Re: Can you have all members of and OU automatically not be members of Domain users
Hi Chris, What part of SCCM would do this? I have a call with MS today, and I will ask them about it? Graeme On 18 November 2011 21:56, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.comwrote: Do you have SCCM in your environment? You could do it with that. If not, you can write a script and have a scheduled task do this on a frequency you define (every 30 minutes). Not ideal, but it would get it done. Nothing in AD by itself that I am aware of that would do this. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:Graeme Carstairs loonyto...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/18/2011 04:46 PM Subject:Can you have all members of and OU automatically not be members of Domain users -- Hi There, The subject line says it all We are looking for away to systematically make and OU that if you create a user in it, it will have a group say SecGroup1 as its primary group, and not have membership of Domain Users. The idea is for a specific OU that users created in it, will never be members of Domain Users, and even if the membership is added to the user once created will be removed, or be unable to be added. Thanks Graeme -- Good news everyone, you have just received an e-mail from me! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ *http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/*http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: * http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/*http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to *listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com*listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 news everyone, you have just received an e-mail from me! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Delegation question
Why not just revoke, the rights on the DA group for Helpdesk to modify passwords or change them? I see where the auditors want clear separation from Helpdesk and DA, and other privileged accounts. /Auditor hat on.. Basically they want to make sure that there is no privileged escalation to DA, when a helpdesk analyst resets a DA password and them logs on as DA and does nefarious stuff ( as commented before), /Security engineer hat on but there should be a log of the helpdesk analyst doing the password reset in the AD logs on the AD account and then the logon access of the DA account and where from, which should leave the audit trail to followup and correct the action and deal with the situation in which the helpdesk analyst created. So auditing and accountability is covered, keeping both sides happy, and again how likely of a situation is it in your companies, ( times in past it has happened etc etc, and what administrative action has happened to those individuals that have tried to perpetrate this ?) Also if there is going to be a group that is covering PCI/SOX issues from a Sec engineering, auditing focus I would love to get in on that discussion, since there is going to be some changes on my end soon. Sincerely, EZ Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization email:ezi...@lifespan.org phone:401-639-3505 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Delegation question Thats a bit crazy. What happens when rogue helpdesk guy resets a DA password and uses it for nefarious purposes? Prevention is surely better than cure in this case. However I have worked at a lot of customers with crazy requirements, to be fair. On 18 November 2011 16:50, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: I've asked that many times. And been told that it is a requirement. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/18/2011 11:37 AM Subject:RE: Delegation question Why do they need the ability to reset passwords on protected accounts? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com ] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Delegation question Currently our helpdesk staff have the ability to reset passwords for all user accounts, including domain admin accounts. Our internal auditors want us to take away the ability of helpdesk staff to change domain admin passwords, but not to remove their ability to reset passwords for users in protected groups that's where I'm running into a wall. theoretically if all the domain admin accounts were in one OU I could do this by revoking access to that OU, but unfortunately that is not the case and I don't think it's possible the way things are setup right now (service accounts in domain admins, etc...). What I'm afraid of is that something will break if I move those accounts, specifically the service accounts. Any thoughts on this? Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
RE: Symantec (SEPM)
I will be watching this thread, if any SEP users out there would like to talk with me offline about your experiences please let me know. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization email:ezi...@lifespan.org phone:401-639-3505 From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:dean.cunning...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 5:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Symantec (SEPM) Nope, I hear it goes ok, check the symantec community at symantec.com We will probably move to trendmicro before upgrading to 12.x 11 is just a PITA On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Troy Adkins tadk...@house.virginia.gov wrote: Has anyone upgraded to Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) v12.1? ~ 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadminimage002.jpg
