and OCS2007r2 included nice improvements. All the above said, OCS is a communications tool built on the SIP protocol and is constrained by that model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol) and is not like email despite it being positioned next to Exchanage in the MS messaging suite. SIP leans more towards subscription and OCS overall is a messaging and presence tool. When you 'add a contact' you are really 'subscribing' to that contacts presence status. That person is so likely to be someone you interact with, that it is important that you are 'notified' of their presence status so that you can communicate more effectively with them. Everytime a person in your contacts status changes (away, in a meeting, busy, do not disturb) that change is 'pushed' to all clients with a subscription to that person. This adds load do the database and environment and I think the default contacts (subscriptions) per person is 100 (as in each person can have 100 people add them to their contact list, we've set ours to 200). If a person is not someone that you interact with on a regular basis, then why would you want them in your cntacts list? Just look them up in the address book or see their status in the latest email you got from them in Outlook. An example, I have in my contacts list all the members of my team and the two other windows team and associated managers. I have specific individuals from our help desk and the database team and a few people I lunch with and two project managers whose projects I am a resource on and I will remove the PMs as soon as the project is done (40 people). Anyone else, I get out of the address book, I don't normally care what their status' is. Distribution lists can be added to a persons contact list and these will update membership locally but generally these are client driven operations, not pushed out globally. There are tools/scripts to do this, but it's not generally how any of the tools in this space operate even though it can be done. When we first implemented it here some managers wanted to force a standard 'contacts' list to everyone but we were fortunatly able to brign them around and not do that. What are you looking to do? Force 'standard' contact lists? That will be an unfortunate adminstrative burden for you. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The problem with trying to automate the jobs will be that I can't just do it by OU (to break the users into groups) unless I want to start moving people around and verifying the GPO's against them. Though it may be something I'll do in the future to make
Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
I may have added to the confusion by being all wordy and less then precise. All of our teams have a team based distribution list are build using #Name format and managed by the teams manager. So to make up some names for example purposes #Windows Applications #Windows Infrastructure #Accounting #NE Sales #SW Sales #Management You can just have people add those 'identified/targetted' distribution lists to the local Communicator contacts. The membership will dynamically update. I still prefer my inidvidual lists, but as an alternative to pushing out contacts and maintaining them via scheduled updates, you can leverage existing distribution lists or make some up special for this purpose and just tell people to add them via documentation. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: You mention something interesting (we do have OCS2007r2)...target distribution groups? Sounds like a much better way to go. Any pointers? On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Ya, we created documentation on adding contacts and it became a manager issue if they cared (LCS2005sp1 less tools) which it turns out they did not. With OCS2007r2 you can just target distribution groups and their membership will dynamically update so that may be a less painful route to go. If posible, I would try to edge your management to away from 'mandated minimum standard contacts'. Let's see, right now the average number of contacts per user here is 34.64 (I wonder if being .64 of a contact hurts?). Our highest is 162 contacts. Good luck with that, some management teams seem enamored with the illusion of top down dictates. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:16 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: I had to do that in a previous job. It can be done with those scripts but it is fairly non-dynamic when it comes to updating users who have left, etc. You could do it with some form of scripting querying AD but it's a big fudge. In the end we opted to set up a script to auto-enable every user for OCS and then simply allowed them to create their own contact groups. Administratively it was a huge PITA to maintain these contact sets. We put together a document detailing how to set up contact groups, how to use OCS for dialing people from Outlook, etc. and sent it to every user after they'd been enabled for the software. In the long run this was probably more productive. On 15 April 2011 17:12, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Actually...that's what I've been *asked* to setup...a minimum 'set' of contacts from the various locations grouped by function, etc On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft Product. Microsoft purchased the technology that became Live Communications Server 2003 and released LCS2005 soon afterwards. OCS2007 is really more in the mode MS likes and OCS2007r2 included nice improvements. All the above said, OCS is a communications tool built on the SIP protocol and is constrained by that model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol) and is not like email despite it being positioned next to Exchanage in the MS messaging suite. SIP leans more towards subscription and OCS overall is a messaging and presence tool. When you 'add a contact' you are really 'subscribing' to that contacts presence status. That person is so likely to be someone you interact with, that it is important that you are 'notified' of their presence status so that you can communicate more effectively with them. Everytime a person in your contacts status changes (away, in a meeting, busy, do not disturb) that change is 'pushed' to all clients with a subscription to that person. This adds load do the database and environment and I think the default contacts (subscriptions) per person is 100 (as in each person can have 100 people add them to their contact list, we've set ours to 200). If a person is not someone that you interact with on a regular basis, then why would you want them in your cntacts list? Just look them up in the address book or see their status in the latest email you got from them in Outlook. An example, I have in my contacts list all the members of my team and the two other windows team and associated managers. I have specific individuals from our help desk and the database team and a few people I lunch with and two project managers whose projects I am a resource on and I will remove the PMs as soon as the project is done (40 people). Anyone else, I get out of the address book, I don't normally care what their status' is. Distribution lists can be added to a persons contact list and these will update membership locally but generally these are client driven operations, not pushed out globally.