Veeam
Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: PDF viewer in IE
How many users are impacted? If only one, then I'm not sure that you'll find a better option. How about: Install Fox-it Software PDF Reader * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Situation: ** ** * User has Acrobat 8 Pro installed, as well as Reader X. * Reader X is the default viewer for PDF files, EXCEPT when opening in IE* *** * Opening Reader X…Edit…Preferences…Internet, “Display PDF in browser” points to Acrobat 8 Pro but is greyed out ** ** Google-Fu points to people with the same issue. I can disable the PDF Add-in but what I really want is to change the association in IE to point to the newer reader instead. The only fix I found was uninstall/re-install Adobe Reader X, anyone have a better solution? *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 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: Veeam
The only experience I have to report on this product, is that - at present - it really does not work well with Exchange 2010 DAGs - without fail backing up a DAG node causes all active databases on the node to fail over to an alternate server... This is fairly well documented discussed in the blogosphere... Paul G. From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: 21 November 2011 16:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Veeam Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: PDF viewer in IE
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: * User has Acrobat 8 Pro installed, as well as Reader X. * Reader X is the default viewer for PDF files, EXCEPT when opening in IE * Opening Reader X…Edit…Preferences…Internet, “Display PDF in browser” points to Acrobat 8 Pro but is greyed out You might be able to open Acrobat 8, Edit - Prefs - Internet, and disable there, then enable in Reader X. Not sure if that will work. If that won't work, I'm fairly sure this will: Uninstall both. Then install Acrobat 8 Pro with the view-PDF-in-browser feature removed using the Adobe Customization Wizard. Then install Acrobat X. Or buy a new version of Acrobat. Or just install PDFCreator, if all they is dumb print-to-PDF. Or disable view-PDF-in-browser, it's a bad idea anyway. -- 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: Veeam
You should also check out PHD Virtual Backup (formerly esXpress.) They just released an updated version (5.3) last week which includes data deduplication, file-level recovery, and replication. http://www.phdvirtual.com/phd-backup-replication I have no relation to the company but have been using their products for over five years and love 'em. -Jeff From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Veeam Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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
Debugging tool suggestions
I have a user asking for suggestions on more debugging utils. He uses process monitor and explorer and was wondering if there was anything else? He doesn't have a specific need; just look for a new toy I guess. 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: Backup Software
I know the CEO, and know they are growing fast. It's a good team. You could also look at Double-Take now owned by Vision. That Will get you D2D with offsite and has been in this market 10yrs+ Warm regards, Stu From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup Software Anyone have experience with AppAssure? -- Bob Hartung Dir of I.T. Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:09:33 -0600 Subject: Backup Software I've been researching backup software and I'd like to go with a disk-to-disk solution with offsite replication for disaster recovery. We currently are doing disk-to-disk-to-tape and it's taking too long. Plus I'm tired of people telling me they forgot to put the next tape in. I'd appreciate any real-world recommendations on what's good or warnings on what's not so good. Thanks. -- Bob Hartung Dir of I.T. Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: Debugging tool suggestions
Xperf is the new big thing The actual Debugging Tools for Windows package... With no context the question is kind of hard to answer. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Debugging tool suggestions I have a user asking for suggestions on more debugging utils. He uses process monitor and explorer and was wondering if there was anything else? He doesn't have a specific need; just look for a new toy I guess. 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: Debugging tool suggestions
For debugging what? The SysInternals suite covers the vast majority of system and application debugging needs. Then there is LUA BugLight and the Windows debugging utilities - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aaron_margosis/archive/2011/03/23/lua-buglight-2-1-1-with-support-for-win7-2008r2-sp1.aspx - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009 * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have a user asking for suggestions on more debugging utils. He uses process monitor and explorer and was wondering if there was anything else? He doesn't have a specific need; just look for a new toy I guess. 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: Debugging tool suggestions