Re: Did I get dropped again
Kosh [We] have always been here. /Kosh On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I guess Lyris has decided to not send me emails again? No emails from NT List or Exchange list since yesterday…. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
PowerPoint 2007 won't run
One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Did I get dropped again
The avalanche has started - it's too late for the pebbles to vote. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:08, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Kosh [We] have always been here. /Kosh On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I guess Lyris has decided to not send me emails again? No emails from NT List or Exchange list since yesterday…. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Could this be used for evil?
For a long time now, bad guys haven't been interested in wiping hard drives. There's no profit in it. Disgruntled employee? Sure, but that's much less of an issue, IMHO. And, that's what backups are for, right? Kurt On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:21, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: If you’re a bad guy, could you leverage this technology and be able to wipe systems clean if you wanted? http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20053910-83.html?tag=mncol;title David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Mobile 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Good Linux Web Host
Any recommendations guys? Our current host is down way to often for us. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Both. As I say, when you repair it, it briefly comes up with the splash screen and then dies. This is from clicking on the Powerpoint icon in the start menu or from clicking on the powerpoint.exe in the c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: [semi-OT] Finding good IT service providers?
Ask to speak to three of their customers, who, in their opinion, are of roughly the same size and complexity of your environment. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:59, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Dr. Nick Hi everybody! /Dr. Nick The company I work for has myself as the IT Manager, plus my one minion. Most of the time we're good, but sometimes we get a short-term higher workload and I call in reinforcements on a contract or time-and-materials basis. The local mom-and-pop shop I had been using has had turnover and their new people fail to impress. So I'm looking to find a new IT services provider. My problem is, before you hire them, they all look the same -- glossy brochures, alleged referrals from happy customers, reassurances that they're the best, etc. Does anyone have any tips on how to tell the good from the bad? I've thought of asking them for info on how many techs they have and what their qualifications are (training, certs, etc.), but I know from past experience that an expensive piece of paper only gets you so much. Is there anything like a Yelp for IT providers? (If anyone wants to give me a referral, feel free to do so, but please do so off-list. We're in North-East Massachusetts, right on the border with NH.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Can you view it with the free MS Powerpoint Viewer? Roger Wright ___ Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” - Spock, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Both. As I say, when you repair it, it briefly comes up with the splash screen and then dies. This is from clicking on the Powerpoint icon in the start menu or from clicking on the powerpoint.exe in the c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
I had a PowerPoint issue similar to this a few years ago. It was being caused by the AV software. (I think we were using Symantec at that time). I recall disabling the AV software temporarily, then I think I added an exclusion so I could turn AV back on. BF -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Can you view it with the free MS Powerpoint Viewer? Roger Wright ___ Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. - Spock, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Both. As I say, when you repair it, it briefly comes up with the splash screen and then dies. This is from clicking on the Powerpoint icon in the start menu or from clicking on the powerpoint.exe in the c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
I assume so... I just installed it when I couldn't get Powerpoint to run. I figure by now the manager would have called me if he couldnt view it. :-) -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Can you view it with the free MS Powerpoint Viewer? Roger Wright ___ Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. - Spock, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Both. As I say, when you repair it, it briefly comes up with the splash screen and then dies. This is from clicking on the Powerpoint icon in the start menu or from clicking on the powerpoint.exe in the c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Surely Vipre wouldnt block that -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:bobfr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run I had a PowerPoint issue similar to this a few years ago. It was being caused by the AV software. (I think we were using Symantec at that time). I recall disabling the AV software temporarily, then I think I added an exclusion so I could turn AV back on. BF -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Can you view it with the free MS Powerpoint Viewer? Roger Wright ___ Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. - Spock, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Both. As I say, when you repair it, it briefly comes up with the splash screen and then dies. This is from clicking on the Powerpoint icon in the start menu or from clicking on the powerpoint.exe in the c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Good iPhone Network Apps
That response is extremely foolish. The iPhone has some excellent network analyzing/troubleshooting apps. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Lock, Philip lo...@chelmsford.ac.ukwrote: My best one is not to use an iphone J *Philip Lock* Network Systems Manager Moulsham Street, CM2 0JQ Tel: 01245 293023 *www.chelmsford.ac.uk* [image: Description: http://www.chelmsford.ac.uk/images/outlook/cclogonew.jpg] *From:* Dennis Krebs [mailto:dennis.kr...@advancedav.com] *Sent:* 15 April 2011 14:27 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Good iPhone Network Apps I wanted to find out which iPhone apps you guys like for network troubleshooting. -- Dennis Krebs Advanced Audio Visual ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This e-mail any files and attachments transmitted with it are confidential and may be legally privileged. They are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by Chelmsford College or any associated or related company. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of, or any action taken or omitted in reliance on this e-mail or any file or attachment transmitted with it is strictly prohibited may be unlawful. We may monitor all email communication through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify Chelmsford College by e-mailing:postmas...@chelmsford-college.ac.uk. If you contact us by email, we may store your details to facilitate communication. We take reasonable precautions to ensure our emails are virus free. However, we cannot accept responsibility for any virus transmitted by Chelmsford College and recommend that you subject any incoming email to your own virus checking procedures. -- Scanned by iCritical. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadminimage001.jpg
Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Could try as another user to rule out profile related problems, but no ideas other than that if office safe mode isn't working either. You might be able to do just an Office removal/reinstall instead of a whole wipe. This might help if uninstall isn't working: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Both. As I say, when you repair it, it briefly comes up with the splash screen and then dies. This is from clicking on the Powerpoint icon in the start menu or from clicking on the powerpoint.exe in the c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Good iPhone Network Apps
I keep forgetting to add that to my phone. TY for reminding me!
--
ME2
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Alex Eckelberry
al...@sunbelt-software.com wrote:
Teamviewer
*From:* Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
*Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 10:11 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Good iPhone Network Apps
Get “Jump” and rdp to any server/pc you want. Works great.
*From:* Dennis Krebs [mailto:dennis.kr...@advancedav.com]
*Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 7:27 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Good iPhone Network Apps
I wanted to find out which iPhone apps you guys like for network
troubleshooting.
--
Dennis Krebs
Advanced Audio Visual
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Re: Could this be used for evil?