LUA Buglight can be handy for working out perms-related issues. Is he looking for full debug tools such as those used to read BSODs and the like, or just general troubleshooting tools? --Original Message-- From: Mathew Shember To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Debugging tool suggestions Sent: 21 Nov 2011 18:26 I have a user asking for suggestions on more debugging utils. He uses process monitor and explorer and was wondering if there was anything else? He doesn't have a specific need; just look for a new toy I guess. 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 Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Debugging tool suggestions
start with the *entire* sysinternals suite , and then let him ask for more specific needs not met. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have a user asking for suggestions on more debugging utils. He uses process monitor and explorer and was wondering if there was anything else? He doesn't have a specific need; just look for a new toy I guess. 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: Debugging tool suggestions
Thanks! I will have a look. The user is a software engineer so it would be along those lines. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Debugging tool suggestions Xperf is the new big thing The actual Debugging Tools for Windows package... With no context the question is kind of hard to answer. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Debugging tool suggestions I have a user asking for suggestions on more debugging utils. He uses process monitor and explorer and was wondering if there was anything else? He doesn't have a specific need; just look for a new toy I guess. 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: Delegation question
You can't individually revoke the rights for one group. The members of the DAs group (plus all the other odd admin groups) are covered by AdminSDHolder which only has one ACL template for all the groups. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Delegation question Why not just revoke, the rights on the DA group for Helpdesk to modify passwords or change them? I see where the auditors want clear separation from Helpdesk and DA, and other privileged accounts. /Auditor hat on.. Basically they want to make sure that there is no privileged escalation to DA, when a helpdesk analyst resets a DA password and them logs on as DA and does nefarious stuff ( as commented before), /Security engineer hat on but there should be a log of the helpdesk analyst doing the password reset in the AD logs on the AD account and then the logon access of the DA account and where from, which should leave the audit trail to followup and correct the action and deal with the situation in which the helpdesk analyst created. So auditing and accountability is covered, keeping both sides happy, and again how likely of a situation is it in your companies, ( times in past it has happened etc etc, and what administrative action has happened to those individuals that have tried to perpetrate this ?) Also if there is going to be a group that is covering PCI/SOX issues from a Sec engineering, auditing focus I would love to get in on that discussion, since there is going to be some changes on my end soon. Sincerely, EZ Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization email:ezi...@lifespan.org phone:401-639-3505 [CISSP_logo] From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]mailto:[mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Delegation question Thats a bit crazy. What happens when rogue helpdesk guy resets a DA password and uses it for nefarious purposes? Prevention is surely better than cure in this case. However I have worked at a lot of customers with crazy requirements, to be fair. On 18 November 2011 16:50, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: I've asked that many times. And been told that it is a requirement. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459tel:610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003tel:610-807-6003 From:Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/18/2011 11:37 AM Subject:RE: Delegation question Why do they need the ability to reset passwords on protected accounts? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438tel:312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132tel:312.731.3132 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Delegation question Currently our helpdesk staff have the ability to reset passwords for all user accounts, including domain admin accounts. Our internal auditors want us to take away the ability of helpdesk staff to change domain admin passwords, but not to remove their ability to reset passwords for users in protected groups that's where I'm running into a wall. theoretically if all the domain admin accounts were in one OU I could do this by revoking access to that OU, but unfortunately that is not the case and I don't think it's possible the way things are setup right now (service accounts in domain admins, etc...). What I'm afraid of is that something will break if I move those accounts, specifically the service accounts. Any thoughts on this? Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459tel:610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003tel:610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments.