Anything can be [mis]used for evil. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:21 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: If you’re a bad guy, could you leverage this technology and be able to wipe systems clean if you wanted? http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20053910-83.html?tag=mncol;title *David Lum* * *Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Mobile 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
I think I ruled out user-profile problems, as I could not get it to run as the user or as myself. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Could try as another user to rule out profile related problems, but no ideas other than that if office safe mode isn't working either. You might be able to do just an Office removal/reinstall instead of a whole wipe. This might help if uninstall isn't working: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Both. As I say, when you repair it, it briefly comes up with the splash screen and then dies. This is from clicking on the Powerpoint icon in the start menu or from clicking on the powerpoint.exe in the c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
The few times I've tried, Office2007 uninstalls nicely. That is, in ControlPanel, if I uninstall it, then I usually find no pieces of Office2007 products in HKLM\Software\Microsoft. (Check anyway.) Do a file system check, then try to reinstall (and hope you don't have to go through MS Activation!). Hopefully a re-install will let PP run. -- richard John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com 04/15/2011 01:19 PM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Press this button if the To is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like 123-456-7890. cc Subject PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Surely Symantec wouldn't block it either but it did. I looked up my notes on it and it was Symantec AV. The issue was the file size (large) of the PowerPoint file and the inability for a scan to take place when the file was being opened. This caused PowerPoint to crash. The fix was to turn off the real time protection. (Active Protection now on Vipre). We moved to Vipre shortly after that occurrence. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Surely Vipre wouldnt block that -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:bobfr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run I had a PowerPoint issue similar to this a few years ago. It was being caused by the AV software. (I think we were using Symantec at that time). I recall disabling the AV software temporarily, then I think I added an exclusion so I could turn AV back on. BF -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Can you view it with the free MS Powerpoint Viewer? Roger Wright ___ Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. - Spock, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Both. As I say, when you repair it, it briefly comes up with the splash screen and then dies. This is from clicking on the Powerpoint icon in the start menu or from clicking on the powerpoint.exe in the c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ folder. Doesn't do anything for me when I click on the PPS file. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Are you launching powerpoint by clicking on the PPS file or starting it from its own shortcut? DDE or the file itself could be causing the problem. Jeff On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
And, if you have the media, but not necessarily the exact CD, you can grab the CD Key used when it was installed and use it on other media. http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/ That tool, among others, can be used to reconstruct the installation key. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:11 PM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: The few times I've tried, Office2007 uninstalls nicely. That is, in ControlPanel, if I uninstall it, then I usually find no pieces of Office2007 products in HKLM\Software\Microsoft. (Check anyway.) Do a file system check, then try to reinstall (and hope you don't have to go through MS Activation!). Hopefully a re-install will let PP run. -- richard *John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com* 04/15/2011 01:19 PM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Press this button if the To is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like 123-456-7890. cc Subject PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Thanks. For now, at least, the user isn't interested in uninstalling/reinstalling office, but if it comes to that, I'll at least know that there's a good chance that'll fix it. I suspect something, somewhere along the way, broke PowerPoint. *sigh* From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run The few times I've tried, Office2007 uninstalls nicely. That is, in ControlPanel, if I uninstall it, then I usually find no pieces of Office2007 products in HKLM\Software\Microsoft. (Check anyway.) Do a file system check, then try to reinstall (and hope you don't have to go through MS Activation!). Hopefully a re-install will let PP run. -- richard John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com 04/15/2011 01:19 PM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Press this button if the To is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like 123-456-7890. cc Subject PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Nifty...thanks! From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2007 won't run And, if you have the media, but not necessarily the exact CD, you can grab the CD Key used when it was installed and use it on other media. http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/ That tool, among others, can be used to reconstruct the installation key. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:11 PM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: The few times I've tried, Office2007 uninstalls nicely. That is, in ControlPanel, if I uninstall it, then I usually find no pieces of Office2007 products in HKLM\Software\Microsoft. (Check anyway.) Do a file system check, then try to reinstall (and hope you don't have to go through MS Activation!). Hopefully a re-install will let PP run. -- richard John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com 04/15/2011 01:19 PM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Press this button if the To is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like 123-456-7890. cc Subject PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Windows InTune