Re: Backup Software
Commvault. Nice product, unless you actually want support that matters. They not only told me the wrong information during a critical restore which destroyed a weeks worth of data, they were unapologetic about it and refused to take responsibility for the actions of their support tech. Am I bitter about it 5 years later? Darn straight I am. I promised them I would continue to describe their horrific support and total lack of customer care for as long as they remained in business and I remained part of the IT community. And unlike them I keep my promise. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.ukwrote: Thanks Bob. I would suggest look at Commvault. I say that simple because we used to use ArcServe (admittedly we are talking some time back) and switched to it and I've never looked back. They do standard licensing and they also do a capacity license where you license the amount of data you want to backup (frontend) and you can use any mix of their agents to do it. The dedupe works really well and is source side so you really cut down on the amount of data going over the pipe to your HQ. They also do some rather funky synthetic full backups where you essentially do an initial proper full backup, and from that point onwards you only ever run incremental backups. The downside is that I think you're going to be pushing it at that budget, but end of year/quarter and the likes means you may be able do something - I would certainly be asking the question of a reseller. The bottom line is that dedupe and all the stuff to take away the problems you're having isn't cheap. Other vendors I'd look at would be HP Data Protector, DPM (no dedupe but seems to fit very well in an MS shop), and if I were going out today looking at backup software, I'd be really tempted to find out something about Unitrends - they have some interesting looking pricing models. -- *From:* Bob Hartung [bhart...@wiscoind.com] *Sent:* 17 November 2011 7:28 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Backup Software See below... -- Bob Hartung Dir of I.T. Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com -- *From:* Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] *To:* NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ] *Sent:* Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:51:41 -0600 *Subject:* RE: Backup Software With respect, I'm still not clear what you're looking to backup. Server backups. Is it all of the data, is it the subset of the data that's at the remote sites? I'd plan to back each server up to its local location and periodically replicate. I'd replicate bidirectionally between the Main and Cross-Town locations and replicate from the Out-of-State back to the Main location. The plan is to only backup what's changed since the last backup. Most of the backup solutions I've looked at have utilities to compress the incremental backups into fewer files to reduce the total number of files. You have 3tb available in each location, is that 3tb you could backup to, or are you saying it's 3tb of potential source data in each location? Just mentioning that to say my budget does not need to cover additional storage space. Are the servers file servers, Exchange servers, SQL servers? If so, what is the data split? No Exchange but we do use MySQL which I run data dumps on daily. What do you do now for backup? Arcserve using disk-to-disk-to-tape. Generally, I'd suggest moving to d2d2t but use source side dedupe and technologies like synthetic fulls to cut down your backup window. Personally I'm still a fan of tape for the stick it in a safe factor, tape libraries (kind of) solve the forgot to change the tape thing, and if you're doing d2d2t having a tape in a library is less important as your backups will still run. I don't really have any archival requirements. My main concerns are being able to quickly restore downed servers, reduce or eliminate the backup window and reduce or eliminate the use of tapes and depending on people at the remote site to put the right tape in, if they remember to do it at all. -- *From:* Bob Hartung [bhart...@wiscoind.com] *Sent:* 17 November 2011 6:20 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Backup Software We have 3 locations with 10 servers Main Location: (7) Windows 2003 and (1) Windows 2008 servers | | | | Wireless BridgeVPN (36Mb x 36MB) (3MB x 384K) | | |
Re: Backup Software
ps. In all fairness they did give me a nice T-shirt. I still use it to this day. I cut it intoseveral pieces and I use them to clean the toilet each week at home. Thanks Commvault. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Doug Hampshire dhampsh...@gmail.comwrote: Commvault. Nice product, unless you actually want support that matters. They not only told me the wrong information during a critical restore which destroyed a weeks worth of data, they were unapologetic about it and refused to take responsibility for the actions of their support tech. Am I bitter about it 5 years later? Darn straight I am. I promised them I would continue to describe their horrific support and total lack of customer care for as long as they remained in business and I remained part of the IT community. And unlike them I keep my promise. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: Thanks Bob. I would suggest look at Commvault. I say that simple because we used to use ArcServe (admittedly we are talking some time back) and switched to it and I've never looked back. They do standard licensing and they also do a capacity license where you license the amount of data you want to backup (frontend) and you can use any mix of their agents to do it. The dedupe works really well and is source side so you really cut down on the amount of data going over the pipe to your HQ. They also do some rather funky synthetic full backups where you essentially do an initial proper full backup, and from that point onwards you only ever run incremental backups. The downside is that I think you're going to be pushing it at that budget, but end of year/quarter and the likes means you may be able do something - I would certainly be asking the question of a reseller. The bottom line is that dedupe and all the stuff to take away the problems you're having isn't cheap. Other vendors I'd look at would be HP Data Protector, DPM (no dedupe but seems to fit very well in an MS shop), and if I were going out today looking at backup software, I'd be really tempted to find out something about Unitrends - they have some interesting looking pricing models. -- *From:* Bob Hartung [bhart...@wiscoind.com] *Sent:* 17 November 2011 7:28 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Backup Software See below... -- Bob Hartung Dir of I.T. Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com -- *From:* Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] *To:* NT System Admin Issues [mailto: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] *Sent:* Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:51:41 -0600 *Subject:* RE: Backup Software With respect, I'm still not clear what you're looking to backup. Server backups. Is it all of the data, is it the subset of the data that's at the remote sites? I'd plan to back each server up to its local location and periodically replicate. I'd replicate bidirectionally between the Main and Cross-Town locations and replicate from the Out-of-State back to the Main location. The plan is to only backup what's changed since the last backup. Most of the backup solutions I've looked at have utilities to compress the incremental backups into fewer files to reduce the total number of files. You have 3tb available in each location, is that 3tb you could backup to, or are you saying it's 3tb of potential source data in each location? Just mentioning that to say my budget does not need to cover additional storage space. Are the servers file servers, Exchange servers, SQL servers? If so, what is the data split? No Exchange but we do use MySQL which I run data dumps on daily. What do you do now for backup? Arcserve using disk-to-disk-to-tape. Generally, I'd suggest moving to d2d2t but use source side dedupe and technologies like synthetic fulls to cut down your backup window. Personally I'm still a fan of tape for the stick it in a safe factor, tape libraries (kind of) solve the forgot to change the tape thing, and if you're doing d2d2t having a tape in a library is less important as your backups will still run. I don't really have any archival requirements. My main concerns are being able to quickly restore downed servers, reduce or eliminate the backup window and reduce or eliminate the use of tapes and depending on people at the remote site to put the right tape in, if they remember to do it at all. -- *From:* Bob Hartung [bhart...@wiscoind.com] *Sent:* 17 November 2011 6:20 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Backup Software We have 3 locations with 10 servers Main Location: (7) Windows 2003 and (1) Windows 2008 servers | | |
Re: MDT and WIM Deployment?
Thanks for all the wonderful resources! -Sam On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Ralph Smith m...@gatewayindustries.orgwrote: ** I'm also just testing this out. I found this free ebook by Greg Sheilds to be helpful. It's more about combining MDT with Windows Deployment Services (WDS) and Windows Automated Installation Toolkit (WAIK). Pretty much following his tutorial we've got this set up and are upgrading WinXP machines and it is working great. Automating Windows 7 Installation for Desktop and VDI Environments http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/awidv.php -- *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:16 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* MDT and WIM Deployment? 1. Diving into MDT. 2. Wow, quite the product! ** ** 3. Any good resources you know of? Loving this site and learning lots there: http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/ ** ** 4. However, still struggling with yet the simplest tasks: I’m just looking to a. Boot from USB/DVD b. Format Drive 0 c: Push WIM d: Reboot into the WIM’d drive. The WIM I am using is a thick image with all Sysprep, domain join, etc already taking care of. I’ve been using this WIM for ages and know it works great. The MDT wrappers and wizards are not needed at all. I’ll dive into those later. ** ** I have a custom task sequence that includes: Format and Partition Disk Install OS ** ** That should be all I need, right? Is the default task “Install Application” needed? I know to update the MDT share, update media, and copy the Content folder to the USB key. (It boots fine) ** ** Yet it reboots right after the format and the WIM is not pushed onto the drive…? ** ** Any quick pointers? Thanks! ** ** -Sam ** ** ** ** ** ** *Sam Cayze* Systems Administrator *ROLLOUTS **ONSITE • ON DEMAND *952.279.6218...Direct Dial 612.386.3946...Mobile www.Rollouts.com http://www.rollouts.com/ www.e-Technicians.net http://www.e-technicians.net/ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachment(s) are intended only for the designated recipient(s). Rollouts Incorporated prohibits use, distribution or transmittal by or to an unintended recipient without Rollouts' express written approval. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this email and notify Rollouts. ** ** ** ** ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Veeam