I would generally agree with this as well. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Guyer, Don don.gu...@fiserv.com wrote: Regarding Windows 7... I've loaded Windows 7 on 3-4 year old hardware and it's out-performed %previous version% considerably. Also, 99% of the time, there's no need to mess with drivers after the W7 install, which saves time. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Not bad... was thinking of possibly getting that for, as previously mentioned, helping out friends and family. :-) I wonder if my refurbed Dell would meet the minimum specs for Windows 7? :-) -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Yes, you can. However, you'll still need to use the separate reporting mechanism you have in place for Vipre, instead of getting alerts/notifications in the all-in-one Intune console. Personally, I don't believe that this is a case where MS is attempting to shut out competitors, but instead trying to provide a complete solution in one package. In addition, MS is pushing heavily to offer cloud alternatives to all of their System Center products, and I suspect, eventually, the cloud solutions will be the preferred solutions (give or take 5-10 years). Incidentally, there have been solutions like this on the market for a long, long while. Kaseya, KACE, Viewfinity, etc. IMO (i.e., I've worked with the others) Intune does it better and with less impact to the client. On another note, the pricing may seem steep to some, but consider that a Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade license comes with it. From the FAQ: As a Windows Intune customer, you are entitled to the following benefits while your subscriptions are active: ¦Upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise for all your PCs that are covered by Windows Intune, as long as they meet the minimum system requirements for Windows 7. ¦Access to downloadable Volume Licensing media for Windows 7 Enterprise (and prior versions) and activation keys so that you can install the desired version of Windows on your PCs. ¦Rights to upgrade to future versions of Windows, as well as downgrade rights to older versions. ¦Rights to run instances of Windows on up to 4 virtual operating system environments on each licensed PC. The Windows Intune cloud service can manage one virtual Windows OS environment in addition to one physical. Still -- for a lot of companies that don't have a management solution in place already, the ROI is quick. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows InTune Very nice. Can you leave out the antivirus portion? I'm very happy with Vipre and would prefer to stick with it where possible. Or is this another one of those things where Microsoft is trying to take over every possible market and shut all competitors out? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Nice comprehensive info, thanks! On 15 April 2011 13:05, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Microsoft is positioning it as a small to medium company size solution, however, it is built to scale to large organizations. One individual at Microsoft (who will remain nameless) said, -It's for larger organizations, just as much as for small companies. My marketing department keeps getting it wrong.- The product has been in beta for almost 2 years (well - actually longer if you consider that its roots are in the System Center Online codebase), so there's a lot of good stuff baked in. It does support remote assistance, AV is awesome (same codebase as Security Essentials), and can be completely transparent to the end user (you have several options). Made for business, but I run it on all of my family's (and some friends') PCs. If someone has an issue where the agent isn't installed, I can just send them a link to load it up and I can manage their computer in about 30 minutes. BTW: Here's a good FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/windowsintune-faq.aspx From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows InTune Does it provide remote control as well as information on updates, AV, etc., is it easy enough to use, are there any security concerns, is it pretty transparent to the end user,
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Have you checked the task manager to see if multiple instances are running in processes? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 14:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Yep. I think I checked all the usual suspects but didn't find any of them. Was just kinda hoping someone here had had a similar problem and knew an easy fix. :-) -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Have you checked the task manager to see if multiple instances are running in processes? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 14:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
That is obviously not the case. If you go into the control panel can you change/repair it? -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 15:37 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Have you checked the task manager to see if multiple instances are running in processes? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 14:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for network apps for BBs? Citrix Repeater 2.0? Any others? Thanks! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
Yeah, don't use a BB... Sorry, couldn't resist that one! Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com http://www.fiserv.com/ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good BlackBerry Network Apps? Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for network apps for BBs? Citrix Repeater 2.0? Any others? Thanks! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good Linux Web Host
Hostgator, tech support is real good, and you'll get an escalation asap if the tier1 guy cant fix it. They also run CentOS, which I like... From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good Linux Web Host Any recommendations guys? Our current host is down way to often for us. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
Failing all else, ask a PowerPoint MVP: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/powerpoint Usually uninstalling/reinstalling is a last resort. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 15:42 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Yep. I think I checked all the usual suspects but didn't find any of them. Was just kinda hoping someone here had had a similar problem and knew an easy fix. :-) -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Have you checked the task manager to see if multiple instances are running in processes? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 14:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
Rove Mobile Admin, but it is expen$ive! -- richard David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com 04/15/2011 02:46 PM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Press this button if the To is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like 123-456-7890. cc Subject Good BlackBerry Network Apps? Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for network apps for BBs? Citrix Repeater 2.0? Any others? Thanks! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good Linux Web Host