We switched from vRanger to Veeam about 3 months back due to constant issues with vRanger. Veeam is working well for us, a bit more intuitive and faster. I can't comment regarding how it works with Exchange 2010 since we're still on Exchange 2003. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Veeam
Just purchased VEEAM. Roger - do you have veeam on a physical or virtual machine? are you using Direct SAN Access with iSCSI or are you using FC? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: We switched from vRanger to Veeam about 3 months back due to constant issues with vRanger. Veeam is working well for us, a bit more intuitive and faster. I can't comment regarding how it works with Exchange 2010 since we're still on Exchange 2003. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.govwrote: Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Veeam
Hopefully this is not really a hijack of this thread and will help others as well. We are currently on vRanger and it seems really slow to me. how does the price of Veeam compare to vRanger? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: We switched from vRanger to Veeam about 3 months back due to constant issues with vRanger. Veeam is working well for us, a bit more intuitive and faster. I can't comment regarding how it works with Exchange 2010 since we're still on Exchange 2003. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.govwrote: Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- Thank you, Mike Sullivan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Backup Software
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Doug Hampshire dhampsh...@gmail.com wrote: Commvault. ... use them to clean the toilet each week ... Don't hold back, Doug. Tell us what you *really* feel. -- 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: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790?
The cheapest way to have a machine die on-time is to put in capacitors that will die in 2, 3, or 4 years, depending on how long you want the product to last. This is not a quality issue, but a death at a predetermined time issue. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the exact same PS. Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF dells... Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Veeam
veeam is ~ $950 per cpu socket, so a 2 processor vmware server would cost ~ $1900 to cover. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mike Sullivan neog...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully this is not really a hijack of this thread and will help others as well. We are currently on vRanger and it seems really slow to me. how does the price of Veeam compare to vRanger? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: We switched from vRanger to Veeam about 3 months back due to constant issues with vRanger. Veeam is working well for us, a bit more intuitive and faster. I can't comment regarding how it works with Exchange 2010 since we're still on Exchange 2003. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.govwrote: Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- Thank you, Mike Sullivan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Veeam
We used to use that. I really liked it. My only issue, and one reason we moved from it, was the fact that it wasn't the simplest (speed) to copy the backups off the backup appliance to tape so you have a true offline backup. The product and the company was always great to deal with though. From: Jeff Frantz [mailto:jfra...@itstechnologies.com] Sent: 21 November 2011 17:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Veeam You should also check out PHD Virtual Backup (formerly esXpress.) They just released an updated version (5.3) last week which includes data deduplication, file-level recovery, and replication. http://www.phdvirtual.com/phd-backup-replication I have no relation to the company but have been using their products for over five years and love 'em. -Jeff From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]mailto:[mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Veeam Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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 -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790?
Yep. It seems all my Dell Laptop batteries die at 13 months. They warranty them for 12 months. -Sam From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? The cheapest way to have a machine die on-time is to put in capacitors that will die in 2, 3, or 4 years, depending on how long you want the product to last. This is not a quality issue, but a death at a predetermined time issue. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the exact same PS. Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF dells... Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790?
We have seen the bad capacitor issues over the years. But as an update on the original issue... 2 more just failed. That's 7 in one lab, 3 in another. According to their forum, there are others that are seeing similar failures. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:40:04 -0800 Subject: RE: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? Yep. It seems all my Dell Laptop batteries die at 13 months. They warranty them for 12 months. -Sam From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? The cheapest way to have a machine die on-time is to put in capacitors that will die in 2, 3, or 4 years, depending on how long you want the product to last. This is not a quality issue, but a death at a predetermined time issue. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the exact same PS. Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF dells... Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Veeam
The backup server is a physical box with tons of SATA storage.and VEEAM is running there. It grabs the images of the dozen or so virtual servers from the iSCSI SAN and then we backup the backup server to LTO-5 tape for offsite storage on a weekly basis. We're hoping for MGMT buy-in to do offsite replication sometime next year but the data pipe isn't sufficient we're stuck with tape for now. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: Just purchased VEEAM. Roger - do you have veeam on a physical or virtual machine? are you using Direct SAN Access with iSCSI or are you using FC? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: We switched from vRanger to Veeam about 3 months back due to constant issues with vRanger. Veeam is working well for us, a bit more intuitive and faster. I can't comment regarding how it works with Exchange 2010 since we're still on Exchange 2003. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.govwrote: Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790?
Are you seeing this with the regular Power Supply or the 90 PLUS upgraded PS, you didn't mention which. We don't usually deploy the SFF, so I haven't seen any power problems with the 390 Mini-Tower or Desktops that we usually deploy to our clients, but we also deploy the standard supply rather than the energy efficient upgraded ones. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the exact same PS. Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF dells... Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: KB10498-What is peer-to-peer message encryption?
That's like, uh, public key encryption, because everyone has the key, right? What could BE more public than (literally) global distribution of the secret key? Yuk. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=KB10498 Just in case you ever wanted/needed to know just how secure BB pin messages are... *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market…* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790?
These are all with the regular power supply, not the 90 PLUS model. DELL Part Number: 03WN11 --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:49:06 -0800 Subject: Re: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? Are you seeing this with the regular Power Supply or the 90 PLUS upgraded PS, you didn't mention which. We don't usually deploy the SFF, so I haven't seen any power problems with the 390 Mini-Tower or Desktops that we usually deploy to our clients, but we also deploy the standard supply rather than the energy efficient upgraded ones. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the exact same PS. Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF dells... Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: KB10498-What is peer-to-peer message encryption?
Scary once you read it :S From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: KB10498-What is peer-to-peer message encryption? http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kc; externalId=KB10498 docType=kcexternalId=KB10498 Just in case you ever wanted/needed to know just how secure BB pin messages are... ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: KB10498-What is peer-to-peer message encryption?
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=KB10498 Just in case you ever wanted/needed to know just how secure BB pin messages are... *bonk* -- sound of head hitting desk At least they allow you to generate your own encryption key. -- 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: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790?
Thanks.. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: These are all with the regular power supply, not the 90 PLUS model. DELL Part Number: 03WN11 --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:49:06 -0800 Subject: Re: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? Are you seeing this with the regular Power Supply or the 90 PLUS upgraded PS, you didn't mention which. We don't usually deploy the SFF, so I haven't seen any power problems with the 390 Mini-Tower or Desktops that we usually deploy to our clients, but we also deploy the standard supply rather than the energy efficient upgraded ones. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the exact same PS. Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF dells... Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790?
At 11 months, short them out.. then send it in for replacement. ;-) From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 1:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? Yep. It seems all my Dell Laptop batteries die at 13 months. They warranty them for 12 months. -Sam From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? The cheapest way to have a machine die on-time is to put in capacitors that will die in 2, 3, or 4 years, depending on how long you want the product to last. This is not a quality issue, but a death at a predetermined time issue. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the exact same PS. Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF dells... Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790?
If you don't mind saying what model of are those workstations? Jon On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: Not power supplies, but we're seeing a rash of Dell workstations dying on us. Opening the case reveals 5 swollen capacitors near the CPU. As far as I know Dell still refuses to acknowledge it is a problem, although according to Google searches it seems to be pretty common. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the exact same PS. Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF dells... Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