Not sure what you host, so not sure your desired specification, but I’ve been working a couple of web sites for a few non-profits, all using sites at ace-host.net with very little downtime over the last 4 or 5 years. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good Linux Web Host Any recommendations guys? Our current host is down way to often for us. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
LOL I should have seen that coming Back on topic.. It seems like there are very few good network apps out there for BBs, hoping someone chimes in with some good ones! From: Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps? Yeah, don't use a BB... Sorry, couldn't resist that one! Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com http://www.fiserv.com/ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good BlackBerry Network Apps? Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for network apps for BBs? Citrix Repeater 2.0? Any others? Thanks! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run
I tried doing the repair that way as well as through the powerpoint didn't start in safe mode dialogue box. -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run That is obviously not the case. If you go into the control panel can you change/repair it? -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 15:37 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerPoint 2007 won't run Have you checked the task manager to see if multiple instances are running in processes? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 14:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PowerPoint 2007 won't run One of our senior managers (and one of the owners of the company) asked me to look at his laptop (Windows XP) as he couldn't open a PowerPoint presentation (*.pps). I have tried repairing it several times, but it just won't run. It won't even run in safe mode. I never get an error message, but after I repair it and try to launch, it pops up the splash screen then goes away. Nothing in the logs. I try to launch it again, it comes up with a message that Powerpoint failed to start properly, and do I want to start in safe mode, click yes, and nothing happens. The third time it comes up and says it failed to start in safe mode, do I want to try a repair install. Infinite loop. Now, I don't know if Powerpoint *ever* worked on this laptop. The manager got it used after the previous user left the company. I have not wiped and reinstalled as I was not sure where the reinstall media was for that laptop. :-( Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good Linux Web Host
www.1and1.com www.Bluehost.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good Linux Web Host Hostgator, tech support is real good, and you'll get an escalation asap if the tier1 guy cant fix it. They also run CentOS, which I like... From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good Linux Web Host Any recommendations guys? Our current host is down way to often for us. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
How about Android? So far, I use Connectbot, lazygeek, and wifi analyzer. Kurt On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:45, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for network apps for BBs? Citrix Repeater 2.0? Any others? Thanks! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Good Linux Web Host
+1 for 1and1. Been using them for the last 6 years. - WJR On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 14:51, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: www.1and1.com www.Bluehost.com *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 3:48 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Good Linux Web Host Hostgator, tech support is real good, and you’ll get an escalation asap if the tier1 guy cant fix it. They also run CentOS, which I like… *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2011 12:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Good Linux Web Host Any recommendations guys? Our current host is down way to often for us. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
I have been seriously considering getting some type of droid to play with. Maybe the HTC EVO Shift (Sprint).. What model(s) do you like? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good BlackBerry Network Apps? How about Android? So far, I use Connectbot, lazygeek, and wifi analyzer. Kurt On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:45, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for network apps for BBs? Citrix Repeater 2.0? Any others? Thanks! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
LogMeIn is about all I use on the mobiles. That and bookmarking all my Cacti and monitoring pages. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: How about Android? So far, I use Connectbot, lazygeek, and wifi analyzer. Kurt On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:45, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for network apps for BBs? Citrix Repeater 2.0? Any others? Thanks! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good iPhone Network Apps
Has anyone found a good Wi-Fi analyzer app? There's a good one for Android but the AppStore seems to frown on that kind of stuff. From: Dennis Krebs [mailto:dennis.kr...@advancedav.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good iPhone Network Apps I wanted to find out which iPhone apps you guys like for network troubleshooting. -- Dennis Krebs Advanced Audio Visual ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
I have been thinking about ditching the iDevice for a Droid, but with ATT (discounts) and would appreciate similar info. First thought is the HTC Inspire. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps? I have been seriously considering getting some type of droid to play with. Maybe the HTC EVO Shift (Sprint).. What model(s) do you like? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good BlackBerry Network Apps? How about Android? So far, I use Connectbot, lazygeek, and wifi analyzer. Kurt On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:45, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for network apps for BBs? Citrix Repeater 2.0? Any others? Thanks! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Good iPhone Network Apps
The Logmein app works very well. They updated it lately and its impressive.
Speedtest.net has an app also that I use as well.
Jay Dale
Senior Systems Administrator
P:281-574-2414
From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:23 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Good iPhone Network Apps
Teamviewer
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:11 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Good iPhone Network Apps
Get Jump and rdp to any server/pc you want. Works great.
From: Dennis Krebs [mailto:dennis.kr...@advancedav.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Good iPhone Network Apps
I wanted to find out which iPhone apps you guys like for network
troubleshooting.
--
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RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
On ATT, it has to be the Atrix.
Sean Rector, MCSE
-Original Message-
From: Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 4:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
I have been thinking about ditching the iDevice for a Droid, but with ATT
(discounts) and would appreciate similar info.
First thought is the HTC Inspire.
Don Guyer
Windows Systems Engineer
RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology
Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com
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Fax: 610-233-0404
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From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
I have been seriously considering getting some type of droid to play with.
Maybe the HTC EVO Shift (Sprint)..
What model(s) do you like?
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?
How about Android?
So far, I use Connectbot, lazygeek, and wifi analyzer.
Kurt
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david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote:
Same question as earlier one for iPhone.. what are your choices for
network apps for BBs?
Citrix Repeater 2.0?
Any others?
Thanks!
.
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Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2
Ok...I think I've finally got it figured...BUT...(of course there is always a but) How the heck do I delete a contact group that already exists? I've tried cscript lcsaddcontacts.wsf /userfiles:text.txt (contains only me) /contactsgroup:listedgroup /delete it just complains and shows me the syntax of the command On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: I may have added to the confusion by being all wordy and less then precise. All of our teams have a team based distribution list are build using #Name format and managed by the teams manager. So to make up some names for example purposes #Windows Applications #Windows Infrastructure #Accounting #NE Sales #SW Sales #Management You can just have people add those 'identified/targetted' distribution lists to the local Communicator contacts. The membership will dynamically update. I still prefer my inidvidual lists, but as an alternative to pushing out contacts and maintaining them via scheduled updates, you can leverage existing distribution lists or make some up special for this purpose and just tell people to add them via documentation. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.comwrote: You mention something interesting (we do have OCS2007r2)...target distribution groups? Sounds like a much better way to go. Any pointers? On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Ya, we created documentation on adding contacts and it became a manager issue if they cared (LCS2005sp1 less tools) which it turns out they did not. With OCS2007r2 you can just target distribution groups and their membership will dynamically update so that may be a less painful route to go. If posible, I would try to edge your management to away from 'mandated minimum standard contacts'. Let's see, right now the average number of contacts per user here is 34.64 (I wonder if being .64 of a contact hurts?). Our highest is 162 contacts. Good luck with that, some management teams seem enamored with the illusion of top down dictates. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:16 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: I had to do that in a previous job. It can be done with those scripts but it is fairly non-dynamic when it comes to updating users who have left, etc. You could do it with some form of scripting querying AD but it's a big fudge. In the end we opted to set up a script to auto-enable every user for OCS and then simply allowed them to create their own contact groups. Administratively it was a huge PITA to maintain these contact sets. We put together a document detailing how to set up contact groups, how to use OCS for dialing people from Outlook, etc. and sent it to every user after they'd been enabled for the software. In the long run this was probably more productive. On 15 April 2011 17:12, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Actually...that's what I've been *asked* to setup...a minimum 'set' of contacts from the various locations grouped by function, etc On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.comwrote: OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft Product. Microsoft purchased the technology that became Live Communications Server 2003 and released LCS2005 soon afterwards. OCS2007 is really more in the mode MS likes and OCS2007r2 included nice improvements. All the above said, OCS is a communications tool built on the SIP protocol and is constrained by that model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol) and is not like email despite it being positioned next to Exchanage in the MS messaging suite. SIP leans more towards subscription and OCS overall is a messaging and presence tool. When you 'add a contact' you are really 'subscribing' to that contacts presence status. That person is so likely to be someone you interact with, that it is important that you are 'notified' of their presence status so that you can communicate more effectively with them. Everytime a person in your contacts status changes (away, in a meeting, busy, do not disturb) that change is 'pushed' to all clients with a subscription to that person. This adds load do the database and environment and I think the default contacts (subscriptions) per person is 100 (as in each person can have 100 people add them to their contact list, we've set ours to 200). If a person is not someone that you interact with on a regular basis, then why would you want them in your cntacts list? Just look them up in the address book or see their status in the latest email you got from them in Outlook. An example, I have in my contacts list all the members of my team and the two other windows team and associated managers. I have specific individuals from our help desk and the database team and a few people
